The Sentinel=record., 1916-12-15

f Saline county sheriff. however. sa'c that unless s.me specific charge
 could be made he would not take the i restons'billty of going after the men | and the case was abandoned
 Yesterday when the descriptions
 oc the three cattle thieves with whom ! the Moantaiu township citizens had been in battle were given 10 Yoans and sullivan, they dec ared the de.
 scripti3n5 were t1e same as had been given them of the suspected men over | the county border in Saline county. Dave Young said las. Aght that he had a talk with Leon Bradfeld, who resided near where the three suspect
 cd men had located Headquarters, and
 that Mir. Bradfield had wei, founded suspicious that the men had at their camp stuff taken from the Hunt and James store in this city, and which 1t
 was believed had been stolen Also it was learned that the three men had eft their camp s nday, but had re- turned the next day. and that Wednes- day they were again seen passing the rhomry Young pace in MarL town
 ship headed west, which would have
 been ia line with their going 10 where
 the trouble t7ok place yesterday aUer- nOon
 Last night Mrs. Rilte- talking from the Ritter home far up in the district where the trouble took place, said hat the men of the community had reanized themselves into posse and
 that they would leave at tae break of
 lay to take up the chase.
 The horse they found tied on the mountain side was not wounded" said Mrs Ritter This led the men on
 the chase to fee. crtain taat one oi the cattle thieves was Woanded and
 that the others had taken him along alter he had bed and was unable to
 ride his horse longer"
 l. was reported that the two men who were uuhurt had gotten far away rom the other vino was falling be- and through inability to ride in his wounded condition, and that later the other two returned after having cross
 ad the mountain, and had gotten their wounded cmrade, tied his horse where they had returned to pick uim Y, and then left the horse there. The rural telephone c3mmunica. i lions of the section where the trouble took place proved very valuable yes terdaN as within a short time after the first shooting the entire ccmmun- ity was notified of what had happen ed and men being on guard caused the thieves to he forced t1 change their route at least twice after they had started to get away Also late yesterday afternoon every roadway and outlet to the section had been pit on guard to be on the lookout for the men
 Sheriff Tom Bledsoe said last night i that he had been requested to come .o tae scene early this morning to 5o with the posse, bat that he had tele ! pholed for tbe citizens there to star,
 as cary as possible and not wait on him, and that he wo Id start from
 here as early as possible and work ou,
 10 meet them. He said that he woula Ihave gone to the scene last night but
 fo' the icy condition of the roads and
 that he was having a horse rougl
 shod to be prepare dto stand up or
 that kind of a trip when he started out this m rning. He had also tele | phoned to Hawes and to yd-io'u
 ? aces ia the north section Of th,
 county informing persons to be oi guard through the nigtt and th.i morning fer persons answering the d, i scril tions of the men.