The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1922-12-22
PUSH HUNT
FOR MEN WHO
GOT 100000
Police Pick up Trail of Mint
IN Bandits in Abandoned
!: ' # Ranch House
BIG POSSE IN FIELD
Relieved That Robbers Di-
vided After Holding up
Federal Agents
,(By the Associated Press)

- my tHe ASSOclate0 PreSs)
Denver, Colo, Dec. 22.-Peace Of
ficers Of Denver and northern Colo
rado were prepared to push vigor.
ously today their hunt for Denver's
bank truck bandits whose trail thew
believed had been picked up yester-
day at an abandoned ranch house 20
miles east of Greeley, Colorado. The
four men suspected Of being those
whom Monday, shot and killed, Chas.
I. Linton, federal reserve bank truck
guard and escaped with 100000 in
currency after spectacular gun
fight with guards of the United
States mint here, had left the farm
house before officers arrived there.
Police believed the band had divi-
ded after the chase following the
discovery of their alleged hiding
place in the abandoned ranch house
and that one car containing two men,
was headed eaot and the other au-
tomobile with two or more men in it,
headed west. 5 -
Scores of armed men, including
county sheriffs and their deputies
and three automobiles and one arm
ored riot car loaded with Denver de-
tectives and policemen searched nor
thern Colorado in the vicinity of
Greeley, Fort Morgan, Fort Collins,
and Roggen, all of Thursday evening
without success. .~
The chase led from the ranch house
in which Henry Fuqua, farmer,
early yesterday notified Sheriff
Frank Hall Of Greeley, that he had
seen four heavily armed men, to the
outskirts of Greeley, and, later in the
evening, southeastward to Roggeh
and Hudson, Colo, about 80 miles
away, where the trail vanished and
part of Denver's detective squad
abandoned the hunt for the night.
Three clues, apparently indicating
definitely that the bandits were in
the vicinity and the peace officers
seemingly closing in on them, were
uncovered yesterday and last night.
One was the report made to Sher-
if Hall by Mrs. Gus Downer, re-
siding just outside the northwest city
limits Of Greeley, that an automobile
in which there were number of
men, had stopped at her home and
one Of the men obtained pan of
warm water and some cotton cause,
saying he wanted it for a man who
had been hurt, after which the car
left in great haste. 1t is known that
at least one bandit was wounded in
the battle with the mint guards.
This tip, received shortly after.
Sheriff Hall and party of deputies
had visited the ranch house reported
by Fuqua and found it had been re-
Gently occupied, sent the officers in
a, mad chase in an effort to locate
the suspects.
Early last evening Sheriff Hall re-
ceived word from three different
sources that a touring car, occupied
by four men all heavily armed, one
Danoaeeo ABOUT tne lace anu ah-
other about the arm, had been seen
racing along the road southeastward
toward Roggen. ]" -
While two automobiles toook up
this trail officers obtained their
third clue that led to the belief that
the bandits were in the vicinity.
Earl Jackson, son of Greeley res
taurant proprietor reported three
men had eaten in his fathers restau-
rant Wednesday evening. The des-
criptions he gave corresponded t.
those of three of the bandits who
participated in the gun fight at the
Denver mint. They had lunch put up
for . man who Jackson said, they
tod him was i'll on ranch.