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Show Dodges Law for 28 Years, j But Now He Faces Gallows i i i Murder Far Away In 1902 Charged to Coast Suspect; 64-j Year-Old Resident Of Las Vegas Will Face Trial For Killing Sheriff Following Bank Robbery t i John 1. Dunn, who is said to have evaded pursuit for 28 years, now is on his way back to Arkansas from I,os Angeles, to face a charge of murder, growing grow-ing out of an old, half-forgotten bank robbery. LOS ANGELES, Mar. 4. The long arm of the law reached out to- i day for a man who evaded if for 1 28 years. It arrested John P. Dunn, i who must face murder charge? growing out of a bank robbery in 1902 in Clarksville, Ark. Sheriff John H. Powers of Clarksvil.'e smpiiscd four burglars February 5, 1!;02, as the safe was being robbed. A gun duel followed. Powers was killed and Dunn woun ded. Dunn and George Durham, one of i the participants in the robbery, were arrested in Wichita, Kan. Dunn was in a hospital suffering from wounds from Powers' gun. Following the killing of Powe.l, Joe V. King was made sheriff. He retired, succeeded by Frank Russell. Rus-sell. In October last year a letter mailed from Santa Barbara, Cal., written in a woman's hand, came to the sheriff's office. Russell sent , it to a friend, Jack AppJegate, chief special agent of the Railway Express Ex-press agency at Los Angeles. Applegate sought the aid of W. J. McClement, chief special agent of the Union Pacific system McClement McClem-ent called in A. W. Woody, a deputy and former chief of police at Las Vegas, Nov. The letter told of the robbery, adding that Dunn was a gambler in Las Vegas. Dunn, now 64 years of age. was arrested. He has two o.'d bullet scars on his hip and walks with a limp. Dunn denies connection with the affair, but admits he is a former resident of Oklahoma and Kansas. Dunn will be taken to Ciarks-ville Ciarks-ville to be tried on the murder charge. |