The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-12-03
Notorious Train Bandit in Bed
Today With Bullet Through
His Right
Lung.
WAS EXCITING
Posse Pursued Him Four Days
Through Blizzard and Finally
Brought Him to
Bay.

l[United Press Leased Wire Service.1
CASPER, Wyo., Dec. 3.-Wm. L.
Carlisle, notorious Wyoming train
bandit, shot through the right lung
and in a critical condition, is cap
tive at Douglas, Wyo.. today where
an armed deputy sheriff stands con-
stantly at his bedside.
Carlisle was captured late yester-
day at ranch eighteen miles south
west OF Douglas after pursuit OF
four days through blizzards and in
below zero temperatures by posses
headed by Sheriff A. S. Roach OF
Wheatland and Charles Irwfp OF
Cheyenne, general agent of the Union
Pacific railroad.
The bandit was surprised at a cab
in of Frank Williams, a prospector,
IN Estabrook pxrk. one OF the widest
parts of the Laramie peak country
where Carlisle had been hiding for
ten days.
With members OF the possee sur
rounding the cabin and barring all
chance CT escape, Sheriff Roach and
w. J. McClements, Union Pacific spe-
cial agent, entered the room where
Carlisle, unarmed, was sitting at a
table.
Catching sight of the officers, Car
isle dashed into an adjoining room
where his rifle and revolver lay on a
table. Roach, gun in hand, followed
him and as Carlisle reached for his
revolver, the sheriff shouted:
Hold UP your hands,"
Carlisle did not obey quickly enough
and the sheriff fired, aiming to break
l ~ r1o,- tho sh1Il1af entered
the right lung. Carlisle was immedi-
ately given first aid, placed in wait
ing automobile and rushed to the hos
pital in Douglas. Physicians today
feared that pneumonia would develop.
Carlisle is suffering great pain and is
so weak he can speak barely above a
whisper. He is also suffering from a
wound in his right hand. inflicted
when he held ,,p a Union Pacific train
three days after his sensational es-
cape from Rawlins penitentiary in q
shirt packing case on November ID.
The bullet is still in his hand.
This wound indirectly is responsible
for the capture of the bandit, as if he
had not been injured, he said. it would
not have been necessary for him to
seek refuge among the ranches where
his WOuuu SOulN UC olSCiuS't W.
The chase which resulted in Car
isles capture began last Saturday
Following a tip received by Sheriff
Roach and Charles Irwin that Car
i1,sle had eaten Thanksgiving dinner
at ranch In the Laramie peak coun-
try.
Posses were quickly gathered and
the bandits trail picked UP at HIS
ranch on Fish creek. Leaving the
Hill ranch. Carlisle had doubled back
on his own trail through a raging
snow storm and taken course over
mountain ridges and through timber
to throw off the pursuers he believed
were following. Monday night Car
llisIe was sitting in the Widow Bray 8
home at Cottonwood creek, when
little girl called Carlisle's attention
to the approach Of Sheriff Reaches
posse. Carlisle jumped through The
window, carrying the sash with him
and the light snow coupled with the
darkness enabled him to elude his
pnrsuesr.
Posses on his trail Tuesday found
he had retraced his steps and travel
ed twenty miles during the hight to
reach the Williams cabin, six niles
distant, where he was rounded up.
Carlisle shows the effects of the
recent hardships suffered in battling
the elements in his efforts to Escape
recapture. Carlisle told his captors
he had spent the past two weeks In
the Laramie peak country with which
he was well acquainted and that he
had no trouble in securing two good
meals a day from friendly ranchers.
In every instance where he applied
for assistance he MADE known his
identity and was courteous to those
who aided him.
| Thick tongues are responsible for a
lot of thin ideas