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...dawn, deputies were blocking the roads, and rancher pilots for miles around were taking to the air to drop warning messages at houses without telephones, and to search roads and back trails. Later in the morning Ellis' car came bumping up the rough trail to the Andy Andersen ranch, 60 miles from the scene of his last killing. The owner, who was reading a note dropped from the air, got into his own car and skidded off to telephone the law as Ellis took refuge in Andersen's barn. Soon airplanes began landing on Andersen's sloping...
...Capture. The posse settled down warily to wait for the law. But Ellis set the barn on fire. It burned to smoldering ruins. When the ranchers discovered that Ellis had taken refuge in a tool shed behind it, they opened up with volleys from deer rifles, pistols, shotguns and .225. Six hundred rounds were fired. "Come out!" a rancher yelled. There was no answer. Several hundred more rounds cracked into the shack. Then Ellis, hit by six bullets, and dying, called "I'm through. Come...
...sunny California, some rain is always falling into the lives of Democrats. Last month the party's high command in Washington decided to raise an umbrella over the longtime split between the party's left wing, led by James Roosevelt, and its right wing, led by wealthy Rancher E. George Luckey. Beneath the umbrella, veteran Congressman Harry Sheppard put together a 76-member slate of "regular" delegates to the national convention, fusing the left and the right. They were held together by Sheppard's firm promise that Harry Truman would stay in California's June...
...waved his cocked pistols at the stranger and announced: "Four Eyes is going to set up drinks." Four Eyes paid him no mind, finished warming his hands at the stove, then turned and-as both bullets went wild-knocked the gunman cold with a single punch. After that, Tenderfoot Rancher Theodore Roosevelt was affectionately known around Mingusville as Old Four Eyes...
Love Story. In Fairfield, Calif., Rancher Ralph Fong explained to the sheriff why he had tried to hire two men to kill his wife so that he could collect her $10,000 life insurance: "I loved her so much I couldn't shoot her myself...