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S lr y Drawn in Circle to Capture Bandits Involved in Slaying Two rO Officers W Wounding tr FourR Four VEll R rcpt 14 14 h the Hie e Denver police prepared prepare ed tonight le with another possible o out out- j- j reak of terrorism by hv the automobile ll r i ils who enn-e enn engaged the pol police cc of dorado lorado Springs anti Anil nd Denver in fiven five n n fights yesterday esterday afternoon and ast night nig-bt killing two officers and o n ing four Superintendent Frank Frnnk Dams il ms of the state constabulary ary ar ar- urged ed a dragnet to cover the eastern ill elf of ot tho st state to and prevent pre the esp espe es- es p pe of the bandits who aro are sought a connection with tho robbery on DIy 10 of a Missouri Kansas was ens train at Koch Ran Kan In la detectives es Denver cr a n. guard of t ps as maintained about t the h e house on Hill believed to io be tho the ren- ren of tho the bandits while special tet s were scattered throughout the theAt ty At police headquarters four loads of policemen armed or ith rifles were held in readiness for foray fory ay y emergency An abandoned automobile sai said bo b by ie o e police to be the one used use by the in their fight with the police it t t the house on Capitol Hill lull was found late lale tonight ht not far from th the mess iness district The Tho car had bad been landing nd only a short time lime which the lice believe e indicated that thaL the ban- ban ts its are again ri riding ing- ing about Denver rad nd r d are arc changing cars to elude their in m n the manner the they adopt adopted d ast st sf night There were several bulet bul- bul et boles Loles in n the bo body of the macl machine nc Ordered tl Out slut Superintendent Adams ord ordered red two of oC constabulary one stad staked sta ked on the Wyoming Colorado V borer borr bor- bor er r and the other on the New border to begin an Ung Ing movement of oC Denver so no 0 a as to the alleged train robbers who till nil are believed to bo ho In this jr y from rom escaping tour Ur of oC the alleged allege l bandits are aro still ii tl eved to be lie at liberty In the vicin- vicin ly t of Denver Deliver and Chief of Police Armstrong expressed tho l bei be- be e- e ref hC i that mat with tho the coming coming- of hey J y would emerge from their hiding laces aces es and r resume sumo their mad automo- automo le Jo dashes which tho the city BL st night Seven ven Persons Persons' our four our men and three omen are In custody as a result of oC tt t nights night's clashes with the tho I pollee obey are tUe I Prank Nile ank Lewis arrested early toda today I II It t speeding toward Colorado I p pr ri I Ss In ir a taxicab irr flog Y Sh Sherrill rr II I captured earl early today f C a gun fight with a 11 pOS posse O e south D Denver fe va vad d dt de l sister later of Lewis ar ar- ar with Sherrill I all Lloyd 11 Od Dale arr arrested sed today at SeI Se- Se r John D Babb bb stepfather of oC Lewis ls ar arOn ar- ar On ted t night In a raid of at a house hous inD c. c Cat ItOI tot hili Denver lr Babb t mother molher of ot Lewis arrest- arrest l I I Babb I galbe 11 use tJ Frank Lewis Levels arrested ed with will tho ho Dale Dale DIc Known rn lo to Police Policeto Dale le d tills according to th the e Police was r red re- re sum mer from the Missouri OO ld Cd ou gU l Dragnet in Colorado Covering Half State Continued From rom Pa Page e 1 penitentiary where he lie was known under the tho name namo of Althou Although h Frank Lewis alleged leader leador lead lead- er tr of or the band denied ln ha having participated patell In the I Kansas train robbery 01 or orthe ortho tho the Colorado Springs shooting ho he 1 ad ad- ad tonight ht to the sheriff at PHeb lo Jo Jo where he Is held lucid for to safekeeping sl that his automobile was waa u cd by th the tho train robbers I had hind a L friend on the Kansas ns City police force who wanted to borrow my lily automobile to take e a girl riding I let him him have c It an and It wa was wai used usell l 1 lo lothe the train robbers he is J quoted tS as hav lug InS told toM th tile the sheriff After Arter the thi robbery robbery robbery rob rob- bery letters were scattered scatter d under th the scat seat so as to make It appear that I 1 Iwas was in the robbery robben It was a CL but the policeman who thought h he ha would v mal make mako a a. r record cord for himself b bj by involving tn me Is Js in jail j Iel lIH of or JUt Lewis Is quoted as having told lold ti the sheriff sheri that he beS began a 1 lite of crime crim when he was wac 1 11 1 years ear old His Ills fa Ca- ather a- a ther he Is quoted as ln ha having ha said saili wa iusa us ius usa a a policeman In Junction City CIU Can an anil 1111 would pre press s the boy bor through h transoms transoms tran uan- so that doors of or stores C could ul b be opened and robbed b by the father Lewis denied d ever ha having Ing Id an one but admitted that he ho was nc of ot six murders and as many bank banle robber rob rob- ber bones le He lIe was wa quoted as having admitted In only one one bank bank robbery however that at Cement City Cit Kanc Kan hW c Wc c tried to get ct but got nt ho hue is alleged ed to o ha said There lucre Is nothing to robbing banks They Thoy Tho are arc all too cae easy After ACler that thit Job Joi JobI I went vent to lo Kansas City and l drove c i a truck but the police were after m mu mt and I 1 ha lund had to leave I 1 went to Wichita Kan and engaged ed in smuggling liquor Oklahoma by which means mean I mad made madeo o a week for several He montisI montis I hI was married a few tew months mouths ago and told my wife He I was a civil engi- engi ml- ml jeer A short timo ago o I bid for Cor the tin construction of or a new courthouse a at J Junction City Kan and missed J ob ob- ob- ob taming the work by b only 2300 OO It If I Ih h hind had d got the contract I would hav havu it to a contractor who was a friend of oC mine I h My M mother Mrs John Babb abb who l Is Id he-Id in itt Denver for Investigation I Is innocent of ot any knowledge of my wa way way- She Is a good woman am and knows know nothing of oC these thins things Asked concerning the thc killing of or Policeman Po Po- hiceman KInnon In St. St Louis Mo In Ir 1 luiG Lewis denied an any connection wl with h the affair for which he said his hl two brothers were ere held responsible The rho killing of oC Patrolman Luther tIc Me- Mahill here carl early today brou brought ht th the casualties inflicted b by the automobile bandits who began legan terrorizing Colorado Colorado Colo Cole rado ratio Springs an and Denver Demer yesterday esterday t to two officers killed one probably fatally wounded and an three slightly wounded lc nhill was l killed at 1 J 1 o'clock tIll thi- morning meriting when he stopped to Investigate investigate gate a closed ed automobile standing a at Sixteenth avenue and Colorado boule boule- yard vard His slayer escaped Denver Given Tip From Jan Kansas Cj City y s Kansas City Sept Sopt 14 H.- H. A Kansas CIl City associate of oC the Lewis band Is said D DJ oy oythe the polled here hero to Lo be largely larel responsible I ble bio for tor time the capture at Denver Den of oC the time three c members Since the train robbery robber July 10 10 Lewis Junes JU Sherill rill an and the Wl w t of lC L Lewis an 1 Jon Jones Jonts s c O practically ma made e. e their zt t Kansas sas City the police sa say Tho The Informers Informer's name was not divulged A woman too also aio is said to have havo talked to tho the police re regarding regarding re- re garding the alleged ed robbers Friday It was learned that the women had hall been met b by Lewis Sherrill and anti Jones in a motor car eal near Kansas Cit City Officers were advised that tho the party was on a a. highway leading to Denver The Tho Denver authorities were thereupon notified Raymond Ra Sherrill brother of Rpy Sherrill Is In the county Jail at Wichita Wichita IchIta Ich ita awaiting sentence for tor burglary Iary at Andale Kan Indianapolis Sept 1 H. H Roy Ro Roy Sherrill an and Frank Lewis LetIs the tho two bandits who were wore captured near Denver Colo Cob after a revolver re battle with policemen are e declared by Jerr Jerry KInney chief chloC of oC de detectives detectives de- de of ot tho the local police depart dopart department uncut ment ment to be bo two of or the tho men who robbed the South Side State Lank tank lucre iro on Au August 8 S and escaped with I Ih h In i as Ii Holdups Fail to Get Huge e Pay Roll Peoria Ill Sept 1 PolIce i. i Police and md sheriffs sheriff's posses of 01 Peoria and Tazwell counties were tere scouring the thc surrounding stir sur rounding country countr In a n search for tor or three r. bandits who late lata till this all all- al i- i I attempted to officials or of time tho payroll of or th tin thia Gr rUei cail 1 company and anti Wit who shot and S isly ilc-isly s l wounded Delc I. I u. u j J. J Gustine Gus Gus- tine lne of ot Peoria an and Walter Off manager manager mana mana- ger bel of ot the company ct s' s shaped sed ed edon The attempted un hoM-un was on n a lonely part of or the rond ll n the mine nine about eight ht miles south f f C here Detective Gustine and Off Oft were on the tile Way vay to the tho mine In an automobile with the he pa payroll and nd found several se r railroad tics Ics placed across the road Justine all There was i shot from the I bushes nearby by and lit hi fell ell with several secial buckshot wounds wo n th n Ms Jis bod body Cit Jumped out of or the hc nr dr Jr and alet as ashe ashe asic he ic did so 80 o other shots hots W wei I fired from ho thin brush along The iho lO One shot hot took ook effect In Offs Off's eye CO ami anil lie he probably ably Ihly will lose it It Oft Off cIc to th the mine nine office a n half mile away and noti- noti led fled J lI tle fie police pollee here her After the tho r the tho h rol be s fled makin making no attempt to secure j Ih the tho sa satchel chel of money left unguarded in time the timea a automobile U 0 tu 0 b I I c Bandit Killed I in ill Arcadia Kansas ansas Arcadia Kan Sept H. H One H. One bandit was waR iva killed and another wounded and taken prisoner In a l with citi- citi citizens zen zens following a raid b by three men upon up- up up-I up on jn the thc Home Homi State hank here today On tho the bod body of the dead robber was round found a n draft re registration card from fromi froma A A. i Kansas City Mo board bearing the name of Pete Marrazzo The attempted robbery robben was discovered discovered ered by employee of ot the Iho St St. Louis San Francisco railroad at the depot two blocks from the bank building Cashier J. J it M. M I. I Fowler was notified He lie aroused his brother and the two armed armed armed arm arm- ed rushed to the he b bank after atter starting a telephone alarm throughout the tho town The Tho Fowlers Fowler found the robbers nt at work worle on the vault auIt Into which the they had broken The two to men opened tire fire and the bandits replied while retreating through the tho rear of the building By this time lime aid was coming to the I Fowler and citizens advanced after the bandits Two hundred feet foet south of or the hc bank the bod body of or the lie dead robber was found and the wounded bandit was waa captured about a mile west o of the town Tho The third member of tho the gang san escaped Raid on Illinois Bank Unsuccessful Dixon Ill Sept II I Five li Five automobile automo bile bandits lt four tour of or them believed belle b by bythe bytho the tho police pollee to be l Earl arl Dear BI Big Joe Mo Moran oran ran Lloyd Bopp Dopp and Frank Prank McErlane McErlane lane who e escaped the coun county y Jail in Chicago last Thursday made an un- un successful attempt today to Lo rob the time Citizens Citizens' State bank banle at Mount Morris eighteen miles mile northeast of ot here The robbers drove e Into town ton In a large touring car early tills this morning and forced tho the door of or the rr The e noise roise they made aroused Miss oil Florence Weaver caver telephone operator In an of office of- of I flee fice directly over o the time bank She notified noti ruoti- I fied tied an official o ot of the bank batik who was met met with a fusillade of or bullets when he lie approached the building Miss Weaver Wea Wea- ver er attempted to reach the time sheriff at Oregon Ill but hut tho the robbers h had d rut all nil wires between Dixon and Mount Morris Citizens s who v attempted to reach the bank b were driven back by bythe bythe bythe the bandits' bandits firo The robbers lobbers mad mad- two unsuccessful ful attempts to blo blow tho the vault ault fleeing In their automo- automo bile Escaped Criminals Off to Chicago Chicago Sept n With H. With the four Cour criminals who cut their way from the count county Jail Thursday night reported fleeing toward tho Iowa Illinois line hue hueby by y way war of Rock flock Island John the guard who Is held responsible for their c escape cape gave ave himself up today tolay and will bo ho held pending an Investigation In of ol alleged discrepancies In Jn the stories he lie has told toM of ot the affair The four desperate fugitives Earl fugitives Earl Dear and Lloyd Bopp both convicted con murderers under sentence of death s C Joe Joo Moran loran nationally known as asa asa asa a and Frank McErlane who was facing trial as an In accessory In a l slaying are expected to put up a ahard hard har battle baUle if it surrounded e James Jamrs J. J L I. Mooney chief chic tonight tonis-ht prepared to send a squad of ot picked J to flock Island to take e eup up t t the c chase In case the men abandoned abandoned abandoned aban aban- their automobile anti and took to the woods adjoining the Mississippi bottom bottom bot bot- tom torn lands Ih The latest reports indicated indi atc that the men inca were fleeing In th thi s diree on on after an attempt this morning morn ing to rob a bank at Mount Morris |
