Show ff FEDERAL fRAl AGENTS IS SEEKING SLAYERS or Of A AGED fD WOMAN ROMAN r SHEPHERDSVILLE Ky May ay 7 3 AP A AP-A A federal posse posse pose continued to o search the the- hills of ot county today for two men who escaped under under- fire tire yesterday when seven others were arrested In connection with tho the slaying ot of Mrs Kate Drowning Browning 60 shot down as the bhe lied fled with is five members members' of her family fain fam fly ily from her burning home at midnight mid night Friday Th The Th- prohibition agents invaded i ithe the county after atter local officials had indicated that investigation of the tho burning and slaying would be de delayed le- le d for several days Their nine warrants charging conspiracy to intimidate a federal witness were based on reports that the family faintly was attacked because one ne member had supplied information about bout to the raiding squad at Louisville The prisoners one a a. magistrate Louisville last night were ere sent to pending arraignment 5 6 BELIEVED HIDING Iii lii the meantime the lIve five members mcm- mcm mom mem bers pf of tho family wounded when they dashed barefooted and arid scantily scantily scan scan- tily thy clad from tho the blazing home were believed hiding in tho the woods nearby with n no no- prospects prospects' of ot shelI shel- shel I car Cared d for at at th the Jail salt in BardstoWn Saturday night they received shoes stockings and nd clothing as as' gifts from citizens there thel the When tho the warrants were yesterday the Brownings started for lor their home neighborhood with I federal and l local cal officers preceding them With the return return- of 01 the agents ls and janA their thelt prisoners it was was learned that the refugees had been left lett Jn n the the- forest Th The arrested men are re Magic Magis trat John Bolton Boiton 50 60 Frank Kinder Kin Kinder der Walter Valter Crenshaw Elmer Cren- Cren shaw Frank hedge Hodge James Harris and Clarence tence crenshaw father of Walter Valter und and nd- nd Elmer Those sought by th the posse Arthur and Sylvia Hodge dropped ed several se-eral bottles of whisky whisk as as they fled l d agents re re- re ported All live in fri the Brownington Brown- Brown ington section in hi the hills hili ten miles from here where the killing kill kill- log ing occurred They refused to talk CABIN SET SET ON ON FIRE Mrs Brownings Browning's slayers are al alleged alleged alleged al- al to have barricaded the door of her room one-room cabin set fire to it in many and awaited the flight light of ot the family from am am- bush Ben Browning one of ot the wounded said he was forced to break the door with an a ax when flames and molten tar broke through the room making the cabin like the inside of a a. stove He lie had been awakened a few minutes minutes min min- utes before apparently by persons who ho wished to make sure the family family fam jam ily fly was inside before firing the I IThe cabin The Tho other wounded refugees r Angle reachie Browning Mrs Amanda Jones and Mrs Lou Browning Drowning sister of the slain woman wo wo- wo- wo man roan supported Bens Ben's story In straitened circumstances and fearful fearful fearful fear fear- ful of ot further retaliation on the part Jart of the believed responsible for their plight they are said to have returned to the section from Bardstown with extreme extreme ex ex- reluctance Where they Intend in intend in- in tend to make their home or provide pro vide ride for their Immediate wants has not Dot been learned earned None of ot the Brownings was se seriously seriously seriously se- se wounded Angle Angie and Mrs Jon Jones s are sisters of af Ben and Peachie all children of ot Mrs Lou Browning Angle Angie the youngest is 16 |