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Show mm WOMAN FOUGHT BY HER HUSBAND'S SIDE Desperate Battle Between Sheriffs- Posse ind Murderer and His Wife Results In Two Being Mortally Wounded. West Plains, Mo. John Roberts and his wlfo on Sunday resisted a sheriffs posso In a desporato battlo near Pros-tonln, Pros-tonln, ouo m'llo south of the Missouri-Arkansas Missouri-Arkansas lino, when the officers attempted at-tempted to nrrest Roberts for killing Obo Kesslngor, a neighbor, Saturday night. As n result tho woman and Sheriff Mooncy of Raster county, Ar-kansas, Ar-kansas, nro mortnlly wounded; Roberts Rob-erts nnd two members of tho posso Max Lowery nnd his son are all 'seriously 'seri-ously hurt Roberts may not survlvo. Tho murder of Kesslngor wns coldblooded. cold-blooded. Roberts went to tho houso Into In the evening mid called his victim vic-tim to tho door. When Kesslngor np-pcorcd np-pcorcd Roberts fired deliberately nnd killed him. '1 ho causo of tho deed has-not has-not been learned hero. Sheriff Money had collected novel nl deputies when he wos Iniomicd of the erlmo early Sunday morning nnd started start-ed to arrest Roberts. Tho posso was hulled by the woman nnd told to keep nwny, but when tho sheriff continued to advance both sho nnd her husband opened lire. Mooney wns shot by tho woman. His rail disconcerted his deputies, dep-uties, nnd Roberts nnd his wlfo took ndvnntngo of this to barrlcado tho house. They defended tho building for hours. When tho firing from within with-in finally ceased tho door wos broken down. Mrs. Roberts, suffering rrom fourteen wounds, wns dying, and her condition wnB such that no nttompt wns mado to remove her to Jolt. Roberts Rob-erts and tho wounded officers wero taken to Mountain Homo, Ark. |