The Evening Herald

DESPERADOES KILLED.
Two Terrors Bite the Dust in Oklahoma Territory.
FIRED ON DEPUTY MARSHALS
And a Moment Later Both Fell. Pierced with Bullets-Two Mississippi Train Robbers Easily Overcome Three Armed Officers of the Law.

GUTHRIE, O. T., Jan. 3.-Two star desperadoes who have infested Oklahoma Territory for a long time have been run to the ground and made to bite the dust. Before they died they fought their would-be captors a hard battle. The outlaws are Bob Moore and George East, both of whom are suspected of having been implicated in the Canadian, Tex., express robbery and the killing of Sheriff McGee.

Deputy Marshal Bill Williams and a strong detachment of deputies had been chasing the outlaws for several days. They had traced them from place to place, but had not got within fighting distance till Tuesday. Although the sides were unequal, half a dozen or more deputies to two outlaws, the latter were armed to the teeth, and their natural desperateness strengthened by the position in which the deputies had put them, made them no easy mark. They were rounded up in a desolate valley in the southwestern part of Washita county about noon, and when commanded to surrender took a stand and began using their Winchesters.

Their aim was good, for in the first volley one of the posse fell, seriously wounded by a ball in the side. The next instant, however, both lay stretched upon the ground dead with bullets from the deputies' guns in their hearts. The outlaws were a veritable walking arsenal, and had they not been killed so soon would doubtless have laid some of the deputies to rest.

They are both old offenders with enviable reputations among their craft, and their riddance is joyous news to the territorial officials generally, as they were the constant dread of Oklahomans.