Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-12-22
MAN HUNT COVERS NORTH
COLORADO IN EFFORT To
CAPTURE DENVER BANDITS
Reports of Four Heavily Armed Men Garrisoned
in Shack Near Greeley Causes Peace Officers
to Prepare to Attack; Mysterious Actions of
Hunters" Suspected; Bloody Gun Is Clue.

Denver. Dec. 21-Police and peace
officers of northern Colorado Thurs
day night were engaged in an intensive
man hunt for the bandits who Monday
morning shot and killed Charles T..
Linton, federal reserve bank guard,
during a gun fight in front of the mint
here, and stole 100000 in currency
and escaped. The man hunt became
intensive during the afternoon follow
ing q report from Henry Fuqua, a
farmer living about 20 miles east of
Greeley. Colo. 50 miles north of here,
that he had encountered four heavily
armed men in an abandoned house on
his ranch property.
Sheriff Hall, of Greeley, was mott
fled by Fuqua Of the incident and the
sheriff notified the Denver police de-
partment, asking for assistance. Sher-
iff Hall then, in company with six
deputies and state ranger, left for
the farm house, while the Denver po-
lice departments armored riot car,
equipped with machine guns, and two
automobile loads of officers and de-
tectices armed with sawed-off shot
guns, left for Greeley to join in the
hunt A third automobile carrying
several hundred rounds of ammunition
and lunch later was dispatched from
the Denver headquarters.
Strange Tactics Reported
Later in the afternoon Sheriff Hall
reported TO Denver by telephone that
he had arrived at the ranch house but
that the men had left. A few minutes
later. Mrs. Gus Downer, residing just
outside the northwest city limits of
fVA, af
her brother in law. John Downer, that
about $50 O'Clock, while she was
sleeping, she was aroused by knock
at her door.
Answering the knock, she said that
n man, who appeared to be greatly ex-
cited, asked for a pan of water and
some cotton, explaining that he had "a
man in his car who had been hurt.
Mrs. Downer told police officials in
Greeley that she heard q motor car
but that the view of it was obstructed
by shed behind which the car had
stopped She gave the man the pan of
water and roll of gauze which he took
back to the car, the engine of which
had been left running. A few minutes
later she said the car came into sight
and sped away on the road that leads
from Greeley to Fort Collins. She de-
clared the car had the curtains drawn
and that the occupants of the car did
not return the pan but threw it out OF
the car as it passed the house.
Reports from Kuner, Colo. about !
six miles east of the farm house. were |
TO the effect that a car closely re-
sembling the description of the car /;
given by Mrs Downer had passed |
through there about 80 minutes earlier |
Death Threat Hurled
Fuqua's story as told over the tele- |
phone to Sheriff Hall was that he no. |
ticed signs of life about the house and |
upon investigating found that the house !
was occupied Thursday afternoon he !
which was opened by a man carrying n
rifle in his hands and wearing cart
ridge belt. He asked what they were /
doing in the house, informing the man
that it was his. The man declared that |
the occupants were coyote hunters.
Fuqua continued his story by declar-
ing that while he was at the door an
other man, similarly dressed, appeared !
around the house. He said he also saw |
two other men in the house. He said |
that while he was talking, a large tour |
ing car carrying two men and two
women drove up He then said that he |
was told by the man at the door to
leave the place under threat Of death.
The cars of Denver polio, are mobil-
lied in Greeley awaiting further wore
from Sheriff Hall, VINO has asked That
posses from all northern Colorado
towns guard the reads Leading north
ward and westward
A posse headed by Sheriff Frank
Smith Of Fort Collins left on the road
toward Greeley as soon as they had been