The copper era and Morenci leader., 1918-06-14
LAST BOOZE LOAD
 FATAL ID kRUPP
IS RELIED IN FIGHT WITH OPEL GERS NEAR WILCOX, WHO WERE ABOUT TO ARREST HIM
 FOR TRANSPORTING LIQUORS.

Bisbee, June 12-Word was re- ceived here late yesterday afternoon by The Review that William Krupp, who formerly drove an auto for hire in the district for number of years had met his death at the hands of offices 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 Sher- if Guy Welch, who was in Wilcox, Krupp passed through Wilcox late Monday evening with a machine load ed with whiskey. It was reported to Constable Jesse Moore and he stat ed a police officer 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. Krupp realized that the officers were after him and began to ditch his load. The officers came up close to Krupp and he open ed 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 he had turned to fire another shot at the officers. A case of whiskey was found in the car.
 A coroner's jury was empannelled and went out to the scene of the shooting and will complete the in- quest this morning in Wilcox. Sher- if Welch stated from the statement of the officers, and the examination of the machines and the scene of the shooting, it was a case of justifiabIe homicide.
 Krupp was resident of the War ren district for a number of years and was one of the first men to put on a for-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 Rodeo and brought in a num- arrested and forfeited a bond in Tombstone He left here and went to Tucson where he married and then began another escape with boot leg. He was caught on two or three occasions, once while out on bond, and was placed in jail. He was re- leased on a $2.500 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 report ed that he had been seen in Fl Paso and Lordsburg number of times. His wife was also under bond in Tue son at the time that they forfeited the bail. She was not with him at the time of his deah.
 The body is now being held in Will cox while an effort is being made to locate her. She is also quite we'll known in this district. Krupp is re ported to have made some twelve to fourteen thousand dollars in the boot logging business, but he spent some four or five thousand dollars in keep ing out of jail and forfeited bonds to the various counties in which he op- erated. 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 here and again engage in the automo- bile business. He refused. He was one of the most careful and compe tent drivers that ever drove in the Warren district and knew all of the roads of this county. His many friends will regret to hear of his un- timely end.-Bisbee Review.