Salt Lake Telegram | 1929-07-07 | Page 1 | Troops Hunt Alleged Killer of Two

TROOPS HUNT ALLEGED 1 KILLER OF CF t TWO WO Guardsmen Take Trail L LIn In Search forBad for Bad Man t. t Charged With Murders Murder r A v V. t With Shoot to Kill Or Orders d ders Militiamen Hunt rs men Accused Slayer laY r SHERIFF ASKS HELP t Mississippi's rG Gr Creates e ea t ej et Manhunt Starts BOONEVILLE Miss Mis July 6 0 United Press Press Mounted Mounted n national I. I guardsmen armed with machine guns led one onD of th the greatest manhunts man man- hunts nh of southern southern Mississippi ppl tod to today to- to d day y on the trail trait of Dewitt Deritt Gene Geno enol alleged double murderer and ad self self- acclaimed bad man The troops were sent b by Gove Governor Governo o Theodore G. G Bilbo last Jast night after alter Sheriff SherI L. L M. M Womack of Prent county appealed to the state for fot aid ald I. I The Tile guardsmen took ok up the tr trail ii at dawn Orders were ere to shoot to kill G Geno no is heavily armed H His He Her HerIs Is alleged to have killed med Van Vance e Lcd Lcd- d. d better last Jast year mistaking him to for Andy Jump Jumper r. r Later h ho broke bloke out o ot of Jail w where re ho lie was waa M held In connection con i I Ledbetters murder and lind aU allegedly killed Jumper his brother in whom h he originally Intended as his J victim lad had d. d b been a feud be e Z for or years tarS It W Is wives sister i were teu Death Ends 4 Holiday Party Party FORT WORTH July 6 AP Al'- Al' Death put an abrupt ending to to-a to post-holiday post party of ot twenty young YOU m men n and women on Lake Worth near here lucre last night when 11 18 year ear earold old Audle Audia Fentress was shot and clubbed to death as the tragic climax cli ell max to an evenings evening's riotous c celebration lebra- lebra tion in which several members ot of tho the party b became came Intoxicated 1 i Philo Hopper and Cecil were charged w with murder b but t b both th denied connection with death and Insisted l he lo e w was s the only person erson in the party who vho attempted to save the tho boys life me said the party arrived at ata t. t a a. Lake Worth camp about p p.m. p. p m. m Several couples went inside th the camphouse while other remained He said ho heard a shot and bori borrowing bor bor- i rowing owing matches ho lie 10 examined d th the body of It Fentress The boy had 1 been beca shot once through tho head and beaten on the head with a a. heavy in In- In strument said at tho the so sound nd of ot- tile the shot everyone in the party save himself fled tIed and that he summoned an ambulance and remained until police arrived Children See t. L r. r Mother Slashed BALTIMORE BALTI July 6 United Press While Press While his six small children chit chil dren screamed for help Joseph Flaherty Fla hert herty 40 slashed his wife's throat and t today and then t turned the knife on himself inflicting a a. deep deep- gash in his throat Mrs Isabello IsabelIe Flaherty 30 mother moth moth- er of at the six children en is Js unconscious unconscious from loss loss' of at blood and not r expected to survive Flaherty told police I II I did it t. t My Iy wife would not rial live with me and I thought I would end encl it all nU a 1