GANGSTER’S DEATH IN GUN FIGHT
Man-Hunt In Wyoming Mountains (Received March 26, 6.30 p.m.) 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 jail, killed two police officers and sought refuge in an improvized rocky fortress in the Wild Bear Tooth Mountains, where he held off a posse numbering 100 men for two 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 crouched across the street and shot Durand as he emerged from the bank. Wounded desperately and apparently unwilling to risk the mercy of the townspeople, Durand shot himself in the head.
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 155, 27 March 1939, Page 9
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149GANGSTER’S DEATH IN GUN FIGHT Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 155, 27 March 1939, Page 9
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