| Show SLAYERS OF 6 SHOOT SELVES TO DEATH PAIR FOUND IN HOUSE AT HOUSTON TEX TEL Young Brothers Turn Gu Guns Gunson s son on Selves Rather Than Be Taken Alive Aliv ONE DIES IN HOSPITAL Carpenters Carpenter's Tip Leads Off Officers Officers cers to Hiding Place i iB B By Associated Press Frets B By Br Associated Press HOUSTON Texas Jan 5 Jen 5 Jennings Jen- Jen and Harry Young two of the slayers of six Springfield Mo 1 officers off off- cers ended their lives to avoid capture cap cap- ture when trapped in a cottage In East Houston today by a squad of police who exchanged shots with the desperado des des- es The brothers followed the advice of their mother Mrs J. J D. D Young who expressed the hope yesterday at Springfield that they would commit suicide rather than be brought back to face the aroused citizenry a of Greene county Missouri Jennings Young was dead when the officers broke into the cottage and his younger brother Harry was fatally fatally fatal fatal- ly wounded Harry died after being taken to a hospital Inquest verdicts holding Harry and Jennings Young slew each other were returned this tills afternoon on by Justice Campbell Overstreet The police received a tip early to today today today to- to day that the Youngs would be found in the ho house se whore they had rented a room room af after ater er been trailed across Texas from rom Springfield Mo FIRES ON HOUSE Nine officers vent lent to the place and Cl Claude ude Beverly police polke lieutenant nant advanced with a shot gun He was fired ired on and returned the fire Were Vere dead come and get us one of the men called out Gas bombs had been used and af after after after af- af ter an interval Percy Heard chief of police donned a mask and entered the house He identified the body of Jennings Young lying on the floor with two big pistols un under cr his head and Harr Harry Young whom he ordered removed to the hospital In their final act the Missouri desperadoes desperadoes desperadoes des des- followed the advice of their mother Mrs J. J D. D Young which was printed in the Houston morning pa pa- pa per Mrs Young at Springfield Mo said yesterday she hoped they would end their lives lives' s' s rather th than ri submit to arrest A picture of Harr Harry Young in a lo local local lo- lo cal paper recognized by J J. F. F Tom- Tom Continues Continued on Pas Two I t I I p AIR fOUND IN HOUSE AT HOUSTON TEX TEL Continued from tram rue rate One who linson year old carpenter had rented the room to the brothers led to their being tripped trapped lie He saw the picture last night and took his family away to spend the night elsewhere and reported his suspicions this morning morning morn morn- ing The entire neighborhood was in m an uproar uproar shortly after the officers ar arrived arrived nr- nr lri ed rived and many persons had Ind hurriedly hurried hurried- ly lIP departed from the area fearing a n prolonged shooting engagement The search se turned to Houston j yesterday yesterday yes yes- cs when police learned that a aIman aman man Iman answering the description of or Harry Young had visited the home of lof his mother law to see sec his wife Young kYoung took a bus to the suburban ship Iship channel after being informed that at his wife was not at the house UNDERWORLD COMBED Police combed the Houston underworld under under- under under-I world orld and all hideouts in m the vicin vicinity ity y of or the ship channel without beg beIng be be- Ing g able to apprehend either cither o of the Young oung bi brothers others It was feared they had lad stowed slowed away on a n ship and slipped through gh the dragnet Heavy guards were posted at nt all gulf ulf culf ports and al along nr the Mexican border border borer bor bor- der er to prevent the fugitives from leav- leav in ing g the country The fugitives fugitives' trail was picked up Sunday at Streetman Texas when the ic overturned o automobile in m which they icy had fled from Springfield Mo was as found beside a highway In it were ere a rifle and shotgun Two T men who crawled Irons from rom the wreck reck accepted a farmers farmer's offer oHer to right their car but while he was going for a team of mules they decried de cried the car and continued their flight Ight south De Before ore leaving leavins they took ook the Missouri license plates from the ic car and hurled them into a n field PICKED UP BY Y MOTORIST Officers learned that the fugitives were picked up by the driver of a roadster that passed the men as the tho they stood by the road then turned back and nd after ater a brief conversation themen the themen themen men boarded the car and were driven away The officers believed the hunt hunted ed cd d men had hidden in the cottage a anc story one nc story small green structure throughout the night considering it would have been impossible for themo them to o have left it for any length of ot time without being recognized It was learned the Young brothers were rere in m the bathroom when the officers cers came Heard and Beverly fired about 12 pistol shots through the closed door the bullets lodging in the casing asing of the bathroom door Then three shots were heard I within and then both officers heard the call We are dead come and getus get us us A pause and then there were three more shots I |
