The Raymer enterprise., 1918-11-28
BO0TLEGGER KILLED
ANOTHER CAPTURED

Dnooge, deputy sherin captured q
Buic Six loaded with booze that was
making Its way from Cheyenne to
Denver, and when the drivers at
tempted to escape. fatally shot one of
the men and later the second was cap
tured.
1t was about noon. when Dhooge,
wholives / miles north of town and
has already captured several cars of
contraband booze. spied the Buic car
with fast roadster ahead and an
other In the rear coming towards
Raymer. Another car seemed to be
scouting ahead and as the actions
seemed suspicious. Dhooge who was
getting ready to come to Raymer,
made up his mind that there was a
blockade runner.
He made ready, and accompanied
by Mrs. Dhooge, ran up on the Buic
and ordered them to stop, at the
same time showing his star The
driver invited Dhooge to go to the
regions often mentioned lately as a
proper summer resort for the Kaiser
and stepped on the gas.
Dhooge convinced the occupants
that travelling by foot might be safer
and they abandoned the car and start
ed across country. Just after Dho0ge
shot up the blockade runners tires
the driver also punctured both OF
Dhooge's front tires with two well
directed shots from Colts.
As the men abandoned the car,
Dhooge started after them, firing at
them with Winchester, testifying
that he shot ahead of them to frigh-
ten them into stopping. until one
turned and started to draw revolver
on .Dhooge. The latter was at the
time ready to shoot again to scare
and when he saw this act, he sho.
to hit and brought down his man
He then turned the gun on the other
fellow who was making tracks as
fast as he could towards the west.
Just about this time one of the
roadsters bore down on the frat car
so OF booze with evident intention
of recovering It, bnt Dhooge turned
and started towards the car with
his rifle covering them and they de-
cided that liberty was better than
Sunny Brook" bottled in bond, or
otherwise; so the rescuing force
made hasty getaway.
Dhooge then brought the wounded
man to town to Doctor Miller, but
the bullet had entered the left side
of the abdomen. about six inches +.
bove the groin and passing through
the body had cut one Of the main ar
teries, from which the man had bled
profusely and died in about 90 min
utes after being taken into the doe
tors Office.
Dhooge secured other cars and
formed posse composed OF G. T.
Hobbs. L. d. Hobbs. II. H. Northup,
H. l.. Robinson. w. w DeHoney, Yer
gil Meacham. c. b. Dannatt, c. Mar
tin, F. l.. Knapp and possibly others
and started out to round up the re-
mainder.
The Hobbs boys. Mr.. Northup and
DeHoney and Martin took up The trail
left at the place OF the shooting by
the second man and followed il To
the railroad track and from there
about six miles north Of Keota where
they captured him.
The dead man had upon his person
classification card from Grand coun-
ty, which bore the name OF Nicholas
Chickeres, placed him In class five
and also bore the address of 1888
Market Street, Denver. He had upon
his person some change, few small
bottles Of booze, and in the foot oI
his stocking on the left foot was
nearly $500. in currency.
The name of the other man arrest.
ed was Harry Lewis. also a Greek
He claimed that HIS home was In
Cheyenne, that he had only known
the dead man but short time and
that this was his first trip to Den.
yer and that the dead man had pait
him $50 for accompanying him.
Lewis had not seen his pardnel
have gun, but the sheriff went oul
to the place where the shooting tool
place and found a As calibre sis
shooter of the Colts variety about
twenty feet from the blood upon ths
snow where the injured man fell
There were two empty shells in tht
gun.
The coroner's jury composed OF l.
ID. Hobbs, II. l.. Robinson, II. w Lau
er, Louis Allen. + l.. Knapp ant
Glenn Mircle, the later from Eaton
Their verdict was: that on or abou
the hour Of 2:15 y. M. Tuesday. th,
26th day OF November. 1918. Mich
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