Show U f VANBUREN Ark Dec 10 AP Twenty officers of Crawford county composing a posse searchIng search search- Ing ng for the slayer of oC three persons at the Crawford county hospital Friday took up the trail of ot Bill Howell 60 again today after the latter Jatter had completely outwitted them yesterday when capture appeared ap ap appeared a certainty Officers found Howell heavily armed at his farmhouse at Cedarfield Cedar Cedar- field near Vanburen and an ex exchange exchange ex- ex change of gunfire followed Howell was seen to fall to the ground as it wounded but when officers finally reached the spot he be had crawled through the underbrush and fled flea Howell is believed to have ha es escaped escaped es- es without Injury Injun Officers are seeking Howell for forthe the he slaying of ot Superintendent Cliff Clift Deffenbaugh 43 his wife and a patient John Nicholson 60 shot to death Friday night as they sat to- to together jether gether in the superintendents superintendent's quart t rs Howell who had been a patient 15 s believed to have slain the tho trio because Deffenbaugh had discharged dis I charged him from the hos hospital I |