Show BANDIT l LAUDS IM fUR FOR WN O EXPLOITS EXPlOIT Kansas City Police Polke Hold HoldA A Alleged II e g e d California Criminal Many Los Angeles Angeles' Jobs Admitted KA KANSAS SAS CITY Dec 3 Grant Grant Hartnell held b by lo local l police poUce today confessed to robbing five banks el eleven yen stores and many oil filling stations within the last year His holdups In Include lude four foyr banks three stores and two filling stations In California authorities announced Hartnell alias J. J J. J Padre made his confession at General hospital where he ho was taken following an alleged suicide attempt when ar at- at rested He tried to cut the arteries i In his wrists with broken glass H Hartnell said his first crime was committed eleen months ago when I II he ho and a companion a Daly chain store at Huntington Beach I I Cal Cat of H He said isaid on last November No- No vemb ember vember r 19 he robbed a bank at Ninth and San Pedro avenue In Los Angeles He also told of ot an n attempt to obtain a Standard OH Oil I company's payroll in a mail mall robbery robbery robbery rob rob- bery In California When arrested I here Hartnell was found In a room I equipped like Uke an arsenal Shotguns loaded and ready read to shoot hung on I every wall rested on chairs and bureaus BANDIT IS CONCEITED Chief of f Police Watson said Hartnell Hartnell hartnell Hart Hart- nell was extremely egotistical jobs and telling him how good he ha wasI was I r sure got away fine Hartnell said in explaining how he worked I Before Belore leaving California I built I Ian an auto t taking king a small body and I 1 putting the highest powered engine I into Int lt i I could find Polite Police would i incer never expect to see robbers driving a small car I raided the I Ear Early today police farm home of ot Don r L. L Walters ar arrested arrested ar- ar I ar-I rested Walters and seized an auto I such as Hartnell described DrivIng Driving ing It to Ka Kansas Kapsas sas City It wouldn't go slower than forty miles mlles an hour I and made seventy hitting on three cylinders Hartnell couldn't remember remember 1 ber bet toe the names of ot his aides and po police police po- po l lice ce eye believe Jt it may have been Walt Wal Wal- I t rs They found Walters Walters' home I barricaded It If many contained many firearms ADMITS BANK JOBS Hartnell sa says san s he lie helped hold up the Hollywood Boulevard or Pacific Pacific Paci Paci- fic tic S Southwest 1 Vest th Savings bank in Los Angers Anges on June 21 in which he said he lie obtained 1790 He said that his gang g-ang also held up a mall mail truck truc at El EI Segundo Cal Cat In an effort to obtain the Standard Oil comP company's com corn comI I P pany's payroll Authorities Jr rl said Hartnell also t told ld of holding up the Monetta bank Los Angeles I Here Here- Hartnell and his gang I robbed the Independence AY Avenue nUe bank banle of and many local I I stores and tilling filling WOULD SELL BODY TO I. I FREE HIS JAILED BUDDY HOUSTON Tex Dec 3 Facing Facing I death for the murder of ot his sweetheart sweetheart sweetheart sweet sweet- heart who spurned him George I offered his body hotly for sale today that he might raise funds to bail ball his buddy out of jail jall net a former French aviator confessed confessed con con- he killed his fiancee Louise Floquet while they were embracing each other at jit the girls girl's home borne The buddy Robert is is' is held on R R. misdemeanor charge Trial of started today I DETECTIVE FRUSTRATES BANDIT TRIO KILLS ONE I I ST. ST LOUIS Dec 3 Detective Detective I Sergeant Thomas Shelter of this cU city shot and killed I one bandit wounded ano another her fatally fatally fatal fatal- ly Iy and captured the third when th the I trio attempted to hold him up uP shortly before midnight a short dis distance tance from his home which Is lo located located lo- lo in the western sec section lon of the city Sergeant Shelter Sheller was wll within ln a afew afew afew I few paces of his home when the three each carrying a revolver stepped from froman an automobile and I commanded him to hold up his his' hands He lie Jerked his revolver from his overcoat pocket and fired Shelter is a veteran of ot the secret service of ot the local police depart depart- ment I The eldest of the three Jack OMara O 17 11 years old was killed instantly The wounded youth gave his as Bernard McGuire I 16 and the captured youth said he was Russell Today was Sergeant Shelters Shelter's birthday I INDIANAPOLIS Ind Dec 3 I I Thomas Thoma Shaw 33 years eats old negro has been arrested here charged with the murder of drs Irs Helen Whelchel a young widow whose 1 body was found lying between railroad railroad rail rail- ro road d tracks where It had been hurled from front aft an bridge last Wednesday morning I Shaw who denied the charge was arrested In a pawn shop when he he I attempted to pawn a watch which I officers Identified as belonging g to Mrs Whelchel I I |