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Show After Robbing Kudonu Kan.. Rank for Second Time; Tries Suicide (o Escape Mob. SHOOTS DOWN CASHIER OF ANOTHER INSTITUTION Had Commit led Murder AVbile Robbing (be Same Bank Not Long Ago. . UUDOKA, Kan., Nov. 12. Driven to baj by an armed mob, Karl Bullock, the sovenleen-ycar-old baudit of li.iwrence. Kan., who twice withiji the last month has robbed the Eudora Stato bank, murcleicd a policeman and shot another anoth-er man, probably fatally wounded himself him-self in an attempt to commit suicide near here today. Bullock's attempted suicide followed his second robbery of the bank hero today, and his .shooting of Krcd Starr, cashier of the Kaw Valley Stale bank of Kudora, who was in the Eudora State bank with his day's clearings. 0 Accompanied by Boy. Accompanied by William McKay. 15 years "of , age, of .Tascksoavillc. Kin., Bullock held up the bank. Although Starr offered no resistance to the holdup, hold-up, Bullock hhol liiii through the jaw. Snatching more than S0l), Bullock lied, followed by hir, companion. ' Each 3'ouih had two revolvers. Harry Wilson, cashier of the robbed bank, spread the alarm, and a crowd of citizens, armed with" shotguns, rifles and ' revolvers, pursued the boy bandits ban-dits across the fields. In al tempting to swim the Kaw river the hoys lost ground, ami a low minutes later the moo was at men- heels. Aleknv sur rendered, but Bullock, wrenching 'the re yolver from his faltering partner's hands, sped on into a palcli of woods. John Miller, a farmer, in no wav connected with the pursuit, stepped into Bullock's path, and the bov. thinking him an enemv. fired. Tl'is shots missed Miller, :iinl I he posse, se-ing se-ing the youth was ready to shoot, lured a score of shots at him. Tunis to Suicide. . Bullock returned I he fire, but realizing realiz-ing he was about to be captured, he bhot himself Through (ho head. Mean lime. Hie crowd threatened to lynch McKay. Officers hurried him in Lawrence -in a ri'"autbinobilc"and' placed' In in in jail. Bullock's previous hold-up of the Isadora bank and the murder of Policeman Police-man Wilson Pnnp took place, on Oc lobbr .11. While in charge of D. S. Wood, a deputy sheriff of Lawrence, who arrested the boy on a charge of robbing :i second-hand store, Bullock drew two revolvers and forced Wood and Cashier Wilson info the bank vault. Snatching bolwcenSOO find .-f lOOO, he flhl. That rtight Pringle was shot, while attempting to arrest Bullock at his home at Lawrence, where Pringle went t' the door and called for Bullock. Tlis answer was a rain of bullets, which swept him down. Ho died in a few days. Had Eluded Officers. Efforts to locate Bullock were useless. He was reported tot he hiding- in :i wood near his home. Later it was re' ported he had been captured in Oklahoma. Okla-homa. Jxftwards aggregating l,fiOU were offered for his arrest. Until McKay Mc-Kay made a written slnltemciit ot his confession with Bullock today, his whereabouts was not known. According Ac-cording fo McKay, Bullock has been living at. a fashionable lintel in Jacksonville Jack-sonville under the uamc of SJ. Donald-son." Donald-son." lie 'had money on deposit in fhe Florida Flor-ida National bank here under that name McKay said. McKay, apparently, was led into the crime by Bullock's lurid description of the thrilling adventures oT a, boy desperado. des-perado. " Statement of Accomplice. "Bullock, whom I kuow as Ponald-son, Ponald-son, picked mo up in Jacksonville and entertained me royally," said McKay. 'MIo used to take nie out lo dinner and give me checks to cash for him. When he told mo he was a desperado and had robbed a bank. 1 thought ii, would be line fo bo a real robber like him. "One day Bullock I obi me he wanted nip lo go ti Kansas (Jily with him, as he knew where there wn': a little bank ne;ir there with only -ono man in it i lint we could rob without, any trouble. He promised to pa' all the expenses of the trip. "We lefl Jacksonville Sunday and arrived in Kansas City Tuesday. We went Jju several lilllc towns around Kansas f'ify ami finally arrived at Lenate, Kan., two miles from Eudora, yesterday. Ho gave mc some ammunition ammuni-tion a ud two revolvers .and told mc we would rob the bank today. "J was supposed to guard the dour and see that, nobody escaped. 11 o robbed tho bank and shot the man. Then he told me lo follow him. "I was so badly frightened when Iho mob began to follow us that I wanted to stop and surrender soon after we left the bank. Would Not Give Up. "'No, .I'll not surrender,' lie said. 'A real robber fights on until tho last. 1 will die before .1 will give up.' " All of the money taken from the .bank today was fouud iu Bullock's pockets when he was picked up the woods. It was returned to Iho bank tonight. Many threats were made against Bullock when it was learned he had robbed tho bank a second time. When the report canto 1hat he had shot himself him-self the threats ceased. I.fo was brought here.' whero his wound was attended. at-tended. Bullock was unconscious. Fred Stnrr. who was injured in the Stato bank today, has been tnkou to a hospital in Lawrence. His wound i said not lo bo serious. , Itumn-K that ' Bullock had been brought here and placed in jail caused .I noisv crowd to gather at tho prison tonight, but whou it was. explained Hint only MeKny was incarcerated here, the crowd left. |
