CRIME: Beloved Enemy

In a natural fortress of boulders and timber, near Clark's Fork Canyon 30 miles northwest of Cody, Wyo., Earl Durand, 26, the huge, hairy "true woodsman" who broke jail in Cody last fortnight and shot down two pursuing peace officers (TIME, March 27), lay waiting and watching one day last week. They had sentenced him to six months in jail for shooting a bull elk out of season, threatened him with ten years more for killing a beef cow. Now they wanted him for double murder. A posse of peace officers under Sheriff...

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