MOUNTAIN MAN-HUNT.
GANGSTER DIES IN GUN FIGHT. NEW YORK. March 25. The greatest western man-hunt of modern times ended in Wyoming, when Earl Durand died in a gun battle yesterday. Durand, breaking gaol, killed two police officers and sought refuge in an improvised rocky fortress in the Wild Bear Toot!) Mountains, where lie held off a posse numbering 100 men for two days, killing two.
Two army howitzers and a trench mortar were rushed up, hut, during the darkness, Durand escaped and later appeared in his home town of Powell, where he attempted to hold up a local bank clerk. He was killed in a gun battle by a boy who crouched across the street and shot Durand as he emerged from the hank.
Wounded desperately and apparently unwilling to risk the mercy of the townspeople, Durand shot himself in the head.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 99, 27 March 1939, Page 7
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