Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-19

key Canyon was appointed as meeting place
after the hold-up.
The officers best plan appeared to be to at
tempt to intercept the robbers at Turkey Cam
yon before they had q chance TO hide them~
selves In the inaccessible mountain Businesses.
Time was fast slipping away. Very soon the
bandits would be deep in the Sangre de CristO
again, and once they reached that maze Of
canyon pursuit would be impossible.
Forthwith Reno and FArr sped to Ctmarron,
I'm the neighborhood Of Turkey Canyon, I'm
order to recruit q posse. Wilson Elliot, deputy
United States marshal; H M. Love, cowboy.
and a young fellow named Smith, from Mary.
land, joined Reno and Farr. The hve men set
out from Cimarron on horseback taking pack
animals loaded with provisions and anmuni-
ton.
On July 16-dve days after the robbery-the
five officers rode down the Serpentine bends OF
Turkey Canyon. They advanced In single file,
keeping a keen lookout. Late in the afternoon,
the posse shifted the aroma Of frying bacon
waited upon the gentle Summer breeze Some
where upwind was a camp.
Tying the pack horses to q sapling, the five
men rode on at cautious pace. Presently
some one heard distant laugh; the camp was
beyond the next little rise. Standing in their
stirrups, the officers peered over the crest into
a grove of tall yellow pines. Thin blue smoke
was curling up from smoldering campfire.
Beside it sat the black bearded man described
by the train crew, and alongside him was the
thick-set fellow who had dynamited the express
safe. The couple were seated on Navajo sac
die blanket, playing poker. AS the officers
watched, up from the water hole, carrying q
canteen, came the slender young man who had
entered the express car with the thick-set
bandit.
With complete safety to themselves the posse
men could now have picked their targets and
shot all three bandits dead, but that was not
the spirit which animated Reno and his gallant
men, They would give the outlaws fair play.
At signal the five officers ga1loped forward
into full view their weapons at the ready, and
halted
Don't move! You are under arrest!' shouted
Reno
Without the slightest hesitation, the startled
bandits grabbed up their rifles, leaped behind
trees and began firing at the newcomers, who
promptly sprang from their horses and. like
wise took cover behind the trunks of the pines.
The black bearded rufnan's gun spat and at
the same instant Sheriff Fairs rife spoke.
The bandit was seen to grab his left arm and
reel. Farr fell to the ground. A moment later
Deputy Love dropped The slender young OUT
law also fell. but he was soon up again, with
his rife squirting death. Presently Posseman
Smith was hit In the Leg but another officers
rife cracked and the tal desperate went down
once more and lay PROSTATE for time. Mean
while the remaining outlaw-the stocky man
was pumping metal furiously. Rene felt o
piercing sting in his right leg and several
bullets ripped through his clothes.
A FTER time, the young bandit recovered
himself once more and crawled away. the
black-bearded outlaw staggering on beside him.
The short man accompanied them, moving
slowly backward, with q pistol blazing alter
nately from either hand. He was covering his
wounded comrades as they crept away, and he
fought wonderful battle. From tree to tree