DESPERATE GUN BATTLE
MAN HUNT IN MOUNTAINS,
A GANGSTER’S DEATH.
By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. 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 improvised 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 m the head.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 March 1939, Page 5
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