Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-12-03
Train Robber, Wounded and
Captured, Faces Death
in Electric Chair.
HEAVY SNOW CAUSE
OF HIS UNDOING
Easily rrsiIed by SHERIFF. Posse and
shst -Whsn hs Resisted Arrest -
May Be Tried on New Charge.
Carries Penalty Of Death in Electric
Chair - AItho Shot Thru Body He
Will Recover.

Douglas, wyo.. Dec. s.-Two score
more Of years in prison and possible
death In the electric chair confronted
william Carlisle as he lay IN the hos
pital here with a bullet In MS chest.
Carlisle was shot down by Sheriff
Roach. Of wheatland, as the bandit.
cornered reached for a pistol to give
battle. The posse had trailsd Carlisle
thru q storm since Monday. thru drifts
Of snow too great for horse TO ira
verse.
The outlaw, who had eluded pursuit
since his escape from prison NOV. 10
for a subsequent robbery Of train AT
Medicine Bow, was strapped to morse
and carried down Laramie Peak, near
here, and then rushed to this city.
Just what disposition will be made OF
him has not been determined. He had
been serving q life sentence for train
robbery but his sentence had been
commuted from life to twenty-five to
fifty years when ne escaped.
Wounds Not Fatal.
In the meantime new crime for
which death is the possible penalty
had been committed by the outlaw.
Carlisle will not die from his wounds.
He lived n clean life. has a good ply
sique. and has more than a fighting
chance for his life.
Not an mixing Of the chase had
reached the public until it was learned
that Carlisle had escaped from a Wild
ow rancher's house. He got away but
the snow made his trail easy to follow
and he was caught at the ranch of
Frank Williams. Carlisle has been In
Wyoming since the robbery. Satur-
day night Sheriff Roach received word
that CarlAle had eaten dinner at a
ranch in the laramie Peak district.
Union Pacific officials were notified
and the search began.
The Union Pacific railroad and the
whole northwest are breathing easier
because the noted tstin bandit is ly-
ing in hospital here with bullet
thru his right lung and three armed
guards, one on each side and the other
at the foot Of his cot, watching every
flicker of those crafty eyes and every
move of the pain racked body.
They don't want him to get out
again.
Carlisle was wounded yesterday
afternoon by Sheriff 4. S. Roach, OF
Wheatland. after he had been sur
rounded In the cabin OF Frank Will
liams. eighteen miles southwest OF
here.
Made Getaway Nov. IS.
Carlisle, on Nov. Is. escaped from
the Wyoming penitentiary in pack
ing box filled with shirts and imme-
diately resumed his calling of train
bnnditry. He kept Union Pacific de-
tectives, federal troops. state and mu-
nicipal authorities on the Jump foi
several days during which time he
held UP. on Nov. 1a. the Los Angeles
limited and robbed every one on board
but the women and children.
He escaped despite the net thrown
out to enmesh him and one Of his
stunts was to ride on one Of the trains
carrying his pursuers and robbins
them of arms and ammunition.
Then for q week or more he was
heard from as being in various parts
Of the country. bu: in reality he has
not been out of the confines Of Wyo-
ming. ..t-
~ Boas4fulness His Undoine.
sCarlisie's frankness in admitting his
identity was his undoing. Saturday
night Sheriff Roach received word that
Carlisle was In the Laramie peak coun-
try. He notified John G. Gayle chief
special agent Of the Union Pacific al
Omaha. who was In Cheyenne, and
Gayle sent 4 posse on a special train
In the meantime Roach had organ
ized another posse and took train
to Dwysr. There tho posse obtained
teams and drove thru the bitter
blizzard to the ranch OF Bob Fletcher
on tho south side Of Laramie peak
Tho horses were unable to 20 any fur.
thor and tho posse took up. tho pur.
suit on foot.
From almost every rancher' they
learned ,semething Of Carlisle. He had
dinsd At tho home Of one rancher ono
day, another tho next.
~, eandit Finally Rounded Up.
Finally the posse learned that Car
isle had gone to the Widow Bray
home. and here It. was learned tina,
the bandit made his escape when al.
most In tho hands Of his pursuers.
II was not hard, for the posse &c
pick up. the fresh trail, and the bardi,
finally was surrounded In the cabin OF
Williams. Soon Williams came out
He informed the sheriff that Carlisle
yvas inside Roach entered C,arIis,,
ran 4 from the Kitchen TO the front
room. He ae!aed an automatic pistol
apparently prepared to give battle
when the sheriff fired the shot which
ended the bandits career for the time
being. re- @g, .r....
II don't blame you for shooting.
Carlisle told the sheriff after ne roach
cd the hospital. Then he closed ur
like o clam,