The Richland Burglary Manhunt
A trio of burglars leads the sheriff on a high-stakes chase through the desert sand before being flushed out of the hills.
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The Yedica store and the post office at Richland were robbed one night last week. This is the third time within a year that the Yedica store has been burglarized and the second time for the post office. The robbers secured about $120 in silver and gold at the post office. Sheriff Duffy was notified as soon as the robbery was discovered the next morning and shortly after noon that day, with Deputy McClellan, came on three men in the hills west of the Grosscup ranch. These men, who had been tracked in the sand from the scene of the crime, broke and ran, but a couple of shots from the sheriff’s gun caused them to change their minds and they were taken into custody. They will be tried in the Federal court at North Yakima.
“These men, who had been tracked in the sand from the scene of the crime, broke and ran, but a couple of shots from the sheriff’s gun caused them to change their minds.”
Richland was a tiny, agricultural outpost long before it became the center of the Manhattan Project. This story captures the precarious nature of security in a frontier town where law enforcement relied on tracking boot-prints through the sand.
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