Arizona republican., 1919-04-12
CONNECTS ESCAPE URDERTWOMEN AND STEAL AUTO
Daring Criminals Abandon
 Motor Car-Take to Flight
 Country Aroused - Posses Take Up Chase Lynching Feared If Pur- sued Men Are Overtaken
TRepubIican A. p. Leased Wire1

Republican A. p. Leased Wire1
 PUEBLO, Colo, April 12.-Posses from Walsenburg, Pueblo and Rye Will resume the search this morning for two bandits who yesterday afternoon shot and killed E. C. Sparks, of Pueblo and William Hunter of Rye, ii miles south of Pueblo and escaped in the automobile in which Parks and Hunter were driving.
 PUEBLO, Colo, Aprfl' 11.-Aban- doning the automobile stolen from the two men they shot and killed, two | bandits supposed to have escaped from the reformatory at Buena Vista- have l taken to the foothills in the neighbor | hood of Granerus, p miles south of i Pueblo, and are closely followed by 1 posses from Pueblo, Rye and Walsen- | burg.
 At 3:45 o'clock this afternoon, the
 bandits stopped an automobile n
 which E. C. Parks of Pueblo and Will ! liam Hunter of Rye were driving, ten i miles south of Pueblo on the Rye road
 After some barley, the boldups shot and killed Hunter and Parks. threw | the bodies out of the car, got in it
 themselves and headed south for tho
 Walsenburg district. Just as the
 bandits fired the shot that killed
 Hunter. W. F. Read, cattle inspector,
 and Jack Parker, both of Pueblo, drovo
 up in an automobile owned by local
 automobile company. The bandits fired
 a shot through the windshield of the
 approaching car and ordered the men
 to return to Pueblo, from which di-
 rection they were coming. This they
 did and stopped at a dairy en route and
 attempted to telephone the police head
 quarters. The telephone line was out
 of commission and the two men then
 hurried to Pueblo. AS near as can be
 ascertained, they were the only persons
 to witness the shooting.
 Witnesses Ordered Back Read stated tonight that he was on
 his way to the Greenhorn region to in spect some cattle. As near as he can
 took place at 3:45.
 The bandits shot the second man as we drove up" said Read and then they turned their guns on us. They fired one shot through our windshield and narrowly missed hitting us. Then they told us it would be safer for us , to return to Pueblo instead of con- : tinuing in the direction we were going. It did not take much persuasion on their part to convince us that they were right. We turned around and headed for Pueblo, eight miles away. Stopping at dairy on the outskirts
 of Pueblo we attempted to telephone the police but the line was out of con- | mission. We therefore continued on e our way and picking up all policemen IT ! s we notified the chief of police. This | was about o'clock.
 No report has been received from the
 Pueblo posse since o'clock when they
 reported the discovery of the car aban- . doned between Graneros and Cedaredge ; and it is supposed that the bandits have taken to the foothills in the . Greenhorn mountain region, or else are S trying to escape through the rough U country in the Butler pasture district J This region is exceedingly rough, be- Il ing cut up by many deep arroyos pro- viding excellent hiding places. . Victims We'll Known e William Hunter is a farmer residing d in the Rye district, and was about $ e years Of age He is married, and has j. several children. He was brother oi
 Judge Hunter of Trinidad. 'e Parks was salesman for loca, al automobile company and had taken MT e Hunter out for a demonstration of 8 )t new automobile. They had gone tc y Rye. 8 miles west of Pueblo, and it is d believed that Hunter had decided tC e purchase the car and they were goins ID to Pueblo to complete arrangement: m for the sale. Parks was 35 years O n age and had a wife and four children > all residing in Pueblo.
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