The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-25
I arzan Durand
 Takes Own Life
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come after some things. Do I get them or do have to take them at the point of this gun?'
 His mother sobbed, Earl you sure have changed"
 Mis- father said, Ego right ahead. son."
 He took a knapsack of food. He hadn't eaten cooked food in eight days. He forced Moore to drive to an abandoned mine east of town, put the three out and drove away, yelling:
 Goodbye boys-don't forget to come to my funeral"
 Thirty minutes later, he parked the car on the Powell Main street in front of the First National bank. He entered, brandishing his re- volver, his rifle under his other arm. To President Robert Nelson, he said:
 "No one will be hurt if you all obey orders" and he asked for the money in the safe, bringing into his gun range Cashier Morris Knut- son and John Gothand.
 Knutson told him the safe was locked, by time lock. He scooped up $2,000 in currency and jammed 1t into his knapsack. Tieing the three men haphazardly together with the boot strings of his last vic- tim, he moved them ahead of him toward the door.
 But he had been recognized as he entered the bank and townsmen were outside, waiting. From behind his shield of three men, he saw them and opened fire. His rifle and pistol fire rained out into the street, smashing through windows and door glass. His captives broke away, and when Gothand sought to slip out the door he was shot dead, either accidentally or purposely by Tarzan, Cornered, all avenues of escape closed, already winged twice by shots from the street, he boldly exposed himself, firing wildly in all directions.
 Across the street in a gasoline station, a school boy, who had al- ways thought Earl Durand "a great guy" levelled a rifle and brought the sight of Tarzan's chest and fired. Tarzan crumpled, groveling on the tile floor of the bank. He had just reloaded his big black AS. Slowly, painfully he drew tip his arm. put the barrel against his tem- pie and fired"
 Today Park County Coroner Ray Easton, Powell's only undertaken, prepared g report on his findings. On the fourth day of his spree, Tarzaa had written Sheriff Black burn and penciled this return ad- dress on the envelope: Earl Du- rand, undertaken, Powell, Wyo." Tn the letter he suggested that, when killed, his head be mounted and hung from the Park County Court House as a lesson to youth on law and order.
 Today his white-haired mother sat in g farmhouse two miles west of here, wringing her hands and sobbing:
 "He liked people" she said. And 4ip @kWHyc AhCV " Alvlp utClH. IAc often said to me, mother, the peo- pie around US need help. Can't we give them sonething?'
 We are more depressed over the deaths of those others than we are over his death"
 w. w. Durand, his farmer father. believed his son had been insane.
 When they jailed him and told him he would get 10 years for kil- ling a yAnchman's beef, I guess the thought of that drove him tenn porarily insane" he said. Tt was so foreign to Earl's nature that he could not bear t."
 The DrAnds are highly respect cd.
 The father spoke quietly of his sons good deeds.
 He never could stand the thought of people going hungry. once while returning from Califor- mia, Earl met q young man in rn- fortunate circumstayice .. He gave him $10 which left him hardly enough to buy food tho rest of the