Missouri, T-W, 1879-1996, Undated

\ the rugged Ozark
oda farmhouse, Pis-
ler, threatened the
ouple’s Ford. When
‘gine trouble, they
d the stolen Chev.

~ valuable time,
dlockades had
cipal roads, If
ssape, they might
ough, but in his
‘'d be virtually use.

Thompson saw it,
familiar labyrinth
the wooded hills
them would lead
where they could

Thompson swung
‘ Near the village
e headlights and
‘k with only the
- moon to guide

the road with-
5 @ roller coaster

it he cursed and

the road ended
bluff, and the
Closer on the

on much far.
gasped. “My

ce off his sen-
1 face twisted
* was leaning
’, sucking air

dled through
one of
granite out.
feet; hidden
vithout warn-
k their way
ush with the
ick viciously,
18 like bull-
s tore their
the pressure
rinnad open
to lean
ipport,

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ed, the greater became mental anguish
of knowing that somewhere behind them
in the woods might be dozens of men
intent on their capture... or their deaths,

“We can't give out yet,” Thompson
sapped. “We've gotta find a place to hole
up, someplace where we're protected.”
He looked apprehensively behind them
through the darkness. “As soon as them
coppers find that car, we’re gonna have
more than human beings to contend
with.”

Tucker glanced at him fearfully,
“Dogs?”
Thompson nodded. “Bloodhounds.

Black and brown sons-of-bitches with big
floppy ears and wrinkled foreheads, No
Posse worth its salt is going to move
through country like this without ’em,
They'll trace our scent like it’s raw meat.”

“Dammit, we can’t run forever!” Tuck-
er protested,

“Gotta keep goin’ as long as we can,”
Thompson persisted. “Till we drop if we
have to,”

Half-dragging, half-carrying his wound-
ed companion, Thompson stumbled on.
With each step, Tucker became an in-
creasing burden of dead weight. From his
throat seeped a continual gutteral moan
like wind in the barren trees around them,
and occasional irrational. outbursts told
Thompson that Tucker’s Pain had driven
him to the brink of delirium,

Finally, when they tripped over a fallen
limb and sprawled on the ground, Thomp-
son made no effort to lift his blood-soaked
pal. He sat with his head between his
knees, breathing hard, Praying for re-
newed strength. ;

Experiencing a moment of rationality,
Tucker rose on one elbow and looked at
him steadily. “Go on,” he muttered, “I
can’t make it. Let ’em catch me if they
have to. I just can’t make it!”

You're right, Thompson thought. And
the trail of blood you've left will draw
the dogs right to you. There’s not a damn
thing I can do to help. It’s time to think
of Number One,

The last thing Thompson wanted was
to go back to prison. The nightmare of
life behind bars was firmly imbedded ‘in
his mind. Only three years earlier, after
moving to California from his native
Pierce, Oklahoma, he had been convicted
of a burglary in San Luis Obispo. For 10
months, he had suffered the horrible regi-

‘mentation of prison life,

But like every other “fish” he had a
cocky self-assurance that the next time
would be different. He wouldn’t be caught,
he consoled himself. ;

But he was. ;

In December, 1960, he and Tucker
were convicted of the $9,400 holdup of
a San Jose supermarket and sentenced to
San Quentin with terms of five years to
life. Then late in February, they and

‘Johnson had been transferred to the

county jail at San Luis Obispo while au-
thorities readied charges against them in
connection with a series of eight super-
market stick-ups, Before action could be
taken, they had broken out. .

Now in the lonely Missouri wilderness,

mpson was conscious of only one re-

gret. He hadn’t had time to visit his wife
and two young children in Bakersfield in
his desperate flight from justice. His wife,
after all, was the only thing valuable that
had touched his life. He had even turned
to crime for her, pulling his first robbery
so he could get money to Pay for her
cancer operation, ,

But that was behind him now, he rea-
lized abruptly. And the present was dread-
fully upon him. ;

ORKING swiftly and silently,
Thompson dragged his groaning com-

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panion under a bush and scooped a mound
of leaves over him as Protection against
the chill night air. On the sole of Tucker’s
right shoe he felt for a secret .compart-
ment. Yes, the hacksaw which had helped
them break from the California jail was
still there. If Tucker should live long
enough to be captured, Thompson assured
himself, he’d still have a chance at free-
dom.

“Good luck,” he muttered softly,

Then he gathered up the rifle and their
hand guns, and without looking back,
walked across a little glade and disap-
peared over a moon-splashed hill...

A gray dawn was filtering through the
trees as the first faint sounds of excited
yelping drifted to Sammy Tucker on the
crisp, woodsy air. Bloodhounds!

Mind swirling with terror, he struggled
to scramble erect. His legs wobbled like
rubber, and he pitched forward helplessly.
Desperately he tried to crawl, but razor-
edged rocks and splintered branches lac-
erated his hands and pain sliced through
his wounded left arm till tears streamed
down his cheeks. There was no escape,
and he knew it.

The baying dogs, loaned for the hunt by
Missouri State Penitentiary, were closer
now, hot on the scent. Even if his trail
had been crossed and recrossed by a dozen
individuals, the keen-nosed hounds could
have tracked him. And the way his blood
was splattered over the rugged terrain, he
might as well have been Pulling them to
him on a leash. Already he could hear the
voices of the Posse, anxious, taut, attuned
to the dogs’ excitement.

If only I had a chance, Tucker la-
mented. If only Thompson had left a

Thompson! The thought struck him
with sudden hopefulness: somewhere
nearby Doug Thompson must be crouched

in hiding. With three Pistols, a high-pow-
ered rifle and plenty of ammunition, he
might be waiting for the dogs and search
party to come within shooting distance,
waiting for an opportunity to rescue his
pal,

After all, Tucker assured himself, he
risked his life carrying me through these
woods last night. He wouldn’t let me down
now!

The first bloodhound burst from the
underbrush like a mountain lion, Square
muzzle to the ground and sniffing furi-
ously, he charged directly at Tucker, who
made another futile effort to rise and run.

Close on the lead dog’s trail came two
more, their sleek black-and-tan coats glist-
ening in the early morning sun, Franti-
cally, Tucker searched for a rock, a limb,
anything with which to defend himself as
the beasts loped toward him.

Two feet away, the dogs stopped sud-
denly. As his eyes riveted on them in
terror, they began circling him as if stalk-
ing a wounded fox.

He moved slightly. Instantly one of the
dogs lunged toward him. Its powerful feet
smashed against his chest, bowling him
to the ground. With a snarl the animal
shoved its wrinkled face so close to his
throat that Tucker could smell its hot,
rancid breath flooding over his face. Black
slobbering lips pulled back to bare hun-
gry fangs.

“My God! Tucker’s mind throbbed.
Why doesn’t Thompson shoot?

Then a sound from the woods, “There’s
one of ’em. The dogs have him.” The
Posse, armed and angry, were running
toward him.

Shoot, Doug! Tucker begged. Shoot/

Guns drawn, the searchers closed
around him. The sentinel dogs retreated,

But there was no shot from the woods.,,

Of the jailbreak trio, only Thompson
remained at large by Saturday noon,

ide ecagccae . ae -

After Tucker was captured in the rugged
wilds near Grassy and hospitalized, Cal-
vin Johnson was apprehended at Jackson,
eight miles northeast of Cape Girardeau,
where he was trying to purchase a used
car. When his friends had left him on the
Kroger parking lot the night before, he
had eluded police by fleeing down an alley
on foot. Then, after hiding out in a Cape
Girardeau hotel overnight, he took a cab
out of town,

Like Tucker, his concern at capture
was initially assauged by the knowledge of
a hacksaw blade concealed in the sole of
one shoe. But the hopes of escape cher-
ished by both men were crushed when
discerning officers discovered the blades,

“Well, you’ve got us,” Tucker lamented,
“But you'll never take Doug Thompson
alive.”

“Maybe not,” a Police lieutenant ad-
mitted. “But we'll get him, one way or the
other,”

The biggest manhunt in the history of
southeast Missouri swung into action,
Nearly 300 sheriffs’ deputies, state troop-
ers, city policemen, and volunteers spread
in a circle 30 miles in diameter around
the site where Tucker and Thompson had
separated, moving over the rough terrain
on foot and on horseback.

Officers in tadio-equipped squad cars
manned roadblocks on virtuallly every
highway and byway. Highway Patrol
planes and helicopters circled low over the
area. Commercial radio stations as well as
the official police network relayed Thomp-
son’s description: “6 feet tall, 160 pounds,
sandy hair, left thumb missing, thought
to be wearing a light suit.” Residents in
the area were warned to move with ex-
treme caution if they found it necessary
to be outdoors,

“This man is vicious,” a state trooper
explained, “If he was willing to kill a
policeman to avoid capture for jailbreak-
ing and robbery, there’s no telling what
he’ll be willing to do now that he’s wanted
for murder,”

Everyone waited tensely for the first
break. It came just before 7 o’clock Satur.
day evening, -

A woman entering a store on Highway
34 west of Grassy saw a man duck under
a bridge over a creek tributary to the
Castor River, a crooked stream that
Parallels County Route MM where the

(Continued on page 86)

Held at gunpoint, the Clanahans in-

duced Thompson to surrender to posse,


a.

he was a desperate man. But even with a
car at his command, how could he escape?
He was sure that before he could reach
Poplar Bluff or the Arkansas line the
wounded trooper would drive Glover’s car
to a telephone and sound an alarm.

Almost hysterical with fear, he wheeled
off the main highway onto-County Route
W. He had driven only a few miles over
the rough, graveled road when the first
word of the shooting crackled over the
squad car’s two-way radio. Near the ham-
let of Hilliard, he braked the car into a
farmyard garage, closed the doors, and

’ dashed for the farmhouse, gun in hand.

Mrs. Eva Clanahan was talking on the
telephone to her daughter, the proprie-
tress of a grocery store, when the ex-con-
vict, blood streaming from his nose, burst
in upon her. Before he could reach her,
she blurted: “I don’t want those groceries,
but get me some other groceries out here
real quick,” and slammed down the re-
ceiver.

At the other end of the line, her daugh-
ter pondered the strange command. Then
the week-long search for Thompson crossed
he mind. Mom must be in trouble, she
decided. She dialed the Highway Patrol.
In the farm house, Thompson held elderly
Mrs. Clanahan and her husband, Carl,
under gunpoint while the woman washed
his bloody face and bandaged his wound.
Then he flicked on the television set just
in time to catch a newscast of the highway
shooting.

- He shoved his hand into his pocket and
withdrew the $1,100. Tossing it on an end
table, he remarked: “I want you to have
that. You’ve been good to me. I don’t want
co hurt you.”

“J don’t want you here,” Mrs. Clanahan
protested. “I’ve got a bad heart. Please,
please leave.”

Already it was too late. Outside, a cordon
of police officers was surrounding the
house, and a Highway Patrol helicopter,
carrying riot guns and tear gas bombs, was
settling onto the grass. Thompson’s face
twisted with fear.

Sensing his emotion, Mrs. Clanahan
leaned toward him. “You've got some life

“I tore one of those little tickets
off my mattress.”

left,” she said softly. “Leave your gun here
and give yourself up. Let’s not have any
shooting.”

“They'll kill me if I walk out there!”
Thompson exclaimed.

“The Lord is here with us,” the woman

countered. “If you take Him with you,
you'll be all right.”

Thompson glanced through the window
at the growing mob of policemen. Within
seconds, they'd have him outnumbered
100 to 1. “I'll go if you go with me,” he
said quietly, ’

Slowly he laid his gun on the sofa and
followed Mrs. Clanahan to the front door.
With the gray-haired woman leading the
way, they walked outside into the tense
circle of lawmen, their hands raised above
their heads, ;

Swiftly policemen pounced on Thomp-
son and pinned his arms to his sides. He
stared at them coldly. “I didn’t know
whether to give myself up or shoot myself
when I saw all you cops,” he said. “But I ©
didn’t have the guts to shoot myself.”

The manhunt for Douglas Thompson, a
chase which cost three lives and untold
terror, was over.

EDITOR'S NOTE: On April 12, 1961, a
near-riot broke out in the County Jail at
Poplar Bluff where Thompson was impris-
oned. Prisoners tore mattresses, set trash
paper fires, and flooded the building. Au-
thorities said Thompson inspired the up-
rising in hopes he could escape during the
contusion. If 80, hia plan was abortive. He
was transferred to a maximum security
cell at Missouri State Penetentiary, and
on December 8 was sentenced to die in
the gas chamber at Marble Hill, Mo., for
the killing of an auxiliary policeman in
the Cape Girardeau gunfight. Sammy
Tucker was sentenced to death by a Jack-
son, Mo., jury for the murder of Patrol-
man Donald Crittendon. Their friend Cal-
vin Johnson, was returned to H utchinson,
Kansas, where he was convicted of a
supermarket robbery and sentenced to the
Kansas State Prison at Lansing.

Tough Cop

(Continued from page 40)

up the stairs, stopping at the third floor
landing. Mulrooney wanted the bastard
for himself. Wanted him alive. He want-
ed him to sweat out the electric chair
and go screaming for mercy through the
little green door at Sing Sing. Maybe
then Ptl. Frederich Hirsch, five bullets
in his chest and head from point-blank
range, could rest in peace. Mulrooney
waved his men silent and leaned for-
ward on the landing, keeping his body

H heer tp against the stairs, his head

arely showing above the landing.

“Crowley!” he shouted. “Crowley, this
is the police. You’ré boxed in and you
can’t get out. Throw your weapons out
the window, then open the door slowly
and show us both your hands. Come out
slowly and don’t move your hands or
you'll be shot. I promise you that if you
follow these instructions you won’t be
harmed.” Mulrooney paused and lis-
tened. He heard nothing. “Crowley? Can
you hear me?”

The cop killer’s voice, muffled by the
door, was high-pitched and squeaky.
“JT hear you, coppers. You want me, come
in and get me!” A hail of bullets tore
through the door as punctuation. Mul-
rooney and the others on the stairs
Grosped down and retreated to the sec-
ond fioor landing. The shots stopped and
the hall was silent. Then Mulrooney
heard the high-pitched voice again,
fainter, but clear. “Yellow bastards!”

“He wants a fight.” said Mulrooney
angrily. “Give him what he wants, and
if we’ve got to ian him out dead, then
that’s the way we'll bring him out.”

In an‘hour three cops had been
wounded and Crowley was still inside
and the police had an added problem.
They were having trouble holding back
some 5,000 persons drawn to 90th Street
by the shooting. Despite barricades and
the efforts of police, many in the crowd
were too close to the shooting. The police
barrage that had smashed the, windows
and splintered the wood of Crowley’s
fortress was called to a halt. The police
were stymied, but they didn’t want any
dead citizens.

Shortly after the shooting had stop-
ped, an unmarked police car pulled up
to the outside fringe of the crowd and
a medium-size man in a natty gray suit
jumped out, fought his way through the
crowd and identified himself to a uni-
formed cop at the barricade,

“Detective John Broderick, Head-
quarters Squad.”

Broderick, on this spring-like May 1,
1931, was 35 years old and already a
legend in his own time. Five years
earlier he had single-handedly ended a
breakout at the Tombs Prison by charg-
ing three armed escapees hiding behind
a coal pile in the prison yard. To do it
he had raced across 50 yards of open
yard with only an ashcan_ cover for
protection, firing as he ran, listening to
the bullets whistle and ping through the
thin metal of his makeshift shield. The
three men were dead when Broderick
finally charged the coal pile. There were
no police injuries, Broderick hadn’t been
touched.

Broderick climbed past the barricade
and was met by a uniformed in-
spector, who greeted him warmly.

“Crowley’s holed up there,” the in-
spector told Broderick.

“Yeah, I know, said Broderick who
had a deceptively soft voice. “What's
the problem?”

“He’s got good position and protection
up there and he’s armed to the teeth,”
said the inspector. ‘“‘We’ve lobbed in
some tear gas, but the bastard grabs
the bombs and throws them back out.
We've only got the two windows to shoot
at and he can cover them pretty well.
Now we got the crowd to worry about.
He’s got us in a bind.”

“We doing anything?”

“Well, we’ve got a dozen men on the
roof with axes,” said the inspector. bi F
figure if we can chop through the roof
we can get at him from above. Even i
we can’t get down to him, we might be
able to distract him long enough to get
some tear gas in the apartment. Weve
got the stairs covered, so he can't go
anyplace.”

Broderick nodded and moved toward
the building.

Broderick carried a gun and could use
it when necessary, but he hated guns.
He hated them because punks like
Crowley used them. Broderick never
pulled his gun unless he absolutely had
no recourse. He prided himself on taking
punks with his bare hands, and he was
never gentle about taking them. They
are all yellow, philosophized Broderick.
I know it and they know it. All I do is
let everybody else know it.

‘And hoodlums, for all their guns and
paid protection and smart lawyers,
feared Broderick like no other man in
this world. Both of Broderick’s hands
had been broken dozens of times and
the hoods knew how he broke them—on
their heads and ribs and pelvis bones.
X-ray plates of Broderick’s hands were
already being used at New York medical

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| ments Monday:

| state power plant near the Capitol
‘|}and issue up to a million dollars | Sen
‘lin bonds to finance it.

-|to curb ifnportation of’ cheap
_| milk. Opponents. will be heard
YT A Senate insasiiten deferred

Commission. The ‘subcommittee {°
would. advige the. State Division
'Of Health in’ its” regulation and
‘control of sources of tadiation—|
such - 83 x-ray, cobalt ray end
‘maclear getivated equipment..
Among new bilis were ones to:
Set up a. division of building
services: inthe State Board- of
Education to pass oa. sdequacy
of Plans for publi¢ = eos-

“Establish a system ‘ the state

control and eradication ef sca-
bies, a cattle disease:
: Provide for an interstate com:
pact on the placemest of chil
dren. It would allow for inter-
state co-operation in the place-
ment or adoption of children.

|

scribed them.

Approve Racial Bill.
Monday night a House commit-
tee approved a bill to bev racial
discrimination in public places.
It would require hotels, restau-
rants; resorts and other business-

mers regardless of race, ¢reed,
religion or national origin.’
The State Commission on* Hu-
man Rights would have powap to
hear complaints, subpoena Wit-
nesses and issue stop orders. The
commission's decisions could tbe
appealed to the courts. ‘
Nineteen witnesses spoke for
the bill at a crowded hearing.
Only two sppeared against nal
One was John Bryan of St. Louis.

executive director of the Mireaurl
Hotel Association. He said - i
| businessman

should haves the
right to decide how he operates
his business.

In other legislative develop:

A House committee approved a
plan to let the State Conservation
Commission build a headquarters
building on the site of the old

Hearings opened on a bill, to
regulate milk prices in ap effort

pada gs in “the Atomis ‘Eoegry|

= Wounds
To Police

~ His--resigmation ‘from the de-,’
partment to accept another posi-
tion would have become effective
at 11 that night, 1% hours after
the shooting occurred on North

4 1 Hig -€1 as Ptlm. Crittendon
Bar sales of hearing aids unless — - :

ja licensed physician has pre-

and other officers attempted to
question two fugitives...

Ptlm. Crittendon was the third
man to die from buljet wounds
fired from guns in the hands of
the hardened crimirais. Four
others were injured before e-the
Jast. of the two desperadoes,
Douglas Wayne Thompson, ‘ was
captured Friday. flis huddy-
in-crime, Sammy Aive ‘Tucker,
had been taken into custody the
night of the Cape shogtinr \

Herbert L. Goss, an Avsxiua ry
policeman, died shortly afier U 18

tendon was injured. Raymone
Glover of Clubb was fatally siiot

shortly before Thompson's arzas?.
Native of Arkansas. ~

Donald Harold Crittendon was
born Apri] 14, 1936, at Piggott,
k. His family moved to Ken-
tt and he was educated in th-
schools there, graduating fiom
Ketinett High School where he
had\starred in football and track
\fer foyr years.

He pttended State College in
Cape Girardeau for a term before |.
rene ny Navy_in 1955. While f
stati ‘Honolulu, Hawail, he
and Miss Roteda Joyee Lillard of

Senath were married. ek
Aug. 3071956.

Following his sar from
the service on Sept. 5, 1957, he
again entered Staté College for
a time and was enrolled for two
courses this semester. He. then
worked at Davis Electric Co., pri-

action on a bill to require safety

Inenertinn nf metar aunmhinlan

or to becoming a driver-examiner

“Donald Crittendon.

original shooting in which Crit-t

by Thompson Friday afternoon, };

Fatal
Officer

 Pthn. Donald H, Crittendon; 24 years old, died at 4:50
a. tm today in a local hospital of gunshot wounds he re-
ceived while performing his final act of duty for the Cape
Girardeau police department the night of March 10.

of Kennett: three sisters; / Mrs.
Max Hostetler of West Memphis,
Ark., Mrs. John Higgins of Cape
and-Miss Kay Crittendon of Ken-
nett;. the. maternal grandparents,
Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Bradshaw,
‘and the paternal grandmother,
Mrs. Nora Crittendon, all of Ken-
nett.

Funeral services will be con-
ducted by the Rev. Thomas Hill
at 3 Wednesday—afternoon in the
Red Star. Baptist Church. He will
be assisted by the Rev. Arnold
Clayton of Paragould, Ark. The
body will remain at the Ford &
Sons Funeral Home until 12:30
Wednesday. Burial will be in
Memorial Park Cemetery.

Whole Lawn Stolen
Nth pt Fla. @—A. R.

ing, had sod put down Saturday
the yard of his new home.

then he returned to water it,

[King found someone had stolen
tis \entire front lawn—some 600

square feet.

ington and Moscow. Hanging over
the negotiations was the eminous

as knowledge. that. more and. more

nations_ere approaching a “poist” ~
of nuclear know.
them to produce ni:cieer

table after a three-month recess,

ment on the other.
Britain's chiet delegete,

spoke of “a very real, ekaes te
agree upon": “tpenty in @ matter
of weeks” fot added, “Evers:
thing very much depends, of
course, upox the attitude of the
Soviet Union,”
Gives Soviet Vidw.
apkin told newsmen, “We have
placed the responsibility for
agreement onthe West

“he Soviet news agency Tass,
noi 1g preparatory conferences in
Wa:tington, said “optimists in-
clad: 7 us would like to hope the
purpos: of their efforts was to
facilitate agreement” to end nu-
clear expgsions.

But the Yeency added: “Hard-
ly conducive to such an outcome
of the talke is the position of
those Western circles and periodi-
cals which sre. sean demanding
unilateral « sions from the
Soviet Union, aeyoues they «re
aware of the, fs
the. Soviet side | a repeatedly met
the Wigstegn fowere of any ques-
thongs

ban, treg

=e CHANGES STORY.

Ac

Dark in. Baitle

“*

Sammy Aire Tucker, 26

{nits Taking

q

Sy aves

Fresno Calif, on Monday...”

admitted -for the first time that tt was he abe shot Ptlm.

Donald Crittendon on March

10 when the Cape Girardeau

police officer and two auxiliary policemen stopped him
and Douglas Wayne Thompson, 27, of Bakersfield, Calif.,

for questioning near the north city limits, Cape Girardeau

a Risa aba ae yD aa $e e rs z
better relations between’\Wash- -

Ceming back to the conference
~| exch side put the onusof “agreas

Riniee
ter of Stoty David Ormaby-Gere,

_ Soviet Delegate Semyon: Tsar-.

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Bloodhounds

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stolen Chevrolet was abandoned. She was
sure the man was Douglas Thompson.

Within minutes, an anxious band of
searchers gathered eagerly at the bridge.
Led by Police Chief Percy Little of Cape
Girardeau, the pack eased itself down the
highway embankment, flashlights seeking
any sign of the fugitive’s presence.

“Look!” Chief Little exclaimed, point-
ing to a patch of mud. “Fresh footprints!”

Quickly bloodhounds picked up the
spoor and began zigzagging along the
creek bank, their silky ears flopping
wildly.

Crouched in the reeds and underbrush
near the water, Thompson could hear the
officers’ voices, the yelping of the dogs.
A shudder racked his body. They'll be
on me in a minute!

The cold outline of a pistol pressed
against his belly inside his shirt. He
reached for it with trembling fingers, then
checked himself. It’d be suicide to try to
stave off that mob. Even if he had all his
other weapons along, he wouldn’t stand
a chance. They could surround him, riddle
him with cross-fire like a cornered rabbit.
And besides the men, there were the pow-
erful, relentless bloodhounds.

Run! instinct commanded.

Like a wounded animal, Thompson sud-
denly charged through the tangled under-
growth. “There he goes!” a voice boomed.
The dogs yelped with fresh excitement,
and the sound of men crashing along the
bank echoed loudly in his ears.

“Halt!”

Thompson spun automatically at the
command. Fifty yards behind him, a state
trooper had drawn a bead on his bobbing
head, Every muscle in his body cramped
taut, bracing for the impact of a bullet.
For an instant, a volunteer unexpectedly
ducked into the line of fire. The trooper’s
finger froze on the trigger.

Thompson snatched the delay like a
lifeline. With a powerful lunge he hurled
himself through the undergrowth and hit
the creek bank flat on his stomach. He
squirmed through the oozing mud like a
salamander and glided into the creek.

There was still an equally frightening
gang of human bloodhounds to elude —
the posse. He’d have to work fast. His
lungs aching for air, he held his breath
and propelled himself downstream, using
a powerful underwater breaststroke. If he
could just make it past the bridge...

At the water’s edge, the dogs circled
in wild confusion. Powerful flashlights
played on the water, searching for a
ripple, a stream of bubbles that would
betray ‘Thompson’s -whereabouts.

“Fan out along the bank!” an officer
yelled. “Shoot at anything that even looks
like him. And somebody get back toward
the bridge. He’s liable to climb out on

the highway and steal a car while we're
down here.”

UTIFULLY, volunteers and policemen
headed toward the road. But nature
was on the side of the hunted man, He
could move faster through the icy water
than the manhunters with their heavy
boots and rifles could plow through the
mud and brush. By the time they reached
the bridge, the man they sought was al-
ready beyond it.

Lungs bursting, he broke the surface
and gulped air. Then keeping only his
head above water, he slithered like a water
moccasin further downstream to safety...

“HIe’s in those woods somewhere,”
Lieutenant E. F. Dampf, Highway Patrol
officer in charge of the hunt, told reporters
a few days later. “The trouble is that
you could walk right by him in this
country and never know he’s near.”

The searchers did not have to be re-
minded. They knew as they probed the
rugged countryside that the killer might
be only inches away, framing them in his
gun sights. And with rainy weather pre-
vailing, bloodhounds had become virtually
useless; they were unable to pick up
Thompson’s scent from the wet leaves
and undergrowth.

While the fugitive, hungry, soaked, and
shivering, hid out in abandoned shacks
and natural caves, hoping against hope
that he could forage enough food from
barns and hen houses to stay alive until
the search slackened, panic gripped the
rural areas. With each passing day, resi-
dents and lawmen alike pictured Thomp-
son growing more desperate. It was only
a matter of time, they predicted darkly,
before his bloody hand struck again.

People were taking no chances. Farmers
banded together to do their chores, afraid
to enter outbuildings alone. At night they
stood guard on their porches or perched
on their roofs, coon rifles at the ready.
Everyone who saw a stranger along the
twisting dirt roads notified police. But
because of his ability to conceal himself

whenever search parties pressed close, .

Thompson earned the nickname “will-o’-
the-wisp desperado.”

But “will-o’-the-wisp” was a haunted
man, terrified of being gunned down with-
out warning, of starving in the woods or
being attacked by wild animals. He knew
the $1,100 nestled in his pockets was
enough, perhaps, to buy his way to free-
dom. But whom could he trust? Could he
face the risks of finding out?

OR a week he lived a nightmare of

running, sleeping in fitful snatches by
day and creeping to a new hideout at
night. And every moment, he was waiting
on a razor’s edge for the yelping of dogs
or the crack of a bullet that would signal
the end of his escapade.

By Friday, March 17, he had endured
all the waiting his nerves could take. I’m
going to make one gigantic effort at

escape, he decided, Win or lose,

At 2 P.M., he cautiously crept from an
old house where: he had spent the night
and moved along Highway 34. Watch out
for new cars, he warned himself, realizing
they might be unmarked squads. What you
want is a nice old clunker .. . and hope,
ef God, that the guy driving it is coopera-

ve.

One hundred yards from the house, he
flagged a 1951: Mercury driven by Ray-
mond Glover, a sawmill worker from
the nearby village of Clubb. Unaware
that his hitch-hiker was Douglas Thomp-
son, Glover agreed to take him to Poplar
Bluff, near the Arkansas border, for $5.

Thompson watched anxiously as the
countryside slipped by. Five miles from
where he picked up Thompson, Glover
swung onto U.S. 67, heading south toward
Poplar Bluff. Just 38 miles now — less
than an hour’s drive — and Thompson
would be out of the search area. Just 38
more miles...

The Highway Patrol car was on them
before Thompson realized what had hap-
pened. In a moment of chance-taking,
Raymond Glover had swerved out to pass
a truck, violating the yellow no-passing
stripe. Now the blinking Mars light. and
the waving of trooper Glen Davis signaled
him to the shoulder.

Thompson’s body snapped rigid as he
watched the officer stride toward the car.
But under his shirt, he felt the reassuring
cagan of the pistol, Provided he needed

tooe

“Let's see your driver’s license,” Davis
commanded, peering in at Glover. Coop-
eratively, the driver stepped out and

_ offered his credentials. Thompson’s heart

was fluttering madly now, and the blood
pounded in his temples as he watched the
trooper’s every move.

Leaving Glover standing on the high-
way, Davis walked to Thompson’s side of
the car. “What’s your name?” -he de-
manded.

“Taylor,” Thompson lied nervously.

Davis studied him carefully, then’ his
eyes dropped to Thompson’s lap and
focused on his hands. The left thumb was
missing!

Davis’ mind flashed back to the descrip-
tion of the desperate bandit issued after
the Cape Girardeau shootings. Missing
lett thumb...

“Get out of the car and keep your hands
where I can see ’em,” Davis ordered.

Silently, Thompson opened the door
and stepped out.

“Now, turn around and put your paws
up on the car,” Davis snapped.

Slowly Thompson turned toward the
vehicle, then suddenly wheeled, a gun in
his hand. :

“Get in that car, copper,” he barked.
“Get in or I’ll kill you!”

“No!” Davis shouted. Quick as a cat he
sprang into a crouching position and
leaped suddenly to the left.

Two shots cracked from Thompson’s
gun, and the second bullet bore hotly into
Davis’ right shoulder. With a yelp of pain,
the trooper scooted around the front of the
car like a frightened crab and came up
firing. One slug ripped through Thomp-
son’s nose, but he dodged the others skil-
fully and sent a volley of slugs flying back
across the hood.

A shriek of surprise and agony shrilled
from Raymond Glover’s throat. Fatally
wounded by one of Thompson’s shots, he
pitched toward Davis.

As the trooper caught his body and
eased it to the .pavement, Thompson
sprinted to the Highway Patrol car and
scooted behind the wheel. With Davis
firing wildly after him, he roared away to-
ward Poplar Bluff.

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County with State Trooper’ Eade,
Wright of- Piedmont; was shot: tn
the left side as he opened fire on
‘the speeding car in which the’ fu-
_ gitives were riding.“ He is in the
Poplar Bluff Hospital where: it is.
‘Teported “Ms - wounds “are ‘super:
ial and his Condition is good.:
Badly bene as he was. pistol:
ian head w George.
farmer. living-at Glen
Whe desperadoes took
tear s car, He: was not hospital-
iteds: se ;
~ Manhost Started.

tera peer all over ‘the state who |
continued © the chase throughdut
the night, first in Bollinger Coun-
ty, then in) Madison (County and

» then ene to Bollinger Cotinty.”
Still at large is Douglas Wayne
: “Thompson, who is descri
“\yearp olds 6 feet, tall, about 160
“pounds, wearing © light suit and
s a his: left thumb missing. He
Ae te | s0 knggn James Bartlett. 7
a IThe® enti Uacedtreds on tke
ss - shoulder of Highway.61 almost di-
:ppposite the Brénnecke |
& Standard Service Station! Events
A Steading up to it~ began: on: the
Be fobs ‘tot “at
Herd cian ag hat!
ond : i alice! a y
Den Riehn, “Manager. of. ‘the
+ Kroger. tore, noted two men loi-
 teF ing: neathy. He ‘became: sus-

as 27}

the* Town ae

{ground ‘and -c behind the |:
- police: car sing Wet. its baick;:

wr, said
@| and got out on the left aide, move |’?
ing forward so he could shine his!
light in the back- seat. sabia F
said he saw 2 pile of clothings:

Officers. Dewned.

“Lang said he | then : dropped | back
between the two cars. and was on
the. right side’ of the: police. car}
when the shooting started: Otfic- |.
er. Goss. fellinto ' the roadside
ditch as he. was’ shot’ through
ne legs evidently. by. the man on
the paisenge® site» of. the car.
An ‘artery in:each leg was sev-
ered. and—-death> came: “quickly,
- Officer’ Ceittendont had ‘moved.
to. the front-of ‘the vehicle sepa-
rated by the door as the driver
opened it: and * got out, At “this
time; he’ opened. fire, shooting
Crittendon in| the abdomen.” aie

“ Comes Up Firing+ :
Otficers: Kelley and Ross heard
the shots as they-came close, to-
| gether; Ross jumped. out, and
placing his service revolver
across the back-of the car, he
pumped’ sixshots’ into the fugi-
tives’ vehicle agit moved off. Of:
ficer.. Kelley. at_tha--same-tinite
shouted.to Ross to get. down. It
was. then, Ross rolled out, on the}

Kelley, moving low:/in the ‘seat,
said: he, fired: through. the open
window, resting” the ‘gun -on its:

ween

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© wae | spingel —_—

If a

way MM off of Highway 34,

~Tucker-was- shot) three-times,-
officers, said-in the ‘original gun
battle in which Auxiliary Police-

man H. # Goss was killed. When
he was: brought into: the: Aste:
here he was limping badly,
was. shot. in’ both. sens, Age tet
arm.

Officers apprenendel raaekér
when he was spotted by air from
a Patrol helicopter, He was un-.

and dffered only slight resistence,
offigers pointed out. The suspect
said his companion, Douglas, 27,
abandoned himsin. ‘the woods .t
‘Lal m: and took three. ‘pistols and
arifle: with him!) :~

oy Sucker told’ officers he,” Thomp:
‘son, and a man he identified as
Calvin Johnson, 22; were: prepar-
ing to rob the Kroger store, when
‘the managér became, suspicious. ‘|
He ‘said’ he ande ‘Tiom pson sfled,

“One ‘of Cee, in Pind raiehte fatal shooting ot a
police officer, Sammy Aire Tucker, 26, ‘was apprehended at
8 a.m. today in-a ‘wooded area ‘three: miles north ste High-

armed’at the time of his capture}

t Admits

police’ said.~

ISacond.C Cupe Officer in:

38 Years to Lose Life

The” Auxiliary Police + officer,
Herbert: L. Goss ‘was. the first
€/ policeman to’ lose is life iif the
line: gf duty in Cape Girardeau
“Fsince the death on Oct: 7) 1922 of
Chief of Police Jeff Hutson. Chief
Hutson was killed when ot rake
to-afrest-an escaped

sought for ‘questioning was at his
places; ‘

The ‘sheriff got. in contattewith
Trooper‘ Irvin Beard. who w3s
‘duty. with other officers near t
Starlight, andthe “arrest » was
made,’ They reported Johnson ad-
mitted his‘identity. -- *
“He had been sought since a
driver for’.the Small’ Rate’ Cab
Co. of’ ‘Cape Girardeau ‘notified
}poli¢e this morning: that: he had

+-Theprograri—as presente

aated reurpli grains at less than
‘| Support and market prices. **
Such sales would depress prices '
‘4 and encourage famers to comply |
with the. program, which is de-|
‘ }Signed'to reduce feed grain pro-
ee this-year because of huge
surpluses. °

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Congress—would offer higher, sup-
ports at $1.20 per bushel for corn
and payments to farmers who re-
duce grain acreages in line with
the program: Those who did not
cut back would be left to the mer-
| cy..of: prices. which the secretary

“Teould depress by dumping -sut-

-{ plus grain‘on the. market.
Version Passed Friday.

The Senate passed a version of
the <brogram Friday. by--a* 52-26
tote. which did not ‘carry thissale
authority, Many-senators claimed
such authority would give the sec-
retary too “Ayer power over mar-
kets:

“4<The Hd@use, on the other Fant

passed a; bill’ Thursday carrying
this sale authority. ;

Sen. Allen J, Eliender; Demo-
cart of Louisiana, who steered the
4 Senate- bill, said House compro-
misers must* drop the provision
“Or there will be«no bill’ Ellen-
der added, “I -hope ‘the ‘House
agrees to a. conference when it
meets Monday’ and that we can
get-a compromise later that day.”
A March 15 deadline has been. set

‘ picious and told them if they did
“not -move on he would: call: po-

edge, firing across the Pavement for’ passage of,a bifl if it is “to

from. the/south side. [taken aman from near thesfray-

leaving Johnson ”
. elers+ Gate in’. Cape to near the.

serene Soap ee Jot.

cae sy iV

hee. “They departed, but his! sus-
“Ppicions : “growing betausé™ of “the
action of the two men, Mr. Riehn
Called ‘police: headquarters; which

dispatched a tar to: the b shopping | whl

arrears ey

or Cem es

Patrolman Harold ‘White;
Biisry’ Police’ Officer.
Delk: aren Special

‘Aut:

Cages = oars

“He told Officer White atlas
men. had* gone toward ‘the’ Stan-
~ dard station; the other across the
~ highway. : The policem drove

“onto Highway 61 see “the man
there, but, unable to find him, re-
+ turned: to’ the. west | side: of the
“Kroger. store:
Hor peronae. Officer Crittendon
“hadi driven’ over the. wooden
“bridge. behind . the grocery store
«3 and he and Officer White stopped
ite Bah ivan Irvin, « Lintraries ‘of

“ere arrived, oreru eh
'* SS) Shortly, before, Officer: White
: “na Tadi trolman Shannon |’
peer 2 ry Officer Rob-
iPad ck Stadium, that
a ‘se was on for a 1956 Olds-
mobile; They -went to the Stand-}
irs station'on William. snd High

way 61; when they saw thec
head) out” from ‘there ® apd ree
haus on Highway 61. They gave
a and; at almost the, same

ii Sy ph McKendree: road, the: thugs.

a vee a ete ts |
‘wooden bridge apf gave chase.

on, ‘White went to William]...

Highway: 61.” A: ear. was

ween Crittendon’s and the Ges
és” Vehicle and one” or
more were: artabece? 2 and ‘cde

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“debe
Bi da

; Shambo, 19; Pederson .
leet the Shambo brothers, the

ey gna ;

be

out

. He-said' he-saw: the driver-fall
over ‘towaftd ‘the: passenger side
of the car, then sit upright, again
as TC OnE the car beat pnc Mean-
e officers continued fir-
tae “they eae > Keltey~ said “he
was sure thé:car driver was “bit
as in the sae itt

eee ea
om. the. te’ side, then: nek
back-up again:and sped on nOrtA: ;
ward on 61. wad
‘Patrolman: White. was ‘passing
the Broadway. intersection. when
he:-received > the! radio’ ‘Feport ot
the’ shooting. He «sped to “the
nouns in the third police» car.
A’ few minutes later Sgt. Ivan
McLain, who was’ at a nearby
store’ and had seen the flashing} @
police plight, arrived at the
scene.
+ He got into the oerer car with
White, Delk.and: Woods: and they
started north® on? Highway 61
thinking they might find the rac-
ing: ‘Oldsmobile of the thugs.
‘They; turned east..on the old
Cape Road and at its intersection
with Old’ MeKeadree Rbad- near}:
Jackson, and found: the Oldsmo-
bile parked } at the‘ side of the
road, half mile from; Hilghe
way 61
: Subsequent, investigation: "dit
closed fugitives had stopped three
youths | before ” abondoning. the
Oldsmobile.’ ify
:* Near Jackson ‘on the: gtaveled

SS oe re a

three young: men when
_ youths: started to. turn at the
place a road branches. off toward
the Old McKendree;/Chapel.. .
An. Diinols - Youth.
They told the youths ‘they would
shot. if they did not quickly get
and give up their blue Chevro-
fet car. The boys were Jim Pe-
derson; 18,.of ‘Joliet, I., ‘Terry
Shambo, 20, and bis brother, Bill
had come

Sha ‘the betire
the ‘shostigg: incident eS
The farméerin® ain 6 aa,
who: was beaten’ -up” ip? -satd-theze
were three. men: but: Tucker told:
officers “he. and Thompson: were}
the. only ones.” Ee aise es
Tucker told: officers he did’ not

the | take part.in: [aie mainsail
tort beeative” his gur-was-jemmed:

So Nellsvot-Escape.:”” Ee
‘He said he’ and the’ two other’

dimen escaped froma California) ited.
jait-on March 28;°stolé a car in}:

Bakersville, Calif. and’ headed for
"Albuquerque, N. > Mz} where he
said the three of ‘them. held up, a
liquor store” and “stole; $500 on
March ‘1, From there they went
to’ Hutchinson,” Kan. and’ robbed

suppermiarket ~ ‘ot! $5000» on
March, 3, he stated. He said they
abandoned the holdup car March
4 somewhere in northwest: Atkan-
sas and then purchased | a ‘used
car, the ongethey had here, in
Joplin. They’ went to. East St.

|| Louis: for several’ ‘days. before

coming to - Capes, Girerdeaw ” ‘on
Wednesday. - ft
Testifying . at. P tadtiest’ ‘this
forenoon, Tucker said the’ other
two men, Thompson and Johnson,
had. gone to. the Kroger: stare. to.

tstage the holdup, while he waited

in the’ getaway car: ‘When’ sfore
officials“ becamé* suspicious and
called police, Tucker said he and
Thompson fled,; Jeaving, Johnson
behind. Re inet
The man-- identified as. the
“Johnson” of. the. trio was. ar-
rested shortly beforé noon: today
by’ officers: at the’ Starlight: estab-
lishment« west of) Jackson ~ on
Highway 72. He was identified
by them * Ae “Calvin | Willis -John-
He hadjust-bought-a. Buick
var “for $59. cash from: Harold
James ‘at the Starlight. bee
Wher James went into Jackson
to get # tire to pat on the Buick
he learned of the shootings “ahd
telephoned ‘Sheriff John C. Crites

layed 08 pace AB.)

Juhat: he believed

Priore clere ene in Jackson; the trip
starting-at.5:45 a-cnr.. When this
fact was reported to officers they}
retarted “the search: for ‘Moe: man
meer as Johnsons"
«Big .Tippers:~

ee

tipped “lavishly>: up..to~ $2. at
fe roees had plenty wl: ifood Ree

gent«to. thent,,- t+, wae

ptated..<2- rorya a 44g
They: registered. vas Wm. °F,
Thurman -and- party of; 207; Tenth
street, Springfield, Mo. The three
checked out on. Thursday and re-
portedly went’ to another motel
and) talked) about taking rooms.
But they returned to the. Town
House, and again occupied ithe
same room, until about 8: 20 A, m.
A Pata 8

Verdict Awaited -
In Cuban Trial”

“HAVANA: (®—Military nuthor
ties said: today | no ‘verdict’ has
been reached in the military trial
of American adventurer William
A. Morgan and 13 others accused
of... mrt She: Castro
government.» A military, tribun-
al was reported Friday night to
have sentenced him té death

But defense attorney Jorge I.uis
Carro* said ‘this morning he had
heen advised the tribunal had not
yet returned its: verdict: in ‘the
trial, which ended Friday, Carro
had® announced Morgan and’ his
aide, Maj. Jesus Carreras,’ had
been sentenced to be shot and the

government papers. this morning.
Nevertheless,-military authorities
[said no decision had beea.reached
put that one might. be announced
later today. *

The: earlier. accounts ‘said. Mor-

aad :

same information appeared in all}:

gan, a 31-year-old soldier of: for-
tune, had heen la Nad ot: trea.
vot. the ‘men . st

have any effect of this® year’s
Crop eos 3

“Trowble, Delay Secale
Antieipating trouble and delay

ministration farm officials have
arted.. drafting’ a: compromise

near

aioe that avoids the coptreversia
The: three : men’ atayed both | saje -autharitse for Megosecretan
‘Wednesday and Thursday nights} of“agriculnire. es

at. the. "Towp. House “Motel. why, ish

‘One’ plan under reodudevati on
would retain the. present. $1.06
bushel support for corn. All grow
ers would be eligible for the ‘sup
port, but farmers who cut bac
acreages in line with the progran
would: get! government’ payment
sufficient to bring their return’ om
corn up -to the $1.20 - original]
proposed:

‘Invother wo r.d.s,. the suppo
would be supplemented by a 1
cen. payment. This payme
would be in? addition to what-th
_| government would pay on lap
withheld from production

*The theory of the plan is th
retention of the present price su
port rate would keep non-comply
ing farmers from benefitting fro:
price boosting effects that wou!
flow from the $1.20 rate. Hence
there would: be* more incentive ‘
go along with the program, ¢
the $1.06 support rate plus the
cent. support payment and thea:
ditional. payment on the retir
land.

Under this plan, there would
no need for the secretary to ha
authority to sell government gra
to depress prices of the not-c
operating farmers.

Deep)Sea Fishing

For Eisenhower

PALM: SPRINGS, Calif.

Ex-President. Dwight D. Ei

hower leaves today for some de

sea fishing in the Gulf of C

fornia, e
Charles ,

Jones, president

Richfield OYP-Co. and a freque
golfing conmanion will be Eis
hower’s ‘companien for the ni

_ | day stay near La Pas, Mexico,


» a

fie

- Ane Pay was

nN connection ¥ drug yo : Bees seca (ihe? 8 \ sie said in his. iett Rissa re
robbery at Biythe Ary | Branson. Ape peg cigs tion to Kennedy that “th R powder which tormed & deadly’ ‘about 30 minutes after: the etecu-
: erv at B ville, Asx. ; the effective date had heen weft on on to Kennedy that “the Post. | cambine with the acid beneat th! ‘ tp *
x 1 ; Rat oe 7 compine t tho; while the chamber wa
Thee emached through a rnad-| Hoynacki, wha is = sate RE 1 * 4
: asned throug! aq th the President's discretion fice Depatment is in excellent nickes’s chair bl tecemel ok: ha feth : , #
chndition . | ceare he letha! cas Even i

j - in their autemohile Wednes-; rest ected fyom diving oe <j F : j
: The White: House had na im Tucker's last words were then, attendants denned gas

; ' vu rater A 0
‘ay. and demo hed two polic &, injury, summoned { Sa Bp lk : :
tay and re sc Saecrrmtyt he goalie whi your di : } aaa
‘ tefore their capture. , divers, Jay 97. operator Roe : ree he ea “thanks for everything. chap-/ masks before entering the cham-
‘ ; Puke: “ pts vee ae ase 3 ; upn set out. to accomplish are , her oot
| Thureday. the men pune hed ayo! the resort. and A Source clase ta D said he: ts ce Bis! e ‘ Jain,’* softly spoken to the Rev. | ; .
} nursca : ba eee f ar eS ae aoe op (her Wav ~ SUCCESS Us, yom. a!
tole in. the Weeden rook-of. the: Kenneth . Wildh: 32 af the weld be Succeeded by formers oy 7 sponte Tho. pending Warren Wyrirk. the prison’s So powerful are the tomes
‘ i ; ; Me eee gi cite oe 5. Cert h Te i &:.fjon. The are qj Dg ay
q Serco MTaaria’ County fait and marie! Missouri Boat Comnussiod,. buh esa Penjumin A. murat, Ps Hyisae of a serina~nature.”’ Sj Protestant chaplain who had that two towers on the prison
a : t - MAL 4 rt 22.
the escape A fol rth prisoner, 1 embers af the nowls-organized, Mer Harvard “rewmmate of the’ cos a | fast finished readiag to Tucker, wall near the death house are
} 1 es : , ey ott pat The news of Daves resignation
Cit yrt ok a1. of Macon, Ga Table Rock 0 sensed twa vears ; pe from the Bible unmanned during an execution :
Nee eed Sah take aad il | ine he needy eo CHME 88 A SOUrprine ¥ par oe + i f
nsnector. fctod th get-out with the others }team. The divers ent atter Renniedy s : eine at: The condemned ‘pn. Nindfold.' for fear that the guards might f
r eee r a ee fea eras” : : se apne Te 1 he the thied member . Se :
Rite She men were being heid in jad tor avhut midniint ; ey He will he the third member of ed and clad only ia black trunks he overcome when the gas ts &
. : : ; Poewne Harther in ree sexed are Os ack + 3 ;
they sa at New Madrid today: Ackansas found about 42 15 ne partner in President Kennedy's oriinal Cab-! and shoes, uttered these worde blown from the chamber and
. ont very t can 5 t ‘ be ts ; <= i ; . , % t
passerby oa ieliaytie ot fale had staried: pattom. of the take Ob. diel do leave -- but the iat Matter being strapped to the chai dissipated into the air. f
Ada ‘ ‘cra vos yep mo had s ted! : i 4 + .
e gk ehtyir to oorivat hrahar ; er
extragtinn pre cedures to get the ™ ater about 6 fret ies. Ps ae : 2 ‘mM by the chest. arms, and feet, hist Tucker's exectition ia} *he 34th f
ragi ! H t L bo aie ‘off cuit as scretary of w i ; ote : | i £
men returned there to face ro} Spr F; be: : we % lta aeaas vers before the chamber was seaie In Missour: ¢ gas cham bet since’ lt f
et RINE Nee oe eee Fe ‘ ; ; erly Pees (head eank lard ray ; ; a y t
bery charyves Hist hwav ig 6) SOE AS gn ass ake OFS 7 A moment bef ra tne chap N he ne the met { ex tien ;
es pies : 8 Canneeticut, while Arthur J Gol ys hentia ith: Ticke fig y ‘ i
$e assisted in Y rs : > * had shaken hancs wt Nicker. yy 1a It was the f exy cio f
: fe ad Geet beat : pms “ berg resigned as, secretary of la swore ihandcuffe” and sings ian7 es Par
an Odea covery , : TA» Lp egettd* I +3 Po or Notions Later Phiv pe ae bu te en ray Toe er
: Asks Free Zone Dale was wearing diving popgles een eas bur to accept appointment as aM there was a brief exchange of was ,
ulineers aoe as padlocks ic Reicbedatis s RM Ng. eet veh - gs Tu Comrissiener es ere (“the Suny - :
: . associate yustice ef [he oupHy ured +P beri ae
m- the ; and a snorkel but was nol USI 6 Gncurance durin Stewensan’s) Crryrt ‘ ‘ , words at that ume i set 3 to he claimed f
as i GL INsurance GUE es i our Sea ee eee rived €- the eg ‘ 3 i
feorngthperst In Latin States : his scuba gear A Inaded spear igem «eee En % puUCcket had arrived at 4 lin by his sister, woo ives in ;
dy , : ‘ | U4 = bY SY e Jeathhay ; - fram hig {sol é 3 3 ; i
ty othe WASHINGTON # Arcentina gun was heal the beady Haat fen: i Fe eattion Tha: L . f 1 P $ _ esr aa by 4 from his Hy Oklahoma. Neither sha nor any i
ie yaeh pt By Fel tg CESS ie eee : ' = . ,€? theo -ell in th ern ptt Ye eh j hss f
mean.  Thaseters theaters Ferguson said persans: at tN caul tC hecause of an unusdal op itt e Zs ay $: i ton cen in the basement of the other relative, including bis wifa, i
ores ! veo th: } : a oe ith ‘ ‘ eee : : ‘aAnnistratlon building where he’ ween Jeffarann tecvhieing tt B
! en er okone fLatm America a MWe hele pot Pirie  eitive foe > Ale 34 P i Fors t Ah experi. somenne chatean , t * Ae y lefferson t yotupeting \- $
iy bp ‘ ; ! reg 3 pei lia ' ; t cnpnt the lnet- dae and: a half of ives Ee Lb Es
. in Tip rane he Lackwredl fees The euble -ane” win Sb eae te Kets Fi open Put askaitt w Seda y Sn begeertt Rip ext , Ae OW are ots n
, 1 ! : ; HS ated SOOTHE Me VO Se aaa ey Pe t ekap Ahrecd ‘ ‘
i” ‘ nm Gorath al £ UM ‘ i ern ty ‘ ' \ ~\ away } on n r ,
: . ayved fromm “nen wt ta % q.. -feage ey eon
Ame Ps tee (See Prowns Page 3) Parse bee fetes }duss rtp ae bases WOU © Rae TPE eS * . - 5
- row to the cell Wedneade its a ler a
a /
/ : , last meal eaten beiwecn ‘4 aad war.v in his tuovear residen
f $ o'clock Thursday was sirlotn in death row Ttieser liad Seen

Treaty Support | eae Se el aca calicnact hp pean Dae

ad, Boston cream pie, and milk fornia, Warden Nash sadd

: ; At. the death house. Tucker, Jf tha px wy had net - heen
a wae + wea dinrebed and placed in the claimed, it have heen
trunks and bifndfolded. Thia took dorated) to aemedical schon), tt

5, ran \ : i: ‘SF : E ‘ ' place in @ email room just off wae i ported
Rea? fens sf? ps: ] i the chamber ares . Tucker has dwe yi! %
x . fe 8 | we { ‘ Fy § ne

waotwoehatr pas chamber is a and aa tbe F ‘a
: : le 4 tu ne ln eke Py ' ty} Oe: pe t Fie +4
President fron fo the arreement was genet die n Nrune Ww yup port is : t ‘ eile iis, here Sep foayy ovka? gmap oreaint stroctnre in wns! vo hea firet “ale opyin sty
Pee x ; Et es arial nie the et a. > etn #4 . ae e
hie ohuaithoticaliv4 ae ord the admin the acre ' € x Pra e P hatens 4 b> uanse inifer here pre SseveraAa 4inecoas Uti «ne f ’ re} Aad if
Pe + aor" ent at can wan the With twocnot able excepteons > s ashich witnesses view the execs hig t other woes Hic te he aad
t ee noe is : Puta Paar} ee Pew Re stidan open a stu ae
: : a Past. ‘ ‘ t ear Pe Ph hove t fate Vy : ‘ '
dramat leaders of We nd Bast i et, The chairs have bows ; “3 ; , 3 :
; ; EE S54 tip ath Ae? Lest ae part 3 vA +} th ; +3 ‘
in Mt j , fogs they ear the r ; tive tetment a eran ’ ph ¥ + e ety e- wy Pm A n
1 st3s3) } , - jrita bal Hh the {inst s motrin T uw! { : ‘ i i : Dect Poy that res ‘ ¢ TT Hg ? J38-cCan syiit . ‘ A ;
: : ‘ ; ; , CA F ¢ rrirye iba 44 ' ‘
wement Susie ita eater ath. Ube Lord Horelenthat th ad Sk ' i tH no 4 . APOE gg! 1G A OR MER ON f ae
i ‘ Sees: ; ¢ ' ee Senay 4 ae ‘ ee as Bays Fhe sere ae ~
te at i zits ” ites Ss FarecMent tre Gitst eet iN Sha ' f pict } t «ew «iia e is ¢ : “ ie .
' ‘ no wes mich. tha Wi : FOE cbse Yes Bd Ben ‘ H ‘ ' } ao Soe } dee iets 4 Tendon Lit rea hey t ” * ct
ie et 4
iene hake Lyi ast t { es tureard the fe Pucker’s murder viet “an ut
He pedi t 1 t ; . t oan i i
Phot ddrec AY the Austrian Teratycut > Vices i f ea yah he yee also in @ f ape Grirarileau pevice fons. A DA SUOTHd are
Hap! t-te fa3 } ‘ ! >
Sate nee ; Anub Tell Fay the : ry i iHaky ' 3 4G ‘ Jiact Aa $.4N tnd berg AM OL fep Phe Marine
is enGing, es ; i + : ‘ : é
in the at Me administration optimism on try BOdi ina FN WatSiliie sith, ets ces ‘ 4 ‘ fae eB: IAA AER ea Warden “Nash shortiv before (Nee Tucker: Pape: a)
ae th ai a \
’ ¢ i . . ' . : ; t b / ‘ a . 3 7 »* ‘ .
boy wad oof ratification toms the che Nagerte i : ; ” a i hig Ghd aia sh {he #reention said Pucker was woe aa

‘ ; ‘ ‘ aoesiot he oud net eecreta Pe } ‘ ! oe ees : « atest holding up “fine a ¢ Kev
ge ‘ . ; we ‘s a ; : ! de ¥ % A AI LAs S
‘ . : ele Penieet NG i's ; : mi’ Wreelek described the con mIaex O INEWS

the {'8S
demnrd mat @t tKeken. ohuts oo .4 :
wages INT iete f<
caim in control and atne to e ;
taik, rationally” oe
‘ ¥
: tnlhe chabias: 3 6; to TALK ‘ Kae 8
remit : aby i ‘ ‘ ten
ert } errrege: fer Xe , ’
fa mm aiate i ‘ ' 2. t8
ha tude. lhe. @ska BGS HEC pare at dat guts a ‘ an ve
a , if mer 44 2 ;
Fy ; . tive] <6
‘ < MASTe SE
4 4 4 poe, ee one - Li
°

Fugitives. .

‘From Jail

be
H
'
Sj vecial fo The “Sisoutiad " :
|
' NEW MADRID—Southeast Mis
souci authorities, using — blood-

State
Thursday

Highway Pa
night re:

‘hounds and a

‘tread airplane

captured two men who Kad es.
“2 leaped with arother man from’
ithe New Madiid County le eal
iter an the ay
Nae I One of the escaped prisoners,
{ as

of Man

os

Foughn Ray Rodyers,

1 gortaat at Sikeston for treatment of
‘his injured foot xed returned to

ithe jail at \oadrid

=

New

for polic e

=
mp iila. Ark. was shot in the foot as
of she wie running fer cover +
tore rearntie i -Rodyers was aes oC
nd ceptured by Deputy Sheriff Jac
n } ; a ‘
ilvy of -Mississippi County ies
to ‘orisoner was caught in a wooded:
area three miles west of New.
——— | Madrid
1 Rexlfers was sen to a hos:

Indian Point boat

Donald Ray Ward, 31, of Ca-
‘ruthersville, was captured — by
Imembers of the New Madrid’

ship at County Sheriff's Olfre and the
a §. |State Highway Patrotion a levee;
ward is #long the Mississippi River about
Fe junior, three miles north of New Madrid.
hibit 1st Phe third man, Jesse Ward, .23,,
t at the of St. Louis, was caught by Billy;
Region. Myers, 19, ‘son of a dengty sheriff,’
ored by, Shortly after the’men had broken
-sourian,;Out of the jad at 12.30 Thursday ;
1 of Mr.; | afternoon ‘

or, Uneg?  Vilicers said Myers spatted.the,
er ies: therd escapee running’ dawn an
iogy atidiley. and caught and held: tym:

Army Ends Scare;
Uncovers Meteor

CHARLTON, “England. . .?.—
The British arn regretfully,
ended 19 days of excitement in
this drowsy county eommunity .
with an announcement that the
mysterious 8 foot-wide crater in
farmer Rov Blanchrd’s potato!
field was. not caused by a fly>
ing saucer

Army enginecrs dug out a half
pound hunk ef matter,
appeared to be a mieleaite and

British Museum

sand it

bid ay

sent it to the

Carthage
Editor's
Son Drowns

CARTHAGE, Mo

m—Rohert:S '

of peisenous pas iy t
Sammy
desperate to avoid jail

Balan

Tucker's two vear-eld' le
fight to cheat
became hopeles#
U8;
Hug ol.
a stay of execution”
John “i. Dalton stated be woul

not intervene.

ive gpa chamber
Thursday when
Suprema Court justice
Black refused to grant

“He -is pretty wel)
the situation” Warden E.

ness, violen ce, and Pinawy. mu
State:
Aire Tucker, who 28 mo

that he shot

'
ALL Pesileem.

and Gov.

resigned to}
Py '

V. Nash:
|

_ said’ shortly before the Fresno, )

Cahl.,

"Spanky Dale Jr..°47, son of the? Sammy Atre | uckert’ >
editor mat the ane ive Pr ess, Rob- eee ae Pe eT a IPR ee ies eHane
ert S Dale> and Mrs Dale}

drowned Thursday evening at the:
doc k on
af

or able
Rock Lake southeast Re eds)
Springs, Mo

Dale

Day Quits Ce ibinet
For Privat te Pr ast.

Young was employed at

the dock as a scuba d vingg in lgaa chamber ab the stoi peniten-|
structor. He* was considered ac- “\tiary and sesmed to revisin under |
complished in) the ur verwater WASHINGTON A — Pastries: aared the Zip-Code, a nationwide! contro}. Werough the grim proc)
i > ‘ter General J. Edward Day, who ‘SY stem af, woe numbers ta speed’ ess. Puciar was 28 years old. |
Dale was last seen &))s6 about left 0 ShaDnNoeresr ee AE a sorting: 1 distribution” of mail.} | Oaly Sind Chasctest Heer io.
15 p.m. seated in the water on ; é Barlier i vis year, he had a row! the: small enclosure giecamed
a cable extending from thy float-.a& West Coast insurance exec utive with Gorngress/iwhen the House! 43:4 . somewhat nobiliy did
ing dock to the lake He to join President Kennedy's cabi-' slashed the i taltica appropria- lo Seg beg ts to hewaili syils
‘was not considered missing until: net has resigned to return to pri-|tion bs fit on. He said that if! puis moment. later h
10:30 p. m. when John He ne ere) ee ithe cut . Ptah Pa arvises |: “ane teasion jeited:

te in ll Bi AB A

> pe
{
wou gr }
The Pastaffiée Department con-: - na, A K
ae re 8
‘firmod* Thursday meht that “Day ’
mitted hfs te <fonation July 19!

30, ‘Chief “seuba diving instr
at the dock, returned from feach->
fing a class at nearby Branson,,

‘ted . t

8 i. i Saturday!

ne had sown on. Mare: 10, 1961, in
| Cape Girardeau when he fired a
j bullet into the stomach of Donald!

'H. Crittendon, city pol.ceman.

man reaped th. bitter fruit;

| Tucker appeared outwardly |

he small
the

icalm as he arrived a

{

: block buld®yg whieh

MISOS

“AReTess!

12:10 a\n just.

Death} came officially st,

three minutes
pea reduced the cut to. Be ter Warden ehiaah = turned . tia

teath bane

Lanes

ra - 18
and mortal

ny went

to his death w

the val tan Af

man'@

face. Tucker's reaction was im.

mediate, He inhaled the fameg

quickly and heavily, his body
~xstmtidrring--——— —
Then came a@ aeries of ine
variable head movemants, back-
ward, then forward. When the

head falis forward for the final
time. the man ia presumed dead
though consclousnrss” ta totally
Jos? at the first inhalation of the

gas. it is believed.

Tucker's head tilted backward
alowly, then pitched forward.
Again, the head lifted slowly
with a deep reddening of the
face >snd upper chest, Ips
pursed, and a trace of saliva
visible, as if the man were
straining atrenuously.

When the head fell forward
for the final time, the body was
still except for a slight twiich-
ing of the right arm. Moments
later, the hody took what ap-
neared to be gasp4
Tucker nounced dead
Massey. tha.g
ma Saypoted and pale

ran sy ‘mptoms as

was

w

‘

' it had been assumed that young *Y million :
ee ree me :
n ee ees eee ee Date had accompanied Hoynacki and that President Kennedy had s hi valve which released the cyanide! The hody was. not» removed for
n ¢ ; 10n itt ” P ; ay i t

ire pie: s bg a fs ‘ane (to Branson , accepied it) A spokesman said ey said in, hig letter of resig- ,powder which formed a deadly) {about 39 minutes after the execu-

Stee Biden desan hs at Biytheville, Ark the effestive dute “had heen Jef, fation to Kennedy that “the Post. | i bi ith th cid b h.
i They wi mehect. th i ra re Poy at : S comodine Ww @ ach penealhition white the chamber was

smashed through a raad- | Hownack!, wha ts temporally ', is Dwatenl's dicteekiin ‘office Depatment is in excellent \ | Batt
Ltviock im thetr automobile Wednes restricted from diving hy a recent : apie ade re Tuckes's chair. lcleared of the letha) vas F.ven
* ° : ' san an

. oe Ty’ roe Hern had na im. § pbs ih Teacher's JIeat warda were! then attendants dunned qos

ara


ns er eg a

oe ET BA,

Raw eA bag

‘As sheriff Bop Sequels 8 step
‘the trap, Merton swayec al : moment and

at that time. - ole
OS ee. *, «| | then sunk down in a hvlf. faint. A de The case‘agalnst’. Joun shat,
ofthe oy tie) roa I a nata \ bates grabbed him undernesth the arms and. called assaulting J alee Welch ‘with an
th ater ne 8 -mue: om: ‘the j jail upon him t stand up but the doomed | vember, #8 now on trial in the cri
from: Sedalia -and K City arri ed at msn . was. completely «unnerved and| Swain aka Welch had trouble in t

1 130 o'clock, bringing; hundreds ‘c of peoply hung -upon the deputy’s arms asjthé former in reference to some

to witness the execntion! |. = | | limp aS | A rag. Thus the | matter ending in Welch getting a
‘THINKS HIS: SPIRIT Wits RETUR | group upon the scaifold stood for: over a min- | head, which he alleges was cause

cial Telegram ta The'fitar: | / i pute and a half, .- Finally the wretched; man using an ax upon hiny, -

HVADA, Mo., Jan, 115, 8 a,m.—Sheriff| ¥*5 partially lifted to his fect and the UNAVOIDABLE DELA

ep t was run Merriman tumbled
| seue cman i telegrain yesterday ba noon icaeh cad eae Te a ‘moment. Then a| The Election of Directors of Nat!
ve farmaduk

horrible scene: was enacted. The fall had Works Company Postpo

Say to Mri Frederick Stair that his letters : : . . ‘ .
an cimrers iia veeaivedt Tf wit not interfexcd failed to dislocate his neck and his; The meeting of the directors of

~ | contortions were fearful as ‘he slowly | Water Works company was not he
ees ieiiotigr called’ ab the "ail sand cok the |choked to death. He struggled thus | account of the absence of one of t
condemned Stair if he @ould make a confes- for six minutes, then became still who i8 snow bound on the Uniou
sion. He » replied that ha would not. “I am and at the end of fourteen minutes was pro- | It is expected he will reach here
innacent,” he said, “and have no confession nounced dead. His body was then cut down | or to-morrow morning, and t
to make. but I will take about one hour to- and will be delivered to his brother for inter- | meeting will be held next Monda
morrow on the scaffold. I will have gome- | ™ent. lny will not interfere with the ot
thing to say about the Mail first. Then , will} .ST- Lovts, Jan. 15.— Aspecial from Belle- | in connection with the purchase «
talk about the prosecuting officer, Blanton, | Vilie, Il., to the Post-Dispatch says that, dotte works, and to-day the first
Affer that I will tell the people why heriff Noah Merriman, the negro who brutally kill- , of money was paid at the coinps
FM put mé in: thete chains.” '« Several days ed his wife on the 10th of April, 1885, was; quaiters in New York.
aged Stair asserted that ha was a spiritunlistic hanged there at 11 o'clock this morning. He| The meeting which was to hav
medium, and he was asked if he still adhered confessed the murder of his wife, and stated | in this city to-day would have r
to this belief: “Oh, yes; I believe firmly in it,”| that he killed another woman in East} complete change of directors. Tl
snid: he. and within «two weeks after Iam | *\ Louis six years, ego. He walked | bers would have resigned and nev
no twill mate you believe in: it.” _Nan- | braxply to the gallows his limbs were pinion- | have been elected.
eatin Osbome was permitted to remain ‘about | ¢4 and the black cap drawn over his head but| Major Jones, superintendent of
two hours at his’ cell. During the in-'| While the fatal noose was being adjusted he Water Works company, stated t
tervriew he showed hera’ ‘paper which! con- weakened and fell ina dead faint. After | porter to-day that the new suctio
tained a reiteration of his . testimony ° during partially recovering the sheriff and deputies | the company is ‘now putting do
the trial. Ho asked what she thought: of it held him in position. The trap was sprung; Wyandotte works to the Missouri
nud she said it was nottrne. He declared his | 8d the limp body fell. Severe writhing and Ibo in place by to-morrow nigh
intention of asserting, his innocence to the struggling followed. The scene wasa_ very., would be pumped into the reser
last, Last night Fred’k Stair, the prisoner's | Painful one and death finally released the | There is enough water in the rese
father, visited Nannetta: Osborne and she re-,| Struggling wretch and the body was cutdown. | ply the people of Wyandotte 1
Jated the particulars of tho-crimé as hereto- : supply 13 drawn frony tHe river, m

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E e |
forg published. in THY STAR. He told her ne oe eee py | ee teers gaere Ppt 8 tor te
that @ had no hopes of securing aN nfes- | An Ottice Holder Who Has Been Throngh the P 8 hice | 4) * so
sion from his son. . Mill Tells How Much a Campaign Costs. THE ELE TED ROA

The scaffold | .was ‘hicoted yestentay i0.} “No, I have had enough,” gaid a city office | Work to be funlin the New
Southwest. Nevada, on ' ‘the same s spe here:} holder who is now serving public: in a| Ifack Line Between Kansas Cit,

Wry. was hanged: Dec: 28: 1883! The |. inant wncitinn Tia 1... acbna| dotte. _


sat Sty Aer) ttt . nek Hie Much. Cam x &. s oe r a3 feng me!
Mo ono, A apaeuiem gree a NRE ne Noe sep peey Phe Ree SS ‘ axe B 7 Piiee 10
ib *8 dea a5. Tht is nat jays v.% at miie Pega pitbs TiOset i ais bli¢ radi 3
Poa Pe orm is € ef | ye.end = ids Cight} Shether or not he would run ‘again. “Elec- |
Beans and a half feet abovd ' the. ground. hq rope 7 tion to office in this -city,” he continued, “in- | vert; |: |
"is suspended four inch es S@UATE | yolves’a dip into the mire which would’ cost | a.;ii 246 j,esent will make his headq
supported by ) races: The hour of 6X; j any decent man his self respect. The bffice | ters in Wyandotte, He stated to'a STAR
ecution:hag not'yet been fully determine d bat fam holding now is the resu t of my first | porter to-day that work would be begun
| “it is though sko, place abont ii ign. Before I accepted the nomination | the elevated road as soon ag the weather wo
o’clogk.. | A: ber of ministers | haye led I thought I wasia pretty good | citizen anda permit, and when once started would
} daily at the doomed man’s cell. He has I8- | creditable head to a family. I never thought | pushed to completion as rapidly as possi

ned | of taking a drink or entering a saloon. Now| He gaid the contract for the construction
find myself taking from three to four drinks | the road had not yet been let, but would
‘ ay cae ex Sd we: Eu )f whisky a day and associating with men in the near future. Mr. Edgerton has an
upon him. A large ‘crowd 18 expected here | who wouid have disgusted me a year ago.’ At|er scheme on hand to which he will devot
and hundreds hare already prrived.. | >, ~~ Jnight I go home to my . wife ‘with | time and attention for the next two or t
rao : ‘The case’ of Nannetta Osborne was called|g clove in my mouth to  disgnise| weeks. He is about to establish a back
esterday morning for rehearing. . Prosecutor|the whisky’ Ay year ago I would} between Kansas City and Wyandotte, to
: lanton offercd to accept plea of murder | not have thought such a deception or its caus? nish quick transit to the public while the
1 in the second degree but her attorneys refused | possible. I was forced into it while canvass- vated road is being constructed. He is 1
; to accept. By consent of her “tttorneys the | ing before election. I tell you itisa degrad- | busy perfecting arrangements for the b
Py caso was laid over until Saturday. . |ing, disgusting system for a decent man to line, and in the course of a month or two
- = THE CBIME. | ..: ‘lgnbmitto. After the nomination it is either |erything will be in readiness to operate

Stair and the woman Nannetta Osvorn. who | necessary for a man to stand in with the boys’ | line. He will make the fare sufficiently
was to have been hanged ‘with him, vame to ; , \

. we sega! Seana : or accept the certainty of defeat. His pride |to induce the public to patronize the line

“ noes oe aoard peta er aparert( forbids this after he has entered the race. | preference to the present street railroad :

i house ia the northwest part of town and en- j Scene in a suloon. Enter candidate. ‘Boys|tem. He brought with hin several clerks
7 gaged in the laundry business in‘’a small way, | come up and have something.’ Fifteen bums bas rented an office in Wyandotte. which
Scns themselves ‘as man and wife. | ang icateve step up to the bar with astonish- | be made the headquarters of the hack line

at now 3eoms a singuldr coincidence, is}: ; .
~ the fox at he ti house is- the’ same occupied | 12g alaority. Candidate throws five dollar

ro. et +s at the time he murdered PedWer How- | bill on bar. Bartender says ‘that’s right’ and pea AE
; ard in the fall of 1883, nnd for which :he was | keeps

e change.® A man cannot be elected The St. Joe Board of Trado Takes a Stery
e in Kansas City, without working the Right Direction.

Some two weeks after the Stairs arrived here | for the ¢ayr of this loafer, bummer ele- Bpectal Telegram Loree Sar.
Jacob Sewell ang his 1§-yaar old’ son camped ment. is is disgraceful and outrageous, Str. JoE, Mo., Jan. 15.—At na meetin
with two wagons and teams and sonie loose | but it js true. It took my stomach weeks | the board oftrade J. C. Gregg, Dudley 5S:

‘the vicinity of Ft. Scott, where the q}to recpver from the effects of the|F B. Daniel and G. G. Pary were appoi
raised A cro Pathe Stairs and Sewell had villaniogs sour beer and bad whisky I poured! qejegates to the Jefferson Cit ehixed
{drmed en € acquaintance at that place, |intoitdpring my campaign. You see both|~. - . 7 y

- and after ge nginto camp the elder Sewe } vis- my morals and stomach could stand it better with the view of inducing the Southwe:

ied Hal ise gmc ROH othr inet nc ae nt th ny Pol smasinon rede as bln

e the Stairs | evils thdt confronta man in moderate circum- | souri river cities and the East. ‘The
paid frequent. visits to" Sewell’s camp, al- | stances who thinks of running for office. : It | Joseph delegation is not empowered to

Ways at night, and te | gremainin Peart costs $400 to run for a seat in the council | but is instrueted to give the subject at
- at last and'was compelled to keep - his bed, } Whether you are -elected or not. A man Cat) oooh investigation and report the resu
aa so. one of the. wagons, which ‘was vided | not beelected mayor,‘no matter how popwar :

y ;  tnithacover.) It was dufing these vistts to tho | he is, without spending at least $2,000. the board of trade. |

camp, ostensibly for the purpose 0 ting ao ee : ASERIOUS RIOT. :. |
f° |. on fhe sick | man,’ that] Stair eoncoeted. the This is the lowest estimate. A eS aaa er al _
° acheme to murder the Sewells, take ses- | Office of mayor cost one can : A Battle Between Strikers and their Suc

Bre nf hate neranartul andiakin ont for hial] FEOODIto K6.000 a few year . The}

ors at Chicago,

m~ were

3 Spe Bartend ‘says “ pis Herat ar aa
5. wa honey rebarge ok alae epimnot be eletted The St. Jook
fae. ito any. ce in Kansas City, without working

rd of Trado' too Step
_ the Right Directioz. ti
Bpectal Telegram to The Star.

St. JOE, Mo., Jan.-15. “lA a “weeting
to | cover from “the effects “of th the board of trade J. C. Gregg, Dudley Sini
, a :

: s had | friljanio s sour. beer and bad! whisky I poured ne —— me “ Mh Pary were appoin
ce: at. At my ‘campaign. You see both elegates to the Jefferson City conventi
Dtancalat that. aes ‘andstomach could stand it better with the view of inducing the Southwest
ahi -| another time. But these are not the only | Pool assoviation to reduce rates between }
evils t-confronta man in moderate circum-|souri river cities and the East. ‘he
stances who thinks of running for office. | It | Joseph delegation is not empowered to :

“i Sremaining ‘atl costs $00 to run fora séot in the council | pat is instrneted to give the subject ath

= near mor The elder |Sewell took: sick

r : at last es compelled to keep his bed, whether; yon aré elected or not. A man ¢an ough investigation and report the result
Lb >} fa. one of the wagons, which was vided not berelected mayor,‘no matter how popiar th acai ft 1

NO BS pales: af wes oo ing these lp a Ai he is, without spending af least $2.000. a

ie ~ ae See ts seachillh ree ‘nie cones praing This is the lowest estimate. A defeat for the | | "A SERIOUS RIOT.

BSS) Schiens to murder the Bewells, take poases- | Office of mayor cost one candidate from | 4 pattie Between Strikers and their Succe

s/

+ gion of their property, and_skip out: for his | $4,000 to $6,000 a few yearsago. The 5: ei

% alae hep 20 ‘indi a; On the night of | fight wags a bitter one, and of course the | | ™ - “Te. .
ug. 6, Stairiand the . 1an visited the camp bum’s influence came higher than usnal. A Cuicaco, Jan. 15,—This morning a s&

axiusual, Stair went outa second time near aa , tead
midnight, and finding the Sewells asleep, the | decent man will not run for office in , oustiot occurred at Hals and Gr

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os touF
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fe. old man in th is : neon & d Aad on & pallet | this ‘city if his eyes are | streets between the strikers at Maxwell's
fe A tow ‘lays rev eu athe athe Bags open to the true requirements fin number of new employes. The. gang
tS | fad "mod trip, to |the Marmaton river a city campaign. The only way to elect a de- | strikers, numbering abont fifteen, armed
. oy ta sd pme, ah x a es north ee come ml ri Benoa at is = the rreemvent clubs, while the non-unionists were more t
ao & Ehstatrecue and Sum reeet etPert (nok 8 spend money for ange | tuoe times the Sunee ae ied
* “So! tra € for Poutti ng‘ timber. The real object of thing but Ikgitimate expenses. This aS ne man ia reported injured. The police
gy Ct Ris, isit, ho: ed et was ff choose some spot freeze out t bums. They coyld vote for sanded t ti eb ies
& Qt. a the lonely ai ar hiss ftom. in me pee whoever they pleased then, or not vote at all. | © re AlTe6S ae =
a D4 eth 3 ee orrible but fiers of oes But one candidate could not inaugurate the The Tiernan Investigation. |
& 4; pares plased the a y of ne boy in the | reform without the certainty of defeat. Kan-| The council committee, composed of Al
ae ct nm with thesot of father. covered | sas City is getting too big to be controlled by | men Granfield, Whitmeyer, Finlay, F
“) XS. them: ine rtion. of the old ir clothes be-. the b ers and loafers. The candidates Salisbury and Darideun appointed, to inv
yw), Jor ‘to the-outlit, and went home after the.) 4, t tojtake a stand in the comin rin the charges against Chief Clerk T
‘a, im en the , tg the camp. picked electtor. f owes nan, of the engineer's ara office failed to
eS! aited into” the | wagons e| : ?
S Zhitehed: up the «two . Reams, ' | r | this morning becanse there was na quo
= ae clock. in-, the morni We pe “ABE Balt. The investigation has been postponed
S e . Stair. driving: the coveres Thom J: Green and John J. Green, do- Saturday night. : pom
OE other. They sto Green &}Co,; have filed suit with the clerk of | | — | Adipinistrater Apyoiated._

g thre bodies. and; ‘eerie et ling business underthe firm name of T. J.

3; 1h ser a fow articles

k | the circul t court against Granville M. Cole, of | : (David Phillip ps was this morning appoi

bys at niber: eee Edw - Th, for $10,000. The peti: administrator of the estate of Julia How
: whe cake cate at tion (3) Sey that Cole owned t of AP a Be ne aa Joka Bor sum of, $2.2 9
rae Over) an me ert d and ex- | PEPO~: stoi \city, Weare hq bes ! fie siete ee emgat :


‘

A COMPENDIUM OF HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY
FOR READY REFERENCE.

EDITED BY

WILLIAM HYDE AND HOWARD L. CONARD.

NEW YORK, LOUISVILLE, ST. LOUIS:
SOUTHERN HISTORY COMPANY,
HALDEMAN, ConarRD & Co., PROPRIETORS.

1899

PUBLIC LIBRARY

BIRMINGHAM, ALA.


’

mers regardless

feligion.or national pai ;

“The State Commission on Hu-
tman-Rights would have power to
hear complaints, subpcena wit-
nesses and issue ‘stop orders. The
commission’s decisions could be
appealed to the courts.

Nineteen ‘witmesses spoke for.
the bill eat a. crowded hearing.
Only two eppeared . against it.
One was John Bryan of St. Louis,
executive director of the Missouri
Hotel : Association. hie said a
businessman should’ have the
right to decide how he operates
his business.

In other mene develop-
ments Monday: i
A House committee approved a
plan to let the State Conservation
Commission build a Headquarters
building on the site of the old
siate power plant near. the Capitel
and issue up to a million dollars
in bonds to finance it.

Hearings opened on a bill to
; regulate milk prices in an effort
| to eurb ifmportation of cheap
;milk. Opponents will be heard
April 5.

A Senate committee deferred
action on a bill to require ‘safety
inspection of motor vehicles.

The House advanced a bill that

-! would let merchants detain sus-
-} pected shoplifters and another to
}| appropriate $48,720 in emergency
:|funds to start payroll withhold-
.| ing of the state income tax.

Narrow Escape With

B47 Stratojet Bomber
PERU, Ind. W—An explosion

-|tore one engine and 16 feet of

wing off a six-engine B47 Strato-
jet bomber during a refueling ex-

.| ercise Monday night, but both the
r}bomber and its tanker made it
.| safely back to Bunker Hill Air
-| Force Base.

The Air Force sent searching

-| parties to southw estern Indiana to
>| hunt for the sqissing engine. No

determination af the cause of the

-|explosio# can be made until it is
»)|found, the Air Foree said.

The tanker was linked by fuel
line to the bomber at the time of

"| the explosion, but it was not dam-

aged.
Maj. Jotm A. Kinzer, informa.
om officer, said the tanker con

Se a emi Me o

+ in-crime,—S8 ‘ucker,

‘had been taken into custody the
night of the Cape shooting. |
"Herbert L. Goss, an Auxiliary
policeman, died shorily after the
original shooting in ‘which Crit-
tendon was injured. Raymond
Glover of Clubb was fatally shot
by Thompson Friday afternoon,
shortly before Thompson's arrest.

Native of Arkinsas:

Donald Harold Crittenden was
born April 14, ers Piggott,
Ark. His family mgved to Ken-
nett and he was educo‘ed in the
schools there, gradvy.ting from
Kennett High Schog/“shere he
had starred in foot!/i and track
for four years... ;

He attersie” Sata College in
Cape Girardeau for a term before
eatering the Navy, in 1955. While
stationed in Honolulu, Hawaii, he
aud Miss Roceda Joyce Lillard of
Senath were married there on
Aug. 30,1956.

Following his discharge from
the service on Sept. 5, 1957, he
again entered State, College for
a time and was enrolled for two
courses this semester. He then
worked at Davis Electric Co., pri-
or to becoming a driver-examiner
for the State Highway Patrol. For
a time, he served as deputy to
Juvenile Officer Jay Nations and
joined the police force in Sep-
tember 1959. He was assigned to
a regular patrolman’'s duties.

Ptlm. Crittendon was a mem-
ber of the Cape Girardeau Junior
Chamber of Commerce and the
recipient of the Jaycee SPOKE
Award in 1980 which is presented
for outstanding service of a first-
year member. He was also named
Jaycee-of-the-Month in October of
last year.

Ptim. Crittendon was chairman
of the civic organization's traffic
safety committee ead was instru-
mental in painting various traffic
island curbs with an luminous
paint for the benefit of motorists’
vision at might.

He was a member of the Red
Star Baptist Church and a couple
ef years ago, managed one of the
Minor League baseball teams.

Survivors are his wife, Mrs.
Reeceda Crittendon and two

Urrsed its refueling training flicht
Sat peternedt without -imecictest. Ht | Cristend lon af Kennett: two broth

ydaughters, Jeri Dawn end Teri

Lynn, of the home at 1424 Waynes | 2.

the Ford.
Sons piwiiaa: ‘Home until 12:30
Wednesday. Burial will be in
Memorial Park Cemetery. © |

Whole Lawn Stolen !
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. @—A. B.
King, had sod put down Saturday
in the yard of his new home. '
_-When he returned to water it,

King found someone had stolen
his entire front lawn—some az

square feet. .

Telear. explos ons.—~ SE
But the agency added: ‘optard.

Iy conducive to such an outcome .
ijof the talke is the position of

these Western circles and periodi-
cals which are again demanding

unilateral concessions from the

Soviet Union, althoush they are
aware of the fact that in the past

the Soviet side has repeatedly met

the Western powers om any ques-

tions involved im drafting a test

ban‘ treaty.”

Donald Crittendon on March

Ptim. Crittendon died this fore-
noon of wounds received in the
gun\ battle in which Auxiliary
Politeman Herbert Gess also was
kiled and Tucker wounded. Sisce
Tucker was apprehended the next
day, the man had repeatedly de-
nied- shooting Ptim. Crittendon,
saying his gun was jammed. He
claimed Thompson, who was at
that time still at lerge, did all
the shooting.

But Thompson was appremend:
ed jast Friday and when the
two were put together and ques-
tioned in Lutesville last Saturday
night, Tucker's story / changed
slightly when he admitted shoct-
i ing. but he still would sot gay
he shot Ptlm. Crittendon.

Monday, however, after seveyal
question periods since his appre-
hension, Tucker talked fr< ‘ly gad
said he shot’ the Cae ‘Girardeau
officer, Chief Liste said. The
chief, several other officers and

a court reporter “heard the state-
iment, Ge pointed out. :
we @ garge Filed.

his parents,Mr. and Mrs. Elza H.4 Cape Girardeau Preseenting

LAttarvner + 7% tears erie]

Sammy Aire Tucker, 26,
admitted for the first time that it was he who shot Ptlm.

TUCKER CHANGES aie Ce eee

Taking |
le

of Fresno, Calif., on Monday

10 when the Cape Girardeau

police officer and two auxiliary policemen stopped him
and Douglas, Wayne Thomipson, 27, of Bakersfield, Calif,
for questioning near the north city limits, Cape Girardeau
Police Chief Percy R, Little told The Missourian today.

degree murder charge agzinst
Tucker, this one for the death of
Piln. Crittendon. The charge was
formerly a felonious assault cita-
tion. Tucker was charged wir
first degree murder 697
death of Mr. Goss t9°<ag the
suspect was apprefiided. Mr,
Strom said that since Thompson
was being held in Butler County
and charged with first degree
murder there for the death of
Raymond Glover, he weuld not

file a murder charge against’

him for the death of Ptim. Crit
tendon. Thompson, hewever, has

been charged here with the mar- ~

der of Mr. Goss.

Should Thompson be turned
over to Cape County authorities
the first degree murder chart rr
for the death of Crittenden sill
mote than likely be filed agaist
him, Mr. Strom eaid, It stil bas
not been determined if eae
Coumty euthorities will (com
Thompson over to Cape County.

Thompson, who ies 69 they
right side of tha fromt seat } when

Pilm. Crittenton. Mt i aie

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+

re on

|” Mrs. John W. Schott ‘of Chaf-
fee. ; é * ea AY

_ Mrs. “Mary Rauth, "417° South| fait)
+ Benton: = SS eee a en a eos
DISMISSALS. ©
: Cape Osteopathic. .
Sherry, infant daughter ef Mr.

aint trim page yt Rrkomscis Poultry =
1) Hugo Lang{ LITTLE ROCK <p — “Breilen: of.

ets | Senen
Auxiliary policeman dns
Jr.. got out of the patrol car prior | fetings barely adequate to whort’ for

st. Ernie H. Anderson >.
Special to The Misscurtan’
COBDEN, Il—Ernie H. Ander:
sou, 81 years old, a retired farm-
er of Cobden, died in the Jack-

go before
church in St. Louis and |:

going to

> : 3 ; rade mecca: 16-17, mewthy 16. f° Ey,
ses County: Nursing Home in| 0 to Sarcoxie close to his par-. and Mrs. Thomas Albert Moore of | ‘© the shooting, -denles“he fired, | PPesent trade needs: 16-1
; Murphyshore Monday. He was | ests. Challies: ae {! aud continued to deny he did “5

4 Fimeral Home in Cobden. where

.| Mrs. Nettie Brown of Peoria: a

born July: 6, 1879.
The body is at the Broadway

services will be conducted at 2
Wadnondas Focn . withthe
Rev. Earl Taylor éificiafing. Bur-
ial is %-bein.the Cobden. Ceme-
tery. - by :

~ Survivors are hig wife, Mrs.
Elizabeth Anderson of Cobden:
three sons, Charles Anderson of
| Cobden, Van Anderson of Starke,
Fia.. and Carl Anderson of Den-
ver, Colo.; a daugpter, Mrs. Mary
Albrizzi of St. Louis: a sister,

stepson, Lawrence Baysinger of

-} grandchildren and 14 great-grand- ,
2' children.

children were. shown Mrs. Helen.

The Loyalty Class of First Bap-
tist Church held’ an hour of fel-
lowship and a potluck supper last
Thursday evening at the. church.
Three. educations|_filmg desighad |
to he of iiterest to- adults ‘and

Sanders is leader of the class.
A class of 27 children gave a
public: profession of their faith in
the ‘Lutheran Church. at the 10
a.m. service Sunday in prepara-
tion for their confirmation. The
Confirmation Service will take
place at the 10 6’clock service on
Palm Sunday, The class is made
up of the-following: John Trapp,

berger. Nancy Springer, Donna
Bock, Wesley Rokertson, Joy Ab-

os

Mrs. Della Schultz of Chaffee.

Jerry, one, son of Mr

Asa. Davis, Ma

Mrs. Frank Matthews.

Hill

ett Plumb,

of Marble

., ane Mrs.
Gilbert Crites of Pattoy,, =
Mts. Holly Gurley’ of Anta,
“Mre-Verda ttl
|_Mirs. Mary Pattin of Char,eston |
Route 3. ... e : oO

/ Southeast Missouri, :
Mrs. Loomis Strong, 1438 North
Boulevard. eras
Kenneth, 2,.son of Mr. and Mrs.
Lestér Fornkohl, 1515 McDonald.
Victor Burnett, 3 months, gn
of Mr. and Mrs. Burn
717 Independence.
ple Crest Nurs..

; SOM t6 the Grassy area Saturday,

the area’s manhunt | started
March 10, after the Cape Girar.
deau shooting. They went with
him to cabins where he said he
stayed during nights and also
went to the spot where he ahan.

said it would be. —
After Thompson's route of trav-
el was followed by officers, most

when he and Tucker were placed
together Saturday. Mr. Gose was
.; {On Thompson's side of the car
nt. | when he was hit by. bullets, police
lins“of Wyatt P es

Police officers brought Thomp-

the man was apprehended Friday
afternoon near Poplar Bluff, to
follow his path of. travel since

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so tan ay Sete

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-egted on Larimiar ‘
560.00.
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FORTE IAS EN SES

IPP. | As dened his 30-30 carbine rifle. It ¥}
Ad. | Irving. Tex:: a stepdaughter, Mrs.! Sandra Wahlers, “Marilyn” Brick. | ing-home. ° was found under a log where he e ‘apie:
trs.{Opal “Penland of Cobden: 21 haus, Robert Ehlers, Sharon Am- Mrs. Charlotte Fuller of Daxter. :

ernathy, Eric Sel el, Dennis Web-|
er, Donald Ruessier, Larry Rauh,
‘Doris Friese, Loyraine Meseke,

Mrs. Odna Hahs of Sedgewick-
ville.

Brenda, 14. daughter of Mr. and

felt his story, about his where-
‘abouts while 250 law enforcement
officers searched for him, was

ADMIRAL 23” TV
Full Console. Reg. $299.95

ERN ILLINOIS

- Allen Dippold, Jarnes Eddieman, ; Mrs. Elhiu Wright of Lutesvijle. probably true and that he did not SP ICIAL Z 4 99”
Ratings Annownced pargie Klemp, Sjigron Springer, } Dawn, 5. daughter of Mr. ‘and receive aid from residents of the|; Wi'TH TRADE .. rd iW wc a
% Dartiell J. Lintnes, Donna Stelz-| Mrs. Marvin: Fluegge of Jackson. | aeog. - double set ef cabinets, ss
in Music Contest riede. Barry Thompson, Darryl C. SE Freacis. Cabin Searched. me: ASY WASHER tepyrate ceramic shower.
Special to The Missourian Lintner, Neil Henderson, Robert Miss Malonie Burger of Spott! The cabin where he was sup- — :
f g Ss DRYER PERLE
im | MeClocklin. -handmaster of th e{ Erwin. ap es FL Mee A apa Reeves, 1116 {il-| days was searched. Also a near-|| Combination. Reg. $399.95 _sandtioning, paved. sire
~ {Jonesboro Consoliiated School. Eggs for the Nang foal Uap, < re by a — a bai 288: wh aol ota +9909” Se
at 7 sic pupils from | @°#?'s. SexyviCG. WHE again oF, Fe-} Mrs. Samuel (A. Hartman. of | he receiy ood, Was Giscovered |) yyi ee eabipaty capably tends
le. fe ee : or ae trict ceived this year. Eggs are {6 ‘Be GoFdonviles.,, . Pigs and, as the suspect had said, it]] —.,. orice below Sinton.”
Bete meio fhe. SONICE brought to: the ‘church -haseurent Charles T. Clark, 21°Sotthy Haniel wes.a, deserte ishing cabin with|] “ : a RENTALS
’ : ’ ane &; fm Pe . | } Sis? or
rst | Music contest at Hetrin Saturday. during. Holy Week. over. ig. canned ood godds ‘stezad siz, ity 4 Admire Pransist ae pa
ri- | Of this number. 15 pupils received The Mothers Cigh will hold its} Wm. 11, son of Mr. and Airs. Claim Guns Jammed. i} RABIOS. Reg. $24.95 Ne ee
‘8 | first place ratings, 15 received meeting this even me at 8:15 inic w. Bierschwal, 216 Pearl. \ | . After the trip over Thompson's 4] 9” a | taffeta EG &
we tsecond place ratings and four) the high school. Quest speaker! Charles Grissom. of East Pygi-! route of travel. officers took him SPECIAL ..........:.... Bod Profier, ED Seu?
‘ng [Placed im the third position. Sey.| Mill be the Rev. Timoth y| rie. ___ | to Lutesville where he met Tuck-
Bd | on of the 15 first place winners Madden. C. M., a ana at af | er for the first time since the two Admiral
were chosen by the judges for the Mary s Seminary who will spea ‘| Read the Missourian Want Ady. “parted company Saturday morn- pine oO Wh fae
ret | state contest to be held in Mount | Male a A oon pee on ; Refriger ator-Freezer i sd - “vs
me |Sraseaeseer thy ee ace Sen any pe ae | oe
+, | ¥ivan Bishop, clarinet solo. Ka- ; : ee 5 | Reg. 2 - : _
Scar tenet ecg sre THs] ATTENTION GRADUATING SENIORS. HY sey feo S10258, Uf tn a ye
bea eerie aired pmee ol NUE MARE Pr EMPLOYMENT SERVICE’COUNSELOR “!]} werd Trane TAT 1] lS" sean ow
ney Bauer, cornet solo: Clifford ot PR. Calan lag vi “Agee SER i GaeGeil ai eee ae oe nA shi S fade
Manus, baritone saxaphone solo: odist Church will meet Wednes- || , oe : Mra regs
Sharon Copeland, piano solo;-and| day night at 7:30 at the church, <|/J | ~ R Admira! Refrigerator : eee
Stanley Greer, piano solo. The Walther League of the Im. T AINEES NEEDED Automatic Defrost, Freezer ity
th. | Also receiving first place rat-; Manuel Lutheran Chureh hag pre- | / : Pyle Pears hits it ee TY, SN ee ee eee,
[ings were Jimmy Harris, Connie} Dared_a Lenten Display. in, the if eee 2 ; thea , heer me
Ballard. Mike Aldridge, Jennifer | Window of Prevallet's Jewelry. _ |} No experience required. B.S. Deore in Peorhal. e
rst Boyd. Ronnie Cerney D aren; The Pinnsere af tha Den-toenn |

y SOUTHEAST MISSOURIAN’
NING, MARCH 2r, 1861:

ATA, teake

IN DISTRICT.

pair Force in California: a broth-
jer, Frank Prost. of Perryville:
a. sisters, Mrs, Anna Roy of
ite and -Mr—-Eate tiet-*
Blechle of St. Louis and 24 grand-
children. :
body is gt the Young &
Sons Funerat Home where the
Ladies of Charity will recite the
Rosary at 3 Wednesday afterncon.
At 8:30 Wednesday night. there
;; will be recitation of the Rosary
by the Knights of Columbus and
Daughters of Isabella. Services
| will be conducted at 9 a. m. Thurs.
day at the Church of the Assump-
Ttion with interment im Mount
Hope Cemetery.

ae

Gifts Spe
School sa

ead Missourian’ Consaipendaal
paign ‘contributia ef the Church

$100,000 mark fhis mouth. Au-
thorities said thig is 2 remarkable
achievement. The campaign has
made it possible to pay $80,500
on the old parish debt within a
ten-month period, while at the
same time completing a $30,000
renovation job on the sthool. Def-

office for the new Sisters’ Home
is expected soon,

?

Mrs. Delia MacDonald. !

Special to The Missourian
BLOOMFIELD — Funes?’ ser-
vices were conducted. this after-

| FAVORS FURNISHED.
Girl Scout Troop 42 furnished

| tray favors for the Perry.County

Memorial Hospital for St. Pat-

Mr,}| Doon at the Rainev Funeral Home |
‘tim Dexter for Mrs. Delia Ann Me. |
Donald of Poplar Bluff and for-}
meriy of this community. The;
Rev. Harold Garrett of Dexter of: ;
“Cor | ficisted and buriaJ was in the
i Malden Cemetery.
f. Mrs. MacDonald. 84 vears old, !
died Stinday at a hospital in Pop:
lar Bluff.

She was born March 19. 1877.
ot at Burnside, Ill.. and in 1900 was’
marned to John F. MacDonald. }
ies He died Dec. 14. 1934.

In| Survisors are two sons, Robert:
2M-| F MacDonald. { Dexter and W.!
veral | {J MacDonald of Memphis. Tenn.;

'three daughters. Mrs: Ruth Me. !
pet Dougal of Poplar Bluff. with |

yoga

og

m4

‘Putnam of Cape Girardeau and
ees | Mrs. John Yeager of Peoria. Il. |
ca {10 grandchildren and several
“He great-grandchildren.

Ernie H. Anderson
Specia! to The &lissourtan
COBDEN. Ml!l—Ernie H. Ander-
son, 81 years old, a retired farm-
er of Cobden. died in the Jack-
son County Nursing Home in
Murvhyehboro Monday. He was

rick’s Day. Members of the troop
are: Bernice Anderson, Connie
| Barber, Darlene Brewer, Marga-
ret Brickhaus, Betty Burgess, Vir-
‘ginia. Killian, Darlene Koenig.
Janice King. Norma Leigh, Shar-
on Matchell, Regina Wibbenmey.-
er and Jenny Wibbenmeyer and
‘Regina Scarim.

“TRIP PLANNED.

The Immanuel and Concordia
, Ladies Aids have been invited to
visit with the Ladies } Aid at
| Farmington oh Wednesday. Those
attending will make the trip by

; bus, leaving from the church at
16:30 a.m. ;

—

Reservations for

the LWML

Spring Rally in Sikeston on April |”

5 are being accepted by Mrs. Wm"
Wichern or sake Robert Smith up
to March 27

Mrs. O. D. ‘VanHorn and daugh-
ter, Mary Jane, of Sarcoxie, vis-

ited Saturday with Perryville

friends. The Rev. VanHorn was
pastor of the local - Methodist
Church several years ago before

going tq’a church in St. Louis and |-

now to Sarcoxie close to his par-.
ents,

ERRYVILLE-Tho_total cama}

of Assumption‘ went ever the!

inite approval from the Cardinal's}

Atthe Hospit

tals
a7

q

ADMISSIONS.

By
a
'
t
i
}

Cape Osteopathic. .

Will Harris of Charies tom.
Mra. Floyd Moore, 231 Good

EtG

s|To > Community :

fee ce Beas aa
ees

By Mi iseourlan ae rrespantient,
BLOOMFIELD — Severe) cut

| Hoge.

Oek.
die.

ney.

son.

ney.

fee.

fee.

"Romulus Hamleit o
Mrs. John W. Schott of Chaf-

Sherry,

Jerry Capps of Ste. Gentvieve.
Donald Hanebrink, €23 Morgan

Edgar Fassel, 111 North Mid-

Southeast Missouri. |

Hatvey L. Ward, 345 East Rod-

Christine, 7, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Calvin Nebel of Benton.
Theodore Horn of Dimo.

Mrs. Joel Britton, 1217 William.
Mrs. Glean Mowery of Dongola,
Illinois.
Miss Georgia Gill of Cairo, TL
Mrs. Ronald Radford, 207 Ma-

Robert Dale Brown of McClure,
Dlinois.
Roy Green, 1639 Luce.
Mrs. Phillip Gibson, 1122

Mrs. Robert S. Stroup, 624 Ter-
ry Lane.

st Francis.

Michael Gene. 7, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Gene Tygett of Anna, Ml.

Sarah, Barbara and Michal,
children of Mr. and Mrs_R. A.
Morgan of Jackson.

Mrs. eee e Ue ‘DeWees of

Pas
-

Tamms, Mi.

Donald Dots ‘of Harrisburg.
Nilinois. a
| Thomas’Werner, 418 North
i Spriggs

Mrs. Annie Heisserer of Kelso.
“Mrs. Ollie Francis of Painton.
Mias Phyllis Tierney of Chaf-

fe

Risco.

Mrs./*Macy Rauth, 417 South
Benton.

DISMISSALS. © |

‘Cape Osteopathic.

Ran-

infant daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Thomas Albert Moore of

0" OP

-

oftown Telatives were hare
tend funeral services, for Jesse
Hughes last Thursday at the St.
Joe General Baptist: Chureh at
Idalia. Among them were Ir. and
Mrs. James Trotter and Mr. and
Mrs. Doyle Peck of Si. Louis:
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Yeakey of
St. Charles; Mr. and Mrs, Roval
Duckworth of Parma;’ Mr, and
Mrs. Bob Hughes of Kepnett; Mr.
and Mrs. Bill Hughes of Dexter:
Mr. and Mrs. James Hughes of
Pine Bluff, Ark.; Mr. and Mrs.
Russell Hughes of Ferguson, Mo.
and Mr,.and Mrs. Chester Rass of
Dexter. Most of them remained
to visit with friends and relatives
of the community over the week
end. rei

Mrs. Hershel Shipman and chil-
dren of Hoopeston. Ll., are spend-
ing a few days with her mother,
Mrs. Ethel Trotter of the Idalia
community. .

Janet Evans, a student at State
College in Cape Girardeau, and
Mack Sisson also a student there,
spent the week end with her par-
ents, Mr. and Mrs. James Evans.

Shirley Snider of State College
returned to school Monday after
being ill several days at the home
of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Loyd
Snider.

Freddy Pulley and Mike Coch-

f

lege in Walnut Ridge, Ark. Sat-
urday to try out for an athletic
scholarship. They and Charies
Pulley. who accompanied them,

were guests of the college for din-
ner. :

Auxiliary policeman Hugo ~
Jr., got out of the patrol car prior
to the shooting, denies he fired,

ava CaARrtienadt “ aa ham

ran were at Southern Baptist Col-|

ara!

rimmed

Biogen bs

Jesse. er Sts

thety ~ pi ons | am ere ey

cdiic
wanted them
tloning-—-end deficc
to shoot. Wi
shooting f
maintsi ned ‘ f

i eae eaatieeetieatnaitetaeedaden nee

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Livestock Resor?

NATIONAL STOCKYARDS, TW. w
— USDA ~ Hogs 11,500: slow, bar-
rows and gilts 28-38 lower: sows
steady to weak; 1-8 180-240 Ib bar-
rows and gilts 17.60-83; sows 499 Ib
down ~ 16.06-17.00:" over 499 Ib 15.36-
16.60.

Cattle 3300. calves 5309;
steers and heifers slow: good and
low choice steers 22.50-28.00; good
and choice heifers and nixed year-
Mngs 22.00-24.75; utility and com.
mercial cows 16.00-17.50; utility and
commercial! bulls 18.00-20.06; medium
and good 608-900 Ib stocker and. feed-
er steers 20.09-24.00: good and choice
vealers 22.69-%4.00; high choice 25.0
36.09; standard and good 20.00-27.06;
good and choice slaughter calves
20.00-25.00.

Sheep 130¢: rather slow: market
not fully established: good. end
choice wooled lambs 17.00-18.00,

New York Cotton

NEW YORK # — Cotton futures
were lower today. Most of the selling
was attributed to liquidation

Late afternceom prices were § to
$$ cents a bale lower than the pre-
vious cloze. May (33.18, July 33.70
and Oct 34.36.

slaughter

Arkansas Poultry
LITTLE ROCK # — Broilers: Of-
ferings barely adequate to short for
present trade needs 16-17,

mostiv 14.
;

— Om an
'WILL TRADES

cers gt eoned their SRT i¢ =f C Orr

2 Afters

Valley x

ae he
a ol ae

AO ote ee,

8 4 a3 S

CIACAGO
Prices unchang
G2 A Rig: % 3
£o 8 $3*; 83 Cc ue

Eggs weak; fg to a
cent or better grec
mixed $344; - medtue ote
33? 3; dirties 33; chee?

FOR SAL Buwlof.
FOR REKT<-Hoves &
&1ER.

FOR RENT—J-reorm fee
Pacific. ss

FOR -- SAL Be Broare
ED $7728.
FOR RENT —F cur.

|

Me. Phome $4-/A,

FOR. $ALE—Meedrgare
Albert, ED €382.

Sin

ae

FOR SALE er reat, mod:
Jeckean. Bia! ¢)

fraser
ape.for nice ferm. E*

FOR RENT—}-race
Phone EQ 52467

FOR REN T—~<roe z
excep? part. Phan

FOR” RENT — Modern
1822 BSleonfield, ceca

>
%

FOR RENT—Adheders.. dy
rege sttechadg, in Jocks

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FOR SALZ--3 rewrnet, tye

Deere.


(«tin the constru(tion trades. He has

~ boys i ha © ~ Potosi: t
itet.1, Herculaneum:
met 2: Herculaneum;
zUs; mixed quartet 2,
ixed double quartet,
quartet, Fox; girls
I City; girls sextet,
sextet, Potosi; boys
. mixed quartet 1,
“S} ‘trio, Sikeston ITI,
ey otoai; ‘girls sextet,

rs—I, Donna Wilfong,
sda Boyer, Festus;
Rly, - Festus; Suzan
stal City; Beverly
“il City; Judy Niitne-
son; Cheryt Dalton,

Tare Oliver Ao Hope; ‘ificumbent,
Mre Melvin Kase a end”

tof the Civic Progress Committee
.{ composed, he said f a group of
[labor_representatives, two clregy-
men, a’ college professor and sev-
-§-}eral bus inese-men sho have been

May” the deadline

others inthe field of candidates

—eeye ty

Solas
Beellaea. here:

OMe, Thomas is a Bra duate of
the ‘Central High School clas:
of 1932, ‘and for 25 years has been

been business representative of
hip loeal for several years.
in addition, — he -is- secretary-
treasurer of the Central Trades
and Labor Council and secretary
of the Cape Girardeau Building
and Construction Trades Council.
On Indusiry- Committee.
Mr. Thomas also- is secretary

‘working: t he past<tiree years to
encourage industry" in the Cape
Girardeau-arez_—

A member of Gentewary Metho-
dist Church, he-atso is a membes
of 1.0.G.F. Lodge 675 in Cape
Girardeau .and of Toastmasters
International. He belongs to- the
Travelers Protective Association
andthe International Labor Press
Association. Mr. Thomas is an
associate member of the Missouri
Peace Officers: and Missouri

Sheriff's Association. —

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas / have
three sons, last of whom” was
graduated last Spring from Cen-

‘tal Higtt Stihwot ~~

a number more to be
together Thursday
a “walking blood
in case of disaster
e needs of a single
findividual.
’ program of -blood
oqiaken by the Parsat-
“4 of the reorganized!
centered here, took
gS. minutes te com-

people. had” blood

ecards. giving the
formation. Their

it Givem
3 RRs nee
5 el ARS AP'S 2-

let Blood Typed in Night
ki Project at Advance

| to put over the program.

chairman, provided the impetus

It had been discussed for some
time, but actually received its big-
gest boost by a personal commu-
nity experience.

Mr. and Mrs.. Kinder’s daugh-
ter, Patricia, 17, last Summer uz-
derwent open heart surgery. it}
was an ordeal for the family to
secure blood at a critical time,
<nd th® community, moving to
help-them; shared their feelings|-
Today Patricia is a normal,
healthy' young girl, who was bowl-
ing while the adult typing pro-
gram was going on.

The problem of finding suffi-
‘cient donors. of the right blood
type was impressed on the Ad-
vance community by the Kinders’
experience.

Conseqnently, when the Parent-+

(Continued cn page 10.)

Little Liz Says:

Housework-is-semething- 2o-—

. ° | 538.
file. fae ‘the. eléciion on April 4, the

F. body notices untik you don’t ~
do sige rae

ie

on Siste Hospital 310,763).
St. Josepit $8,895,856. Ne-
vada $6,537,234, St. Louis State
Hospital $14,070,341, _ Marshall
State School $6,711,375..and"St.
Louis State Training School $,-

$82, 199

i iw

$B RE

Saminy Tuc ker
We'ves Hearing

The man held on a charge of
first desree murder-in the death
of Cape Girardeau Police Officer
Donald Crittendon, Sammy Aire
Tucker, 26, of Fresno, Calif.,
waived preliminary hearing in
Magistrate Court Thursday after-
noon and Eas been -Seund--evesr4
to Circuit Court to appear for ar-
raignment or - further hearing
April 3.

Tucker is also facing-a fitst
degree murder charge in. the
death of auxiliary policemart, Her-
bert Goss, who was-shot at the};
same time as  Crittendon, on
March 10, when officers stopped
Tucker and a companion, Doug:
las Wayne Thompson. 27, of
Bakersfield, Calif.. im their car
near the outskirts of Cape Gi-
rardeau for rowtine questioning
after a store manager reported
a holdup scemed. likely.

Already Charged.

The suspect has already waived
preliminary hearing in the other
murder chargé and has been
granted more time to seek. jegal

4 counsel. Thompson, also charged

With first ‘degree. murder in the
death of Mr. Goss. is. being held
im Butler County on a first de-
gree charge in the death of Ray-
mond Glover, 45, of Ctubb.
Thompson escaped apprehen.
sion for a week and was arrested
last Friday afternoon, March 17,
after being involved in his third
gin battle, this one north of Pop-
lar Bluff and: resulting in the

‘death of Mr. Glover. Tucker w2s

riot in the latest shooting inci-
dent... having been apprehended
March 11, the day after the orig.
inal battle, and has been in Cape
Gitardesu:. Couaty—jaif ia Jack
son since,

The. second gun battle was
fought in tesville. im which
Wayne County Sheriff Elmer
Chatman was wounded shortfy-
after Mr. Crittendon and Mr..
Goss were shot.

Tucker will face his two mur-

der charges in Cape County, or a

nearby county if-a request for
change of venue should be graat-
ed, but Thompson may face his
murder charge in the death of
Glover -in Buller County before
being brought here to face Cape
County charges,

 facth, 24 19h

CS a orame cence nnaehanocnertrceme Maram ANT RITE et CNL PDR a REA ke

|

2

sak ihe ts yb

distinct cooiness to the joiat U 8.
British. compromize- proposais

but he said he would hear them
out without saying an_ official
PWOIG. ak:

Tsarapkin was chairman of to-
day’s session—-the 277th since the
negutiations began 2% years ago.

U, S. delegate Arthur H. Dean
has taken the initiative since re-
sumption of the talks Monday
after a three-month recess. Each
day he discussed in detail an-
other point in the program.

Western sources say it will take | ®°
Dean at least eight more days to
spell out the new Westerr pro-
posals for a treaty banning test-
ing of nuclear weapons.

Advance Detected.
Talking with newsmen outside

bee

the. wood - paneled conferences.

tine Mise JURE ¢ Ris
President. showed how :
munist-run Pathet Lao |
a faw email berder a:
pte? and how they hat
their —control; -with--Gor
over much of the nort!
eastern sections of the «
Defines U.S. Posi
Against this threat of
munist takeover, the |
thus defined-the presen
ean position on the crisi
1. The United States
sca reservation the 5
al ~and independer
tied to no outside power
of powers, threatening
and free from any dom
This position, the Presi
plied, should now be cle
nations including the
Union.
2. If there is to ‘be a

room of the Palace of Nations,
Tsarapkin said he detected ‘
slight advance” in some aspects,
of the Western proposals. But he | pe
asserted that they contained ‘‘too
‘many conditions, toa many ifs.’’
The general belief is that the
Soviet delegate is waiting fer
word from Moscow before taking |
a definite stand, leaving Premier
Khrushchev room to maneuver
onthe Soviet position until the

Faotuton for the crisis “the

.@. cessation of the

esha aakacks by evterne
ported: Communists."’» }
added that “‘if these att
not stop, those who su
truly neutral Laos wil I
consider their, fresponse.”’

3. The ed. States is
Festi in” qavore, of inter:
negotiations ‘‘which: ca:
Laos back to the pathwa:

NEW NATIONAL DEBT R

Aan a

Special Budget Messaget

{m9 25 eS 635%. ¢

=p wg 6 rege So Sew

WASHINGTON (# — Presiden‘: «

Kennedy broke the bad budget
mews to Congress today~-iwo
years._of red ink financing for an
apparent eomhined deficit of $5
billion, sending the national. debt
to new. records:

In a special budget message,
Kennedy discarded as ‘‘over-ep-
timistie’’ the January estimates
of former President Dwight —D.
Eisenhower, who forecast a stim
$90 million surplus this year and
a $1.5 surplus in fiscal 1962, start-
ing July 1.

There is no aurplus in the. in
herited Eisenhower budget: for
1981, Kennedy advised Congress;
Tt is ‘over $Z°-biillon” cur oF Luh.
ance, he said. The actual  esti-
mate is $2.2 billion. It means the
debt limit.must be raised again, »
the President said.

The surplus heralded for fiscal |
1982 has become a $1.8 billion
deficit on the civilian side alone,
Kennedy announced. He said the
Eisenhower administration, which
never admitied there was a re-
cesgion, hased its revenue esti-
mate on “a much rosier econ-
omy.”

Officials said. Kennedy's
tary program, Plus roviesd, 2g

<et

mates of the Cosi x Gerases: ae

ih

7 ee

Billion De!

dole. beyond $3 billio
awell S <9 public. debt-by &
to a record ot epost 4

State School Mone}
Received by Count)

Jackson £
The Mise

JACKSON—The county t
er, Elmer R. ~Schaper. t
ceived the third apportion!
state school money for th:
amounting to $177,273.62 ?
Trailer Camp Tax es
$362.08, for 1961. Toe
camp fund was alloca
cistricts in whielt the ear
‘oe ated. |

Cape Girardesd ‘Distr

ad from this fund ‘
| jackebe R-2, $38.14 and
District, $38.85.

Statements of the dist!
have been made to the “gr
tricts by Mr. Schaper _-

Cape Girardeau No.
$11.78; Jackson R-2,
Delta R-5, $17,720.70; O#
R4, $7845.53; Nell Holeo
$5360.74; Marquette, 2.
ernathy, $1062; Kage.
-| Cempater, $561.36; Oak
#31 19.44 and pes Geert:

., will send the Hot


Comes now the State by Prosecuting Attorney, Stephen E. Strom and comes the Defendant
in person, in custody cf the Sheriff ana by his attorney Leonard L. Borenschein. Whereupon
Defendant waives formal arraignment and enters a plea of not guilty to the charge in the
Infcrmation, that of First Degree Murder. The State announces ready for trial. The

Defendant announces ready for trial.

Comes now John C. Crites, Sheriff of Cape Girardeau County and comes also his Deputies

and they are sworn to take charge of and keep the jury together acccrding to the statutes.

A jury ‘panel of 93 is called, 93 jurors answering. For good cause shown R. H. Penrod,
Ben Morton and John Luedeman are excused.

Comes now the Defendant by his attorney and objects to there being only 3 women summon
ed to the jury panel. Objection is by the Court overruled.

Jurors are called, sworn tc answer, questioned and challenged and the following twelve
are selected to try the cause: 1-Robert Leyerle; 2-Joe Walker; 3-Ernst Bock; 4- Roland H.
Boren; 5-Richard H. Spalding; 6-Alvin W. Maevers; 7-Ben F. Exler; 8-Ben Kincade; 9-Lloyd
Allen; 10-Bill Baker; 11-Francis Summers; 12;Clyde Foeste.

The jury of twelve men are sworn to try the cause.

Open statements are made by Stephen E. Strom for the State. Leonard L. Borenschein,
attorney for the Defendant reserves his Opening statements. Whereupon State's witnesses are
called and evidence begun. Rule in regard to witnesses is requested by Defendant. State
agrees to put rule into force. For want of time to conclude the hereing thereof cn this
date, further hearing is by Order of the Court adjourned until 9:00 A.M. on July 18, 1961. |

Sheriff,: John Cc. Crites take charge of the jury and retires.


icers present: Hon. W. Osler Statler, Judge;
John C. Crites, Sheriff;
Herbert Riehn, Deputy Sheriff;
Woodrcw W. Seabaugh, Clerk}
Stephen E. Strom, Prosecuting Attorney;
Helen Besel, Repcrter.

State of Missouri Plaintiff, )
Sammy Aire Tucker Defendant.)

Comes now the State by Prosecuting Attorney, Stephen E. Strom and comes Defendant by
his attorney, Charles M. Shaw. Whereupon Defendant's Affidavit for disqualfication of Judge
is by the Court found to be in proper form and over the objections of the Prosecuting Attorney,
the Honorable W. Osler Statler disqualfies himself as Judge in the above entitled cause and
Orders that the Supreme Court of the State of Missouri be notified and requested to appoint

a Special Judge to hear said case. This cause is set for trial on July 10, 1961 and arraign-

ment is to precede trial.

State of Misscuri Plaintiff, )
v vs. ) No. 5013-
Sammy Aire Tucker Defendamt. )
Comes now the State by Prosecuting Attorney, Stephen E. Strom and comes Defendant by
his attorney, Charles M. Shaw. Whereupon Defendant's Affidavit fcr Disqualification of Judge
is by the Court found to be in proper form and over the objections of the Prosecuting Attorney,

the Honorable W. Osler Statler, disqualifies himself as Judge in the above entitled cause

and Orders that the Supreme Court of the State of Missouri be notified and requested to
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appoint a Special Judge to hear said cause. This cause is set for trial on July 10, 1961 and

arraignment is to precede trial.

State cf Missouri Plaintiff ,}
- vs. )
John Elden Moore: Defendant.)


Cape Girardeau County Circuit Court_apai Term, 19__61

MONDAY, JULY 17, 19.61 EIGHTEENTH _(18th) Day of Term

STANDARO-HANNIBAL, MO. 965910

Pleas and Proceedings of the Circuit Court of

Cape Girardeau County in the 32nd Judicial

Circuit of the State of Missouri.

Officers present: Honorable Ray Weightman, Special Judge;
John C. Crites, Sheriff;
Herbert Riehn, Deputy Sheriff;
W. S. Wickham, Deputy Sheriff;
Stephen E. Strom, Prosecuting Attorney;
Wm. H. Frye, Assistant Prcsecuting Attorney;
Arthur L. Evans, Court Reporter;
Woodrow W. Seabaugh, Clerk.

Odene Schaper, Deputy Sheriff.

State of Missouri Plaintiff, )
v vs. ) No. 5013
Sammy Aire Tucker Defendant.)
Comes now the State by Prosecuting Attorney, Stephen E. Strom and comes the Defendant
in person, in custody of the Sheriff and by his attorney Leonard L. Borenschein. Whereupon

Defendant waives formal arraignment and enters a plea of not guilty to the charge in the.

Information, that of First Degree Murder.

State of Missouri» Plaintiff,)
- vs. S )

Sammy Aire Tucker Defendant.)

Comes now the State by Prosecuting Attorney, Stephen E. Strom and comes the Defendant
in person, in custody cf the Sheriff and by his attorney Leonard L. Borenschein. Wherenont
Defendant waives formal arraignment and enters a plea of not guilty to the charge in the
Infcrmation, that of First Degree Murder. The State announces ready for trial. The ~

Defendant announces ready for trial.


Cape Girardeau County Circuit Court__aram _—_ Term, 19_61

TUESDAY, JULY 18 “19.61 _ NINETEENTH (19th) Pay of Yarn

STANDARO—-HANNIBAL, MO. 965910

Pleas and Proceedings of the Circuit Court of Cape

Girardeau County in the 32nd Judicial Circuit of

the State of Missouri.

Officers present: Honorable Ray Weightman, Special Judge;
John C. Crites, Sheriff;
Herbert Riehn, Deputy Sheriff;
W. S. Wickham, Deputy Sheriff;
Stephen E. Strom, Prosecuting Attcrney;
Wm. H. Frye, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney;
Arthur L. Evans, Court Reporter;
Woodrow W. Seabaugh, Clerk.

State of Missouri peta et»
‘) vs.
Sammy Aire Tucker - Defendant.)

No. 5015

Comes now the State by Prosecuting Attomey, Stephen E. Strom and ccmes the Defendant
in person, in custodyof the Sheriff and by his attorney, Lecnard L. Borenschein.

Comes now John C. Crites, Sheriff, in charge of the jury of twelve men and reports all
jurors present. Whereupon the trial is resumed.

The State continues the calliof witnesses and progresses_in the hearing of the evidence.
Out of hearing of the jury, evidence is heard by the Court of prior convictions of the
Defendant and the Court finds and determines that said Defendant was previously convicted of

a felony as charged in the Amended Information. State's evidence is concluded.

At the conclusion of the State'sevidence, Defendant's oral Motion: for Directed Verdict

is by the Court overruled.

Defendant now waives opening statements. Defmdant's witnesses are called and evidence
adduced. Defendant's evidence is concluded. Some evidence in rebuttal and sur rebuttal.

Defendant's oral Mction for Directed Verdict of Not Guilty is by the Court overruled.


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a felony as charged in the Amended Information. State's evidence is concluded.

At the conclusion of the State's evidence, Defendant's oral Motion for Directed Weraiet
is by the Court overruled.

Defendant now waives opening statements. Defadant's witnesses are called and evidence
adduced. Defendant's evidence is concluded. Some evidence in rebuttal and sur rebuttal.
Defendant's’ oral Mction for Directed Verdict of Not Guilty is by the Court overruled.

The trial of this cause having been concluded, the jury having seen and heard all the
evidence adduced, the instructions of the Court and argument of the counsels, the jury at
4:00 P.M. retires in charge of the Sheriff who was first duly sworn, to the jury room to
Geliberate on is verdict herein. Afterwards, the jury having agreed upon a verdict at
5:30 P.M. returns into the Court the following verdict, to-wit:

; VERDICT

We, the jury, find the defendant guilty of murder in the first degree.

s/ Benj. F. Exler
Foreman.

Verdict is filed and jury discharged.

Whereupon after counsel are heard the Court advises Defmdant, in cpen Court, that his
punishment is fixed and assessed at death by the administration of lethal gas as provided
by the laws of the State of Missouri.

Upon request of Defendant, he is given until on or before August 17, 1961 to file a
Motion For A New Trial. The Sheriff is hereby directed to take charge of the Defendant.
Sheriff requests and is authorized to forthwith remove the Defendant,for safe keeping to the
Miss uri State Penitentiary at Jefferson City, Missouri and there be kept until further

orders of the Court.


ap Pe
( sesee of the 4th Judicial Circuit of the State of Missouri presides, and Arthur Evans, Reporter,
Itoh@ able. Ray Weightgr hefites. : sept /9

State of Misscuri . ‘cc Plaintiff)
J vs. ) » 5015
Sammy Aire Tucker Defendant.)

Comes now Defendant in person, in custeay of the Sheriff, and his attorney announces
that he does not wish to argue his Motion For A New Trial. Whereupon this Court advised
Defendant as follows:,.Sammy Aire Tucker, on July 18, 1961 in your trial for murder, this
Court, out of the hearing of the jury, with you and your counsel present, found that ycu
had been previously convicted of a felony in Califcrnia and sentenced to the penitentiary
in that State. Also a jury in the case found you guilty of murder in the first degree.
Whereupon this Court fixed and assessed your punishment at death by the administration of
lethal gas. Thereafter your lawyer timely filed a motion fcr new trial. Today that
Motion has been, when your counsel stated he had no argument to make in support cf it,
overruled. Defendant will stand. Now do you Sammy Aire Tucker, know of any legal reason why
sentence should not be pronounced in accordance with that finding of the Court and the
verdict of the Jury? Allocuticn granted. (When Defendant stated "No" .)

It is the sentence of this Ccurt, Sammy Aire Tucker, that you shall suffer the punishment of
death by the administration cf lethal gas within the walls of the State Penitentiary at
Jefferson City, Mo. under the supervision and direction of the Warden of said institution.
The date cf said execution is appointed as Wednesday, the First day of November, 1961. The
Sheriff of this County is directed tc deliver you, Sammy Aire Tucker, this date, to the
Warden of the State Penitentiary at Jefferson City, Missouri for execution. |
Defendant files Notice of Appeal.

Defendant files sworn affidavit and Application tc Appeal as a poor person. Under the

provisions of Sec. 485.100 MRS 1959. Same sustained and Reporter advised accordingly.


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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF MISSOURI September Session, 1962

No. 49105?

STATE OFMISSOURI Respondent
v vs. Appeal for the Circuit Court of Cape Girardeau County.
SAMMY AIRE TUCKER "Appellant |

Now at this day come again the parties aforesaid, by their respective attorneys, and
the Court here being now sufficiently advised of and concerning the premises, doth consider
and adjudge that the judgement aforesaid: in form aforesaid, by the' said Circuit Court of
Cape Girardeau County rendered, be in all things affirmed, and stand in full force and effect;
and that the said respondent recover against the said appellant its costs and charges herein
expended, and have execution therefor. It is further considered and adjudged by the Court
that the sentence pronounced against the said Sammy Aire Tucker, appellant herein, by the
said Circuit Court of Cape Girardeau County be in all things executed on Wednesday, the 9th
day of January, 1963. j
(Opinion filed.) tt
STATE OF MISSOURI __SCT.

I, MARION SPICER, Clerk of the Supreme Court of the State of Missouri, certify that the
foregoing is a full, true and complete transcript of the judgment of said Supreme Court,
entered of record at the September Session thereof, 1962, and on the 14th day of November
1962, in the above entitled cause.

Given under my hand and seal of said Court, at the City of Jefferson City, ithis

27th day of December, 1962.

Marion Spicer, Clerk.

Filed for Record on this 28th day of December, 1962.


Cape Girardeau County Circuit: Court__aPiz

JULY : 19_63 VACATION ORDERS Day of Term

STANDARD—HANRIGAL, WO, BEST

TUESDAY, JULY 30, 1963

State of Missouri Plaintiff, )
(Billy Jean Fortenberry) )
y VS. ) No. 5105
Tommy D. Fortenberry , Defendant.)

Now on this day is received and filed Defendant's Answer in the above entitled cause.

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State of Missouri Plaintiff, )
Vv VS. ) No. 6094
Frank Wright Defendant.)

Now on this day is received from the Clerk of the Magistrate Court of Cape Girardeau
County, Missouri the transcript of record entries of proceedings, original file papers, fee
bill and $250.00 cash bond in the above entitled cause,

State of Missouri Plaintiff, )
J VS. ) No. 5015
Sammy Aire Tucker Defendant.)

Now on this day is received and filed Warden E. V. Nash report on mae of Sammy

Aire Tucker in the above cause.

FRIDAY !, AUGUST 2, 1963

Beatrice Langston Plaintiif
vs.

Bill Neace and

Marilyn Neace

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No. 5109
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S|"# Ns Nas we

Defendants.


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JOHN OSCAR TURLINGTON HANGED AT BOOR-
VILLE, M0., THIS MORNING.

The Brntal Murder of Sheriff Thos. 0,
Cranmer Legally Avenged.

A BRIEF FAREWELL ADDRESS TO THH
SPECTATORS BY THE MURDERER.

Turlington Meets His Terrible Fate Calmly
—His Life and Crimes—Shaxkspeare
Resves Hanged at New Castle, Del.—
Louis Bulling Respited—Holden and
Dunham Saved From the Gallows—
Their Sentence Commuted.

BOONVILLE, Mo., March 6.—Jobn Oscar Tur-
ington spent a quiet day in his cell yester-
Gay under the watchful care of W. H. Gal-
bralth, the dav ‘‘death watch.** Herecetvad
a number of callers, among them Hev. 8. F.
Norfleet of the Methodist Church South, who
is convinced of Turlington’s sincere repent-
ance. Heread the Bible with the minister

Sohn Oscar Turlington.

and talked with him a lobe lime. After Mr.
Norfleet was yone Turlington amused himself
drawing pictures. One of his efforts was a
skull and cross- bones. ,

The gallows was erected during the day. It
Isa rough platform about ten feet high, two
standards nineteen feet high, and a crose-
plece between them from which the rope
Gepends. Itis a very primitive man killer,
even fora gallows.

At 3 O’clock yesterday afternoon Sheriff
Hornbeck—the successor In offce of Sheriff
Cramer whom = Turllugton killeti—read the
death warrant to Turlington in his cell. The
Sheriff? was accompanied by Corner Hurt,
the minister Me. Norfleset. W.S. shirk, Tur-

Mngtan’s attorney and several reporters. The


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No arreste were.maee out has QWwOTR |
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Weipanes are known 10 the poles. tie JUDGE VALLIART BrYvsss TO QRANT A iieding aera 6 ts, were Dadiy eudand thos.

pocumrs cesar. «> | | DECRBB IN THE ALLEN Case. £m BOONVILLE TRAGEDY,
; ements i . " % . ‘ :
Mrs. John Bofflager ie spending this weeks AYouny Warhied Couple Who Cannot Gea} Great Excitement Over the Murder of Sherid

in Jefferson City. -
| Mr. J. 0. Hetasman of Kaness ORY WYistt-| Along ‘Together, bat the Cours says] .- Cranmer bya Prisoner,
leg relatives here. , rn . They Must Try—Judge Vajlianv’s and BOoNvizts, Mo., June 4.—S8her!f! Thomas
Mr. Wm. 5. Suyveeans left ast night tor the } dadge hhee’s Bulings—The Usiten/| &. Cranmer of Cooper Cousty, who was shot
East. He will be absense ai] summed. Depot Bar| Must Go—Legal Notes. by Wim. B. Weet, prisoner confined im the

Mids Rosalie Kauffman lett last aight to ! ]
> | spend the summer at the seaside resorts. Yrom the bumber of divortes gfanted tm the

Mre. A. Cobb leaves to-day a Cireulé Court recently 1s would appear taat
ge nen pietaree r eine te entere | ® 2imeple application for a decree is all that ts
taining Mre. A. B. Smith of Fore Worth, Tex. | necessary to obtain a legal separation, The
My. and Mrs. A. L. Btocker will Jeave this | laws of divored are as flexible és any other,.
evening for a trip to 8%. Paul and Lake Minne | but occasionally a judze refuses to granta
tonka. wets ial decree when there is suficient: groands for
alan of Jacket aero “visitiog in 64, | OR¢: Dub wherd there is a possibility of SD@ | ye rshal Taliaferro and anumber of sitisens
| Louls. eran breach being repaired. Such was dome Dy} | 4 captured near the outskirts
| Mise M. 8. Thurmond leaves to-night for | Judge Valliant this morning fn. the ~—— of the town. When the dying
Connecticut, where she will spend the summer | Henry J. Allen against Jessie Allen. °Y | Sheriff learned of his wurderer’s eapture

easo. . bis
s ” were married in July, 1984, in shisgity, In aed Ofthe bowling mob which surrounded

Mrs. KE. G. Merriam and family left lass petition Mr. Allen alleges thas one week after
h ifornia . @ she jail he reQuested that the people disperse.
nov Tht, a lalate mina marriage his wife of bride refused to get Op 10 | Hig request was announced to the crowd and

| Mra. Harrison of McKinny, Tex., 1 visiting the morning and prepare breakfast for bim, | bad considerable effect on them, ecsted A de-
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her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jj. H. Teasdale of | but would allow him to goto work without a ues ai cae placed in jail, pes’

Washington avenue. bis morning meal. She did not bave- tO) owered to make a full confession. He said

Mrs. Bylvester J. Fisher goes this week to | 4,5, breakfast before her marriage¢, | thatthe revolver with which the shooting had
Lebanon Springs to spend a week or two tor sh id 6 oh t going to do so after. been done was furnished him by Wess Hens-
the benefit of the waters. . .| Ohe sald, and she was not going id, and when | @Y Of Sedalia on last Friday night, belog
.| Mra. Dr. Guthers hae gone with the Home- desent herton hospital, he sald, an : Bnee In through the window of the jail,
,|opathlo delegates to Waukesha, Wis., to at-|she was almost well sne weal to Eureka hen Sheriff Cranmer came in to get the
tend the American Institute. Springs. The child became sick, died, and | 4ishes after the prisoner’s supper, he waited

The marriage of Mies Leonora Thielto Mr. | wa, buried, and though teld to comé home until the door was vpened, and presented his

\ revolver at the Sheriff, sayipg atthe samé
hr lal Geren dun’, place onthe 35th | 1g used «6 to«Cdosiét.«Ss OCHO | time: “tam going to kill you.’’ Cranmer
® e.

. ber- | reached for his weapon but before he sould
1) Mrs. John Davis of Vandeventer place will | cause for complaint was the roe ey | et 18 out, West bad fired. The bullet
leave about the let of July for New York, |1u-law, whom he claimed live w struck him in the left arm, and shen
whence she sails July 6 for Europe. them and made thelr lives miser ble. She enetrated the body and lodged in the kidney.
Mr. and Mre. Hazard and cemiiye who have | Sled a cross bill and tm replying # his charges | Sheriff Craniner, after pelng wounded, fred
been in Now York all winter, will spend the | said she did not get up to cook her hueDand’s | two shots, but they were without effect, Woast
summer in the Catskill Mountains. breakfast at the times mentioned because rs ren out through the door and escaped. The
Mra. Lilllan Richardson of Philadelphia, who | was sick. He sent her to a public hospital | Sheriff after being fatally wounded, locked
bas been spending the past week with rela- and when EK parecer leprae be bas the ours pt the ai — be na ag his
went to ureku prings. ) - | room an ufurined his friends o e shoot-
tives, left this morning to return home. <é bang sent for hes. said, pus | Ing.
Mr. and Mrs, Hiram Liggett have gone did not send her railroad ‘fare A Coroner s Inquest was held shortly after
New Mexico and Colorado resorts for the sum: | ng ghe was unable to return to this city aotll | Cranmer’s death. Lon V. Stephens, the State
wer for tie benefit of Mr. Liggett’s Dealth. her relatives went for her. Sho eeid she | ‘treasurer, wus selected as foreman of tlis
Miss Eleanor Sullivan of San Antonio, Tox., | always treated her husbaud with kindness | jury. Weat testified that he was serving a
1s visiting Mixes July Thomson's at Mr. | and affection but he wav not af all kind of | six-months’ jail sentence for shooting ata
Thowpson’s ‘Valley Home’’ at Aroadia, Mo. | considerate. Mer mother, ste said, Ghd @} brakeman onthe Missour! Paolfio train at Ot-
Mrs. Washington DeBolt has goue to Brook. gréatdcalto meep up the bousaserd _— ro turville. Heuid not Ititend to kill the Sheriff,
lyn, N.Y. f h isit to relatives be. | them along. The case was heard last woek | ho sald, but after starting to escape and sec-
fore goluy on to the Cat «ill Mountains, | 224 this morning Judge Valliant rendered | ing that (ranmer was prepared for nim, he
wiaeeGee itt op phe , THE FOLLOWING DECISION: resorted to the shooting. be jury found Blin
ee ‘ “This ts aeult by the husband against the | guilty of willful murder, and also beid Wese
Mra. Charles Hoffman and family, accom- | wirg fora divorce, towhich the wife hasre- | Hensley, wiu gave him the revolver, as ac-
panied by her daughter, dirs. Walter eo sponded by a efoss bill agaiest him for 4 | cessory.
and family, will leave In two weeks %0 Spend | divorce, After hearing allthe evitence inthe | The killing has created intense feeling all
the suinmer at the Northeru jakes. case I am satisfi that there !s no! over the county and {¢ {fe considered very
Mr. and Mrs. Peter L. Foy will sall on the | reason why this youn couple sbould | probable that West will be lynched, Mayor
Umbria, July 5, and will join Miss Mary Hoyce | not become reconcile c resuing | Franklin hwope las issued a proclamation re-

fall, Saturday might, dled yesterday. The
shiooting occasioned great excitement and at
the time of the Sherifl’s death fully 600 sitisens
of she county were sround bisresidenes. The
Gec6eased Sheriff was well known througbous
the State, having served two terme in the
Legislature ana béing a prominent Mason.
After the shooting West was pursued by

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d ther side and |tbeir marital relations; So fer asthe evi- | questing the citizens out of respect for the law
or oaditue eee a ues la travel dence discloses the plantiff has o just Cause | andthe wish of their daad friend to refrain
Mre. J. P. Bryson leaves tile evening for | "hateverto complain of bis 6; she has) from all ucts of vylulence.

ii rd town Ky. here she will psand the never been unkind to or neglectful of him. The boy Weas Hensley, who furnished West
init apatiel: { yes Ne reth and bring home “Un the other hand be Is not sofree from | with the revulver, wae arrested near Orterville
With Ser Ger Gang yet, ee ee granting her a divorce at this | 0 yeatsold. Whiie be and West were In jall
” Mra. Sallie Leonor! and family, seoompanio’ time on ber ¢rose bill, Under the olrcum | at that pince, West knowing that he would be
by Messrs. C. L. and Clifford Leonor!, will | stances,however, Ithink It would be just to | taken tu Hoonville, plotted with him to effect

leave to-morrow for the East, where they will | giiow the wife to withdraw her orossbill if | his escape. He told him where be bad hidden

spend the summer visiting variousresorts. — | gig sees ft ibe so within three days, ~ bis revolver and gsked himto ges itfor hin.
| 6

J s Nannie Elliott, daugh- | which event the finding and judgment wit Hotisley didso, He claims, however, that be.
sek #1 ed aed eter Elliott, to Nr. for the defendant on the plaintiff's petition; | fore xiving the revolver to West he took all
Wentworth Plerce, will be celebrated onj|and in the ¢vent the crossbill is not with | the cartridgea out of It.

{ Tuesday evening at Mt. Calvary Churon, Dr. | drawn, the fre ing and judgment willbefor| Tie remalus of Cranmer were taken to

. the defendant on the plaintiff's petition and | Otterville, Mo., ile old home, for Intertwent.
| oa , teeun ’s Auxiliary of the | for ee plaintiff on the defeniant’s crosebill | The woving throngs of people tined the
| Ww ty rr t “gehool will givethels firss | and both th petition and cross-bill will be | streets and almost blockaded the way to the
Bena =f pete a : for the seasononu the dismiased.’’ depot, which ts about two blocks froin the
eteatmer U! ver Bel me next 5 turday evening Mrs. Alleu'd attorney, Mr. Henry Watson, | Christian Church, where the funeral sorvices
etaatner Oliver Be fee peor en will be pro- says he will withdraw the crossbill, but there | were held. At plesenteverything !e quiet,
sil ci dle pf ng fe little hope of the young coupleever comiug | although something serious may happen to-

vided by these notable cooks. together again. night, ss lynching je still freely
| UU. Lee Watkine of Grand avenue, who had talked of and many men from the
| + (bis leg broken by his horse ranning away, the ‘Bar Must Go. country are still in town, Abou

‘has go far recovered that he will leave the . Jo’olock this mornin a part was actually in
|alty on Thursday evening, accompanied by | Peter O'Neil, keeper of the restaurant and | jine and started tor ete init but were dis-
ere y apene dye emer SS vores lunch counteft at the Union Depot, loss his aeeroe from thelr dete ee tet ~ protests
and amoung the Bills of New Dampemre. ult this moruing In Judge Kiein’s | the police, who assure em tha e

A party from Jefferson City, Mra. J. M. Injunction sult ~ Faeeinnt iain waanata. | WOuld be defended at all buszards by the mon

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TURLINGTON, Jom Oscars white.

“wile taking in the

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mer wes Very dan-

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* afere and Policeman Gtretz ang Jos. Groen
an  B2a Zecurned to fall befersian esgoited crowd
Gf Serscers xXnew it. The feelidg ta punish
4 “@he. fend summarily was great, The
‘s; Spextq te resting easy at this time, but-his

2 Ssveacne or two accessories who furnished
" Size arms and who intend more violence.

7 Corrupt Selicitaticn,
 ByFelesvapd to the PoerDUFITCR.

~.* BBaprre, Pa., June }4.—The @rand- jary of |
, = ‘ ¢bt esuaty. tm their Investigation Into the
*. @iiaged misdoinga of the late District Attor-
* Bey, Jeremiah K. Grant, Detective William
“» JY. ¥. Lyon ana others, began this: morning

by pPrubing into the charges that the Liguor
@ had paid large sume of mmaney for the
eat of the prosecution Droagat against
pet tokeet on ‘ oe een, ane Toone
’ e ore therm, dus gathered very
~ &Utslg information subdstant tating she charges.
, They were instracted the cours to oon-
, tae thetr inguirizs and were given full an-
“  §bopity to send for persgas persees a ¢ vepers. pers. Having
? feend fourtrne Dilis aga — @x-District At-
_. sorgey Grant, two of the ents being
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Cidiuek Wiomur iullluyton killed—read the
death warrant to Turlington in his cell, The
Sherif? was accompanied by Corner Hurt,
the minister Mr. Norfleet. W. 8. shirk, Tur-
lington's attorney and several reporters. The
comdemned man lstened tot quietly. He
said he did not expecta reprieve, but ex-
pected to die as the warrant required. A
stockade was built about the gallows, 20x:0
feet and 18 feet high, to shield the execution
from the view of the crowd. Turlington saw
the men at work on this while exercising in
the jail coridar, and requested permisisan to
jJook atthe gallows. He was taken to the
window and looked atthe timbers with no
show of emotion. He said when asked what
he wanted done with his body tha the dla
not care.
: THE EXECTTION.

The execution had awakened that degree of
interest always incident to such an event and
from s#o’ciock until after the hanging the
Streets in the vicinity of the jan were
thronged with curious people who found Httis
that was tangible for the gratification of their
curiosity. Many werethe requests and en-
treaties for permits to witness the execution,
but only about forty were deemed by
Sherif! Hornbeck to be legally authorized
spectators. During the interval of waiting
the Post-DisraTcCH correspondent learned
that the prisoner had siept well during the
night, and ate his last meal at midnight. At
9:45 Sheriff Hornbeck called the roll of jurors,
J. J.. Devine, Db. C. Culp, J. T. Thel-
man, S. M. Crockett, W. E. Arnold, TY.
L. Walker, W. h. Windsor, W. T. McKinley,
Dryden Starke, Frank Keeves, T. V. Hickox
and Joe Combs, formed them in line and
placed the reporters and physicians in their
respective positions. The oficial physicians
were Drs. Teele, Dresel, Couper, Holman and
Borman. At 9:5 the murderer of
Sheriff Thomas c. Cranme came
from his cell and ascended the seventeen
steps to the fatal instrument of death to pay
the awful penalty of his crime. The scene
was awe-inspiring, and every facein the as-
sembly wore a blanched and sympathizing
expression. The doomed man, with
Bible tn hand and itn company with Rev.
L. P. Norfleet, his spiritual adviser,
stepped to the railing and saidin a firm and
solemn voice:

Well, friends, I have nothing to say at all, but I
wish yon all well and may (70d be with you.

There was no lengthy leave-taking of rela-
tives as there was not one present. He was
then led to the fatal trapand the noose and
black cap were adjusted by Deputy Sheriff
Rimel, while Sherif Hornbeck pinioned his
arms and legs. Kev. Worfieet then read from
the Bible:

For God so soved the world that He gave His only
begotten son, that whomsoever jeliesved in the Him
might not perish, but have everlasting life **

In company with the Minister Turlington
Tepeated the Lord’s Prayer ina firm and im-
pressive voice. The word ‘‘amen’’ Was pro-
nounced at 10:02 o’clock and as near coinci-
dent with that as possible sheriff
Smith of Pettis County pulied the
trigger and the fall of seven
feet produced almost instant death. To the
bystanders not even a tremor of limb wag
perceptible. Turlington’s neck was broksn
tnstantly, and life was pronounced extinct at
10:18. The condemned man wore a neat
Prince Albert coat and white tle and@
with his unshaved and pale face presented
an appearance that would never be asso-
ciated with a typical murderer.

At 10:15 he was cut down and the body
given in charge of Undertaker W. L.
Spahr, who had in readiness a neat coffin,
shroud, etc., forthe interment. His remains
were interred in the Old City Cemetery in
South Boonville at 11:30a. m. 'Tuarlington’s
relatives evinced no desire to get possession
of the body.

TYRLINGTON'S RECORD.

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from his cell and ascended the seventeen
steps to the fatal instrument of death to pay
the awful penaity of his crime. The scene
was awe-inspiring, and every face in the as-
sembly wore a Dianched and sympathizing
expression. The doomed = man, with
Bible in hand and in company with Rev.
L. VP. Norfleet. his spiritual adviser,
stepped to the railing and said in a firm and
solemn voice:

Well, friends, I have nothing to say atall, but I
Wish you al! weil and nay (sod be with you.

There was no lengthy leave-taking of rela-
tives as there was not one present. He was
then led to the fatal trapand the noose and
black cap Were adjusted by Deputy sheriff
Rimel, while Sherif! Hornbeck pinioned hig
arms and legs. Kev. Worficet then read from
the Bible:

For God so soved the world that He gave H.s only
begotten son, that whumsvever believed in the Him
might not perish, but have everlasting life °*

In company with the Minister Turlington
repeated the Lord’s Prayer ina firm and itm-
pressive voice. The word ‘‘amen’’ Was pro-
nonnced at 10:M2o’clock and as near coinri-
dent with that as =possible§ sheriff
Smith of Pettis County pulled the
trigger and the fall of seven
feet produced almost instant death. To the
bystanders not even a tremor of Mmb wag
perceptible. Turlington’s neck was broken
tnstantly, and life was pronounced extinct at
10:18. The condemned man wore a neat
Prince Albert coat and white tie and@
with his unshaved and pale face presented

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an appearance that would never be asso-
ciated with a typical murderer.

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given itn charge of Undertaker W. L. 234
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were interred In the Old City Cemetery in
South Boonville at 11:30a.m. Turlington's
relatives evinced no desireto get possession
of the body. .
TYRLINGTON’S RECORD.

John Oscar Turlington was a Gesperado of
the worst . His life was one series of
crime. In appearance he was more likear
farmer than acriminal. He was born in the
backwoods of Kentucky and although buta
Uttle over 26 years of age he had a record that
few criminals equaled. When young he went
West and soon began his career of wrong do-
ing. After numerous exploitsin the Indian
Territory and Indiana he went to Kentucky.
Getting into trouble jin the latter State he
started for the West. A year ago this month,
while going through Misscarl, he was or@ered
froma freight train. While jumping of the
carhe fired at the brakeman and then \
away. He was arrested and locked up in the |
Boonville. jail, to await trial for assault to
xu. OnE tO ee et eee: Cae wae
assumed,.. gton’s perate character
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was alone in the jail. When the ma Oo
to lock up the prisoners in their cells, Tur!-
ington drew a revolver just as Cranm@ in-
perted the key in the lock of his celi Moor.
The Sheriff quickly drew his pistol agd the
men exchanged shots, Cranmer 10g
wounded and dying the next day. s-
ton was captured by a posse a few milegtrom
Boonville. At the trial it was shown t@at a
simple-minded lad named Hensley, confined
tn the jal for a minor offense, had, after his
release, secretly passed a revolver to Taur!l-
ington through the window of his cell.
Turlington was convicted of murder in the
Drst degrees and sentenced to be hanged on
Sept. 17. The case was taken on appeal to
the Supreme Court. Rendered impatieat by
the delay incident to the appeal, the
citizens of Cooper County began to tare of
lynching, and this coming to Turlington’s
knowledge, he determined to escape rather
than become a victim of the advocates of
lynch law. Finding that circumstances
favored him tn his design, he, on the night of
Nov. 1, made his escape from the jail. As
$0Cn as It was known that he was at large a
posse was organized and started after the
fugitive. Fora week a strict search was con-
tinued, but Turlington could not be found.
A BOLD BREAK—EECAPTUHED.

on Nov. 12, however, the welcome tidings
was received at Boonville that the murderer
had been caught in hentucky. It was known
that the man had many relatives and friends
in the State, and that officers of every small
town had been notified tobe on the watch.
The rewards, amounting to over $1,300, were
enongh to put every man on his guard and
Turlington was placed behind the bars at
taseyville, Ky. The Boonville authorities
could hardly believe their good fortune when
first apprised of the arrest. A littie later,
however, came a telegram as follows:
A. Hornbeck, Sheriff, Boonville, Bfo.:

lamecaptured. Please ask your Deputy Sherifts
anu officers to have me protected from the mob.

JOHN OSCaR TUBLINGTON.

Sheriff Hornbeck at once went to Jefferson
(tty and obtained the proper Tequisition pa-
pers. He then went to Frankfort, Ky., to
have the papers honored. His deptuty, W. L.
spaher, started direct to Caseyville to hold
the prisoner until Hornbeck's arrival. It ap-
years, however, that Turlington’s captors
became alarmed that they would lose
the reward if they let their prisoner
xo outof their hands and having obtained
*yurlington’s censent started with the man to
Boonville. At Evansville, Ind., they en-
countered Spaher, who demanded the pris-
oner. Hehadno papers, however, and was
Tefused. Spaher then came on with the hen-
tucky men to this state.

Aner being returned to jail Turlington once
more escaped, but was captured when he got
to Otterville, only thirty-flve miles from
Boonville.

on Jan. 27 last the Supreme Court rendered
its dectsion, sustaining the decision of the
trial court and fixing the date of the execu.
tion for to-day.

Shakespeage Reeves.

Nrw CastLe, Del., March 6.—shakespeare
Tieeves, alias Jacob Sharkey, was hanged in
the jall here at 10:30 this morning. The crime

over the news, as they felt all along. they
said, that they would not be hung. The Qov.
erncr’s action meets with the approval of th
people here.

THE MURDER OF HARLEY EUSSFIL.
Harley Russell was shotas he was driving
home from Monticello on June 2), 14). Hefore
he died the next morning he said ‘“‘the
Holdens did it.’ His wife was with
him itn th wagon and saw the
man who from the roadside.
She alterward identified Calvin Holden as
that man. lBussell was a furmer and had
taken possession of the place on which he
ied but a short time before the shooting. It
had previously been tenanted by the Holdens.
They failed to pay their rent and were put of
by the owner. The Holdens charged
that Russell had secured! possession by under-
hand means, and swore to be revenged.
The family of mother and two sons and their
hired man, Albert Dunham, were arrested.
On trial, Mrs. Holden and the younger sun
were given long penitentiary sentences, and
Calvin Holden and Albert Dunham were 3en-
tenced to hang.

On the way to the penitentiary Mrs. Holden
made a ‘‘confession.’’ She said she ha:
killed Russell, She had dressed herself ina
suit of albert Dunham's clothes and had
waited by the road for Russell, fring upon
him as he drove by. The sult of clothes had
been found in Mrs. Dunham’‘s trunk before
the trial and had been in evidence.

Her confession was taken down and pre-
sented to Gov. Fifer to influence him in
granting pardon or commutation to the con-
Gemned men. The Governor did not Delleve
her, nor does any one.

CaLVIN HOLDEN.

Calvin is 22 years old. He was born tn In-
diana, but lived in Pratt County thirteen
years. His record up to a year ago WAS good .
He has always been a farmer and 1s quite ig:
porant.

DUNHAM.

Dunham ts 30 years old. His father livesin
Macon County, and he lived there most of his
life. He was a ditcher and farm hand, and
before going to work for the Holdens spent 4
year in the penitentiary for stealing @ watch
in Decatur. He !s unable to read or write,
being more !ygnorunt than Calvin Holden.

A BREWERY BURNED.

Destruction of a Court-House in Texas—A
Drill Factory Dama;zed.

GAINESVILLE, Tex., March 6.—The court:
house at Archer City was destroyed yesterday
with must of the county records.

THE CITY OF KICHMGOND.

New Youk, Mareb 6.—When the steamer
City of Kichmoned buried at Ler pier here yes
terda@y the rst oppemonity was a@orded for

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CLERK
Paul Sombart

CIRCUIT CLERK AND RECORDER Eee
Cooper County

Boonville, Missouri 65233
March 8, 1979

Mr. Watt Espy, Jr.
Law Library - Box 6205
University, AL 35486

Dear Mr. Espy:

After checking our records, we find that Mr. John Turlington
‘was executed on March 6, 1891, at 10:00 o'clock. Mr. Wes Hensley
pleaded guilty to the murder on November 13, 1890 (2nd degree murder)
and received ten years in the penitentiary.

“The last legal hanging to take place was on January 31, 1930.
On a change of venue case from Pettis County a Mr. Lawrence Mabrey
was convicted of lst degree murder for the murder of a Sedalia man.
He was convicted by Jury on June 20, 1928. He then appealled to

the MO Supreme Court. On Dec. 11, 1929, the Supreme Court affirmed
the conviction. He was executed on Jan. 31, 1930.

Another man, Mr. John West, was executed on May 16, 1879, for
the murder of a unknown man. His trial was on Feb. 3, 1879. He
appealled to the Supreme Court who affirmed the conviction.

I spoke with Mrs. Paul Darby who is the President of the
oonville Historical Society. She knew of no other hangings. She
uggested the book Melton's History of Cooper County might give
sOme details. She did say that there is a legend about Mr. West

that he rode to his hanging on his own coffin. Her address is
309 Center Street, Boonville, MO 65233.

If we can be of further assistance, please let us know.

Sincerely,

a $1 h/ ? v4 5 q PAUL SOMBART
Circuit Clerk

/ By UC2. LT Quntef—
/ / 3}, COanice Rainey - Deputy

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OFFICE OF DEPUTIES

Janice Rainey


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TYLER, Ernest, black, 37, asphyx.

FRONT PAG

CONTENTS.

LOUISVILLE'S MURDER CLUE OF THE GIRLINA
TRAILER ooh Co lee op Saas oe ees eee s 6

She shattered the killer's alibi

THEY PLANNED THEIR PASSION SLAYING ON |
THE 4TH OF JULY..... 2. ee eee eee eee eee 10

The murder looked like the work of thieves

LITTLE ROCK'S “FREE LOVE" BANDITS AND

THEIR REIGN OF TERROR...... ES a 14
The robbers sought more than money
TWO MURDERS FOR LOVE........-.----->: 19

One girl was tortured, another stabbed

TWO-TIME HUSBAND AND THE FARMER'S
DAUGHTER.......... Ce A eeGe xidep's ig os 20

Her fling was her “dance of death” .

SOLVING MICHIGAN'S AMAZING RIDDLE OF
THE HUMAN TORCH..........------eeee> 24

A single clue puzzled the officers

E DETECTIVE

JULY © 1942

NAZI RAT TRAPPED!.......----eeeeeeerceeee 29
A fugitive German flier is caught
MURDER IN MONUMENT VALLEY.......-.--- 30

Death repays a helping hand
RIDDLE OF THE HEADLESS MILLINER AND THE

BRIGHT RED GARTERS.........---- oh Was 34
Her doctor gave her poor advice
DIVIDENDS OF DEATH.........-----+eeeeees 38
Cracking the Brooklyn insurance fraud
CLUE OF THE SILVER DOLLAR.......-.---+-> 42
One of the killers dropped a coin

PATRIOTIC CONVICTS.....-.---eeeeeeeeree 48
They do their bit for Uncle Sam :

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HE TWO-FISTED Vigilantes of
To Virginia City would probabl

hang you for a liar if you told
them about it, but it’s the truth, so
help us—Montana has a lady sheriff!
And a good one, too. When her
husband laid aside his star and six-
gun to help Uncle Sam slap the

ae

fe “4§) Clarice McDonald of Granite County
Mrs. McDonald pinned on the badge and took her
husband’s job for the duration.

wears asheriff's star. -,,. :
Miners and cowhands are her main

constituents, but she handles them firmly—and gently.

-WHEN THE OKLAHOMA state prison grapevine whis-

pered that the old battleship Oregon was to be fitted out
and manned with a suicide crew to harass the Japs, a group
of life-termers formed Fighters, Incarcerated, and pleaded
for a chance to serve aboard her. “Please help these men
to redeem themselves in their own eyes and in the eyes
of the world,” the group asked in a letter to President
Roosevelt. It pointed out that among the lifers willing to
go out and die for America were Diesel engineers, welders
and skilled mechanics. In other prisons throughout the
nation convicts are working to produce war materials, are
buying war bonds and some are engaged in military drill,
awaiting their chance to enlist in the fighting forces.

4

Japs and Nazis back into line, Mrs.

HEN ERNEST TYLER DIED in Missouri’s lethal gas
chamber he provided medical science with a record which
doctors say will prove valuable in the study of heart dis-
eases. Microphones were strapped to Tyler’s chest as he
sat in the chamber. Humming Frankie and Johnny, the
condemned man inhaled the deadly gas; in a minute he
was unconscious and in three minutes his heart stopped
beating, although it twitched for another five minutes.
Listening doctors said they obtained a record of the organ

‘covering the last 20 years of its normal operation in those

few minutes. They predict that careful analysis of the

unprecedented charts will aid them in detection of pr

disease in its earliest stages.

A MURDER IN CLEVELAND in 1919 was solved by the
fourth draft registration. For 22 years Dominick LaRose,
47, had lived in Cos Cob, Conn., as Vincent Bruno. He had
led an exemplary life, had married and was the father of
two children. He obtained his draft card first under an
alias, fearing his true identity might be discovered by
authorities. Then he took out another card under the name
of Bruno. But he was confused and afraid. He went toa
lawyer and told him his story. What should he do? The
lawyer advised LaRose to surrender to police, so he finally
walked into the Greenwich station house and gave himself
up. He was the man, he révealed, who shot and killed J ohn —
Starace in Cleveland on Thanksgiving Day in 1919. LaRose
was held without bail pending extradition proceedings.

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4s such! a rusit, “nde: for po evidence of breaking down. Ho.
ore ax is MOW ate requested ) that Ben Rushing anc a.‘

negro, two fellow prisoners might peo.

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‘soldact ALE persons” af. j name of Jésus with you. This: was
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tied the cap drawn over. his head tlie:

| rope adjusted and the wtny” Tope: cut.

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deceased, oware ‘graptod ta Dre: Sait BD. Golder, Je aE Hess,

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Wi: er NDEWOND, Howard, black, hanged Charleston, Missouri, April 6, 1883.

te

The first legal execution in the county took place on

i. Decenber &, 1882, when Alfred Sanders, a colored man, was hanged
| for the PURIRSERS of another weolored. man, cece, ane, on Ene eene Of ae
November | 19, 1881. 28 B. “Smith ‘defended him. Smith later nevcd em
to Montana and in 1896 was elected Governor of that state.
| A second execution took place on April 6, 1883. On that

- day Howard Underwood, colored, was hanged for the murder of his

mistress, Belle Lucas, on August 6, 1881. He committed the deed
- in a fit of jealousy, and fede his escape to Illinois. He was
_ captured about a year later, brought back, tried and sentenced to
be hung on September 22, 1882. An appeal was taken to the Supreme

- Court, where the judgment was affirmed, and the date of execution

-fixed at December 29, 1882. A rehearing was obtained, but there

7 29 CW habing *
a was no change in the decision of the court. es me mea IE

By 1881 the county was rapidly filling up with Kentucky
bad Tenngasee dmsierants. A newspaper account of October 1, 1881,
tells of three wagon loads settling in Long Prairie Township, "in
good circumstances and had good wagons and fine stock"'.

The assessed valuation of taxable property in the county
for 1881 was as follows: land $957,110, personal property $403,965.

About the same time the hunters, trappers, and fishermen
began to move out as the right-of-way choppers came through the
forest preparing the bed for the railroads. A paper of 1880 tells
of a large black bear being seen near Henson's Station and in 1882

of a panther that had been seen in the county but they were soon


‘ if. 5 Spe. prt eo 7 ers

mk CONE ie

P ‘uphe has moved up tol DEAD! : DEAD! tf DEAD! MY} The Charleston Enterprise tin Shiopr DIE
(7 ‘\ Dermorn’s Mill, AL Be : has ant: fast. rit: opene Up in “tte “On 27th of Aiaechs
i une the practice. of Pocmrd. Gadeheeoi ines for; Jee ko building? ony aloor. west of Ky Fihar-Reld int

Bal and ere “hha irieston.: + Gusk?s dru r ktore, He ts Cand oP W. 4 & R: k.
40 Attoni to hie prac tice an : the Murder of Belle Lucas. Es Kars: who Fae todo a1] aud Eliza Reid, age

a

101) OF CUS COULD TY ars Ie ROP. FE LL AT YP, M., TO-Dary | Kinds: of work in’ the til Hnevat” a Be Gk alle hie little
LARLESTON EEN STRERPRISES:. ‘AND THE SENTENCE OF THE LAW reasonable: price: And: in aA workman Away fromthe cates
ope ib and ready: fort busi- a 3g WAS EXEC UTED, like munner.°<Te shop” Wil leA2he Lothat chaitztess
jis, mi: ichinery, material, © DBL TORR : Started simular to the stirting of the Wai ahighibvcesras
‘aa beech revolved: Bring. Olt little city was to-day unde the [CH arvEsStONn, BSEERIRISE S years Mee a une
swnrics hep next oor tothe ie of the second judichul execulion {ago oh avemall. capital, hint sohd eat as EeGalahihe

pthat has ever taken place Wwillitn, tlre] foundation weth thes ptenmiion oat

1 BF e atore, a § “et ; F Pat, : 4st Teta eh OD Veaé
~ -}eounty. ~ Last Dee einber Albert Sau. fitendine to our owl tiisiness Fd6-the { Frontal ecientiit

1), Mr; ye Suitteye gon ders: “paid: the” penalty, ; wht ses it bi est ot werk and. tre Fue AG tira: t te vive: Theawcawid Syrah 4s
A. A. Smiley of the: Big (law, for. the murder of a fallow, and eneral sutiatuttion itevers: purticisy - ooo bh! the ines
lery, Wis married po Tart) 1 toe day Howard’ nifer wood: has Hie Par SY On: ps tren ig is NED utfully Figds cone sway trol
y mt Frederisktow ? to Bi 4 sWered. by his lift COA Mtiniiar & arbitra, sulte ited” a eg ave ‘ Pe ei wWaell With tar
rcns, Phey: arrived at. His: ay" he v ireumstances of the. rine are: Mae ede ERR aatee eee 24 PEAS sit sid a te thors
rday morning, where they i fauiliar’ to the most of our-feaders |THE ~ “POLAR: oe ‘Bx. "Rae is sagt
their future homey. _| Howard Wis an old negro whoolad | oo “PLOSION,. ages =e
Sof No. TSOAL for $t aby Hritly. Np i artied and aa larger 2. mie oe , To. Mrs, ‘Lulu
on 1m it “OUNEV ‘ vit ee

DyBLACKIS)) | (yo 18 this countyy o Whois the Occurred: Just: fOnnoaie: the i

a report Wastire dlited Stw enty RONG eat 3 + Sob. the viupty; +m)

Dest has this week pur- pao that Howard Lisi lorivoou Had | ee Belmont: Elev ALOT : ! G ‘Atint ane wobe
interests. (af. Ag che Daj aiurd ered oa womah Hn oalde blood, ee RY 6 Never mati i ty
“uN, Smith tu vie R hose athe tow Hone Polar. Star: ol her Sider ed les
shah af} 1 iL iO Rall if LRA Lay th fel know By: hn: fit years | t rerike BGs hintatre:

Nevengneye vor ti
Lis ris NEN MAR GT
Shan ev? tatiys be hee

via & of Bethuhe; Sinith & ¢ Peis Rts Oe senree ly ee “redit tHe rpot t POAVULY: tis “i Yiouis with thrie’ bare yy
Bor =the: two: interests the? Mueh fiterest: Gna: Leek felt ds of iuimber from the Olvon tiver, “ex:
teen thousand: aud AVVO i Chae and bay ad thes fae ts ag thy a” tnurder. ae heute Her. boile Ya OPT eiete Relnton§,
Pillars. ; A bra aiyhesa ree rts city or the ay a sn Oke. Ms X- chit POULT wots Abgue: eg rout ois ay!
: | CUSe: thle an setive SV mipathye: thie Fit: Mat ri r¥- after (oon ei Lie ; Hibin. i
Saye. done: Mies Low “reds SECU yg a pphe +E Louise ‘ ‘nha Upper toda: ‘ ete Shik: ; ; age
Peoniimutation of: Hessen bepjee®: Hick bhava otftire bull Op flo: ate; He dow 4 ee aces io
ree: PUCOs ru Ze they istic: é af tlie: pen ies ; Was aoe as yoo “On: eT Re ees SO xafECK Ke : Pha Weta: Say. Fit
iv Ny plupiaged: bird ees: and the fact*thathe lias had sila. eae “; HPL te ie eene SV ETS oereucy tis bapyey i
. os or Foses: set in the) fill benefit. of devoted: AW pravtie sel of Dorrd 26 the finesor the explosions): oo waxen hands, with }
omin. < couusel ens! aged In hiwslefence, ” gid Lhe Know) dead‘are> San Vant-]~ Little face soenire
“pees eet Howard Underwood hail for. voare | Se) wate hyn: int Ader: Murphy andy =‘ Aa Ae ahs Ste
ni when horse. iy lived ae criminal relations with Belie 102 Bell, colored firemen; “Sandy | oqrasted and etill you
hiohable: Has ats lasts ur-* Lutes the wife ofa negro neighbor. | | Mortliind, Aaton Shiels and George } And you etarcely k
vuchaye any work of that }ohe transfered apart éthar favork to. Tavior, “roustabouts, “all colored. 4} nepal e
o Sure and bring it-to the; another negro nanied “Phillipa.  Un-i' ‘apt. Atkinsdt: Wasostannued: and} > = Satna

Ke oie! ¥ ‘ : at Yr Her adit tle ruber, so richt
vilice, Where’ you Can) dérwood becainé jealous and: deter- thrown into the river, bat was re- Wrought with eom

onde seanaion Soles

bale Sth Seale ance
pighons ne $

tintaad ‘ontrlely: ‘feathers
1 tortoise #hell, ‘are: still)
ofityle for ‘evening: dress
valin-shape, and’ usually.

nas bills EG hi irges rei ABODS ined: pon rey ene. ~Douttless thie “4 88 Le d, an } Hot Jue Say Hes, who Was. ye ake Read: pate pi
etre. see pictures, it 5 oe HEDES of his OW ri wrong. mate? p24 ated deck : thie the Ww hii al, ety’ a hi adly® ditch eats on “They ind) a3) te 1%
: Chat! ui -Feridin glorious robes
ani who has heat: | feelings of slizlited: favors and an: es Psi le ne i ht eee Bad Bie J Airg a oan dst pla
the: jC a : Sa MS He Ry, ¢ sandoimnent by hiis Mistress we ighed arti badly scalded) tn CCONE =) All nnatalned ly eart
Arkansas. AGE Beth * tpon- his “minds and’. partlalhy <de- 8 Pinser Jolin Stanton diad his hand ~ Suchy litle while
psy ete eae Hie throned: his: better judginent. B e! Mashed. “Thetcausfer bonbSteLouisto*.wiag dccehiciix cat
ER his family” He We Pthat aseit°may on the. morning of | went to tlie Wrockr and towed the} “andditiie Herfert's
rhaiiene: Trew aye ons a se August 6th, 1S5t, Uunderwood after | hates to shore, The Polar Star be- | Aubin ote et melita of
+ i ’ “A +: + > . *s 2 }to ce
Bf works for. Béthune, Dea ue htie ing Belle. TWuehas ‘te. BA atk, ae Yous j Moreed to () apt. Conr 4d ‘of Sts Louis, , * Put away the empy c

a i has Of woods land with? bin: tds 4 hxud ling been used until latterly. in} * © Keeplug uniyiin vou

ew firma on Bal
ne road: ithenetieas midst of. that woods, te : towitip lumber. froni the ‘Ternessee. Sie Bright iim ioe pei

“Is invited: to’ eall ‘nv ‘sint upon Her abandonitig his rival; iver to St. Louis; sho was ahouth |. fupat

c caetgitt & Co's. newartd | Upon Hee refusal lie shut her Bee PbS years old pun twas bullbiutcorting 2) Ue lane andasmpah
tock of Fall and Winter) the shoulder r-aud: breast< and = then iold:. son “Aveotds <The Chief. Eine | Apel iat, Sas ete
as Clothing,: Dry 4rodds, li béat her brains ont with atclih?. de! wineer, i red Mi artiite RAV S thoy. Were, % ae at eee
vole Shoes,” Hats» Over: | ‘Jett his gun by. the: body and. fel)" ‘leaning out thet oilers, ane had On| Go to FROM. & ©:

(ood, Culi¢oa, &es’ pe “Almost a year later ourever vii NE ily oe rah hk. epee OF B tenance ahaa out c puUes n te

: 1) rosecuting Attormiey J, Ji Hussell) Mach aiery was taken from Lhe Rte nin {| Maude to order, ane

eA ee oh learned of “hisge: whereabouts ~ att 4 at Gen ‘Arsdrerson, Which used to rin ranted. sThey have

;

j broupeht hina: to: Charles ston in irons. The tween Se Touiwd wih Cairo and the southiLeh st Louis. *2
i Alowaril Was Captarcd at Oparyra, Lit, “boilers wore. nade by a St. Louis: of rents and” boys

pti: wter-Céneral, EDV

hur, Patt ¥
| ve uta ENG bere” he: had been working ONS ts , tirty. ‘ i 2% Hy innde to “order. Ca
ies 3 } } Cady Ate 4 iilriite He Wie: tried before: Judge; e MD ak Aw ie Binipaene cf rook we ctlinig} S(O hk nnd he pla tie ine
SAO See Howl aM era iy 1}, Foster last August fi 1 Attorney J J dkussell and’ Coroner: thi lending bivre Hath
iow United Stares: Cir f BUSh AUR

by pe* “vill Tesign ‘?ndt es guilty of inurder in the tirxt ues ereGt ay 13 annie eee its, Wit! TIES ONY Lbs : uA Cente Tae hie
{ ér- -Generalshi ) and: Rents need to. bed hung Septem ber | >t 1O ; Urit Hey Loring te \ jew fropkkesa *
\ A Pe 1 28nd, Fis counsel consisting of Maj. the are ee and: “deud and: Maps sled: Youreorders: Tron p
Kosenstoin: and Mrw.|J.H. Dennis, Cok Robert Wiide and Pe PEO et ne wie ; i tino One
ivk have returnod from Hon: Messer Ward) took. aii Appenl” OT hes siya ee ree ance ge se i _BERTRAN
here they have bean alij to Uie Supreme Court and secured a4 Bubscribe for the EXTEND HISY,


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ITTLE seven-year-old Mary Mar-

garet Maenhoudt of Kansas City,

Missouri, innocently sat down on
the curbstone next to a man who was
drinking out of a bottle and wished
aloud for a nickel. It proved to be her
last wish, for, having exacted a kiss in
payment for the nickel, the man de-
manded more. When the child ob-
jected, a police announcement said, he
killed her. James Butts, 45-year-old
WPA worker who confessed to the
crime, repeated over and over again,
“J just can’t understand it. That’s the
darndest fool thing a man ever did.”

Another prostitution ring was
smashed, this time in Los Angeles,
California. The climax to a month-
long trial of a white-slavery case came
with the conviction of two women and
a man on charges of conspiracy and
pandering. The three were: Ann For-
rester, nicknamed the “Black Widow”;
Charles W. Montgomery, accused as a
“talent scout,” and Edith Johnson,
rooming-house proprietor.

Two women, disguised as men,
staged a fake holdup at Waynesburg,
Pennsylvania, during. which Mrs. Ada
Hubb Headley, 44, was shot five times.
Deputy Sheriff Jack Orndoff identified
the two as Mrs. Otis Cumberledge, 36,
a widow and the mother of a son, and
Mrs. Elizabeth Pettit, 25, both of Nettle
Hill, near Pine Bank. The two are sis-
ters. Charges of aggravated assault
and battery with intent to kill were
placed against both women.

Throughout the country, spy and
fifth-column activity continues to hold
the spotlight: At Lansing, Michigan,
Detective Lieutenant Harold Mulbar,
head of the State Police division inves-
tigating subversive activities, revealed
that efforts were being made to locate
unauthorized short-wave radio stations
operating in Michigan and believed to
be maintaining communications be-
tween foreign governments and their
agents in this country... California
authorities released Wilson J. Phelps,

In the

CRIME

SPOTLIGHT |

Latest Sensations in the Crime Whirl—
and What the Law Is Doing About Them

23, to Denver authorities who accuse
him of possessing 101 stolen War De
partment photographs. Phelps faith the
pictures were turned over tg hi
a cousin and another man o are in
the aviation service and stAtioned at
an air field near Long Bégach. Said
Phelps, “I never did kng why he
wanted me to take the phofographs. A
short while afterwards/ I became
alarmed, fearing everything was not
as it should be, and decided to return
so, I was

States Government.
stories were conflicting and Re
booked for investigation... J. B
Hoover announced that Keawe Kala-
kela, 35, a Hawaiian, had confessed
New York to putting sand in the en-
gine bearings and oil of the S. S. West
Notus at Port Gamble, Washington,
last September. He was a crew mem-
ber of the ship at that time, Hoover
said.

Police at Los Angeles, California,
wouldn’t believe Henry A. Hardesty,
50-year-old male nurse, when he tried
to convince them he had murdered
Clara Williams of Pasadena. However,
when they followed him to a rooming-
house, the body of the slain woman
was found. Hardesty told the police
he and Miss Williams had been drink-
ing, and, when the woman threatened

leave with Hardesty’s money, a
quarrel resulted. Police quoted Har-

desty as saying, “I am a nurse and I

knew just how to grab her when I
made up my mind to kill her.”

In Kansas City, Missouri, a burglar
confessed to police that he came to rob
and stayed to kill. The victim was
Erwin P. Schwarzenholz, fatally
wounded by Ernest Tyler, 35-year-old
Negro ex-convict. Mrs. Schwarzenholz,
who saw the burglar clearly enough
to give a cursory description of him,
told of a man who wore a cap with a
broken bill. The distinctive cap was
Tyler’s undoing, for it helped police to
find him. Later the gun that fired the
fatal bullet was found and police said
that Tyler admitted that the weapon
belonged to him.

A

SEARCH of six months’ duration

ick, one-tiftre
was killed in an™attempted bee
Alcatraz. They were held on charges
of robbery with aggravation. Deputy
Sheriff Van W. Harman of Iowa said
they were accused of the robbery and
slugging of William Pfaff a year ago
and are wanted for oil-station. bur-
glaries at Avoca, Corley and Monda-
min, Iowa.

A lovers’ lane in Brooklyn, New
York, was the scene for the slaying
of nineteen-year-old Frieda Olsen who

Brooklyn: Frieda Ol-
sen, whose body is
shown left, was slain
*” “because she objected
to my advances,”
Peter Salemi, above,
allegedly told police

died because she was a good girl. Po-
lice announced that Peter Salemi, 32

‘a longshoreman who tried to seduce

the girl, had confessed to the slaying
Brooklyn’s District Attorney William
O’Dwyer, quoted Salemi as saying, “‘)
did it because she objected to my ad-
vances.” Salemi told authorities tha’
he beat the girl to death with a stone
vith which he previously had knockec

héx down when she ran from his auto
Aft& killing her, according to the po.
lice, ye siphoned gasoline from the car

it on the girl’s body and set i

ell Young to describe hi
se. The client, Kenneth L
Metzmeier,\ of Louisville, Kentucky
painted swastika emblems and “Hei
Hitler” on Humpers of an old automo
bile and, arrésted on disorderly conduc
charges, Polite Judge John B. Brache-
fined him $5) and sentenced him to 3
days. At anf appeal hearing, Criminz
Court Judg¢ Lorraine Mix ruled the
the affair was “definitely a jury case.

On July/9, 1940, Walter E. Ebelin;
manager gf the Garden Theater in Ne\
York, who was spending his vacatio
in Micffigan, left the home of frienc
i th Bend, Indiana, where he ha
visiting for the day. The ne>
his bloodstained coat was foun

client’s offd

1940,
Michigan, and Mervin Cagle, 21, Pa
myra, Illinois, were arrested near Nc
blesville, Indiana, after a motorist rv
ported two men had abandoned a bull:
torn automobile near town. Klowett
confessed he and Cagle killed Ebelir
during a holdup after Ebeling had o
fered them a ride while they wei
hitch-hiking, and hid his body in tl
hilly country between Niles and Sout
Bend.


EXECUTIONS OF CRIMINALS. 713

wishing to get rid of the family, raised the
rent upon them. This Hansen and his wife
regarded as a grievance. In order to be re-
venged, Hansen reported to the sergeant at
the fort that he thought Ellig was a secession-
ist, and asked two men to be detailed to as-
sist him in affecting his arrest. This request
was granted. Hansen, thus reinforced, pre-
sented himself at the Ellig home. Here Mrs.
Eilig denied her husband being in the house.
Upon Hansen insisting, Ellig advanced from
one of the sleeping rooms, remarking: “Here
I am; what do vou want with me?” Hansen
and one of his companions at once began
firing ; but Hansen’s shot alone seems to have
reached the mark. A large crowd assembled
to witness the execution, but the curiosity
of the morbid was not gratified. The fall
was badly managed, and there was a long
and painful struggle before the end was
reached.

William Wilson suffered the extreme pen-
alty of the law June 27, 1862, for the murder
of Policeman John C. Gilmore. Wilson,
with another man of the name of Burns, be-
ing wanted for a burglary attended with vio-
lence, Sergeant Gilmore, with two other po-
licemen, went to a well known resort of the
parties, on Thirteenth and Chamber Streets,
to arrest them, but found there only their
women “friends,” who signaled to the crimi-
nals to keep away, by means of displaying
lights in the window. This the officers
finally stopped. As the men still avoided
the place, Gilmore instructed his fellow-offi-
cers to leave by the front door, and so allow
him to effect the capture alone. Thinking
the way now clear, Wilson and Burns slunk
in by the back door, but only to be con-
fronted by Gilmore. A conflict followed, in
which Wilson shot Gilmore in the throat.
For this Wilson was hanged, the jury dis-
agreeing as to Burns. Wilson was a notori-
ously bad man, who had previously been ar-
rested for murder, burglary, larceny and for
nearly every other crime in the calendar.

Michael Kearns, a native of Ireland, was
hanged January 23, 1863, at St. Louis, in the
presence of some three hundred persons and
a guard of twenty men of the Thirty-seventh
lowa Regiment, assigned for the purpose of
maintaining order. The crime for which he
forfeited his life was the murder of Robert
Baker. Kearns was connected with the river
traffic, and was a man of drunken and dis-

solute habits. In company with Thomas
Smith, he had a quarrel with Baker, whom
both proceeded to attack. Baker defended
himself as well as he could, when Kearns,
drawing a knife, struck him a fatal blow. For
the killing Kearns and Smith were put upon
trial, November 26, 1862. Both men were
found guilty, and sentenced to be hanged.
Hamilton R. Gamble, Governor of the State,
granted a respite, but in the case of Kearns
the law was finally allowed to take its own
course. Thomas Smith, was, however, at the
last moment, granted a further respite, and
was never hanged.

July 23, 1869, William Edwards, alias
Roach, was hanged for the murder of Louis
Wilson. The execution aroused some angry
comments. This is what the “Missouri
Democrat” had to say about it: “If he had
been a wealthy white man, no jury in the land .
would have convicted him. Look at the cir-
cumstances. The wife of Edwards was
grossly insulted at a ball. When she resented
the insult by calling the man a liar, he struck
her; knocked her down. Her husband, be-
ing present, as a matter of course went to her.
assistance. In the fight which ensued he slew
the man who had insulted and struck his wife
and he was hanged for it.” When Edwards
was hanged the jail yard was crowded with
spectators, and some of the windows of the
Laclede Hotel were utilized by sightseers.
The drop being too long, the unfortunate
man’s feet touched the ground. The marshal,
aided by some of his assistants, took hold
of the rope so that the dangling victim was
clear of the ground, Governor McClurg was
severely criticised for denying all execu-
tive mercy.

October 22, 1875, Henry Brown, colored,
was hanged at the city jail for the murder of
a farmer of the name of Pfarr. The crime was
one of unusual enormity. The brute died
protesting his innocence, although his guilt
had been proven beyond the possibility of
doubt. So eager were some to witness the
execution that the roof of a house opposite
the west wing of the Four Courts was crowded
by people who had paid $1.50 each for the
privilege of standing room.

Wife murder is one of those crimes for
which juries; and Governors have no mercy.
It was for such an offense that Patrick O’Shea
was hanged at the county jail on the morn-
ing of April 9, 1875. The ghastly deed was


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OF THE

STORY OF St. LOUIs.-

A COMPENDIUM OF HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY
FOR READY REFERENCE.

EDITED BY
WILLIAM HYDE AND HOWARD L. CONARD.

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1899
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help, and another member of the quartet
rushed up and shot Valk to death.

The four were quickly arrested. Two
were ex-convicts, Warren Eddie Hill, 36,
alleged mastermind of the plot, and
Lawrence Catanzaro, 37, who drove
the getaway car. The youth who fired
the fatal shot was identified as Jerry
McChesney, 18, who also had a record.
The fourth was Joseph Lonergan, 20, a
United Parcel Service employe, and al-
leged “fingerman” of the plot. All were -
charged with first-degree murder.

On December 13, 1961, in the General
Sessions Court of. Judge Gerald P. Cul-
kin, an all-male jury, after deliberating
five hours and 15 minutes, found Jerry
McChesney, Warren Eddie Hill and
Lawrence Catanzaro guilty of first-de-
gree murder in the shooting of Richard
Valk. Because of his youth, the jury
recommended mercy for Jerry McChes-
ney. They made no recommendation for
the other two.

The fourth man, Joseph Lonergan,
who was a friend of the victim, had
turned State’s evidence and was granted
a trial severance. He will have his day
in court later. ;

MISSOURI'S MANHUNT FOR
A TRIGGER-HAPPY TRIO

(TD July, 1961)

On February 27, 1961, three men
broke out of the county jail in San Luis
Obispo, California. Before they were
caught, thrée men had died, including
two courageous officers. On March 3rd
they held up a supermarket in Hutch-
inson, Kansas; at Cape Girardeau, on
March 10th, they fatally shot Patrolman
Donald Crittenden, 22, and Auxiliary
Officer Herbert Goss, 47; in Hilliard,
on March 17th, one of the trio com-
mandeered the automobile of a passing
motorist, Raymond Glover, 45, of Clubb,
Missouri, and shot Glover to death.

First of the trio to be captured was
Samuel Aire Tucker, 26, of Fresno,
California, seized after a gun battle in
the Ozark Hills, in which he was
wounded. Next, Calvin Willis Johnson,
22, of Kansas, was captured near Jack-
son. Douglas Wayne Thompson, 27, of

while hiding out near_Hilliard on March
17th, after he had shot the motorist.
Thompson, given a life sentence for the
shooting of Raymond Glover, was tried
twice for the slaying of Officer Goss.
The first trial was dismissed, after
Thompson engaged in a violent outburst
in court, threatening officers and strug-
gling with bailiffs. At his second trial,
in Marble Hill, Missouri, on December

degree murder in the killing of the auxil-
iary policeman. Circuit Judge W. O.
Statler then sentenced Douglas Wayne
Thompson to death in the gas chamber.

Thompson’s companion, Samuel Aire
Tucker, also had been sentenced to die
for the killing of Cape Girardeau Officer
Donald Crittenden.

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yury dulvoottere accented tem- |

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vas one of three women on the |
BABEE Mrs. Hildagarde Bader of) _
Cape Girardeau. te
Chief stambling blocks in qual. i ~”
ifying jurors were two questions: | -
lad the prospective juror formed |
3n opinion as to the guilt or inno-
cence of ne accused man? Or!
does the venire matt object to cap:
tal punishment? Eighteen of the |
first 30: had formed: @n erimion,

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deau youth was oe sed by police} funds.
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may challenge six and the de: fore fosing aim rh Be tt praise :

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feafimony ¥ 4 Start around 2 a BSIG! i fo frig id repel said policy field
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tite afiernaon end Judge Weajpaht-} TWereidineg ‘Roe? f Sam 4 SeTMs ACU Hels Ls The he at
A TENE 4 H baht 1 on ry Matin, off reers are rising Ri

nam tart the session would Uke. |

my Tueker in €airean feurt al ; :
continue to §& or &-30 . nd Sint SOY curned sideways this €risis,
sd and damaged heavily, | “They are st

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fi he cas*. opening foday Weightmat of tars veils fin OMe Tee mas ye :
Fucker is) harger with murder Ww as. asstenmed be thy “SIIpProeme * Vhe: northbound cat had 33 inced the thal tnd 5
n he tire. as in the death 7, att fo the } 7 me afte { EE? ee DOs all { sheared six con- Berlin.
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fol 4 Percy Ro Lathes’ who te ;
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ne ie. 1. pte 2 ‘ Bollinger’ County, ‘and. deser hed |
of a siore .

Shot at Close Range
Officer Crittendan hed alighted ,

fram the patrol car and had ad-! Chief witness for the state
vanced “tocithe vehicle Been [92y: afternoon was Cape: Gains
ried hy the suspected men when | dau Pum. Shannon Kelley ¥
ne tentified as “Pucke ry| pointed directly to ‘Tucker ee
tepped from the car gun in hand} Courtroom: as pe man 4 Ny. SiO

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penis ait ing a police patrel car a short
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Early in the trial, Prosecuting a Se AY aa ala whiew and
Attorney Stephen Strom laid |Griven patrol vehicle whien nad
istopped a car ortuped hr two

grou undy .ork through testimony to} us
ee his’eompanion, ™e" fleeme the shopping center
show hat Tucker. his companion ite fixed the focation as just north}
in the escape cat, Douglas Warne} 71.) Case Rock Drive and King
4 : ; OT tne ape no Urise ant
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SUSPICIONS

and had,
aroused their ae-]
tions while at the shopping center, ;
where to avert a possible hold

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In forenoon testimony today]

‘Tucker was pointed out by three |
more

witnesses in addition to}
those who identified him at Mon-:
day’s hearings

Harold Dayis. 16, of Cape Girar- j
deau> pointed out Fucker as the;
driver of the car the officers had |
stopped, and to.whom Ptim. Crit-

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the stand repeated.
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shot : i jury. Tucker lnaked down
avis. who wiitt two other] In cross examination, Mr. Gorn
euths Louis Ticet who was driv-{schein asked Ptim.> Kelley. who
ng. and Mike Bullock, was en! shot at him (the officer had eo:
route to an ice creMnm place oni fier testified that after Crittende:
fichway 61 when they saw thejwas shot the driver of the stopped
whee cars with lights flashing; car furned and fired tuo sorts a}
and saw the Tucker car parkédjhim across the highwas
n front of one ; | “Who shot at you?” Mr &
he ? slowed down Davis ' schein asked
< he recoantzed ( er Critten This ventleman i
fea elect das. {ney Kellen answered. and
he ‘ ier a, Get! ce card Tacke:
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Saniuatoan Inc. the city.s garbage] A total of 65 re:
refuse  ealied Beri mel i wide area, inctud
Re the. Couns a fs request lipmbia narticina
eEeHISCI TG Irvin! day Suntlay trainin
anh urged SMionday after Maj Vernon Aue
noon something he cone to end|rardeau, squadrog
lors and burning rubbish. lsaid a cadi from Sf
The santiation company has ac

1)

,
ti

ike.

ty

oOsed

Ste.
‘Strik @ Se!

ii
Company-Offered ~!
Contract Acce

Elfrank

{here was a fire

AEB

ruck

Kegvpt
as its dump:

fa A
LU lint

e at Dump
bi re Pe Bee & >
rm. tain ?

ne couneil a

sormetine tT}

late:
a truck emptied its!
aid the driver
in the re
hen tt Jeft the en-
the trash burst into

did not

pattce were called cetepae + across’ the ame. iemitiDS the dump.
j around and parked across the: cinco then. despite repeated ef.
Leonard Ls. Bornschein. an at Pee : Oy ney P epe< j
Sopa scate ‘ ’ j Tighe av. he told the jury farts to extinsiish flames. t} aa
tornes of St. Louis aches de- % : TAPES 104 0 eONURSUTS! ames, they |
' nz T k op ed “fl de eee reece, Ne: RAO are beneath the ple and cdntinue |
coca eat pms ss aaa | Mri Strom asked to break out. He said earth ts
soe lch ech state witness, and) .]t0h ot Pum. Kelley being moved over the refuse, but
i e 7 ; Fi a g . % MS Las os SL, BAS OF
ton? ais ipa pe pie ae antwered. e _ «becanse of danver to machine
during ESE ODE ee, aE fg Fhe driver of the stopped jana operator, it must be done

ey ee xs ’ . be . ‘ £6 oe ’ 5

ink Atorney Dab ee ibe ear opened tbe door with a slowly, working in from the edges |
‘ ‘ > ay | a aes 3 ea NES a ath 4 : ; Ae ‘
quent ROE NS: to eueee : gun in bis hand and fired di id Sik five catartod he said |
My t + nry Lt Y aes I fy ; oe me . ris 10h8 - . wer eiey '
Weig ght man. the. x from Mary j recalls —at Ptits “sittendaor: ~ €4 NHtINTeEd ON Rage 133 {
} - nw ¢ > re erm ‘ ee ’ aE a bras iN
ville named hy the Supreme ihe officer testified Alig eR rica SRA aR Os
Court to hear the cate “Did -you obarrve the 1

Genevieve

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STE. GENEVIEVE i — Thes
ichy strike at the Biltbest >
f had {
Corp has been settled amicablev}
Local 400 of the United Glass}
, ' {
ind? Ceramic Workers voted Mon- |
e ‘ 4
lave evening fo accept a compa. }
w-offered> contract and return to!
+55 ork f 5 iy aa ay ’
The strike threatened last week}
to ecront nto % tater viv ay the |
f fried to reopen ; plant|
y v ion wordy rs |
Ue of qdoof more than [00
i Puess to and
f ‘ r NUS \
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Misra ors tri) he re-}
, t 2 union
Sq vy
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4 BS |
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;

fare eligible

rday

| jury.

lin a fla 3
he kad seen but 4
in can Diego Jul

imavor

the squadron tha'g
land and the unig
er at a disabled
Command bombe

%

Wreckers t

Fhe, sauadron f
‘engines, wrecker }
security, vestahtie}
tions with Scott
other measures ‘ery
in a war emerg pam

Mission of the
lish facilities at
aircraft returning
missions can ]a?
iced in case thei
knocked out. Tig
charged with gee
ing @gain as rap

Maj pues said

y

held at the Mal
each month Resé4

of the:r rank for
gain four points
ment | Meee
Larger Num@ge
Current strengie
and airmen, but
authorized to han
230 Former ser
35; plus vears of

Sgt. Rupert Ki
of the Air Reser ig
630 Independence gis
Injuries Pile®
For Mavor o§

SAN DIEGGS

Charles

s

what
the second injury
Ve stepped : {ro
car Saturday: mg
located a shoulde
he said, wa
hur God

roadche

iS

Aytl

when

There were. thot
who nor

lic Health cert
; of pohomy citi
| paralytic. were
V nile Stat teat

i Sess ROG HE

———e St”

the: West Pleasant Valley € hurch west}
J ans — peeked at att angie -aerAss

ay | the street gue the stopped ve-
pereieee ie . jhiele. Mr. Strom co
: ss | redirect senenation hy AD ape ett nat see as
‘ptm. Kelles ta again step out nf)

2 : !PtIm. Kelley said
Lt OMFIELD — The ‘annual | took Ptim. -Critt

Strawberry Festival: of the Stod-
;dard County Farm Bureau will
whe held on the- grounds of the

Mr. Bornschein

p CREE

<i Hinomfield on Sunday, July 23;

1

girector ef organizavon for
{ps8Qul ec Bureau Federa

at «aft F '

VU, BYOPE § i : mie 4 .
re Co eiey ; The defendant's
favssaal

alt Staddard County Farm By. ;recross examina

‘-eay families have been urged to

a qiis
}

attend and bring their guests. to|
nartake of the generous supplies

4 strawberries and ice cream and
visit with ‘friends. Members

are asked to bring cookies and

spoons for their groups.

“To reach the site, take Route J, his holster.”

have his pistol d

,

H 98 2h Mba
Lnhieeutar west fear Rinamfietd ‘ 1 isibility
} aa | f ; ps ,
~ 4 ww milac then turn moarih far THis waitress +‘<
1OP TGUl Miss, castes beads sau odd aa j aut Wiis EOS Gani

two miles. A sign will be posted
at the turn-off.
«la¢

Winner of Eight
scholarships Picked

KANSAS CITY (P—Winners of!
college scholarships, rang: |
ing from $750 to $1500 for one,
‘.tvear, have been afnounced by
Jovee C. Hall. president of the
Hallmark Foundation.

The winners and the eolleges
‘hey will attend included:

Hsreld Guv nih al 18, Leavy:
enworth, Kan, University of Kan-
sas: and. Kim Dorman. Kabler.
ik Columbia, Mo., University of

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.

feet a ear an ee AN

street light
street \was about!
distance {rom
ire

Otficer Ross

Crittendon.

|
Miassouri | Mr. Ross likewise pointed Tuck
er oul as the man
him and Pilm Kelley.
om had sev

Hell sard the scholarships mary |
ne renewed annually for a total!
of four years of college work. | Prosecutor Str

=

S1G06 Bs

Leyes St

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. P—The | < %
Leamington Hotel claims to have | Saw Men
the est usted pictures in town } The proeecutin

ever since a cleaning maid dis

from neon lights,

tald the ju

fonening statements, ou

. P +1 MIRTLE) ~
Lows bill behind ai RGR Seton oe
£ KVL COOM., j
bh ave, weak ** oh t

endon to Sduth- |
‘east Missouri Hoepita® :

stressed

fense questions on ‘the fact that
Ptim. Kelley saidwhis’ patrot car} center.
[pen ~Rrehn: Tmraneger ote the:

~psae. i the witness chair to show
angle wag not great

attorney i

tion asked
Ptim. Kelley could be sure Crit-
‘tendon did not have a weapon
‘drawn when the shooting started | the
‘¢Prim. Kelley had earlier testi-| srrentntees
fied that Ptlm. Crittendon did not
rawn), and ‘the |
officer stated, “‘the gun was

that the street was well Inghtec
the Crittendon

and & nea

a/ ‘ P|
20 fest wide,

. ehantin
tne sho eer

testified follow: |
ing Ptim Kelley and repeated
much of the same story,
that Ptlm. Crittendon did not):
aye his pistol drawn when the
shooting st get and aiso stati ne. |
/on ¢ross examination, he felt that
the open door $v the stopped ca
did not block’ his vision of Pim,

ae lhackground witnesses takes
th AeCODS ‘stand at the trial’s opening
{

>

,
Dust Off Pictures . liy after the 12 jurofs were sworn
° tin at 2:16 in the afternoon!”

in Motel.”
g atfornes

r4lene

AS it left he companion of Tucker and Thomp

The second man, who Mr)
rvin said he did not see too well, |
‘t in a vehicle parked near a/|

| service station at the shopping

cloak ia bat i
other referred to
wha was driving:

untered in hi

wae ranueene

hn then went eae his store.
¢ telephoned
testified that
fled across

Bil and “aia not

Police Cars to Scene.

Shortly afterwards three police
those being driven

Ptim. Kel-

i? oriftend on,

ae uer

g stated in jntter also being a witness,
i which the suspects had:
been a¢ sen was then spotted aes

witnesses testified,

Jt was then, 6s the Tucker |
north on Kingshigh- ;
Crittendon went
ort, followed by Ptim
The sole survivor of the Crit-|
ted | tendon pee ear, Auxilfary Of-;
Baying | f;
after the Tucker ‘car |
Crittendon :
oe aa on the left side, followe:
and NO Goss moved
uP on the
Lang /st ated he. ated r)
beam from his ie into the

car age aaw STs anda

wale) shot
‘as if napping: :
did not-see the shoat
e had turned around anc
was going between the cars to-
fward the right side. at the time -
Dr. Melvin Kasten, who treated
> Crittendon at the hospital.

fron seat,

palace he

cients ions nomen

‘
:
i LAN
t oid

wines for

BE ahh ial Raa a

rn, POT,

Ba Soak ci, a aM aa
ae ana

pon Pe

if

see Ca EE REET AOD TT

Brennen ee

PIS ae at

PEELE Ie Ee EE ee ee
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rate

cipals Tell >
eaving.Farms

“f ye)

ais

ithe state was attempting to prove
| The first witness, Mrs

CAS:

TUCKER

4 lat the Town House Motel she saw
(Continued from ‘page 1.)

lthe defendant and two other men | i) sas their first visit tao Miiwas
; | fell in behind Ptim. Critterden’s! in a room, there on Mateh 10, the tian Us nee the: mths
tors Note: The St. Jo: | patrol vehicle in the chase after | day of the Faooting. She eaplaies the ; pein ¢ te Ce.
seph Gazette in another of [the sus P ects. With Crittendon ;'iat she entered their room 23 . ed ONE ot Peco!
An oe cause their car was gone ana} Lrise anen RS -.%
i survers seeking stories Pree Auxiliary Policemen Her- | his usuxliy means. the ecrupants)
behind the news, asked Ingh [bert L. Goss, who also died in the!}5q tett The three wore in two |
; 2 Prin cipais in three i resulting gun battle, Hugo Lang | bed s however, so she. turned
siates why their farm youth {Jr.. another Auxillary officer. around after first briefly saving
craduates are leaving the | After stopping acrdss the high. ;something to a ‘man whom she
and what they thought ; way from where Crittendon had jidentified from a picture submit 2 4 :
cauid he done to slow the stopped the other car, Kelley ; ted by Mr. Strom. (The picture . ‘
teprad Bah Wal was of Doug! 6:

|

|
drup. state edi- {stated he saw Crittendon walk up /

{

ly

to VO mmo Gazette. tells this | +0 the driver’s side of the car | Son). ' eee teres:
‘ of therm answers. ith Lang behind him and Goss | On cross-examination. during ' q Craun
on the right side. Ptim. Kelley. which Tucker had a brief con. : i : ’ at a ies
2: e is the leasing of expen-j ; stood up, using the stepup to the ference with his attorney. Mr of | a a §
s Suipment and the contract ‘judge’s chair. to stimulate the | Bornschein asked if Mrs. Hartie -} i ,
g.oaf livestock one man floor of the wanted car. and dem- knew the men at this time and i
‘ the farmer furnishes feed. onstrated to the jury how the driv- pane said no. He. asked her how the |
5 aher at so much per header of the car sacned the door, | picture she identified as being of ‘
S ‘ee andor a share of the! took one step out and fired at | Phompson could be recogmized by { | |
é ned. This tends to re. Crittendan j her Mithout knowing his name at} Pt
« farms a hired hand’ fells of Gun Fight. the time. She said her “boss” | jos
<! Fl after the shooting inc: | ee

oo, b~2--

Ac

: : Satire close Jonk at one, he said, and
vised to Bring Spoons Dulets. then fled from the scene’ stated 11 was the same man tn}
‘ after first going into a ditch and| grather picture admitted as et |
For Strawberry Eating- ‘headed north toward Jackson. dence. one of Calvin Johnson. a
Sphcias t e Missuflen Ptlm. Kelley said As jt left hel en; mpanion of Tucker and ee
MEIELD —° The annual! took Ptim. Criftendon ‘f5 South an : The pecand man, who Sr.

er Festival of the Stod. east Missourt Hospital, lirvin said. he did not see ton well
Atv Darm ‘Bureau will! Mr. Bornschein | stressed de, jeft in a vehicle parked near al
Clan thee groundseot the , pense questions on the fact that| service station at the shopping |
preank Uilied Chukch westheoue Kelley saldwhis’ patrot car] center. j
nid on Sunday, July 23 38s parked at an anges -aeross tor Reh, “manager of thet
"the street from the stepped vo4l Kroger store. testified that he!
: i \elferaon Cit hicle Mr ‘Strom countered in his} also noticed a Suspicious man bat.

at baits n for the, 7edirect: examination by vas n&ldid not sed the other referred to
vi Federa.) Pilm: Kelley ta again step ouf off until Mr. Irvin, who was driving?

’ 4 peake A* nis the owitr s chair t show the | by. sfopped anc told him Mr

Pare aifgers “P rie hae nat ren! | Riehn ther cemt oy Pi hie store

The vefeodant « and telan!

; oc iee : : : ;fo.d ner
zn thus destroys part of. Ptlm. Kelley then described the |... \
4 : ~.- aent,

enacenmce whitn fagmers ; subsequé rls un bpdattle etween | . i rea , {
cherished, However, | hims Si eh ee AN Saw:Suspicious Man.
ays cherished. However, himself, Ross and the sutiects i a ey, : :
temther A a - ry
a co-operative air: the stapned car: He wie how oe oe ee si ae th ats -
; ’ ’ ; pet | ror n or
gicaliy sound ‘selling Pum Crittenden staggered across | eed aha}. kgs et a o : aes
ome pines aarti on eth ATH PEGA We SE PLE LIES | ohne See eetifred tat heswast
ay HE Come a Satisfactor VYitne hi ih wavy to his (Ptlm. Kelley's een cent ae t ; 3 f
i F rty bs checking his storé = shortly
street with each part Yipatrol car) vehicle, gat! into the checki ne orily alter
RS : “<i closing hours on March 10 when
nz chanity ona pariner: : back seat and asked to be taken h ticed two” suspi
nye ss jhe noticed two suspicious men
aC} ta the hospital.

near the Kroger Store

ae | The suspects’ car, riddled with

Gerald. |
line Hartle testified that-as a maid?

as Wayne Thomp- |

He got a’

tian ve)

AORN SR -


A ors ae 1Q°
WaLKER, Lee, black, hanged at Kansas City, MO, onAugust 17, 19¢l.

seeaans seemed kb he bo ie, et LS 3

ri sane romans Ee

EX. LSTA ROWEDNESD?

SUNTLRSSITATINGLY TO GALLOWS, +
HE-SANG® ONSTHE-GALLOWS At 6'o’clock marshals appeared at the
an doath cell and arm straps wore mado
rant en Pein cea OE Dy aed as secure on.the. negro, . WI h pepulies on
beat Be narigen cabinet anal ors aaa ees and monte ore of ; Mewlne
SIX. VERSES,: “TREN: ECH TO.THE clergy an er aicGowan follow .
Ente CROWD, BY: WALKER: LEE Sos fiat aulowevoomer ise eee to- ‘the
= SSS - Se | bs a hes Jost. floor for Lee pusd wun
aie ot aera ey ock and a fow soconds lata? ho wa
The Neer , 3. Wie jAaeaerion: serrate ‘ont th brightly lighted gallows, where
pel CT6aley Pater Movnica Sst | ho faced the norvour orowid: of curious
nN ee Poumty-dalte Sarees that had come to'see him dies ee
an eaevner ool nN aye OSs Elgaae RA ae "Taking his place on the trap. the’ Gon.
Shain angeicegte ee eA ata shee domned:negro, with w amdll. a Rytonal tn in
re MEET EA nas ORES ss aga his ntrappen tdnas. pope po pe oe
Walker. _RDETOS went. t 19 his. Hg death | aly. ate Is. Mora,Th na Lito. 6 to Oi
a. ows (hao ge arete ear. volce:tho negro
ke hots the went WIbE Devin county. Inging. the. mi nistora. aAnd= Spriest
Us. The negro pald the extreme penalty A heed An: “Ono VarRO--dled=dwiy | |
dora brits; Recantt on a while woman.”: alker. Lee. lod. out “With: another. sant |
re phe Ra Be aid ela Sn rhe oe ‘Another, eianolng : now nnd.thon at’ the
Hessed~ the negro'-'go So Oi nal, but‘look g, mostly: in the facos
Man  Weres fepee nnd: ‘loug-betord cdays ot i spectators.” Bix versce were ios :
break.’ Unable to necure tickets amit.) Peon tis eee
ting-them<to the doath2chamber;:many eae e Bir inal AAR PINOIL ee eae
stood in. the streets fround tho criminal “SME? ‘triéads,”? ROko" but” ae
court:. pp pes Se appaorently,. et tate addressing the crowd, at the’ conolurio
sain a last minute entrance or at Jeaat of she singling, ‘I'm, oad y. to KO. J ston
catch A cllmpeo’ of some -part- of the ‘cogfesked my faith In’ God-and he-has
ceremony,’ Lu aes Steerer ee (uught uA that: 1f woe bak Aorglveneda. it
- THE DEATIL WaIuyT ae 5:30... WIL. bo grantodtes 9. i
-<s 5:30 o'clock. the ‘condemned fa ‘pale Nn econo be
wee ‘Gene ‘to rantrread, ‘his by) 30 : tons: hy PV Mackcaaipie ey ® ae fe teste ne
e death warrantyread. him by,Jobn} | Thong ip intel All of sod au Ui,
meri county, marsh Leer {> os ether rast he added, Maxey ered «
ieatiter ths: Leoranide sa dieesed 4 Glatiel ig down: Lit: iti n cronrd: tho” 600
hitgelt' fn the new clothes, customarily D. G eG Asyid be zed if IAWy Or,"
urn{s e~tondemned: on- such- 0c
casions, After ‘ment of himaelf, Leo THe whe ha.talled: =A Oibbie nite
Has ceiarttanls on a “Inenw of Hig own choos: ;* mihuta tape ihe neose had’ been’ Kas
n ju t 5
Prayers then. ‘were “sald by: ‘Elder A. omneaite oe mere. wag muds fete
B. Ross: of the Second Negro Christian Ppsr ale, Hh lover: “wan; plinh
Church and tho lest: rites ‘administered The: Ht iow bingiciel? igri i att
by. Futher J. MoGéwan of the Cathedral, Styl hrea fay, Lee: YN

CA JU

the-n \neeling at the'bars of his i

afer erat fly i|) A bes pata Ea
16 ¢ Urch...A Bbort Lima negro. ike 0g

he was baptized (n'tha,Christian chtreh Sebi ead ATRUF B10 of ne
Asked why he Joitied both churches,

Walker Loe explained “that he Aidn't

Set

K, fi a

want to He eee ea
Asa f{inalre ‘the condemned man:
oxked that Pail urris, a negro hd

ner placed in Big death ¢ell to
ration company, he allowed to accompany
him to the gallows.:. Official ranction
Immediately’ was given... Burrid went
nlon with the processiof and remained
10 Fallows until the end... erat

STAR. “ak Mire
& (141921


See large card also,
UNDERWOOD, H,ward, black, hanged at Charleston, Missouri, on April 6, 1883,

"MASHED BY A PREACHER AND MURDERED. = THE HORRIBLE CRIME CONFESSED BY A MISSOURI NEGRO ON
THE SCAFFOLD. = They hung old Howard Underwood, a negro aged 60, at Charleston, Mo,, on
Apre 6. He killed a woman named Belle Lucas, on August 6, 1881, in a fit of jealousy,

He was carrying on an intrigue with the young mitlatto wife of Ike Lucas and covering his
tracks well, when a colored preacher came ahong and took her away from him, This incensed
the love lorn old moke to that degree that he treatened to commit suicide, On the morning
of Aug. 6, the woman was at Underwood's home, and he, it is said, learned from her that
she was waiting for the colored preacher to come along, and intended to accompany him to
Charleston . Underwood took his rifle and went tp the road a short distance, where he
waited ih the bushes, In a short time the woman and the preacher came along, both being
mounted on the same horse, the female riding behind. They stopped on seeing Underwood,
and, at his command, the woman got down and the preacher rode on. The latter says he con-
tinued his journey about ten minutes when he heard a rifle shot, and, galloping back, found
the woaman dead in the road, with a bullet through her head and her brains beaten out.
Underwood was gone, but his gun lay beside the dead woman, The murderer was captured in
Illinois about a year later and had a speedy trial and conviction. Appeals to the QBXEKKX
AXEXERXEHNAH governor were made in vain. A few days before his execution Underwood con-
fessed his guilt,"

POLICE GAZETTE, New York, NY, 4-28-1883 (7:1&2.)

jel

Ye

wished her to be-

havea

Not ‘

thodsand franc note.
charge, and Mrs. Rameden was arrested for perjury, |
and sentenced to five years In prison. Her case
attracted great attention, andshbe had the sympathy
ol thousands of wec‘thy ladies, who interested them-
selves in her behalf The result wasthatsbe was i
leased from aghospital, to which she bad been sent, and
waa not sent to prison. She was nearly two yeurs
in the hospital. Her fortune was all gone, and she
was a wreck in every way.

Mra. Ramsien then sald she discovered that
Ramaden wasin New York. In 1881 Mrs. Ramsden
came to New York, and went to live at No. 15 East
Forty-second street, To her surprise one day she saw
her husband sitting in the window of No. 16 East
Forty-second street, just opposite. He was residing
there witb?a Mrs. Stagg and her daughter, “The

” ae , |
mither,” said Mrs. Ramsden, © was jealous of the |
laughter, and the daughter of the m yther.”” When
i Fr ! jied on her husband to demand that
kill you.” Mrs. Ramsden said that she f

her busband was living with Mrs. Helen Stagg,
althoazh he claimed that he was engaged to be
married to her, When Mrs. Ramsden threatencd

_ to go to court to compel him to support her, he re

plied:

-“1 have. plenty of money .to spend for others, hut
none for you, Go to court, and | will drag you from
one court to another, and you will die before the case
is settled.” ,

She began an,action in the supreme court, and he
was ordered to pay ber alimony. The general term,
however, reversed the decision, because Mrs. Ramsden
had not been in the country a year when the sult was
brought. With the opening of spring the wife appears
in court and goes at ber task again with vigor anda de-
termination to make things hot for her spouse. The case
is a remarkable one in every respect, and spicy revela-
tions are anticipated when It actually comes to trial.

MASHED BY A PREACHER AND MURDERED.

The Horrible Crime Confessed by a Missouri Negro
on the Scaffold.

They hung old Howard Underwood, a negro, aged 60,
at Charleston, Mo, on April 6. Hekilled a woman
named Belle Lucas, on August 6, 1881, in @ fit of
jealousy. He was carrying on an intrigue with the
young malatto wife of Ike Lucas and covering bis
tracks well, when a colored preacher came along and
took her away from him. This incense the love lorn
old moke to that degree that he threatened to commit
murder. On the morning of August 6, the woman
was at Underwood's home, and he, it 1s said, learned
from her that she was waiting for the éolored preacher
to come along, and intende! to accompany him to
Charleston. Underwood took bis rifft and went up
the road a short distance, where he waited in the
bushes. Ina short time the woman and the preacher
came along, both being mounted on the same horse,
the female riding behind.

OS 15 Mier

| Dunn was arrested soon

| rather

| mington,

| March 26, Steeds returned home,

| tonistied and grieved at being

} mot

They stopped on secing | way!

atter and placed in jail. He
industriogs and thrifty
but since bis divorce from his wife has been
dissipated in his habits, spending his money in
a most reckless manncr while upon drunken sprees.
Youx time ago Georze Steeds a rexident of Far-
Utab, where be bas considerable property,
also a wite and five children, hed occasion to visit
Arisona on business, but just previous to bis departare
on that occasion be engaged as laborer a tramp calling
himeclf Harry. steeds was absent six weeks, and in
the interim. it is alleged, the man Ilarry managed to
ingratiate himself into the good graces of Mrs. fSieeds,

and finally becume her paramour. On Monday night
expecting to find |

was until a year or so ago an

as he left them, bat was jmmeasnrably as-
informed by the wife,
in the most coldblooded manner possible, that she
had conceived an ardent Jove for Harry, an affeclion
erself said, was tar greater than that
for her husband and children. In fuct, she asserted
that sbe had never known what love really was til
the day she get eyes on the tramp, and from that mo-
ment ber heart went oulto bin, Citizens of Farming-
ton report having seen the pair standing in broad day-
ht with tueir arms entwined around each other in
Mr. Steeds’ first impulse was to kill
the seducer of-his wife, and he would undoubtedly
have done so, but she fell upon ber knees before ber
fearfully wronged husband and begged him to spare
the life of her Harry, as she alone was to blame in
the matter. In consideration of ber pleading, he con-
sented to forgo his intentiopy and the offender
Atter some deliberation, he told his wife she

she wanted to go whither

piatters

which, as sLe h

lig
loving embrace.

escaped,

entiy § i prop ) ane
ler, who resides in Salt Lake city.
hr

AN OLD MAID’S MASH.

The Young Fellow Gets the Shake and Sues Her
for Damages to His. Heart.

f love are astounding. There 1s al-
ways something new turning up in Cupid's line, and
every fresh racket of the naked ‘and every duy more
shameless little heathen god is more startling than
the preceding one. O7 this startling sort 1s a breach
of promise case v. hich is to be tried shortly in the
superior court in New Haven,: Conn, John Guth
sues Elizabeth Reas for $5,000 damages for lacerated
affections. Some time ago be was employed on the
defendant’s farm in Derby. Sheis a maiden lady, 40
years of age. He offered marriage and she accepted.
Feeling secure in his position. he occasionally chas-
tized her by kicks end cufts, She rebelled against this
treatment, sold her farm and came‘to this city. Find,
ing that he had lost his place he demanded pay for his
services, and again offered to marry her, which she
refused, whereupon he brought the present suit. Con-
derable amusement is expected when the case comes
to trial.

The vagaries ©

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A RAVISHER SLAIN.
eee

A man named Gibson, wbo keeps & station at Little
Rattlesnake, Utah, took in a stranger to work for bim.
The man remained only three days, and then on
March 19, decamped while his employer was out gath-
ering up some stray cattle. When Gibson, on bis
return, learned that the man bad outraged his (Gib-
son’s) eight year old daughter, he armed bimself and
started in pursuit. Gibson caught him on the stage
coach some talles away, made him get oft and go back
the road a short distance, when he shot and killed
him. The verdict is"Served him right.” That’s the

confidence led to &
other until her shame was pe

| and talked In private cl

till a few weeks:

gathering momentum,
acandal was divulged

mele members of the
stretched (heir faces tbree times their natural ly
umps of the terrible afiair,
jooked gruff and demanded
Under the pressure of
g heavily along,
af'er the prayer
the pastor,

&

The pions male members
the expulsion of the sinners.
the tide of indignation that wag rollin
a congregational meeting was called
meeting Wednesday hight, Dr. Broadhurst,
presiding.

The charges were read amid a deathly silence, andin
due solemn form, with tears and regrets, MY, T. I.
Melven and Miss Desdemona Curry were excommu-
nicated from all fellowsh!p and privileges of the
chure's

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r SNUFFED OUT.

The Trouble that a New York Dude Brought on
Himself by Being Too Fresh.

{Subject of I}lustration. |

The girls of Lorillard’s tobacco factory, Jersey City,
are up to snaff. In their jaunty way they are the
t f tl hampion city of the apple jack

. | know their ghts, and kK r. dare
maintain them, a8 was evinced @ year ago, when they
“struck” because “dear Archie’ was discharged from
his position as foreman. One of their leaders a few
days ago administered a just rebuke to a teo fresh
dude from New York, As 4 party of the girls were
leaving the factory they were met near the stone yard,
where they held thefr impromptu meetings during the
+ strike, by two of the unsalted youths from the metrop-
olis. One of them, leering atthe girls, sald to his com-
panion: “ Old chappy, don't you smell snuff?’ This
was sufficient to arouse the ire ofthe muscular manipu-
lator of tobacco. She went for bim, saying: “ Young
fellow, I will just snuff you out in about two minutes.’
Seizing the astonished dude by the back of the neck
she dexterously threw him across ber knee, and grvé
him as sound a spanking es he had ever received in b

childhood days. His companion best hasty retreat

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A NASHVILLE TRAGEDY.

A Son of Ex-Governor Porter Fatally Stabs
Commercial Traveler in a Barroom.

(Subject of Tilustration.)

Dudley Porter, son of ex-Governor Porter. cut an
it is believed, fatally wounded Jamies Grundy, a co
mercial traveler for Chatfleld & Wools, statione
of Cincinnatt, at 6 o'clock P, M., April 8. Grundy wer
{nto a Cherry street restaurant and called fora drin
whicb, on account of stringent Sunday laws, was ré
fused bim by theclerk. Porter, who waa.seated at
lunch counter eating a meal, remarked : «bamn hin
be is drunk already; fire him out.”

Grundy, Incensed at the remark, said: “Who is th
insulting me?” and knocked Porter off the stool.

They then grappled and fell to the floor, Grundy ¢
top. While Grundy was thus situate, Porter cut hb
over the bead four times, making a map of his era
jum, and a fearful gash behind the left ear. Thecler

hey settle such affairs in Utah.

got around in time to seize the knife and separate t

HISTORY OF SOUTHEAST MISSOURI.

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1848-50; Henry Hewitt, 1850-52; J. D. Smith, 1852-54; Richard

Wall, 1854-56; H. H. Bedford, 1856-58; James Hale, 1858-60;
James O’ Dell, 1862-68; D. S.Crumb, 1868-70; George H. Crumb,
1870-72; William R. Slack, 1872-76; J. L. Hale, 1878-80; J.8.
Richardson, 1880-84; N. C. Chasteen, 1884-86; J. 8S. Richard-
\. son, 1886.

Formation of Mississippi County.—Mississippi County was
wr by an act of the Legislature passed February 14, 1845,
-from the southern portion of Scott County. The county court
was organized in Charleston on April 21, 1845, and was com-
x posed of William Sayres, presiding justice, and Absalom Me-
Re ey and James M. Overton, associate justices. George L.
oS traicie produced his commission as clerk of the court, and was
Vay qualified. The following constables were then appointed:
Si ohn A. Gardner, Wolf Island Township; Peter W. Mott, James

Bayou, and Samuel D. Kennedy, Tywappity Township.
For the first five years no effort was made to erect any public
Qe with the exception of a clerk’s office, which was com-
Q sea in the summer of 1846, and is still standing. The county

court was held in the storehouse of Henry G. Cummings, and ©

the circuit court, in the Methodist Church. In December, 1837

= it was decided to erect a jail on a lot tendered by John Sheppard,

None he withdrew his offer, andnothing more was done until 1850,

when the contract was awarded to William Sayres. Two years

later the present courthouse was erected by James T. Russell.

~ Atits organization the county was divided into five townships:

_ Tywappity, Mississippi, St. James, James Bayou and Wolf Island.

< »In June, 1847, it was ordered that all of Mississippi Township

‘Aincladed in the following boundaries be erected into a new town-

S ship, by the name of Ohio: ‘“ Commencing on the county line in

\ the Mississippi River opposite Lake Bayou, and running down

the river with said line to the line dividing Sections 19and 30, in

Township 26north, Range 18 east; thence west with said section

line until it strikes Clear Lake, north of Judge Henson’s; thence

northwardly with the line of Tywappity Township to the place of

beginning.” At the same time the boundaries of the other town-

ships were readjusted. In June, 1858, Long Prairie Township
was formed from portions of Tywappity and St. James.

HISTORY OF SOUTHEAST MISSOURI. 865

The first indebtedness of the county was incurred in 1864,
when bonds to the amount of $12,500, bearing 10 per cent interest,
were issued to pay bounties to volunteer soldiers.

In June, 1872, $8,000 was appropriated to build a new jail,
and F. A. Randol was appointed to superintend its construction.

Circuit Court Issues.—The circuit court for Mississippi

County was organized on September 29, 1845, by John D. Cook.

The first grand jury was composed of the following men: Charles
W. Moore, Evan Shelby, William Shelby, T.S. McElmurry, Jesse
Davis, Howell Brewer, Felix Harrison, Lewis Barker, John Dal-
ton, I. Brewer, Thomas J. Harrison, James Braswell, O. S.
Simmons and William Woodward. Only one indictment .was
returned. This was against William Dunham for shooting with
intent to kill. In October, 1847, an indictment was found
against John Dawson, who obtained a change of venue to Scott
County. The most of the indictments, however, before the war
were for minor offenses, and those were numerous. At the
October term, 1849, forty-nine indictments were returned. Of
these, thirty-one were for gaming and playing cards on Sunday,
two for keeping a gaming boat, six for selling merchandise and
liquor without a license, and nine for failing to work the roads.

The first person sent to the penitentiary from the county was

William Gatewood, who pleaded guilty to acharge of grand lar-

ceny in November, 1854, and was sentenced to two years’ impris-
onment.

The first legal execution in the county took place on Decem-

ber 8, 1882, when Alfred Sanders, a colored man was hanged —

for the murder of another colored man, Moses Wing, on the
night of November 19, 1881.

A second execution took place on April 6, 1883. On that day
Howard Underwood, colored, was hanged for the murder of his
mistress, Belle Lucas, on August 6, 1881. He committed the
deed in a fit of jealousy, and made his escape to Illinois. He
was captured about a year later, brought back, tried and sen-
tenced to be hung on September 22, 1882. An appeal was

taken to the supreme court, where the judgment was affirmed, |

and the date of execution fixed at December 29, 1882. A

rehearing was obtained, but there was no change in the decisisn
of the court.

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714 _ EXECUTIONS OF CRIMINALS.

done with a pocket knife, and presented many
features of atrocity. Patrick O’Shea met his
end with bravado. Speaking to Deputy
Jailer Fortin, on the eve of execution, he re-
marked jocosely: “Mike, I feel just as happy
as a king, and I wish you’d tell Watson that

if he can’t tie the knot, to bring the rope to.

me and I’ll tie it for him.” At the same time
he denied his guilt, declaring that no one had
seen him commit the crime.

Three Sicilians, Dominico Damina, Basti-
ano Lombardo and Antonio Catalanio, were
hanged February 18, 1876, for the murder of
Francisco Palermo, an Italian lemon seller,
twenty-five years old., The crime was com-
mitted on the morning of March 13, 1875, on
Broadway, between Bremen Avenue and An-
gelica Street. There, as Palermo was walking
with his basket of lemons, he was fired upon
by one of two men, who were hid behind an
old board fence on the same side of the street.
Palermo turned and ran across the street, but,

upon gaining the sidewalk, two shots were.

fired upon him from a lumber pile only a few
feet away. He fell mortally wounded. The
man had been regularly ambushed, and there
was nio doubt that his destruction was delib-
erately planned. Suspicions fell upon five Si-
cilians. By following the footsteps of the
wife of one of these men, the detectives suc-
ceeded in effecting their capture. The case
coming to trial, the jury found no difficulty
in finding the three men named guilty, and
they were ordered to be hanged. The case
was carried to the Supreme Court, upon ap-
peal, but without changing the result; and
executive mercy being refused, the sentence
was duly carried out. That Palermo was
himself a desperate character was probable.
Indeed, the defense charged that he had killed
his own uncle, and that his putting away was
but an act of self-defense. As Damina as-

cended the scaffold he is said to have kissed |
the scaffold quite affectionately two or three

times. An incident quaintly reminiscent of
the fierceness of the old Calabrian vendetta,
which regards satisfied vengeance as the su-
preme happiness.

William Wiener was hanged February 1,

1878, for the murder of James M. Lawrence.

Wiener was a young man of but twenty-one
years of age, and his case aroused much sym-.

pathy, as the fatal shooting for which he was

executed resulted from the misconduct of his °
worthless wife, who, by her vagaries was known |

as “Crazy Jane” among her set, which was of
the most vicious. The pair were separated,
but the woman seemed to take a delight in
pestering her husband. Wiener was engaged
as an assistant watchman and “bouncer” at
the Opera Comique; and there “Crazy Jane”
would go in one of her drunken spells. On
the night of January 29, 1877, Lawrence, who
was assistant barkeeper at the saloon adjoin-
ing the Opera Comique, called Wiener down
to see his wife. It is said he did not know of
the unhappy relations existing between the
pair. Be that as it may, upon the departure
of the woman, Wiener accused Lawrence of
having done him “a dirty trick.” High
words followed. Lawrence seized a soda bot-
tle, to throw at him, and Wiener drawing his
revolver, shot him with fatal results. Ap-
peals were made for executive mercy, but
without avail.

The crime for which Henry J. Redemeier
was hanged April 23, 1880, was of particularly
deliberate and callous character. A stone
mason named Vosz was engaged with some
six others, in setting a heavy stone in a foun-
dation, when Redemeier (who had no ap-
parent business on the premises) was seen to
approach. Pushing the muzzle of his weapon
within three inches of Vosz’s head, he fired.
One of the workmen attempting to interfere,
Redemeier pointed his pistol at him, and or-
dered him back. He then again advanced,
and with the words, “I guess he ain’t dead
yet; L’ll give him another,” once more fired
into Vosz. When in the lock-up, Redemeier
remarked coolly, “I’m glad I did it, I done my
work well.” Upon his arrest he admitted
that he “had it in for Vosz for two years.”

Edward Nugent was hanged the same day
for the murder of his wife, which crime was
committed August 20, 1876. The woman, it
appears, had refused to serve him with a meal,
which he had demanded; but a long series of
family jars seems to ‘have preceded. The
woman appears to have used her tongue freely,
working her husband up to an “intense pitch
of excitement.” The son and daughter of
the condemned man united in petitioning the
Governor for mercy, but the law was allowed
to take its own course, the chief ex-
ectttive regarding the case as one of

“willful, deliberate and premeditated wife
“murder.” The double execution of Nu-

gent and Redemeier took place before
an assemblage of some seven hundred


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FOR READY REFERENCE.

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FOR READY REFERENCE.

EDITED BY

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hanged. Landgraf was thought by many to
be half-witted at the time.

Hugh M. Brooks, alias Maxwell, was
hanged August 10, 1888, for the murder of
Charles Arthur Preller in room 144 of the
Southern Hotel.. The crime was, perhaps,
the most sensational that ever occurred in
this city, and the fact that Brooks was, like his
victim, an Englishman, added in no small
measure to the excitement. Brooks and
Preller had made acquaintance on board the
steamship “Cephalonia,” on their way to this
country; and the result was a friendship, ap-
parently as false on one side as it was sincere
onthe other. Brooks was without means, but
Preller was well provided and generous; and
the pair arranged to proceed to Australia in
company, after having done the United States.
Preller rejoined Brooks at St. Louis, where
they were last seen together on Easter Sunday
of 1885. The next day Brooks left the hotel
alone, leaving two trunks and a handbag be-
hind him. Disguising himself, he hastened to
San Francisco, and in a few days sailed for
New Zealand. Suspicions meanwhile being
aroused at the Southern Hotel, the trunks left
behind were opened. In one of these the
body of Preller was found with a placard at-
tached reading: “So perish all traitors to the
great cause.” This was but a piece of cheap
melodrama, indulged in possibly with the
view of making the crime appear an act of
vengeance on the part of the Fenian Broth-
erhood, which was just then very active, and
with many sympathizers among the Irish-
Americans in this country. The sleuths
of the law were not, however, to be thus easily
hoodwinked. Brooks, alias Maxwell, was in
course of time captured in Australia, and re-
turned to this country to pay the penalty of
his crafty and cold-blooded crime. Brooks
met his end with composure, and declined to
indulge in any speech-making as “theatrical
and hackneyed.” His defense was that Preller
died under the influence of chloroform, and
that murder was never intended. Some sen-
sation-mongers affected to fear that interna-
tional complications might arise out of the
affair. But Great Britain is too prompt in
dealing with her own murderers at home,
without much concerning herself as to their
nationality, to cherish aught but sentiments of
gratitude for a nation which, by due process
of the law, ridded her of a particularly choice
specimen of a ruffian.

f

Henry Henson was hanged August 13,
1891, for the murder of his wife Ida, a timid
and lovable woman, to whom he had been
married less than three months. Henson on
his arrival at his home, on the evening of Ieb-
ruary 2, 1887, found one of his wife’s lodgers,
a crippled tailor, leaving. He thereupon
accused her of receiving the attention of the
tailor. This the woman indignantly denied.
He thereupon shot her with a revolver, and a
few minutes later fired upon the woman’s
son, as he was ‘hurrying from the room in
horror. The defense was accident, but the
jury brought in a verdict of murder in the first
degree. Henson met his fate with scoff and
defiance. The clergyman who :ought to
bring him spiritual consolation he called “a
soap peddler,” and ordered him out of his cell.
He resisted the summons to death furiously,
struggling with the officers for a time like a
maniac. Though Henson referred to himself
as a Dutchman, in the words “| show you a
game Dutchman,” he was, in fact, neither a
Dutchman nor a German, but a native of Den-
mark.

Charles Wilson, colored, was hanged July
26, 1894, for killing Moses Hodges by shoot-
ing him on November 8, 1892. The trouble
between the pair arose overa woman. Wilson
displayed great nerve throughout the whole
affair, even to the extent of passing his last few
days in writing sentimental verses to “Annie,”
the woman who had been the cause of all his
trouble. He died without bravado. His last
words, delivered after the fatal black cap had
been drawn over his face were: “Good-by,
boys,” in reply to “Good-by, Charlie,” ad-
dressed to him by several of the deputies,
who stood around him on the scaffold.

Sam Welsor was hanged January 12, 1894,
for the murder of Clementine Manning, his
sweetheart or mistress, on August 4, 1890. In
the fall of 1889 Miss Manning had won five
thousand dollars in the lottery and was pre-
paring to leave her surroundings, which were
not of the best; when Welsor heard of her
fortune, and called to see her at 514 Market
Street. He then threatened to kill her if she
attempted to abandon him. ‘The woman per-
sisted in her intention, and Welsor shot her
no less than five times through the head.
The murderer tried to feign insanity, but with-
out success. Welsor was to be hanged short-
ly after 8 o’clock in the morning. Shortly
after 5 o’clock a crowd began to assemble


EKXPLORERS. T17

and pack the corridors of the Four Courts,
The crowd at the execution was the greatest
witnessed in years upon such an occasion at
St. Louis. Welsor met his fate with fortitude,
declaring himself as sorry for what he had
done, and that he was no longer, as once he
was, “in the same boat with Bob Ingersoll,”

but died believing he had a soul to save.

James Fitzgerald was hanged February 20,

$806, for the murder of his sweetheart, Annie
Naessens. He left a letter, addressed to the
"public; protesting his innocence. The execu-
tion presented a painful spectacle. The rope

first used breaking precipitated the doomed
than some. eight feet to the wooden platform

below. After a delay of over an hour, during
“which Fitzgerald writhed with agony despite
all the doctors could do to alleviate his suffer- ,
~ ings, a fresh rope was obtained and the con-
-~demned man was strung up for a second time.
“During the delay angry murmurs arose
among the crowd of onlookers, and so threat-
ening did their attitude become at one time
* that a detail of policemen were sent into the
_ jail yard, as a measure of precaution.

John Thomascheutz, a Bohemian, was
hanged June 22, 1808, for killing Anna
Rausch, by shooting. The girl was but
eighteen years of age, pretty and well-man-
nered. She was a clerk in one of the down-
town stores and was head of her department,
receiving what was for one of her years a good
salary. Thomascheutz was infatuated with
the girl, and pressed her to marry him. This

she, though apparently inclined to be most

friendly, declined to do. Meeting her one
evening as she was returning home after vis-

iting a relative, the young man renewed his

suit. “I can not, John,” faltered the girl.
“Then you will die, and I will die with you,”
returned the desperate and ill-balanced young
man. Drawing his revolver Thomascheutz
shot the girl in the back, severing the spinal
column. Tor this cowardly crime he was ar-
raigned and sentenced to be hanged. Dur-
ing his incarceration the condemned man af-
fected insanity, even to the extent of refusing
to recognize his two brothers on tthe eve of
death, Weak and nervous, he met his death
as a poltroon.

George Thompson, colored, was hanged
August 1, 1808, for killing Joseph Cunning-
ham, white, by means of poison, administered
September 29, 1894, Thompson bore a
grudge against Cunningham for having re-

placed him as janitor. Meeting Cunningham
on the afternoon of the day named at St. Pe-
ter’s Episcopal Church, he invited him to share
his luncheon. As the invitation was cordially
made, Cunningham readily consented and ate
freely, Thompson affecting to have no appe-
tite. The food was heavily charged with
strychnine and the result was fatal. Thomp-
son was tried and duly sentenced. His case
has some historic interest, owing to the fact
that he was the only condemned murderer in
the criminal history of Missouri, up to his
time, who ever appeared personally before the
State Supreme Court. Three times was the
death watch placed over Thompson prior to
the execution, and three times was he respited
through legal technicalities. Another notable
circumstance in connection with the case was
the use of poison, a piece of cunning foreign
to the negro nature. Thompson was married,
lived comfortably and was unusually thrifty
for one of his race. Like most of his color he
did not lack for physical courage when the last
supreme test arrived.

Explorers. — Histories of the develop-
ment of civilization in what is now the
middle western portion of the United States
usually begin with accounts of the explora-
tions which led up to the colonization of the
different portions of this region, and the
names of the chief explorers are familiar to
most intelligent persons of the present day. It
is believed, however, that to group together
the names of those whose explorations and
discoveries contributed either directly or indi-
rectly to the settlement of the Mississippi Val-
ley will serve a useful purpose in this connec-
tion. Passing over the names of those ex-
plorers for whom continental discovery is
claimed, or who discovered portions of the
continent remote from the Mississippi Valley,
and taking them in the order suggested by the
dates of their most important achievements,
Juan Ponce de Leon should first be men-
tioned. In 1512, under the auspices of the
Spanish government, he sailed from the port
of San German—in search of “the fountain of
eternal youth,” which he expected to find in
an island called Bimini—and on March 3d of
that year landed near the site of the present
city of St. Augustine, Florida. He was the
first European to land on this coast, and gave
to Florida its name. Francisco de Garay, a
companion of Columbus on his second voy-


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WEST, John I., white, hanged at Boonville, Missouri May 16, 1879,

"St. Louis, May 16. - A Post-Dispatch special from Boonville, about the hanging of John I,
West this morning, says that when the trap was sprung the rope broke and the culprit fell to
the ground on his back, but was too weak to rise. His groans and gurgling sounds

of strangulation were terrible to hear, He was picked up as spéedily as possible,

raised on to the trap again, and while being held by four or five men, was dropped a second
time, This time he swung, and in 11 minutes was pronounced dead, After reaching

the platform of the gallows, West spoke nearly half an hour to the crowd present,
reiterating his confession of bhe murder of Shinn, reviewing his past life, and

appealing to young men and women to take his fate as a warning. West's father,

from Chapin, Ill., was present at the execution, There were about 8,000 people

present,"

COURIER-JOURNAL, Louisville, Kye, May 17, 1879 (1:2.)

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: large card
WEST, John is E

White man, hanged, Boonville, Missouri, May 16, 1879, for
the murder of a fellow tramp, Frank Shinn :

NATIONAL POLICE GAZETTE, May 2h, 1879 (page 5, woodcut
likeness, )


WEST, John I,

West, a white native of Illinois, was a tram who was traveling with
Frank Shinn, On the night of Octe 6, 1878, they stopped for the night
in a deserted log cabin in a corn field near Pilot Grove, Cooper Co,,
Mo, The two men got into an argument and, using a. 30 pound stone, _
West bludgeoned Shinn.to death, robbed the corpse of its clothes and |
money, and buried it under the cabin floor, The crime was discovered
the next morning when one of two laborers working in the field enter-.
ed the cabin to light his pipe and noticed blood-stains on the floor,
In addition to finding the body, the murder weapon was found in the
fireplace where a fire had been built around it in an effort to burn.
off the blood and gore, West was overtaken, arrested and charged
with the murder, His conviction was appealed to the Missouri Supreme
Court on several grounds, one of which was the fact that the jury had.
. been served intoxicating drinks during the trial and during their
deliberations, After the sentence had been affirmed and the Governor
announced his refusal to intervene, West made a confession in wich
he claimed that the argument had started when he refused to go along

with Shinn's y Bert that they burglarize and rob the bank in Boon-

ille Ma 19, he h db
Fron é eatibe arkcted én the bank of the Meseunt Piper” He

for thirty minutes from the gallows, admitting many crimes West spoke

of burglary

forgery and murder, but expressed the belief that he had been saved
and forgiven for his sins. When the trap fell, the rope broke and he
fell to the ground where he lay gurgling and semi-conscious until-some-
of the witnesses rushed foward, lifted him through the trap and the _
rope was re-tied. He was then allowed to hang and he strangled to deatt
for a ten minute period, - His body was claimed by his father who had
arrived*from Illinois on the day of theexecution, | :

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o'clock this morning in the presence © ut

thousand persons. The gallows being erected on the
banks of the Missouri river, the hillsides adjoining
were packed with spectators, who acted more as if

| they were present to witness a balloon ascension than

‘the taking of a human life. West walked to the acaf-
fold ‘unaided, and, after prayers by the attending
cletgymen, harangued the crowd for minutes,
confessing to burglary, forgery, murder and léseer
crimes, ° He professed to have. made his ‘peace with
God, anid beseeched those present to heed the counsel

‘of good fathers and mothers and not follow in his

footateps. © = Helens AO MEY,
Precisely at half past eleven the trap fell, and to the
horror of every one the rope brokeand =. -.. |
| WaT FELL TO THE GROUND... Seer
While prostrate udder the scaffold he struggled and
moaned for fully halfs minute. He fell.on his back

and was too weak to rise, The gurgling eounds, in-
di¢ating slow strangulation, were dreadful) to hear.
Themthe officers and newspaper men inside the ring
picked him up, and the rope being handed up through
the trap, it was tied to s ring, and from the hands of
half a dozen strong men it was let fall a second time.
He then atruggled fully ten minutes before life was

extinct. The scene was horrible in the extreme. The

‘man was bunglingly strangled. The crowd surged

and pushed about the gallows like raving lunatics.
After hanging twenty minutes the body was cut down
and turned over to.his father, who arrived this morti-
ing from Dlinois. _ . Sates 8
West was s tramp, and the crime for which be suf-
fered, the murder ‘of a fellow tramp, named Frank
Shin, whom he killed by crushing in his head with a
stone in an untenanted log-house where the pair had
stopped for the night, near Pilot Gtove, Mo., on the
night of October 5 last, has already been detailed in
the Gazetre. Through the exertions of his sttorney |
he had obtained a lease of his life from March 28th,

the date.of ,
HIB. FOBMEB SENTENCE. Kare

iA few days ago, when the last hope of pardon had de-
| parted, West made a full and free confession of the

crime for which he suffered to-day, but claimed there
were extenuating circumstances. He stated that on
the day of the murder he entered the old sbanty with
Shin, and that the dead man wanted to make & raid
upon Boonville, “crack” s bank and then Icave the
country. This Wert refused to do, and the discussion
which followed became #0 heated that Shin jumped
up and rushed at him (West), who grabbed up rock
and hurled it at his assailant, striking him square in
the forehead and felling bim to the ground like s bul-
lock. He.saw at once that the man was dead, and,
changing the clothes of the deceased for his own,
closed and fenced up the door, hanging by one hinge,
and left the scene of the tragedy. During bie incar-
ceration here he made two attempts to eacape, but
was frustrated by the vigilance of his keepers.


me |

Jobn I. West, Condemned Murderer.

(With Portrait. | we !

On the night of October 6th, last, two tramps,
nained Frank Shin and John I. West, went into an old
unoccupied log-house situated in a cornfield, near
Pilot Grove, Cooper county, Mo., to tind quarters for
the night. ‘The following mornitig the dead body of
Shin was discovered in the house by two young men

| who were engaged in gathering corn in the field. One

of them went into the building tolight his pipe, when
his attention was attracted by a vest hanging on 8
nail, and, looking further, be found fresh blood on the
floor. Further search revealed the body of Shin, who
had been murdered by. his companion, concealed
under the floor in the middle of the room. A thirty-
pound rock, covered with blood, was found in. the
fire-place, where an‘effort had been madc to obliterate
the blood-staine by burning. This, with the ‘con-
dition of the dead man’s head, which was mashed in
from the effects of heavy blows, told the story of the
crime. West was afterwards: arrested ‘and convicted
of it on circumstantial evidénce, and sentenced to be |
hanged in Boonville, Mo., on May 16th, 1879. The |
case was taken to the supreme court of the state, |
which confirmed the decision.. West subsequently |
confessed to having killed Shin while he was asleep in
the house that night by crushing his head in withthe
rock which was found there. .He intimated in hia |
confession that he was instigated by, a desire to ob-
‘tain possession ofa small eum of money which Shin

| had about him... West’s portrait is given elkew here.

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HISTORY OF HOWARD,,AND COOPER COUNTIES. 783
St. Louis: National Historical Co., 1883

1882, surrendered himself to Governor Crittenden, cf Missouri, in
the executive office, in Jefferson City. He quietly walked into the
Governor’s office, announced who he was, unbuckled his belt, con-
taining his pistols and cartridges, and handing them to the Governor,
surrendered.

PILOT GROVE TRAGEDY.

On the morning of the 10th of October, 1878, as Joseph Meredith’s
sons went to the field to work, they discovered the body of a man

under the floor of a vacant house. One of the young men went to
the house to get out of the wind to light his pipe, and seeing some

weeds on the floor, which looked like some one had been sleeping
there, he went into the building, and found a vest behind the door.

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He then called his brother to assist him in further investigation. They
discovered a rock partly hidden by ashes in the fire-place and bloody
on the corners. They found # loose plank with blood on it, and on
moving the plank, they found the corpse of a stranger, who had been
killed but a little while, as his body was still warm. The house
where they discovered the body, was about three miles from Pilot
Grove. It had rained during the night and the murderer had done
his work after the rain, as his tracks testified. The dead man was a
stranger, supposed to be one of two men who passed through Pilot
Grove on Friday evening before the murder. On the floor was found
i flask containing « small quantity of liquid. The man was about .
twenty-eight years of age, five feet six inches high, had dark com-
plexion, dark blue eyes and dark hair. His clothes had nearly all

CHgen taken off and his pockets turned inside out. There was the mark

of wring on the fore finger of his left hand; had in his pocket a

cebroken seal ring; under the lapel of his coat was a pin, the top of

>
which was circular, enclosing a bunch of grapes and a leaf. In the

veuce corner near the house, were found the bloody shirt and pants of
the murdered man. October 11, 1878, a man giving his name as
John I. West, was arrested at Haggarty’s coal mine, near Arrow
Rock, Saline county, Missouri, and was taken to Pilot Grove. Here
he was identified as the companion of the dead man found in the
vacant house. A negro boy said he had seen a man coming from the
house where the body was found, and on being sent for, picked the
man out of a hundred men in «a room, but said he was dressed dif-
ferently. The prisoner was bound over to await his trial in the cir-
cuit court, and was tried, convicted and sentenced at the January
term of the court in 1878. A motion was made for a new trial and
the case taken to.the supreme court, but that tribunal affirmed the

784 HISTORY OF HOWARD AND COOPER COUNTIES.

decision of the lower court, and West was executed May, 16, 1879.
Before his execution, West made two confessions, wherein he admitted
the killing of the man found in the outhouse, and suid he killed him
while he was sleeping. Below will be found a brief sketch of the
murderer as written by himself:

The first part “of my life, or as far back as I can remember, I
never would mind my father. The first whipping he gave me was
when I hid the fire shovel, JI would not tell him where it was.
In fact, I did everything that was wrong. I visited watermelon
patches and destroyed them, and would tear up buggy-rigs.
I was stubborn, and had no regard for myself or any other per-
son. I was taught right until nine years old; at that time
my dear mother died and left me with a wicked father. My mother
was religious and gave me good advice even until the last. The fact
of my going astray rests on myself. The most of my life has been
spent in bad company. Sometimes I would lead a good life for a
while, then get into bad company again. I was born at Spring
River, Jasper “county, Missouri; have lived in Illinois fourteen years ;
my age is twenty-four years. I give Mr. Cosgrove and Mr. Pendle-
ton many thanks, and feel under ten thousand obligations to them.
Read this, and take a lesson, young man. . Never step aside ; always

shun evil. I respect all who have visited me; with this I close.
Good-bye.

J. H. Johnston, the prosecuting attorney, conducted the case for
the state and Cosgrove & Pendleton for the defence.

ESTELLA A. WILBUR.

On Sunday, the 29th day of August, 1880, occurred the death
of little Henry C. Wilbur, aged five years. After he died and was
laid out ready for burial, it was noised about that the child had been
foully dealt with, by his stepmother. The body was examined and
traces of foul play and ill-treatment were so evident that a coroner’s
jury was summoned. The post mortem examination of the brain,
revealed an injured condition of the membrane of the brains. On
the body, back and front, and on the legs from hip to feet, were signs
of severe laceration, apparently as if done with a whip, or some in-
strument that bruises severely and at the same time does not cut the
skin.

Two or three witnesses testified to hearing a child getting an un-
merciful whipping in the same house where the death occurred, and
on the afternoon of Sunday, the day of its death. They also testi-
fied, that the child suddenly stopped crying, but the beating went on.
The verdict of the jury was as follows: ‘* That the child  Seury C.

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‘satablished by the Chilian people

of Btates which might put in peril
- triemglly relations between the two

7 .

RIVER ‘DISASTER.

Steamer Oliver Bierce Burned en the
. wer. Mississippi — Probably Tweety
-yes Loat. a ‘ - ~ ; : :

icxspuRO,..-Miss., Oct. . 50.—The-
_dsome steamer Oliver “Blerne was
“ged ‘to the’ water's cdge at 3:3
_oek yesate ing near Mill}

‘slanding, les bel

-g, ‘Twenty ‘persons st the least cal-
itlon are belleved to have perished.
. hp Oliver: Bierma was @ new
-dsome passenger . boat ‘end was
itin Jeffersonville, [nd , Your. years

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sat

along time Finally,

‘twelve miles below Vicks 4

|-When the rope was
Sheriff Smith asked him if he had any-

‘| esp was down over his head and
i | Bherlf?, Bmith, with his hand -on ‘the
| lever, p eald: .

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With his hands clasped
slowly ascended the

hat in the eoart yard came

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him if he hed anything to

him, ~~ oe 3
, ““Well——” and then he hesitated for
in a low bat firm
voice, be went on: ‘What I wanted
to say wie that if [ hadn't. met Father
Murphy here I would have been lost,
and now, boys, I sm going to Heaven.”
Then there was & long pause, as if be
had finished To the listeners the
pauses seemed ten times longer than
Lthey really were. The noise from out-
side upon the strained ears of those
within seemed worse than the uproar
‘of some great political convention
Falteringly: the old man went on:
“Boya—some of you here are boys—I
want you to take warning from me. sf
want to be an advantage toyou If
you don’t, you will go backward.”
There was then another wait Finally
be continued: ‘Sheriff Smith and his
good wife have been a father and 8
mother to me since I've been here I
‘thank everybody who has been kind to
me." oe &
Then he stopped. It was all he could
aay. He stepped back on the trap and |
Deputy Sheriff Dickinson began to tie
hisarme The deputy was assisted by
Sheriff Ayers, who hanged - Price, and
Sheriff Hornbeck, who banged Tur-
Vagton. ee ;
The resigned and set expression on
the old man's face never changed.

.

thing to say. His lips moved in an in-

7 \endible “No” Some rowdy outside

‘yelled:

“Here the old fellow drops,”
and s

ran through the erowd

| atthe thoughtless bratality, The black |

put about his neck |.

Paul Bechwald » _
and children in this city. -. afew
days ago be ree’ et ‘a house:
pressed a desire to neo his children avd.

lowed, during which he told his family®.
he had lived in Philadelphia sines he
last saw them, fifteen years ago, bul’ -
gave no reason for bis sudden disap.

by the children to learn more of. their

Pe

married and had
dren living in Phitadelph
his two sons, Henry and -
reside in this city, paid him os visit.in |
Philadelphia. Mrs. Buchwald admits
her husband has a wife'snd children-it

Philadelphia. All the children: here

silico
boas wt:

ing. Shortly~ after: 36

eluded his speech .

“which” was

many others in


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TER” DISASTER. : -

ipaaniteen

' Otlwer Hierne Borned ‘ea the
— a emnad ——

‘aise, Oct. 0 —The:
ede Oliver Blerne was
the: water's edgo ‘at 3:30
erday morning near Mill}
g. twelve miles below Vicker ;
aty persons ‘at. the least cal-
bellaved to have perished.
‘of Biern® was a new and
passenger boat and was
fersonville, Ind, Your years
188 been used in the excur-

son the Mississipp! for the | -

-mamers and during the win-
a& plied between local pointa
ey end of the river. The
alued at $50,000 and owned

tera’ & Merchants’ Packing

Orleans. She left the city
wiay with over 100 deck pas

i eartled fifteen cabin pase

- his ist was increased by
oassenyers taken.on board
amphis and other landings
ae, after getting to the Mis-

or, secepted freight on her

- and when she reached Mi)}i-

. she had aboard several hun-
of cotton {in addition toa

‘miscellaneous freight She
lfken's bend at night and

‘+e, intending to resume her
‘he river in the morning at
. The passengers and crew
- when at 3:30 o’elock an
"8 was suddenly sounded. and
we anyone was awake the
3 flames. 7

salhad about-eighty deck ns
Wty cabin It is
. gacertain the of lives,
PL sabe cite: “a8 to. floes

“eel Mary

th Boren the |.
might put in perl

‘hound vestaed: ‘ton. thes: longer than.
side upon the strained ears of those
within esemed worse than the

of some grest political convention. .

Walleringiy: the old man went ve:

waht to be an advantage to you If
you don't, you will go backward.”

There was then another wait. Finally
he cohtinned: ‘Sheriff Smith and his |
good wife have been a father and a
mother to me since I've been here I
thank every body who has been kind to
me."

Then be Gionoed It was all he-conld
aay. He stepped beck on tho trap and
Deputy Rheriff Dickinson began to tle
hisarma The deputy was aasiated by
Sheriff Ayers, who hanged Price, and
Sheriff Hornbeck, who hanged Tor
lington.

The realigned and set expression on
the .old man's face never changed
When tho rope was put abont his neck
Sheriff Smith asked him if he had any-

thing to aay. His lips moved In an in-
‘audible ‘‘No.” Some rowdy outaide
yelled: ‘‘Here the old fellow drops,”

and a shudder ran through the crowd
atthe thoughtless brutality. The black
cap waa pulled down over his head and
‘Sheriff Smith, with his hand on the
lever, said: ‘‘May the Lord have mercy
upon your poor soul”

At 10:05 o’elock the drop fell. The
body of the poor wretch at the end of
the rope drew itself up and then
wtraightened out There wns scarcely
a struggle other than this. The cor-
oner took hold of his nulse and in six-
teen- minutes pronounced him dead
The body was lowered and placed in
‘the coffin. There were no friends to
elaim it.: It will be — in the ae
yter's Geld:

hanged was the cruel murder of Jeffer-
‘gon Moore, aged 54, and his son, Charles
} Moore, aged 29,0on the Moores’ farm

May, 1890 -He also confessed to, the
murder of his wife, the murder. of an
‘ola German and the murder of. an en-

{ ttre. family in Mitnoia, The monster
. was, born - Perot Beane th,

they really were. The bolee few ont

“Boys—some of you here are boys—I t
want you to take warning from me. T}

The crime for which Williamaon waal

three miles sontheast of Sedalia, in

dren living in Phitedelphia, 3
hia two sons, Henry.

Philadelphia. Mra Buchwald rs :
her husband has a wife’ and papa ieee :

ferrible Bheoting Affray at an Ameiies a.
Maen Meeting in Arkansas. —

Lrrrux Rock, Ark., Oct. 8.—News ” :
has reached here of a terrible hand-to-.*, ....;
hand encounter at Bucksport, twenty is } eo :
milos from El Dorado, Union county, 9 9").
uta Farmers’ Alliance mass meeting, <<".
Stnte Lecturer Bryan, of the alliance, | care

swas the principal speaker of the even->

ing. Shortly after be had cone.

cluded his speech ai quarrel took -

placo among several of the specta-

tors, which wan soon taken up by.

many others In the audience. Winches ~
ter rifies, shotguns and pistols were

used with deadlyeffect. Burt Manning,

J, H. Teenen and three others whose .

names could not be learned were killed °, oO
and several slightly wounded. Sheriff =. |
Goodwin, of Union county, left Et. pe
Dorado to-day for the scene of the. -
trouble. rani epee ige

and sole canse of trouble. °°

FATAL RAILWAY: ACCIDENT.


nothing but rejoicing and pleasure, Come one, come all and join God's army. S@ up w
you that will and come and join His army.' At 6:25 Father Panken made the sign of the

cross, waited a few.seconds until Wilson had done the same, and turning to Deputy Sheriff .
Blake, who was on guard at the door, Wilson said that he was ready for breakfast. His last és
meal on earth was then brought into the cell and placed upon the table, It was furnished
by Ebers' Restaurant, opposite the Four Courts. It was ordered by Wilson himself and con-=
sisted of tenderloin steak, buckwheat cakes, strong coffee, rolls, fired potatoes,

and a wine glass of porter. Wilson rose from his seat and hestitated a second, as

if waiting a command to proceed, Father Panken nodded towards the table and Wilson
pulled up his chair and sat down, Father Panken said a short grace, to which Wilson

said 'Amenl' cpossing himself in a devout manner, With a steady hand Wilson lifted

the glass of porter to his lips and gulped it down at one swallow, Turning to the

guard he asked for a knife and fork, Mr, Blake said: 'I'm sorry, Charlie, but you

can't have them, It's against the rules,' 'Fingers were made before knives, any~
way,’ said Wilson, and he proceeded unconceredly with his meal, After eating his
breakfast, Wislon addressed a letter to his brother and sister. A.POST-DISPARTH re=
porter asked the condemned man how he felt, He replied: 'Oh, very well and hopeful,

thank you, sir.' Churchill, fowler and Curtis, three colored prisoners, came into
Wilson's cell, shook hands with him and said 'goodbye.'To each Wilson answered

earnestly that he was sure of salvation and he hoped that his end would be a warning

to them. To Churchill, his parting injunction was 'Give up your wicked ways and

lead a better life," He was evidently deeply imbued with a religious feeling, and to

all who spoke to him upon the subject siad that he was confident’ of a happy home in
heaven. At 6:30 o clock, the time set for the reading of the death warrant, it

developed that the-warrant could not be read until sunrise, and Wilson was granted an
enexpected wespi e until 7:50 o'clock. Precisely at 7:30 o'clock, Sheriff Henry
Herrington, accompanied by Deputy Sheriff Guibor proceeded to the cell of the cone

demned man to read the mandate of the Supreme Court of the State of Missouri, con-

taining the warrant for the execution of Charles Wilson, The condemned fose from a
conference with Father Panken, and turned to the sheriff with a look of stolid in-
difference. During the time occupied by Mr. Hertington in putting ‘on his spectacles,
snuffing the tallow candle which lit the cell and other little preparations previous

to unfolding the black-bordered document which he bore in his hand, Wilson was en-=

gaged in an earnest conversation with his spiritual adviser, While the warrant was
being read, Wilson kept his eyes fixed on the floor of his cell, “ Not a muscle of his

face moved and in no manner dir he manifest the slightest interst or emotion.

Immediately the Sheriff had folded the warrant was replaced in his pocket, Wilson

put on hissoft felt hat, grasped the extended hand of Sheriff Herrington and said: !
Noodbye,' .in a clear, firm spot. Deputy Sheriff Guibor then proceeded to prnion the
wondenned's arms behind his back and Wilsonwas ready for the scaffold, The march from the
condemned's cell across the jail to the south door leading to the jail yard was slow

and impressive. Sheriff Herrington headed the progession, followed by Wilson and

Father Panken side by sides; then came Deputy Sheriffs Hodnett, Hart, Guibor and

twenty. deputies, clerks and members of the Sheriff's stagf; Dr. ‘Gib Carson‘of the

Health Office, Dr. Justin McCarthy, Dr. Epstein of the City Dispensary and others.

"ON THE SCAFFOLD: A SCENE OF HORROR THAT BHILLED THE BLOOD OF THE SPECTATORS.

"At 730 asm. the western door 0§ the jail was opened and a few seconds later the
procession appeared, The crowd which had blocked the way to the plank gangway leading to
the scaffold opening to let it pass, It was headed by Sheriff Herrington, followed
closely by the doomed man, at whose side walked Nev,’ Father Panken, holding a crucifix be-
fore Wilson's.eyes. There were on the scaffold the Deputy Sheriffs who had been:
apppinted to conduct the details of the execution, Deputy Coroner Hennessy, Morgue=

keeper Ryan, Police Officers Quigley and Rayn and the reports. Wilson, whose

courageous and dignified demeanor commanded universal admiration, wilked upon the
scaffold with a firm step and afterstealing a glance at the rope above his head,

looked steadily at the crowd in front of him and in a low voice addressed them as’

follows: 'Gentlemen and Fellow Citizens: I am going to take my departure from this
world, and I hope you will all meet me in heaven, I am going to my Father in heaven,

to remain with him there forever. I have been granted no justice, having had no

legal talent to secure me a fair trial, but I forgive everyone; I have nothing against

anyone. Still, I claim as I fall here, that I have not had justice, I feel as if I

am ‘going to meet my Savior, and that I am not a cold-blooded murderer, There are murderers “4
walking around in St. Louis today who desezwe the death which is to be inflicted upon

n>
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86 MISSOURI 520

WILSON, Charles, black, hanged at St. Louis, Missouri January 15, 1886.

"St. Louis, Jan. 15 — Charles Wilson (colored), was hanged this morning for the werdér of
Wm. Ae David, second mate of the steamer 'Fannie Twaturn,' July 31, 1885, by hitting him
on the head with a rock.« “ilson had been discharged and ordered away from the steamer
but returned to get some money he claimed was owing him. After-the trap had been s rip
the body for a moment remained motionless, and then there was enacédd a scene of ioreer
which chilled the blood of all who witnessed it. Two doctors, one on either side, were
each holding a wrist, when the violent contortions of the hanging figure meved ‘shed aside
and before they could regain their hold upon the man, whose actions showed he was in full
possession of consciousness of all that was going-on, he made frantic struggles to re-
lease himselfs His hight had shot up, clutched the rope arn held it firmly. It seemed
as if the man must die by slow degrees from strangulation, but one of the doctors % ‘Tow
succeeded in disengaging the hand, and in a short time the body hung a corpse."

TIMES, Los Angeles, California Qanuary 16, 1886-(1/3.)

"Charles Wilson's last day on earth opened dark and wet. Sleet and snow had fallen

during the night to a considerable extent and the weather outside was miserable, In

the jail the cell of the man condemned to die was guarded by Deputies Tayor and Blake, who
kept the last death watch, Wilsop remained awake until 1 o clock ths morning, when

he retired and slept until 1:20 o clock when he was awakened at his own request. During the
time he slept the deputies entered the cell several times and looked at him, He was.
sleeping soundly and quietly. On awakening he was cool and calm,with no evidence of

the realization that he was about to meet death face to face in a few hours, After he had
washed himself he ordered his breakfast, which he said he wanted served to him about
Go'clock, Shortly before that hour, Rev. Father Panken, S. Js, Wilson's spiritual

adviser since his adoption of the Catholié faith, arrived at the Jail and conversed

with Wilson in his cell, privately, administering to him the last rites of the church,
Before the priest's arrival, Wilson wrote a few letters to his friends. He chatted
pleasantly with a POST-DISPATCH KKRQRKERY reporter, remarking: 'I know the time is

near, but still I feel well and happy. I expect to be much happier though, after my
departure from this world, Then I will be with God.' To several people who stood

around the cell door he narrated may of the experiences of past life in an indiff-

erent way and with a forced smilé, His manner indicated that he wished to convey the
impression that he was thoroughly resigned to his fate, He was not afraid to die.

Amongst the documents which Wilson indicted last night was his last will and testa-

ment, which read as follows: 'The will of Charles Wilson, ‘St. Louis City Jailer, Hon. He
QO. Siegmund: Please have these things returned. One to my fellow prisoner, Milton H. Neal,
this table and comfort; give Sadie Hays my chair, and this dictionary and one of the
penholders. Return the two sheets to Robert Green, and this ink and penfolder, Give

your guard, Jim, my pillow, and this first book of history to Fitzpatrick, cell No. 1:1
er, and this full course of ‘instruction to hims And to Frank Brady, this arithmetic,

and to Charley Churchill, this grammar, and underwear and Isaac Curtis this striped
pantaloons, and give Charles Jones these pants and this lead pencil and all of those

small things that I have. I presume all of my fellow prisoners will not think the

less of me, for + leave them something, I have so much to do now and I will bid good-bye

_to one and all of my fellow-prisoners, I will mourn all of them as Paul did to his

followers. I do not place myself on ah equal with him in anything, but I will say to one
and all that my faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is every bit as strong as his, I believe in
Him and I trust in Him, and I hope in Him and I am going to Him to live forever, And I will
say to this whole world that I am not guilty of a cold-blooded murder, and I am just

as clean of everything of that kind as an angel in Heaven. God knows that I am

innocent. I am statisfied that I am, so that the hope of my future is that I am going

to meet my Savior, and I will be doing so tomorrow night, walking the streets in

Heaven, where I can conquer tbath and I amready and willing to take my departure to meet
my Lord and Savior, So I hope and trust God that I will be in His kingdom by the

time this is translated and written to you, my dear sinners; and thae this, my dear

saints, as advice from a true-hearted Catholic Christian, and thank that as you have

seen me and as you have read of me so far, this Will sayno more, and LI will ee one.

and all farewell, arid I hope and trust God that I will meet everyone there, Rea ’

my Father in the kingdom,

where there will be no more mourning, but there will be


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ee made by the same parties to Mra.

dereet out Nladiey—names eaebrined in the

& hearte of Sousande of car brave boya by acts of wo-
Dat!g kinghese and attentiog. ‘ ‘

» a) .
JLSON FO BS RANGED TO-DAY.

’

. Trea rcpgeon ip Charge,
ase tohye their getcem aud spprobation, Saltabie
Tyee

77
WIS ARREST FOR MERGER IN CINCINNATI,
; as initia Sains i ’

.
fecnty wil.
, br delay his fate, but more would probadiy

, Feetea.

* tended ir tilt the oa
4

i

, A handaane pitce of piste,

SKETCH OF HIS LIFE,

4
, 2
His Aceenat ef the Climore Marder,

\ Wiliam Wileon, the murderer of John (, Glimora,

‘odagtote-Danged fn the yard ol the &. L. aie

Not mach effort has. been midg to avert |

ve been

equally useless, He waa without oreane to hire 4
attorney, and had couns:! aselgned bim by Jut

ens Mj gentleness octected war N.C. Comeren | Warrect a cogclusion that guid woald he
q ,mho performed bie duty with unexceptionatie | matrtsined at highs figures, Om the conteary
atiity and carneetness, aod wh: exertions for his pa

Citeaceid pot end with the verdict or the eenten-e, | ™AY things clearly tndiested that it would

Hie nrgent epplication to Gov Gamble was met with
final and postive assurance Lhet the case was one in
whith no degree of Kaecut ve clemency could be ox
Wilson hee been apprieed of taie fact fa
about two weeks pas!,

‘Theugh offen arre¢:4 and atelatt doomed to dle
ttder the name of Wi. Wo jnon, the foie areal natae
fe Patrick Majo7, We yosteaday found him appasenty
Panquil, and perfoowy ull preggeee! fle reatiy de- |
failed bis past lity, ama; g bis Proce ora! lemet aoany
of thoueand conversing with cordiality and vivacity.
Aan pe to hie « atement, Qe follwing art anniag
tle factaa@enie bietur ;

He was born to Adameton Parirb, coanty of Weer
fi rOplreaod, March ih, vs, Wie fs ber wasn hard

‘

- werblug cod he pest farmer, and toih hie parenia were

moral end reepectatle. His motodr wae ccemplare
andever gave himescelent advier. Had he flowed
20, bie ceedition would, ia hia Jodgemoent, have been
far different. Principally trough couteenpt of to he
finds himself, qt the aye of iittle more thau Jt years,
within ja few houre of the galiows

“

"Wheh Yycaracad, he com wth hie mother, ten
hrothere and two wistera, to New Urieaue, There he
was fai-hfo'ly placed to the pabear aerial, ent at

remuged to t
yerty afterwara, The father td remained ‘sn le and,
Where b adeath occarred when (oe ror wae twee ge
Searecid., At Cincionatt be attended diatrict eet
Datil, at AMeen yeara Of ave, he wae apprengiced tu an

ipa twe

bardess maker. For three veare be worked at this
ane bore a good séepetation. Faliing into

yparcy he was led to the perpet ratios ol slat

cony, for whieh he waearrested. On ihe preliminary

ipvest gation be brourht witneraee to teetify to ti
geod charaqter and elanding, and this, with som
wnt cl coucicelveness tn toe proof ayanet bina, abel
t) bie rete

Ke then felt diegraced and branded asa ihief, ant
etcnce, without infurmi:ganyy ( tle frends lett fae
Lebievilie, then came to st. Lott, remained acres

Mewi>, went thence to New Orans, acd eared there
WO lagnihe, then returned sod syert alwiat oi
mozthe inst Leute, five of them inethe Works mise
on a charge of anapory i (Hw Basioges wae tnat of
@nexpert ba giar, bcteljthie!, Av.) When released
be maée thetour of the Upper Minelastpy| to St. Vaal
na Veck, orriving in jthe spring Ye wasacun
joched np, but dichargel ater a getertion of three
Geys, He row revie'teah Vocinuatt, apd lelearety par-
ened hie peculiar avecation there for several mouite
Vbence he traveled with varied success, ej ourning in
Searly every considerable city tu the Gulu aod Mieee
Olppi valjcyr, Forabout une poare bie heady wetere
were APTive | phati. tat some Me years agahe formed
TM KNet Compectiche io St. Louie
Wihiledo the furmer city. in Ise, on the 7th or #h
Of Jonr, be wae arrested on eGepiciun of toa morder
of Protemce Crow'ey, wha war ene mornieg: faind
Deaten and fatally etalbed, cua dahivge There being
Bo pice! agutoet bia the dcferdent wae at once de
Charved: but wae roca aferwaria re-arreetes fit the
Cine td again Gischarged. A third! me lie waaer
Tested, at CLicaze, an giugeeve, aud on ekam nation |
was o1ce mote relemecd. He wan sa taten in
custody @ fonrth time on the pau: chary’, and
4A wae deemed eam jest to warrant 5 (rial
Prise fn jatiets’ months be wee eudtecly again
Ot iterty—the proeceetlyy attorney Andting uh
WO thicre Wihleon dee inee sapere anys ling ae ty bie
terlinccerce in thematter,
thiesrd etd dother cites peeldes those namod,
the crrog young man hag reopen ct y been acs ce er
He hed becn ateadily pedis a year ia be. Crate,
when beelilGiimore, Ag to this affair, be bad hare:

at

rose

fo Le sm@lolawe: ‘

"Elsid heqa errested by tho UL 8, Io iee ant i aced
{nthe DMioiitary Privon, ant wae htoaton parols and |
Ch concitamtoat lL would leaves theetty. My prrola
4 Xpired pn Mow ay, the Vin of December, aud | was

Vion teow ard wae afraid of being again pot

bitarg Prieos,

“Tuat everirg Lwentyeme toa the
toenthossob+ Meta Mere atreets, dud wae t
ULB oMicers had teen there forme; aud ro
Biel Sid ricgt at 3 (rieud ahyone ta the tows
ant
Hex

si at

atthecty starce, dureph Hyrnee nod I weut
petne Jogether ned got there about ecven ociuck, We
entered fim Thirteenth eqgget by the front dour, aud

het from ile rear, os Woe eworn lo My a
Coat As poun asl yor turotbe ball laa
Giwore, whem | hed rever geen before,

wi nese in
wihie man

| The tact is, as we bave sald a bundred ttmeatyecently,
{ there te nothing in the facie warrounding the case to

‘in which several partion have been rained alread,

| ke re, with elatycayeto d liver, tn which time the ects

» & Ypne, ce habs

be searctty of the article. Sack a tombinalion af ctr

{ thie guid excitement’ Ta New Yoru, except bo rash aij
| who cannot eve the revolt of this leet part of the peo-

| etreet,
i whatto do with, end down gore the price, breawee

| and able ty cometent waralion. The gemera tay ng

foforerefeal) @irem maki any etatement, bute’
yercer ny fit fre C9 Ra partner tnt
potecn, dosepb Dy ruce, the conde Meu barraled

| below New York, om both guid and Treasary ndee.

AEO | puegeeding Tolerebly well ja Gling ap thet? dievrant

| escept at « Aiscount «

iret d ,

x the aght height te sume cue who had bevn there all |
a pigte, }

named Henry Bakes, wh tted
Came Bi Rta bad just deserted from
! Baker bad nit a dollar, while Wilvon hid fifiees. and

"Aglenernd te etood up and asked, Do yoo live
Tere?’ Ltoahim *yo.’ He jumped towards me
erd laid biehkanc on my abuslder and avid * i arroat
Son.’ TL etegped beck from bias and weked him
“Whatior?' snd Le inetantly drew bia pistol and
presented itemt wy face.
ard fired. Itwas a eelfeockting Allen's revolver
The whide aflair took place iu a few seconds, Af
out ae le oye ke clarreat L took him fora puilceman
tnt when he drew a piel.) tue imprerelon retarned
Upoy me that he waa Loy lamonce blepped out iaia
the etiest ano felt sorry trough for the ecape.sad woald
bave given epything to kouw that the ehot had not
Kuleahim. athoughtthas wader the ctreamstancas
1 ehcild stand no chance 4 | remained aud was Yigd
for murder, and so I geared out.”

It fa ecartely necestary bere to etate that thiaac-
count matertally conMiets with that given by police.
rote Gi)more be’ure cath, which took pace neve
sal daye afier the shooting, The officer's statement,
Moreuves, wae coriovdMed by uther witn

Wi'ecu te moetemptalic in declaring t!
had no pert whatever, in the killing of 4ailmore.

. The diood-stamed man tirmediatelf® left the city,
traveled on foot to De Sota, thence tuck the care fo
Mcasd City,and fom thay place west by steanmbost
to Paducah, ,lleré he fel) fuewith a brother burglar

the denen divided with hie’ pal’’ and both decor.

wher,” Wil.

the biockad
ed to @ pola
and theres

| poport a fair degree of activity. Money tor every

; Meth at
| @t Vas)

Jthen pulled out tay plot a |

| ~" RIN ANCUSAL MATTRaS. ;
Ay wapay, June #1, ¥. w--There wae no change
the money market today, except the decline la
‘which wae odered at 6% cont. Sromlam, without
,, Rachapge |s steady at par oelliag and i *die-
ecautbeying, Nothiag doing ta Cefense warreata, |
ere are Gull at 9727. The dispatches in
to gold far the last four or five dave have quc-.
above the market 11% W oent., os
‘New’ Yerk papers of fwecday, the Suh ’
show, Fir isetancé, on Monday dispatches
came Weet that goid wae §\¢ premiom, while Tuse-
day's pepers containing the report of Monday's money
mnarke: quote gold only a4 107. Now, what does this
meant Why can we gut a correct report of the
money market by telegraph? What obfect je there
inecoding over the wires tieee lying dispatches?

goon go éown to the low rates recentiy hed. fing
there je a wild gaming game coteg.oe la New York,

It fathe “eelling short operation awoag the bro-

ing potty expects to make his elaty daye’ latercat,

and provekly a speculetion on (the toutract
price, Bat pemetiars these reckless speru-
lators apd pemblere, whoa ae outetbe of the

regoiars eluck tnarde, fod combinations ageinet
them, and when thelr slaty dayy’ ealee become due,
they find themselyeuldiged lo pay Ligher i gud
than they scld at. In proportiva to the extent af
these pellng ehort opiravons, ls the excitement Ls
the money market atom Lhe fine theaw co psirecte feu
cue. The bene and legitimate sto kk, a4 money
Cralere pel@ota bare anyth'ng to do wih thene
Karmbiing — tperations, ant peeeral pg dierous
fermti¢e them. And i je thie clase. of
so with the demand by Wialee foe epoca

le pray interest, the late pevotlatlon ef the New Ya

joan of 8D (ua) 10 be paid In core, ead the ail pment

te Rorepe of pperte ta par for beate rent wore ta tee |
converted, wl
be it werd tagetber
cn, end bol

cain?
owe

fepleriog 19 afew weels, asl priaped

which bee raleed the price af
ae ence Clam, & permanent demant and
eumetancee@, acctéental to s yreet exteat, may never
(ccur tgeln, ond there are cerlelnly pe groweds fue bee
levirg it pusetble cyaln omen, Mo thal alter tbe Merry,
mattore wi.lewhelte sed reecme Ueels old gresves,
ard pare cy quietly sgain

Now, the coontry b cheae la be very little affected by

thetr gold there, aod evil at (he high fgeres, Bat

gremen)
aotil

Hyecte will be rushed in torrenteinto Wall
they ‘beve more than they kaow

Chere le ne beatin ma foumdallon for the demand Ih
Jee Vabble, an alrcastic 494 mynet comedows when
the wind whith Infistes has eecayed Now we eo
Gially unite with the New York papere tn adrlieing
everytedty who has poid, to pend 1) lmmedia ely to
Walle reet, agd tf they can get it there before (he
bubble bereta, they will get more for i than they will
to realize aPUTr ty a tevive month, tf ever,

Ye ati

The Cineinpath Garfle of (ble morning eaya

The market (gr ¢ ia wae rather tame today, wth
tmecre ecliete thm boy re at the advanced Agurre ia
New Yerk the price eetued down to ey prem, ond
private GhenateLee repented 1 mod eaey to ool of O%0s,
ardeven at # it wee not free. In we market the
barbers bwoyht at T prem. aod we heard uf aa order
for $10 90 that wee Alied at 2) Te the afieruena there
wae a Gleposition on the part of come dealers t4 real
fer, ond ie dugtits) whether ap amp offer cd § ptee
wonld hawe been declined (gaulatiomes ore UReritied,

taté for demand Treasory tc Aot wee Bpremniom Tae
Chamler of Commerce bad Geetations from New
York of 44 G4 prem, Datliprivete 4 spatichee reaged
from ey ts 44. About @ wae the prevaient @gare.
ard the mashe, wae feeble, or ryhee pervoes, at (hat,
Gor bar kere are timid envegh herp, rome distance

There lop fair demand fur maney, and bankers are

jem. . Mateecf teterest range frum § 40 $0. per Cont
The later figtrd le more corrent that heretofore,
Vel etn) @ ood deal of business la dune at tye inelde

fj utAa lions.

jhe market for exchange drage at Why d'sewent

DPoytug, and pareeling Yewofthe Geass paldone
a foeey Silver ta Aria AtS prem,

The potee of Pastern city baume are efi] nom!nally
Jar, bet revere) iending Logeee reinse them’ *7,
and the indications are
hey withe within a dey cetwo, be reduced ta this al:
rand, c

e
Cmcaca--Thie me rming's Tribune Rye :
Husluers at the banks je tcereselag-end they now

he yitiinate parpome in aboundast; aod fret clase pepe,
ve present offerings, talght bo readily pisced

Toe general tiade of the etty waco

Now Yor exchange is io falr regent Set the sap-
ply te fully nal tothe demand, The busing price

wt of) the @ Lousce fe par; sollleg \ (remiem on
round lots fur retat! parcese aradcm culiections, ¢ Be
cent. pr miom te the Oguare.

Gold In New York wae reported at MBA ‘pten.
Here it railed at 7 baying and & selling. he margin
tetween preee in New Yors and here ia maintained
te here pgeinet the eudden Aactaations of that ickle
Taarkct.

¢ ‘DAILY ST, LOUIS MARKET.:
iUheDay, June 6, Pr, w.—There was raiuer a bet-
ter feeling in the general market to-day, aad is come
articles there wae aa improvement, Tobacro was
Crofer, and there was a large break today, and lees
tejectiona, There was a siight improvement ta herp,
and tbe market etcady. Vicar dall, and price the
fare pe yesterday, With slight recelpta, wheat was
frmer, thongh transactions were emall. Cora and
cate were Inactive acd jower, Nothing done in rye
ard bariey, Whisky frm at the advanced rates. Fro
visions Cull, and beacon wasa shade lower, Lard uao-
charged and market quiet, Tallow the eame, Beans

tiede t to arrive, BO
OF | Pate beeh Mii

coe at
Michigen at @1 4

ocmnd | (Aya fe

Coneta, PW eotrre and Hate.
Fiver +\Wee more aciive

Philo at BR TK< foe Cuba, TYOAYS fur Purto
w Ov oape, and by &..«

te Rteedy Kalee La bide Cuba mes
ot Pa. wi) bade of Regi os lelend a1 22.40% aad 1

*\e for }
OMT

tat
bode Porta lucy ar 34 ead
Ra phe, tach

* 5 foe fr iooe

] rem-<jwietanaronthinped), ealee #0 bhis st §3 80
1 pritee | @xehdo for City meme; O11gp)8 60
repacksd meee) Gi tck14 60 far entre meee,

eT hae

tree peel ta! and tuminal
emote ot GLE Weple fo
ue Meate

“on salre & bones ohaet fib
Lape Cemtinare (nn good

Palos | & 1) ttre at Tweens
Torrea4

hot Prete
(nuasee Vormet bpege

Weng Market th ansetiio’d and jower,

fr ti bile wh Tbe tp Poe Miata, wba we ig ah Bee font

ters closing pr the inalde qu dgitone ' pers oe ee p Bing eg tions ol
Minas Active, ab Oi Ween on call: dy Qtig ps 9 Feo» Ralaadign

for prime paper bierling guchanws excites .

hiyber, and
bare are qacded a1 10 Peat

Ati(ne-Gureriment socks Armor; U & of “M1 | leave to day at 4p. m. ‘al
bly rps | Le Meh reaeury pope 105K, Blocks mong the Aen on Ww
tor, but Quiet, Coieagu aH ii is ge B&Q Le oe ot
Tiy, CM TON, © AP 4 IN Cocrip Gig, MB, guar: ‘ -
aniced, OF, Meaty; TPs W & Ube * lo om,

it & Metoom Why;
Vite. pecferred, 44: MC 64,
ee (RAN W temsiod

T Blo he, Up clase of JUD

Mate las Biaie.

Comp Market te active and le b

eapert(emerd; sale 34) 008 bashele at ,

waw mised Weotera , Sabies fer old; CURile fue am
‘estern poilow

Cate ip muderate request ei 4ahise for Jersey,

Firm, with a. muterata demand
ity | formese $10 Tapil tor prime meses;

dguiet end steady; ealee 79 plze at Ty
Ct hor chow dee pid ty Gh fog home

4 ocllow of pile tor Obta, and MBI Te

bere’ Wile are quoted at 18)jg,
ivan guid acrene dtu ay Gel prom. Callurals gold

eu
ey est)

. mae debe,
The Septem, 9 7 8 Cen
s ad WT, woe tae"

Tale at ad

a

ee

ah]

to chatee extra,
me wth

amang the beets,
here an eieth of the R.

with

. leone pilot, wee bora is Boston,
(debn) Cromer, formerty, ot lately
the New Palle City; buga ta © '
Alabough, esgtnoer, tives ta Clectagatt ween
5. 4, Woudard; bora in Marlotta, Obie,
Por mantfdeta we are ladehird to
Boy; Sites ead Osborn, of the Die Verma
of the Frea Levens, und Carteton, of the
Nosrvaransn—Thie frmone
commacding, will heave for Bt.

; ‘The Alhambra is loading foe:
otein Wave tomorrow, 4

Napiee Parnsy--We refer to the
the Huet Huy, far « foarte of daly
waves fur Naples to-day at4 p, m,

: Kooave Pasocirne hee
, leavew tate day a "
“ seed dar

Quincy, Hensiba,

6H The Kmma lances, Copt,
the UMo, will protebly jeave agula
morrow otesing.

Crev ov Aiton th vad

an4 frmer, Sales 8009

how
ioe 36] bide Caba nd
by aaclioe W abde at
falos we)

sume

at Sivgn bame

Hacon sides
towdgen vl ioe at t
deteend, and very ym;

Wee

Amen

You Kameas, Lasvarw
Fras capanne te wy. ws, fee

4; Cal TeV, Treaeary

cides aeamae
av Paved,

The Tax
There were in all tp

sriendmedte to the Internat Revenue, or Tet

hil, the I@uae having, thr

Conference, receded trom 4
from 1

hire gh Ite menagere
malnder lapame & wubjest
baatied in H

mewely adbpt v
ljomse the follow
oyslnet it; Mesara’
Kheode la

he law, ead lata

(he bili are the following :

On all miloeral coals, exe
caval
cents per ton; provided that,

to the trade as **
Of jéase for coal lands

Sith ail the steme |

froking tobacco,
In, Scepte per poan

den p, of all deseniptio
Cigars, veined at n
ver ihoucand ; valued at

19 per 1,000, 62 per thoussad ; valued at over
“i ae LY i] pV apy ag oe
eend; ¥ at over
ta weed. ‘ me 5 Sn

On all cloth, and all textile or kuitie@or felted
sore tbh caus bat ines tacks take Reekeke
OTe @ seme bas

or preparedNa ang other a ’ ef, @ duty of three

percentom ad

On and after October next, a tax of one-half a
cottons.

cert eball be paid on

Whenever a duty le imposed gpon aay artic!

bh articles e aasaitenred ottnk

levied upon apy styvorst BF A,
/ suction

removed fur consum
only to o
after the lst of Ja

officers,

judgment or decree of any

salee made by executor or per
Whisxy, yt re Sct per lo tax on
rectified or mix wnt i
The tax on watches and plano-fortes le stricken.

aint report, which was unani-
the Seaste, while in the
named members

. Johnac, Norton, Nagent, Fradie-
tyles, White of Onlo, Wieklife aad

only awaits the Prealdent’s approval '

tania before the lat of

Agril, IMA, the lesece shall pay the tax,
ovcco—carcodish, pag, twiet, duecet and

wenufee dred of all descriptions

eurtl, cigers, acd smoking tobaceo

or mInede erclasival

etc mea-~vained at more {ban 80 cents

Mw oe “ya pound; heme “ aay sem aot bw

ceeding ) conte per pound, 10 cen i le

yeperes with il the evens

nuff menulactared of tobacco ground dry or

, canta per poy
oy

bundrel end Afteen

ough be Committee of
and the Henala,
ot them. The re-

Pacaey p
Of comprotales a+ em: Hes i rt

a ton
voted
of Iiinote, Browne of

1 effect on the let

Revenue is to
f eanaum.
eat amendments to

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PEs FLING
DISPATGF: Vi

a New ‘Hospital: ie " plaawea.? eg
( - | CAMDEN, Ark., Matoh 4A numnbér. plans to, the. committ
of local architects and others. from. Lit- Ounchita Hoepttal, . This how,

sme TEXAS GOVERNOR PROS SE
vw! WILL PROSECUTE. | NEGRO SLAYER OF |
oe --NEGRO-LY LYNGHERS| WOMAN ie FE

yn bonds of
‘ge of mur-

1, is in con-|Tyeclares He Will 2 Will Call Special Black, Twice Reprieved and

tay, prapar-

tinnis| Grand Jury to Indict | Threatened by Mob, Con-
ntatere and Mob Members. fesses on Gallows,

4 48.

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tfered their

sf envelopes Special to the Post- Dispatch. Special to the Post-Dispatch. ae

and Bush- DALLAS, Tex., Maroh 4.—Leaders of CARTHAGE, Mo., March 4.—Willtam

ntained let-| the mob which yesterdAy took Allen} Wilson, a negro, was hanged in the a
(a)

fp 450]

him to an arch in the central portion

ints, physi-| Brooks, a negro, on trial for a criminal] court yard of the county jall at 6
ng bellef in} attack, from the Courthouse and hanged o'clock this morning for the murder of
About 2600 sterling aa, for
tremendous discounts. magnificen’

: ald if it is Mrs. Millie Plumb, white, at Carl Junc-

o vouch for tion, Mo., July 6, 1908 Sheriff Arch

o trial. of the aty Were alarmed by the 8M-|yrcponald sprung the trap.

a cousin of nouncement that Gov. Campbell would] About forty spectators, mostly min-

postmaster | aemand the calling of a special grand isters, city and county officlals and h | di

s McKinley | jury to investigate and arbange for the] néweraner men, witnessed the execu- &, prices wad e ow or mate ow. ip
férring with ; t th eties 17 tion. Wilson made a written confession

ave supplied punishment © © pa pan explaining tMat he did not think he
ted to be a| After Brooks was hanged, Dalles, for} could go to heaven with a le on his

Open v4 ro
Saturday : ;
nearly three holirs, was in the hands of lips. He requested the confession be
sent to his mother at Bastrop, La, Nights a

iS)
pp

-_

oig

the mob. The jail was stormed and Wd aX

° The murder of Mra. Plumb, who was Till 10. ue 2

death was threatened to three other ne- Yrs _
a member of a small carnival company, PANT, ng A smart drray of (@)

groes held on charges of murder. They | was brutal Wilson attacked her, then ‘ ‘LN Sey ere the «

had been taken away, however. After tted a rope about her neck and dragged ; t es, ‘in . ee

searching for them {fn vata, the mob dis- her several hundred yards, hiding her an Topcoats ; the S

body {n a box car. Hoe was arrested 15.00 garments sh

persed. All saloons were closed at 12 *oxt day. After being sentenced to

o'clock by order of the Police Commis-| hang he was twice reprieved. The sec-
sioner, Mayor Stephen Hay and Sheriff| ond postponement of the execution
aroused the anger of Jasper County
citizens and there was hint of mob
violence.

town: at the Glot £
tomorrow. ceceee:

13.80

The Suits are pure
cheviots, olive tweed
Tailored by Hand Th
2 and 3 button sack #
shoulders, ete. (’Top:
fancy cheviots, cover
etc., $18 and $20 aré

ments are retailing {
St. Louis. While the

Ledbetter joined !n a# call to the militia,
but the troops were not used.

The mob, which came mostly from the
country, assembled at the Courthouge

cu, mend oe Com | TRIO. FIRM RESTRAINED
Sherman, where he had been in Jail to
Sherman, Wise since the day ne at-| FROM PATENT INFRINGEMENTS
tacked Mary lthel Buvens} 2% years +k
old, one week ago today. -The mob wore| Judge Smith McPherson of the United
ef no masks, nor made any effort to con-| States Circult Court issued an Injunction
edi it can | ceal identities. They made it clear at} against the Century Hlectrio Co. Fri-
the ines OF |the beginning that if the trial proceed-| day, restraining it from infringing upon
pial ae ed at once the law could take itS|the patents of the Wagner Electric Co.,
ie eet 16 be course. If delays were ‘sought and tech-| ang ordering it to make an accounting
ur health— nicalities resorted to, then Judge Lynch) tg the Wagner Co. for the last six.
would hold court. years. The amount involved ts sald to
When attorneys for the defense, @D- | 1,6 petween $50,000 and $100,000.
ewe | pointed by the Court, began arguments It was alleged ‘that the Century Com-
in behalf of a postponement of the trial | (any infringed upon three Wagner pat-
| until tomorrow, rumors started through ents, one of which expired two years

SSRERGRE

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EICISISITOISIEISIO!

EXTR
2.50 Trousers

Nobby cheviots,
and cassimeres;

n

the crowd that a change of venue had ago. The Wagner Company is ane of

“Th oorn ent caused veunnnnleel- the largest electrical manufacutring con-
s Seton “ cerns in the country and 1s backed by.

. histle a
9 Wee ee eee ales. that shouted: “Come | Ay, MERIT Bt Lane ed taster
Daniel G. Taylor was appointed master

we { } -
on, boys! was the signe for, the: Bt to take the testimony {n the accounting."

tack. The stairs wefe stormed, offi- 2.50 styles;
cers swept aside, the doors of the ee ae ae very special
courtroom were wrecked and the ne- i -
= gro crouching In the corner praying YOUNG MEN’ S HAIR aS, Pe. Friday. ov eeeee
—Te was seized by leaders. | ae
a whe | STRONG REASONS WHY IT ~~ hidden
CLTYATITN PY CARTEL Y CARED FAaPRIT Aa MA ravi ieee) % ne {

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By JERRY ROMBACH

Gas

} j tar 2 | Crytte na
Siiehity lees than four montns after Donald ©! enaon = ae ie s
-2 ' st a
Tee ; ee%.-* @ on 4 wR era re lg
~ th + + mre convicfed staver. he ke 4 3 f Asan BS
“etre his tife itr re tne of duty, ms cc ee. Re aici ea Al G
: } rence f eats RB && ro & SOM OS fhe
Aire Tucker. today faced a sentence Gr Garde) B Ohba erea
i * by : ’ ,
pe ah Bice 2s rardeal
Van t *mttendon. 4 years old. wv as a {ane tslrardeau :
ge : from leaving the force To Bring Toial of -Sians Measure
‘7 . y ? 4 > \ 7 } BULL i3 f 3 ‘age ee 7s ted
e officer, ust i 1 hours awas trom ueaVilly 41 PO Orig os 3
OIKICE Ty 5 2 : i
" a4 TH ng ares hi naan? ATT) mn ' be id opie
oy he was fatally wounded on ma Pen AN a BM capa Southeast Rooms to Cities Build Fu
) ba A chee LAL 7 ;
5 POY YTOULIME est ning
art * cel 807 BB he topp sed LUA AU MLA : > ” -* i 15 ary}
th occupants ol a Ca ag i hwae Her 151; X-ray Changes. By Sewer Reni
"e ark ™% PRINS SHIVUWaAayY, oth '
+h af the Areva Park ov seems Ce COT Mines! Ee , ad }
: eal ror race SRN, CS REY CET SA" : 2H } ik Gul Fuh Pad Pel - - ~y
a Maren 2ichis dream of suc- An eepansion pregram ats JEFFERSON Ct
. ae , ¢ . hee sit aston +]
<n a new and betfer paving. Southeast Missouri Hospital Gov. John M. Dal
a3¢ 5 rivate irm- gone “ } bt re aio : een
with a private. Titm.& which will add 26 more beds! tigned a bill to se
er Gone too, were he Gays, cial minmission tk
ei Ss py ' v3 < rou tai COMMIUSSIC (
miness ahead with his fam i var Use wicguUura Cle LASS.
ree a. y ’ £:; ““\r
» his wife and two small chil- | ry JENSIVE special nurs sing {land [Ot the prop
ni A LT # C f 5 |
j Baap v. L ‘ +1,
eesh ' f t and provide a sec-!50n S$ Creek Ba tle
: .Cal umae ous } —pee wcherrimamatre! Wohlers ti:
“Party fast nignt i fyrcan Court | : ogqern w-ray nystalla-ttiona!l Park near S
. $ ~ Fi 3 cal of
j Year oa wry of men Te ;
sunpecee Sate sa it { eanan ced. Luesdas The five-member
‘ x verdtct of ity of mu et Mee » ihe pepeiog 4
! f- trite vil e apporntec
Ph fiect coe denies y siyy ' ee t-trus- Nils 0 appoin ed
. » i we b = ¢
Lass er_ofithe stopped car/ er i nor later. Under a
> ity deliberated one hour aad : ' east iy | nropriation, the com
: 4b''§ 9% Pyy¢ 3 Baxpanstey program, } i
a } t 2 ‘i ry =r :
nites. from 3 oo uMmill > ; er aux ivy. items, | have $350,000 to hus
Judge Fixes Sentence. é ties t in-excess of $75,600, the ithe bloody Civil Wa
fa “ + © A Oe! rf . ¥ 1: * :
: fow minutes later. Judge, theard was-told by its finance: $igu0 for its own ea}
ay Weightman ruled that cad areas aN The: National. Parl
P ree Fi e © j 5 i
r having been tried under . , stop he to’ activate dy has agree: Ata
asm . . how e “ ’
Gad erim inal act, Suge ot * thi < ry i 1] ng "Hye origi pal! as a national
-~ 2) +¢ 4
ree chan her at Jefferson a4 ie ‘din which has®re- nonsors of the ple
ete he invoked for. 4 \ ‘ ee, ee P ; as
deine £0. ne inve Kes f ; , m ed unused nea Nf ch. 1958 draw thousand
; op here a new ta Pee ’ ; pie : insfetred ‘sand mean milfions
Bais Shae Seep ag ag Feat | nei 3 t afer
Kae eS Ae i Puck Pte the iad floor of the structure, ; Lourtst revenue
the prosecutor can prove | Saramy Aire tucsKer. <i tea cat, era , Also signed, was %
oats 5 * me peryesryeie tf » ise i Phis Was GOR CO ailow- sOMouwin~ } . eX.
defendant r3a seen Evin ware ree yi ithe festified at the fore- | ' reper sv W- senna fF} t In this + DOTT it cities TQ.08
A Ay re i(tnre y its die ; i t \¢ econmGg f: iT} i rea e ap ,
tea or. a ? { moon session 5 Sah Tuck- try roar THYMTINR Were redecorated | rentas Charges and :
Ning hy the court camet” oy ; A Sr SS ERG SESS A ia eonstruct. sewerts
@ YTUUun« J ler en the driver s Site oO: the Cari... eonforn ta the | tern else. | 4 tFUuee
r the dary had been. dis-)— |, disposal and treatn
é ms # : 4 jor TucKket! pwer » the hospite:, ana VIMyi yy eat Hed
‘ Mere nae ativel ew | \ , : "Thi gn ant ae
and comps ely} | Roarnschein hie closing | 4 ie 16 soicallec
talars were in ine cow OOM. 1, , nent affacked some state-! Fs 4;ract oO }aystem was designe
isiaier t Later ; rare f OX f
ny 1G Saal a . a Ns a ety J ssues
ar the rs S Veetestt JuUGKE i nace hy thie state 5 ru pone: wed ; “ti 4 sy roam Turn hond i 3
aitarne' 3} * . etirring annen} Yafforson Cits iat
f VAY { ea wap ALLO LE jnes ee and mao toN6 J 2 ce 3} ) ‘ } if
n the}. : nande to elean
( m for arguments on the},, sip ry ‘in 0cieal
j nig . r ‘ ‘ + y, Sane 1
on of punishment. Earher.| 4, ched the ry if there was eee e dumping
rm her n? oliance with | wienee of Uh} pe of gun: ; piaoamreds mY) d ae tk,
} We:gntman had] 14} { ' raf Other Measuré
ei aae 3 *) pase Bs enot ru 4 : ; limate ,
a 4 rney Ste | \ ae lets ; Pend ie Mihers signed Ny
é Sece the state preses eo ety ’ in Wen:
. f re 0 evidence tol y, aint] ply Vie f : : : ; Tek tO
: tte said t IY i cc}
, eT Con | . } ’ Y mn are : ure ai:
2 eee SF \ \ ‘ eetn defor
ey a? 13 on: a} ai i = , y Fava e accmated i
miay 4 a : |
’ ‘ ] 1 nth 4 inte
iT# ry hery, 1; “¥ wh rer nad not ined dintheria ;
lr an af } ‘ f
“ | 2 ae yior, § ‘ " ii i j wtend the lt ¢
j rele | fucKe id als ; 1 lat ard 4 jaye {tt wating Cammissiol
wats ye § UTR «Aa ' r: { ’ ! ng 4
, { ra 7 " ih i ap TV bag “ped to Jan, }
ra) gt t rman sa} ‘hat | fy i« wn me ’ Aang Tidif the a : gg Py
\ : rt é : we 1 dey , be , Vir ; 4 OM counties
ai ot 1@ATT aur | 1} iti] WP ‘i .
LB \ i tare gaurd wet { sont oer SL tas fot

2 he oe cle ‘ H bible us ' i ide é ,\ 93
e : ‘ n Work Vee.

t f i]

|

not

the Cant R Pacie
The indications are st rong that
the Kremim is bent on being as
disruptive there as at the Getieva
conferences om Laos and nuclear
testing ;

The U. S is adamantly op
posed to allowing Red China to
hecome 2 member of the Ant-
arctic Treaty. or {to permitting
the frustrating ‘‘troika’’ system
ta control ft. Both moves are
viewed as designed. to give the
Soviet the dominant voiee in Ant-
arctica :

SPACE LABORATORY.

The growing importance of that
Polar region is evidence by the
fact tt Slated to be « key lab-

PETER EDSON

A CAPITAL

FASHINGTON -- NEA} The
American peogie nay be well ad-
vised not to kd thampelvea that
the Berlin situation can be haen-
died without ‘risk of war. But
some Questions are being raised
here on whether Ruasian Chair-
man Nikita Kirushchev means

everything he aye adout it
Analysis ofthe Khrushchev + me.

morandum teva ail afew furty
areas It is no; considered an ul:
timatum It yas not handed to
President Kenedy personally A

Russian aide give it to an Amer:

‘ean aide at the end of the! talks

in the Russian’ Prbassy in Vien-
na on Sunday. June 4
The memorendum itaelf doea

say the German problem
must be settied within six months.
Put Enrushchey said this person:
aly to Kennedy and repeated it
in tus broadcest ta the Russian
people after be. returned to Moe;
cow

In ‘section . threy is
chev's memo hes tape! ae WEY.) sae
Soviet government advdcates the
Immediate conclusion of a peace
treaty with Germany ”
ex he save, "The

brub-

th

Th sectinn
Rawr et

fnvern

ck
ng read with much
esident. Kennedy.
hard H. Hart, Jack-

Heaney book about ha
ailments. 3s Pet
interest by }
Written by

Ric

sonvitie. Fla. the timely booklet
wassent the President \ by a

fniend with an aching back

An ‘international! situation room”
has been set up in the Whites

House barement for briefing the

President and his advisers. The
room has numerous maps cov-
ering a\) areas of the world and
a good deai of outer space, too.
It was the President's idea, and is
under the direct supervision of
McGeorce Bundy, special White

House astistant

of

and secretary

the National Securty Council

N PXTCDOCVCOVE
[NAP CONAN

pies r 9 r ming %
the al axon gy time
limit
The answer to this question ia
still spec lative For no one real.
ly knows not even the experts.
ne thelyry js that the Russtana

now hele Pp th
V4 a
as Misia

at political\as well —
strength is shting in
their favor. This would give them
a balance of pow and enahie
thern to'force a m humilia-

tion he Waet over Berlin.
Another theory ts that Khrush-
ehev may be doing this as a test,
believing the United States
will not fight. Khrushchey himaelf
is appatently ready to risk *
world war over Berlin His ex-
pressiony: | ‘a intent must be tak-

en #erioi.s
So, au provoking 6 war,
the problem of the U.S. and te
allied powers is to convince the
world they are in Berlin by right
and will siay there until the Progy.
pects for ¥ unified. free-Cevmian |
rina He "Tealized, fighting to

eT

ajioT!

tnat

‘maintain these conditions if nee-
estarv

At anv rate. the « wid aPeT
headed #ey> the ++ an? t

»

be signed. hut names will not be
published, if requested. Personal
attacks on individuals will be
eliminated and tong articles will
be reduced tn length.

TUCKER CONV ERTED.

Editor, The Missourtan: :

On March 21, as pastor:of the
Red Star Baptist Church, I
preached the funeral sermon for

Dos Crittencon whe was a mem-

ber of Red Star Church end also
of the locsl police depertment.
Crittendor, and another lice «

ficer were slair a gn] fight
with Sammy A fucker. who

js awaiting trial, and a eompan
lon whose trial haa already been

held and who hes ‘been sentenced

ta [fe fimorlarament
The n fay? after Crittendon
Fig! hi i\, angeiist @
was conducting a revival in the
Red Sts idle ch, held an inter:
/ view vith “Thiker in. the court-

lsurthouse in Jack:
During ‘he Interview Tuck-

roam of, the
aon
er Was
Christlany Whon this conversion
-experlence boame known, a Sun-
day School clasa of the church
took up an off prin and purchased
a Bible and give it to Tucker. He
apends mane! ‘hours reading the
Word of God while awaiting to
be tried and rantenced.

Sammy ha: a wonderful teati-
mony for both young and old.
one visit he told me to ‘tell all
the young pecp

\
ronvel ted

chance / to speak to that they
should alway: walk with God. If
T had onle ya! ked with God I

would not be wh ere Tam today.”
Tucker ithy told me that
he attributed” “his,

he

with the ‘wrong’ crowd. Sammy
Tucker covets the prayers of
Christian people as he faces his
trial/ He is., depending entirely
upon the merey of God for the

final ver

* ger,

and became a -

la that you have a

largely. “Io, (the #0ec at he al-

~Jored’ ‘himself! to be associated

NEW YORK (® ay Things a
columnist might never know if
he didn't open his mail

American men. are getting big-
American worpen smaller.
The average man today weighs
from 2 to 5-pounds more than
his father: the average woman 2

nds less thar her mother

to § pou

p
How far can thuncer be heard”

Easily seven miles, ip to 18

miles if condit ions Z
Long before tooth

a tube, U.S. hettlare

teeth by

| i

with peeled

;
and

are right.
ante came in
kapt their

white tham

brushing:
twigs of fnogwood

Dont ask me why, but- male
rais are more sensitive to radia-
tion than jadv rata.

Odd ‘egislation: Kansas once
had a lamwhanning the pushing of
hea S188 in ve
tere in July, which ty national Het

Dog Month That's/about nine for

each of us, or one more than lag
acy

Have vou had a checkup. for
diaheter?. ctors @stimata hatf

the nation’ £ thr ree mi Dias dis het

- {eg haven't been diagnosed.

Our quotable notabies ‘Wors-
en give us solace,; but if it were

not for women we should never
need. solace ''—Don. Herold
Womat'a work is never dona:
Despite the popularity of rettre-
ment plans, moreielderis women
A _ than ever cling te their iobs: In
1890 only’ &S per tent of women
aged 45 or over were still in the
labor force. The 1960 figure: 112

per cent,

Here ‘are . couple of
ing ald U folk. sepals
eypecm ent iK 3 feet
ter in which onic: have been
oiled. To cure astima. catch a
catfish breathes in its mouth—
then toss it back {hto the river.

Quips from our contemporar-
jes, The ‘‘Cathohe’ Digest’ re
ports this sign om a municipal
fl; garden: “‘Lave ‘am and

in Wwe-

‘wer

ioyereee.

Anc Answers

any question of tact by writ ing
to The Capo Gtrardeau Misecu-

rian Information Bureau, Lae
Eye ®t. X. W. Washington, D. ©
Please enclose tour (4) centa fox
et

Q. What {s the difference.
any, between 2 temporary cn
man and a chairmam pro (2!
A. When e@ society haz a res
‘sr presiding officer, any ath

person who acts aa chairman
Ted the ehairman pro ts

=a oom aT for hea tima AQOIiktS
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Previous to the verdict of the jury assessing the death penalty
in State v. Virginia Twenter which was returned at the conclusion of
thei, 4 a five-day trial on December 9, 1988, there have been only three other
is , death penalty cases in Pettis County. All three were nearly one hundred
* years ago, and only in two of those was the penalty actually carried

r out. In all three, the defendants were males.

On May 25, 1890, Thomas Williamson was charged with the brutal
axe murder of Jefferson Moore. Williamson, originally from Illinois,
migrated to the Sedalia area a few years before by way of Centralia,
near Columbia, where he acquired a wife. They came to Sedalia, Tom
pulling and his wife pushing a cart which contained all their
belongings. Without worldly possessions, Sedalia Mayor John Crawford
took pity on them and put them up on his farm on Muddy Creek north of
Sedalia where Tom built a cabin. That was his home until 1889 when
Tom appeared in Sedalia without his wife. No one knew what happened

t to ner A short time later, he moved in with Jefferson Moore and
Moore's son Charles south of town.

Early in 1890, Jefferson Moore was reported missing, and neighbors
found his body buried in a shallow grave jn the cellar. Son Charles

and Tom Williamson were not around. On hearing of the discovery,
another man living nearby reported seeing Williamson carrying dirt into
the cellar, which led to the arrest. Further investigation also

revealed the grave of Charles Moore about 200 yards from the house.

Both bodies evidenced gashes apparently inflicted with an axe. |
gun b

A search for Williamson was begun. He was found in Sicher's Park (are

suffering from ingesting strychnine and was rushed to the Salvation

Army Barracks where he was given medical assistance which saved his

life. He was charged with the murder of Jefferson Moore.

* Williamson was tried by Prosecutor George F. Longan (later Circuit
Judge) to a jury February 6, 1891 for first degree murder, and the
verdict reported by Cord Lujin, foreman, was "guilty". Judge John
Ryland, entered the following order: "It is therefore, sentenced, \.
ordered, and adjudged by the Court that the Defendant, Thomas \
Williamson..... be removed to the County Jail by the Sheriff of Pettis | <
County and there safely kept until Friday, the 20th of March, A.D. 1891, ke
when said Defendant, Thomas Williamson, shall by the Sheriff aforesaid, *
be hanged by the neck until dead, either in said jail or at some place
convenient to the same..." After an unsuccessful appeal, Williamson
Pt was hanged by Sheriff Ellis R. Smith on October 31, 1891.

x The body of Williamson's wife was found buried in a parsnip patch
near the cabin north of town. It appeared, however, she had not died
as the result of violence.

The second to receive a death penalty in Pettis County was Richard
Robinson. In December, 1892, he was charged with the stabbing death
of Johanna Schollman. Schollman was a domestic servant of then-Mayor
Stevens of Sedalia, who lived at 1601 South Kentucky. Robinson was

information pre Seen J Harriet Frazier from Donald Barnés,
Presiding Judge 8th Judicial Circuit, 3sedalia, Missouri.

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TOM WILLIAMBON. as cat thinks of the
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have had to meet him '‘Uncle Tom,” an
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fierce or bloodthirsty than a okuia.

At 5:30 o'clock Father Murphy, a
Catholic priest, came to the jail and
Williamson was taken to the parlor of
the jail A little croas stood between
two candles upon the center table and
the priest gave the condemned man the
last sacrament. About éo'clock he ate
breakfast. Waiting for his time to
eotpe he stood with a crowd of .re-
porters, guards and others about the
jail stove—an old ma . deep-sunk-
en, restless eyes, déep lines in his face,
asandy beard and-mustache and round
shoniders. He wasn't at all nervous
When he spoke it was in a low tone
and he was the personification of restg-
natién.; Often he. repeated: “Tl orter
been hung long ago.” - irs. Smith,
with all. a woman's ready eythpsthy.

|before bringing salt. rat

ing’ officer tor aff )
claims. He says the offich would then

rejected by that office, before his: ‘me.
could be heard.” Yn this way duplicate .
payments could be prevented; In sup-
port of-a récommendation thatcongress -
‘make some limitation as to time’ when’
claima against the government should
be presented for payment, Judge Net—
thews says that to adopt some reason
rable limitation {ts but to follow the”
practice of the civilized world."
| Judge Matthews also recommends .
legisiation by congress in the matter of ©.
double compensation to federal officials, ©
and says that no reason ie. known to°.
exist why 8 ‘commissioner. or olerk .
‘should receive more than the. jodge of .«
th@ court. On the subject of collection
of balances due: to the United States.
the first compttoller saya» “I would.
‘earnestly recommend that the register -
of the treasury and the anditors who -
are charged with keeping the ‘noqourts
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Cross-Country
Crime Spree

continued from page 31

became suspicious and relayed his suspicions
by phone to the Cape Girardeau police de-
partment.

“We'll send a car right over,” he was told.

The call was relayed to a patrol car and
it started for the supermarket carrying Pa-
trolman Don Crittendon, 25, who was also
a university student, and Auxiliary Patrol-
man Herbert Goss, 67, a retired street clean-
er, and Hugo Land. Soon the police car
pulled up to the supermarket and two officers
got out and started inside.

At the parked Oldsmobile, the driver
tensed with alarm at the sight of the police
car. He started the motor and cruised around,
looking for his companions. He spotted one
across the street at a service station, drove
over and picked him up, then they circled
the area a bit more.

“We better get out of here,” one said at
last and the Oldsmobile headed toward the
city limits.

The police had returned to their car and
started after the Oldsmobile which had been
pointed out by the store manager. The Olds-
mobile was now moving fast down Kings-
highway. The police car pulled close behind,
its red light flashing, and the Oldsmobile
slowed down and halted near the entrance
to Arena Park. The police car stopped and
two of the officers got out and walked to the
Oldsmobile.

Officer Goss approached the driver’s side’

and Crittendon came up on the passenger
side. At that point, Patrolman Shannon Kel-
ley pulled up in another patrol car. With
him was Auxiliary Patrolman Robert Ross.

“Get out of the car!” Crittendon ordered
the occupants of the Oldsmobile.

The officers outnumbered the occupants of
the Oldsmobilé five to two and the pair might
be nothing more than innocent men whose
actions had been misunderstood.

But they did not get out of the car at
Crittendon’s command. Instead gunfire
roared from the Oldsmobile.

A bullet tore into Goss’s body and he fell
shouting, “I’ve been hit!” y

A gun blast from the other side of the
car found a mark on Crittendon. “I’ve been
shot!” he shouted as he fell.

From across the street, Officers Kelley and
Land opened fire. Bullets flew across Kings-
highway.

Crittendon, bleeding profusely, staggered
across the street and fell by Kelley. “Pve
been hurt badly,” he gasped. “Get me to a
hospital. If you don’t now, T'll never make
it,”

One of the occupants of, the Oldsmobile
had gotten out of the car during the gun

battle. He jumped back in and the Oldsmobile -

sped off in a hail of bullets. The car swerved
into a ditch, bounced out, straightened away,
and picked up speed. : F
The officers covered Goss and Crittendon
with blankets until the ambulance arrived
to speed the wounded officers to the hospital.
Officers Land and Kelley, driving the two
police cars, meanwhile were chasing the
fleeing Oldsmobile, which. had left Cape Gir-

RONNIE SN

ardeau and was traveling north on Highway
61. By now, the radios of local, county and
state police cars in the area were crackling
with details of the shooting and the chase
after the gunmen in the Oldsmobile.

A few miles outside of Cape Girardeau,
near the town of Jackson, three college boys
were standing by their parked car drinking
beer. They ‘were startled when the Oldsmo-
bile pulled up to them and two men scram-
bled out.

“Get away from the car!” the youths were
ordered.

They backed away and the two gunmen
got into the car and drove off. The boys
were still stunned when they heard a siren
and saw a red light on an approaching car.
They flagged down the police and excitedly
related what had happened to their car.

“What kind of car is it?”

*“A° new Chevy. A blue hardtop.”

The alarm on the radio was changed from
the Oldsmobile to the. Chevrolet. “One of
them must be wounded,”. Land informed
headquarters. “There’s blood on the front
seat ‘of the Oldsmobile.”

This bit of news aroused no sympathy with
the Cape Girardeau police, who had gotten
word from the hospital that. Goss was dead
and Crittendon was in critical condition.

Inside the speeding Chevrolet, one of the
men was indeed bleeding heavily. He had
suffered several bullet wounds and his face
was cut by flying glass. The car had sped

through Jackson, then turned off on back

roads. They bounced along, a desperate man
at the wheel, a bleeding man next to him.

The car swung off a gravel road and onto
Highway 34, headed west. About 12 miles
from Jackson, it moved into the town of
Lutesville. Parked at a stop sign was a
state patrol car, with Trooper E. E. Wright at
the wheel. With him was Sheriff Elmer Chat-
man of Wayne County. They had taken up
a position at Lutesville as part of the man-
hunt and had been listening to progress re-
ports on the car radio as they watched the
highway.

“There it is!” Chatman exclaimed. “Blue
hardtop new Chevy . . . coming west on the
highway !””

RIGHT started the patrol car and swung
in behind the Chevrolet. He flicked on his

red light as a signal to halt, only to be
answered with gunfire from the Chevrolet.
A rifle was stuck out of one of its windows
flinging lead at the pursuing patrol car.

The sheriff and trooper pulled their guns
and crouched low as bullets flew toward
them.
But they couldn’t shoot back. A Lutes-
ville movie had just let out and traffic and
pedestrians were thick on the street. This
did not stop the gunfire from the bandit
car. Bullets sprayed down the street.
- ‘The Chevrolet raced through the town and
picked up speed when it hit the open high-
way. Trooper Wright braced himself at the
wheel, as the speedometer needle on his car
bounced between 100 and 110. Sheriff Chat-
man leaned out of the window and began
returning the fire.

“J think I hit the gas tank!” he yelled.

The fleeing car raced another ten miles on
the highway, then swung onto a gravel
road. Wright made the turn and stayed close
behind. The cars kicked up dust on the
road, and it was difficult to see the Chev-

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rolet ahead. Bullets from the bandits’ auto
raised puffs of dust that were picked up
by the patrol car’s headlights.

Sheriff Chatman was leaning out the win-
dow firing away, when a slug crashed through
the windshield and hit a doubled-over por-
tion of his belt, then entered his left side.
Flying glass shattered by another slug. hit
the sheriff’s face and blood poured from his
face and _ side.

The chase ended when a slug hit a tire of
the patrol car. Wright brought the lurching
auto under control and to a halt. As he did,
he grabbed the radio and relayed the latest
information on the chase and made an

-emergency request for an ambulance.

“How bad is it?” he said, turning to Sheriff
Chatman,

“The belt took a lot of the punch out of
the bullet,” the sheriff said. “I was lucky.
If I had been sitting up straight instead of
leaning out of the car, the bullet probably
would have hit me in the chest. They must
have been using a rifle.”

The blue Chevrolet rolled on into the night
and out of sight of Wright and Chatman. It
headed north, along back roads.

“We gotta . . . gotta get another car,”
one of the occupants said. “Were almost
out of gas.”

As they approached the town. of Marquand,
ten miles from Lutesville, they spotted a
farmhouse, with a car parked in front of it.
They pulled up behind it and the owner,
a farmer, came out of his house to see who
his visitors might be. He walked into a
pistol whipping and stood up dazed to see
the two strangers get into his black Ford
and drive off.

The farmer was comforted by his wife
who had run to his side. “They won’t get
far in our car,” he gasped. “Been having
trouble with the generator.”

The bandits did have trouble with the
car and soon doubled back to hfs farmhouse.
The farmer and his wife were threatened with
a pistol and a rifle by the bandits, who then
got back in the blue Chevrolet and drove
off. They moved south, back toward High-
way 34 and the town of Grassy.

The area now was filled with police cars,
their quarry’s trail marked with the killing
of one officer, the wounding of two more
and the beating of a’ farmer.

The desperadoes meanwhile were on a
side road which came to a dead end. They
parked the car behind a nearby barn and
got out.

Tucker was the wounded one. He was
weak, bleeding and in pain. Thompson car-
ried him up a hill, and then they paused.
Thompson looked around, like he had gazed
at the walls of San Quentin and the precau-
tions at the jail in San Luis Obispo. He
covered Tucker with leaves, then ran down
the hill to a gravel road.

As he did, he heard the pursuers coming—
first cars, then men and then the yapping
of bloodhounds. He spotted a river and ran
toward it. It was a cold night, but Douglas
Wayne Thompson plunged into the chilling
water, water that gave off no scent to the
dogs. It was after midnight.

Police gathering for the hunt were placed
under the command of Lieutenant E. F.
Dampf of the state patrol.

“One of them is hurt, probably serious-
ly,” Dampf said. “We found a lot of blood
in the Oldsmobile they abandoned, and that

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Sammy Tucker


CROSS-COUNTRY CRIME SPREE

continued

30

entered Hutchinson. It was time for
another strike.

They cruised around the city in their
stolen car and the Safeway Super-
market at Fourth and Severance Streets
struck them as just what they were
looking for. Then they checked into a
motel to make their plans.

There isn’t much for strangers to do
in Hutchinson, Kan., but the three
visitors from the Coast kept busy. They
looked over the town, the roads lead-
ing in and out of it and they scouted
the supermarket. They learned «who
the manager was and where he lived.

About 10 p.m. on March 3, they drove
up to the home of the manager, Carl
Rich. It was a quiet house on a quiet
street at a quiet time and they did not
expect anyone to see them enter, but
they were wary anyway.

A knock on the door brought Rich to
answer it, and he found himself looking
into a gun barrel. As he backed away,
the three men dressed in old Army
fatigues, rushed in. They went through
the house and herded the. store man-
ager, his wife and two young sons in
one room.

They tied the family’s hands and feet
with wire, then threatened Rich with
a gun until they got the information
they wanted. One left with Rich’s keys
and drove to the closed-up super-
market, let himself in quietly and went
to the safe,

Outside, all was quiet. To anyone
passing by, all that could be seen was
a car parked nearby, the car of the

’ store manager which the bandit had

used. Then a figure came out of the
store, got into the car, and drove to
the store manager’s house. He went in,
came out shortly with the other two
gunmen and ‘they sped out of town.

[HE Rich family struggled with the
wires that bound them and finally
one got loose and freed the others. The
police were called immediately, but by
this time the bandits were far enough
from Hutchinson to be out of the reach
of pursuing police and roadblocks, Po-
lice reported the bandits took about
$5000 from ‘the supermarket safe and
several hundred dollars from Rich. -
The trio from California kept mov-
ing eastward. ‘They dodged police,
moving over back roads, then picked
up speed on a main highway when it
was believed a police car had started

‘after them. They crossed the border

into the northwest corner of Arkansas,
abandoned their stolen car, and entered
Joplin, Mo., at the southwest corner of

that state and purchased a used car.

The flight east continued, into St.
Louis, then across the Mississippi River
into East St. Louis. From here, their
direction shifted and they headed south,
paralleling the course of the Mississippi
River. They stopped when they reached
Cape Girardeau, Mo., a town of some
25,000, 100 miles south of St. Louis.

Checked into a motel, the trio flopped
on the soft beds, feeling cozy and satis-
fied. They had put thousands of miles
between them and San Quentin and
the jail at San Luis Obispo. They had
eluded police across the country, shaken
loose anyone who might have been on
their trail, and were comfortably regis-
tered into a motel with plenty of cash
in their pockets.

But they were not the type to relax

and rest on a few successes. They
were riding high. They had to keep fly-
ing; they had to have action.

The three gunmen moved about Cape
Girardeau with ease and confidence in
the Oldsmobile they had purchased in
Joplin. They even bought several guns
and a quantity of ammunition. They
were so sure of themselves that it led
to carelessness, which aroused some
suspicion. A motel porter excitedly re-

lated to several people that he had been _

in the room of the three young men
and had seen a lot of money and some
guns. But his tale aroused little inter-
est and soon was forgotten.

The three men sized up Cape Girar-

deau, looking over its supermarkets.

They decided on the Kroger market in
the Town Plaza Shopping Center at the

‘edge of the city, affording quick get-

away out of town. Then they studied
the roads leading south and noted there
was a good highway leading to Cairo,
Ill, and another to Sikeston, Mo.
Finally, the plan was laid out, the
details worked over. Shortly before 9
P.M. on Friday, March 10, it was time
to strike. They drove to the selected
market in the Oldsmobile. The pro-
cedure was simple. All they had to do
was look the place over so as to have
an idea where everything was kept,
then wait for the market to close. They
would watch the manager leave, then
seize him. While one waited in the car,
the other two got out to appraise the
setup. It was almost closing time.
Inside the store, Don Riehm, the
manager, was busy with the clos-
ing operations when he noticed the
two strangers outside. He observed
them as they moved about, looking
things over. He (Continued on page 62)

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few successes. They
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ves; dogs flushed him out. The Clanahans got unexpected company and talked him into giving up.

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31

MISSOURI, MARCH 19, 1961

m The convicts were milling around
the yard when a grizzled veteran ap-
proached Douglas Thompson.

“Well, how do you like San Quen-
tin?” he asked.

Thompson was tall and rawboned,
with a long face that tapered to his
chin, His mouth was turned down at
the corners, looking as if a scowl was
a permanent fixture. His eyes .were
dark and cold. “I don’t like it,” he said.

The . oldtimer smiled. “I’ve been
watching you since you came in a few
weeks ago. You got that tough look,

- like you don’t do anything you don’t

like. I've watched a lot of them like
you. So what are you going to do
about it?”

“So, I’m getting out.”

“Oh, just like that? You just came
in on a five-to-life, and now you're
going -out. People think about break-
ing out of here every day. What’s your
plan... they going to give you a lad-
der to go over the wall and then look
the other way?”

“Nothing that difficult,” Thompson

said grimly. “They’re going to take

me out.” He lit a cigarette, glared at
the man, then turned away.

A couple of days later Thompson was
called from his cell, placed in an auto-

“mobile, and the car rolled through the

gates and out of the San Quentin
Prison in California. Thompson said
little on the ride. There was little for
him to say. But it’s a good bet he was
thinking plenty.

The car pulled up to the county jail
at San Luis Obispo and guards brought
the handcuffed Thompson inside.: He

was checked in, then taken through
barred doors and down a corridor.

“Better keep an eye on that guy,” a
guard commented. “Meanness is his
middle name.”

In a cell there a reunion was held as
Thompson was warmly greeted by
Sammy Aire Tucker and Willis C.
Johnson, who commented on their good
fortune to be together again.

Police said they had been together
quite a bit—during the robbery of eight
supermarkets in California.

Thompson had been sent to the peni-
tentiary on January 13, 1961, for an-
other robbery. But he had been brought
back to face the additional charges with
his two buddies.

“How was it up there?” Thompson
was asked. j

“T didn’t have much of it, but I had
all I wanted,” he answered. He looked
hard at his companions and shook his
head slowly. “You boys aren’t gonna
like it.”

(THOMPSON, at 27, was the oldest of

the trio. Tucker was 26; short and
husky. Johnson was 22, slender, with
blond wavy hair and handsome youth-
ful features.

They talked about San Quentin—and _

all agreed none of them would care
smuch for it. They also agreed there
would be little, if any, chance of get-
ting out in any short length of time,
if they got hit for the eight charges.
“But this place,” Thompson said,
looking around significantly, “is some-
thing else. This is no San Quentin.”
They were on the third floor. The

by EDDIE KRELL

jail appeared in solid ‘condition, and
well organized. But it was no San
Quentin Prison.

There was a lot of planning in this
trio. They had planned for robbery
and now they were planning a way
out of San Quentin, even before they
could be sent there.

On February 26, their trials on the
‘lengthy list of robbery charges was
' drawing near. There was a religious

service held in jail that day, complete
with music, and the team of Thompson,
Johnson and Tucker took advantage of
the service—but not in the way in which
the rites were intended.

While the music was on, they were
busy prying the cover off a ventilator
shaft. Then they squirmed through the
shaft of a steam pipe, slid down the
pipe three floors and walked unnoticed
out of the building.

By the time their escape was dis-
covered, the trio was out of the area;
as the hunt for them got under way,
they were stealing a car in Bakersfield,
100 miles to the east.

They were moving now, and moving
fast, and, on March 1, two days after
the break, they pulled into Albu-
querque, N. M. They had put a lot of
miles and some state lines between
them and California, but they needed
money. And they knew how to get it.
They stuck up a liquor store, got $500,
and resumed their flight to the east.

Police were investigating the theft in
Albuquerque, and officers were stop-
ping cars at roadblocks, but the robbers
were speeding out of the area and into
Kansas. They kept moving until they

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thick brush, and had managed to elude
bloodhounds by traveling in water.

On Thursday morning, March 16, almost a
week after the gunbattle at Cape Girardeau,
a well-rested Thompson got up from a sleep
in an abandoned house in the hills. Six days
had passed now. Perhaps the roadblocks had
been disbanded, he felt.

He left his cover and moved carefully
toward Highway 34. He did not see any
searchers. He moved along the highway for.
a while then spotted a lonely house. It was
the home of a minister in a township known
as Missionary Acres. The house was empty
and Thompson went in. There he found a
soft bed, food and clothes and all the com-
forts of home. He helped: himself to a good
meal, the use of shaving articles, a fresh
change of clothes and a bed for the’ night.

Next day he felt he was ready to make
his move and break out of the hills of south-
east Missouri. With a pistol comfortably
tucked in his belt, more than $1000 in his

pocket, arid fresh clothes, Thompson left

the house and walked to Highway 34.

He could flag down a car and take it away
at gunpoint, he knew, but that would be
waving a red flag at the law, which he hoped
was gone from these parts.

Several cars passed, but they were late
model automobiles and if any police were
on patrol, they would be driving late model
cars, Thompson knew, so he let them go by.
He figured all angles.

In the afternoon, a 1951 model Mercury

- approached—too old a car for the law to

operate. Thompson stepped out on the high-
way and flagged down the car.

The driver, Raymond S. Glover, 45, a
timber worker on his way to his. home at
nearby Clubb, was alone.

“’m just going over to Clubb,” he said
to the hitchhiker. “That’s just a few miles
from here.”

“T want to get to Poplar Bluff,” the stran-
ger said. Poplar Bluff was a city about 40
miles south of Clubb—farther away. from
Cape Girardeau and near the Arkansas border
and sure to have depots and used car lots.

“T1]1 give you five dollars to take me to
Poplar Bluff,” the hitchhiker offered.

Thompson could have offered a lot more,
but that might have sounded suspicious. Five
dollars was about right, he figured. Not
large enough for suspicion, but enough to
make it worth while to the driver.

TH hitchhiker got in and Glover drove

west, through Clubb, to Silva. Then he
turned to the south on Highway 67, on the
way to Poplar Bluff. ve

Not far from the highway intersection
Glover picked up two more hitchhikers, a
man and a woman, Reverend and Mrs.
Charles B. Thompson of Braggadocio, Mo.
Reverend Thompson was the pastor of the
Pentecostal Church at Braggadocio.

The car traveled several miles over a
‘winding highway, flanked by heavy woods
on both sides, until it came to York Village.
There the driver pulled into a filling station,
where the young hitchhiker got out and
purchased some beer and. cigarets while Glov-

er bought gas. They resumed the ride south,

with the minister and his wife in the. back
seat. Soon they were nearing the outskirts
of Poplar Bluff. It wag early in the afternoon,
plenty of time to catch a bus or buy a car,
Thompson felt.

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nearer to the spot where he lay hidden under
the leaves. But the wounded fugitive was
unable to get away and it took the dogs only
a short time to lead officers to him. :

Tucker surrendered without resistance. He
had no weapons.

Asked about his companion, he said
Thompson had left him about seven hours
earlier. He said Thompson was armed with
a heavy rifle, a P-38 automatic pistol, a 38-
caliber Luger automatic and a 32 caliber
revolver, and ammunition for all the weapons.

The wounded Tucker had $569 in his bill-
fold. He was taken into Cape Girardeau for
treatment of bullet wounds on both legs’ and
one arm. ,

While officers were bringing Tucker in
and others were in the woods hunting for
Thompson, Calvin Willis Johnson quietly
departed from Cape Girardeau by taxicab.
He took the cab to nearby Jackson and be-
gan looking for a car to purchase. He selected
a used car that had a $695 pricetag and told
the dealer he would pay cash for it. Only
one thing held up the deal: the car was minus
a spare tire. ~

“T'll get the tire and be right back,” John-
son was told by the dealer.

He waited by the car. He still was waiting
there when police approached.

Captured without any resistance, Johnson
was taken to Cape Girardeau where he was
identified. A search of his clothing disclosed
his shoes had been cut in such a manner as
to afford a hiding place for hack saw blades.

At the Cape hospital, police discovered Tuck- ~

er had made preparation in the event of an
arrest, too. They found hack saw blades
taped on the bottoms of his feet. -

In the backwoods section west of Cape
Girardeau, more than 200 men in the search
formed a circle 30 miles in diameter and
began closing toward the center. All cars
traveling in the area were carefully searched.
The jeeps and bloodhounds moved through
the circle on the prowl. The airplane and
helicopter flew over the circle.

“He could be hiding in any one of hundreds
of places,” a trooper told newsmen who had
gathered at the scene. “All those abandoned
buildings and caves back there make good
hiding places. And the brush is so thick, we
could pass within a few feet of him and
not know it. It’s rough in there. Even the
natives sometimes get lost in the backwoods
country.”

Moving through the woods, Douglas
Thompson called on all his cunning. Some-
times he hid in the brush and, when he
heard the baying of bloodhounds, he jumped
into the river to throw them off the scent.
Later in the day, weary but still free, he
slipped into a barn and flopped on a bed
of straw. y

IGHT came and the searchers were called

in from the woods. The roadblocks were
strengthened and warnings issued in news-
papers and on radio and television.

Thompson was described as desperate and
armed with several guns and a good knowl-
edge of how to avoid arrest. He also was
described as five feet eight, with light brown
hair balding at the top and a nose which

hooked to the right. He has tattoo marks on ~

his left farearm and right forefinger.

That night an inquest in the death of
Auxiliary Patrolman Goss was held in the
city courtroom. Sammy Tucker, having diffi-

culty walking because of his wounds, was
carried in a chair to the front of the jury.

He spoke in a low voice and looked Coroner

Walter J. Ford in the eye and he answered
questions.

He admitted planning with Johnson and
Thompson to rob the supermarket. He said
he was driving the car and waited in it
while the other two were out looking over
the store. When police arrived, he had picked
up Thompson and they left.

Regarding the shooting, Tucker said, “All
of a sudden, everybody was shooting like
mad. I didn’t aim at anybody. I just pulled
the trigger.” He said he didn’t actually shoot
because his gun jammed.

One of the police bullets had shattered a
car window, cutting him over the eye, he
testified, and he said Thompson drove from
there. He denied shooting at the sheriff later
in the chase, saying, “I still couldn’t see and
was pretty sick.”

He also said he did not hit the farmer
near Marquand when he and Thompson took
the farmer’s car.

Patrolman Kelley testified that Tucker
“shot Crittendon in the belly.”

Cape Girardeau County Prosecuting At-
torney Stephen E. Strom filed first-degree
murder charges against Tucker and Thomp-
son in the death of Goss and charges of
felonious assault against the pair in the
wounding of Crittendon.

With the three bandits having been sought
in various states, the Federal Bureau of In-
vestigation got into the case, joining , the
hunt for Thompson. And preparations were
started to send Johnson to Hutchinson to
face a robbery charge.

Tension mounted that Saturday night in
the wooded hills, as farmers were alerted
and more abandoned buildings searched.
Weary officers grabbed some sleep in prepa-
ration for resumption of the manhunt.

Some of the officers remained in the woods, .

however, and the wild barking of the dogs
indicated they had picked up a trail near
Marble Hill, a few miles from Lutesville.
The bloodhounds flushed a figure out of the
brush and a trooper aimed his gun, Then
he paused momentarily and the figure van-
ished in the darkness.

The officers ran towards the spot.

“It was Thompson,” the trooper said. “I

. had him in my gunsight. But there were too

many searchers scattered around. I was afraid
I might hit’ one of them.”

The officers beat through the wooded hills
throughout the night, but they failed to
pick up the trail again. “When we get the
planes up in the morning, we should be able
to get him,” one said. “He’s still in the

“woods.”

But daylight on Sunday was accompanied

by a cold rain that kept the plane and heli-
copter grounded. A haze shrouded the woods,
‘hampering the manhunt. The fugitive re-
portedly was spotted several times during
the day, once by a farmer who said he saw
him when he went to feed his pigs.
” “He came out from behind the barn,” the
farmer said. “He was carrying two guns.
When he saw me, he ran into the woods and
disappeared over the hill.”

The officers found two pistols as they pur-
sued the trail of Thompson. “He still has a
few more guns,” one said. “But he’s traveling
lighter.”

A farmer who lived near Marble Hill later

that day called police. He said he heard a
commotion in his chicken house, and went
to investigate. “I didn’t see anybody, but
whoever it was, he took several eggs.”

Chilled manhunters, including state con-
servation commission officers and volunteers,
pushed through the rain, fog and mud. “This
weather is probably making it tough on
Thompson,” one said. “But it’s also making
it tough on us.”

“Be careful,” the men continually were
warned. “He’s got a high-powered rifle and
a couple of pistols. And he’s supposed to
have vowed he wouldn’t be taken alive.”

Lieutenant E. B. Burnum of the highway
patrol expressed the opinion that Thomp-
son might be getting help from people in
the back country, either for money or by
threats. “He’s probably got a lot of cash on
him, and there are the guns he’s carrying,”
Burnum said. “Somebody might be helping
him.”

BAck in Cape Girardeau, police were in-
vestigating the possibility that help for
the bandits might have come from within the
city. A maid at the motel where they had
stayed told police she had seen a fourth
man, about 55 years old, go into the sus-
pects’ room on Friday morning and stay for
about 25 minutes. She said she had noticed
the man waiting in front of the motel for
several minutes, then being picked up by
someone in a convertible automobile.

“They might have a connection here,” a
detective said. “Might be a reason why they
came here in the first place. They kept going
east all the way from California . . . through
Missouri, through St. Louis and across the
river into East St. Louis. Then they changed
course and moved south to here.”

Detectives were busy trying to get a lead
on a possible fourth man. And the’ theory
was advanced that perhaps Thompson might
have somehow slipped back into Cape Girar-
deau and was being hidden by the fourth man.

Searchers in the field, however, expressed
doubt that Thompson could have made his
way back to the city.
~ “He’s bottled up in the woods,” a captain
said. “He might be lost in there, himself, and
not know where he is. But the chances are
he’s holed up someplace, waiting for a
chance to slip through the roadblocks.”

As the search went on, police received
numerous calls from people who thought they
had spotted the fugitive. He was reported
seen wading a creek, running through an
apple orchard, dashing out of a barn, scram-
bling up a hill, peeking out of a bush with
gun in hand. All the leads were run down
and searchers went through other areas,
while the roadblocks were maintained, but
another day passed with no officer report-
ing seeing Thompson.

In the two days that followed, the hunt
went. on, but many of the officers had to
return to other duties. Roadblocks were
maintained, however, although there was a
growing feeling that Douglas Thompson had
managed to slip out of the thicket-choked
hills, with or without aid, or that he might
lie dead of injuries or exposure.

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and escapee from the San Luis Obispo Jail

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in the car. They left that car in a hurry,
even left a quantity of money in it. But it
looks as if they’ve taken some precautions in
case they are caught, too.”

“How’s that?” awdeputy asked.

“There was also a hack saw blade box in
the ‘car. They’re prepared for trouble.”

THE law was getting prepared, too. State

troopers from several posts, sheriffs and
their deputies from a number of counties, and
city policemen from numerous towns flocked
to the area and spread over the back roads,
hills and woods. Highways weré bottled up
with heavily-manned roadblocks. As the
largest manhunt ever assembled in southeast
Missouri got under way, three desperate men

~ were evading it alone.

Sammy Aire Tucker, bleeding and in pain,
lay on a hill near the town of Grassy.

Douglas Wayne Thompson, his strength
fed by determination, sloshed through the

Castor River.

And Calvin Willis Johnson, having missed
the excitement of the chase and subsequent
gun battles, quietly melted into Cape Gir-

“ardeau to make his plans.

Cape Girardeau police, under Captain O.
L. Wallis and Detective Sergeant Ivan Mc-
Lain, put together the information received
in and out of the city.

Officers involved in the gunfight at the
edge of Cape Girardeau said two bandits had
fired on them. Both of these gunmen had

. been dark-haired, one tall and the. other

short and muscular. These descriptions
matched those given by the college students
at Jackson whose Chevrolet the gunmen had
taken, and that supplied by the farmer at
Marquand who had been pistol whipped.
But at the supermarket where suspicion had
first been aroused, police had been told of a
third man, young, with blond hair, who had
been seen in the company of one of the
dark-haired ‘men.

The investigators learned that three men
had been staying at a motel in Cape Girar-
deau, using an Oldsmobile of the type the
gunmen had. Two of the motel guests had
dark hair and one had blond hair.

Cape Girardeau police searched their city
for’ the blond member of the gang and
issued alerts for him throughout the area.

Out in the wooded hills southwest of town,
the swelling army of searchers followed the
sounds of the hounds. It was a long, hard
night and by daybreak none of the bandits
was in custody. :

“They’re ‘still in this area,” a trooper said.
“The roads are bottled up.”

“Lots of places to hide in the hills,” an-

other said.. “Abandoned farmhouses, barns,
caves, thick brush. We can use all the
bloodhounds we can get.”
" With daylight, the search was augmented
by additional state troopers and some mech-
anized units, including five jeeps to go into
the hills, an airplane and a helicopter.

Shortly after taking off, ‘a trooper in the
search plane spotted the sought-after auto-
mobile parked beside a barn near Grassy.
The information was radioed below and
officers hurried to the spot.

Dogs were’ brought to the abandoned car
and the excitement and noise was such that
Sammy Tucker knew the search was moving

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Before they reached the city, however,
the hitchhiking gunman was startled by the
sound of a siren. A state patrol car moved
up behind them and Glover pulled his
vehicle to a halt.

Trooper Glen Davis got out and approached
the driver’s side. He said something to the
driver about weaving across the center line
of the highway, then he looked into the car.

“Let’s see your license,” the trooper told
Glover.

The driver showed him his license.

Then Davis looked suspiciously at the
passenger in the front seat and asked him
some questions. The man said his name was
Taylor, but he had no identification cards.

Davis ordered the two men in front to get,
out of the car, adding, “Keep your hands
where I can see them.” ~

Glover got out the driver’s side and the
hitchhiker got out the other side. With the
P-38 sticking under his belt, Thompson knew
the bluff would be over as soon as he was
searched. He wheeled and drew his gun.

Trooper Davis quickly came around to the
other side of the car, pistol in hand.

Bullets roared at close range. A slug rico-
cheted and struck Davis in the shoulder, A
bullet hit Douglas Thompson’s nose.

A bullet smashed through a window and
grazed Mrs. Thompson.

Raymond Glover, who had given a stran-
ger a ride, edged closer to the state trooper.
Bullets hit him in the chest and abdomen
and he fell.

Thompson kept firing, then dashed for the
state patrol car, jumped in and sped away.

A motorist stopped at the scene of the
shooting shortly and Davis spread the alarm
for ambulances for the wounded and polic
cars to take up the hunt. u

Roadblocks were quickly set up, while
Trooper Davis had a bullet removed from
his arm and Mrs. Thompson was treated for
a flesh wound. But in a Poplar Bluff Hospi-
tal, Glover was in critical condition.

Thompson, ‘driving madly in‘ the state
police car, had swung off the highway onto
County Route W. On the radio, he heard
the alarm for the stolen police car.

Driving down the county road, he spotted
a house and a garage where the garage door
stood open. He turned into the garage and
parked, then got out and closed the door,
hiding the tell-tale police car from view.

Inside the house, Mr. and Mrs. J. Carl
Clanahan, a couple in their 70s, were re-
Jaxing. Mr. Clanahan was seated in an easy.
chair reading a newspaper as his wife, Eva,
talked on the telephone to a neighbor, They
were startled to see a stranger march into
their unlocked house, gun in hand.

The gunman made a quick dash for ‘the
telephone, grabbed it from the woman's
hand, and warned: “Be careful what you
say.” Then he handed the phone back.

Mrs. Clanahan looked at the young man -

with the gun, then informed her neighbor,
“I have to hang up. Someone has been hurt.”

She was telling the truth. Blood was com-
ing from the gunman’s nose, covering his
face. The Clanahans knew from the news
report, who their uninvited guest was, but
didn’t know what to expect from him.

Thompson washed: his face while Mrs.
Clanahan got a bandage for his nose,

Mrs. Leo Clanahan, a daughter-in-law of
the couple, happened to have picked up the
phone to make a call when her mother-in-law

was talking to the neighbor. Over the party
line, she overheard the remark about some-
one being hurt. She called her mother-in-law.

All she got from her anxious inquiries
was: “I can’t talk to you now,” from Mrs.
Eva Clanahan.

The younger Mrs. Clanahan made a cali
and then another caller phoned the elder
Clanahan’s home. It was Mrs. Verna Hudson,
who operated a grocery store with her hus-

“band on Highway 67, at nearby Loma Linda.

Mrs. Hudson’s previous husband was the
late James Clanahan, a son of Mrs. Eva
Clanahan.
“Are you all right?” Mrs. Hudson asked.
Mrs. Clanahan spoke briefly, then changed
to a harsh tone: “I don’t want those grocer-
ies,” she said. “But get me some other gro-
ceries out here real quick!” She hung up.
The words and the manner were so unlike
Mrs. Eva Clanahan that Mrs. Hudson under-
stood immediately what must have happened
and she telephoned the state highway patrol.
Describing the conversation, she said she
felt certain the gunman. was standing by
Mrs. Clanahan as she spoke. The officers
were inclined to feel she was correct for the
Clanahan home was a little more than two
miles from the scene of the recent shooting.

At the Clanahan house, the gunman paced

the floor. “I’m in trouble,” he said. “I
don’t want any more trouble and I won't
give you any. Just take it easy.”

He asked for a newspaper, then turned on
the television set, tuning in as a news flash
about the shooting a couple of miles from
the Clanahan home was broadcast.

“They'll really be looking for me now .. .
with that trooper shot,” the intruder said,
“I hope he doesn’t die . . . I didn’t want
to kill him.”

Mrs. Clanahan, changing the subject to

ease the tenseness of the situation asked

Thompson if he wanted something to eat.

“T’'m too upset to eat,” he said. “I just
want to stay here tonight.”

The woman protested, saying she had been
ill.

“Calm down,” the gunman said. “I don’t
want to hurt you people. I like you and
you’ve been good to me.”

Thompson discussed the developments of
the past few days freely, even relating the
plans he had had when he hitched the ride.
He said he had hoped to get to Poplar
Bluff, buy an automobile and head back
west. He even had a route picked out.

The highly agitated gunman said he was
originally from Oklahoma, but had a wife in
California. His wife was ill and he’d started
his career of crime to get money to pay for
her treatment. °

While the gunman talked with the Clana-
hans, Leo -and Cecil Clanahan, sons of the
couple who lived nearby, drove in separate
cars to their parents’ home. Leo parked at
a hilltop. near the house and looked down.
He could see no activity, He hesitated to get
much closer, fearing his presence might trig-

. gex. the gunman into action if he were there.

Cecil drove by and parked a short distance
away to await the arrival of police, who soon
arrived from several directions—state_troop-
ers, sheriffs and their deputies, and city
police, in police cars and a state patrol
helicopter, which dropped down behind the
Clanahan home and unloaded officers with
tear gas and riot guns. —

Lee

Inside, Douglas Thompson saw the circle
of police surrounding the house. As he
pondered his next move, Mrs. Clanahan
urged him to surrender. She spoke of his
family. “They would rather have you in
prison than dead,” she said. “You have some
life left. Let’s not have any shooting.”

Thompson looked sadly at the woman.

“Tf you'll take the Lord with you, you'll
be all-right,” she told him. “Come on...
put your gun down... I’ll go out with
you.”

Thompson finally dropped his pistol on
the davenport. He reached in a pocket and
came out with a wad of money.

“Tl want this for cigarettes,” he said,
taking a 20-dollar bill and putting it back
in his pocket. “You keep the rest of it.” Then
he put the money down beside the gun.

The officers outside were making their
plans. If it had been just Thompson in the
house, they would have had no hesitation.

But they were afraid of hurting the Clana-__

hans.

Before they could decide on the best
approach, the front door opened and Mrs.
Clanahan came out. Douglas Thompson fol-
lowing her, his hands raised.

Police surrounded him immediately. The
hunt was over without further bloodshed.

Mrs. Clanahan went back into her home
and got the money, which totaled $1150,
and the gun for police.

Family and friends rushed to the Clana-
han home as Thompson was rushed to state
patrol headquarters.

Police said Thompson cooperated well, re-
lating his criminal] record in California, the
details on the jail break at San Luis Obispo,
the holdup in Albuquerque and the robbery
at Hutchinson. He said he and his compan-
ions came to Cape Girardeau expressly to
rob a supermarket.

His account of the details involved in the
shootings of the previous Friday night, how-
ever, differed from those given by Tucker.

Police said Thompson related that when
he and Tucker were stopped a short distance
from the supermarket, Tucker did all the
shooting. Police said Thompson told them it
was Tucker who fired the rifle while they
were being chased by Trooper Wright and
Sheriff Chatman.

Thompson reportedly admitted he struck
the farmer at Marquand with a pistol when
the farmer grabbed at the gun.

Later that day, Raymond Glover died
in the hospital and a second murder charge
was filed against Thompson.

When reporters interviewed the newly
captured gunman he said:

“These Missouri troopers stay on the job.
Those guys in California usually give up on a
manhunt after five days. I figured I’d be
safe when I left the woods today.”

At this writing, Thompson and Tucker
are in jail awaiting action on the murder
charges against them in connection with the
deaths of Auxiliary Patrolman Herbert Goss
and Raymond Glover. And preparations are
underway for Johnson to face robbery
charges in Hutchinson and California, as
well as a jail break charge in California.

Then, on March 21, a third victim was
chalked up by death, Patrolman Don Crit-
tendon. The others wounded in the crime

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Auxiliary Officer Herbert L. Goss died of bullet wounds which smashed arteries in both legs
during gun battle with two desperadoes following a routine stop of car in Cape Girardeau

switch that cut off power to the auto-
matic door. Then he turned a key that
moved a bar in place, locking the door.
He spun on his heel and walked to a
telephone at the cashier's desk.

‘He's running,” Ervin shouted.

Riehn glanced back. The tall man
was racing toward an automobile at the
opposite end of the parking lot.

Quickly Riehn picked up the tele-
phone and called the police.

ATROLMAN HAROLD WHITE, of
the Cape Girardeau Police, was
cruising about eight blocks away when
he received the call from Headquarters
to investigate the report of suspicious
men loitering in the Town Plaza Shop-
ping Center. With him was Special
Officer Joe Woods and Auxiliary Police
Officer Clarence Delk. Auxiliary police
are non-paid volunteers who aid regu-
lar policemen on busy nights. Friday
nights in Cape Girardeau on the Missis-
sippi River, are always busy for the
police

As he sped toward the shopping cen-
ter. White was thinking that it was a
large car lot and he could not bottle up
two men alone. At that moment he
heard another message on the radio.
He relaxed. Officer Donald Crittendon
also had been dispatched to the site.

In the car with Crittendon were two
auxiliary police officers, Herbert L.
Goss and Hugo Lang, Jr. Goss was a
balding, large well-liked man of 67.

Officer White’s car was the first to
reach the scene. Riehn reported that
one of the men had fied across U.S.
Highway 61 in front of the shopping
center and the other toward a service
station

White circled the car lot. As he
reached the far end he saw Officer
Crittendon’s car approaching. They
stopped and exchanged information.
Neither one had seen anything.

The wind picked up the sifting of dirt
on the hard-topped parking lot and
tossed it like sleet against the cars.

“It may have been a false alarm,”
one of the auxiliary policemen said.
“Why would they wait this late to start
anything?”

Crittendon said, ‘Maybe they thought
someone would take cash to the night
drop at the bank when he left the
store.”

20

The police cars returned to the super-
market where Riehn and Ervin waited
outside.

“Nothing,’”’ Crittendon called out. He
opened the door and leaned toward the
two men. One of those odd sprays of
rain that fell fitfully in the gusts of
wind, lightly wetted his face.

Ervin stepped closer. “I was just
telling Don that I saw a Fifty-six Olds-
mobile, orange-and-gray, parked at the
end of the building here just before I
came to his place. Maybe it belonged
to them.”

Crittendon radioed in the informa-
tion. The dispatcher alerted another
police car, manned by Patrolman Shan-
non Kelley and Auxiliary Police Officer
Robert Ross. They were in the vicin-
ity of Southeast Missouri State College’s
Houck Stadium.

Kelley was nearing the shopping cen-
ter with his red flasher light going when
he saw an Oldsmobile emerge rapidly
from the rear of a closed service sta-
tion. He picked up his microphone but
a call was unnecessary. Crittendon and
White had seen the car, although it was
a block away.

The pursuit began. The three police
cars were hampered by the flow of traf-
fic. After several blocks, Crittendon
managed to maneuver his car behind
the Oldsmobile and it answered their
signal to stop, pulling to the side of
the road near the entrance to a city
park.

Kelley pulled abreast of the two cars,
then moved forward and turned around
so his automobile faced the opposite
direction.

By this time, Auxiliary Officer Goss
had got out of Crittendon’s car and
walked to the passenger side of the
Oldsmobile. Matching his action, the
27-year-old Crittendon walked to the
driver side of the suspicious car. Crit-
tendon recently had turned in his res-
ignation from the police force and only
one and a half hours of duty were left
to him officially.

“Get out,” Crittendon said.

The driver opened his door, stepped
partly out of the car and then turned
quickly, firing a shot. Crittendon was
knocked back several feet but remained
on his feet.

Two more shots came from the other
side of the car and Officer Goss spun

about, staggered a few feet and fell to
the street. ‘I’m shot!” he cried.

Crittendon, shot in the stomach,
clawed at his holster, trying to free his
revolver. Growing faint, he stumbled
to the opposite side of the street against
the car manned by Kelley and Ross.

Ross already had jumped out of the
car and was pumping bullets into the
Oldsmobile.

“Shannon, I’ve been shot,” Critten-
don said. “I’ve been hurt bad... get
me to a hospital.” The hand clutching
his abdomen was covered with blood.
“l’ll never make it if I don’t get to a
hospital fast.”

“Get down, you'll get hit too!” Kel-
ley shouted to Ross as he jerked his

own pistol out. Ross dropped to the
ground behind the police car. He con-
tinued to shoot. Kelley braced his gun
over the window sill and opened fire
at the Oldsmobile’.

The driver, who had put the Oldsmo-
bile in gear, fell toward the passenger
side, the car continuing to roll. In a
moment he straightened and the Olds-
mobile picked up speed. The car
swayed from one side of the road to the
other and struck a shallow ditch, but
kept going until it was back on the
highway.

ene. faced with the choice be-
tween saving his fellow officers or
continuing the pursuit, dropped his gun
on the car seat and reached to help
Crittendon.

Ross, his gun empty, had run across
the road with a blanket to place over
the wounded Goss who lay motionless
in the road. Lang was leaning over
Goss, trying to stop the flow of blood
which came from both legs.

“T’ve never seen so much blood,” he
said, his voice tightening.

Ross put the blanket over Goss and
shined a flashlight beam on_ his
face. Goss’s eyes were open and his
lips moved soundlessly.

Kelley helped Crittendon into his car
and radioed for an ambulance. It
arrived in a few minutes. The attend-
ant looked at Goss and said, “I think
he’s bad.”

Kelley, meanwhile, was speeding
Crittendon to the hospital where he was
rushed to the operating room for emer-
gency surgery.

In fifteen minutes the site of the
vicious gun battle was deserted, only
the dark splotches of blood where Goss
had lain remaining to mark the spot.

Who were the men who fought so
savagely for no apparent reason?
Why did they need to escape even
routine questioning? Why risk killing
a police officer to do it?

Because of the darkness, no one had
obtained a clear look at the two men
in the Oldsmobile. The driver was
wide-shouldered and seemed of med-
ium height. From this, he would not
seem to be one of the two men seen
in the vicinity of the supermarket.

State Trooper Glenn E. Davis, shown with wife, Carol, and sons,
Tim and Steve, was wounded in second big gun battle of case

TUCKER, Sammy Aire, white, asphyxiated Missouri (Cape Girardeau) on July 26, 1963.

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was a BBB investigator checking bait ads.

DO IT TODAY—The week of October
6-12 has been proclaimed Fire Prevention
Week by President John. F. Kennedy. Do .

your part by checking- your home and
neighborhood for fire hazards—and elim- '
inating them. Teach youngsters fire safety
practices.

THE HOOK’S OUT—Watch out for the
bait ad offering to rent a range, re-
frigerator or other appliance at a ridicu-
lously low cost. It’s just a gag to get a
salesman’s foot in the door.

TERRIBLE TOLL—During 1962, 40,900
persons were killed in auto accidents in
the U.S., the National Safety Council re-
ports. Obviously, if you are reading this,
you weren’t one of them, but you would
have had to be especially lucky not to
have been in at least one of the 11,000,000
trafic mishaps that occurred during the
year for they involved 19 million cars, in-
jured 1.5 million persons (of whom 120,-
000 were permanently disabled) and cost
more than $7 billion. ‘Nuff said?

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FINISH

Rocco Balliro, accused killer who escaped
from a Boston, Mass., jail in, June, 1963,
was captured early in August in an apart-
ment in Chelsea, Mass., when police. con-
verged on the building through a tip ‘from

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Rocco BaLiiro
Missing man found in apartment

an unidentified woman. Balliro had made
his prison escape the day before he and
two other men, his brother Salvatore Bal-
liro and Albert Ciocco, were to go on trial
for the slayings of 21-year-old Mrs. Toby
Wagner and her two-year-old son, Mark
(Love Triggers A Shoot Out, June INsIvE,
1963). A 12-man party raided the apart-

ment house and burst into Balliro’s apart-—

ment just as he raced out a rear door. He

climbed a back stairway to the third floor

and hid in an outside porch closet. Police
ordered him out, and Balliro waved a
white handkerchief in surrender, slowly
emerging with his hands in the air. Sport-
ing a small Van Dyke beard, Balliro told
reporters that he had been halfway around
the world since his escape.

Sammy Tucker, convicted killer in the

slaying of Patrolman Donald Crittendon,

24, during a running gun battle in March,
1961, in Cape Girardeau, Mo., (Cross-
Country Crime Spree, September INSIDE,
1963), went to his death in the state peni-
tentiary gas chamber at Jefferson City,
expressing sorrow at the last minute. He
told the warden “I’m sorry for what-I did.
I want it known that I have no grudge

_ imprisonment by New York Governor Nel-

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Tucker’s ‘companion,
Douglas Thompson, of Bakersfield, Cal., |
was convicted of murdering Herbert Goss, aa
67, an auxiliary policeman working with ~ j
Crittendon. Thompson’s case is pending

- before the U.S. Supreme Court. The two
policemen had stopped Tucker and
Thompson for routine questioning, but the _

- latter, who were on an admitted. cross-
country robbery spree, began shooting. In
July of 1961, Tucker was sentenced to
death, but his attorney fought the convic-
tion and sentence through the State Su-
preme Court to the U. S. Supreme Court.
He was turned down several times by both
courts. The U.S.-Supreme Court turned
down a last-minute appeal for a stay of
execution.

Lorenzo Catanzaro, sentenced to. death
for the May, 1961 robbery-slaying of 50-
year-old Richard Valk in New York City
(I’m Not Going to Die, August ‘INSIDE;
1961), had his sentence commuted to life

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execution pending new legal action until ~*~
October 4, by the governor’s action. Valk,
a United Parcel driver, was killed during
an attempt to rob his truck. The gover-
nor’ statement said that “Catanzaro was
the driver of the death car and did not
participate in the actual shooting.” It was
noted that Catanzaro cooperated with po-
~-lice and “it was through his assistance
that police apprehended the other prin-
cipals in the slaying.” Hill’s execution was
stayed because his attorney had asked the
Court of Appeals to allow re-arguments in
the case in the fall term.

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OFFICIAL DETECTIVE, June, 1961

Police bullets drilled these
holes in windshield of Olds-
mobile but gunmen kept going

even Days on
a Shooting Lam

A jail break, robberies in California

ON RIEHN, manager of a Kroger
supermarket in Cape Girardeau,
Missouri, was reaching for the

switch to disconnect the electrically
operated entrance doors when he saw
the tall man leaning against a corner of
the building, hat pulled low over his
eyes.

Cutting the switch was one of the last
chores that the store manager per-
formed before closing. It was 9:20
p. m., Friday, March 10, 1961.

Riehn slowly lowered his hand and
called, “Ray, come here,” to a clerk
who had remained after the others had
gone.

Ray Marshall approached. Riehn
said nothing to him but continued to
look intently at the man with the hat
and bulky overcoat only 20 feet away.

“That guy was in here today,” young
Marshall said.

“Is Kathy back?” Riehn glanced
toward the rear of the store. Kathy
Wolfarth, a checker, had been sent tc

deposit a major part of the day's
receipts at the bank.

“Yes,"’ Marshall said. “She came in
just a second ago.”

The store manager was relieved.
That meant the girl was in no immedi-
ate danger. He looked outside again.
A blustery but warm wind picked up
scraps of light debris and tossed them
about in the black-topped parking area.
The man still was there.

The clerk and the store manager
heard a noise in the back of the store.
Kathy Wolfarth had let somebody in.
A man they all knew entered—Ivan
Ervin, manager of a shoe store.

“Did you see?’’ he asked Riehn.

“Yes.”

The newcomer looked sharply out of
the window. “‘That’s not the only one.
There is another one, smaller, near my
store.”

Riehn was worried. His supermarket
was in the Town Plaza Shopping Center
in the western end of Cape Girardeau.

and New Mexico—then two gunfights in

Missouri with three dead, four wounded

By Anton Nemac

Special Investigator for
OFFICIAL DETECTIVE STORIES

All the stores had closed at nine o'clock
and the parking area was deserted,
except for the two men who stood
silently at either end of the building
that housed the supermarket and the
shoe store.

A spatter of fleeting rain hit the large

window next to the door. A wind gust
howled momentarily and then died.
leaving the four people in the store in
silence.

“I wonder what they plan to do?”
the clerk said.

Riehn put his hand up and turned the

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One of those was tall and the other
short. This meant that a third man
was involved. But where had he been
during the gun battle? Had he been
the driver of the get-away car, wait-
ing at its wheel while the other two
were on watch near the supermarket?

Probably, but those questions had no
importance at the moment. Now
police had to catch up with the two
men who had taken part in the battle.

The giant complex of the hunter and
the hunted began to take form. Patrol
cars from neighboring counties and
those from State Police units began to
move toward Cape Girardeau County.
Road blocks were established, guns
were checked, and men off duty were
called back to work.

Meanwhile, Officer White, who had
been in charge of the third patrol car
involved in the initial investigation,
was picking up the reports of the bat-
tle on his radio and hurriedly trying
to figure which route of escape the
racing Oldsmobile would take.

White had not kept behind the cars
of Crittendon and Kelley when they
pursued the Oldsmobile after it was
driven from the supermarket vicinity.
He had turned off into a parallel
street, on the chance that the driver
of the suspicious car might shake
Crittendon and Kelley by leaving High-
way 61.

He was half a mile away when he
heard Kelley radio for the ambulance
and describe briefly to the dispatcher
what had happened. White’s mind then
began to lay out the pattern of roads as
he drove toward the scene.

Half a block from the place he saw
Police Sergeant Ivan McLain moving
at a dog trot toward the battle
scene. He stopped and McLain got in.

The Sergeant had been off duty
and in a nearby store when he
learned of the battle. White filled him
in briefly as they drove to the site. The
ambulance had arrived. White and
McLain stopped only long enough to
learn which direction the Oldsmobile
had fled and to let off the auxiliary
policemen from White’s car to help at
the scene. They then took off rapidly,
starting north on Highway 61 and soon
leaving behind the city buildings.

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They wouldn’t stay on the highway
any longer than they had to,” McLain
said. “They'd Know the troopers will
be buzzing this road by the dozens in
minutes.”

If they're smart,” White said, keep-
i his eyes on the ribbon of road that
dipped and wound through the Ozark
Mountain foothills.

“They'll be that smart, all right,”
McLain answered. ‘They're profes-
sionals and on the lam. They’ll be
thinking every minute.”

White drove smoothly, using his
flasher to pass cars, winding in and out
of the traffic which, luckily, was not
heavy. The officers listened to the
steady hum of the motor and the police
radio, busy with messages going back
and forth between police units through-
out a several-county area.

N A moment they heard the message
they were dreading. Goss was dead.
Auxiliary Policeman who had
served his city without a cent of recom-
pense had paid a big price for his de-
votion. Crittendon still was clinging to
if White gripped the wheel harder
and pressed his foot firmly on the
accelerator

Suddenly, McLain grabbed his knee.
ey must have turned off here,” he

ite swung into Cape Road that
d invitingly with the highway. It
lis natural turning from the high-
to the black-topped road that
d McLain to guess that the Olds-
e’s driver would have done the

to pound over the radio. Goss had died
f loss of blood. He had been shot
leg and by grim coincidence an
. had been severed by each slug.
rittendon still was in surgery.

McLain radioed in the position of the
car. The dispatcher told him there
were at least ten other police cars in
that region now. searching the roads.
McLain was glad that he had decided
to leave the highway. There would be
enough men there to prevent the killers

from getting very far north. If they
continued that direction, they would be
heading for St. Louis, 117 miles away,
where their chance of detection might
be reduced if they could hole up in the
big city. But McLain was certain they
had no such mission in mind. They
were professionals and would know they
never could slip safely over miles of
roads that would be increasingly guard-
ed as the night went on. They would
take to the back roads and then maybe
the woods.

To the west of Cape Girardeau was
country in Bollinger and Madison
counties. Many square miles of rugged
forests, interlaced with small rivers and
creeks and rock juttings that would
offer protection to the fugitive who
knew how to use them. Were these des-
peradoes men who could use them?

White pulled the car to a _ stop.
“What's the trouble?’”’ McLain asked.

White clicked on the spotlight. “An
intersection here. Which way do we
50?"

“That’s old McKendree Road and
we're near Jackson,” McLain said.
Jackson is the county seat of Cape
Girardeau County. “Take it,’ he said.

White swung into the wide graveled
road. In less than two miles, they
spotted a car ina ditch. It was an Olds-
mobile. McLain picked up the micro-
phone to report the find.

White and McLain got out carefully.
If the desperadoes lay inside, they
might still be able to shoot. There was
no question that this was the Oldsmo-
bile being hunted, for in the beam of
the spotlight they could see the bullet
holes from the slugs Ross and Kelly
had fired.

The officers remained hidden in the
shadows, watching. About half a mile
away a light gleamed from a farm-
house. Otherwise there was no life.
They listened intently for a movement
in the car, or a moan from someone
who might be injured. All they heard
was the gusty wind, whiplashing the
bare branches of the trees at the side
of the road and the soft crunch of
gravel under their feet.

Armed men follow bloodhound on trail through desolate woodlands of
southeastern Missouri; right, car in which Crittendon and Goss rode

Cautiously, they started forward.
Nothing happened. They flashed their
torches inside the car. It was empty.

At once both officers squatted. If the
killers were not inside, they might be
in the hills behind and at that moment
aiming a gun at them. White ran to
his car and turned off the lights. It
left the road in darkness.

“Do you think they could be hiding
in the woods?” he called softly to
McLain.

“I don’t know. But I don’t think so.
That would be a fool move. They still
have gasoline in this car and they could
have gotten out of this ditch with a few
tries.” McLain straightened from his
squatting position. ‘They must have
got another car here.”

Both officers were silent, turning the
possibilities over in their minds. An
automobile rounded a bend in the road,
its red flasher going. It was a State
Patrol car. In less than a minute eight
such cars were at the scene.

The immensity of the equipment and
personnel being poured into the hunt
struck McLain.

A careful examination of the Oldsmo-
bile was begun. A bloody sweat shirt
on the fioor and bloodstains on the
seat proved someone had been hit. Be-
sides the bullet holes in the windshield
and rear window, police found three
holes in the door on the driver’s side
and one in the back of the car. It
seemed a miracle that the fugitives es-
caped with their lives from such a fusil-
lade of shots.

The most heart-chilling information,
however, was the amount of ammuni-
tion in the car. It was for four weapons
—a nine millimeter rifle, a .30-.30 rifle,
a 32 automatic pistol, and a .22. No
guns were found. This meant that the
pair probably had four guns with them
and pockets full of ammunition.

By this time the scene was swarming
with officers. Several stayed at the
radios to feed information to their dis-
patchers. State Patrol Troop E Head-
quarters at Poplar Bluff was coordinat-
ing the information and planning the
manhunt that was growing so rapidly

that it assumed the proportion of a
battle front with many of the same
problems of logistics and tactics.

A trooper approached Sheriff J. C.
Crites of Cape Girardeau County, who
just had completed his examination of
the Oldsmobile.

“This fellow says he has three young
men who can give us some informa-
tion,’ the trooper said.

Crites nodded for the man to speak

“Two men—in this Olds. I guess—
threatened three youngsters and took
their car,” the man said. “They came
to me for help and I was going to Jack-
son with them when I saw all this com-
motion here.”

“Where are the boys?” Crites asked

“In my car back there. These offi-
cers wouldn’t let me through. I live
where that light is.”

N MINUTES Crites and several offi-
cers were facing Terry and Bill
Shambo, brothers, and Jim Pederson.
The young men said they had been
flagged down by two men standing be-
side the ditched Oldsmobile. When
they got out to help they were threat-
ened with guns and told if they caused
any trouble they would be shot. The
gunmen got into their car, a black
Chevrolet, and drove toward Jackson.
The information was put on the air.

The chase was on again, this time the
police cars moving west toward Mil-
lersville, on Highway 72 instead of
north. Scores of them moved like
pieces on a chess board, seeking to
checkmate the desperadoes.

It was now nearing midnight. The
gusty wind had dropped and a light
rain had begun to fall.

The deduction that the desperadoes’
Chevrolet was going west on Highway
712 was strengthened by a call from a
truck driver who said such an auto-
mobile passed him headed toward Mil-
lersville at high speed.

Sheriff Elmer Chatman, of Wayne
County, and Trooper Eddie Wright had
just heard the message when they saw
a black Chevrolet race by them in the
opposite direction. Wright wheeled
about and began the chase. He closed
the distance fast before the occupants
of the Chevrolet realized they had been
sighted.

The Chevrolet swung off the highway
onto a black-top road and the patrol car
followed, tires squealing. Chatman ra-

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dioed that the desperadoes’ car was be-
lieved sighted, and the search of the
patrol units moved toward the heavily
wooded section near Grassy in Bolling-
er County.

The road intersected Highway 34, and
the desperadoes’ car swung onto it,
picking up speed. The patrol car edged
closer as they neared Lutesville. Then
the rocketing cars began to get into
heavy traffic, apparently caused by
people coming from a movie that had
just let out. Chatman was leaning out
the window of the car, pistol in hand,
but he was afraid to fire for fear of hit-
ting an innocent person.

For ten miles the chase continued,
with the officers keeping the dispatcher
informed by radio of their position,
but luck again was with the fugitives.
No police car was in a position to inter-
cept the fleeing car.

Suddenly the Chevrolet swung off
Highway 34 and onto a gravel road.
Wright followed closely.

“They know we'd have a road block
up ahead if they kept to the highway,”
he shouted above the roar of the motor.

Chatman said nothing. He leaned out
of the window again and threw his first
shot. Fire was returned from the car
ahead, winking in the night like a giant
firefly. Another came, and then an-
other. The Sheriff continued to answer
shot for shot. His pistol was empty and
he grasped the one which Wright
pushed toward him.

The gravel road was full of dips and
turns and at times the black woods
seemed to rush out of the night, leaving
only split seconds for the driver to jerk
the wheels back onto the road. Gravel
spewed from the spinning, tortured
tires as the cars slithered and weaved.

E pet firing became furious again. By
the change in the winking flash of
the weapon up ahead, the officers knew
a rifle now was being used. Chatman
braced his arm on the sill hoping to get
a broadside shot when the car ahead
rounded a turn. Suddenly, there was a
crash and he felt himself slammed
back against the seat. He dropped his
gun, stunned, then looked curiously at
the shattered windshield in front of him

“I’ve been hit,” he said.

“Is it bad?” Wright asked. Sweat
poured down his face as he concen-
trated on the twisting road feeling the
car buck, plunge into potholes and re-

Two men shown above were objects
of the largest manhunt in modern
Missouri history; at left, with
Missouri State Troopers, is the
man who insisted on getting good
spare tire when he bought a car

sound to the occasional heavy rock that
was slingshotted up under its body. He
began to fight the wheel. ‘““Something’s
wrong,” he shouted. The police car be-
gan to lose speed. “They got a tire.”
Wright pulled the thumping car to a
stop and turned his attention to the
Sheriff.

“It’s my side,” Chatman said. He
pulled his hand away and looked for
blood. “It can’t be too bad, do you
think? It hurts down there, but I feel
all right. Maybe it didn’t go in.”

Wright pulled the Sheriff's clothing
away and directed a flashlight beam

(Continued on page 42)

again after getting Chatman to a Pop-
lar Bluff hospital.

The trooper made a sour face. “A
lot of abandoned farmhouses and cab-
ins and deserted country. He could
hole up and keep out of the weather
in any one of them and be hard to get
to fast. It will take time.”

Dampf quickly ticked off the units
that were to continue the search and
the areas they were to cover. He
asked Wright’s advice occasionally
about the terrain. “Go on foot, if you
have to,” was the Lieutenant’s last
word to the men.

| Bh Seer was returned to Cape Gir-
ardeau where his wounds were
treated at Southeast Hospital. The bul-
lets had sliced only through the flesh
and the wounds were clean. Except for
the stiffness that was developing in his
torn muscles, he was in good shape.

The news that one of the desperadoes
had been caught spread. Knowing
their record, their actions made sense
now. They had been desperate because
they were wanted in three states for
robberies, as well as being sought in
California for the jail break. They had
known if they were caught they would
have to resign themselves to long
prison terms. They had preferred to
shoot.

But, what had they exchanged prison
for? Tucker had been in the battle in
which Officer Goss was killed and in
which Officer Crittendon had been
gravely wounded. Crittendon still clung
to life at Southeast Hospital. Now
Tucker faced a murder charge. But
was his accomplice, Thompson, to get
free? And what about the third man,
Johnson?

Tucker confirmed what the officers
had deduced. Johnson was part of the
bandit trio but because of the quick
action he had been left behind at the
shopping center where they planned to
rob the supermarket.

Chief Little’s men had been making
progress in the search for Johnson. A
check of taxicab drivers revealed one
of them had picked up an early-morn-
ing fare on the highway and taken him
to the vicinity of Jackson. Little alerted
the State Patrol and Sheriff’s office.
One car was spared from the massive
hunt for Thompson to patrol the area
in search of Johnson. Their work was
aided by an unexpected telephone call.

Harold James, a salesman at an
establishment west of Jackson on High-
way 72, telephoned the State Patrol
about 11:30 Saturday morning telling
them his suspicions had been aroused
by a man who was buying an automo-
bile from him.

James made the call from Jackson
and in a few minutes the patrol car
of Trooper Irvin Beard was pulling up
at the corner where the salesman
waited. James got in. He began to
explain immediately as Beard turned
the car around and headed for High-
way 72, driving slowly.

“This guy came into the garage a
few minutes after I got there this morn-
ing and said he was interested in buy-
ing a car,” James began. “He finally
settled on a Buick. I gave him a price
= five hundred and ninety-five dol-
ars.”

The garageman explained he had not
been aware of the shooting that had
taken place in Cape Girardeau the
night before and the man could have
driven off right then with the car.

“But he began to argue because the
Buick didn’t have a spare tire,” James
continued. ‘So, finally, I told him I’d
go into Jackson and get him a used
one and throw that into the bargain. I
didn’t have that size at the garage.”

The man agreed and James set off
for Jackson. It was here he heard of
the shooting at Cape Girardeau and be-
gan thinking about the disheveled ap-
pearance of the man who was buying
the car from him. The more he thought
of it the more he was sure that he might
be one of the men.whom the police
sought. He telephoned the Patrol.

Beard, when he heard this, radioed

the Sheriff’s office for more men. They
coordinated their arrival at the garage
so the two cars were approaching from
opposite directions simultaneously.
When they pulled into the driveway of
the place, a man was leaning casually
against the fender of a parked Buick.

“That’s him,” James said.

As the police car rolled to a stop a
few feet from the Buick, the small man
made as if to flee, then halted. He
raised his hands above his head, his
eyes showing his fright.

Beard and a deputy sheriff ap-
proached, guns drawn.

“Are you Calvin Johnson?” Beard
asked.

“Yes, Sir,” the man said weakly.

“Then you know what we want you
for,” the Trooper said.

“Yes, Sir.”

Johnson was taken to the county jail
where a thorough search was made.
Sheriff Crites was especially careful
because hack-saw blades had been
found taped to the bottom of Tucker’s

feet when he was taken to the hospital. :

Although Johnson’s shoe soles showed
evidence of being tampered with, no
blades were found. He was lodged in a
separate cell from Tucker, who had
been brought from Cape Girardeau to
the county jail.

With two of the trio safely behind
bars, the full force of the manhunt now
was directed against the heavily armed
Thompson, who apparently was the
ringleader.

17, WAS at this point that the search
became the greatest manhunt for a
single quarry in the history of southeast
Missouri. Literally hundreds of people
in addition to police officers had armed
themselves and were checking every
possible hiding place.

One farmer summed it up when he
told a protesting officer, “I would rather
look for him than have him steal up on
my family. I'll just look in the places;
I know around my home where I think
he might be hiding. You fellows worry
about the rest of the county.”

This reaction was repeated many
times in the Bollinger, Madison and
Wayne Counties. As the hours clipped
by, tension rose. Blinds were kept
drawn in homes, no one ventured out-
side without the thought that Thomp-
son, who must be moving like a ghost
through the network of police and other
hunters, might be near—watching from
a woods, in a hayloft, or from a ditch—
and armed with a rifle and pistols and
plenty of ammunition.

Night came and the helicopter and
airplane were withdrawn from, the
search. The bloodhounds were worn out
and had to rest. But the police did not
rest. A few went home to sleep so they
could relieve others the next day but
most of them stayed through the night.
They patroled or pulled their cars into
pasture roads to wait silently for a
man who might accidentally cross their
paths. They began a systematic search
of the many abandoned cabins and farm
homes in the Grassy area. But there
were not enough police to hit all the
places at once. Dampf knéw_ that
Thompson could slip from one to the
other if he were sharp. And as the hours
ticked by, there was no question that
Thompson was smart and knew what
to do to protect himself in the wilder-

ness. .

He had proven this shortly before
nightfall when a woman reported see-
ing from the window of her farm home
a man who had been walking along

- Highway 34 and then quickly went down

an embankment and moved swiftly
through the brush and into the trees.
Ten policemen raced to the spot, in-
cluding the trainer and his blood-
hounds. They easily picked up the trail

under a bridge because . footprints.
were deep and clear in the soft bank _

of the creek. -

The hunters fanned out to beat the.

brush. for- a wild, killer animal... The
hounds picked up the scent and began to
bay. One of the searchers thought he
heard a crashing in the underbrush far

ahead and relayed the news. The hunt-
ers pressed forward. After almost a
mile, the hounds suddenly stopped at
the bank of the creek and cast about
seeking the scent.

Dampf and Lampley, who had joined
this particular search party late, came
up at that moment. The trainer turned
to the Lieutenant.

“He took to the water here,” he said.

Dampf and Lampel exchanged looks.
Thompson was woods smart. He knew
that the hounds would be thrown off
the scent by the water and he deliber-
ately had led them along the bank
until near nightfall. To cast the
hounds up and down both sides of the
banks in blackness to find where
Thompson had left the water and in
which direction he had gone would take
all night. By that time, Thompson
could be in the next county.

It was evident that the six-foot, burly
man was as hard as nails. His foot-
prints in the muddy bank showed no

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indication of faltering. He had been on
foot for eighteen hours, with little
chance of getting food and with still less
chance of resting. He was a clever and
woodswise quarry, but above all he was
a killer. Where could he be run to
cover and then flushed?

The search continued during the
night. Rain began to fall and continued
steadily all Sunday. ‘The helicopter and
airplane were grounded and the hounds
were useless because of the dampness.
It seemed that chance had given
Thompson the respite he needed.

The police units, however, kept up
their search through the rainy day. Un-
occupied barns and farmhouses that
had been searched were searched
again. In one they found evidence that
a@ person might have stayed there. A
few cans of food were found in a pantry
and dust marks indicated that there

ay have been more cans. If it were

ompson, he finally had, found food
after almost a day without, it.
. The hours passed and no.sighting was
made of the quarry. Monday came,

cloudy, but dry. The bloodhounds were

brought back but the helicopter was out
of service because of engine trouble.
The airplane was not suitable for the
close search of the ground needed for
a man on foot.

Scores of leads poured into the State
Patrol Headquarters and to the Sher-
iff’s offices in the counties involved in
the search. Near Marble Hill, which
was east of Lutesville where Chatman
had been shot, the bloodhounds led the
searchers to a .22-caliber pistol lying
in the woods. If Thompson had aban-
doned one gun he may have done the
same to others. Dampf figured that he
would not weigh himself down with
more than two pistols and one rifle.

The days came and went. Each
morning the searchers moved farther
west into the wilderness on the other
side of which lay Poplar Bluff, another
fast-growing part of the state such as
was the Cape Girardeau area to the
north and east.

The hunt had been so concentrated
that it was difficult to believe Thomp-
son could have slipped through. Was
he still in the wilds? Police were di-
vided on the answer. Some even
thought he may have holed up and by
now lay dead, either by his own hand
or from exposure.

By Friday, March 17, just one week
after the shooting in Cape Girardeau,
the police were beginning to feel de-
feat. Somehow and in some way
Thompson had slipped through. If he
were dead, it was almost certain that
the bloodhounds would have found his
body by now. It was disheartening.
The only factor to dull the disappoint-
ment was the wildness of the country.
A cunning man could use it for his pro-
tection. If he knew enough to hole up
during the day and move only at night
he might have made it out of the woods
and to the Poplar Bluff area. Appar-
ently, Thompson had been that smart.

All police units in the Poplar Bluff
area were doubly alerted. Thompson
must have slipped through the wilds.
The transmission of this news recreated
a feeling of tension among the people
in that area just as it had those resid-
ing farther to the north when they knew
that the man was loose in the Grassy
and Marquand area. A repetition of
locking doors, drawing shades and
farmers going about armed took place.

FRIDAY was a clear, sharply cool day.
About 35 miles north of Poplar Bluff,
45-year-old Raymond S. Glover, a saw-
mill worker, drove toward the small
town of Clubb. A neatly dressed man
was standing by the side of the road
near the houses that edged the out-
skirts of Clubb. Glover stopped.

The man smiled. He was cleanly
shaven, hatless, and wore a dark
jacket, a sports shirt and gray trousers.
The man said he had urgent business
in Poplar Bluff and he wondered if
Glover could give him a ride.

“I’m not going to Poplar Bluff,”
Glover answered.

“Would it be worth five dollars to
you?” the man asked.

Glover opened the door of his car and
told the man to step in. They drove
silently for awhile and then began to
talk about the weather. The man
seemed mildly curious about how peo-
ple made their living in that part of the
state. But when Glover answered, he
— no indication that he had heard

im.

The car came to the little town of
Silva, several miles south of Clubb.
Standing on the side of the road were
@ man and woman who appeared to be
seeking a ride although they made no
motions to indicate this. Glover, in a
happy mood because of picking up what
he thought was an easy five dollars,
halted his car and asked the couple if
they wanted a ride. The man and wom-
an entered.

As they drove on the man introduced
himself as the Reverend Charles B.
Thompson, a minister from Bragga-
docio, Missouri, and the woman as his
wife. He chatted pleasantly about his
pastorate. The two men in the front

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againt his body. “It’s bleeding pretty
bad but it looks like a glancing shot,
probably the heavy holster belt diverted
it,” he said.

The Trooper radioed in his final posi-
tion and the direction the Chevrolet had
taken. He knew this area. Up ahead
was a network of roads that intersected
each other and led off into wild coun-
try. He had hoped to catch the fleeing
car before it reached that haven.

“We're all playing in bad luck here,”
he said.

Chatman said, “Huh?” and then
realized that Wright had been talking
mostly to himself. “I couldn’t get a
clear shot at them,” ‘the Sheriff said,
apologetically. :

“IT know.” Wright said. “It was just
bad luck having to shoot it out in this
roller coaster.”

T= night was silent, strangely unreal
and placid after the hectic min-
utes of the chase. Wright could hear
other cars in the distance. Help was
close. But where were the two men
in the racing Chevrolet? And who
were they? Why were they so des-
perate?

“We'll get you to the hospital right
away,” he told Chatman. 2

The Sheriff said nothing, he held his
hand against his side and closed his
eyes.

An examination in a physician’s of-
fice in Lutesville soon proved that
Chatman’s wound was not dangerous.
He was moved to Southeast Hospital in
Cape Girardeau, where Officer Critten-
don still fought for his life and where
Goss had died.

The fleeing desperadoes fixed their
position for the police once more that
night. A farmer near Glen Allen at the
edge of the wild, wooded country called
the State Patrol to report he had been
beaten by a man who had forced him
to turn over the keys to his car.

Police sped to the spot. State Patrol
Lieutenant E. F. Dampf, who had as-
sumed immediate charge of the man-
hunt, questioned the farmer, George
Gray, in his home.

Gray had been coming home from
Lutesville and his car had stalled mo-
mentarily. He had just started the en-
gine again when the two men pulled up
in a black Chevrolet, ordered him out
of his automobile at gunpoint and then
struck him on the head several times
with a pistol.

“They stranded me because they took
the keys of the Chevrolet and I had
to walk to a, telephone,” Gray said.
“But they won’t get far with that car.”

Dampf asked why. Gray said his car
had a faulty generator and if the en-
gine ever stopped the battery might not
be able to turn it over again.

“Where did they leave the Chevro-
let?” Dampf asked quickly.

Gray described the place, which was
about three miles away.

Dampf left quickly and he and Troop
Sergeant Glenn W. Lampley raced to
the spot. They found Gray’s 1960 auto-
mobile. The Chevrolet was gone.

“They came back for the Chevy,”
Dampf said, disgusted.

The desperadoes apparently had de-
tected the trouble in Gray’s car and
returned to pick up the Chevrolet again.

“How could they have that much
luck?” Lampley asked bitterly.

Dampf shrugged. It did seem as if
the pair was destined to get free. There
were half a dozen police cars in. the
vicinity when the pair had driven back
to pick up the Chevrolet, yet they had
not been spotted. Now they were loose
again in the dense and formidable hill
country that went on for miles.

Meanwhile, back in Cape Girardeau,
Police Chief Percy R. Little was in
charge of an important job. All the
effects taken from the Oldsmobile that
had been ditched near. Jackson were
brought to his office.

A Webb City car-dealer sticker was

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found on the windshield and the license
number tag had been traced to a Joplin,
Missouri, registration under the name
of James Bartlett. This was the first
time a name had come up in the Case.
Joplin police went to work but were
unable to find.a James Bartlett who
could not be accounted for that night,
nor one who had a criminal record.
Chief Little sent every regular aux-
iliary officer he could spare to check
the many motels in and near Cape Gir-
ardeau, seeking to determine if two or
three men driving an Oldsmobile with
the license tag number corresponding
to that on the desperadoes’ car had
registered. "
This work was going on when another

drama was being enacted miles away .

in another state. Police Chief Carl
Springs, of Hutchinson, Kansas, was in
the habit, especially on Friday nights,
of dropping into the Police Station at
odd hours to check the file. He was in
the station about three o’clock Saturday
morning when he heard the radio mes-
sages in the Joplin area concerning the
shooting at Cape Girardeau. He picked
up a telephone and called Joplin police.
They confirmed that the car used in the
gun battle had been traced to Joplin.
Springs hung up and sat back to think.

On March 3, a Hutchinson super-
market had been robbed of more than
$6,000. Three men had invaded the
place near closing time, forced the
manager to give them the combination
to the safe, and then after cleaning it
out, left the man tied and helpless.

Through a check of fingerprints and
identification of pictures by the man-
ager, it was determined that the men
were Calvin Willis Johnson, 22, Douglas
Wayne Thompson, 27, and Sammy Aire
Tucker, 26, all of California. Thompson
had his left thumb missing. The store
manager had spotted that immediately.

A further check by Hutchinson police
had revealed that the trio earlier had
held up a supermarket in Albuquerque,
New Mexico, and obtained $500. Prior
to that they had made a daring escape
from a San Luis Obispo, California, jail
where they had been brought to face
charges of robbing eight California
supermarkets. :

On February 27, while other inmates
were listening to a religious service and
organ music, they had pried the cover
off of a ventilator shaft, squirmed
through the opening, slid down a steam
pipe for three floors and walked unde-.
tected out of the jail.

LL this was running through the
mind of Chief Springs in the
Hutchinson Police Station on the
morning of March 11. There was some-
thing else he knew that made him act
quickly.
The trio had stolen an automobile
when they left Hutchinson and that car
had been found abandoned in Joplin.

With all that money in their possession, | |

what would prevent them.from buying
another car in Joplin and continuing
under a proper registration? The
name James Bartlett, of course, could
be a phony. :
Springs called Chief Little at Cape
Girardeau and told him what he
thought might have happened. They
were seeking men named Johnson,
Thompson and Tucker, and from. the

description it was probable that Thomp- —

son and Tucker were the men involved

in the shootings and Johnson was the ©

man left behind at the shopping center
where the case had started. :

Little had not forgotten that it was’

likely a third man had come to Cape
Girardeau with the two men who now

were the objects ‘of the manhunt. He

could spare-only two men t out
this third .man. See he *
Near dawn, results of the search in

Cape Girardeau ‘itself: began’ to’ come

license number they sought had regis-

me ail
in. A motel manager had said*thar a>
trio using an Oldsmobile bearing the’

tered on Wednesday, two nights before
the shooting. One of them had regis-
tered under a Springfield, Missouri,
address.

They had kept to themselves and
probably were drinking because the
maid had mentioned removing several
empty liquor bottles from the room
Thursday and Friday morning.

With information gathered there, po-
lice traced an entertainer who said that
she had seen the men in the place
where she worked Wednesday night.
One of them had a thumb missing.

This was further confirmation that
the trio the police ».anted was the same
sought in Joplin, Hutchinson, Albuquer-
que and San Luis Obispo. j

Little relayed all of this information
to the Sheriff’s office, where it was re-
layed to Troop E Headquarters at Pop-
lar Bluff. It was settled. The men be-
ing hunted were Thompson and Tuck-
er. But where were they?

At daylight, Troop Lieutenant Dampf
marshaled a considerable force for the
big drive into the forest and hills of
Bollinger and Madison Counties. Along
with regular police cars teams of blood-
hounds, a helicopter and plane and half
a dozen jeeps manned by almost 50
men were ready. In addition, an esti-
mated 200 civilians had armed them-
selves and were joining the hunt.
Dampf’s object was to run the Killers
to bay, flush them, and bring them in
or cut them down in a final gun battle,
whichever they chose.

GHORTLY after six o’clock the hunt
got under way in earnest. The rain
that earlier had fallen fitfully and then
-came down more steadily, long since
had stopped. The ground was almost

dry.

In an hour the wooded hills in the
Grassy and Marquand area 30 miles
west of Cape Girardeau were alive with
the sound of engines, the bay of hounds,
and the shouts of the civilians. In the
air the helicopter made its swishing,
outboard motor sound and the small
plane droned high up. The army of
hunters began to move forward like na-

_ tives beating the brush for dangerous,
man-eating animals.

‘At 7:30 the helicopter pilot radioed
that a car was parked at the end of
“County Highway MM near Highway 34.
‘He said it looked like a Chevrolet and
was black.

‘-—-Dampf consulted.a clip board and re-
layed two patrol cars to the spot. In
minutes their message came back. The
car was-a black Chevrolet and carried
the same license number as that sup-
plied by the three youths who had had
their car stolen from them near Jack-
son. The hunters centered on the spot.

Dampf, Sheriff Crites and Sergeant

Lampley held a consultation. A check

- had shown that the Chevrolet was out

-of gasoline.

“We had this situation once before,”
- Crites-said. “‘Do-you think they could
-have picked up another car?”

Dampf pointed to footprints in the
slightly moist earth at the side of the
road. With Crites and Lampley, he fol-
lowed them carefully. The footprints
went up an embankment and then be-
‘came lost in the decaying leaf fioor of
. the woods.

_ “It looks as if we got them on foot,”
Lampley said, his voice’ suddenly be-
‘coming light.
~ ‘They returned to one of the patrol
‘cars to radio in the information, then
waited for the bloodhounds and jeeps
_ to come up. It would be wasteful and
dangerous to push men into the woods
“where the armed killers might be lying
in .wait.Up above the helicopter circl-
ed, making its sound. The
‘trooper up there would be eyeing the
woods like a circling hawk.
“In-ten minutes-the first of several

- jeeps arrived and then a truck bearing ~

_the bloodhounds, The keeper let the

animals sniff the inside. of the Chevro-

let and they set off, nose to the foot-
prints. The jeep drivers went up and
down the road like anxious hunting dogs
and then found an opening and took off
up the bank and into the woods. The
noise of their engines as wheels slipped
into ditches and then ground out of
them was deafening.

With a wave of his arm, Dampf sig-
naled the men on foot to go in behind
the dogs and the jeeps. The helicopter
pilot began to widen his circle, gradu-
ally working away from-the spot where
he had sighted the abandoned car.

In a few minutes the trooper in the
air radioed that he had seen a man
limping into the brush about a mile
from where the jeeps and the dogs were
concentrated. They closed in cautious-
ly, their moves guided by the man in
the helicopter.

“He didn’t come out of there,” the
pilot said. ‘“‘That clump of brush, three
hundred feet to your right, by the big
black oak.”

Dampf ordered the jeeps halted and
turned broadside, to be used as shields.
He eyed the silent brush, not 50 feet
away. '

“Take a look,” Dampf_ shouted.
“You can’t get out of this.”

There was no answer. Squatting
behind the jeeps the officers could hear
the careful approach of dozens of men
behind them. Otherwise the woods was
silent.

The men behind the jeeps awaited
Dampf’s signal to open fire. The
trooper was stern-faced, his eyes never
leaving the clump of brush where the
pilot had said the man had run to
cover. Not a twig moved on the heav-
ily matted brush which was so thick
that the watchers could see no farther
than a few feet into it.

“Come out or we open up,” Dampf
shouted again. “I'll give you the
count of ten to save your life.”

A few seconds of silence passed and
then there was a dragging sound in the
brush and a movement of the inter-
twining branches.

A man, wearing a heavy jacket, hat-
less, and his face bloody, emerged
holding one arm above his head.
“Don’t shoot, I don’t have a gun,” he
called weakly. He made it to the clear-
ing and stood swaying. “I can’t walk
so good,” he said. “I been shot.”

Dampf made a motion and several
officers circled around the brush on
either side. The second man still could
be in there.

_ The bloody-faced man dropped his
arm, is 4
Dampf and Lampley approached
him. When they stood beside him the
man said, more quietly, ‘“There’s no-
body in there. Thompson deserted me
and took all the guns.”

“You’re Tucker?” Dampf asked.

“Yes. He left me in the woods and
took off with all the guns. I’m hurt
bad. He wouldn’t take me along.”

“Where are you shot?”

“In both legs and the arm.” Tucker
winced at Lampley’s touch. “I got it
back there in Cape.” He seemed to
become aware that the men who faced
him might shoot him down on any pre-
text. “But I didn’t shoot that cop.
My gun jammed and I got hit early.”
He pointed at his bloody face. “A
piece of glass cut that and I had blood
pouring in my eyes. I couldn’t even
see to shoot.”

Lampley went over the man care-
fully, ‘searching for weapons, “He’s
clean,” he said to Dampf.

“Get in one of those jeeps,” the
Lieutenant said.

Tucker began to limp painfully
toward them. Nobody helped him.

When they reached the jeep, Dampf
asked, “Where did Thompson go?”

“Over that hill. About ‘two o’clock
this morning.”

. That meant that he probably had re-
crossed the road where the car had
been left and then had reached High-
way ~34. “What’s up there?” Dampf
asked Wright who had joined the hunt


The fantastic luck of the bandit who
had survived the gun battle still held.
No trace of the car could be found. It
was as if the fugitive had driven off into
thin air.

Rings of new road blocks were thrown
up around Lansing in an effort to inter-
cept the car. But officers held out little
hope that Winegar would be careless
enough to attempt to drive through a
road block.

He probably, officers speculated,
would abandon the car and either try
to commandeer another vehicle that
was less conspicuous or else try to make
his way into Lansing on foot.

It now was almost eleven a. m. and a
new factor was compounding the search
for the fugitive—football.

Traffic had been building up steadily
throughout the morning as football fans
from throughout Michigan and north-
ern Indiana moved into Lansing to wit-
ness the annual Big Ten football game
between Indiana and Michigan State.
It was a game that was expected to draw
a record crowd, for Michigan State was
enjoying the nation’s top ranking
among the collegiate teams.

Weary officers, after a sleepless night
of working on the manhunt, also had
the job of directing traffic.

In the heavy traffic, officers knew, it
would be fairly easy for the fugitive to
slip past unnoticed.,

Noon passed and still they had no
lead on the missing Deputy Sheriff’s
car or the gunman.

YD then, at 12:30 p. m., a woman
telephoned the Lansing Police De-
‘ment. Her voice was indignant.

“I’ve been wating almost an hour for
your officer to come back with my car,”
she declared. “I’m getting tired of it
and besides I’m going to be late for the
football game if I have to wait much
longer.”

Police asked her to explain.

She identified herself as Mrs. Nolan
Mitchell. Shortly before noon a Deputy
Sheriff's car had pulled abreast of her
at a southwest Lansing intersection and
the driver had told her to pull over.

She obeyed and a man in civilian
clothes walked back to her.

“I’m sorry, Ma’am,” he had said
apologetically, “but I’m a Deputy
Sheriff and the license number on your
car is one that is listed on our records
as having been stolen. Would you mind
stepping out and waiting in the patrol
car while I make a check?”

“Well,” Mrs. Mitchell had retorted,
“this car isn’t stolen. It belongs to my
husband. There must be some mistake.”

“If there is we'll find out and you can
go on your way,” the man had told her.

She got out and waited in the patrol
car. She looked back and saw the man
slide into the front seat of her car.
Then, to her surprise, the car backed
away.

“I’m going to drive this car to the
station,” the man had called. “I'll be
right back. You wait there.”

She had waited until 12:30 and then
called the Police Department.

The car she was waiting in, police
realized at once, was Maiville’s stolen
cruiser. And the fugitive had slipped
away in the football traffic driving her
car,

A description of her car was broad-
cast to all points at once. But officers
held out little hope of finding Winegar
in it. He already had a 45-minute head
start on them.

At two p. m., Mrs. Mitchell’s car was
found abandoned behind a southwest-
ern Lansing high school.

Discovery of the car, however, gave
officers a ray of hope—the fugitive
might have abandoned it within walk-
ing distance of his home.

No one, however, had seen the car
arivean into the schoolyard. One

an who lived nearby said she had

@ man walk hurriedly out of the

dlyard at about one p. m. and con-
wuue south, toward a new residential
development, on foot. She was not able
to furnish officers with a description,
however.

The man had vanished again after

Up to the Minute

t Ast March 20, Wilfred LaBrie, custodian at the Miles Elementary
School in Tucson, Arizona, and part-time helper at a local serv-
ice station, was fatally knifed in a holdup attempt. Two witnesses
saw a young man fleeing the station and identified police pictures
of 23-year-old James Thomas Frazier of Little Rock, Arkansas,
as the suspect.

The detective investigation into the slaying and the subsequent
search for Frazier were the subjects of a story entitled “Even After
Flooding the Nation with Flyers,” in the July, 1961, issue of
OrriciaL Detective Stories Magazine. At the time that issue went
to press, Frazier had been charged with the slaying, the FBI had
charged him with unlawful flight to avoid prosecution, and he was
the object of a nation-wide search.

He since was arrested in Tennessee on a petty theft charge and
also has been charged with attempted bank burglary in Topeka,
Kansas; however, he was extradited to Tucson in connection with
the slaying charge. There, he steadfastly denied the holdup killing
and insisted he was in California at the time. Several lie-detector
tests and a “truth serum” examination substantiated his story and
the Tucson murder charge has been dismissed.

Results of the action pending against him in Kansas and any
further developments in the LaBrie case will be reported in the
Up to the Minute feature in a future issue.

|X CARSON CITY, Nevada, a killer went to the gas chamber
professing an overwhelming “feeling of love for the whole
human race.”

The condemned man, Thayne Archibald, 22, had been sen-
tenced to die by a panel of three district judges after he con-
fessed to the fatal shooting of Larry Waters, a seventeen-year-
old honor student, on a ledge overlooking the Truckee River,
about 30 miles east of Reno (“The Dragon’s Trail,” December,
1959).

ENTENCES have been passed on the two men who killed two
Cape Girardeau, Missouri, policemen and a civilian in gun bat-
tles following their break from a San Luis Obispo, California, jail.
Sammy Aire Tucker of Fresno, California, was tried in Jackson,
Missouri, and has been sentenced to death in the gas chamber on
a conviction of first-degree murder in the deaths of Patrolman
Donald Crittendon, 27, and Auxiliary Patrolman Herbert Goss, 67.
His partner, Douglas Wayne Thompson, also faces trial for the
fatal shooting of the patrolmen. Meanwhile, however, he has been
sentenced to life imprisonment at a trial in Poplar Bluff, Missouri,
for the death of 45-year-old Raymond Glover, who had picked
Thompson up as a hitchhiker and who was an innocent victim of a
gun battle between Thompson and State Trooper Glenn E. Davis.
The Trooper and Thompson both were wounded in the fracas
(“Seven Days on a Shooting Lam,” June, 1961).

ErcuT convicted killers kave been sentenced to life in prison
as a result of recent legal actions. They are: Joseph W.
Maxey and Lorelle Parks, Jr., for the rape-slaying of two socially
prominent New Jersey women, Mrs. Eleanor Tyson of Plainfield
and Mrs. Eleanor Ewell of Westfield (“This Good Samaritan
Couldn’t Resist Kidnaping,” October, 1961); William Castillo,
Robert Hall, Michael Kilkenny and Larry Magee all teen-agers,
for the streetcar murder of schoolteacher William P. Hall in
San Francisco (“Case of the Trolley-Car Hoods,” August, 1961),
and Thelma Ann Swenson and Frederick A. Ferguson for the
slaying of Mrs. Mary Campbell in Kent, Washington (“Can She
Hypnotize to Kill?” June, 1961).

IFE imprisonment also has been decreed for Mrs. Gertrude Lee
Nunez for the murder of her four-year-old daughter, Martha
May Jackson. Her companion, Miss Jeannance Freeman, earlier
was sentenced to death in the gas chamber for the slaying of Mrs.
Nunez’ six-year-old son, Lawrence Jackson. The children’s bodies
had been found at the bottom of Crooked River Canyon, near
Madras, Oregon (‘‘There Were Four—Then Two—Then——,”
September, 1961).

N OTHER Oregon trials, Glen Douglas Dixon and Larry West
Shipley were found guilty of first-degree murder for the fatal
shooting of Linda Jean Stevens, sixteen, of Willamina. Shipley
has been sentenced to death, while the jury recommended
mercy in the case of Dixon, who was sentenced to life imprison-
ment (“Did Linda Run Away to Be Killed?” November, 1961).

T= strange case of the two-man army which blew up several
microwave communication towers in the Nevada-Utah desert
has been closed with the sentencing of Bernard Brous and Dale
Jensen to prison terms of eight years each (“‘Who Could Start This
Billion-Dollar War?” October, 1961).

a

leading Michigan police on what the
state’s newspapers were describing as
the biggest manhunt in local history.

The wounded Williams, by this time,
was undergoing surgery and was unable
to be questioned again.

But a closer search of his effects
turned up some information that had
been overlooked in the haste to identify
him earlier in the morning.

In his billfold was a receipt from a
Lansing department store, a carbon
copy of an order to deliver a refriger-
ator to an address in the 1800 block of
Reo Road on Saturday afternoon. The
receipt bore a notation that, if no one
was at home, word should be left at 2028
Reo Road, the home of a friend.

Police raced to the address in the
1800 block Reo Road. No one was at
home. A watch was posted on the house
and officers hurried to 2028 Reo Road.

There a woman carrying a small baby
answered the officers’ knock at the door.
She identified herself as Mrs. Winegar.

“Is your husband at home?” she was
asked.

sr looked uneasy. “Yes, but he’s
sick.”

“It’s important that we talk to him
at once.”

“You can’t,” she said. ‘“‘He’s sick.”

She slammed the door.

Police withdrew to the street and
called for reinforcements.

By four p. m. more than 50 officers
had appeared. The house was sur-
rounded.

Through a megaphone police shouted
for Winegar to come out. The instruc-
tions were repeated several times.

Finally the door opened. Mrs. Wine-
gar stepped out, carrying her baby. She
ran through the police lines sobbing
and entered a neighbor’s home.

Officers closed in on the house. Two
suaneet through the front door, guns

rawn.

Ta found Winegar hiding beneath
a bed. Four guns lay beside him.
All of them were loaded.

“I give up,” he said meekly. “Don’t
shoot. Just don’t hurt my wife and
baby.”

He readily admitted he was the fugi-
tive being hunted by police. He said he
and Williams were planning to burglar-
ize the Jackson service station when
the two officers came up on them.

“I guess we lost our heads,” he said.
“We've been doing this sort of thing for
years. We never came close to being
caught before now.” '

But as officers looked over Winegar’s
home they discovered that he was no
ordinary burglar. Plaques on the wall
identified him as a graduate of a lock-
smithing school. Textbooks on a shelf
described the construction of safes.

“I’m also a locksmith and a safe
builder.” Winegar smiled as officers
glanced through the books.

In his garage officers claim they
found more than $50,000 in burglary
loot—loot which later would be traced
to almost half a hundred burglaries in
Michigan, Ohio and Indiana.

At Headquarters Winegar, who also
was known as Bill Winegarten, dictated
a full statement. He admitted having
served a prison term for burglary and
said he was currently free on bond from
an Ohio charge accusing him of illegal
possession of burglary tools.

On November 4, Williams rallied
sufficiently frcm his wounds to make a
verbal statement to police in which he
admitted participating in the kidnaping
of Richmond and Miller and engaging
in the gun battle with Deputy Maiville.
According to his statement he occasion-
ally used the name John Rogers. Fur-
ther police investigation indicated his
true name was Richard Eugene Mauch.

Both men were charged with assault
with intent to commit murder and or-
dered held for trial. Mauch was held in
lieu of $500,000 bond and Winegar
under $200,000 bond.

In addition, Jackson County author-
ities have issued kidnaping warrants for
the two men. These warrants are filed
as detainers pending disposition of the
Ingham County charges.

49


seat exchanged occasional comments.

Five miles north of Poplar Bluff,
Glover moved in his seat at the wheel
to push aside the billfold in his back
pocket. The car weaved as he did so.

At that moment State Trooper Glenn
E. Davis, who had turned out of a side
road, was traveling about 100 yards be-
hind Glover’s machine. When he saw
the car weave he decided to investigate
on the chance that the driver might be
drunk

Davis saw there were four people in
the car, all normal appearing, but by
then he had pulled abreast of them and
had motioned the driver to pull to the
side. Davis stopped behind the car and
approached the driver’s side.

Glover opened the door and stepped
out. The man who sat beside him
opened his door too and stepped to the
shoulder of the road. In the next mo-
ment there was an explosion and Davis
felt the breath of a bullet whiz by him.
He dropped to one knee and drew his
pistol.

The man who had been sitting next
to Glover had a gun in his hand. Davis
dropped back and fired. The man shot
again, the slug hitting Davis in the
shoulder and knocking him down. More
shots were fired. Glover, who had
raised up after the second exchange of
shots, fell back beside the Trooper, bul-
lets in his chest and abdomen.

The Trooper struggled to get up. His
gun has fallen out of reach. The man
who had done the shooting raced to the
patrol car and drove wildly down the
highway.

The couple in the back seat raised
up just as Davis got to his feet.

“You all right?” he asked the shaken
pair. They had hit the fioor when the
shooting started.

“I’ve been hit,” the woman said. “I
think a bullet hit my hip.”

Davis looked at Glover, who lay on
the road. A froth of blood was at his
mouth and his eyes were glazing.

Davis told him to lie still. In a few
seconds a motorist came along and the
Trooper flagged him down. In fifteen
minutes Glover, Davis and Mrs.
Thompson were en route to a Poplar
Bluff hospital and the area was alerted.

Douglas Wayne Thompson had
broken out of the wilderness and he was
now on another rampage in the Poplar
Bluff area. The heat of the chase be-
gan to rekindle. But where could he
hide with a numbered and clearly iden-
tifiable State Patrol car? The scores

“Can She Hypnotize to Kill?”

“Take him in to the office and take
his clothes,” Nault directed a deputy.
“The lab crew will examine them for
possible bloodstains. Northey may also
come up with some fingerprints for
comparison. We'll get another state-
ment from him as soon as we're finished
here.”

“You guys are making a big mis-
take,” Graves protested. “I’ve never
been out here and I don’t know any-
thing about any woman being killed.
You just ask that truck driver who gave
me the ride.”

“We can’t very well ask him unless
we know who he is,” Nault said.

Reluctantly, Graves gave the name of
the freight company he had seen on the
truck. The driver's name was Ed. A
deputy was sent to check the
information.

Coroner Leo Sowers removed the vic-
tim. He promised an immediate
autopsy. There were two points the in-
vestigators wanted to know as quickly as
possible—whether there was any defi-
nite evidence of a sexual attack and the
approximate time of death.

Deputies had checked residents for
miles around the Campbell home, but
had been unable to find anyone other
than Mrs. Zacharias who had seen the
shaggy-haired man. O’Rourke pointed
out: “Now, if he took Campbell’s car,

44

of police that were thrown into the
chase did not puzzle long over the ques-
tion. The man could not have got far.
Now to find him.

Mrs. Carl Clanahan, of Hilliard, was
on the telephone shortly after one
o’clock on that Friday afternoon. Her
70-year-old husband was in another
room. She thought it strange when she
heard the back door open but dismissed
it. She was talking with her married
daughter.

Suddenly, a hand reached for ‘the
telephone receiver and she looked up to
see a strange man, blood flowing from a
cut across his nose. She was stunned.
The man thrust the receiver back into
her hand. “Keep talking,” he whispered. .

Mrs. Clanahan thought quickly. She,
as everyone else in that area, had been
alerted to the possible presence of the
wanted Douglas Wayne Thompson, She
changed the tone of her voice,

“I don’t want that. roast,” she told
her daughter. “But get me the grocer-
ies out here real quick.”

Inasmuch as the daughter, Mrs.
Verna Hudson of Poplar Bluff, and her
mother had not been talking about gro-
ceries, Mrs. Hudson knew that some-
thing was wrong. She called Police
Chief Eldon Whitworth and explained
the situation. He already had heard
of the most recent gun battle and knew
the Clanahan home was only about
seven miles from that site. He notified
the State Patrol, then immediately
raced.to the Clanahan residence with
several deputies.

Six policemen in three cars arrived
at the farm within minutes. No patrol
car was in sight. They got out, how-
ever, and surrounded the house.

Inside the man saw them. “I’m
done,” he said to Mrs. Clanahan. “I’m
in trouble. I don’t want any more.
trouble and won't give you any. Just
take it easy.” He spoke quietly to the
ba and her husband who had joined

em

The couple showed no fear and this
seemed to calm the man. :

“You have some ‘life left,” Mrs.
Clanahan said. ‘“Let’s not have any
shooting.

i ought to kill myself,” he answered. '
He reached into his shirt front and took
out a roll of bills.. “Here’s more than a
thousand dollars. If I get killed, it’s
yours.”

“We don’t want it,” the woman said.

“Take it,” the man said, anger in his
voice.

( from page 15)

it’s a cinch he walked out here. It’s
three miles from town and you'd think
somebody would have seen him.”

“Not necessarily,” Sprinkle said, ex-
plaining that at nine o’clock in the
morning the men in the area already
had left for work, the children were at
school, and most of the women would be
busy with household chores.

McCullough said: “Our best chance
is that somebody will spot the station
wagon.” He asked Roskie: “Any re-
ports on it yet?”

Roskie shook his head.’ He said news"
of the crime was being broadcast on the
radio and was in the late editions of the
newspapers. A number of cars had
been stopped and the drivers question--
ed. “But they haven’t found tee right.
one, yet,” Roskie said.

8 grey seers enveloped the scene ‘ati’

rain started. Standing
in the front yard of the Campbell home,
Sheriff McCullough looked down the.

road toward the small town of Kent.
He told Sprinkle: “I think we’d best get: ”

a search party organized for the morn-?

ing. There’s a chance the killer may.’

have thrown away the sun: whenvhe left
here.” ‘ES aR SOE

call on the Boy Scouts,” Sprinkle said
“Our resident deputy out’ peres worl

The woman took the money and
placed it on the telephone table.

The man said again, “I ought to kill
myself, but I don’t have the nerve.”

“Wouldn’t your family rather have
you alive in prison than dead?” Mrs.
Clanahan asked. “Have you a family?”

The man nodded. “In California.”

“If you go out there with your hands
up the Lord will be with you,” the
woman said.

A shudder seemed to pass through the
big man. He tossed his pistol on a bed.

Outside, Chief Whitworth was puz-
zled. There had been no outcry from
the house. Somehow he had expected
if Thompson were inside he would have
shot immediately. He had not hesi-
tated to do so before when cornered.
Also the absence of the patrol car mys-
tified him. Could this be a false
alarm? He ‘decided to wait a few more
minutes before making a move. Per-
haps the man inside would move first.
The police would have to be careful not
to hit the Clanahans.

Whitworth saw the back door open
and Mrs. Clanahan emerge. He knew
her. Strangely, she held her arms
above her head. Behind her walked a
big man with a blood-crusted face. He
held up his arms and there was no gun
in sight. The procession continued into
the yard and Whitworth arose. Nothing
happened. He and Trooper L. L. Mur-

“phy walked swiftly to the man.

“Are you Thompson—Douglas
Gs ean Whitworth asked.

“ es.”

The bloody hunt was over, but not all
the cost had been totaled. Four hours
after he entered the Poplar Bluff hos-
pital,_-Raymond. Glover, the man*“who
had given Thompson a ride from
Clubb, died. .The wound of Trooper
Davis was not serious, and that of the
minister’s wife was only a scratch as
was the one which Thompson received
op a bullet that had grazed his nose.

ompson was taken to Poplar Bluff
and lodged in the Butler County jail
where eventually a first-degree murder
charge was filed against him by Pros-
ecuting Attorney William Batson in
the killing of Glover.

He already faced similar charges in
Cape Girardeau County in the death of
Officer Goss. Tucker also faced first-
degree murder charges in this case.

Then on March 21, 1960, Officer Don-
ald Crittendon, who had been shot in
the first gun battle in Cape Girardeau,
died of his wounds

with the scout group. I know they will
be willing to cooperate.”

Captain Northey and his men finished
recording the physical evidence in the
house. As the crew packed its equip-
ment, McCullough and Sprinkle ques-
tioned Northey. “Think you've got any-
mine at all that might help?” Sprinkle

Northey shrugged. ‘We've got plenty
of fingerprints, but there’s no way we
can tell if any belong to the killer until
you get a suspect.”

“You didn’t find the bludgeon?” Mc-
Cullough asked.

Northey shook‘ his head. “From the
wound, it looks like it was a piece of
pipe. The killer must have taken it
with him.”

Then, with a hand and shoulder ges-
ture to indicate he knew he was going
beyond his role in the investigation,
Northey said: “I' know you guys are
handling the deal, but like I said before,
there’s just something about this whole
thing that looks queer to me.”

“You mean the-glasses of milk and
cookies?” Sheriff McCullough asked.
‘-#Not only that,” Northey said. “You
take the way the place was ransacked.
What kind of a prowler ‘would go up-

“stairs in‘a house and pull all the clothes
out of the bureau drawers? He’d know

there wouldn’t be much chance of find-

_ ing anything there, yet he passed up all

the* spots downstairs’ where money
might have been hidden.” ©
“What you're trying’ to say is the

Johnson, who by chance had not been
involved in the gun battles, was held by
Federal authorities and taken to St.
Louis for safe-keeping on charges of un-
lawful flight from Hutchinson, Kansas.

Thompson told an almost unbelieva-
ble story of his experiences in the
hunter-and-the-hunted match of wits
with the police officers and unofficial
posses. He, indeed, had found shelter
in abandoned cabins and farnt homes
in the Grassy area, sleeping during the
day and moving at night. Several
times officers were within yards of
some of his hiding places he said.

He got his biggest lift when he found
canned food in one of the cabins near
Marquand. He said he had abandoned
Tucker only when he saw how hopeless
it was to take him with him.

“I carried him up one steep hill but
I knew I couldn’t do it again,” he said.

He got off the roads when he heard
the approach of cars and in that man-
ner made it to Clubb and broke into a
house where the people were away on
vacation, police learned. Here he
bathed, shaved and found clothing that
fitted him. Refreshed, he waited that
Friday morning for an older car to pass
because he was fearful that a new one
might contain police. When the doomed
Glover came along he flagged him, and
from that moment the vicious trail of
blood moved to its bitter end.

After he sped away in Davis’ patrol
car, Thompson told police, he raced
down Highway 67 to a gravel road
leading to Hilliard. He turned into
the Clanahan place. because he saw an
open garage. He pulled the patrol car
into it, closed the door and made his
way into the house. Police found the
car in the garage.

At the inquests in the deaths, Thomp-
son and Tucker attempted to soften
their parts in the killings by claiming
that their guns jammed, that they did
not intend to kill anybody, and that the
men walked into the paths of the bul-
lets. At some parts of the story each
blamed the other for the killings.

It was agreed that Tucker had been
the one who was driving the Oldsmo-
bile when the initial gun battle had
taken place, and therefore was the man
who probably had shot Crittendon in
the stomach. Cape Girardeau officers
said that the man on the passenger side,
who apparently was Thompson, had
shot Goss. Even this was clouded by
the counter charges and excuses made
by the captured pair.

rooms could have been ransacked up-
stairs simply to create the impression
of a prowler?”

“That's the way it looks to me. When
you’ve been on as many burglary cases
as I have, you sort of get a feeling about
them. Nine times out of ten I can tell
just by looking whether a job was pulled
by professionals, amateurs or just kids.
This was no pro job.”

Sprinkle said he had the same feeling.
Clothing from the drawers had been
flung on the beds and the floor. “A
thief looking for money would only have
run his hands through the drawers.”

“Unless he was looking for the gun,”
McCullough said.

“How would he know there was a

“Let’s check with Campbell again,”
McCullough suggested.

THY located Campbell at the home of
a@ neighbor. The stunning know]l-
edge that his wife had been slain was
fully sinking in now. His face was
drawn and pale.

“Did anyone but you know about the
pistol hidden in the bureau drawer?”
Sprinkle asked.

“Nobody,” Campbell - answered. “I

‘rarely took the gun out. I can’t recall

that I ever mentioned it to anyone.”
Sprinkle explained there was a possi-

bility that the bedrooms had been ran-

sacked only to try to conceal another

_Motive for the crime. Campbell agreed

that a prowler couldn’t reasonably have


After California jail break, fugitives

During a religious service at the
jail, the hardened trio had executed
their skillful escape. While the singing
of hymns muffied other noises on the
cellblock, they sawed through the bars
of their steel and concrete cage, scram-
bled into a ventilator shaft, crawled
to where they could reach a steam
pipe, then shinnied down it three floors
to ground level, where they fled the
jail grounds, unnoticed.

In a stolen pickup truck, they headed
east across the Santa Lucia Mountains

- to Bakersfield, where they stole a car
which carried them across the Mojave
Desert and down U.S. 66 to Albuquer-
que, New Mexico. There they knocked
over a liquor store for $500, then
angled up into Doug Thompson’s na-
tive Oklahoma and finally into Sammy
Johnson’s old territory of Kansas,
seeking bigger jobs.

By chance, they stopped in the plains
town of Hutchinson. Also by chance,
they singled out Carl Rich’s Safeway
supermarket as their next target. They
staked out the store for a day, es-
tablished that Rich was the manager,
and catalogued his movements. At
about 9 p.m. on March 3rd, shortly
after Rich arrived home, they were
ready to strike.

Rich was reading a newspaper, his
wife was working in the kitchen and
their sons were watching a TV program
about cops and robbers when the trio
rapped sharply at the front door.

The Richs’ eight-year-old son an-
swered the knock. Without warning,
the three fugitives, dressed in Army
fatigues and brown cotton gloves,
charged into the living room.

“Okay, get your hands up!” one

snapped. “We want the keys to the
a j

store.
xu“ As he rose from his chair, Rich said

Thompson, Tucker, Johnson (I. to 1)

Ee ceees

later, “All I could see was guns.”

While two of the bandits covered
Rich and his pajama-clad youngsters,
the third came up behind Mrs. Rich,
who was sitting in a kitchen chair.
Hearing his footsteps, she turned and
a scream caught in her throat. The
bandit, gun leveled at her head,
grinned.

“What’s going on?” she quavered.

“Just keep quiet and come with me,”
the gunman gritted. “If everyone keeps
calm, nobody will get hurt.”

In the living room, the invaders
forced Rich to scribble the combination
of the store safe on an envelope. Then
one of the fugitive trio, later identified
as Douglas Wayne Thompson, grabbed
the envelope, wrested Rich’s keys
from his pocket and darted out the
front door.

_ “He’ll take care of the safe,” one of
his pals explained, “and we'll take
care of you.”

On the gunmen’s orders, Rich and
his wife nervously tied their sons’
hands and feet with wire. Then, as
Rich lay down meekly on the floor
under the gun of one of the bandits,
the other wired his hands together
behind his back, then wired his ankles
together. They wired Mrs. Rich to a
chair.

While one gunman sprawled on the
sofa watching TV and guarding the
prisoners, his companion prowled
through the Richs’ bedroom. From a
drawer, he lifted $600 of Rich’s money
—the proceeds of two pay checks and
an insurance settlement—and from a
closet he grabbed a shotgun.

For the next 30 terror-packed min-
utes, the helpless captives watched
fearfully as the armed intruders stalked
silently around them. There’ was no
way of telling what fate awaited them

Rf Z
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wis ts

led police on wild chase to Missout

when the third man returned. But the
Richs’ minds conjured dreadful phe
tures. Perspiring from terror, the
couple realized that their descripths:
of the robbers would be a vital che
for the police. They knew also thet @
the men were apprehended later, they
would be the only ones who ecoulf
identify them. The bandits, they were
sure, knew this, too. They seemed t
be calm, calculating men who woulé
think of every angle—including the
elimination of witnesses.

Fortunately, the captives’ imaginings
proved to be more nightmarish thee
real. When the third man returneé
with the Safeway receipts, the trie é»
parted from the house quietly, usm
Rich’s green Pontiac as a getaway @#

Frantically, Mrs. Rich strugied te
of the wire that cut into her wrist
With trembling fingers, she freed bef
husband’s hands, then dashed # @
neighbor’s house and sounded t#
alarm.

Within 15 minutes, Police Chief Catt
Spriggs flashed a statewide sit
throughout Kansas for the fleeing et
laws and ordered. roadblocks three®
up on principal highways leading owt a@
Hutchinson. On the basis of the Riche’
descriptions, a police artist
sketched likenesses of the three @#%
men; these were flashed to police @ =|
partments and newspapers over awe
radius. =.

At 2 a.m. Saturday, the ‘ae
was recovered at Green and
a few blocks south of the Rich
The bandits’ Army fatigues were
strewn along several streets.

i

as if they slipped past us. These
cool characters who know

Lill

the front seat of the car officers they're doing.” ;
two pairs of khaki pants and the bev : Fy dawn, the pickup alert had’ spread
to the Safeway store. But there ea four neighboring states, but the

seemingly had vanished.

no clues to the heistmen’s Mee
whereabouts. ak

Dearly a week Chief Spriggs and

his detectives checked leads, but net-
ted nothing. Then on Thursday, March
9th, came the first break. Captain Ray
Tull of the Santa Paula, California,
police department telephoned to identi-
fy the bandits. He told Spriggs that a

woman tourist had shown a patrolman ~

a copy of the Hutchinson News con-
taining the police artist’s conception of
the three holdup thugs.

“The officer brought the paper to me
and I recognized the men immediately
as the three jailbreakers from San
Luis Obispo,” Captain Tull explained,
identifying the men by name.

At Captain Tull’s suggestion, a mug
shot of Calvin Johnson was quickly
obtained by Hutchinson authorities
from files at the Kansas State Prison in
Lansing. From it, the Rich family con-
firmed his identity.

Immediately, warrants were issued
charging Douglas Wayne Thompson,
Calvin Willis Johnson and Samuel
Aire Tucker with robbery, burglary,
felonious assault and unlawful flight
to avoid prosecution.

For the first time since breaking
jail, their movements had been definite-
ly traced by authorities. The problem
now was to pin them down for cap-
ture. And the solution to that problem
was fated to be etched in blood.

The fuse to disaster was ignited
Friday, March 10th, at the Town Plaza
shopping center on the north edge of
Cape Girardeau, Missouri, on the Mis-
sissippi River, more than 600 miles east
of Hutchinson. For two days, the hit-
and-run bandits had kept the Kroger
supermarket there under surveillance,
giving it the same thorough casing that
had preceded the robbery of the Hutch-
inson supermarket a week earlier.
But this time they aroused alarm.

After nightfall, the Kroger super-
market manager noticed two men
loitering suspiciously in the store
parking lot and told them he would
summon police if they did not move
on. The men, who were Cal Johnson
and Doug Thompson, trudged off—
Johnson heading toward U.S. Highway
61 and Thompson toward a service
station nearby.

Fearful that the men might double
back after the store closed, the mana-
ger returned to his office and tele-
phoned police headquarters.

Among the lawmen who responded
were Patrolman Donald Crittendon and
Auxiliary Officer Herbert Goss. Patrol-
man Crittendon, 22, formerly a student
at Southeast Missouri State College and
the father of two young daughters,
was scheduled to resign from the Cape
Girardeau police force at 11 o’clock that
night. He planned to take a job with a
discount firm which also was located
in the Town Plaza. His 67-year-old
partner, Officer Goss, a former street
department employe, was donating his
service to the city as an auxiliary
policeman.

At the Kroger store, the manager

..quickly briefed the two policemen on
his suspicions. The owner of an ad-
jacent shop volunteered that he had
seen one man, later identified as

Thompson, climb into a 1956 Oldsmo-

bile driven by another man, later

identified as Tucker, and disappear

down U.S. 61.

Quickly the police radio network
crackled with an alarm for the wanted
ear. Seconds later, Patrolman Shan-
non Kelley and Auxiliary Officer
Robert Ross, cruising near Houck
Stadium, radioed they had spotted the
Oldsmobile speeding north on U.S. 61

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by CURTIS RODANN

For two weeks they eluded capture and terrorized a state .
it was all over, three

Piss and when
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fou! Officer Crittendon (above) fought vainly for life. Officer Goss also died in hospital ofter being shot by hoods i

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Weld hostages in own home, Mr. and Mrs. Clanahan talked
genman into giving himself up to cops surrounding house

BRISK evening air nipped
Carl Rich’s face and hands as he
carefully locked the doors of the
Safeway supermarket on the east
~ gide of Hutchinson, Kansas, and

Iked over to his 1957 Pontiac stand-

“tog alone in the parking lot. He climbed

fa and wheeled the car onto tree-lined
Bast 4th Street for the drive home.
‘Like most Fridays, that Friday,

March 3, 1961, had been hectic at the
_g#reamlined supermarket where he was
Manager. Housewives seeking week-

‘td specials had jammed the aisles,

‘and it seemed that more than the nor-
} mal number of inquiries from them
‘wad from the check-out clerks had

fallen to him to answer. Besides that, a
heavy amount of paper work had
@owded his desk.

"+ But the day had been a profitable

Now he looked forward to his home

_ im the north end of town and to his

quiet relaxation before bedtime.

~ But fate had something else in mind
‘ter Carl Rich. As he swung into his
on West 27th Street, he was

* *proaching a terrifying hour .. .

The strange web of circumstance
‘about to enmesh his life began spec-

_ ‘cularly 1,500 miles away. Rich was

tet even aware that just four days

~ a, on February 27th, three men

broken out of the county jail in
San Luis Obispo, California. Theirs
Was one of the slickest escapes in West

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desperate cross-country crime spree
destined to end with three merciless
murders.

Leader of the fugitive band was slim,
sandy-haired Douglas Wayne Thomp-
son. On one occasion, the 27-year-old
convict had told police that he started
his life in crime because he needed
quick money to finance a cancer oper-
ation for his wife. In December, 1960,
he had involuntarily changed his resi-
dence from Bakersfield, California, to
San Quentin Penitentiary after receiv-
ing a five-year-to-life sentence for a
$9,400 robbery in San Jose.

A similar sentence had been meted
“a to his accomplice, Samuel Aire
Tucker, 26, of Fresno. In February,
both men were transferred to San
Luis Obispo County Jail to await trial
with 22-year-old Calvin Willis Johnson,
a burglary parolee from Kansas State
Prison, on charges of robbing eight
other markets.

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- Trooper Davis, and escaped in it.

og

+a
Serer 45, who later died from
‘gunshot wounds im the resulting
battle, because the vehicle im-
properly paisad.a yellow lns
along the center GPTie kighway.
. . Noted Thumb Gene.

Trooper Davis said as ke was
talking to Glover, the mana had
gotten out of the ear and wes
standing in the car doorway, he
noticed the left thumb missing
OR &@ passenger in the front ges?
and immediately thoug':t cf
Thompson, the wanted killer. |

Thompson was asked what his|-
name was and answered, “Tay-
lor.” When Trooper Davis “or-
dered him out of the car Themp-
son cpened fire with a P-38 Pistol,

“which hens” said was” undert wo

his belt—and the officer returned
the fire. Glover was in the middle
of the exchange of shots and was
wounded three time officers said,

The fugitive and trooper con.
tinued the gun battle by running
around the car. The trooper ran
out of ammunition and Thompson
later said his gun jammed after
firing seven times.

Trodper Davis was hit below
the right shoulder while Thomp-
son suffered a slight wound to his
nose,

Thompson ran for the patrol
car, the motor left running by

He fled south on Highway 67, cut
over east on Route W, and drove
northward. The fugitive said lat-
er that he could hear on the pa-
ae ear radio that officers were
- coming from all: directione and
he wanted to ditch the car.

* Put Car in Garage.

He spotted a garage door open
next to the farm home of Mr. and
Mrs. J. C. Clanahan and drove
the’ patrol car inside, closed the
door and went to the house. :

Mrs. Clanahan was on the tele-
phone talking to ber daughter in
Feplar Bluff, Mrs. Verna Hudsoa,
when Thompson walked in. She}!
said quickly to her daughter, ‘‘I
don't. want those groceries, but
get me some other groceries out
here real quick” and then hung
up. Mrs. Hudson, who operates a
grocery store with her busband,
knew something was wrong and
flagged down two Poplar Binff

‘more hitchhikers,

police . officer” ~ Crittendon

in the first of the thressgun bat

were isigtracted to- stop the pair
after ag store manager in the
Town Plasa Shopping center re-
ported three.men-were loitering |
in front of his store. When the
fugitives heard the manager say

fled but Johnson was left behind.
‘The. fleeing pair opened fire
et the police officers right-after}
they were stopped with both Goss
and Crittendes being hit immedi-
ately, while Teompect. was also
wounded, —-
They drove off north, toward
Jackson, took another car from
three young men near Jackson,
and fl ward the Grassy area
where they finally . abandoned
their car. In the process of the
chase they were sighted by a pa-
trol car and the second gun battle
folowed at Lutesville. Wayne
County Sheriff Elmer Chatman
was wounded in this ‘battle before
the patrol car had to give up/the
chase when a tire was blown out.
Thompson was questioned at
Treop E headquarters of the
Highway Patrol and talked free-
ly, although his nese_ wound. gave
his voice the sound of one who
has a head cold. He was clean
shaven.
He told officers he was picked
up by Glover, a resident of Clubb,

‘gaveral miles west. of the séerch

‘area, as he (Thompson) was
hitchhifing along Route % eariy
Friday afternoon and offered the
driver $5 to take him to Poplar
Bluff. Glover then picked up two
Charlies B.
Thompson, 30, and his wife,
Lucille Thompson, 29, of Braga-

docio, along the way. The woman,

was reportedly: slightly. injared in
the gun battle.

Thompson, the thug, said he
thought, Glover was . becoming
afraid and picked, up the other
passengers ‘for, that. Sensis: He
said they stopped at York village
and bought a six-bottle pack of

beer, shortiy before Trooper Dav-
is stopped the car.

Ctficers of Ue street and
‘ee Se ek ut te the farce |

The fugitive gave a @etated
wiecy 9f ie wheresnhort:

Ro 5 ney

and seriously Weanding regular | ~

he was going to call police they |

2

Science

Fair

me

hundreds. of dellars -n
Regional Science. Fair

Y Phig Tith regional fair, with “an
entry list 79.5 per cent larger
than: any. in the past, / wi if begin
at 8 a.m. Poesday when ‘entrants
from towns throughout’ the dis-
trict bring their exhibits to Houck
Field House for” the four-day
showing. a

Judging, js “scheduled to begin
at noon on Tuesday and will con-
tinue through the afternoon until!
it is completed. Exhibitors and
ihe public will not be allowed on
the field house floor during the
judging. ,

| The fair, which is admission
tree, will be opened to the public
at’5 on Tuesday afternoon and re-
main open until 9. On Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday the Fair
will be opened from 3 to 9 each
“day. s

May Tour Exhibits.

By- specia)/ arrangement in ad-
vance with Dr. Kenneth Burham,
director of the fair, science
elasses or >clubs~ ‘may tour: the
exhibits outside of -the> specified
hours of public showing. He may
be contacted at the college sci-
ence department.

Dr. Burniiam reported there has
been fluctuation of the entries as
some have been changed in cate-
gory and others have withdrawn.
His totals today showed 120 en-
traits in the senior, division
grades 10, ]1 and 12) and 214 in
the junior..diviison (grades. 1, 8
and 9). 2.25
This total’ of 334. is 148 more
than were entered two years ago,

Six Shot in

2 eo |
IRia Man

meseet

when the record of 186 entries-in- |

Young ae of sou thoaat itiseourl who work in and
out of ais science classrooms with both their hands and|
their heads will display. their creative handiwork and com-
pete for educational and technical prizes valued at many
next week at the Southeast Missouri

me aes

place was-established: It is- ex-
pected that there will be some
shrinkage in the figure shown to-
asy--when-schools-bring- their-ex-
hibits on Tuesday. Some pupils
expect to enter, but frequently
their-—exhibit-.does mot work as
planned or.they find time catches
up with them. Most of the pork
is extra-curricular.

The entries, as classified tdi
by Dr. Burnham, were
lows: \

Senior division—Engineering, 4;
biology, 30; physics, 39; physiog-
raphy, 10; chemistry, 27; mathe-
matics, 10. ey

Junior. division —-Engineering,
20; biology, 65; physics, 69; chem-

¢
ae fal.

distry,.11; mathematics, 14.

These exhibitors each are al-
lowed space not in excess of 30
inches deep, front to rear, or 48
inches wide, side to side. With so
many exhibitors, space is at a
premium, despite the size of the
field house floor. It was asked

‘apy. pupils who enteted, but do

not expect to show, contact Dr.
Burnham so he can use space as-
signed to thea: for others.

_ About Points.

Exhibits are judged on these
points: Creative ability, 30 points;
scientific thought, 30 points: thor-
oughness, 10 points: skill, 10
{Continued on page 6.)

AINKERING With
- YOUR WATCH IS NO
WAY TO IMPROVE
Your Time? 7

ra

ferroris $. (i

~ It Least 30in—§
Y West fern Altica

Portuguese Troops
Sent fo End MauMau
style Massacres.

gan

“Congo's
in a new
eonpEe against \

ugh the
Provinces

Kivu!

ported today.

sie KY ™
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est Africa

traons a

go border area, where tribal
terrorists have been hacking
to death and mutilating any
Whites they find on remote
Anglo plantations. At least
30 planters and _ families
were reported slain. |
Portuguese colonial rulers here
turned to armed might in’ hopes
of ending the. Mau-Mau type of
slaughter.--The same planes that

rushed in troops brought back
terrified-settlers.

‘Faced with the prospect. of
growing Congo-like massacres, co-
lonial authorities here in the
capital said today they are confi-
dent they can put down the bloody
antiwhite uprising despite the
hindrance of torrential rain.

knives have killed and hacked up!

dren in the past three days.

One report said 28 persons were
murdered at a hig coffee planta-
tion near Quitexe, less than 150
miles northeast of this coastal
city. A young girl was reported
cut in half near Viege. One mu-
tilated settler died after being

-LEOPOLDVILLE, the/*
Congo ‘?—Hundreds of pa-|
ranad) cS are sunning § wild | :

terror |
White peo- |
ple. the United Nations re-

-Por-|! .
} oS ve 4 flow ni H
Aodthiwasd to the Anglo-Con-|

Negroes swinging machete |

evarsated hara

ir

| fir

ar

countless men, women and chil. | | he

tos
sit
it

as


gun battle’ by rugnwis
” around the car. The trooper ran
out of ammunition and Thompson
later said his gun _Jammed after
firing seyen times.

Trocper Davis was hit below
the tight shoulder while Thomp-

$08 eee a slight wound to his
nose,

Thompson ran for the patrol
ear, the motor left running by
-Trooper Davis, and esceped in it.
He fled south on Highway 67, cut
over east on Route W, and drove
northward. The fugitive said lat-
er that he could hear on the pa-
‘trol car radio that officers were

or. Coming -from- all- direttions:‘ and
~~“he wanted to ditch the can.” ~

| Put Car in Garage.

He spotted a garage door open
next to the farm home of Mr. and
Mrs.'J. C. Clanahan and drove
the patrol car inside, closed the
door and went to the house.

Mrs. Clanahan was on the‘tele-
phone talking to her daughter in
Poplar Bluff, Mrs. Verna Hudson,
when Thompson walked in. She
said quickly to her daughter, ‘‘I
don’t want those groceries, but
get me some other groceries out
here real quick’’ and then hung
up. Mrs. Hudson, who operates a
grocery store with her bushand,
knew something was wrong and
flagged down two Poplar Bluff
police officers om the street and
told them to get out to the farm
ag quickly as possible.

Called for Help. -

The two officers went to the
house, saw the patrol car through
a‘crack in the garage door and
radioed for help. Within minutes
the dwelling was surrounded.

Police said that Mrs. Clanahan

» ang Thompson talked for a while,
a fandage was put on his nose,
ami she tol dhim, “You have
some life left, let’s not have any
mere shooting.” It was.-algo_be-
lieved that Thompson may have

~--—~-hinged—ahout—committing -euleide

ot Mrs. Clanahan talked him out
of it,

He turned $1142 over to hee,
the money he had on #@#m from/ fh
previous robberies in Kgtzaz and
New Mexico since he, Tucker and
Calvin Johnson, 22, escaped from’
a California jail og Feb.. 28, po
‘Nee said.

Thomosen then directed bor te

‘ “TH

.

| Thompson, ©

Geta we bo ae 2 2
chase eer wore? sighted: bya pa-
trol car and the second gun battle
followed at Lutesville. Wayne
County Sheriff Elmer Chatmaz
was ‘wounded in this‘battle before
the patrol car had to give tip the

chase wien p tire was blown out.

Highway Patrol and talked free-
ly, alisiug? h his nose wound gave
his yéjce the sound of one who
hes a “head cold. He was clean
shaven. :

He told officers he was picked
up by Glover, a resident of Clubb,

‘area, as! he (Thompson) ‘was
hitchhiting- along Route 34 early
Friday afternoon and offered the
driver $5 to teke him to Poplar
Bluff. Glover then picked up two
‘more hitchhikers, Charles B.
30, and kis wife,
Lucille Thompson, 29, of Braga-
docia, along the way. The woman,
was reportedly ‘slightly injured in
the gun battle.

Thompson, the thug, said he
thought Glover. was becoming
afraid and picked up the other
passengers for that reason. He
said they stopped at York village
end bought a six-bettle paek of

greys before Trooper Dav-
pped the car. |

The fugitive. gave)
shir. Of Ma “abies bout aincs
last Saturday when he and Tuck-
er abandoned their car right after
the second shooting incident with
Sheriff Chatman. Officers, how-
ever, are hegitent. abeut com-
pietely believing his. story and
arg checking every angle to de-
Ptermine if he had had any help.
‘Hee claimed he received mo aid
duging the entire time he was in
the country around Castor River.
During the first night he stayed in
a bern and lett it about: 4: 30 Sat-
uray afternoon.

ie
i

~suleide }-—-.-Spotted-by- Seacchors.—-—

Wandering. around, : -Thompeon |:
i ahrprptrrpntesray Castar Biv.
er. Lae welked along-the fenk.
af this time that he /was
Sotto el the bloodhouwndy ted In
hy searchers started afte him. -
He bbst the dogs by gaikms
in the creek, Thompsin ehig. This

was the closest the’ setrchers
(Continued on pase f.)

-severat-mites: wert-of the _siereh’ r

Pr eps x ee eS: ee 9? 2
+ pire Hs eartl er
foot Of TUCLUAT “aa WIL

tinue through ‘the afternoon until
it is’ completed. Exhibitors and
tie public will not be allowed on
‘the field house floor during the
judging.

The fair, which is admission
free, will be opened to the public} -
at'S on Tuesday afternoon and re-
main-open until.9. On Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday the Fair
will be a from 3 to $ each
day.

May Tour Exhibits. 2

By- special arrangement in ad-
vance with Dr. Kenneth Burham,
Girector of the fair, science
élasses. oF; clabs - “may . tou? the!
exhibits outside of the: specified
hours of public showing. He may
be contacted aj the college sci-
ence department. -

- Dr. Burniiam feported there has

been fluctuation of the entries as
some have been changed in cate-
gory and others have withdrawn:
His totals today showed 120 en-
trants. in the senior, division
(grades 10, ii and 12) and 214 in
the junior di¥lison (grades 7, 3
and 9).

than were entered two years 2fo,
when the record of 186 entries-in-

Six Shot in
ig sine |(BIG-Manhunt

Six persons were shot, with two
fatally hurt, and one was beaten
in the gun battle eight days ago
and the subsequent manhunt:’

in Cape.

Officer Donald Crittendon, shot
in Cape and eritically wounded.

Defendant Sammy Aire Tucker,
shot by, officers and wounded in
Cape.

Sheriff Eimer Chatman of
Wayne County, shot and slightly
wounded helyjiag chase Thompson
jand Tucker westward from Lutes-
'yilie last Friday night.

Raymond Glover, fatally shot
by. Thompsoti near ‘Poplar: Bluff
on FHady afternoon.

“Tissges ise Davis, shot by
#1 slightly wounded,

dled apeerdes afternoon,
George J. Gray. farmer, beaten }
by. Thompson and Tucker when
Gray’s car was stolen in Bollinger

at Bes tok
Con we Fr tny nicht,

—

This ‘total of 334 is 148 more}

Herbert L. Goss, shot to death

a day 55. -.

The entries, as classified today
by Dr.! | Burnham, were as fol-
lows: ~

Senior division~Engineering, 4
biology, 30; physics, .29; ec
raphy, 10; ‘chemistry, 21; mathe-
matics, 10. :

“Junior-division —- Engineering, .

20; biology. 65; physics, 69; chem-
istry,-11; mathematics, 14,
These exhibitors each are al-

lowed space not in excess of 30}

inches deep, front to rear! or 48
inches wide, side to side. With so
many /exhibitors, space ig at a
premium, despite the size of the
field house floor. It was asked
Pasy. pupils who.enteted; hut do
not expect to show, contact Dr.
Burnham so he can use spgce as-
signed to them for others.
About Points.

Exhibits are judged on these
points: Creative ability, 30 points;
scientific thought, 30 points; thor-
oughness, 16-points: -skill, 10

(Continued on page 6.)

AINKERING With
“YOUR WATCH 1S KO
WAY To IMPROVE

THE WEATHER

Cape Girardeau and southeast
Missouri: Rain, ending tonight;
cloudy Sundsy with shewers late
in day; low tonight 37, \high Sun-

Missouri: Rain over most of
state, ending tonight; cloudy on
Sunday.

Arkansas: Occasional, rain and
seattered thundershowers through
Sunday. -

Southasm. Blinois: Rain, “ending
iditght; Surday cloudy with late
iggy showers; low tonight

th Taye jog =.

‘|nodthward to the Anglo-Con-

_jtions and belong to central Afri-

~ LUANDA, Anglo” Portu-|
guese West Africa (*—Por-
_[tuguese troops have flown

go border area, where tribal

to death and ‘mutilating any

Whites they find on remote
Anglo plantations. At least],
30 planters and families

were reported slain.

Portuguese colonial rulers here
turned to armed might in’ hopes
of ending the. Mau-Mau type: of
slaughter.~.The same planes that
rushed in troops brought back
terrified: secitlers.

Faced with the prospect of
growing Cango-like massacres, ¢o-
lonial authorities here in the
capital said today they are confi-
dent they can put down the bloody
antiohite despite the
hin lrance nt forrantiat yin.

a

rpricing

wingtr hete
* woe hav titt a thaneks.
knives have killed and hacked up

countless men, women and chil-
dren in the past three days.

One report said 28 persons were
murdered at a big coffee planta-
tion near Quitexe, less than 150
miles northeast of this coastal
city. A young girl was reported
cut in half near Viege. One mu-
tilated settler died after being
evacuated here.

This dispatch did not ‘mention
any outsiders among the attack-
ers, but Portuguese news agency
dispatches received in Lisbon said
the terrorisis were ‘‘foreigners”
or came from the Congo across
the border. Some of these reports
said Negroes and Whites alike
were attacked.

Soldiers and paratroopers
rushed northward faced th job of
flushing the raiders frpm_ hiding
places in dense forests:

Africans who work the planta-

can tribes were reportedly quiet
while the northern tribesmen at-
tacked homes and sabotaged
roads and bridges.
Commercial airlines touched
down at Luanda Airfield in a
huge refugee airlift, Fleeing set-
tiers crammed itruck after truck
for the ride ino Luanda, where
they told how Negroes hacked to

death every White they saw.

some Of.
‘outside |
fire a !

Thomps«
and pret

While

at all at
tive cou

terrorists have been hacking| snort

outside
said.-
Most ¢
shen go
ularly i
When pf
area wo
they co
Miah
¥ office
neighbo:
forces te
group. |
guns.
Rumor
kept wa
from ate
and whil
distance,

get
BS ae

A we
heart co:
town’? bh:
situation
it was r

In tow
as farr
premises
close con

reiterate:
talked to

Terry
Jackson
this fore
Ssturday
were th)
of the la
three off
beat up
to avoid

Last §
ing how
to these
They we
driven b:

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started at 10:30 this morning, and| Portland. Ore. cloudy, 38° 44-03 {Jege, The public is, welcome to *T: taken into’ court, wearing | measyre. but rath ees || Wee Rioee Eesha Dipset patios | —<
will continue until 7:30 tonight.| Rapid City, clear a OM « | attend, and the syetaors ae Mrs, | handcuffs, was returned to jail| at dofag something about persist-(.. a : Saint Soe.
With the hamburger on the menu Medes ieoaey! . 4 ~LAlbert Estes and Mrs, C ‘oJe. | DY Sheriff John C. Crites and two! ent boc sets of chronic unemploy-| eg har
. "3 St outs, clear os = 5 soe es j eput 2 th a 4 Sy, | eVenu pr
isa soft drink, and a choice of] cai taxe City. cloudy 68 40 29} Man. an announcem=s, said | deputies... : iment in both industrial and farm | Deton has opposed an
cole slaw, hot potato salad andj san Diego. cloudy 65. 56-00 sR BLES A hunt went on today for a man | areas 1 Ree ete gee ;
a cup cake. Additional items are; Sev Francisco. cloudy 6 50 ; Cc ris Conf , similarly charged, Dougias! Di oe textile. Coal anti ease in the
offered. There are 130 girls from| Seattle. ogy nee wn oN oni erency - 4 Wayne Thompson. rtalitoad towns in New England, | sat :
: See } r , eo ; ah r one} = ¢ fm oss
_10_ Senior Scout troops _partici-] wassington.-cloudy-—~43----4}-~—-—--|---L0cal_ men who will spney ar eee ——— | West Virginia and Pennsylva See «| ils Elected
pating in the third annual Ham-| M—siesing. a Juvenile Courts Conferen at! Teachers Add te. pare oye ‘poe ‘ea of the communities | Jackson
burger Day ecm 7 tonight in the Central High] So Cae eB os ee ithe treasure is designed .to ald The Ntiow
‘ fig See a PERSONALS School cafeteria have been rs bed Girardeau Population { | JACKSON - The follo:
agendas SHOW — The Asruatic et ee a W. Osler. Statler. judge of ie} Cars, carrying meeting-bound} Fp @. {pi le were elacted. by the
i arith e fa ; 4 ~ men be Me ZA se. Py
Club of South east Missourt State }- Merrill Austin. 14: of Thet vourt of Common. Pleas, . IN} teachers from the district, were RA a oth, 11th an nd 12th: RCAC
College will present its Aquatic Eapobith iar ee as re ce oe Moll, from a television. station; bumper to bumper along -West ae I the city officials on St
lub Show oe 7 WES 2 ; anc in: 2 mea RRS z ‘ bs ae
one Sho1 ty 8 on the evenings of Hospital Wedkesiay = night foe Milde’: hag Assistant ‘ptin-| Broadway this morning. At 9 : jermment Days
; f z - . 3 : . . * . : H
ridey and Saturday. Theme for | ariconte cipal of Central High School; and|the line of cars extended from ON’ CITY m — Mis-|” Mayor, Larry Decker:
Soe emt Beal,” aes - io ney finger of the | Jay Nations, juvenile officer. | | the Boulevard stop to Caruthers, souri’s ie se of Representatives | judge, Richard Conle
Twelve numb rleft hand received when a gun 4 pakvost . + d Lar nley:
‘ve numbers will be present- . ae 7 land the highways were still spill @V0ted today to send five membe ers Brenda MeDowel our
ed with a 19 minute intermission. | *¢cidentally discharged. The a « _s nar ime he fo Austin, Tex. saat a eDowell. ec
youth was dismissed from the Stoc iv A lyric} | ink them into Broadway. : soon to see @! fourth ward, Mary Don Mi!
Car Tu cy Noepital afler the wounds were | % 4 othe OS FB at oS OE Some_of the ¢ars made a left | Peaceful settlement? en inter-| Inn Mathews; councilme
wit SUIS SJver Avosbed | itie® tie? non he Scere enenepeteewiermnemeenn | UIT At Perry and cut through the | stale quarts? 01 over Misso a 3 ee Jearnine Glueck
. iJ ‘ - rh re }] s s hte 4 >

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Douglas Wayne Thompson, 27, walked me

m house near Poplar Bluff Friday facets
.@ air, surrendered to face trial and Sombie h
gas chamber for the slaying of a Cape Girardeau police

+; cer

The West Coast desperado, who had terrorized a good

tion of the Cape Girardeau district for a week, after
and a companion, Sammy Tucker, had engaged police

& gun battle on Highway’ 61 Friday night, March 10,;
lay was being held in the Butler County jail ¢
inff,

His capture Friday came after a series of clashes with |

t

» law, the latest in which one man was slain and a State!
;

shway Patrol trooper was wounded and after Ti

|
n, who had taken refuge in the farm home, was talked!

to giving up by an aged woman in the house. \
2 the chain of events leading
to the fugitive’s capture an- Thompson to Be Sen
her man was killed and an- of- ~
cer wounded in the third gun To Cape County
ttle since last Friday night Cape Girardeau County
hen Thompson and Sammy Aire! Presecating Attorney Stephen
ucker, 26, of Fresno, Calif., were} E. Strom teld The Missourian
“st stopped on the outskirts of| (this ferencen that Builer
ape Girardeau by police offic-; Ceanty awthorities told him
s. A gunfight followed. Tucker| Friday sight they would ture
a8 apprehended the next morn-| Deugles Wayne Thorspsoa
zg, badly wounded, but Thomp-|. over to officers here to face
mm escaped to the desolate coun-| trial.
¥ around Grassy and (was
minted by “law enforcement of- tell officers, the house was now
cers in southeast. Missouri's | Surrounded, that he would come
reatest menhunt,for a full week.| Out and nae vhs ee She
On wae. trace | Went out first, wit © hands up,
t wea State B aa | nd Thompson followed.
‘ be} ghwa |
see per ¢ : —_ £. Davis at) Charged in Death.
oplar Bluff stopped a 195) model}. Thompson amd ‘Tucker are
ur be saw north of Poplar Biuif cSarged with first degree. murder
waeeeey @ in the slaying of auxiliary police-
Re npc oy hk Said he stopped) man Herbert L. Goss, ¢7 years
s ayy 2“ + rictaw nies
OMIT pehe tatae trek eee ey Cape last Friday nigh

atrol r ros

4

iene
)ra rdeau Auxiliary policema
| wounded a regular. office
“riday might.
: And following the shootin
ithe fugitives went on to shc
;wound a Wayne County
and heat up a farmer of the
quand area that same nigh

on aM Rats SB scale

[ POPLAR BLUFF, IN CENTER!
 $on,-27, -who-added: another murd er chargé :to his string of crimes_on. Fri
noon near Poplar Bluff. He and Sammy Aire Tucker, 22, had shot an auxilia
man to.death in Cape’Girardeau eight days ago. At left is itgons a
at right Capt. O. L. Wallis, in his office at Poplar Bluff. Capt.
-gommander. Thompson's nose was hit-by-a-bullet or flying: glass in the gun batt
following pvhich Thompson. was captured. vases by Kremer.)

KILLER HELD A AT ) DOUGLAS ¥ WAYN

wre THO} ip.

IN CAPE GIRARDEAU

4 a ah tal pin :
SF bt by

' ;
St caturday morning 2

nnson, was also taker

custody that day.
But Thompson _ continue
jroam the hills of the Boll

on Counties for a wee
g& scores of officers wh
he chase after Thomps
r shot and killed a Ca;

Departure Remo? t?.

way. to Adve nce, Ar!

Poplar Bluff or mcm, ATES

Even then, no one was #

wh ereabouts and

Cape Girardeau County Circuit Court_asoary Term, 19-s1_

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12, 19__61 TWENTY-STXTH _ (26th) Day of Term

STANDARO—HANNIBAL, MO. 965910

“Pleas and Proceedings of the Circuit

Court of Cape Girardeau County in the

32nd Judicial Circuit of the State of

Missouri.

Officers’ present: Hon. W. Osler Statler, Judge;
John C. Crites, Sheriff;
Herbert Riehn, Deputy Sheriff;
Woodrcw W. Seabaugh, Clerk.

State of Missouri Plaintiff, )
4 VS. ) No. 5013
Sammy Aire Tucker Defendant.)

Now on this day the Court appoints Robert M. Buerkle and Albert C. Lowes to act as

counsel for the Defendant in the above entitled cause.

State of Missouri Ex. Rel., Plaintiff, )

State Highway Commission of )

Missouri ecm.
No. 4897

/ VS.«
Joseph H. Hoffmeister et al Defendants.

REPORT OF COMMISSIONERS

On this April 12, 1961 comes John R. Mabrey, Thomas L. Meyer and Vernon H. Landgraf,
whe were heretofore duly appointed Commissioners in the above entitled cause, and report ,
that they forthwith accepted the appointmant; that they met together; took and filed in this
cause their QUALIFYING OATH; that all three viewed all the prcperties together; that the
land and properties were staked and laid out at the time in accordance with the road plans
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i , ; eroe their fainiies of ihe late Wm. Py
fool Water ¢ SNACK SHACK i Lt, Stanley Beggs, Lt. Richard 1 Phillips family was held re. ey hea
om, l Wood and Lt. Donald Sievers. “‘eentty at -City~Park:-The- grand SFRWMCEKS PLANNED wh pee
“A of Caslor Diver Hot and Cold Food, See and use the new General children attending were Oscar “To Thine Qan So! Re True” fy
4‘: * . ; Electric FiltereFlo big 12-lb. wash-: Phillips of Fort Lauderdale, Fla. will be the sermen suticet of the: ee
| : : Drinks, Candy, ers at Kamp's Koin Wash in Jack- Rebecca Duncan and Frank Phil-’Rev.. John L. Glassy of the 279 oe
are ee ae Home-Made Pies. “o> -p+- 4 --~gon; ait-conditionedfor -your_com-| lips. of St. Louis, Minnie Baker of and 10.30) ggrviecs at the New aioe
Modern Camping e3 “to. | “6 i chet McKendree Ske ae
H { cott City, Mrs. Est! ver Herbst McKendree Mi
ae Facilities : The three day state American'and Wm. C. Kibler of Cx pe Gi-'day. The senin
mo Legion and Auxiliary convention, rardeau, J. R. Kibler. and Nora MY.F. of + ae
t Toke 34 to 4 miles beyond Lutesvifie, : bc SHRAIAG ced CLO R a ee
then turn right on D and follow signs. apne a aa FS og sage
‘ ; ; f a ee <2 See So
| J.D. WILLIAMS, Proprietor foe TUCKE! MEETS DEATH Crites Sunday menns at @ tee
j jay evening pi F-tR ty the chores =
TRA All LS END RANC tl (Continued from Page 1) :er inmates awaiting execut tion, but parler the Corempsu on Mts ie &
PrN nt Z . Corps—Tucker ran into his first: he and Chaplain Wyrick vagreed sions wil] meet with Mrs, Vane 4 fe
ij V the Beginning of Fun} | oa serious trouble on Dec. 19,1960, es sate in oe, roe ee) not tend Snid er, chairman Flaste
Marquand, Mo; : ‘ when he committed armed rob- . nites tay Loe ee gs ete ia ne
rege Oe 4 Fe | “They talk a lot, but tend te)  'rer :
bery in.San Jose, Calif. ‘draw away fram each other as Juive 25,26, 228 fasion: Be? of “Th
: ; oe tee He was sentenced to from five’ individuals." the  w: arden ‘snid Prec: sane
ee ae rene ORE L ECR CAC keée ot wow Wap Og. PDL LACS (Catt: Ake Psrneene cit rs etter tee eS ee
; : 3 he and two companions broke jaili dy not concern themselves great- speaker at the 4045 cervien Sane! Kp
ae | ta at San Luis Obispo, Calif. One ly with an execution. et day at the Prasixy drech ta Baws
ot his partners w ‘as Douglas: One uhseever. said they arey ft hoprce at of Hook a ath
; Wayne Thornpson, who himself is i. pe the venereal put ce Pig Fhe Ph eng Reef
ba der a death penaltv for murder : a
H may he Rear in that’ vas trmes - they, .be! Sere : eae og hy con : : .
: : be executed, sometimes thev do SCHOer OF Eee SM ER SENSI
ducker s pudoings. Fa not. Some are barely aware of the [NM Seutu aL Seo cies Ry.
The third man was Calvin John- event while others stay awake “1% Mrs.7Fotew and tami WHE ¢han
son who by. accident and his good until the execution is over return Nug 1 . mon!
j fortune was not involved in the — ,. A he niee are Ask aheut the Sciam a cline dease
Cape Girardeau gun battle. —- - But I think what they Mshike: storan: at the 2 fap doen Ty
; “most about it is being. tackad. Re ras Stare’ e
E ae The trio tore across cory their cells after four o'clock.’ the Se nSe8
= q robbing as they went unty they! observer’ said. This is done as a PALLBEARERS \
& ran afoul.of the Cape Girardeat | precaution against any dis Palifie dees e
H police on that tragic Friday night.: turbance, : Charles Rie is Nirs
Tucker, who .was .wounded in, Also precaulion against a break-.duy. sere. (art Sesbaueh M reer
2 the yun fight. was captured in dowe: iN communication 1s an open “ford Long. biter bg id
poe 2 Bottinger-County—the-next—dav--tottohone tenveen the death hn ree Ballin tana sintitbesd tees
ook Thompson, who later was convict- and the governor in theevent that mer Masters son eyimen let
ed and sentenced to death for: the there was some Jegal development watinosdan at tte beth bgp r
: slaying of auxillarv officer Her- in the case “e : s Funtral Hore liygiee hep Es h
-. J bert L. Goss; was captured a week But there was none. “Colter Burial was am tne ai« re
later. - Circurt Judge Ray Weightman of ‘emetery. “
| Vege oe ee * Johnson, who was left behind, Maryville for whom s motion was a ie
: as the other two sped away from. a Wednesday asking him ts SOW eons an at Jones porte mk
_Suspicjous police just hefore the: set aside the judgment was nop OTN 2
/ shooting was arrested and is serv- in ‘be uch with prison. dffera's -
Thie | \ } ‘fo ar rsday, Warde ash. sain
| This is what you have been waiting for! The new nee federal..sentence for ca ae s: ney caer ee out at
| Poteccior Film is here and it fits most existing Land Thompson is one ‘of five prison-) trial judge in the Tucker. case.
\ Carreras. fies snap-the shut : . sere - ~—ers remaining on death.row. Tucker's attorney r L. Bort.
} Be Ae ON ae Ro ut ter, pull the tab and in 50° / Warden Nash said an exectition schein had left. the prison
j Cpre nde urii ha a 4 « quite a sobering TAH Ath Mees mrant :
a 5 you havea teau utitul full-color picture, You don't & arnt nateomgemct me mh teste aa eee! SS
i €.& Have to.‘caat't j and the color rs have to be seen # ( Early Amer wy crentec 4} e k eed at pene oul ) }
4 te! 138) be ae had gee Se Be apn time jad an GAN? weal ¢ | +S! YING IN. ENntentarunyg in... ohd ae


A PATA Seg 196 /
State of Missouri Plaintiff, )
‘ ¥8i ) No. 5013
_ Sammy Aire Tucker Defendant.)
_Comes now the State by its Prosecuting es inay and comes the Defendant in person and
in custody of the Sheriff.

Comes also Robert M. Buerkle and Albert Cc. Lowes, who were heretofore appointed by the
Court to act as counsel for Defendant, and with leave of Court first had and obtained,
withdraw as counsel for defendant by reason of conflicting interests in a civil case,
styled Safeway Stores Inc. vs. Sammy Aire Tucker, Douglas Wayne Thompson, Harold James, and

John C. Crites (Case No. 3014), pending in the Cape Girardeau County Court of Common Pleas.

This cause is hereby passed to May 1, 1961.

State of Missouri Plaintiff, )
! VS. )- No. 5015
Sammy Aire Tucker Defendant.)

Comes now the State by its’ Prosecuting Attorney and comes the Defendant in person and
in custody of the Sheriff.

Comes also Robert M. Buerkle and Albert C. Lowes, who were heretofore appointed by the
Court to act as counsel for Defadant, and with leave of Court first had and obtained,
withdraw as counsel for defendant by reason of conflicting interest in a civil case,
styled Safeway Stores Inc. vs. Sammy Aire Tucker, Douglas Wayne Thompson, Harold James and

John C. Crites (Case No. 3014), pending in the Cape Girardeau County Court of Common Pleas.

This cause is hereby passed .to May 1 *1961. x < A

Billie Jean Smith and Virginia Smith Platntiffs.)}
J VS. ) No. 4845
Marvin Miller and Wilma Miller Defendants.)


£2203 ee ee ee ee eee
5 Cape Girardeau County. Circuit Court__aparz Term, 19_ 61

MAY ee 19 GT VACATION ORDERS Day of Term
MONDAY, MAY 1, 1961
‘ |
State of Missouri . Plaintiff,)
| / vs. yY No. 5013
a | Sammy Aire Turcker Defendant.)

eww ww mem meee we

State of Missouri Plaintiff, )
Sammy Aire Tucker ‘Defendant. )

Now on this day is received and filed Entry of Appearance of Charles

|

|

| pews. ).-oNo.: 5015
1

| M. Shaw as counsel

for the Defendant in the above entitled cause.


716

hanged.
be half-witted at the time,
Hugh M. Brooks, alias Maxwell, was

hanged August 10, 1888, for the murder of ©

Charles Arthur Preller in room 144 of the
Southern Hotel.. The crime was, perhaps,
the most sensational that ever occurred in

this city, and the fact that Brooks was, like his —
tailor.
- He thereupon shot her with a revolver, and a
few minutes later fired upon the woman’s

victim, an Englishman, added in no small
measure to the excitement. Brooks and
Preller had made acquaintance on board the
steamship “Cephalonia,” on their way to this
country; and the result was a friendship, ap-
parently as false on one side as it was sincere
onthe other. Brooks was without means, but
Preller was well provided and generous; and
the pair arranged to proceed to Australia in
company, after having done the United States.
Preller rejoined Brooks at St. Louis, where
they were last seen together on Easter Sunday
of 1885. The next day Brooks left the hotel
alone, leaving two trunks and a handbag be-
hind him. Disguising himself, he hastened to
San Francisco, and in a few days sailed for
New Zealand. Suspicions meanwhile being
aroused at the Southern Hotel, the trunks left
behind were opened. In one of these the
body of Preller was found with a placard at-
tached reading: “So perish all traitors to the
great cause.” This was but a piece of cheap
melodrama, indulged in possibly with the
view of making the crime appear an act of
vengeance: on the part of the Fenian Broth-
erhood, which was just then very active, and
with many sympathizers among the Irish-
Americans in this country. The sleuths

of the law were not, however, to be thus easily’

hoodwinked. Brooks, alias Maxwell, was in
course of time captured in Australia, and re-
turned to this country to pay the penalty of
his crafty and cold-blooded crime. Brooks
met his end with composure, and declined to
indulge in any speech-making as “theatrical
and hackneyed.” His defense was that Preller
died under the influence of chloroform, and
that murder was never intended. Some sen-
sation-mongers affected to fear that interna-
tional complications might arise out of the
affair. But Great Britain is too prompt in
dealing with her own murderers at home,
without much concerning herself as to their

nationality, to cherish aught but sentiments of

gratitude for a nation which, by due process
of the law, ridded her of a particularly choice
specimen of a ruffian.

Landgraf was thought by many to |

EXECUTIONS OF CRIMINALS.

Henry Henson was hanged August 13,
1891, for the murder of his wife Ida, a timid
and lovable woman, to whom he had been
married less than three months. Henson on
his arrival at his home, on the evening of Feb-

-ruary 2, 1887, found one of his wife’s lodgers,

a crippled tailor, leaving. He thereupon
accused her of receiving the attention of the
This the woman indignantly denied.

son, as he was hurrying from the room in
horror. The defense was accident, but the
jury brought in a verdict of murder in the first
degree. Henson met his fate with scoff and
defiance. The clergyman who :ought to
bring him spiritual consolation he called “a
soap peddler,” and ordered him out of his cell.
He resisted the summons to death furiously,

struggling with the officers for a time like a

maniac. Though Henson referred to himself
as a Dutchman, in the words “I show you a
game Dutchman,” he was, in fact, neither a
Dutchman nor a German, but a native of Den-

mark.

Charles Wilson, colored, was hanged July
26, 1894, for killing Moses Hodges by shoot-
ing him on November 8, 1892. The trouble
between the pair arose overa woman. Wilson
displayed great nerve throughout the whole
affair, even to the extent of passing his last few
days in writing sentimental verses to “Annie,”
the woman who had been the cause of all his
trouble. He died without bravado. His last
words, delivered after the fatal black cap had
been drawn over his face were: “Good-by,
boys,” in reply to ‘“Good-by, Charlie,” ad-
dressed to him by several of the deputies,
who stood around him on the scaffold.

Sam Welsor was hanged January 12, 1894,
for the murder of Clementine Manning, his
sweetheart or mistress, on August 4, 1890. In
the fall of 1889 Miss Manning had won five
thousand dollars in the lottery and was pre-
paring to leave her surroundings, which were
not of the best; when Welsor heard of her
fortune, and called to see her at 514 Market
Street. He then threatened to kill her if she
attempted to abandon him. The woman per-
sisted in her intention, and Welsor shot her
no less than five times through the head.
The murderer tried to feign insanity, but with-
out success. Welsor was to be hanged short-
ly after 8 o’clock in the morning. Shortly
after 5 o’clock a crowd began to assemble


EXECUTIONS OF CRIMINALS. _ 715

persons, who had crushed into the jail en-
closure, while a crowd of some two nundred
were gathered together on a house on Twelfth
and Clark Avenue, to catch a distant view of
the gruesome spectacle. For Nugent consid-
erable sympathy was expressed, but his brutal
companion died unlamented.

Matt Lewis was hanged in the jail yard,
March 14, 1884, for the murder of his wife by
stabbing her, October 13, 1876. The man was
not arrested until the following September.
The case went to trial no less than four times.
He was finally convicted November 26, 1879,
and sentenced to be hanged. Lewis was a
tough character and had been more than once
under the shadow of the scaffold. During his
several years in the jail, he succeeded to the
title of the “Father of the Jail,” a distinction

which in a murder case says much for the

law’s delays. Lewis left behind him a ‘con-

fession of his guilt, but sought to palliate his

erime by accusing his wife of infidelity.
Charles Wilson, colored, was hanged Janu-

> gry 15, 1886, for the murder of William

David, on December 31, 1882. Wilson
worked on the boat “Fanny Tatum,” of
which David was mate. Owing to some dis-
agreement Wilson ran away from the boat,

bet subsequently returned to demand pay-

ment of some money that he alleged was due
to him. He claimed that the mate put him
ashore and brutally drove him away. Be that

ag it may, Wilson threw two missiles at Da-

vid, one of which struck him on the head.
The man died within half an hour. Wilson
was promptly arrested while trying to escape,
and was tried and convicted, December 13,
1883. The case was taken to the Court of
Appeals, and afterwards carried up to the

“Supreme Court, but without avail. Wilson

wet his fate bravely, dying as a Christian.
‘He claimed that if he had been a white man
he would never have been hanged. His case
aroused much sympathy in several quarters.
Robert Grayor was hanged December 10,
1886, in the jail yard, St. Louis, for killing
Berry Evans, May 6, 1883, with a club. . Ev-

amg and he had worked at Reilly &
_ Wollert’s stables, and the night before
they quarreled about their work, when

Evans, Grayor said, struck him with a
whip. Next morning they met at. the
stable; Evans taunted him and Grayor gtruck
him twice with a stick. Evans died that aft-

#rnoon, and Grayor was arrested, while hiding

behind a bale of thay in the loft of the stable.
He was tried and convicted April 11, 1884.
The case went to the Supreme Court, and
was twice there affirmed.

Daniel Jewell, a steamboat cook, was
hanged April 15, 1887, for the murder of his
wife by shooting, at her mother’s residence,
1118 Morgan Street. At the time of the crime
Jewell was but twenty-one years of age. It
was a case of jealousy, the young couple hav-
ing more than once quarreled and separated.
He wanted his wife to return to him, and
she refused. She accused him of carrying a
pistol, which he denied. She insisted, and
placing her hand on his pocket, felt the
weapon. He then drew the pistol, and in-
flicted a wound from which the woman died.
After the usual delays Jewell was hanged.

Alfred Blunt, a little hunchbacked negro,
was hanged in the city jail yard June 24, 1887,
for the murder of his wife, in Carondelet, May
21, 1886, The pair quarreled frequently, the
man charging the woman with not caring for
him, because he was a cripple, and with going
with other men. The woman left her hus-
band, who, meeting her, demanded that she
should return. She then proceeded to the po-*
lice station and asked that an officer should
accompany her home, as she was afraid she
would be killed if she went alone. The re-
quest was denied. Arrived at home, the pair
soon commenced quarreling. Finally the
man cut the woman’s throat with a razor, sub-
sequently crushing in her head with a hatchet,
“to end her sufferings,” as he explained.
Friendless, and clad in rags, and with a pair
of carpet slippers too large to stay upon his
feet, Alfred Blunt dropped from the gallows
unwept of all, save an aged mother. He is
described as altogether the most neglected
murderer who ever met death at the Four
Courts.

Henry Landgraf was hanged August 10,
1888, for fatally shooting Annie Fisch, his
sweetheart, March 5, 1885. Landgraf ac-
cused his mistress with being familiar with
other men, a fact she finally admitted. There-
upon he determined to kill her, freely ex-
pressing himself to that effect. His original
intention was to kill the woman at his broth-
er’s house, and he took her there apparently
for that purpose. Being refused admittance,
Landgraf opened upon the woman in the
street with a revolver. . After lingering fifteen
days she died; and for the crime the man was


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-eeded by a realization
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The narrow, twisting
*d would carry him and
Panion to freedom had

ce siren he just heard?
, he spun in the seat and
into the moon-mottled
him. God, how could

ad zigzagged on rutty
1 the Oak-and-granite
igged Missouri Ozarks
: to shake the Pursuers,
‘ly avoided the main
adblocks were sure to
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ction. His hands had
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sciess flight between
or,
inters’ hot slugs’ had
head like angry hor-
sure he had ditched

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hills, cold beads of
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icked up the trail,
like rats on a hunk

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fellow Policemen,
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inting fear,

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murkiness behind him.
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MANHUNT FOR A Cop KILLER

“THE BLOOD

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HOUNDS ARE AFTER ME”

by CHARLES REMSBERG SEs

y into the moon-mottled
d it be? For hours he’d
his pursuers. But baying

hounds and whining sirens told him the law was zeroing in on him at fast.

had joined the first now... closer...
closer, “There must be dozens of aban-
doned shacks and old caves up in these
hills,” he explained, words tumbling out.
“Good places to hole up. Good little snip-
er nests, too. We could pick off anybody
that comes after us,”

Painfully Tucker pulled himself up in
the seat and slowly nodded approval, try-
ing to blot out the Picture of himself and

mpson floundering through strange,
uncharted forests while hordes of Police-
men tightened the dragnet around them.

“Gotta hurry,” Thompson breathed.

They tore apart a bundle of money rest-
ing on the seat between them, the pro-
ceeds of a cross-country crime spree that
had begun nearly two weeks before. With-
out speaking, they crammed nearly $2,000
into their pockets, then scooped up their
weapons: a P-38 automatic pistol, a .38
caliber Luger, a .32 caliber revolver, and
a .30-.30 rifle.

As they clawed their way through the
tangled underbrush into the dark, forbod-
ing forest—Tucker already leaning heav-
ily on Thompson and gritting his teeth

x.

against the pain that hammered at his
legs—-they could hear the relentless
squeal of sirens boomeranging around
them,

Just three hours earlier, back ‘in the
Mississippi River town of Cape Girard-
eau, Missouri, Douglas Wayne Thompson
and Samuel Aire Tucker had appeared to
be ordinary citizens, Except to one dis-
cerning merchant.

Don Riehn, manager of the Kroger
supermarket at the Town Plaza shopping
center, was troubled by the way the two
men loitered in the shadows of the store
‘Parking lot ‘around closing time. His prac-
ticed eye told him their Presence spelled
one thing: robbery,

He was right.

TWELVE days earlier, on February 26,
ex-cons Tucker and Thompson, along

with a rap partner named Calvin John-

son, sawed their way out of jail in San
Luis Obispo, California, where they were
being held for eight supermarket holdups.
Skipping cross-country in stolen cars, they

had stuck up a trucker in Bakersfield,
California, knocked over a liquor store in
Albuquerque and bound and gagged a
supermarket manager and his family in
Hutchinson, Kansas, forcing him to reveal
the combination to the store safe, . ;

For the last two days, they had been
hiding out in a Cape Girardeau motel,
sallying forth only long enough to “case”
the Kroger grocery and plan an assault
on Don Riehn. vA

he manager’s suspicion, however, was
something they hadn’t anticipated, When
& squad car rolled into the shopping cen-
ter at 9:30 P.M. that Friday, March 10,
‘in response to Riehn’s call to Police head-
quarters, the fugitives’ plans quickly
changed,

At the first sight of the approaching
squad car’s winking Mars light, Tucker
and Thompson leaped for the 1956 Olds-
mobile they had purchased in Arkansas
as a getaway car. Johnson, reconnoitering
elsewhere on the lot, was left behind to
fend for himself as 26-year-old Tucker

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25:

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that killed all three of these victims—
Evans, Lesley Downey and Kilbride—
those hands are the hands of the two
accused in the dock.”

The pleas of the defense attorneys in
behalf of Ian Brady and Myra Hindley
were brief but impressive.

“The conduct of the couple in regard
to the pornographic photographs of that
little girl is absolutely disgraceful and
completely indefensible,” Mr. Hooson
said in part. “You may think that both
deserve punishment for that, but they
are not on trial for that.

“And the name, John Kilbride, found
with other names in Brady’s book, is the
flimsiest possible evidence of murder.
You cannot guess whether a man com-
mitted murder. It must be established
beyond all reasonable doubt.”

In his closing statement for Myra
Hindley, Mr. Heilpern attempted again
to disassociate her from Brady. ;

“Cleaning up a room and helping hide
a body is not the offense of murder,” he
said. “If you think she is guilty as an
accessory after the fact, then your ver-
dict in respect to the Evans murder must
be not guilty.

“In the matter of the little girl—for
the part she played in the abominable
bedroom scene, Myra Hindley has ex-
pressed her shame. But it has not been
established that she had a part in the
girl’s death or in burying the body. And
in the case of John Kilbride, her case is
that she knows nothing about it. During
long questioning she made not a single
admission.”

In summing up the evidence for the
jury in what he termed “this horrible

case,” Mr. Justice Fenton Atkinson
pointed out that there was a great di-
vergence in the testimony offered by
the prosecution and by the defense.

“Heaven knows that somebody must
be telling lies,” he said, “but that is
entirely for you to decide. If—and I
would underline the word ‘if’—what the
prosecution says is right, you are deal-
ing here with two sadistic killers of the
utmost depravity.”

He said the jury must put aside all
emotion because the presumption was
that everyone who came into the dock
was sane and fully accountable for his
actions unless shown to be otherwise.

“It had not been claimed that either
of these two is mentally abnormal or
not fully responsible for his actions,”
he said.

The judge then referred to David
Smith’s financial arrangement with a
newspaper and said: “I do not think it
is suggested that his evidence was sub-
stantially affected by it.”

At last on the afternoon of May 6,
1966, the all-male jury retired to con-
sider a verdict. They were out only two
hours and 22 minutes.

Then the foreman announced that they
had found Ian Brady guilty on three
charges of murder. He said they had
found Myra Hindley guilty of the mur-
ders of Edward Evans and Lesley Ann
Downey. They had found her innocent of
murdering John Kilbride but guilty of
harboring Brady knowing he had killed
the boy.

Ian Brady was then called before the
bench. He folded his arms and stood
impassively as Mr. Justice Atkinson said:

“Tan Brady, these were three ;
lated, cruel, cold-blooded m t
pass the only sentence which the law —
allows, which is three concurrent
tences of life imprisonment.” ors

Brady was led away and Myra Hindiep a

By

was brought before the judge,
“In your case,” he said, “the

for two horrible murders is 4
current sentences of life in ortea he 3

the accessory charge, a con irrent
tence of seven years in prison” mess
Myra swayed forward, and a wormed
prison officer caught her and led her
away.
She was allowed to talk with
briefly in a waiting room.
were then taken out into the rain amd
put in separate compartments of 9 ven.
A white police car led the way
are of men, women and
girls. There were boos an toalls
cries of, “Hang them!” whos -~

And so the Trial of the Century way a

over. In general, the people of
seemed satisfied with the verdicts—ah
though in Manchester a petition to re
store the death penalty for ete
murderers gained 45,000 signatures i
cause of the case,

British law allows the possibility
release on parole for the couple if te»
judge stipulates a minimum

not done so, however.
The convicted thrill-killers, who su

say they are in love, will be confined * 4 ,
separate prisons. They will not even te _
permitted to see each other. Their mas —

riage will therefore have to be postpene¢
for a long time. oe@

Trackdown of
Missouri's Mad Dog

Cop Killers

(Continued from page 35)

giving chase.

Officers Crittendon and Goss leaped
into their squad car, Crittendon at the
wheel, as the cruiser, with Kelly and
Ross, squealed out of the Kroger lot,
its roof light flashing. Half a mile down
the highway, near the entrance to the
city’s Arena Park and across from a
service station, the two police cars over-
took the fleeing Oldsmoblie and crowded
it to a halt on the east shoulder.

Kelly and Ross parked their cruiser
near the filling station, as Crittendon
and Goss alighted and advanced through
the darkness toward the Oldsmobile.
Crittendon approached the driver’s side
and asked the driver for his identifica-
tion. The driver was opening the door
and preparing to step out, as Goss
walked up to the man on the right side
of the car.

Suddenly, the night exploded.

Without warning, guns loomed in the
fugitives’ hands and bullets spat mer-
cilessly. A scream of pain leaped from
Crittendon’s throat when a hot slug
tore through his stomach. As he
crumpled to the ground, he managed
to squeeze off one shot which shattered
the Oldsmobile’s windshield, spraying
the driver’s face with jagged slivers of

A gun blazed from the right side of
the car. Officer Goss shouted, “I’m shot!”
Unable to return fire, he pitched for-

ward into the roadside ditch, blood
spurting from severed arteries in his
thighs.

Across U.S. 61, the shots boomed like
cannonfire in the ears of Officers Kelly
and Ross. Crouching low in the front
seat, Kelly opened fire through the
cruiser’s left side window, steadying his
gun on the lower rim. Ross ducked out
the right-hand door, rolled on the
ground to the rear of the car and came
up firing. He braced his service revolver
on the trunk, pumping off six shots in
quick succession as the Olds lurched
onto the highway.

Suddenly, the fleeing driver slumped
to the passenger side of the car, and the
Oldsmobile careened crazily across the
ribbon of concrete into the ditch.

“TI got him!” Kelly exclaimed.

But the driver righted himself,
cramped the car back onto the highway
and disappeared into the night, north-
bound.

Already Ross’ voice was blurting
news of the gun battle over the police
radio. A Cape Girardeau squad car
driven by Patrolman Harold White
responded immediately and zoomed
down Highway 61 after the felons. In
police headquarters, other officers
swiftly relayed the alarm to sheriffs’
offices and state trooper posts in the
vicinity.

What was to become the greatest
manhunt ever to range over the rugged
Ozark hills of southeast Missouri in
modern times had begun.

Meanwhile, Officers Kelly and Ross
discovered that something also had
ended—the life of Herbert Goss. The
elderly volunteer cop lay dead in the
ditch where he had fallen. He was the
first Cape Girardeau officer to die in
the line of duty since 1922,

Weak groans told the officers that
Crittendon still was alive. As they

crouched over him on the high’
whispered, “I'm hurt bad. Get mete
hospital, or I’ll never make it.”

An ambulance rushed him to
east Missouri Hospital in Cape
deau, where doctors removed six
of his intestine in emergency
hopefully calculated to save his
ing life.

The manhunt now assumed meee
ominous overtones. Cop-killers were #
the loose. They were desperate mm
They had flouted the law to escape eage
ture for robbery and jailbreak.
might they do now, to avoid apprebeme

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power into the search.
Blockades were hastily thrown up #

main and secondary roads.

was made with the Missouri State Pea

tentiary for the use of bloodhounds, @

the event some trail of the fugitives

detected in the forest-tangled be®
country. Bands of citizens rendy
to be deputized for posse duty. All wer
determined that the di wet
not escape.

Meanwhile, Sammy Tucker and Dew

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Thompson were bending every
do just that. Five miles north of

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Girardeau on the graveled Old McKew — ;

dree Road a blue Chevrolet a.
the shoulder loomed sudde in OF
headlights of their Oldsmobile. Ine

sat three college youths, drinking be®
The Olds skidded to a stop, and @
two thugs piled out. Before the student

could escape, Tucker and Thompson het i

them under gunpoint. ‘
“Get out!” one of the gunmen “= ?

manded. “If you don’t move fast,

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» From the looks of the pair, the youths

: ud no doubt they meant business. Blood

yes trickling into Tucker’s eyes from
pecial cuts suffered when the windshield

@ gattered during the gunfight, and bullet

in his legs and right arm had

goaked his clothes crimson. Thompson,
bs face glazed with anger and fear, was
pelping to support Tucker as their guns
aved the students from the Chevrolet.
transferring an arsenal of guns

wad ammunition from the Oldsmobile,
ge thugs roared off in the Chevrolet.
Officer White and other Cape Girar-
icemen came upon the three

and the gunman’s abandoned
Qidsmobile shortly after that. A dozen
gullet holes were visible in the auto,
gad a puddle of blood stained the front
From the students, the police got a
tion of the trio’s stolen Chevrolet,

which was relayed on all radio circuits.
than an hour later, Sheriff Elmer

“Those could be the men,” Chatman
“Let’s close in on ’em.”

the officers flipped on
er red roof light and edged the patrol

? me closer to the suspicious auto. The
which they must serve. So far, he has ff fest

scarlet winks of the blinker were
wknowledged by the Chevrolet’s occu-
pants with a barrage of gunfire.

Slugs crashed through the patrol car’s
window and tore into its metal body.
Trooper Wright pushed harder on the
weelerator, still trying to gain on the
geailants, As the patrol car pulled closer,
te and Sheriff Chatman opened fire.
the fugitives fired back. One
wed a superficial furrow in Chat-
eft side; another punctured a
tire, sending the patrol car weaving

ly into a ditch.

Wright quickly radioed for
again the trigger-tense ban-
luded capture, leaving another
lawman in their wake.

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more manpower poured into the
ig search, Doug Thompson and

“We want your car,” one of the men
“And we don’t want any

Terrified by the startling intrusion, the
oman huddled close to her husband,
his arm. “Give ’em the keys,”
urged him. “Let °em have what they

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Thompson snarled.
er moved. He lunged for
's , but the thug’s reflexes
& split-second faster. Thompson
the pistol butt hard against the

er’s skull. Again and again
it the gun thudding down, until
crumpled at his feet.

ing like that, lady,”
as Thompson hurriedly
the man’s pockets for the
‘and I'll let you have it.”
thugs darted out into the

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Me. As the terrified woman helped her

Meband to a chair, she heard the sound
@ Ge car fading down the road.

Moments later, the men were back.
Grumbling that the farmer’s Ford was
ae fama good,” they abandoned it in

farmyard and took off in the college

was nearly out of gas. :

By midnight, they had cautiously
wareed their way back to Highway 34,
sneaked through the village of Grassy
and turned onto County Route MM,
which winds back into the wilderness
of the Ozark hills.

By the time they reached Route MM’s
dead end in the thick of rugged terrain,
the gunmen sensed that the dragnet was
closing around them. They decided to
flee on foot, hoping to hole up in one
of the numerous caves or abandoned
shacks that sprinkle the rugged area.

Because of his leg wounds, Sam Tuck-
er now could scarcely walk. With
Thompson half-carrying him, he man-
aged to hobble up a steep hill and limp
through thorny underbrush for about
three miles. Then he groaned that he
was too badly hurt to keep going.

Near a small glade, he collapsed on
the ground and Doug Thompson partial-
ly covered him with leaves as protection
against the crisp night air. Then Thomp-
son gathered up their weapons—a heavy
rifle, a P-38 automatic pistol, a .38
caliber Luger and a .32 caliber revolver
—and strode away into the blackened
forest, leaving his companion alone to
face whatever might await him.

Some six hours later, when the search
swung into full force with the coming
of daylight, a state police helicopter
poked into an open glade near the end of
Route MM. The trooper in the cockpit
spotted the students’ Chevrolet aban-
doned there and sounded an alarm.

F cuiowing his directions, the search
party hurried to that point. Then, with
the aid of a bloodhound, the searchers
moved slowly and cautiously through
the tangle of trees and bushes with guns
drawn. The scent drew the sniffing dog
on and the searchers followed the animal
to the spot where Sammy Tucker lay,
weak and wounded.

Lacking a weapon with which to shoot
his way to freedom, he surrendered
meekly. In his wallet was $569, and the
abandoned Chevrolet on Route MM
yielded $670.

Meanwhile, Calvin Johnson, the third
member of the jailbreak trio, had es-
caped the excitement of the preceding
hours. He had not been involved in the
gun battles and frantic flight, but he was
the next to fall into the searchers’ grasp.

When Officers Crittendon and Gross
had first arrived at the Kroger super-
market in Cape Girardeau, Johnson had
been unable to reach the bandit’s get-
away car before Tucker and Thompson
sped off in it. While police attention was
concentrated on the fleeing pair, Johnson
darted across the highway, dodged
through side streets and alleys and spent
the night unnoticed inside the Cape
Girardeau city limits. .

At 5:45 a.m., he called a taxi and per-
suaded the driver to take him to Jackson,
the county seat, near where Tucker and
Thompson had stolen the students’ car
the night before.

From near the center of Jackson,
Johnson walked to a service station west
of town on State Highway 72. There he
bought a used Buick for $595 from the
proprietor, demanding that a spare tire
be included in the cash deal.

For this, the proprietor had to make a
trip to town. And in Jackson; he heard
of the shootings.

“T think one of those three guys you’re
after is out at my place,” he told Sheriff
John Crites from a coin telephone.
ee better have somebody take a

By radio, Sheriff Crites contacted
Trooper Irvin Beard, on duty near the
service station. Along with other officers

paren the vicinity, Beard closed in
on it.

Though two pistols were stuffed be-
hind his belt, Calvin Johnson offered no
resistance and admitted his identity.

About this time, the wounded Sammy
Tucker was testifying in Cape Girardeau
at an inquest into the death of officer
Herbert Goss. Under oath, he disclosed
details of the jailbreak and the robberies
at Albuquerque and Hutchinson and ex-
plained that he and his two pals had
come to Cape Girardeau after buying a
used car in Joplin, Missouri, and spend-
ing a few days in the St. Louis area. He
also admitted that they had intended to
rob the Kroger supermarket, that they
had forced the students to abandon their
car and that they pistol-whipped the
Marquand farmer during their flight.

Sitting limply in a chair, his chin on
his chest, Tucker recalled details of the
bullet-pierced night before. He attempted
to shift most of the blame for the shoot-
ings onto Thompson. He did, however,
allegedly state that, in the battle in
which Goss was killed and officer Crit-
tendon critically injured, “I started to
shoot and my gun jammed. I kept jerk-
ing it back and forth. It might have been
shooting. I don’t know.” Police-officer
witnesses, however, testified that in both
gun battles, Tucker was carrying his
share of the combat.

Near exhaustion after the inquest,
Tucker was carried from the hearing
room in his chair, while the coroner’s
jury ruled Goss’ death a homicide.

As officers were taking the prisoner to
jail, they noticed that the sole of one of
his shoes had been tampered with. In-
vestigating, they found it contained a
small hacksaw blade. To Tucker’s cha-
grin, this was confiscated before he was
driven to Cape Girardeau County Jail
in Jackson and locked behind bars.

By midafternoon, both Tucker and
Thompson had been charged with first-
degree murder in the death of officer
Goss and felonious assault in the wound-
ing of Officer Crittendon. The search for
Douglas Thompson surged forward.

Every officer in the field memorized
the fugitive’s description: “Six feet tall,
sandy hair, 160 pounds, left thumb mis-
sing, thought to be wearing a light suit.”
They noted also that he reportedly had
told Tucker before deserting him that
he would never be taken alive.

About 250 officers and volunteers
fanned out in a circle 30 miles in diam-
eter around the town of Grassy and the
end of Route MM where Thompson last
was seen. Radio-equipped patrol cars
from other points in Missouri sped to the
area and established roadblocks on
nearly every road. Highway Patrol
planes and helicopters whirred low over
the forest hills, probing every backwoods
trail and glade, and dipping along the
Castor River and tributary creeks which
angled near the highway. FBI agents
joined the hunt, since a federal fugitive
warrant was issued against the trio in
ae City after the Hutchinson rob-

ry.

Regular officers were also aided by
conservation corpsmen and _ citizens
specially deputized for the search. Vet-
eran observers in the area were unable
to recall a more extensive manhunt.

“We figure he’s lying low somewhere,
that he’s still in these woods,” one troop-
er told newsmen. “If we don’t have him
by nightfall, we'll increase the road-
blocks. We have bloodhounds ready if
we get some indication where to put
them on the trail.”

Just before 7 p.m. that Saturday a
woman and two youngsters, standing
outside a store on Highway 34 west of 5


ee

or

Grassy, saw a mau auck under a bridge
over a side creek to the Castor River.
Acting on their tip, searchers swarmed
over the scene and turned the blood-
hounds loose.

The dogs quickly picked up the spoor
from heavy footprints left in the soft
mud along the creek bank. Led by Police
Chief Percy Little of Cape Girardeau,
the search party pushed cautiously
through the heavy underbrush. They
could hear the hunted man crashing
ahead of them. At one point, a state
trooper drew a bead on the dark sil-
houette at 50 yards, but he dared not
pull the trigger for fear of hitting other
searchers.

Seconds later, at the river’s edge, the
dogs suddenly stopped, sniffed, and be-
gan to yowl in wild confusion. Once
again, Thompson’s wits had saved him
from capture. He had leaped into the
water, killing his trail for the dogs and
disappearing downstream in the dark-
ness.

“We'll flush him out yet,” a state police
lieutenant predicted grimly. “At least
we'll keep him running. But the trouble
is,” he added glumly, “you could walk
right by him in this kind of terrain and
never know he’s near.”

One Sunday morning, a Marble Hill
farmer, feeding his hogs, reported ex-
citedly that he saw a man, brandishing
a gun in either hand, emerge from be-
hind his barn and disappear into the
weeds. Elsewhere, a woman claimed she
saw a man come out of the underbrush,
look around with gun ready, then run
across an apple orchard. Another farm-
er said eggs were missing from his chick-
en house: He theorized Thompson had
stolen them for breakfast. A teacher
speculated that Thompson was responsi-
ble for a bonfire which he had spotted in

a wooded hollow.

Each report was carefully checked,
but police were resigned to many false
sightings since numerous armed volun-
teers in the posse were wearing plain
clothes and might easily be mistaken for
the hunted man.

The search party, under the direction
of Highway Patrol Lieutenant E. F.
Dampf, now concentrated on going
through the numerous deserted shacks
and cabins that dot the isolated area,
and stopping at occupied dwellings, both
to seek information and to warn that
the fugitive was armed and extremely
dangerous. Farmers were advised to
move with caution and to remain behind
locked doors as much as possible. As
further precaution, the searchers often
volunteered to look through barns and
other outbuildings before residents went
about their routine chores.

On foot, on horseback, in jeeps and in
squad cars, the search spread in an
ever-widening circle. Now a cold, hard
rain pelted down, drenching the woods
and churning up a dense mist that seri-
ously hampered progress of the hunt.

On Monday morning, 100 rested men
relieved members of the posse who had
worked through the night. But the soggy
soil made travel difficult; a heavy mist
grounded search planes, and the blood-
hounds were unable to raise scents from
the damp leaves and weeds in the area.

“People are getting jittery down here,
and you can’t blame ’em,” a state troop-
er told his group of searchers. “But
there’s not much we can do now except
watch for him and wait for develop-
ments. He probably moves mostly at
night, and we may have a tough time
spotting him.”

By the end of the fifth day of search-
ing, Chief Little of Cape Girardeau

MASTER DETECTIVE

glumly told reporters, “ le seems to hosel

vanished into thin air.”

Several possibilities presenteg then.

gunman was lost in the trackless,
et-choked timberland, Maybe he
dead from bullet wounds or e
Perhaps he had forced or bribed nati
of the Rg Ae a area to smi _
past the blockades over li knows
—- routes. i. _—

till, the searchers continued
ranging hunt. They also kept oe

selves. Perhaps the quick-on-the-trigger
thick.

persons living off main roads, fearing |

that Thompson might try to t
tages and force his way to fea

Farmers slept at night with coos
rifles across their laps. Others
periodically onto their porches and fired
shotguns into the air to let the fugitive
know they were armed and pre:
for him, should he be in the area,
never burned lights after dark, hoping te
prevent his finding their houses; Others
turned on every outside light availabie
so they could see him clearly if he crepe
into the barnyard. At daylight sore
por —, together to f
cattle and do the routine chores, Others
perched on rooftops with their Tifles, ge
they could see far into the distance.

It was not until Friday, March 17th
a week after the running gun battles
and two weeks after the Hutchinsom
robbery—that Douglas Thompson set
— bg ng a.

uring the week, he had spent

days in deserted buildings ple pen An.
caves, stealing food wherever he could,
At night, he traveled. By now he was
tired of traveling undercover. He wanted
to make his way out of Missouri and get
back to California to his wife and twe
children.

At 2 p.m. he emerged from a deserted
farmhouse near the Castor River where
he had spent the morning. He moved
cautiously along woods-lined Highway
34 just west of the search area, hoping
to hitch a ride. Fearful of trying te
thumb a new car, since it might be aa
unmarked cruiser, he waited until he
spotted a 1951 Mercury speeding toward
him, then began flagging.

Apparently unaware that the man oa
the highway was the widely-hunted
Douglas Thompson, the driver, a 4%
year-old sawmill worker named
mond Glover, from nearby Clu!
stopped and offered him a lift.

Once in the car, Thompson persuaded
Glover, with a fee of $5, to drive him
south to Poplar Bluff near the Missourt«
Arkansas state line. En route, Glover
picked up two more hitchhikers, a min-
ister and his wife from Braggadocia,
Missouri.

The group had almost reached Poplar
Bluff on U.S. 67 when Raymond Glover
inadvertently weaved over the yellow-
no-passing line in the center of the high-
way. Some distance behind him, State
Trooper Glen Davis noticed the tra fie
violation and speculated the driver might
be intoxicated. With beacon light flash-
ing, he overtook Glover’s Mercury and
crowded it onto the shoulder.

On the trooper’s orders, Glover
stepped from the car. But as the officer
approached, his attention suddenly fe
cused elsewhere. Through the
window, he could clearly see the hag-
gard-looking passenger sitting rigid @
the front seat. The thumb of that man’s
left hand was missing!

Instantly the description of the fugk
tive killer flashed to Davis’ mind.

“What’s your name?” he demanded. _

“Taylor,” the passenger replied.

“Get out,” the trooper ordered, “ant
keep those hands up where I can
’em.” :

uggle him. |

‘The words were scarcely off his lips
when Thompson’s hand flew to his waist
jerked from his belt the only gun

“) be had not abandoned—the P-38 pistol.

He squeezed the trigger with machine-
pun speed and the barrel coughed bullets.
A slug bit into Trooper Davis’ right
ider as he returned fire. A bullet
from the trooper’s gun tore flesh from
* Thompson’s nose, and the outlaw loosed

F ' goother furious volley. Three slugs

into Raymond Glover’s stomach
chest as he cowered terror-struck
the state trooper. With a cry,

em Glover twisted in agony, then toppled to

‘ vement.
i pe ihe gunman scrambled around the

‘ear and shot his way toward Trooper

| Davis’ idling cruiser, the minister and

his wife crouched, praying, in the rear

geat of Glover’s Mercury. A slug rico-

+ chetted from the battle area and grazed
the wife’s hip. :

Seconds later, his nose bleeding pro-

- tusely, Douglas Thompson successfully

dodged Trooper Davis’ slugs, crawled be-
hind the wheel of the police car and
? gunned it south toward Poplar Bluff.

Two miles north of town, he turned
ento County Route W and doubled back
northward. By this time Trooper Davis,
not seriously injured, had made his way

" toa farmhouse telephone and alerted his

of the shooting. Over the stolen

squad car radio, Doug Thompson could

* bear police calls that indicated cars

were converging on him from all di-

rections. He had to ditch the cruiser
and scram.

At a farmhouse near the hamlet of
Hilliard, Thompson spotted an open ga-
rage. Desperately he drove the patrol car

i into it and slammed the door. Then, gun
in hand, he ran to the farmhouse. and
barged in without knocking.

Inside, Carl Clanahan was reading a
newspaper. His wife, Eva, was talking on
the phone with her daughter, owner of
a grocery store. Spotting Thompson and
the gun, Mrs. Clanahan thought quickly.

“I don’t want those groceries,” she
blurted into the phone before Thompson
matched the receiver from her hand.

: “But get me some other groceries out
bere real quick.”

The sudden change in conversation
was sufficient to clue the daughter that
something was amiss. Already appre-
hensive because of the week-long search

i for the fugitive Thompson, she quickly
potified the Highway Patrol.

As officers closed in once more for a
ble capture, tension gripped the
han household. After Thompson

had washed his bloody face and helped
_ himself to a Band-aid in the bathroom,
he returned to the living room to watch
_ 4 TV newscast of the latest highway
- shooting.

“I shot those guys,” he allegedly re-
marked. “I hope they don’t die. I didn’t
want to kill ’em.” Then he faced the
elderly Clanahans. “I want you to keep
me here all night,” he announced.

Mrs. Clanahan shook her head im-
ploringly. She had had a heart attack
and was not well, she told him. “We
don’t want you here.”

“I don’t want to hurt you people,”
i pson replied. “I like you, and
You've been good to me.”

, He shoved his hand into his pocket
"and withdrew $1,150, which he tossed on
mend table. “I want you to have that,”
he said. “I'm keeping $20 to buy ciga-
tettes, in case they send me back to
prison, But I want you to have the rest.”

Through the curtained’ windows,

pson and his captives now saw a

end of police officers surrounding the
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been slightly injured in Thompson’s and
Tucker’s second gun battle. A helicopter
dropped down into the yard, and from it
the men were gathering tear gas bombs
and riot guns in preparation for a major
siege.

Inside, Thompson grew panicky.

“You have some life left,” Mrs. Clana-
han said to him. “Leave your gun here
and give yourself up. Let’s not have
shooting.”

“They'll kill me if I walk out there!”
Thompson exclaimed.

“The Lord is here with us,” the elderly
woman replied soothingly. “If you take
Him with you, you’ll be all right.”

The room was silent for a moment as
Thompson pondered this. Then Mrs.
Clanahan offered: “I’ll go with you.”

Without speaking, Thompson laid his
pistol on the sofa and followed Mrs.
Clanahan to the front door. As the tense
circle of officers stared incredulously, the
two, holding their hands above their
heads, walked out into the sunlight.
Quickly the lawmen pounced on Thomp-
son and pinned his arms to his sides.
Mrs. Clanahan returned calmly to her
living room.

“I didn’t know whether to give up or
shoot myself when I saw all you cops,”
Douglas Thompson commented, “but I
didn’t have the guts to shoot myself.”

With that, the greatest manhunt in
Missouri history was over. :

Regrettably, its tragedy was not.

As Douglas Wayne Thompson was con-
fessing his participation in the series of
robberies and shootings later that eve-
ning, Robert Glover died from his
wounds at a Poplar Bluff hospital. After
chronicling many of the crimes earlier
outlined by Sam Tucker, Thompson ad-
mitted shooting Raymond Glover and
Trooper Davis, police said, but denied
previous accusations by Sam Tucker and
policemen that he shot Herbert Goss of
Cape Girardeau.

Nonetheless, the murder charge al-
ready filed against him in Goss’ death
remained in force, and he was subse-
quently charged with first-degree mur-
der in the death of Raymond Glover.

Another element of tragedy was add-
ed to the case on March 21st. At 4:50
a.m., Patrolman Donald Crittendon, the
young man scheduled to resign from the
force only 90 minutes after he was shot,
lost his touch-and-go battle for life.

Later, Sammy Tucker allegedly ad-
mitted firing the shots that ultimately
brought death to Donald Crittendon, and
an additional charge of first-degree mur-
der was lodged against him by Prosecu-
tor Stephen Strom.

Meanwhile, their pal Calvin Johnson
was returned to Hutchinson to stand
trial in connection with the Safeway
robbery. Charges of breaking and en-
tering with intent to commit a felony,
larceny, and felonious assault with in-
tent to rob were filed against him. Judge
Bryan Woodson set his bond at ‘$25,000

and Johnson was held at Reno County -

jail.

After various legal delays, Sammy
Tucker, on July 26, 1963, was executed
in the Missouri State Prison’s gas cham-
ber at Jefferson City for the slaying of
Officer Donald Crittendon.

Douglas Thompson, given a life sen-
tence for the slaying of Raymonnd Glo-
ver, was tried twice in the fatal shooting
ot Officer Goss. The first trial was dis-
missed after a violent courtroom out-
burst by Thompson. At his second trial,
in Marble Hill, Missouri, he was con-
victed and sentenced to die, and began a
series of appeals.

Calvin Johnson, convicted of kidnap-
ing and robbery, was given a 20-to-43-
year term in the state pen. oeo¢

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continued

Thompson (above) terrorized Missouri,
and his trackdown cost. three lives.

| recklessly wheeled the car onto U.S. High-

way 61 and gunned it north toward the
city limits.

N pursuit, the police officers rasped a
radio alert to all prowl cars in the area,
and within seconds, other police cars were
converging on the fleeing desperadoes. In
the Oldsmobile, ‘Thompson hurriedly

- loaded guns as Tucker strove to out-
maneuver the fast-approaching lawmen,

‘ But half a mile from the shopping center,
near the city’s Arena Park, two patrol
cars jockeyed alongside and forced him
to the curb.

Patrolman Donald Crittendon, due to
resign from the force in just 90 minutes,
and Auxiliary Officer Herbert Goss, a
volunteer, alighted from one prowl car
and approached the Oldsmobile from both
sides.

“Get ready,” Thompson gritted softly.
Tucker nodded. His fingers felt the reas-
suring shape of an automatic concealed
‘in his shirtfront.

The harsh glare of Crittendon’s flash-
light splashed his face, “Let’s see your
identification,” the officer commanded.

“JJ}] have to step out,” Tucker ex-
plained politely.

He swung open the door and rose with
one foot on the pavement. With the speed
of a striking serpent, his hand darted in-
side his shirt, locked around the pistol,
whipped it into Crittendon’s belly... and
he pulled the trigger.

“[’m shot!” Crittendon screamed, pitch-
ing forward in agony. But as he crumpled
to the pavement, his fingers fumbled
around the butt of his service revolver
and yanked it from its holster. With a
wavering hand, he squeezed off a shot just
as Tucker ducked back into the Oldsmo-
bile. A shower of jagged glass smashed
the young fugitive full in the face as the
bullet crashed through the windshield.

Simultaneously, the darkness exploded
on Thompson’s side of the car. Before
Herbert Goss had a chance to reach his
weapon, Thompson’s gun began to spit
bullets. One drilled through both of Goss’
thighs. Blood fountained from severed
arteries and the elderly officer staggered
helplessly, then toppled to the highway
with a pitiful whimper that faded into
deathly silence,

The other officers were out of their cars
now, firing angrily. Bullets riddled the
Oldsmobile like a tin can.

“Go!” Thompson yelled as slugs whis-
tled around him.

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Wildly Tucker fumbled for the ignition
switch with one hand while wiping the
blood from his eyes with the other. At last
the motor sparked to life, and the Olds
squealed away, burning black stretches of
rubber beneath its tires.

Blood flooding his eyes, Tucker could
scarcely see the road. The car weaved
drunkenly, but even then did not escape
the police gunfire which boomed after it.
Suddenly three slugs in quick succession
burrowed into Tucker as if he were a
dummy on a police firing range. Electric
shocks of pain shot through his legs and
left arm, and the steering wheel spun from
his grasp.

Crazily the car swerved toward a ditch
on the left, drawn as if magnetized to-
ward a telephone pole.

Dropping his gun, Thompson lunged
for the wheel. One violent jerk sent the
machine hurtling back toward the right
lane. Then, wrestling the car under con-
trol with one hand while tugging the
bloodied Tucker aside with the other, he
scrambled into the driver’s seat.

The cops were hot behind him. But
when he stamped the accelerator to the
floor, the Oldsmobile took off like a Side-
winder rocket. Before long, the police car
had dwindled to a speck in the rear-view
mirror.

Back on the highway across from Arena
Park, 67-year-old Herbert Goss lay dead
in a scarlet pool on the cold concrete. And
25-year-old Donald Crittendon, his intes-
tines perforated by Tucker’s bullets,
fought desperately to breathe, Within two
weeks, he, too, would be dead.

Already an alarm was being flashed to
sheriff’s officers, local police departments,
and Highway Patrol posts all over south-
east Missouri. A manhunt was quickly
mobilized.

But the kaleidscope of action that fol-
lowed the gun battle outside Cape Girar-
deau offered solemn proof that Tucker
and Thompson were far from easy prey.

As law officers sought to close the drag-
net around them, they abandoned tHe
Oldsmobile and stole a 1961 Chevrolet at
gunpoint from a group of college students
who had pulled into a side road to drink
beer.

Later, when a sheriff and a state trooper
were bearing down on them near Lutes-
ville on Highway 34, the pair opened fire,
wounding the sheriff and sending his pa-
trol car sailing into a ditch with a punc-
tured tire.

at= Marquand in the rugged Ozark
wilds, they invaded a farmhouse, pis-

tol-whipped the farmer, threatened the
wife, then stole the couple’s Ford. When
the car developed engine trouble, they
returned and reclaimed the stolen Chev-
rolet.

But this had cost them valuable time.
By now they were sure blockades had
been thrown up on all principal roads. If
Tucker were in better shape, they might
consider crashing through, but in his
weakening condition he’d be virtually use-
less in a pinch.

Their only hope, as Thompson saw it,
was to stick with the unfamiliar labyrinth

’ of backroads that lace the wooded hills
and hope that one of them would lead
to a hole in the dragnet where they could
wiggle through.

With this in mind, Thompson swung
onto County Route MM near the village
of Grassy, flicked off the headlights and
barreled through the dark with only the
light of the ivory Ozark moon to guide
him. Keeping the car on the road with-
out lights was like guiding a roller coaster
without flange wheels. But he cursed and
fought and kept plugging ahead, confident
that freedom lay just around the next
curve.

Then without warning the road ended
at the foot of the granite bluff, and the
sirens wailed closer, closer, closer on the
midnight wind...

gry don’t think I can go on much far-
ther, Doug,” Tucker gasped, “My
legs...”

‘A whimper of pain broke off his sen-
tence, and his moonshaped face twisted
into a mask of agony. He was leaning
heavily on Thompson now, sucking air
into his aching lungs. :

The mile they had scrambled through
the dense undergrowth had been one of
incredible torment. Sharp granite out-
croppings tortured their feet; hidden
rocks sent them sprawling without warn-
ing. As they tried to hack their way
through the tangled underbrush with the
rifle butt, branches lashed back viciously,
welting their faces and arms like bull-
whips. Brambles and thorns tore their
flesh mercilessly, and under the pressure
of running, Tucker’s wounds ripped open
and began bleeding again. He had to lean
more and more on Thompson for support,
slowing them down.

And the slower they moved, the faster
the terrible pressure of the chase mount-

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Ripkeee etenon meets

eas a 2 Sections 12 Pace

x = Present stand of ‘26 feet, a. z

a Feohinteer police ¢ of:

t bya. fleeing fugitive.)
d gave of his gets ce

hi’s: fatal sidoting: of! a
26, was apprehended at
miles | oor St

said): ‘

nd.Cape: Officer at

sarstoloseLlife:
Auxiliary Police. officer,

L. Goss: Kas the: first
9 lose his life in the
. in Cape - Girardeau
ath on Oct: 7, 1922 of

e Jeff Hutson, Chief
was killed when. he sought
st an escaped. conyict.’

fof qgsoniog, wis a
é Sher Bor in
Evin Be

Be, es ia

at

: his

_ |RIVER EXPECTED. ©

\ st The; Mississippi... River. at:

‘In\ ashingfon

‘ "Chief ea)

’ Peut back would-be left to the mer-/.

fmisers:

TO CREST SUNDAY

Cape Girardeau, which: has:
been, on a rise since ‘March
5, is expected to crest Sun-
orday: at, 28 feet, according ‘to

Eo Port’) Warden Lee: “Albert: <|>

- When the river started its rise’
it was 14.7 feet and up to Fri- :
day night hed risen to 26.7

feet, a rise of 12:feet in: the

« seven day$.; It rose the: last!
24 hours from-23:8 feet-to the

; rise’ of ‘almost. three feet.

Grains Cating

“4 oa et ON Se eS

» Centers on Lower -
“Than-Market-Price. ae

plari.to. settle differences. be-
tween the Senate and the:
House over* the “emergency.
feed grain program.

“The chief point: of controversy
tbetween the-two- houses is”-w pru-
7. EVision-which | would give Secretary}!
ot Agriculture= Orville: L; Free- |
man authority to sell. government
owhed surplus grains at less than.
support and ‘market’ prices.: 77

Such sales would depress pricse
iat encourage famers to comply
with’ the program, which is de-
signed. to reduce feed grain’ pro-
duction-this year. because A huge

surpluses, «>
—Phe—program=<as—presented te
‘Congress—would offer higher, sup-
‘ports at $1.20 per bushel for. corn
and payments to farmers who re-
fis grain acreages in line with
@ program. Those who did not

“jey_of prices which the secretary.
could. depress. by: adumping.. sure
‘plus 3 grain on the market.
Version Passed Friday.
othe Senate passed a version of
thé program’ Friday by a 52-26
vole_which did not carry this sale
authority, Many senators claimed
such authority, would give the sec-
retary too wide power over mar-
kets.

‘The House; on the other hand,
| passed a gil Thursday carrying
this sale authority.”
‘Sen. Allen.J; Ellender, Demo:
cart of Louisiana} who steered the
mate~-pill;-’ ‘Hoase® compro-"

+¢
%

Fs = WASHINGTON i — The|”
ies Renbkdy administration « is
~ 2} working on’ a. compromise}.

&
3
i
cs

ike H fee.

DONALD CRITTENDON, a7, & CAPE: SISA DEO POLICE OFFICER, FIGHTS.

ay

o|, for: lifebafter: being: critically. ‘wounded’ by two armed. fugitives Friday night as:he ~

Fi

“ Kroger» store. Crittendon would: have ended his tenure w ith the police: depart-
“ment at 11 Friday se mae Fesigned. to; take» another job. - ;

i eee eer

; chai of first degree inuirder i
were! filed) at. noon today = by} *.
‘Prosecuting © Attorney © Stephen
"| Strom: against ‘two men accused |
in’ they killing Friday’ night-of a} /
Police Auxiliary: officer, Herbert
L.. Goss. i “a
Sammy Ay~Pucker,. who ts in ik
custody, and Douglas’). Wayne
| Thompson, :whd has not been ap:
| prehended, are accused in. the
‘complaints: cies a
A companion, Calvin. Gobnsen! a
will bé released to federal author- |.’
ities, on a7 paras of- junlaveit
figms sa ;
cCheteers

+ ved dohonesd hated

Ath

= felonious Sarsaniey
were: al “against” Tucker:
andTho 5 for the -wounding |}:
at Patrolman ‘Don iptv

Huge Nuclear
Plan to Start

ST. LOUIS (# — Three firms}
announced’ plans. Friday for a
hew. $25. million nuclear  enter-
prise described. as the first of its
Kind in. the. United, States.

It will be khown’ as the United|
Nuclear Corp, Harold FE, Thayer, |”
Mallinckrodt: ‘Chemi¢al Work eli

dust. drop. the provision

president said it will be: the first

and other officers. sought to: question ‘them: about a possible holdup attempt at the «

aot i ~ syne

‘ cians u Hole

‘In¢

One aetwosmen Sache in the tihiee af a Cape Giras- bo:

"ean Auxiliary Police officer, the wounding of a regular} © i
c Cape ‘policeran anda Wayne Coiinty sheriff and the beat-
| ing of a Madison County farmer was captured at 7:40 a. m.

_ today in a heavily piouden area near Grassy in Lette ie

_ County. ae
«The shooting‘

ae nt which Th Awaliany. officer was alain j
anther aer ‘wounded ‘occurred: ‘on Highway 61}

not far from; the entrance: to Arena Park and: ‘about: w half}

iniles ‘from: fhe, Town: Plaza

He eleo’ had been wounded
: Girardeau. a Pane

Pet ile

‘Herbert L. Goss, 67 yest. old.

- “who. ag a member, ofthe Auxil-

—iary served -without pay, died
‘, within. minutes “after: being: “ora

ot down at 9:30 Friday night.”

aod

‘officer, .who had only ap’ hour

“= gnd a-half to serve befpre his res-

-**ignation from the police force be-
= came effective, was “shot? in: the} west.
<*gtomach and is at Southeast Mis- {>

_gourt: Hospital © whete he. nets

emergency ~ “surgery. ~
jatestines:

‘+ went
inches, of his.

| smeitt: “Et mrer-Chatmar- of
“Wayne County,’ riding : ina PRermtea E

Highway Patrol ‘car in M
hi ‘County: with State ‘Trooper Pade
“+ Wright of Piedmont, was-shot
ive ‘the left’
the speeding car in which the fu-
ae Jgitives were riding. He is in the}:

: : Poplar_B) red Me Sete ist

reported are super-:

“ficial and his condition is good
Badig: besten ashe was.
“on the head was George

G
Allen. The desperadoes
Gear's cary Hoes pet tenia:

"Donald Crittendon, Cape *phlicel:

was. 2
imoved ‘and his conditie con-

Samot tS
side as he opened fire’on

pistol.

, a farmeriliving. at. at

x stooping Center, where offi. sf

‘during’ the Paducah in- Gane! st :

The: two: officers “mopped be-
hod: tt. nek

driveway; headed south: “One uy
west. shoulder.”
By. this ‘time Officer. Gots: had.
‘alighted from’ the patrol car and
iX | went to the passenger side! of the
Oldsmobile; Crittefidon went to the
driver's: side, He asked for-iden-'
=| tifteation: ene ete re
thug ears = eae
‘Lang, the ‘other ‘auaitlayy, offie-
er; said he was in the rear seat

eter ah

ing forward #0. he could’ shine his

pale: he’ saw'a pile of Cociies
* Officers Downed.

the Oldsmobile and it answered|
their flashing light signal to stop, |
pulling ‘to the’ side: of the road.|

oes aaa a ee iF

and got out on the left aide, mov«|

light-in. ‘the’ ‘back: seat. There-hej-

~ Kelley: “and Ross. pulled’ "abreast ES
‘of the ‘two, cats, then’ swung |”.
‘around: ‘inthe servite®station|: ~

jand-atter-a: Nagar Was Sworn in as a Aigo. police

officer on. pa 28, | sao

Herbert Goss. was. serving | asa a Conintesh police of-
} ficer-when-he. was-killed last. night. by. ‘a fleeing fugitive.
He was not paid for his services and gave of his time and
effort only’ ‘tor: ‘the-good'of the: community© Be

_Heenttstedl-trr-the Police -Auxitiary-in- ‘September 19641 e

vision:

pps) eee

Sores

RIVER EXPECTED ~~

TO CREST SUNDAY -
“The. Mississippi River

Cape Girardeau; which -

been on a rise since Ma
is expected to crest §

: ae 28 feet, according

“ port. Warder Lee~ Alb

“When the river started its
‘it was 14.7 feet and.up to
day night had risen® to
“feet; a rise of 12-feet in
“even days. < It rose the
24 hours from-23.8 feet to
= present. stand of 26.7. fee
rise. of ‘almost three fe

: © |Grains Curbin
~ Plan Pushed.
In Washingto

~ Chief Controversy
Centers on Lower

~- Than-Market-Pric :

“WASHINGTON (2

~~. |Kennedy.. administratic

rors said he then droppettback

‘when the shooting: started,- Offic-
er) Goss: fell into the roadside
ook | ditch as he) was shot through
he legs. ei pinta ‘by the man on

the: passenger site of. the car.

> An vartery’ in each leg was sev-

| ered..und <death- came-auickiy:
from’ loss of. blood,

sateen 4

pe Officer: Crittendon: had: aint

: ty, then in
S. |< then back to Bollinger County.
+)’ /$till-at large is Douglas Wayne}
Thompson, who is des ‘as 27
¥ ri btaie old. 6 feet tall, about 160
" wearing’ ®: light’ suit and
_ ml his et thiunb¢ missing: He
as es Bartlett:

2 shooting, occurred Gh the
OU ler of Highway. 61 almost di-
pet ‘ opposite the ~ Brennecke
carrhin fer Servicé Station. Events
leading up 10 it: began on ‘the
oe > parking. lot. at’ fe Skt a

; pete Cent eas

L\shouted:to Ross to get down.

to: the frontrof the” vehicle* sepa |

: rated by. the door as the’ driver
| opened it and got” out.” At this

time; he opened’ fire, ; shouting
Crittendonin. the’ abdomen: ;
“> “Comes Up Firing. -

~ Otficers Kelley and Ross: fare
‘the shots a¢'they came close’ to-
gether. — Ross jumped out, and
placing “his service revolver
across: the: back of the car, he
pumped six’ shots into the fugi-
tives’ vehicle as it moved. off: Of-
ficer Kelley at. tha same’ -tinie
It
was then Ross rolled out on the
‘tground and vame. up behind the

“| police: car: firing overits back.
ie. Kelley,. moving low in the. ‘seat,

seid’ he ‘tired ‘through the’ open
-| window, pune the ‘gun’ on. its:

between the two cars.and was on}:
the right® side-of the: police-ear | -

7 = One: ot ienipects 4 in. stadt aight's fatal shooting: ‘ofa
police officer, Sammy. Aire Tucker, 26, was apprehended at
$a, m: today'in a swooded*area three miles ee of High

a5

: leaving.

way MM off of; Highway 34,
Tucker swas--shot.three itimes,,

‘officers, said -in. the ‘original gun}
battle: ‘in; which: “Auxiliary. Police:}
man Hi. Ui; Goss. was killed. When
he was brought into;the : “station
here, he. Wasalimping badly; -He’
was. shot: ine both) Jeu and. left)
arm. °*

Officers ® “ apprphended Tucker
wien he was spotted by: air from
a Patrol helicopter. He wag un-

and offered only slight resistenc
officers pointed out, The suspe
said his ‘companion, Douglas, 27, }.
abandoned: him in the woods. .t
‘La. 'm, and took three” pistols” ang
a rifle with him. ~~

Tucker told officers he, Thorip-
son; and aman he, identified as
Calvin Johnson, 22,. were. -prepar?
ing to rob the: Kroger’ store when.
the manage les aon oat
He ‘said. he

armed at the time of his capture | i

4 Starlight,

pi ed poli

en i

«Such sales would depress

‘working: ‘on a. compr
plan:to-settle differenc

tween’ the Senate an

House:-over~ the emer]

feed: grain’ program.

“Fhe chief point of contr
between the-two houses 1s"
‘sion which would give See
of Agriculture Orville. L.
man authority to sell gove
owhed surplus grains at les
support and market: prices

and ‘encourage famers to ¢

with the’ program, which

a signed. to reduce. feed grai

ees

police's said.

Sasecomestinet ais

ngs amine, osama Shite of

Second Cape Officer in. |

duction this year Dera yse ¢

The-programi=-as” prese
Congtess—would offer’high
ports-at $1.20 per bushel f
and payments to farmers
duce grain-acreages in ti
the program. Those who ¢
cut back’ would be left to t
ey of prices which. the se
could depress. by ‘dump
+ plus-gr grain ‘on the market.

38 Years to Lose Life

Herbert L. “Goss was <tbe:-first
policeman’ to 1é8e.pis life ‘in the
ae of duty in Cape Girardeat
sinee the death on Oct, 7, 1922 of
Chief of Police Jeff Hytson: Chief
Hutson ‘was killed yehtn he sought
to. arrest. an escaped convict”,

sought for questioning « was at his
place,
“The. sheriff got ip “sah
}Trooper Irvin Beard, .who
iduty with other officers near. the

made.” They reported Johnson ad
mitted his identity. + oN

Co\ of Cape Girardeau
“this: morning th

‘The Auxiliary. Police officer, |:

with
as on

and the» arrest was

He. had been sought since. a
driver for the Small Rate Cab
notified
he had
e ; ena man from near the Trav

Version Passed Frida
The Senate passed a-ve
thé /program: Friday, by.

“which did not carry t
authority, Many senators <
such authority would give
retary too much bow er ove
kets.
The House. on the othe
passed a dill Thursday ¢
this’ sale authority.

Sen. Allen J. Ellender,
cart of Louisiana, who ste¢
Senate :bill>-said House «¢
misers. must drop the p
“or there will be no bill”
der added, “‘1/ hope: the
agrees {o a conferénce.
meets -Monday. and: that
get-a compromise later thi
A March 15 deadjhe has.
for passag® of a hill if
haye: any” effect om: te

+ wourtthiouse in Jac

01m

elérs: Cafe’ in’ ‘Pape! to. hata she

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mal piesa | ; OFFICE OF DEPUTIES
ard CIRCUIT CLERK AND RECORDER Pw cue
Cooper County

Boonville, Missouri 65233
March 8, 1979

*

Mr. Watt Espy, Jr.
Law Library - Box 6205
University, AL 35486

Dear Mr. Espy:

After checking our records, we find that Mr. John Turlington
‘was executed on March 6, 1891, at 10:00 o'clock. Mr. Wes Hensley
pleaded guilty to the murder on November 13, 1890 (2nd degree murder)
and received ten years in the penitentiary.

Pe

~The last legal hanging to take place was on January 31, 1930.
On a change of venue case from Pettis County a Mr. Lawrence Mabrey
was convicted of lst degree murder for the murder of a Sedalia man.
He was convicted by Jury on June 20, 1928. He then appealled to

the MO Supreme Court. On Dec. 11, 1929, the Supreme Court affirmed
the conviction. He was executed on Jan. 31, 1930.

Another man, Mr. John West, was executed on May 16, 1879, for
the murder of a unknown man. His trial was on Feb. 3, 1879. He
appealled to the Supreme Court who affirmed the conviction.

I spoke with Mrs. Paul Darby who is the President of the
oonville Historical Society. She knew of no other hangings. She
uggested the book Melton's History of Cooper County might give
some details. She did say that there is a legend about Mr. West

that he rode to his hanging on his own coffin. Her address is
309 Center Street, Boonville, MO 65233.

If we can be of further assistance, please let us know.

Sincerely,

PAUL SOMBART
Circuit Clerk

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92 the CRIME

SPOTLIGHT

Latest Sensations in the Crime Whirl—
and What the Law Is Doing About Them

the body of Mrs. Elizabeth

Brooke, 42, was found by her
two daughters in their army home,
fatally battered. The death weapon is
believed to have been a child’s iron-
headed golf club found hanging in the
house. Her husband, Major John R.
Brooke, 44, son of a colonel and grand-
son of a general, was promptly arrested
and charged with the slaying. The ac-
cused and Federal authorities both de-
clined to discuss the grounds on which
the Major was held. The victim, his
second wife, was a former army nurse.

“She kept asking me for more
money for clothes. It made me sore,
so I shot her.” That was the confes-
sion of 61-year-old Miller Garrison of
Wildwood, New Jersey, who for two
years had been keeping company with
Hannah Bateman, 30. Her body was
found in a bed in his home, the bagt
riddled with buckshot. Garrison
eccentric bachelor, considered
grievance that she had worn hj \
Part of his skull had been/removed
after he was kicked by a myle several
years ago. Charged with fhe killing,
he signed a four-page stafement and
said, “I feel relieved now.’

Near Vienna, Maryland, the body
of Mrs. Elizabeth Brown, seventeen,
an expectant mother, As retrieved
from the Nanticoke Rivér, where it
had: lain for two weeks, Yrussed and
weighted with heavy plowshares. Her
husband, Fred L. Brown, 48, a pros-
perous farmer, confessed re&dily. He
declared he choked her “with\ny two
hands” after she obtained w3
charging him with disorderly cond
and cruelty to animals.

But in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, it

A’ FORT BENNING, Georgia,

was the wife who killed with the aid
of a lover. Mrs. Essie Matthews, 37,
admitted that she and Leonard Over-
cast, the same age, induced 52-year-
old B. F. Matthews to swim in a
flooded slough. “We talked it over,
and I told Leonard to drown him,”
she said. “Leonard went and caught
him by the throat, pushed him back
and under, and held him until he
drowned.” The woman’s two children,
both under ten, witnessed the deed.
A jail feud between cellmates at the
State Penitentiary, Eddyville, Ken-
tucky, resulted in the decapitation of
Clayton Sloan, 23, whe had served tw
years of a three-year sentence
horse-stealing. The slayey-wa
. Smith ifé two murders on

record; he~TYeceivéd fifteen stab
6unds. “ft is not known how the
elons obtained the knives used in
their ghastly duel.

pheesers jealousy over Mrs. Vivian
Davidson’s preference for another
man was thought to be the motive of
her slaying by Robert West, 22, in St.
Louis, Missouri. -She was shot as she
sat in a car, and her uncle, James
Bunton, was seriously wounded. But
West, a paroled convict, declared that
a weird obsession had prompted him.
While in the penitentiary he had
helped to construct the lethal gas
chamber. “I thought when I was
building it that when I got out I
would kill somebody so that I would
die in it,” he said.

In New York City four jewel rob-
bers trailed Murray Furman and his
m a night club

alone Sction

Fifteen-pound plow shares weighted the body of Mrs. Elizabeth Brown
when authorities found it in the Nanticoke River near Vienna, Maryland

Mrs. Elizabeth Brooke: She was beaten to
death with a child’s iron-headed golf club

Jason E. Dulsky, eighteen, high-
school boy of Royal Oak, Michigan,
confessed to police that he shot and
killed his foster father three weeks
previously, because he was scolded
for setting the dinner table improp-
oney. erly. The search for missing Edward
J. Dulsky, 50, had been started only
when the widow returned from a
visit out of town and became ill with
worry at her husband’s absence. Ja-
son said he could not bear to keep
her in suspense, and led authorities
130 miles to a side road where he had
taken the body in a car and hidden
it under some bushes.

Chicago’s “phantom robber” of gas-
oline stations and restaurants, Harold
Keen, 23, the son of a policeman, was
shot dead by one of his father’s
brother officers. A squad went to

(Continued on Page 43)

a wrist-watchPay
woman’s arms, ‘4nd
relieved of a g

valuable gems.
trouble to search for,

An abandoned
Tamaqua, Pennsylvgni

the closed doors /

e Bisciotti, 25, and Gustine Star-
fice, 37, of Philadelphia. The third
victim remains unknown. No one saw
the killers, either coming or going.

Gangland’s final reckoning with Edward—Silent Eddie—
Kenny, described as Brooklyn’s most notorious gunman


ere Ou ones

HISTORY OF RAY COUNTY.
xt. “7 7 Ba Ly C. 2) a .
been made, and as the fiood began to recede after about three days, the-
land became dry in time to be plowed and cultivated in the usual way the
€nsuing season.

The bottom lands of Ray county are very seldom overflowed, and, in 4 eae Rasen aes
point of fertility and depth of soil cannot be excelled, es Ee Os
About twenty-seven years ago, Captain Thomas McGinnis forded the
Missouri river, horseback, without getting wet, .a short distance below
Lexington and in sight of that town. The act was Witnessed by about
. thirty persons, standing on the river bank. The water was very low, of
course, lower perhaps than any person, now living, will remember to have
S¢en it at any other time. , a
Captain McGinnis is doubtless the only man in this part of the state
who ever forded the Missouri river, so low down-as Lexington. ~
PETRIFIED STUMP. | :
On the premises of D.C. N ofisinger, of Tinney’s Grove, is a petrified
stump, found in 1858, northeast of Tinney’s Grove, in section one, town-
ship iifty-four, range twenty-six. : |
_ The stump is about two and a half feet in height, and perhaps three .
feet in diameter. The roots are not yet entirely petrified, and will weigh
‘doubtless five hundred pounds. Every growth of the timber is plainly
visible, as also are the marks of .the axe, made in severing the trunk; and
“in places indications of the inside bark still remain, oe
The petrifaction is of a Whitish gray color, very hard and flinty, ‘and
will strike fire readily. oe
There was also found in 1847, on section fourteen, same. township and
range, portions of a petrified tree, in pieces from one foot to four feet in
length, and about one foot in diameter. They are of the same color as
the petrified stump, and are also very hard and flinty. .

~

5 = HONNCIDEs, s oe

In. March, 1841, a man named Martin Adams was killed on Main
Street, in Richmond, near Darneal’s store, at the southwest corner of the
public square. He met his death at the hands of one Ben White. It was
late in the afternoon, and White stood in the street holding his horse, pre-
paratory to starting for his home at Elkhorn, Adams was hard by.
Centlemen. remarked the wild and infuriated visage of White, and toid
the sheriff, Colonel Brown, who was standing near, that he had better
arrest him. Whereupon, hearing the caution, White begged to be
searched, declaring himself unarmed. 3

Some words of altercation then passed between White and Adams,

“when .the former threw a rock at the latter, and immediately ran toward

him, drawing, as he ran, a larce butcher-knife from a scabbard, con-
? : bot . 2 oD


| his. life..

paeundibestaatinnbhadetadienidied ication

By .a Post-Dispatch Staff Photographer.
e, near Municipal Bridge in. ast

vth of the labor aba Ole”:

Che question of procuring a witness
o testify to the accuracy of the
etter; was raised. Curtin again
»bjected.

Governor -Rebukes Curtin,

Roosevelt leaned across the desk,
“Ig you want to make & ruction
tbout it, I'l get someone to™come’
up here.and tell about it,” he said
‘Agorously. vo

Fifteen ‘more minutes were con-
mmedin a huddle around the Gov-
srnor’s degk before the letter final.
y wént into the record of the heake'
ing as evidence,

The Governer tsked about the
ant od' of meeting losses on dally
transactions in the Wyocks Walker
vecount.

“when there was a “loss, we each
paid half,” Walker, explained,”

Seabury sald the‘records showed,

the Mayor had: receilved more than
$100,000 fromthe account before
Block ever received anything from
it.. ‘That ts contrary to the evi-
dence and to:Mr. Block’s' testimo-
ny” Walker exclaimed indignantly.

Gov. Roosevelt’ read from the
record Block’s testimony indicating
the broker forgot at times to credit
him with: the same amounts ‘as
those’ withdrawn from the account
by ‘the’ Mayor.

“Transaction Between Friends.” :
“Seabury then read from the rec-
ord a, passage indicating Block had
learned later from his brother that
Walker drew out $102,000 from the
account before ste took pre vom yd
himself.

“Tt had, noting to with Tames
J. Walker, official,” the Mayor .re-
plied: when : Gov.|, Roosevelt asked
him if he had any, comment, “nor
with any, official’. act throughout
It) was a transaction be-
tween friends,”

“Walker sald. it was hia recollge:
tion that “Block €requently, drew
money } from ‘the account himself.

The second‘ day’s' session” ad-
Journed with the Mayor =

i
ie *

“and Half. ot

.
* ‘

ws Emmerson White, 32-year-old

| Negro janitor, was hanged at City
‘| Jail today for the murder of Pinck-

ney Hollis, elderly Negro, on New
Year's day, 1930.

: The trap was sprung at 6:03 a.
mm. and White was . pronounced

dead a minute and’a half later by
Dr. W. J. Siebert of the Coroner's
staff..’ Death was due to a broken
neck. {

White was resigned: He had

slept from 12:30 a. m. to 4:45 a
m., when| Father Ralph A. Gal-
lagher, jai) chaplain, arrived to ad-
minister | communion. Another
priest.. Father John DeVilbiss of
Bt. Elizabeth's Church, had ‘re-
mained with the condemned man
through the night.

Shortly | before 6 o'clock, White
was on if he wanted to
make a, statement. “Yes, I

-| want to say a little something,” he

said. calmly. “I’m leaving this
world with a clear conscience and
love for everyones I wish everyone
could leave this world as well pre-
pared as'Iam to go. If you boys

.|prepare yourselves, I’m ‘sure ru

see you again sometime.”

Five Buttons, One Springs Trap.
The priests,' ifive Deputy Sheriffs

and ‘representatives of the Sheriff

and Coroner accompanied him to

the room on the sixth floor, ad-

joining the one where he had been.
under guard. for 48 hours, where
there’ are two traps in the floor.
Twenty-eight persons, including re-
porters two Deputy Coroners, and
witnesses, selected by the Sheriff,
were on the floor below to watch
the body, come through the trap
used. | ‘

The trap was sprung by means
of an electrical mechanism con-
nected with one of five switches.
Each deputy had a button to press
but only|one opened a circuit to
the smal) electric motor. which
drew a bar away from the ,trap.
Location of the correct button was
kept a secret.

The priests, who had been’ with
White frequently in the last sev-
eral months following his conver-
sion to the Catholic faith, walked
to the trap with him and stood by
as his hands and arms
strapped and. the noose and cap

‘adjustqd.|.One then hurried to tho

floor below to. administer the sac-
rament of extreme unction immedi-
ately. after the trap was sprung.
-No Relatives Present.

‘None‘of White's relatives, or rel-
atives of} the man he, killed, was
present. white’s « ‘wife and friends
who were with ‘him last night left
at '11:30 |p. m.° His<four children
were not taken to the jall.\"He had
his Jast.jmeal’at 9 o’clock last
night and spent the ovening listen-
ing to radio; programe, including
President}. Hoover's) acceptance
speech. } Tia

Oh final lappeal for’ cle mency ‘was

Monthe oo ae to Gov. Can!

reatara

ert 1 on ¥ White Resigned
‘ ‘to Fate as He Goes to Gal-|
‘ <jlows—Dead Yin’ Minute ‘

were,

+) WORK AT THREE
~TLLNOIS MINES.

Halt Preparations. for Re-
opening in ‘Springfield
- District in Protest! ‘Against
New Scale.

By the Associated Press. |
SPRINGFIELD, IIL, Aug. 12.—
Pickets ' of miners .protesting
against the new $5 wage contract,
signed.as an “emergency” measure,
prevented. resumption of wofk in
coal mines of the Springficld sub-

district today.

The-tipples, bustling yesterday in
cleanup preparations after a long
shutdown, were lifeless and around
them stretched cordons of com-
mitteemen instructed by thelr) lo-
cals last night to stop any “who
took a notion to work.”

_ Only two: men_ reported this
morning at the shaft of the Cap-
itol mine of the Peabody Coal Co.,
where more than 400° protesting
miners gathered last evening and
warned 45 fellow workers doing
cleanup. work not to.return. |Not
a single’ miner passed the pickets
around Peerless No. 69 and Cora
No. 61, also Peabody mines, ‘and
all operations were halted termpo-
rarily. ,

Seven locals of the subdistrict
here were reported to have voted
last night against returning ‘to
work.

As the new wage scale bechme
effective yesterday, 3000 men went
to work in the mines to prepare
them for operations, Many of the
big operators have announced dates
for the resumption of mining. |

When the mines are again work-
ing at capacity it was expected by
many business leaders’ that more
than 125,000 persons in allied in-
dustries would receive employment.

Petitions were placed.in circula-

of Springfield, requested: protec.
tion f”om Sheriff. Sam © Metcalf
against “possible disturbances {by
crowds gathering around the prop-
A groug@ of miners had| gone
the shaft this morning ha

tarts inwonm

erty:
down

ST. ‘Lous pOST- DISPATCH.

‘PIKES PREVENT

tion for » state convention: at
which an effort was to be made to
abrogaty the contract; a mass
meeting f°" protesting miners was
announce: Sunday at Benld.

Ed Mz: ne of the protesting
leaders announced ; that: all
mines or :ciing. in the = district
would bs weted.. . + |

Jerry 4! +‘, representing six coal
miners’ ! :nions in the Harris-
burg sec’. ", was cut off the air
quickly radio station WEBQ
yesterda ‘ist after. he had
launches .°%'> a vehement attack
on unle: of ieers >who wun yeaTee
the $5 «x Pat vent. .

John wis, nrcaiderit of ‘the
United Workers of America,
moved t: ~¥ to check opposition to
the new <ovrract.” He issued’ a
proclams (an warning that “picket-
ing and ; .s2 meeting must cease,”
and that © prosition leaders will be
penalize: lee ,

The p> “iamnation, sont by. tele-
gramito ‘ocs!s in Springfield| Gil-,
lespie a: other centers where
miners five voted not to return’ to
the tippis ", Was issued soon jafter
officers of tn e Peabody Coal) Co,

Woodside mine, four miles, pouth,

RESIGNS: AS. ‘MAYOR;
TOO: MANY IDLE WHO
COULD DO THE WORK

Hartford City | (Ind.) ' Official
Quits $1000-a-Year Post, :
(ys Good Till 1934." +
By’ the ‘Assoctated, Press. ‘ cen
HARTFORD CITY, :Ind4., ‘Aug. 12.

Elmer. Lucas. has resigned: as
Mayor: of Hartford City, He told

the City Council yesterday he

could not conscientiously continue
to hold. offices which pays’ $1000 a
year, while there are many uném-
played here who could perform the

| duties as efficiently as himself.

His term ends in January, 1934.
He is a Democrat. While he’. was
Mayor, Lucas continued to hold his
job in a local bank ans he still
has, this Job. "es

WOMAN HiT BY FOUL BALL -
‘IN GAME FIVE YEARS AGO SUES

Pelt coat Renee
Mrs. Russell H, Ogle Seeks $25,000
_ Damages from Cardinals and
Lester Bell.

Sult ‘for $25,000 damages on ac-
count of being struck by a foul
ball at Sportsman's Park Aug. 14,
1927, was filed in Circuit Court to-
day by Mrs,’ Russell H: Ogle, 7050
Washington avenue. , Her’ petition
states she was seated in box No
52 of the grand stand when the
ball, hit by Lester Bell, former
third baseman of the Cardinals,
struck her in the face, knocking
out several teeth, lacerating . her
skin and disfiguring her,

Mrs. Ogle names the St. Louis
National Baseball Club and Bell
¢ defendants in the action,. alleg-

ng that the ball was hit‘in a man-
ner so as to cause it to veer.from
the bat and strike plaintiff; fur-
ther the defendants failed to warn
her of the approach of the ball or
to protect her in any manner from
being struck. Mrs, Ogle explained
to a reporter that since the acct-
dent she has® delayed filing suit
pending negotiations of a proposed
settlemént of her claim. ,

JOBLESS MAN FOUND SHOT.
DEAD -WITH RIFLE BESIDE: HIM

Charlies Mueller, 51, Despondent,
Widow Says; Five Chil-
dren Survive,

Charles Mueller, 51 years'old, an
unemployed wood finisher, was
found today in the basement of his
home, 1946 Warren-street, with a
bullet wound in his chest, of which
he died on the way to the hospital.

A rifle, which had been reloaded

Tafter being, fired, was at his side.

His wife told] police he had been
out of work two years and was de-
spondent. She said she had left
him in the basement to hang out a
washing and returned té see him
stagger and hear. him, say, “I’m
done’ for!” She and two sons and

“PAGE

a nETER TAGE
STRKE MiSSOURt th

One Makes THolé tn ‘in Giga
Feet From Where Ma
Is: Standing.

cetaceans ,
By the Associated Press. J—-
KANSAS CITY, Mo. Aug. ©
far! and. Harry Christi
farmers of Archie, Mo., said —
that three fragments, tent: YW
identified by E. 8. Haynes —r)

fessor ef astronomy atthe U >
sity of Missourt, as parts of | a
seid meteor, landed on their —-
Wednesday afternoon.
_ One fragment made a hole }
in six feet of where Harry
standing. It weighed half a;
Another fell nearby. The
was .found in a ar ajes ee Va
Earl was at work.
4
os

-

Both men'said they notice
of smoke in the'sky, Th =}
was 4:30 p. m. © (>

“at 4130 o’clock .In the
noon,” Prof. Haynes sald, * i>
gion from which the Perecié
was about five degrees abo
northern horizon.- It would
eral hpurs tater that this
of the earth would be turne fea)
to be directly In the atrea)
such a stream.as the Perse! }
doubtedly would ,;have |=
fragments on its outer rim’ Qo

THIRD MAN SEIZED)
IN HOLDUP MURD _©
_OF AUTO SALE.
Continued From Page ‘ s
new green car with ch;
plated wheels and, after bri:
tioning, he admitted the Vy
‘was stolen and said Dial. hy
the shooting,

‘Since King was slain In
delet Township, jurisdiction
St. Louls County. Dalley «
nandez have been turned
county officers-by St, Loui
and are in Clayton jail.

A reward of $1000 was
by the St, Louls Automob
ers’ Association for the ar: MY)
conviction of the slayers 9’ (©

King, 36 years old and
ried, was shot in the back,
body left ona wagon rond «
serted, farni, where jt wi

by highway employes Fric
ernoon

ance was not consistent w

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“UNION-MAY-STERN‘S —
EXCHANGE STORES

616 Franklin
206 N. 12th_

ic

Ly Jany 4m
—rreckage ‘of |) &
1era, planes, |;
les of seven
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6) Goodman The ENO Cert OF Fa0e
Mm 1000 fur ecat belonging. to Mis Anno 6 | *
é Morgan, winter ‘of J. .P,. Morgan,» a
J)08 The ;wornan, sald she. was Ireno. 1a

ri Thompse . 27.years old, of Long
Island City, She was-arrested /late
Thursdsy alght. After an hour's

Jay in 318) | questioning she admitted the theft, . ;
san Vicente. |: ‘| detectives said, and went with them f
& {ts grap- ‘ to the Grand Central Station, where jodi : c
the wreck- ' | the coat had been checked, ean 5 Be
. naval-and siti NAOMI, idanc-nay, >» Misa Morgan: did not-appear in ‘gs is
| are giving ee a Rie AK ‘leourt but Mark Thacksberry, man- Le Rake ¥ %
Jager of the Women's Assocation 1s if f w
covered yes- THIRD vicTiM OF. CHRISTMAS ‘lelubhouse, where tho. coat was” ti \ ih i $i

ender Datay atolen }/y. 20. was present. Ho re.

and.. the PACKAGE. BO BOMB SUCCUMBS fused te signa complaint. Thacks-
I 36, V @BIO8: potothy Hall, 4, Dies of Injuries 1 at} borry sid Miss Thompson entered
the ocean) =. geat Pleasant,’ Md.;)Three . the clihouse through an exit
hore, Navy ~ | Others Injured. 2° 5! stairway, found Mizs Morgun’s of- }
» spot while!’ svat PLEASANT,.,Md.,, Jan,’ 4.) fice; where the door was unlocked, -
eet of small rhe ‘third death” ‘cnused | py a| walked in) and exchanged | coats, |
h. dragging | opristmas package - bomb heré’oc-| leaving her own dyed rabbit coat: i
curred early today, when '-4-years| and) txiing the expensive baby {
old Dorothy) Hall succumbed.to‘her|lamb garment which she found |
}

= “FS ses ee a

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struck “ the
to the other

had , been
ind to’ show
he color, of
an airplane
raised, The
100. feet, in
>) feet: apart

injuries. The others killed ‘were|there. Miss Morgan is president of
Mrs, Naoni’ Hall Brady, 18 years the association,
old for whom the package’ was ine The prisoner appeared in court
tended! and her 19-months’-old clad in a red/and blue ensemble,
brother, Samuel, ‘ wearing several fraternity and #o- ”
The |bomb, wrapped” as a:Christ-|rority pins, Tho fraternity pins
mas package’ reached “Mrs Naom}| had been given her by admirers,
Hall’ an New Year's: day... she said, whereas the sorority pins
Of thosé| injured by the explo-| Were emblems of organizations ‘to
_tston, Mrs. | Nora Hail, | Naomi's| WXich she belonged,’
ight to con-| mother is most seriously ill; Lesiie| Her fingerprints, police said, dis- i}
neth Hawks, | pyafl, her 16- -year-old son, who Jost closed that she was sentenced to
irk and Hal-| two fingers. is out of danger; *her|from two and a half to five years
leorge Eanst- 86-year-old mother has been dig-|!n the girls’ reformatory ut Bos-
airy Johannes) charged from the hospital. - ton on a charge of grand larceny,
abers of the Baltimore police took a hand in| Feb, 8%, 1922, under the name of
x mechanical | tne investigation of the. outrnge| Mabe! Smith. She admitted that

Max. Gold, today on orders from Gov, Ritchie, | henfMame was neltver Thompagn
Ben Frankel Smith but refused to discloi

cameramen, PATROLMAN DISMISSED er identity. She was held withou

‘ter the crash bail for a hearing Monday,

ito ,micture| AFTER, WIFE'S COMPLIJKT |79 ¥< aR-OLD NEGRO RECLUSE
 elgian finan-| of the North Mark 2t Street tation iS FOUND. HACKED T0 DEATH

ance of Capt. Patrolman, “William D,..M

r the English | was dismissed fronr the force yes-
; terday on charges of; conduct unbe- Pinckney Hollis Wounded 12 Times
water at the| coming an officer, after a hearing ov Head and Face, at Kear
reckage WAS) pefore the Board..of Police Com-| — of 2641 Pine,

of divers tO) missioners, McGrath's ‘dismissal|  Pinekney  “Holllx, — 70-year-old
divers. cannot grew out of statements. made by | Negre recluse, was found murdered
‘low 160 feet.| nig wife, who called the station on |last night in his room in the rear
vreckage al80) noo 23 to ask protection from her |of 2641 Pine atrect. There were
It was dl8-) pushund who had been, mistreating |12 wounds in his head and face,
the boats’ at and \“breaking up. the’ furniture’ appurently. inflicted with a hatchet,
trong enough of their house at 6123 ‘Sherry ave- | found nearby. A broken chair and
i their heavy) ¥ : mjlk pottles in the room indicated
id it. probably . Charges of: misconduct’ against | the, Negro had struggled with his
ft, the, meee Patrolman’ Ivan Newberry’ of ‘the assallant. ...,
ining whether Angelica Street Station were  dis- Robbery appeared to have: been
missed by the board yesterday. aft- the motive for. tha, murder, a'Hollis’

er It had heard detally of an al-| Dockets were empty and his’ room
the: diuses (of leged assault Newberry was said | had been ransacked, A bank book,
psi fone! ak th to‘ have made on Carrie M&Field, | Watch chain and papers were on
office. of the|® Negro woman, the night of the floor,
‘ 10. Two witnesses to support rr ' é

oe eaeeeniT: berry’s alibi defease appeared bey MA; FATALLY HURT BY TRAIN
ill, sent a re-| fore the board, river Adams Tor, Valley Pag
Struck on Mo, Pac.

ck wue aa ‘Sun Lines to Cross Missouri, Ngihur Adams, 42. years off, of aa
By, the Aubocthtad: ree Valley Park, died at the Missourt

witnesses they ‘
the | planes JEFFERSON CITY, Jan, 4—The} pariric ospital here lust night, ...

Sun..Lines. Inc. of Tinols yester- after having been struck by, a-
neénad matinee day’ obtained’ authority from the] yyyvourl Pacific train about, 300
ys, oR State Public Service: ‘Commission feet west of Boyd's Station, not |
nee of Los An-|%? operate as an’ Interstate bus line far from’ Valley Park, at 6:15 p.
inquest would | 2678S Missourl..:The “firm was}, Adams suffered a fractured
rly next ‘week, warned, however, not to do Intras} py ayi,
ad been .made styte business, : ;
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Municipal . Bridge

The question of procuring a witness
letter | was raised.’ Curtin again
objected.

Governor -Rebukes Curtin. ’
Roosevelt leaned across the desk.
“Ig you want to make a ruction
about ‘it, I'll get someone to~come
up here and tell about it,” he said
vigorously. '

Fifteen more “minutes were con-
sumed in a huddle around the Gov-
ernor’s degk before the letter final-

ing as evidence, .

The Governor asked about the
method: of meeting losses on daily
transactions in the Block; _——
atcount. ;

“When there was a ‘loss, we each
pald half,” Walker explained,’

the Mayor had received more than
$100,000 from the account before
Block ¢ver received anything from
it. “That Is contrary to the evi-
dence and to:Mr. Block’s' testimo-
ny” Walker exclaimed indignantly.
Gov. Roosevelt read from the
record Block’s testimony indicating
the. broker forgot at times to credit
him with: the same amounts “as
those withdrawn from the account
bythe Mayor.

“Transaction Between’ “Friends.”
“Seabury then read from the rec-
ord a passage indicating Block had
learned Jater from his brother that
Walker drew out $102,000 from the
account before aia took anything
himself. ‘

“It had notifing’ to with James
J. Walker, official," the Mayor re-
plied: when Gov. Roosevelt asked
him if he had any comment, “nor
with any official~ act throughout
his life. It was a transaction be-
tween friends,”

Walker said it was his recollec-
tlon that ‘Block @requently. drew
money from ‘the account himself.
The second day’s session “ ad-
journed with the Mayor still on the’
stand. The hearing will be cemetertaht
Monday at’ 12:30 p. m.

FORD PLANT AT DEARBORN —
“> SUSPENDS UNTIL SEPT, 6

3C. Branches Throughout Country
to! Continue Operations on.

“.’ Vimited Schedule. .”,

By the i apaciated Press. oi
/DETROIT, Aug. 12 —The ord
Motor Co. today suspended opera-

flees, to be resumed on Sept.''6.

A few thousand men will be kept
at work during’ the “vacation
period,” an*announcement said.
All of the 35 American branches
of the-company will.continue’in
‘productidn on a three-en-feer
week, schedule. toga belied

12.-—An ‘4ncrease from*10, to, 12
percent in| wages of employes of
the ‘Southern |Silk* Mills)" is 4; gn-

eral. manager. :
tive this; week, applies to 225 em-
ployes*in plants’, at _Kerneraville
aunt Greens)oro, |: ay a
» Bently said the mills have orders

and night, until! October.’

wonnarPran ‘January.

i. priest.

through

to testify to the accuracy of the.

ly’ wént into the record of the hears’

Seabury sald the‘records showed.

tions in the Dearborn plant and of-

/ WINSTON-SALEM, | oN c ‘Aug

nounced ' by John G. Bently, gen-
+The increase; effec-

‘which? will keep them running day
‘Ay cut’of
Nod cent:ini, wages wae, focere by:
thar sz

~ White was ‘resigned,

slept from 12:30 a.m. to 4:45 a.
when Father Ralph A. Gal-
lagher, jail chaplain, arrived to ad-
minister | ¢communion., Another
Father John DeVilbiss ot
Bt Elizabeth's. Church, had ro-
mained with the condemned : rhan
the night.»

), Shortiy before 6 g'clock, White
was ® vasked {f.. he wanted. to
make’ a. ‘statement. “Yes, I

‘| want to say.a little something,” he

said: calmly,, “I’m leaving this
world th.a clear conscience and
love for everyones I wish everyone
could leave’ this world as well pre-

ared as’I.am to go. If you boys

| prepare | yourselves, I'm ‘sure rn

see you jagain sometime.”
Five Buttons, One Springs Trap.

The priests, | {five Deputy Sheriffs
and! “representatives of the Sheriff
and Coroner accompanied him to
the room on the sixth floor, ad-
joining the one where he had been.
under guard - for : 48 hours, where
there’ are two traps in the” floor.
Twenty-eight persons, including re-
porters two Deputy Coroners, and
witnesses | selected by the Sheriff,
were ‘on the floor below to watch
tha body, come through the trap
used. |

The trap was sprung by means
of an electrical mechanism con-
nected with one of five switches.
Each deputy had a button to press
but only one opened a cfreult to
the small electric motor, which
drew -n|'bar away from the, trap.
Location of the correct button was
kept a secret.

The priests, who had been with
White frequently in the last sev-
eral months following his conver-
sion to|the Catholic faith, walked
to the trap with him and stood by
as his|hands and, arms were,
strapped and the noose and cap
adjusted. One then hurried to the
floor below to admintster the sac-
rament'of extreme unction immedi-
ately after the trap was sprung.

No Relatives Present.

None’ of White's relatives, or rel-
atives of the man he killed, was
present. White's wife and friends
who were with him last night left
at 11:30 p. m. His four children
were not taken to the jail. He had
his last meal at 9 o'clock last
night and spent the evening listen-
ing to | radio programs, including
President .. Troover's acceptance
speech.

A final appeal for‘clemency was
“made to Gov., Caulfield yesterday
afternoon by Silas E. Garner, Ne-
gro attorney. The Goverpor said
he, found no ground for interfer-
ing.

. The Missouri Supreme Court had
granted White a stay of exécution
from July 15, when attorneys for
Andrew B. Meadows, sentenced to
death at the same time, questioned
the constitutionality of the Missou-
ri-capital. punishraent statutes, A
majority ‘of justices of the United
States, Supreme Court, however,
refused -to consider an appeal on
‘the ‘point. Meadows, former night
watchman at the Buckingham An-

or] nex: Hotel, where seven lives were

lost in a fire in 1927, recelved an
additional stay yesterday untll Feb.
17,. pending appeal of. the death
sentence of . Ralph Pierson, . con-
victedjof murder In the hotel! fire.
4, ‘Robbery Motive Shown. : :
In‘ convicting .White of the mur-
der of Hollis,. the ‘State showed a
robbery motive. ‘Hollis’ body, bad-
ly.torn with a hatchet, was found
two days:after the murder, On

White appeared at. several, places
wearing’. a suit recognized. as’ be-

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took a notion té work.”
Only two: mon reported this
morning at the shaft of the Caps
ito! mine of the Peabody Coal Co.,
where more than 400 protesting
miners gathered: last evening : ‘and
warned 45. fellow workers doing
cleanup ,.work not to:return. (Not
a single’ miner: passed the pickets
around Peerless ‘No. 69 and. Cora
No. 61,.also Peabody mines, jand
all operations were halted ee
rarily, A

Seven locals of: the subdistrict
here were reported to have voted
last night against ‘returning to
wor).

As the new wage scale became
effentive yesterday, 3000 men went
to work in: the mines to prepare
them for operations. Many of the
big operators havo announced dates
for the resumption of mining. |
When tho mines are again work-
ing at capacity it was expected by
marly business leaders’ that more
than 125,000 persons in allied in-
dustries would receive employment.
Petitions were placed.in circula-
tion _,for a state convention. at
which an effort was to be made to
abrozaty the contract; a mass
meeting for protesting miners was
announced for Sunday at Benld.

Ed Mabie, one of the protesting
leaders here, announced that all
mines operating in the
would be picketed.

Jerry Allard, representing ait coal
miners’ local unions in the Harris-
burg section, was cut off the air
quickly by radio page Be are
yesterday just after | had
launched Into a Be ital * Leegicte
on union. officers ;who mipporter
the $5 agreement. |
John L.: Lewis, president of the
United Mine Workers of America,
moved today to check opposition to
the new contract. He issued’ a
proclamation warning that “picket.
ing and mass meeting must cease,”
and that opposition leaders will be
penalized.

The proclamation, sont by tele-
gram to locals. in..Springfleld; Gil-
lespie and other centers where
miners have voted not to return to
the tipples, was {!ssued soon |after
officers of the Peabody Coal Co.
Woodside mine, four miles, south
of Springficld, requested protec-
tlon fgom Sheriff Sam _ Metcalf
against possible disturbances by
crowds gathering around the prop-
erty. A groug of miners had gone
down the shaft this. morning to
continue cleanup work in prepara-
tlon for resumption of digging... |

The miners’ headquarters issued
a statement saying several mines
were hoisting coal. It was said vir-
tually all the mines in the Baie.
ville district were at work, d+.

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longing. to Hollis.
he obtained a $1 loan on Hollis’
watch, which had a piece of torn
chain hanging to it | The other
Hollis’ clothing when the.body was
found. /

White said he struck in ‘deltades
fense when © Hollis attacked: him
with the hatchet. He said they
had quarreled é6ver money; which
Hollis sald he owed ‘for whisky.
The ‘killing’ took place jn Hollis’

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piece of the chain was attached to’

room at: 2641. Pine boulevard, 7°".

BOTS Tg WU gbarere bee Sere wee

day by Mts,’ Russell H: Ogle; 1060
Washington avenue, Her petition
sthtes she wan seated in box No.
52 of the grand stand when the
pall, hit by Lester | Bell, former
third baseman ‘of’ the Cardirtals,
atruck her in the face, knocking
out several teeth, lacerating her
skin and disfiguring her,

Mrs. Ogle names’ the 8t. Louts
National Baseball Club” and Bell
as’ defendants in the action,, alleg-
ding that the ball was hit‘in a man-
ner 80 as to cause it to veer. from
the bat and strike plaintiff; fur-
ther the defendants failed to warn
her of the approach of the ball or
to protect her In any manner from
being struck. Mra. Ogle explained
to a reporter that since the acct-
dent she: has’ delayed filing suit
pending negotlations of a proposed
settlemént of her claim. »

JOBLESS MAN FOUND SHOT
DEAD WITH RIFLE BESIDE HIM

Charles Mueller, 51, Despondent,
Widow Says; Five Chil-
‘dren Survive.

Charles Mueller, 51 years'old, an
unemployed wood finisher, was
found today in the basement of his
home, 1946 Warren,street, with a
bullet wound in his chest, of which
he died on the way to the hospital,
A rifle, which had been reloaded
rafter being. fired, was at his side.
His wife told| police he had been
out of work two years and was de-
spondent, She sald she: had left
him in the basement to hang out a
washing and returned to see him
stagger and hear him say, “I’m

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the Wasson House now stand

-. the most conspicuous participant.

and upon his refusal to fight, w

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"what, or whether for any provocation is unknow

the back of the head or neck, either with his

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penitentiary for tea years.

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HISTORY OF RAY COUNTY.

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ds, and

Adams, it is said, followed after Whit

“fight it out,” while the latter, professing

ge, told his pursuer to keep away from

aceite

Adams seventeen times,
g his death almost instanti;
The deed. was committed in the presence of citizens,
cide kept at bay, flourishing his w
who should dare to approach him.
and helpless Adams, till a gentieman from the crowd struck
back of the neck with a large rock, at which he rose With all
an infuriated demon, and demanded to know who struck hi
responded. Brandishing his bloody we
and threats,

d«

whom the homi-
eapon and threatening violence to any
He continued to stab the prostrate

him on the

the rage of :

Mm}. no one.

apon in the air, and uttering oaths
he defied arrest, till the intrepid Alexander Harwood, who
carried a sword-cane, stepped in front of him,

commanded him to surrender, or be - pierce
..Then, for the first time, White seemed to realize the enormity
had done, and was seized by the passion of fear. Tre
_ Muscle, the butcher-knife fell from his nerveless. han
- Submitted to arrest.
“White was a shoe maker and lived in El!
residing in*thd neighborhood of that vill
a fight.at Elkhorn, and in the br
On the eveniny of: the homicide, both men had been in
throughout the day.
that they should
avoid further difficulty, but re
nity to gain an advanta
did not wish to “fight.” | ;
White was tried, condemned and h
_ execution in Ray county.

with weapon drawn, and
d through and through.

of what he

mbling in every

he quietly

Khorn; Adams was a farmer,
age. They had previously had
east of each rankled the spirit of revence.

Richmond |
€, insisting
a desire to

ally, it was believed, watching an opportu-

him, as he

anged; and this was the last legal |

1e streets of Richmond about the year
A quarrel arose in a crowd near where
S,in which a rough, named Tanner, was
He was, however, a notorious coward,
hen a braver man than he, at last, oftered
and began jeciiug him; he then
retreated, followed by the party, among whom were James Robinson and
William Balser, the former preceding the latter in the pursuit. Balser, for
n, struck Robinson about
s fist or open hand; whereupon
stabbing him but once in the

‘course of

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By SCOTT CHARTON
The Associated Press

POTOSI (AP) — U.S. Supreme Court
Justice Harry A. Blackmun denied Mis-
souri's request Tuesday night to lift a stay
of execution for two-time killer Doyle
Williams hours before he was scheduled to
dic.

Blackmun’s denial came shortly after the
8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected
the request without comment on a 6-3
votc.

Prison spokesman Dale Rilcy said prepa-
rations for the execution were delayed in-
definitely.

Prison officials, anticipating the stay, had
planned to reschedule Doyle's exccution
for 8 p.m. Wednesday. But the attorney
gencral’s office said Blackmun's quick de-
nial climinated the chance for an exccution
at any time Wednesday. Mary Jenkins, a
spokeswoman for the office, said Wil-
liams’ case would resume with his appeal
pending in federal court.

Earlicr, Gov. John Ashcroft rejected an
appeal from death-penalty foes for clemen-
cy, saying there wasn't cnough evidence to
warrant sparing Williams, 43, from tcthal
injection at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday.

The far-flung judges of the St. Louis-

death row ‘holding pattern’

based 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
had agreed to review the casc after a
three-judge pancl on Tucsday voted 2-1 to
reject the state’s request to sct aside the
stay.

Court spokesman Michacl Gans said the
appeals judges were at locations through-
out the seven-state circuit, and had re-

_ ccived files on the case by fax.

Ashcroft had referred Friday's clemency

request from death-penalty focs to the state

Board of Probation and Parole. The board
"*dctermincd there docs not exist sufficient
evidence in the application or record to
wartant a repricve or commutation,”’ said
Ashcroft's spokesman, Bob Ferguson.

The governor, who supports capital pun-
ishment, ‘has accepted the board's recom-
mendation and docs not intend to
interfere’? with the execution, Ferguson
said.

Missouri has executed five people since
January 1989, when it resumed carrying
out death penaltics. There are 71 men and
one woman awaiting exccution in the state.

Nationally, 144 people have been put to
death since the Supreme Court ruled in
1976 that states could again use capital
punishment. Missouri Icgalized the death
penalty in 1977. ,

A défense appeal to spare Williams was
rejected Saturday by Associate Justice

Harry Blackmun of the U.S. Supreme
Court. The Supreme Court declined in late
February to review Williams’ case. He has
exhausted state appeals.

Rilcy said news of the delays had Wil-
liams ‘‘in an uplifted mood.”

But John Baker, spokesman for the Mis-
souri attorncy general, said, ‘‘This is a sit-
uation where a convicted murderer is using
repetitive appeals to cleg the courts and
dodge the verdict.”

The state pushed to set aside a stay of cx-
ccution issued Monday night by U.S. Dis-
trict Judge D. Brook Bartlett of Kansas
City.

Bartlett said after a four-hour hearing
that some of Williams’ arguments might
be ‘substantial’’ cnough to stop the exc-
cution.

Defense attorney Charles German con-
tended that Williams got ineffective assis-
tance from his trial attorney, and that the
trial jury got illegal instructions from the
judge before it deliberated.

in a bricf order issuing the open-ended
stay, Bartlett wrote that Williams had
raised seven claims of constitutional errors
in his trial.

“Rascd on the record presented and the
written and oral arguments of counsel, |

-cannot say that all claims presented arc

frivolous. One or more claims, if granted,

are substantial cnough to warrant rclicf,"’
the judge wrote.

Williams was to dic for the 1980 drown-
ing death of Kerry Brummcett of Callaway
County. Authoritics said Brummett, 28,
was drowned wearing handcuffs becausc
Williams didn’t want him to testify about
anc ther slaying.

He received a 50-year sentence for the
shooting death of A.H. Domann, a 68-
year-old physician from Auxvasse, Mo.,
who was to testify against Williams in a
forged-prescription case. Brummett had
been expected to testify about the Domann
slaying.

Williams was visited Tuesday in his iso-
lation cell by his fiance, his mother and
steplather, his sistcr, an aunt and a nicce.

‘The condemned man also sclectcd the
menu for his last meal — shrimp and lob-
ster, salad with Thousand Island dressing,
strawberry shortcake with whipped crcam
and iced tca.

During a decade on Missouri's death
row, Rilcy said, Williams became a
‘jailhouse lawyer,” spending hours redd-
ing law books and helping other inmales
craft legal papers. Bee

‘The last Missouri inthate to be pul?
death was Gcorge Gilmore, who’ was ¢ CS

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Missouri Executes Inmate
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broadcast or otherwise distributed without the prior written authority
of the Associated Press.

Missouri Executes Inmate

POTOSI, Mo. (AP) -- An inmate was executed by injection early today
for killing a man in 1980 to stop him from testifying about the theft
of blank prescription pads from a doctor's office.

Doyle Williams, 48, died at 12:36 a.m. at the state’s maximum
security prison near this southeastern Missouri town.

.The U.S. Supreme Court rejected his last appeal without comment.

As the dosage was being administered, Williams blew a kiss to three
friends watching through thick glass.

His last words were, "Tell Judge Fagg, ‘You murdered an innocent man
today,"’ said Corrections Department spokesman Tim Kniest.

George Fagg, a judge on the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St.
Louis, wrote the majority opinion that denied Williams’ stay of
execution on Tuesday, and cast a dissenting vote in the appellate
court’s decision to grant a stay last month. Fagg declined to comment
today on Williams’ remarks. |

Williams also urged one of his lawyers, Cheryl Rafert, "Try to smile
more. Try to enjoy life. It’s very precious.”

Williams was charged in the burglary of a doctor’s office in
Auxvasse, about 25 miles from Columbia, in April 1980 after he was
caught trying to get drugs at a pharmacy with a forged prescription.

After being released pending a trial, Williams killed Dr. A.H.
Domann to keep him from testifying about the forged prescriptions.

He also killed Kerry Brummett, a co-defendant’s roommate who had
seen the blank prescription pads and could have tied Williams to the
burglary.

Williams was executed for killing Brummett and got a life sentence
for killing Domann.

Prosecutors said Williams and an accomplice lured Brummett to a
remote spot along the Missouri River, cuffed his hands behind his back
and beat him. Brummett drowned trying to escape.

Williams acknowledged beating Brummett but denied any intent to kill
him. :

Williams was on death row longer than all but one of Missouri’s 93
condemned inmates. He earned a reputation as something of a jailhouse
lawyer, getting his own execution stayed at least four times and
helping other inmates with appeals.

Missouri Attorney General Jay Nixon called Williams “a poster child
for delay in the court system."


Missouri Inmate Is Executed for 1980 Killing After a Burglary

POTOSI, Mo., April 10 (AP) —
An inmate was executed by injec-
tion today for killing a man in 1980
to stop him from testifying about
the theft of blank prescription pads
from a doctor’s office.

Doyle Williams, 48, died at 12:36
A.M. at the state’s maximum secu-
rity prison near this southeastern
Missouri town.

The United States Supreme
Court rejected his last appeal with-
out comment.

As the dosage was being admin-
istered, Mr. Williams blew a kiss to
three friends watching through

thick glass.
His last words were, ‘‘Tell Judge
Fagg, ‘You murdered an innocent

‘man today,’”’ said Tim Kniest, a

spokesman for the Corrections De-
partment.

Judge George Fagg of the United
States Court of Appeals for the
Eighth Circuit, in St. Louis, wrote
the majority opinion that denied
Mr. Williams’s stay of execution on
Tuesday, and cast a dissenting vote
in the court’s decision to grant a
stay last month. Judge Fagg de-
clined to comment today on Mr.

Williams’s remarks.

Mr. Williams was charged in the
burglary of a doctor’s office in Aux-
vasse, about 90 miles west of St.
Louis, in April 1980 after he was
caught trying to get drugs at a
pharmacy with a forged prescrip-
tion.

After being released pending a
trial, Mr. Williams killed Dr. A. H.
Domann to keep him from testify-
ing about the forged prescriptions.

He also killed Kerry Brummett,
a co-defendant’s roommate who
had seen the blank prescription

pads and could have tied Mr. Wil-
liams to the burglary.

Mr. Williams was executed for
killing Mr. Brummett and got a life
sentence for killing Dr. Domann.

Prosecutors said Mr. Williams
and an accomplice had lured Mr.
Brummett to a remote spot along
the Missouri River, cuffed his
hands behind his back and beat
him. Mr. Brummett drowned try-
ing to escape.

Mr. Williams acknowledged
beating Mr. Brummett but denied
any intent to kill him.

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“ 322 HISTORY OF SOUTHEAST MISSOURI.

ater all that part of Lorance Township south of the road run-
ning from Greenville to Jackson was made a new township by a
the name of Liberty. In May, 1848, the county court appointed ‘eg
to divide the county into municipal townships was composed of 3
Snider, John M. Johnson and W. W. Horrell. They formed
eleven townships: Lorance, Clubb, Union, German, Liberty,
Hubble, Cape Girardeau, Randol, Shawnee, Byrd and Apple Creek,
\put three years later Bollinger County was organized, and the
first four and a part of the fifth were cut off. The townships
rganized since have been White Water, in 1852;Welch, in 1856,
and Kinder in 1872.

In August, 1837, the county court decided to build a new
courthouse, and Edward Criddle, Nathan Vanhorn, Ralph
« Guild and Ebenezer Flinn were appointed commissioners to
superintend its erection. It was built of brick and stone, forty-
five feet square, two stories high with a cupola. It was occupied
ntil 1870, when it was destroyed by fire. In November of that
year the county court appropriated $25,000 for the building of.
the present handsome brick structure, which was erected by
John Lansmann, of Cape Girardeau. The architect was E. D.
Baldwin. : Meee

The jail built in 1819 was used by the county until 1849,

when a stone structure two stories high and twenty feet square

was erected upon the public square west of the courthouse.
William McGuire was the superintendent, and Jacob Kneibert,

the contractor. This building was so badly constructed that ten

N years later it was torn down, and the present brick jail erected.
Criminal Record.—The criminal record of Cape Girardeau

County is a creditable one. During a period of nearly a century

\ “only three persons have been executed in the county. One of
these was a slave, and another was brought from an adjoining
ounty. The first conviction on a capital charge occurred in

_ 1828. The case came from Scott County on a change of venue,
XQ and was that of the State against Pressly Morris for the killing

\ of Zach Wylie. The homicide was committed at a public sale at
elso’s. Morris was a blacksmith, and some tools used in black- j

smithing were up for sale, when Wylie said to him, “ Buy them F
and they will make a full set with those you stole in Illinois.”

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HISTORY OF SOUTHEAST MISSOURI. 823

Morris resented the insult, and during the altercation stabbed
Wylie, inflicting a fatal wound. Morris was tried, convicted and
hanged. The exeoution took place in Jackson just east of the
cemetery, and was witnessed by an immense crowd. Public
opinion was against the sentence of the court, which was con-
sidered too severe. The offense had been committed in the heat
of passion, and under great provocation. Wylie was of good
family and well educated, but was a dissipated and quarrelsome
young man, while Morris was a quiet, industrious mechanic.

At the December term of the circuit court in 1832, an indict-
ment was found against Isaac Whitson for the murder of John
M. Daniel. He was convicted, and was hanged on the 30th of
January, 1833. On the day on which the murder was committed,
Whitson and Daniel had been drinking at a saloon in Jackson,
and at night started for home together. Whitson was carrying
a gun. The next morning the body of Daniel was found about a
mile from town, with a bullet in it. Suspicion at once fell upon
Whitson as the murderer, and he was arrested. The evidence
against him was mainly eircumstantial, but it was deemed con-
clusive.

The only other execution was that of a slave, who had killed
another slave with an ax. a

A case which created great interest came from Madison
County on achange of venue. On February 1, 1834, Valentine
Heifner shot and killed Peter Chevalier, in the town of Fred-
ericktown. He was arrested and brought to Jackson for trial.
The case was ably managed on both sides. The attorneys for
the defense were John Scott and N. W. Watkins. The prosecu-
tion was conducted by Circuit Attorney Greer W. Davis, assisted
by Johnson Renney. They were the four ablest lawyers in
Southeast Missouri at that time. The jury returned a verdict of
manslaughter, and the penalty was fixed at thirty days’ imprison-
ment and $300 fine. A new trial was secured with the same re-
sult, except that the imprisonment was increased to three months.

In 1831 there occurred two murders, which were not investi-
aes by the courts. They are closely connected with the his-
. y of the family of John Dunn, Sr., which has in itself all the

sments of atragedy. John Dunn, Sr., was an early settler, and


POTOSI, Mo (Reuter) - A convicted double murderer who built a reputation
as a top ‘‘jail house lawyer’’ was executed Wednesday after the U.S. Supreme
Court lifted a stay of execution, a Missouri prison spokesman said.

Doyle Williams, 48, had filed hundreds of legal briefs for himself and
other convicts during the more than 14 years he spent on death row, media
reports said.

Williams was administered a lethal injection at the Potosi Correctional
Center and was pronounced dead at 12:36 a.m. CST , said Tim Kniest, a
spokesman for the Missouri Department of Corrections.

Williams was sentenced to death after being convicted of murdering a
doctor whose office he burglarized in 1980, and of killing a potential
witness.

The U.S. Supreme Court voted 5-4 Tuesday to lift a stay of execution
ordered last week by a St. Louis federal appeals court.

In a4 final statement, Williams maintained his innocence and expressed his
love for his family.

‘Try to smile more, try to enjoy life. It’s very precious,'’ Kniest
quoted Williams as telling a lawyer who helped represent him.

Williams’ last meal consisted of catfish, baked potato, corn and
strawberry shortcake.

At least 17 people, both supporters and opponents of capital punishment,
demonstrated outside the correctional center in the hours leading up to
Williams’ death.

Williams had been the second longest-serving inmate on Missouri’s death
row. He was the second person to be executed in Missouri in 1996 and the 19th
since the state resumed executions in 1989.

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Mo. Execution For 1980 Killing

POTOSI, Mo. (AP) -- An inmate was executed by injection early
Wednesday for killing a man in 1980 to keep him from testifying about a
burglary at a doctor's office.

Doyle Williams, 48, who had also killed another man in connection
with the burglary, died shortly after 12:30 a.m. at the state’s maximum
security prison near this southeastern Missouri town.

The U.S. Supreme Court rejected his last appeal without comment.

Williams had stolen items including blank prescription pads from the
doctor’s office in Auxvasse, about 25 miles from Columbia, in April
1980. He was later charged in the burglary after trying to get drugs at
a pharmacy with a forged prescription.

After being released pending a trial, Williams killed Dr. A.H.
Domann to keep him from testifying about the forged prescriptions.

He also killed Kerry Brummett, a co-defendant’s roommate who had
seen the blank prescription pads and could have tied Williams to the
burglary. 3 .

Williams was executed for killing Brummett and got a life sentence
for killing Domann. |

Prosecutors said Williams and an accomplice lured Brummett to a
remote spot along the Missouri River, cuffed his hands behind his back
and beat him. Brummett drowned trying to escape.

Williams acknowledged beating Brummett but denied any intent to kill
him,
Williams had earned a reputation as something of a jailhouse lawyer,
helping other inmates with appeals. His own execution was stayed at
least four times.

In the latest, the 8th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals agreed with

Williams’ claim that his trial attorney failed to adequately represent
him. : |

DOYLE WILLIAMS : Page |

MISSOURI EXECUTION ALERT

WHEN: 4/10/96, 12:01 a.m. (protest events Tues. 4/9)
IMPORTANT ASPECTS:

PROPORTIONALITY OF SENTENCE: The evidence against Doyle Williams, who got death, comes from an alleged
accomplice who gained his freedom by pointing the finger at Williams. Is that justice?

QUESTIONS OF ACTUAL GUILT: The victim had been handcuffed but escaped, into a river and drowned. His death was
awful but appears unintended; death penalty is reserved for intended, cold-blooded, heinous murder.

OTHER: Williams has developed considerable legal skills and has helped many other inmates: he has not been violent & wants
to be productive.

WHAT YOU CAN DO on or before Tuesday, April 9:
Please join us:

Call or write Governor Mel Carnahan

to ask him to commute the sentence:

573/751-3222 or -2960

fax 573/751-1495 or -4458

State Capitol, Box 720, Jefferson City, MO 65101.

[f possible, join a candlelight vigil Tuesday, April 9, outside the prison at Potosi, 11:00-12:01: near the front gate of the Potosi
Correctional Facility,

Highway O, just east of Highway 8, south off Hwy 21, or I-55 to Hwy 67 south to Hwy 8 west.
WILL BE CANCELLED IN CASE OF AN UNCHALLENGED STAY OF EXECUTION OR A COMMUTATION.
For update call EMCADP 314-241-8062, or 314-725-7527 or 314-516-6864.

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Subject: Execution in Missouri

MISSOURI EXECUTES INMATE FOR 1980 KILLING

POTOSI, Mo. -- An inmate was executed by injection early Wednesday for
killing a man in 1980 to keep him from testifying about a burglary at

a doctor's office. Doyle Williams, 48, who had also killed another man
in connection with the burglary, died shortly after 12:30 a.m. at the
the state's maximum security prison near this southeastern Missouri towrl.

The U.S. Supreme Court rejected his last appeal without comment.
Williams had stolen items including blank prescription pads from the
doctor's office in Auxvasse, about 25 miles from Columbia, in April
1980. He was later charged in the ‘burglary after trying to get drugs
at a pharmacy with a forged prescription.

After being released pending a trial, Williams killed Dr. A.H. Domann
to keep him from testifying about the forged prescriptions. He also
killed Kerry Brummett, a co-defendant's roommate who had seen the
blank prescription pads and could have tied Williams to the burglary.
Williams was executed for killing Brummett and got a life sentence for
killing Domann.

Prosecutors said Williams and an accomplice lured Brummett to a remote
spot along the Missouri River, cuffed his hands behind his back and
beat him. Brummett drowned trying to escape. Williams acknowledged
beating Brummett but denied any intent to kill him.

Williams had earned a reputation as something of a jailhouse lawyer,
helping other inmates with appeals. His own execution was stayed at
least 4 times. In the latest, the 8th Circuit of Appeals agreed with
Williams! claim that his trial attorney failed to adequately represent
him. [The Associated Press, April 10, 1996]


Bits ° : ~< bid in ee ¢ * € Tr é
hour after he was struck, and at about the same time Wilson was taken to the Third fs

District: Police Station, having been arrested almost immediately after. the occurrence _ ’
while endeavoring to escape from his pursuers, Wilson's clatim that he acted, in 5 ev
self-defense and that the mate was drawing a weapon upon him at the time he threw the two
missles at him was combated by ‘two witnesses, who testified that, at the time he was

struck, David was watching his men work, and Wilson crept stealthily up to within

a few feet of him and delivered the fatal blow, The deceased was, in dicted Dec,

5, 1882, and was brought to trial, after the usual continuances and convicted Dec.

23, 1883. A motion for a new trial-and a motion in arrest of judgment were overruled, and
April 26, 188), Wilson was sentenced to be hanged June 6, 188). The case was taken to the
Court of. Appeals, where the judgment of the Criminal Court was sustained, and later .

to the Supreme Court, where a decision unfavorable to the deceased was reached. Dec.

17,188), and the Sheriff ordered toc arry out the sentence of the Criminal Court on

the 15th day of eR iaiee 1886. " POST#DISPATCH, St, Louis, Mos, pthc alan (7/1~3.)

WILSON, hanged St. Louis, Mo,, 1-15-1886 - Continued,

me, and which’ I have not deserved. ‘They get off with six months or a day in jail, .

and I am here. I am perfectly reconciled to. my fate. I wish to say. to you Officer, te,

Taylor (addressing the officer who arrested him) that you are an honest man, You told the

truth in court, You are a square man, I have been well treated by the jailer and by the

Sheriff and his deputigs. I bid them, and you all, farewell,' Having finished. speaking,

Wilson turned to the Rv. Father Panken, who said to him quietly: 'Ask your Savior .

forgiveness of yoursins.' ‘I will,* the doomed man said with great earnestness, kissing

fervently the crucifix which the Father held to his lips. The preliminary details of

the execution were then rapidly attended to, Deputy Sheriff Fortin drew the black cap over

Wilson's head and Mr, Humphreys lowered the noose and placed it around his neck. His .

arms had been pinioned by Deputy Sheriff Guibor previous to the departure from the

jail, and when Deputy Sheriff Brennan had, finished the tying of his legs, all was in

readiness and at exactly -a quarter to 8 .o clock Deputies Coakley and Garner turned

the cleats aside, the string was cut and the body fell, For a moment it remained

motionless and then was eneated a scene of horror which chilled the blood of all who

beheld, it. Doctors Carson and Epstein of the Health Department were inattenance at

Wilson s side, each hhlding a wrist, when the violent contortions of the hanging

figure*shook them aside, and before they could regain their hold, the miserable

wretch, whose aciions showed that he was in full consciousness of all that was going

on, made frantic struggles to release himself, He kicked out violently, making fearful

efforts to burst asunder the cords which bound his legs together. They were too

firmly tied, however, and he desisted from this attempt and applied himself to an

effort to reach the rope with his hands, He was a powerful young man, and the

ineffectuah tying of the cords which bound his arms to his sides gave him an oppor-

tunity to use his strength such as, luckily, is seldom witnessed at an execution.

With a sudden jerk he flung his fight hand upwards. It fell short of its destination - the

rope which was encirclinghis neck so cruelly. It tried again, this time a slow,

steady effort in which it was clear that the dying man's object was to try whether

his muscular strength, applied gradually, would not succeed in bursting the pinion.

This failed, and then with another desperate convulsvie effort, in which the whole

power of the man seemed concentrated into the one struggling member, the right arm

shot up again, the hand this time reaching the neck, The fingers clutched wildly at

the rope, now touching it and now aimlessly clutching at the empty air. For some

seconds this lasted and then Dr. Epstein, with laudable presence of mind, raised his

hand, and seizing that of the dying man, drew it gently but firmly down, It rested

then quietly at his side and the terrible struggle for life was over, Ina few

moments the body settled downs; in 12 minutes all signs of life had departed and in 15 min-

utes after the drop fell the body was cut down and taken to the Morgue, ‘Wilson died

hard,' Dr. Epstein reported to the POST=DISPATCH reporter, 'For the first flinutes his

pulse was nominal, During the second and third minutes there was some sighh of its

weakening but it was still of normal frequency. It then began gradually to sink, and by

the tenth and eleventh minutes it was so very slow and feeble as to be almost im-

perceptible, In the twelfth minute it could not be felt. The man was dead,' At the

Morgue the post-mortem examination was made by Dr. Nidelet, who reported that Wilson's

neck was dislocated by the fall. tt is understaod that the body of the deceased

will be buried by the congregation of St. Elizabeth's Colored Catholic Churchesee
"WILSON'S CRIME,

"The crime for which Wilson suffered was the murder on Dec. 31, 1882, of William

David, the mate of the Fanny Tatum, Wilson's story of the homicide was published yes-=

terday and it agrees in most of the main facts with which the evidence upon which he

was convicted, the points of difference being those which proved fatal to the de-

fendant, In brief, Wilson had a disagreement with David while on the way up from

Cairo, Ill, and Wilson ran away from the boat while it was lying to at a point on

the Missouri shore, opposite Chester, Ill, A discrepancy exists between the testimony

which Wilson gave in his own behalf during the trial and his pulished statement, In

the latter he acknowledges that he deserted the boat, while in his testimony in the

Criminal Court he stated that he was put ashore by the matie and driven away.

visited the Fannie Tatum, demanded payment from the mate for the work he had done

before he left the boat, and finally flung two missles at David, on e of which struck him

on the head, felling him and knocking him insensible. The man died in about half an


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whereupon Wilson left'the boat at Chester and
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David :

being a rather old man; D

cursed him: and drove him

Charlies Smith was first mate .of the boat, but

avid took charge of
the men and ruled them with a rodof iron. On
the afternoon in question he was half drank
and very, abusiva. When Wilson: was driven
from the boat, he walked upthe levee toward
Cherry, .and on the way picked up
rovk, Dut did not use it. as the mate was fol-
lowing him closely. One of the witnesses tes-
tifted fhat he heard Wilson say “J will geteven
with youifit costs my life.® Half an hour later,
Wilson returned ta where the roustabouts

were handling freight-and it was observed |

that he had arock in each hand, and_ David,
Who waSin company with Captain William
Bruner, aleveeclerk, asked what he had in
his hand, and as he asked the question, Wilson
threw one of the rocks which struck David in
the side causing him to stagger and fall, and
as he did’'so Wilson thréw_ the second. whigh
struck David in the back of the head, fractur-
ing the skull and causing compression, of the
brain, David was picked up_unconcious, and

conveyed to the boat, from whence he was re-
“move

to the cer hospital, where he died at
10 o’elock that night. Wilson ran away after
throwing! the rocks and wos pointed out
to Officer Taylor. by the crowd: He was
under arrest and taken td the Third
district. police station.. The murdered mute
was 27 years old, and a regiden} at Cincinnati.
| | State Hanged,
NEVADA, Mo., Jan. 1D.Henry 8S; Stair
was hanged here to-day.’ He was visjted by
his father about 9 o'clock last night; after
which the son spent most of the time writing
until 4 q-m., wherl he went to sleep, . He
fIRGsfter which hd was shaved. Large crowds
of: people surged| through the stréets all
the morning, tamping between the jail and |
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Ww The negro’
manded bis pay éortwo days, amount- |

ashore. :

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LG dnd! pattook of a light break- |

auarréls:on this- account. The
theri:murder they had quarreled, and he
went to a lawyer and instructed him to insti.
tute: a. suit for divorce, paying him a fea
therefor. He then retnrned home and found
his wife out, and, following. discovered her |

a house of ill-repute. Ashe wentinghe ra

out, and, seizing abriek, he hurleditat her:
Though the missile did not hit her, she stum-
bled and fell on the sidewalk. | He then ryush-
oo Ep to her, drew his revolver. and shot her
dead as she lny prostrate. On his trial his evil
reputation: was shown up, how he had killed
his uncle and nearly killed another man ati
East Corondelet, besides several other rough
escapades. There was nosympathy for him,
and thefdeath ponalty was assessed against
him. His attorney, FE. L. ‘Thomas, has done all
possible to save him from the gallows,but with-
out avail. Merriman’s father was a thrifty and
wealthy negro farmer, in Monroe county, and
at one time was worth ¥20,000, but his whole
wealth has been exbansted in defending his
errng soninthe murderous scrapes he has
beenin, and now ho is tha poorestnegro in
southern Illinois. A brother-in-law of the
condemned called tosce him yesterday, and
after coming out of the eet}he remarked to

the sheriff thatit was tough tohave Noah
hanged.

morning oO

ANOTHER ACCOUNT.
Special Telegram to The Star

BELLEVILLE, Ill., Jan. 15.--Noah Merri-
man passéd the morning in the company of
bis Mpiritoal adviser. At 9:30 o'clock his
brother, after half an hour in
wild and passionate lamentation. bade
him good-bye, At 11:20, Merriman was
brought from his cell, supported by a deputy
sheriff and his priest preceded by the sheriff
and another deputy. Merriman was
hardly able to maintain his footing
on the ice in the court yard, but mounted the
gallows witha firm step. In reply to the

sheriffs question, “Have you any-
thing . to. say?” he replied, “Noth-,
ing at oll.” He — stepped lightly
upon the trap. The black cap and rope’

were adjusted whilst Merriman. with head
bowed but with a pleasa:.. smile on his face.:
As sheriff Ropuquett steppedidagck to spring
the trap, Merriman swayed f@F® moment and

chk etd eas ab Gon,

. Pntehiganl: heures | She: t

nS { tr @ss oO ‘ ny 2 ak gy Dei j Rok b.. anday as Ta) BIL yO £ actly wha

band? This “made: Mérrio ni ‘€ ini} I took two of' my) vestrymen to th:
nély' jealous, ‘and. they. ‘had: frequén

of the bishop, and when he appeare:
said: ‘Bishop, the Rev. >Dr. Jardin
and then turned away. ‘After sever:
of silence the bishop said ‘how.
then very bricfly stated the simple
as Iwas about to leave the bishoy
remember, Mr. Betts,! when at }
told me von feared such’ an end.’

‘Yes, bishop, I remember it pe:
stated to vou then that I feared so:
would be found dead at the foot o!
if the persecution continued.’ Nothi

was then said, and I left the bis!

dence.”

+ - - + + oe ~~ oe

CRIMINAL COURT NEW:

——

Two Men Given Heavy Senter

Failed to Agree.

In the case of Roscoe and Slatter
men who were found guilty of hig
berry, Judge White this morning ove
motion fora new trial, and senten
to ten years’ each in the penitent
arrest of judgment was afterward ;
the case of Slattery, as his case will
go to the supreme court.

Mollie Knapp plead not guilty to
ment charging her with keeping
house, and her case was set for.
nesday.

In the case af Brown & Newill, in
cealing in merchandise without a
plea of not guilty was entered, an
set for next Wednesday. This is
large number of indictments fou
our merchants by the grand jury.

In the case of Dr. Geo. E. Hey
has been on trial during the past tw
an indictment charging him with
himself while testifying in a civil ¢
Judge Worthen“the jury failed to a
case has gone over to the May term.
den giving $1,000 bond for his o

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Father's pac aes a er
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Bpeoial Telégram to The OP
Sr. Lovis, Mo., Jan: 15.—The. earne
and eloquent oration of Father Betta overt
body af Rev. Mr, Jardine: was one of t
chief topics of | ste yesterday. ‘Bis

35 ; notifed and |
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Thatthe

went. in
pa nea and. womanand
foré night ed formu

r ete Special mee ot Sgort - called.
-¢alic e, Nannetta Tr. were:
eted for murder in the first degrée by t

pA EF Ef sie «and .after a trial oceupying fo
owed 1 O05 the

op Robertson says that! the first-person w
ever told. him of Mr. Jardine’s chlorofor
habit. was, singularly eijough, My. Betts hit
self, early last ¢ gummer;; and then he used t!
30 reme: court and later that. fibun

the finding of the lower court, : expression: I should not _be sarprised if i

at ad.15 na the dntoaot elowe execution; | Teason of thig fe shonkd be found some mor
* ithe bake of the woman, Nannetta Osborn, a | ing lifeless reference: to the chlorofor

jury brought in a verdict of cuilt
beta were sentenced to be hanged on F
23: :'A atay of execution was grantac

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1 1) Yothe. pixth -exbeutio that, "has aul ; I met - the bistop. hte. secing | oie: of t
rtd ee on place in a ount andl it is ra. | vile caricatures| of Mr Jardine : r oresguied
(| CHES SI Been explated . ‘ the: colamns cr the Kpneas City Times
op oar Me 3 tary, add: aopot @ tho. conversation | ith, ‘him \T | said, ‘bishop, .
a “4 \" port ta tard be ‘ +s = things are kept ul) and the’man is th
Wy a deared, eThe AR a. inded it will ‘not’ Hrpried. ine in t
cB -}:} foo of: is>'@ honers” 8Or
if ; | mornizig.” 80 chlorofo1
tf sight | at all in my t Macon.’ | With:
‘Wi gard to “my. in th the ‘bishop I
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ia the pubjio school, and at i
emoved to Cineinsati, two
toed er had remained tn Irolaad,

Sere h'a death oevtrred when the rou was twelve
Zearecki’ At Cincionats be attended district schuol'
Batil, at Afcen years crane, be wae apprenticed to an
puree maker, Fort — yeare ue worked at sve

nelaees, and bore a good pépetetion. Fallin to
bad compury he was led to the perpetration of « lar
ceny, for whah he wavarresied, On tho preliminary
jnveetigation be browvht witnesacs to tostify to wip
geod ¢ eter enti.etanding, and this, with
bere ceacteshrensat ta the proof against him,

» release. f

Ne then felt diegraced and branded asathief; and |
et once, wlthout informing any }{ bis friends left fur |
Leoiryilie, then came tobt. Lott, rems ned here a |
mail, went thence to New Oricane, and stayed there
two mouths, thwn returned and spect about siz
mMosthe inst Louts, five of them in the Workhouse
on a charge of vagragcy, (Hos bustoeew whe that of |.
anespert ba-giar, Hctcljthief, Ar.) When released
he mage the tour of the Upper Minelsatppi toss. Paal
gua Neck, arriving af n0 Spring. ile was agen

n

Wega binily plac
te’ teed tbe fem %
sfterwara, The

«hed ep, bat diichargel ater a actention of three
Geys, Ho row revie'tedA incinnatt, and lelsurely par.
eucd bie peemiiar avccation there for suveral mouths,
TLbence he travelid with varied success, sujouraing in
nearly ¢very considerable city ta the Unio and Missle

eippl vaiicye, Fir about eight years his headquarters
were af@incinnati, tat some ase yuare agahe furmed *
Iermerent compections ip Se, Loufe,

While%n the furmer city, in 160,'0n the Th or 8b
of June, be wae arrested on acspiciun of the murder
of Proivesc@ Crowlry, who. was be mornidy found
beaten aud fatally stabbed, ona bridge. There belng
po piect sgatcet Lim the d@eodant was at once dis
chateed ; fit war coon aAferwardes re-arseated for the |
crime aid again discharged. A third time he was ar-
rerted, at Chicazo, ae ao fugitive, acted op examination
wae orce ote re'vaeed, He was at ise. taken Jo
custody @ fourth time on the fame charg’, and the

raf wae deemed sam cient to warrant a trial, After
yirg in jatietxs mothe be'was sudtecly afsin xct
at i lerty—the praorecetley attorney Andina thy@ase |
Wo there Wileon dec ines sayy aug liiug aa to bis |
eareripnecenee inthe matter,
aluthissrd ethiother cittes veeldes those nam:d, |

bg yoy Man has repos ¢ aed
ate ateadily reeidiig av ye 4
tQimore, Asto this afair, be
thedurem making any fement, busoo
titer fret coneulung with bie partner In
eph Byrucs, the condemued taau narrated |
dew: or

“Ptia heqa errested by tho US, Poles and piacad
inthe Miltary Prieon, aud wad letout on pdrale aad
qk comcities thal LT would leave theetty, | Ay parcls |

expyred ome Moway, the Yip of December, and) owas
etl. bp hewn am wae afcaid of being asain patina tie
M itary Privo, ‘
“Thatovesitg went Somotoe the hoaes at.Thlr-
tent) sod ( Ratahers ptreets, and was told thet two
A,B olicers had Leen there formezgnd wo [ etayed out
Blietght sad alept at a friend's hgoee in the lowerpart |
cfitectty, Ddenctosre to mention Lim, eirly
pest normita Lwint howe for my clotnees in ord.e t
A tkverty otonce, Joveph Byrate aud Pwent
7d legether and got there about seven o'clock, We
entered tits Thirteenth etrbet by the front door, aud |
Het from ihe rear, 6s wee sworn lo by « wi ness in |
Comt. At poun asl yot latgibe hall [saw ible man, |
Gimere, whom Ll bad never eeen before, First d |
thedzbt he might oe some Cue wookad bevn there ail
B&B gett. o
“AP Tenlered be etond tp and asked, Do you live
Terer’ [ toighim ‘yo,’ Hg jumped tuaards mo
eed la'd bishavc on my shetider and asid * 1 arreat
von.’ L stepped taek frou him end asked him |
*Whattor?’ and Le inetantly drew hia pistol and
, Peewentéd itemt wy face, Tthen pulied out my pletol
ard fired. Itwas a eelf-cocktog Allen's revolve,
The whe afair took place in a few seconds, As
oun a6 Le pjake Cfarreet [ yook kins fora policeman
but when be drew a pist.) the impression retarnes
Upon me that he was not. Liattouce wteppyd out into
the etrest aac felt sorry chough for the ecap?,and waa)
bave given cojsthipg to know that the ehot had not |
KUkahim. thou tthot under the ctréometancan |
|
'

eel ot

1 eheild stand no chance if J remained aud wae tyied
for murcer, and #0 FT ojeared out.”

It ia ecarely neceweqry Leroy ty estate that this ac
count materiaiy comfiets with that yfven by polica-
mee Gi)rore be’ure Jute death, which took p ace seve:
tal days afier the shooting. The officer's statement,
MOmuves, wae COnohaeMed by cther wilnerecs,

Wiircwte moetemptatic In dc Clarlag that Byrnes
had vo per whatever, ju the killing of gilmore.

The bioud-stained man trmaedintely left tha efty, |
traveled on foot te De suty, thence took the cures to

- ut urd City, and fiom thay plice went by steamboat
To Paducat, gliere be fel) fuswith a brother burgiar |

named Her Raker, phd bad Just deserted from,
Camo Beauregard, § * j
Baker had rote dollar, while Wileon hed Nfieak

the later dividea wit and both Then
roincd,to prosecute the
eur at leith letrned thata de fon and portrait
ct him had aprived at focah, frum dt, Louis, awd
he end Beker thircepon hid, Houwing thy blockade,
Ihcy orvcecd to Winule jaw ekiff, walked to @ polot
Cpporito ralihten, recrased the rivet. and thenes
tock a rteamboas to Evansville aud New Albany,

ia ** pal

and Pittshury, “On the second nigbt-after theirnee
iuto the hend&of the police, Only efx weoks bad
ClepeeAeince the fatal shooting, ,

An indictment was awening Lim, and he was sper
@ily arratguea for trial. Alber one or wo contenu
tices ftom teria to term of conrt, hiacass wasdia-
pore of ln a eloyle Cuy—thejary us lesitatlayly ron-
Carag & verdict of guilty of mourder in the feet

Cegree, For thte promytgeealtgredit ie dus notoniy |

to Cjreuit Attorney YouTiatre, Lut to the
geal of the Cjty Aujuracy| Mr. Lackland.
‘The condemacd filon bes thos far bore his fate wit
fliruces and cool « Weporsession, Donbiloss he he
for yeate felt that hie carces wan toward tha eceff iid
Lie is about Ove ieet _ bins inches higt, aud bas
large duik blue eyes, & rather broad retiring furvhead,
high cheek bones, aquilioe nose, brown hale, sunken
erd ee checks, aud dark brown moustache apd
beard on the chin, Hisconn onancy is indicative
Of intell'yence, quick perceptions, and poreistency
parnoss. In view of Im te death, ho declares {t
de cewyiction that this fate Le far better for him than
to havecontinued, ite ate en he would bave done,

poreeverl:

inalife efcrine, He bde becn assiduvnely attended

4 the Hla creuf Mercy qnd by Father Welby, of the
Maman Catholic Chtre 7

Heypily, Wileou's mother dled some threo years
eKo, and bie eleters ard-one brother are also spared

His only surviving
relative, by tood, te « brother tn Cincinnati, No

ii re ago, but heappeare not to reci

~—_ ne
Sed careful) retrdias from sc ualat icant an.
bich Jeclose bie fate moet
' sine im ihe jem Of his family. at pareiad
"  Gliauute Woe a WOCLLy cikines, a falsnial and dlegrees
, 4 i] : .

et on

| private dispatcpes reported it not easy to a-i! at (hat,

* | and able to constant variatiuc.

| quotation,

| bnytng, and par eelling

| peport @ fair deyree of activity, Money fur every

; nt ell the
4 | round jot

+ to tard pyelnst the suddgo fluctuations of thiut fickle

1 together, fi.

|
i]
|
|
They hartened by ratitvad tu Indianapolly, Crestliny |

geval, Naker betraydd Le partncr—-aa the laterfivere— |

‘tenance thems And i ie this class of oper? |
AL ipné, combined with J wcgutaaaen df tas eee Cote
 ¢

to pay interest, thé late regotiatipn ¢/ the N

loon of $900,100 to be paid im cof, aad the ghipmeant
to Europe of specie to pag for beads sent ta he f
converted, ell centering in a fow weeds, grouped.

an it were together, which has raised price of
coin, ard rot ag some claim, a permanent demand and!
scarcity of the article, Such @ combination of cir-
eumstances, accidental to a greet extent, may Gever
Coeur again, and there are cerialp)y po groutds for be-
lieving It possible again eocn, So that alterthe Marry,
tatters willeubeide, and resume thelr old grooves,
acd pare on quietly again, : '

Now, the coumgry seems to be very little affected by
this gold excitement in New York, except torush all
thelr goid there, and eell at the high dgeres, Bat
who cannot ece the result of this last part of the pro-
gramm? Hpecte will be rushed in torrente into Wall
street, ontil they have more than they know
what to do with, and down gore the price, | decawss
there le no botiom—no foundation for tha demand, Ib
joa bubble, an alrcasti¢, and must come dowa when
the wind which tnfistes bas escaped. Now we cor-
@jaily unite with the Now York papere in advising
evirybody who has gold, to send it immedia'ely to
Walle reet, aud ifthey can get it there before the
bubble bursts, they will get more for it than they will
be able to realize again ina twelve month, If ever.

The Cincinnati Gazelle of thia morning saya; .

The market fgr gold was rather tame today, with
more eellers tha buy: ra at the advanced figures, In
New. Yerk the price setled down to si prem., and

urdeven at & it wae not free, In our market the
backers bupybt at 7 pre m., and we heard of an order
for @10 O60 that was flied at 9. Ta.thy afternoon there
War & Gleporition on the part of some dealers to real-
fac, and it te duabtioal whether ap ump offer of 5 pfem
would have been declined. ‘(Qaotations are unscities,
The general buying
rate fur demand Treasury notes was 3 promium, Tae
Chamber of Commerce bad gaotations from New
York of 44 @5 prent,, bat{iprivate ad epatches ranged
froin ets 4. About 4 was the prevalent Aguro,
Ard the market war fceble, or rather nervons, at that,
Gur bankers are tiinid enoagh 1% Keepy some di
below New York, on both gould and Treasary n+
, There tog fair demand for maney, and bankers are
enoceeding tolerahly well in Gilling up thelt discount

lines, Hbatea.cf interest range from 4 to 10 per cent,
The Jatter figure is more corrent thaw heretufae,
but etule youd deal of bustoces ta dune at the inside

' The market for exchange drage at \Q'y diseoant
Few of tha deaiors paldover
 locuy, bilver ta frin at5 prem,

The notca of Raetern city banks are M41) nominally
Par, bat rovers! lending houses reinev them *y.
except ‘at a discount of \ —end the indication® are
thag will, within a day or two, bw reduced to thie all
round, g ow

’ ba | ‘
Crreaco—This mbreing’s Tribune Faye:
Hueiners at the banks fe tnerensing*and they now

legitimate part in abundast; and frat clase paper,
hove present offerings, mighths readily piseed

Vent. Toe general trade of the city wao
never more prosperous and noarly all our honses at
the clowe ofthe year will find the right elde of thelr
ledgers ehowivy a very eatlafaccory balance,

New Yorwexchange \¢ Io falr request: but the eap-
ply te fully@qoal to the demand, ‘The Vuyin prica
re houbce ls par; eclllog 'y premlam on
ur retail pome ardcn collections, « Bp
cent, peo miom te the Dyure,

Gold in New York waa reported at BND prem,
Hore it ruled at Hheetog and Seelling. The margin
Cetween peices in New Yor and hore la msintained

Taarket,

ee ee ee nee treme =

¢ ‘DAILY AT, LOUIS MARKET.

Tuvurvay, June 26, P, a.—There was rather a bet-
ter feeling in the general market to-day, and in seme
articles there wae ao {mprovement. Tobsoro was
Crmer, and there was a4 large break today, and lees
rejections, There was a e)ight improvement ia hetap,
and the market etcady, Flour dull, and price the
rame se yesterday, With alight receipts, wheat wae
frmer, thongh transactions wore email. Corn and
Cate were inactive ard lower. Nothing done in rye
ard barley, Whieky firm atthe advanced rates. I’ro
| Vielons cull, and bacon wasa shade lower, Lard un
charyed and market qaict. Tallowthe exame, Beans
in fw'r deraand. Hay dull, and nothing doing, Pota
tees in gocd demand at higher prides. Jides un-
chanyed, A-eslo of 34 balewolupiand Tongbewse cot
fon, qduted middiings, eold at %i¢e por th, *
| Groceries quiet, and prices unchanged, There is
coutiderable wenger Cflering, from recent recelpta from
Memphis, bot tt fa generally held above tho netlous
of buyers, ‘The rarge of the market Is from 7% to 00,
Molasece unchanged, at 35 to 40c, Rice dal) at 1340,
Coffee fim at 2 to%e, There te no yery briex de-
| mard for tho latter at thoee figures, People contione
; to wre enbatitutes, which diminishes the retail, and
Of course the whclusale demand for coffee,
= Phe rcculpte and sales on ‘Change t>day were as
fullowe;

RECEIPTR—Por the twenty-four hours, ending at
i ciclo re ay ry Ad le s har ' “"

‘Pee Hiven—6 bris 6; — »” brooma—6
beans +112 casks, 10 pkge 107 pos bacon—1T rent
Ler~ 2,404 hage corn--07% brie, 4% bag¢ flour-—6 pkge
frnit—%) bales hemp—371 hides—017 bales hay—00 tca,
r 10 brie, # kege lard---6 bele molassea—6,525 bags oate—
5 canke, 6 bre k-~47 hhde sager—1 bri tatlow-~33
poe iebecen— 800 bege wheat—s bigs wool—d0 brie

Par Rai.noav—7 dage heans—15 pkze bacapd.!
butter~ 65 brs cheese~Ga Lagn cnffenet2 bags rhe
1,023 brie flour—9 pige greaso—zy bides— care, 245
bales bay—37 pkye jard—Jis bags oate—15 do potstoes
~-14 do rye——17 bhda, 62 bze tobacco—706 bage wheat
19 reas wool—1.120 brie salt,

IOBACOO—The market was firmer to day for lays,

7

shipping, and leaf for
m, alge 0,3 ed steme hf 6 w anda tc
Bg cairns he

sales 1.00 bole at 7 c.
Burvsa~te rr) tea ibe
Wax e—Market heavy,

600 bbie at Figpai de

tern, clos att
ieee Eaves

te, |
mche W demrioed
7 $10 1065; Up since of ‘A J
( ‘The Tax Bild as
There were in all t

Conference, receded from +

through ite manage

bodied in 1Seir
monsly addpted b
Kponse ‘the follow
agaipet it; Messra:

the 8

‘he Chmumiseioner of Ini
receive aBalary.ot $4 000 pe,
Amor
the bill are the followlp

tothe trade as “ pea co
cente per ton; provided th
of lense for Coal londa mad
April, IMi9, the lesree ehall

‘obeccocayendish, plag,

evull, cigars, and emoking
with all the estema in, or
atems—~valned at more than
15 cents per pound; valued

Hincking tobacco,
In, Scents per poon
nuff manufactured o
demp, Of all descriptio

eo)

10 per 1,000, $3 per

eond; Walued at over €20
thousand, 4
On all cloth
favrice, of colton, wool or
fore tbe same bas been dyed

percentom ad valorem,
On and after October next

h articles

only tos
st of Jul

after the next,

acs gdh 2 :
/biexy, twenty cents per
rectified or mained P

old, red for sal

calyceland catUle under t

sale, Scents a bead, and en

year, 10 centa a head,
oo Steath rallroade ond steam!
‘¢ontam: > -dteirosds*-veip

of all receipte,
Foreign paceport, issued {
Bccretary of State, 63.
When annual é
the sum of €000
er cepntum upon thi
he income exceed
ccntum upon all over

above

tewcnty cen

first tep wo
Each polic

ment, by wha

pe 6 saa OF

any kin
agents, twenty-five cents,
The dog tax of $1 is atri

Jn computing the allow
articles manufactured exc!
exported, thefo shail be
the three per eentum duty

d rt
pe 7 from $18 90 8 m
Erte eae
ae Galen of 91 baled hacki

Hate,
Cussen—Firm at 4Q8K6, 4

from 16 of them.
mainder bepame a dubjest of comprornise a3 om-
olnt report, which was unani-

-named members voted

only awuits the President's approval °
to becoug: a law, and la to take effect on the Ist

the more iinpogtent amondments to

On wil mineral coals, ¢ cept nn are arate
and dust co

poy the tax,

menufaec ured of all descriptions, not including

ceeding A cente per pound, 10 cents
prepared with all the stems

tobacco ground ‘9 or

Cigars, valued at no$ over-65 per 1,000, $1 50
Ferd \housand ; valued at over §5 and
oussnd; valued at over

#10 and not Over $20 per 1,000, $2 50

and all textile or knittedfor felted
Gr prepased in any other manner, a duty of three

cent shall be pald on cotton,
Whenever a duty is imposed
removed for consumption or sale, it shall appl.
ro manufactured onan

levied upon any sales by judicial or executive
officers, making adctlon sales by virtue of a
judgment or decree of any court, nor to public

executors or administrato

The tax on watches and plano-fortes is stricken

out,
Onall bpined cattle exe teen months
season ont

fi hoge exceeding
tix months old, slaughtered for when the
number thus slanghtered exceeds 20

steam, and ferryboats, I'¢ p
eriag'’, three per centam ca the gross ameunt

hins, profit or income excved
ut not $10,000, aduty of three

$10,000, © duty of five pet

Any to.egrapbioc'dispatch or message when the
cpa Ge for the frat‘ten words docs not e

gne cent; when the charge forthe
6 exceeds twenty cen
of insurance, or

name the same shall be

by which insnran ce shall, oe wade or renewed.
Upon pro any desc:

et th H yoy fire, or by other peril
mado by an insusance company or it)

paid on eald articles, a drawback of five mills per
poued in all cases waar the dates imposed by

perieiy seme ga pales 80 bbie at & pe

D nHatnd E y~ th Fey A ES

Porn of ry Sanat a svar. AY
cur M tot and steady ; 64

Based or egies

q LLanp—Costivars in ceed Acend tira

: Ohio, aad 1Qite

Pased,

hapdred end fifteen
smendments to the Internal Revenue, or Tax
bill, the H@usec baving, through its Committee of

and the Sonate,
The re

enate, while in the

ral Revenue {s to
annum,

for all contracté
befora the Ist of

twist, fuecut and

tobacco prepared
made exclusively of
Ww) cents per pound,

at any suin not ex-
er pound,

conta per poun
not over

er thou:
per 1,000, ‘ 50 per

other materals, bo-
» printed, bleached,

» & tax of one-hall a
upon any article,

No duty fe to be

te.
gallon, No tax on

6, slaughtered for

any one
hodta three_per
er’ power ihen

Ms

centam, end toll

rom the office of the

firsh named aum, If.

three cents,
whether

out. ‘
‘Or pet pin L

oa fa aadition ta
shall have aoe

deok, ta

: Pacue? res Ors. Ganevinve,’

Caino aun ey The A

able packet em phi:

Tecbodl, | Lap peed rece

- pessenge

will jeave without fal)

above, and many others not f

er te well ksown ae-one of th

aficat, . / j

Juwe [tsse—We believe
00 bigh ae
The dune

e te

tn Great

conve

vy
stable joa
Journal, xh,

i]
casi

eon

Crncurma’ ’ River, Osree | :
dined Sy

came
five
ie wit is,

oy he

othe D


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TONLE 5 RIPE MOR PT

Ghe Hemorrat,
NUAT MORNING, JUNG 2, 1603,
ciTY NEWS.

For ‘Txiat.—One Geunye Melvine was yeeterday
alled by the Recorder, In default of bond o paw
o be tried for pilieri.g a doilar from a salcon (ill,

awe go

-
.

i
,
4

“¥
ety
* Da. Rovporrn Dorsnn will addrosa tse members of
+e Tenth Ward Emancipstion Club in the German;
‘aad Joseph Hodywan in the English language at 8
@ clock this (Friday,) cron, Pfaf'e North St,
Lie Exchange, Broadway, The public are reapect-
‘£. Dy invited to attend, f on
Frarrrvgs.—A elave woman and two slave children,
belonging to Gego. W. Wills, No 87 Pino stroet, end.
derly pieores from tbat citizen's residence abont
19 o'clock Welnee aymignt, and are: since missing,
woman was 2s to 3) yeare of age, and named Mary
Apa Wate The childron were Jul
and Wu, Harrison, aged 3 years,

Rareaten.—Rodert Haster, of Callawayecounty,
wee yeoterday rilemed from the (iratiyt etrevt
prison epon bis parole, to report.to the Provost Mar-
pbal General, :

Simeon Morrey, acitizen
for alleged gleloyalty, bag
Provost Marehal, ¥.

VU. &, Pouce ARassty.—lete nd Thomese McGee |
hive been arrceted and placegpin the Gratiot |
stiect prison, upon the charg» ofa. repblug for Jul,
Davie and the southern Cuntuderaay.

Wtillam Moore, an escaped prieoig fof war, was re-

ated by the UY 8. police, H@Pwas captured at

sland No 10, eent to Madison, Wi. and thenes to’ |
Camp Dougias, whene> be succeed @PM leaving withous |
leavs, He was fo: morily a backman'at Chicago,

'

lay aged 8 yours,

ledved a few days azo
yhoon A{etharged by the
ae i

Frao Prrsewtation ~—lhe North’ St, Louts Union |
Ata. ciety will present a national, ag to the North
Vreebgterian Chuych, (Rev, J aclean’s) coraer |
Eleventh and Chambers stroeth, Friday evening, the |

wiih, at eigbt o'clock, ‘
@ Agordial jovitatiot

ereby extentad tothe Rav. |
ertce Post, Nelvoa greon, Eliot, Porter, Ver-
non, Sith and oth@ JoyAbminteters, Tae various
Un on Ald Societies and our patrjotic friguds pen-
ezalh: are ieited to attond, .
by ccd #%: the Peceidgut,
resi | i

ALWE DB
Finer Missornt Stace Mrcitia.--This regiment, |
commaraed by that Wcoaplished ¢

}
|

UCK, Beeretary,

etal aud company “oMcors we netice the names of
mony espericnerd ail merltudons nich, andgbhat of
the Acuag
' wervge partieniar mettiog for hie many euldierly qaal- |

¢

iftcat Unilribg p teev-rance, abd strict atrention
feo gir Hy a reevnt elbett ty an that ho was
uo ry elected Caplata wony b, Whicle por
elt ee mirentiy qqatced tu Ol, having seen ac.

Live avivice ju Meaica, medides maby years of expure
{nee de watizenYudter, succ.seto the brave wen
ef the let M, 9. MY.

Cove Mi gieter, it wil be ween thatall dows slx months

O'd mat ty rep eicred and the Heenwe pad,

The} ¢ervee fs forthe current ye a which It ta ta-
hen out but owners of dogeare gilowed andl tre }
Sretot May next after the registering, to renew the
Paine,

» ‘The eket mast be kept on the neck of the dog, as
thet t« the only evidence the doy catchcrs have of ite
betrg iAered, * .
The City Marrhal ard hia depntica and the City Pes |

lice are reduutred to re tify alt persons having dose not

liceneed, wed report thefu to the City Megtater, and if |
bet ationded to within three days, 1) {¢ made the duty |}

Of the City Megteter io report such owners to the Kee |

cords im :

The wetlee will eoat ono do By, fa addition tothe |
Teer ia ng deste rg tora this sddit onal tot. |
, dar, gan dy eo by caliing at Moe ef City Register forth |
w th, and taming vot thr biconae,

s od “—- > 4

@Tns Boereysh Oris wha Curt of Mepis —Anong
Mee pectiiar As riliucique of tyle war developed bya |
Merge bearted Dumantiy apon (be tacvitabie suderings |
of the comprand battlefield, Pone have doue a taure
Seetel work, mor quietly ar thoroughly, than our
foaitg@ ‘itale-ren een rerqof mercy, hoaring upon j
their b a brveste the aick pnd the Wounded from |
the viewed hospital of Bed efilounp, with ite scanty |
. & eommodations ard terribld sarroaucings, to qalot
hemesin town and cor etry. here geativ bande aud |
b plig care misieter fy the/maiued and audaring |

rn. U '

or these the poble steamer City cf Momphia is par
dreelsnce now, ee 4n more peaceful times, one of ih)
Most euree elu) end exiensive. On her last trip trun
Viteterg Lacding she broaght down, tnelading a
beming tnken oo at reer over WH) alck and
wounced epldies, with @ mortally let of only three
fo ecvi mn Aaya, os

J @ yobtérday wag the ecene of b plassant
Hirtle ea: e boat-the purses and other em:
cee ta the occasion to present to Dr W. D,

jaome piece of piste,

|p aqitanntgers nilintintin + Stet © aie sta

| Emma; aleo the trreststably com'c Bon PeBar waa ad-
| mirable indeed, Tbe whole plece, in

| Yerfect harvyet of success, dno alike to the tndomi!t-

edocr and yentle- | .
nan, Col Joba Bo Gray, ts witho wid, the, DET UN, and tho amount of salary dlapensed greater,
fireos that bas boon réiaed in Lhe Siate, an agits » than te the case at any otber elmilar establishment In
hae
eynvent, hieate John W. Compton, de |

' low admirston fee charg 4, To those.cognizent of the,
) Imtnense amonnt of Isborand- expense: wheolutelydn-

* Doss. Dy reference to the advertisement of the |

} nificent afterpicce now being played to crowded hous-

| style of gorgecusne se which any other cetapilehment

| Work of art,

| rice, Meappearances, ee), etc, The whdle company

4 ty
ri Pg eae shi ss : jen
; ty a f MF iis i ‘
Ri ; 4 ig D
‘ Ro a; A heey, he
* Bei
ves
iv? ‘
it as .
j es hd
4 .@, pole we
: uo steoe sc or eames
— ry bed 7 Ff Massa, Mee that
officer, a husband and father, Daring thenlaht of the FLOUR—Market doll and anchanged. ‘ales a3 bole " : ’
oth mber last a robbe had Been Committed, ory fame. At O55; bbia Iowa wi! exira RIVER , TELLIC 4 a
} and the rocuce were « tscovered to be severalof Moll | at @8 45 delfvercd; 80 bbls double extra a 476, ana | oo’ manne) :
Iilecy's Gang" With othor polloamen he weat to her | 100 bbia choloe do at Q5. ‘
bonre to arrest them, but foundthemabsent. Hoe was WIHKAT—Tho receipts were small, and the market

left glone to await their return, and on thelr arrival

Notica.—The Mt. Vernon Chapter and Band

Sr, Lovis Tuxargr,—Porahontas haying been ro-
ecived with tremendous applause last nfght, will, by
general deeiro, be repaated to-night, The rendition of
the charecters by the Webb elsters, Yisece Ada and

The receipte of
flour, 68,495 bueh
burbela cote
barley,

fot of acting,
binging and dauclog, was a moet decided sucecsa The
performance,will commenca withthe two alstera in
the Proteany farco of “The Actress of A'l Work, To-
mcrrow ie pe last night of the dramatic ecason, when

will be performed “ The Ice Witch” and “ Pha Invist
be Princo. On Monday Mr. Robert Heller, the won-
derful preatidigttator :and plantst, takes p ssossion of
the bearde, appearing for afomnighte,

Vanietine Musto Hait.—This place fa reaping A

ing a scarcity of freight
raies of freight §

higher, About 4

tpring extrac—the balk

3 75 for fale to ork
There was a better

in the lower grades,

e energy, Mherality and bosiness tact of th .
BY y A lt ah Ya0 Hae} kinda changed hands at

wement, the eplendid routine of performance each
Litht given, end the unparalleled strenth and efticien-
cy cf tho company employed. It fs an established
{ak} xiyt the attaches of the Varieties ate more nu-

ft in at We for. No.2
qe.

i
Atperica. Tho present programme ie a fatr specimen

oflthe triltiant o'fos couetantly given to the citizens
of bt. Lours by Manager Deagle, in return for the very

od mikeu aftoat ; 264
foro d white in etore ;

| alepeneable In Conducting tho vast paraphernalla of
stgh an enterprise a» the Varioties, wo can safely re-
f.r ab witpeeses Of tho fact, that but few ho embark
In the’ hazardvus speculation over succeed. Those
who CO, fro precisely the kind of men uf whor, the
proprictor we have named, fea (alrrample, The mag-

mixed tn etore,

receipts
closed gel 4
8 oroand Wien

ce
wan ei hi at fbn

oat,
We,

es, could have heen put upon the etage at half the ex-
pepee which bas bien outiayed in the present Instance,
Lut thaye wasto be ro ball way work about it, and
copsequently the *Nondeseript™ ts produced fa a
There was ee
would have fated toefect, Be sare and eee tt,
fForomon's, Tevrtn—Wryean's Hatn.—Thie aftor-
nobn alec ure will be delivered opou thie magalfcont
Ave a number of our Babbath schools
Will he on band, every hody ts invited to attend, eliher
At 4 thie afternoon, Or ats thie crontng, ‘
Bowrny Trrarsnx axn Concent Hatt, No, 959
Broapway—A New Paowrawur ron To-Niaut.—
Amumg the many fine acts upon the biil for this eve-
ning ie the Burlesque Opera House Scone, in which
the inim table Boyce enacte the prima densa, Also
Kate Walters’ great Yankee farce of "Jonathan Doo
Niue,” in which Mire Walters appears as Baily, a talk
ative ¥ Kegetrl, Also the beaut'fnl duett called the
“Gipecg Countess,” by Saliie Mason and Mies Frank
“Chrietio. The cenclusion of this extraordinary pro-
irénime Will bu the comle pantomime of (he * Magic
Bex,” whierte replete with tricke, tuslone, myste-

The adviced (rom New
breadetct>, fovr baving

80 Te

al whieky manufac tired

Al SOGRSee. BSevent
—Clncinnalt Gaset

will append tn hla great pantomime,

COMMERCIAL.

lwINANCEAL MATTRESS.

‘
¢ ‘s

¢

vaneed to tc, and in

'
; tp tke, and tn avtive
Cy

a4 8 token bi tacir ertcem aud approbation. Baltahiv Miveeps ¥, June 27, Pp, M,—Thore waa no change in their ntmost capactt
sep leo made by the seme par:los to Mrs. | tne money market to-day, except the decline lil gold,
! je of cur beave boys by acte of wo | which waa oftercd at Oy @ cent. premlam, without
Ba! pe and attention. { ' buychs,, Exchange te steady at par selling and i <dis-
» * | conn} daying, ‘Not dolng tu defense warrants, |] 100 io
| 20 BS BANGED TO-DAY. and vpuchers are dul} at 07074. The dispatches in
Liki swt s, — 1M paar rel to gold for the last four or fivp days have quo,
; SRUTCM OF HIS LIPR. ted jabove the market 114 9 aint, aa the’
eas las PUSS New’ York papers of pS rot SGh fast,
yor ps , | ehow, For tostence, og: Monday
1 Ra Sa yee iv CINCINNATI. | game Weat thet enid wen! fis enemine: -

in cona quence was firmer, ey Oe

Mas siruck with a slung-ehot by Byrnes and ghot by | Sales 163 tags club private; 18 ,

Wilson, y net ated _ A ‘alae Te pabage co at 3 Ti@ haga fair at 885; 1299 bags
It {¢ profoundly to be hoped that the execution of | do at Hic; M0 do at 3 oat
iNemurderer will have tho salutary effect designed | #i@s8ec, ard 785 bags choice new and o| i a

by the law; and will lessen the weekly catalogue of CORN—Receipts small and none of coaseapeces
aseaults tpon human life in our city, ‘ was offered, The only sale reported wae of 835 bags

COT1UN—Balq 2 bales middilngs at Ke P fh.

CHICAGO GRAIN MARKET. .

profuse yor Ae braced 6,443 bhis
a wheat, 243,
, 6,193 bushels rye, and 1,632 bushels

y
The atterdance on ‘Change to-day, was food
basiness was brisk and livelp-the only drewback

otwithaytanding this, however,
under an active shipping and a fale speculative ihqul:
ry, the leading markets ruled active and higher.
There was quite an activo inquiry fur four, and the
Tarket wae briek gat crosed firmer, but oot quota
rf
at 84 (4005 123g FOP winter extras, and @1 wt fur

‘ring grades,

Gemacd for wheat, and we note

an improvement in the prices of

—the advance being more marked

About 130,000 bushels of
ly

Gere for amber Lowa; TojgQtve for No, 1 spring, and

TWULTeMe fer No. Qepring, At, the close market wae

eprivg—holders generally asking
”

Corn was alvo active, and we report a farther im-
Tovemeutos We per bushel on now, and jy ¢ per
uebel on old. Abont £50,000 bushele were sold at
Inge for od river white aftont; We for old river mized
ttloat; @s4Ze fog old Ligh mized afloat; ORMHgo for

Wc tor pew mixed afuat; Be

Vike GB ge for ole mixed in store; Wy
nixed fuRtore; Wy OBMofor old rejecced :
Rag wie for wew rejected: The markot- at the close
Whe very firm at 87K c fur old mixed, and we for new

Oate were in falr demand and active, bat the heavy
red the market casier, and prices
r, with dalea at By @Qec for No. lin
Hye wae quart, at 40¢, Harley

* The market for highwines fe again nnvettied hnd
quiteexcited, owing to the passags.of the tax bill,
beyerpotired We hoely; bat holdere asked Sc, ard
we have Du gules to report,
Frewvbtrom le very ecarce, and r
varced tally SG P bachel on grain
fonr Veerein were taken, at 18Xc for UM
ard (lOc for corn to Baffalo,
¢ inquiry for lard,
of 200 pkge printe city reudered
pork t+ cutirely peglected—city brand
at Q0 M210, withoot paorchasera.— 7¥pp

GINCINNATI MARK

andcom 142% per buebeh, Our marke
flour, but prices were uot higher,

wheat wae do good den
White was dull, Cur adyauced to |
attic Whleky advanced lot\e, A
was received today from New York

the place of manafacture By

ae ae

MARKKTS BY T
Citcinnati, Jane % P.M
Armly i the demand is

Gnain—Wheat firm at A0GAe for

tes mae

tay
busbels corn, 39,665

and
be
room and an advance in the

bi
of all jon charged hands

of the -eales beiug at $3 G0@

c per bushel
@ wie her than

a
Mt

HOjge for No 2 red winter

Ke for old yellow io atore;
te for new

atord,and

tea have ad-

an s note sales
caf pt Ic. Meese
being offsred

\

4

York are
advanced

qatt

apt

at

Yor Alton, ... vas DAVID TATUM,
Keokuk

of Hope, having been disappointed in thelr Plente on | marie, Gulivcrad bone 9 Ody bee in one hand at
Thursday, they postponed {t until Saturday, the 3th, | at K), Ootivers . and pont 1 : s,, in lots, al ,
and it will (ake place at Kirkwood, on the Pacific 1 1D Dew bege, rom tne levee. a. aie eee.
HaUroad, thetead of Ferguson Station, All those | Shi S- The only sale was of » small lot ef 830, 1% . Scited
that bave ticketa for Ferguson's will be aot for ate hoe a steady ond firm with salee ef |< poae as” a Te ee
’ ria. in lote, a . : pal P ; ” tap
tos All aro to be at a eee : vice . PRACON-~-The market’ chationes dall. {Bales w Xd Steamer Pra Lage ca
precisely, The megbere w J riported of 9 cke country ehoulders and bame at 1 wi ee For, Hacpe Moers pu
seven o'clock; a wound : 6 bxeclear sides at 43¢c; 22 bee de at 4X Ne Tie Vernos, Keokuk. ‘
; : Oe Te ereereand 15.060 he co, loosé, and 18 cke do tn lots, at Be. 2 a wy 7 " mn
Gotp rena manofactyted and ropotnted. Omice LARD~—Market quiet aud steady, Bales 19 pkgs a wi Mpdbotae. |
No, 61 Olive etreet, between Third and fourth, Ge. end A do at HXe per D, ” i ” oo Lorena,
P nf 8. HIGGINS TALLOW —Bale 19 pkgs prime at Tic. ! ‘ ape.
mL 25 tf C03 PP opmrey » W, . CRACKLINGS—100 cakes were Kold on privéte aia po be aie
A No, I Coal O1f, 2 conte per gallon, at Ridgley's nA 5. ‘ ' ‘ camer ee ,
gee loco, No. 64 North Third atrect, Je Im 132 nny hag 4 ag dna lage at doy * Tht favor, searenworth,
= orice, f . ” oung, '
T'uck, maker of Lamps and Lanterns, No. 54 Vine ; FHIPSTUPFB—100 baga were sold on private terms; "Silver Wave, *
ttreet, iNbie oe bags rites th me Dees, ¥ ert Ng
mening Boye cbt: 7
New etyle Coal Oll Taper Lapips at 7% Sonth Pith et, | Aint. plik Daria hanees pe aktieh idee “gEChampion, Teas. ree
oo ete cement |LOOPERAGE- Bale 144 whtwky barrels at $1—8 de- = er
AMUSKMENTS. «ine, an nalf fo at HOC eac pat "

The June Itiss af Hand—-Rivers, Business
ther— Boats Laid up, Repairing, Arriy
edand due=The City of Altotie- So.
demun of Northern Birth, b4,06 0
The rise o' Jane, or annual Jane ri¥é, fe Here ta Me.

{nfancy, At least, the river fs risipg, which has agt

been an unurual occurrence for some time past, Phe

ee Re ek ee 5 ales

Drift wood paseod all day yee yin quanth.

ties, all from the Missouri, without doubh, 2004).

The latest Misegiri river papers report

very high at Leavenworth and 8t, Jos:

The Keokuk packet, which comase yeeteriay mot
ing, reporte thé Upper Mlsalestpp! eiatag reply
Keokuk down, i Sd oe eh

Tho Llinols wad stationary, or falling slowly, Wh
the last boat care down, 2 weep awerie fb a

Tho weather is sultry and nnsettled, showers Gy
quently fF, and senbeams frequently ea

Enginess is ina drooping cordition, Within

Gaye past several large ang several ‘ .
been Inid op, Large onds ure being pat in pr
dition for the summer and fall trade to New
‘The ateamboat arrivals

a

fretgh hi
from Memphis, with
gor trip, and 9 large amount of { :
again this evening for Memphie. ;
Mill Boy, from Rochepor$, Misequrt river,
moarda down nearly to the Capt,
determined to lay up the boneet WR Bag for
or two, during which she will be repaired,
alorg the river to Reeheport, can’ do
thie boat and Bryan, ”
Belfast, from Upper Miesissippl, with
Capt, Carieton will discharge ben bogey

up for a wosk ortwo, © =) -

: zrod Lorene, from Galene ood Debpges,

trip, She will leave again today atdw, m.
Among tha dipertures we i the Bon!

lnmbos, witha falr t:

Belle Memphis,

ant

5 i A

Champion, for Te \
with a large lot ef caitie, Among river men thn
a dea) of dispute im regard to the pr oility
steamer geiting to her destination, We pant
will, The Tennessee fe in a pretty fale cond
a boat of the Champloa's elastiq’ '


[~~

June 27, 1862,

Wi L5ON, William

Un vune <7, 1862, William wilson was hanzed at
at. Louis, Missouri, for the murder of Police-
Man vsohn C, Gilmore,

SNCYCLOPsDIA OF sT. LO Ulsg HIsTOAY, Page 713,


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in ne) Engi

oe gy

ok:

;

,Fectea., Wileon hus Been apprieed of this
'

.

2 <<

.

0 Pl thelr eetoem and approlation, Saltadie
reesen' iy made by the same perties to Mre.

viter au Tladley—names egehrinet in the
hearte of th ousande of cur brave boys by acts of wo-
mat! and attentiog. ‘ 2

JL80N TO BE MANGED TO-DAY,

SUE pit 1B CUOarge, & HAnCaame pilee of pate,

SKETCH OF HIS LIFE.

wig + > .
of HIS ARRBST FOR ME RPHER IN CINCINNATI.

eoecnenpe 4 *
His Accenat of the Gilmore Marder,

| Willam Wileon, the murderer of Joha ©. Gilmore,

cupty jail. Not mach edort has, been mids to avert
delay bie fate, but more would probably Rave been
equally useless, He waa without oreans to hire aa
attorney, and had couns:! assigned him by Jutge
Chg The gniloman aslected was N, C. Clalborna,
Erg , who ,eriormed bis daty with unexceptionadie
at Lity and carneetnees, and wh etertions for hie
client did not end with the verdict or the senten-e,
li‘e urgent epplication to Gov Gamble was met wise
a fival and positive asearance that the case P
which no degree of Ksocut vo clemeney con

. frosty tO 'e-Danged tm the yard of ihe ™. |. aie

lhe @4
fact f4

cA and atelatt doomed to dle
utder the name of Wm. W. jen, the fees erisl nits
is Patrick Maloy, We yontesday found hic appareut y
Banqull, and perfectly self-peeggesed. Ile readily de-
talled bis past life, ama: g his we —OFw leaet wieoy
of Yhem—and con teraing with cord isiitp and vivacity.
Aol pe to hie « atement, the following ars argag
tre factaceonte history

He whe born jn Acamston Parish, coanty of Wer
fi Op lrend, March 16:h, iss H's (, her wasn harg
weblog and hi pest farmer, apd toih Lie parette wore
moral end reepéctable. Hie motnds was exemplary
and ever gave himescelent advice, Mad he fruiowed
1%, Die ceeditionh would, ia bia jedgement, have noen
far diffarert.. Princ'paily through couteept of i) be
finde himee!f, atthe age of iittle more thas di ycers,
withipja few boure of the gallows , o

"Whep Yycarec.d, he com with his mether, two
Drothers end two wistera, to Now (rrieauwe, Tarra he
was faiebfnily placed to the pucdee eeu! and as
tended frei the Sely rem Wed to Cinei@ ati, twa
yeare afterwara, The ather hed remain d tn le and,
where he death occarred when the ror wae tve ye
Jeareold, AtCincipnatl he attended diatrics wr hud
wotll, at Af'ecn yeare of ave, he wae sppreng iced tan
Rarpers maker. For three yeare be workers
Dusiners, and bore 8 good sépetation§ Falling into
bed compary he was led to the perpetration of «lar
ony, for whith he waearresied, On the preliminary
investigation he brourht witnerses towet'fp to hip
geod character ant etanding, and this, with eambw
wnt cf conclasiveness in toe proof aysinet him, sted
trhisrvivare, -

He then felt @'egraceg and branded asathiel, ant
et once, without incamitg anyy{ ble frets lef fa
Leolrvilie, then came to st, Lotte, remaned bere a
Movi, went thence to New Orang, and stayed there
Wo tenths, then returned and spect alwut ets
mosthainat Leuls, five of them inethe Works mee
ona charge of trancy, (fe Pusingss wae that of
@nexpernt bu glar, heteljthie’, Av.) When rel
he maée the tour of the ur per Mireleatpp: i

na Weck, erriving “f @ dping. ewe

eehed ep, but dtehargelater # actertion
Gays, He rcw rev eteaA ipeini at! and joleor
etcd hie pecailar avceation there for ev
‘Ttence he traveled with varied eurcess, © )
sHearly every considerable city fa the ore
olppivedjecye. Forabout erhtyeare bis ! ‘
were a ILC Dhath. tat come fre yeare sfoke farmed
Jerr erent compections ip St. Loule
Whileda the furmer city, in ta, on the Th of On
Of Jane, be wae arreetud on enepicius of toa marder
ef Profemtoe Crow's y, wha yas ene morrieg fand
beaten and fatally etalbed, ona bridge. There boing
ho piccf sgatcet bao the defecdaut was atovce de
Charced; Lut wae noun afcrwerde re-arroeted fur toe
crime etd again dimcharged@. A third '.me he waear
rested, at Cbicazo, ae a cugstive, aod OO chau cation
was once note roeaeed, He wee at ive taken in
Custody @» fourth time on the ram: charg’, and the
ed waa deemed eaM tent to warrants trial, Alter

(RERANVEAR PEAR E Re. |

huwepar, June, Pv, m.-—There wee no change in
the money market te day, except the @ectine if gold,
"which wae offercd at 6 @ cont. without
bayer, Exchange le steady at par eclliag and ky ‘die-
cour} heying. Nothing dotng ta defense warrants, /
and Wuchers are dal) at W7Q0Tg. The dispatches in
relat to gold fur the last four or Sve Gave have quo-
ted above the market 1Q1K W cent. “—
‘New Yerk papers of fecedag, the 84h e
rhow, Fir inetence, om Momday @lepetches
came Weet that guid wae fig premium, while Tass.
Gay's papers containing the report of Moeday's money
marke: quote gold only af 107. Now, what deve this
mean? Why cas’ we gut a correct report of the
money market by telegraph! What ovfect is there
ineendiog over the wires teee lying dispatches?
The fact is, as we have sald a hundred timessrecently,
there {* pothing Im the facte surrounding the case to

warrart a cogclusion thal gold would be
maintaised at bigh+ figures, On the contary
mny things clearly Indested that i woald

@on go down to the low rates recently hed lig
toere je a wild gambting game cuteg on la New York,
in which several parties bave been raelned already,

lt fethe “selling short operation amvag the bro-
kere, with slaty Gaye tod: liver, tn which time the el’.

| Ing perty expects to make bia elsty Gaye’ interest, |

| alors and yemblera, who ae
{ regular stock Lxarde,

| fOtn, and Lot se powe Claims, a permanent demand ead

ying in jetheta monthe he wae suddenly again ect |

at iteriy—the proseceti¢g attorney Ant
WO thivee Wileon dee inew euers any
RAM! cr innecence In thiems iter,

thiesed et lother cities pegides those nam d,
theemr pg yoing man hae tipon ed yg iter as. eed
He hed tou.steadily pest! A yoar ia Sr trims
whenbeeh Gilmore, Aptothieatair, be ad vere

tefore refealte Lirem makigag aty etaterment, bateb
devier.op. etter Leet cos Dien, evel altner ip!
prtecn, dopeph By rics, the conde ide Narrate f
to tei mto lane:

“Ptsc Sees errestod by gh

imtbe MeMsary Irieon, an
Cn conciubsertoat bo would

Liew (ee
sg aebu bie

U, &, Moiceant praced
wae betouton parels ead
leaws theeity, ily :

itary Tefen, .

“That over tee Lwent Nometo the house-et. Tat
Po emt eodt Patite re ptreete, and wae tad that
ULB oticere had teen there forme, aud vo | etayed dat
B edy ard wlcgt at afrieud'’s hyure ip the tower part
Cfthe chy, Leeretenre ta mention bh Coriy
Pe.t morniog | wont hore for my elotse be
& ee Gb trectly atorce. Jovrepo Byrne

4 oie Vegether ard get there abuut eever +
e@rterea tretn Thirteenth wkgget by the froot dour, sud
Bet from ite rear, ae Wee rworg to by a wi nese in
Cent Avtonaa tT pot uimsthe hall Deaw thie man,
Giwore, whem Dd hed pever eeru he‘ore, Pinetd

prreis
<43pjrd gn Mow nay, the utd of December, aud l was
. Vi te terwn ard wae afraid of boing again putin bee

two

theuybt be ahi ht Oe sue he whe had becn there all |

Byte,

"A@lenend be etood up and asked, (Do yoo livg
Tere’? Ltoighim "No." He jumped towande me
erdiaid biehaucon my ehoulder andesd ‘i arresy
on.” T etegged back from him end aehed him
*“Whattor?’ and be inetactly drew bie pistol and
Preeevted itt my face, J ihen pulled uut tay pletol
ard fired. It wan @ selfcocktag Allen's revoly ¢,
The whuse afalr took place in a few seconde, As
eur n bs Le ejpeke cf arre , I teok him fora policeman,
bmtehen Le drew a pist} im impreseion rotarne
pet methathe waste: | ace wtepp od vit inate
the etiest ane felt sorry Veough for the ecap? and woe.d
bave given evything to kouw that the shot had not
kileo him. oY py. eal
1 ehcrld stand no chance if I remained aud was yied
for murcer, and 80 1 geared out.’

It ie ecarely necewtary Evra to atate that thie ac-
count matertally conflete with that given by po'ics-
men Gi)more be’ore bis death, which took pace neva
sal daye after the shooting, The offirer’s statement,
Moreuves, wee corondemted by cther witnesses

Wi'tcu te moetemptaiic in diclaring that Byrnes
had no pert whatever, in the killing of 43!! more.

. The Diood-stamed man trnediate
traveled on fout te De Bo’

jhe be abrived at bre tags from a hase. asi
to Illinois in & ekift, od to @ polat

they
ite Balthton, reer t 5
re fa 04ned the rivet. and thence

indictment was aweRing Lim, and h peo-
éily arraigned for trial. Aifer mines ew comtaa:
ences fom . bia casa was dis-

6 of in fag ep te oA hesitat!

ty ngle cay—the jary uubesites

geting 8 caidict of ality cf harder ia t fe nen
prec, For thte re tie

Ta Lircals Attoreey Vouliaire, bit 60 the perneooe

rt tle y*

t to the perseveri: «

y|

( feport a fair degree of activity

under the cirenmetancsa |

| tetween preee in
| to goard ogelnet the sudden Mactoationa of that Gckle
Ta .

tinte@ for demand Treasury Art wae Vpremint

acd proveably 8 speculation on the wet
jeice, Bet ecmetiomce theee reckless espera:
oatette of the?

CsA combinatiose agetnet
them, and when thelr etaty days’ ealee become due,
they Ond@ themeety.e obliged eo pay Ligher ba god
than they reid at. In projertiog to the estent af
ng short op reons, la the etcilement ia |
the money Market stot the filme theee cgutrecta feu
The tant and leyttimate eto &, an4 money |
have soythng to do @rh these
ani peeetely diecwus
Ard “ le thie clase of ope
Abbe, Cor bined with the Geman) by States fe specie
to pay intercet, the late Lepotiathe «/ the New ¥e
hen of Ot to he pa'd im cote, ead Une @aipment
to Rarepe of specte to pay for beads ewet Bore to he
converted, al centering in afew weels, gadl promped
ae it were lagether, which Lee relesd the pres af

tliewe ve

eur
Comiere ec'@opa
garmbire
leratecea

Cprrations
‘hem

ecarctty of the article, Hach @ comBnation af tle
ecmetances, accidental to a greet esleat, may never
Coeur agtin, 6nd (hire ave Carialn's po grounds fe ton
lieving Ht poseiblengata emnm Bo thaliana ler the Mary,
matters wlllewbette aad resame thelr 64 grovves,
ard pase ow quietly "cam

Now, the cocntry me tote very litle atected by
thie guid e¢sciiement Ia New Yous, exceps to raeh a|
the'r gold there, an4 eed at the Bigh @rerce Mat
who ranneA eve the reentt of thie last part of (he pro

|
premene! Myecte wi'l be pasted im torrenteints Wail
street, wet!) they fave more than (they Baow |
whettc do with, ond down gore the price, Swaate |
Cen be tae tt stre te foremd iam for he dom ind VW

Sea labile an atecastio avd mee! Comedsae whee
the witd whith tnflates bas eoraped, Niw we tae
die!y unite with the New Vourk pajere in advie'ng
everyledy who hae gold, to send |) imemedia' ely to
Walle reet, agg ithey cam get it there before the
Lubble berets, they wii! get more fir it thag they eu
Le alic Lo realise aPUTItE 6 lurlve month, if ever

‘The Cineimpat!l (arette cA thle morning saye,

‘The tarhes for gd was rether tame to dey, wih
tecre eeliere théh buy re at ihe advanced Ggaree la
New York the price settled down to *\ prom, and
private dispatches repeated Tt not cary ta ood) ot (des,
aideven at © \t wee not free, In wat market tre
tacters leoybt ot 7 prem. aod we heard uf 08 vrder
foe 810 00 that wee flied ot 9 Te the afierorea there
war a Gispoetion om the part cf ecme dreiers to roa)
tre p04 ih ie Geatua! whether ap cmp uffae uf 6 plow
” (have beet Gecitnes (¢eutatiome are Gneeiiief,
fod labieto conetant tar alion The gemetal buy ng
Tae
(Cbamtber of Commerce Lad geotetlame from New |
Yorwol 4s BS poem , batipnivate @ epatchee ranged
fromit bs 44. Aboot @€ wae the preraient gare
ard the market wae feeble, of (gthet gervude, af [hat
One bar kere are tial4d encegh Bory come Cis'ance
below New York, of bath gold and Treasary n des

There leg fair demand for maney, and baenkrre ere
eneceeeding lcicrahty @ell ia Gilling ep thet? dierent
lee. ~ Hates ef teterest range from 9 4019-pee cent
The latter fiyure is more carremt that heres ©,
but #tcl a cOcc dea! of bostzees le Gume at tps inside
Qyortativn

‘The market for exchange drage at Ws 4'sevent
baying. and pareeling Vewofl the deaes paidons

a toe Piiver te Grim 405 prem.

The potee of Eastern city Lene are of€!] porn'nally
Tar, bat eevera: ira Louses ease (hem *7,
ekcept at a discount of & -and the indicatinms are
they will, within a day ce two, be reduced to thie al:
round, ont

“+
Caecaco-Thiememirg se Tridune Ripe

Businers atthe berke le inereasing anituey 20"
Money tm every
Kyitiinate parpese je abumdast; and firet clase payor

sn tats

Merk atove present uPerings, Might > readily paced
atoll) yeent. Tre general trade ofthe ety wa
rever Mormprespervus. @o4 nearly a!) cur hogere at

the clowe of he pear will Ond the right elde uf tnets
ieCgere chowlsg « very eatiefac ory balance,

New Yor exchange le ta fair test, bat the sap-
ply fe tully@qeal to the Gemasa. The heyiog price
nt afl the @ bvuece fe par; sellleg }; tremiem on
rourd lote® ur retat) parcers at dcn coliectiims, i B®
cent. pr micm te the fyure.

Gold in Now York was reported at es Aad pen.
Here it ruled at 7 hapting and Seclliag. The margin
Yorks and Lere ie maintained

, DAILY aT, LOUIS MANKET.

Unepay, Jane HP. w.—There was raiker a bet-
ter feeling in the general market to-day, aad ia some
articles tbere wae aa improvement, Tobaceo was
frmer, and there was a large break today, and lese
rejections, There was a s\ight improvement ts hesap,
and the mashet steady. Fiour dall, and price the
enme ea yeoterdey. With slight recetpta, wheat wae
frmer, thongh transactions were email. Oecn and
Cate were inactive a4 lower, Nothing Gone ia rye
asd bariey, Whisky arm at the advanced rates. Pro
visiene Gull, and bacon wase shadelower, Lard aa
changed and market quict. Tallawthesame, Beene

P price 1 WO tAde ol THINS

| $10 and vot over 6H)

S40 L4
winter red W
hoe win

iS

Kve
Tips fus Biale

few ald ; te
Nam poe em tle foe or

| ot Ba a+ fiu bide of Rog! os leiand at 32.29) and |
| biege Porto Nace ab 34 eed by aactiog W abde at

Buys. cach
dire, with @ materata demand Sales WO)
S24. on gmeee $10 Tagil tur prime meee,
Oe OF 01" 15 tee poime
Dipan-+jciet aug vachanged: sales W bis ot 61 80
Ol hae y Lemme) Sraph) for cltp meee, S1iggla
4 Fepacbed weve) O1'GR14 OO har extra meses. Prime
mee taef do) ard teominal et 1450) beef hame
qelet at G14 Serle fo

(Uv Maate Quict and steady; sales 70 phze at ty
Ce he ebew de es ald 4g be fog heme. Naovn sides
dal; sales w husee obits rh tegen iddies at 6

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fer Mate y

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fot) Live at Tipe ge foe Bieta, abd ve ig gp Bue fog Wee
tere, coming at the inelde qu égfloue

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foe prime i" Dieriing guchanae escites
byter, and be: bere’ bile are quited at 18g, Amore
Mam guid acvane dtu Pig @eig wom, Callanls gold
Late ore qQueted af 10 Bicnt

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Mae Ge Giiély, 1.0 el reesery pope 10K,
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BL. Lp elaee ud A sun
ame nena
‘The Tax ao Paced,

There were in all havdrei and Ofteen
smendmedja to the Internal Keveaue, or Tox
Ml, the H@ose haviog, thruuah Ite Committee af
Coelcrence, receded trom 393, ond the Bonete,
through tte menager from id of them. There
tual t 2 & subject of comprotuies as emp
tadied in 1Bete Joint report, which was umant
moesly adbjted Uy the Menste, while in the
loase the follow named members voted

agaipet it) Mesara’ n, of MVinots, Browne of
Khode Iaagd, Jobnet, Norton, Nagent, Pendle
ee oe tylea, White pf Galo, Wek ite ond

The tip only awrite the President's approval '
ta Loren helaw, and lstat eGect on the let
of Aug a

The ¢ al Revenue is to

(he tilt are the following:
On all miceral coals, ese
tothe trade as ** coal,
conte per ton, provided eveiracts
of Jesse for coal lends meade befors the let of
ALrtl, IMG, the levere abali pay the tax,
obteco--camndich, pla, twist, duecut and
menulee ured cf al] deseriptions, not iaciudi:
enti, cigars, acd smoking toteceo pre
With ail the steme im, or made exclusively of
sterme—valued at more (ben 80 cents per
I eente or pound; souna = asy sem not oe
ceeding OO tente ia a a: U cen a4,
peeking tobeeun, prveres with sil tha tems
!o, Seepte per pour
bom manulactared of totacco ground dry or
dea p, of all deeer) , J) canta per pos
Cigare, veined at over 6 1,000, 61 60
He ibopeand ; valaed gt over 65 aod aot over
10 per 1,000, @9 per thousend; valued at over
Pe Ose Aas pean dy tA) ieee:
ecrd; Walw at over PY,
trouser d. U an oe
Un all cloth, and all textile or kaitte@’or felted
fatrice, of colton, wool or other be
fore the seme bas been dyed, printed,
or preparecNa say cther manger, o duty of three
a — ad val tax of
ya and after October nest, a one-half a
cet.t eball be paid on cotton. '
Whenever « duty le imposed upon aay article,

removed fur copsum. or eale, it shall
ouly to soch articles manufectared Onan
after the let of July"next. No duty fe to be

upon apy ao bg sedielal

ter
or mi

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Pampas
commending, will leave fur #6,
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she will leave

posed 008 one
nd Mr A, B. Mt, Gem
thete intends ond (he