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v MANHUNT IN WYOMING SHOT IN GUN BATTLE (Rccd. March 27, 9 a.m.) NEW YORK, March 25. The greatest western man-hunt of modern times ended in Wyoming when Earl Durand died in a gun battle. Durand, in breaking gaol, killed two police officers and sought refuge in an improvised rocky fortress in the Wild Bear Tooth mountains. He held off a poslse numbering 100 men for tw,o days, killing two.
Two army howitzers and a trench mortar were rushed up, but. 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, from a crouched position across the .street, shot Durand as he emerged. Wounded desperately and apparently unwilling to risk the townspeople’s mercy, Durand shot himself in, the head.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19897, 27 March 1939, Page 5
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