Bisbee daily review., 1918-06-12
WILLIAM KRUPP MAKES
 LAST TRIP WITH LOAD OF BOOTLEG WRISKEY
Is Killed in Fight With Off, cers Near Wilcox, Who Were About to Arrest Him For Transporting Whisky

Word was received here late yester
 day afternoon by The Review that William KTupp, who formerly drove
 an auto for hire in the district for a
 number of years had met his death at
 the hands of officers about twenty-five
 miles west of Wilcox while he was | trying to escape from them with an
 auto filled with whiskey.
 From the facts as related by Sheriff
 Guy Welch, who was in Wilcox, Krupp
 passed through Wilcox late Monday evening with a machine loaded with
 whiskey. It was reported to Constable
 Jesse Moore and he stated police off cer named Harry Reese and another
 man after Krupp.
 Krupp had quite a start and the
 officers gave chase, out of the road
 toward Ft Grant. KTupp realized that the officers were after him and
 began to ditchf his load. The officers came up close to Krupp and he opened fire on them with a 45 automatic, the
 bullets hitting the car in which the officers were riding. Reese then opened fire on Krupp and the bullet hit him through the heart just as ne had turned to fire another shot at the officers. A case Of whiskey was found in the car
 A coroner's jury was empannellei and went out to the scene of the shooting and will complete the inquest this morning in Wilcox. Sheriff Welch stated from the statement of the off cers and the examination of the ma chimes and the scene of the shooting, it was a case of justifable homicide.
 Krupp was a resident of the War ren district for a number of years and was one Of the first men to put on q foT-hire car in the district. He had hundreds of friends in the district. When the prohibition law went into effect he began to make frequent trips to RC6eo and brought in number of loads Of whiskey. He was arrested and forfeited a bond in Tombstone. He left here and went to Tucson where he married and then began another escape with bootleg. He was caught on two or three occasions, once while out on a bond, and was placed in iail He was released on a S2,500 bond and when the case came up for trial he was missing and he had not been heard of in the state until yesterday It was reported that he had been seen in Fl Paso and Lordsburg number of times. His wife was also under bond in Tucson at the time that they forfeited the bail. She was not with him at the time of his death.
 The body is now being held in Will cox while an effort is being made to locate her. She is also quite well known in this district. Krupp is re- ported to have maze some twelve to fourteen thousands dollars in the boot logging business, but he spent some four or five thousand dollars in keep 1 ing out of jail and forfeited bonds to the various counties in which he op- srated. A number of his friends in this district endeavored a number of times to try and persuade him to quit ] the bootlegging business and return l here and again engage in the automo- 1. bile business. He refused He was | lne of the most careful and competent | drivers that ever drove in the Warren . district and knew all of the roads of | his county. His many friends will i regret to hear of his untimely end.