The Sentinel=record., 1916-12-16
BULLET R|DDLED BODIES IF
 BANDITS ARE BROUGHT HERE
 AFTER LAST FATAL FUSILADE

there and occupied the place. The tanGits must have had some intima- ten Cf their presence, fer after rid ing foi hours to get to their home, just before reaching there they took sonthwagd course and were going around it when the fatal duel teok r ace.
 Of the men themselves little is known. A Sentinel-Record man was rioted through all that snow and ice hound section of Saline county late yesterday afternoon and last night, and but few persons were ever seen in the immediate vicinity who know anything of the men
 They came first to that section last August. In that wild section of the country they found aa unoccupied house, and they took possession of it. The three men had good horses. They displayed excellent fire arms, which they had about them at all times. They had saddles such az are never seen except in that western country where q cowboy values his saddle more than his horse. The community considered them bandits in hiding. Their presence was reported to the law of Saline and Garland county. and then before developments had started processes against them, they rad sallied forth as cattle thieves, and met fate not infrequently the end of men who engage in such enterprises.
 Neither of the s.ain men ever made a statement before death. Bailey, the elder man, was killed almost instantly For that matter, so was Sparks, ex- oept that death did net take posses sion of him in the saddle and shooting as in the Bailey case, and just before
 Ierks fell from his horse, he shout. cd:
 Don't shoot any more. You have illed me"
 About that time his pistol dropped from his hand, and he was wavering in his saddle. As one of the men went yp to him, gun pointed at his heart, sparks dropei to the ound, iie was lifted up, but a moment later fe expired
 There were many shots fired in the last battle. How many of course could never be known. but one farme- in the vicinity counted 31 shots, and they were fired fast. He might have missed some of them which were fir ed a.mcst simultaneously.
 The men were .ow in ammunition, evidently said one of the farmers O. the vincinity, who had been close up i2 most of the chase. Whether he drew his conclusion from actual know ledge or from the pistol bul cts that had been returned in his direction by the fleeing bandits, was not explained Perhaps he counted they were short of ammunition because of the despe-- ation with which they were working to get back to headquarters.
 Sheriff Cox Q. Saline county and sheriff Bledsoe Nof Garland county he'd a conference soon after the men were killed They agreed that the bodies should be brought here, and lerhaps some investigation further may be made of the deaths of the two men, but they were killed within Sa- inc county.
 One reason why the bodies were ordered brought here was because Detectives Young and Sullivan want cd them viewed by the public. ana photos made O. them, for they have been of the opinion that these men are more than ordinary cattle thives. They believe the men have had a hald in some of the bank robberias that during the last year have been so consecutively happening in western Arkansas and in Oklahoma.
 Of the horses the bandits rode, all were hit by bullets, but only enc of them is perhaps wounded to the ex- tent he can not be used further Sheriff Bledsoe gave orders that they al be brought to the city.
 When Sheriff Bledsoe. Constable Iownen and Detectives Young and Sullivan took possession Of the head quarters camp e the men they found stored there the many articles report ed by Leon Bradfield Bradiield mad visited the house on one occasion and had seen goo, stacked about in such quantities as to be certain that they echoed any number of thefts from stores that had been pulled in this and other nearby cities. It is believed that s'me of the goods were taken only a short time ago from the store , of James X Hunt on upper Park ave me. Sheriff B,edsoe also ordered all these things packed up and sent to this city.
 The last battle the dead men fought was desperate one. They were in country where they were familiar with every foot of the ground They (toNTfNTTED CM pACn usfty,,