, 1922-06-19
SAYS He NEEDED
RIFLE INSTEAD
0E A REVOLVER
Wounded Outlaw Tells
Story Of Escapades
in Dodging Law
RAWLINS. Wyo.. June 1!

RA line WyO-, June Ii.
Especial to The Tribune.)
-Omaha's wild man today
answered questions PROFOUND
ed to him in the first interview
he has."granted' since his
movie thriller through the mountains
of wyoming last week and his sub
sequent capture north of Medicine
Bow early Saturday.
On tho eve OF his departure for
Omaha in the custody Of Nebraska
state Sheriff Gus Hyers. where he
will face a charge OF having bound
two women with a log chain. assaulted
them, and kept them In cellars for
two days. Fred Brown alias Gus
Crimes. alias Ernest Busch lay on
his cot in the Wyoming State Peni-
tertiary hero and toId officers part
but not all OF h story OF his escape
from Omaha, his eventful trip to Lin
coin and back again. his wounding of
a patroimnn in b Nebraska metrop-
oils. his flight to Sidney, Neb.. his
outwitting of officers there. and fin
ally his dash for the BOX Elder can
yon country. where he once worked
as a sheepherder under what Is be-
lieved to be his right name. Ernest
Busch. and where he hoped to remain
in hiding for three weeks. ard pos
sible longer. He IA more than will
ing to tell how he had discounted n
gotten around authorities. but when
he was asked concerning a series of
crimes for which he viii be held rs n
suspect, including three murders. for
the most part he merely shrugged his
shoulders. He admitted nothing n
denied nothing.
Brown had SO far recovered last
night that Hyers plans to leave with
him early Tuesday arriving in Oman
Wednesday morning. And as he
grew better he also grew talkative.
You can't kid me. partner. I have
been kidded by experts. You = just
kidding yourself, hat is ALL. was the
bandits reply to several of the queries
shot at HIN by Sheriffs Flyers. San
ders and Carroll. and Cheyenne n
Rawlins newspapermen. Throughout
a half hours running fire Of ques-
tions and he maintained a
~half-defiant. half-amused attitude.
He admitted tying up the Omaha
women. whom he characterized as a
couple of street walkers but he re-
fused to tell why he did it. Asked
IL It was because they had asked for
his diamonds. and a threatened to
''Squeel" when he turned them down.
he gave a shrug Of his shoulders.
He denied all knowledge of the Sif-
kin murder committed in Omaha a
short time before his affair with the
women, and he would not discuss the
report that at the G of II he got
his man." in Iowa
He gloried in his work in leaving
two Sidney officers bound UP in their
own suspenders and coming on west
in possession of their rifle, jan keys
and money. He reviewed his trip
along the Lincoln highway all the
way from Omaha to Rock River,
wyo., and gave exact details of es-
capades at various points along the
route
He let slip the fact that he sup
posed he would get a life sentence,
following his forthcoming conviction.
But he was tight Tipped when 1t came
to confessing to anything more SER
ious than robberies and holdups.
He owned up to the fact that some
Is years ago he was Ernest Busch. a
s~heepherder. and later got out of this
state when accused of being a horse
thief.
He said he would not talk Of where
he was raised or who his folks were,
n he merely waved his hands when
asked il it were not true that his
father was living in California unde
his own correct name of Busch. THAT
is a hell of a question to ask a mad
man." he said in response TO n Of
FLYER. and as he said 1t his eyes
cleaned with laughter over reports
spread countrywide that he was 'in-
sane" IF I'd only had ammunition
for that rifle I o off the Sidney
marshall I'd be sympathizing with
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