Show OUTLAWS WS FREE SHERIFF AND 2 HELD HOSTAGES Officer Refuses to Talk as Result of Promise to Pretty Boy Floyd 8 Br United Prett BOLIVAR Mo June 17 17 SherIff Sheriff Jack and an elderly I couple were released today after spending several hours as hostages in inthe inthe inthe the hands of 91 f Charles Pretty Boy Floyd and a companion I The trio was released between Warsaw Warsaw War War- saw and md Clinton after Floyd exacted promises that his instructions would be followed by the freed hostages You are arc to take the car cal Flo Floyd d told the elderly couple from Humboldt Hum Hum- boldt Kan whose names were not immediately learned Its too hot for us The trio drove to Clinton where whereS S She h e ritZ riff Killingsworth telephoned Bolivar to Inform his family of his safety E. E V. V Bitzer owner of the garage here where Killingsworth was seized yesterday drove to Clinton for the sheriff They arrived in Bolivar at a. a m. m DECLINES TO TALK Sheriff Sherif Killingsworth declined to gave a detailed account of the kid kid- naping raping My safety and my family's safety depend on my following my Lions ions Killingsworth said Killingsworth confirmed the identity iden idea of his captors as Floyd and Adam a local man is known as ac an associate of the notorious no Oklahoma outlaw He said that on two occasions during dur duro ing tag the search officers and came within shooting distance of the bandit car near Warsaw Floyd said to me Your safety depends depends depends de de- de- de on our safety to Killingsworth follow follow fol fol- fol quoted the bandit leader You low Instructions and you'll get out of this alive and so will we We drove more than miles mUes always a al ways keeping on back roads and off oU the beaten highways Killingsworth said he lie didn't have anything to eat all day and after notifying not noti lying his family of his release went to toa toa toa a restaurant He declined to divulge the names of the man and woman who were released released released re re- re- re leased with him indicating that silence si- si lence ence was part of his bargain with Floyd TAKEN AS HOSTAGES The sheriff sheri said the man and woo wooman wo woman woman wo- wo man were taken hosta hostage e near Deepwater Deep Deep- water late yesterday after Floyd and his lis companion abandoned the car in which they fled from Bolivar The sheriff sherif was abducted when he happened to enter a garage where floyd and were waiting for lor their car to be repaired A chance display of the sheriffs sheriff's badge alarmed the gunmen Machine guns were whipped into action The outlaws intimidated garage forced the sheriff sherlf to enter a car and sped away |