Show BANK ROBBERS FREE HOSTAGES Armed Citizens and arid Bandits Stage Gun Battle in City Streets Streets' OXFORD Kan July 24 Four W-Four Four bandits robbed the Oxford ba bank k here at a a. a m. m today of an estimated cash and fled with five hostages hos hos- ages after ater shooting up the town Marion Carson manager of a alum lumber lum- lum ber jer company here herc and patron of the bank sank and one of the bandits were wounded by vigilantes' vigilantes shotgun fire as they climbed into the car Carson shot in the shoulder was not believed lo to be seriously wounded The bandit also was believed ved to have suffered only a minor wound He Ht was shot in n the check cheek and was bleeding profusely profusely pro pro- fusel witnesses said as the car sped out o of town Harold Littrell 18 18 was shot In the abdomen by t the e bandits as the they raked the he street with machine gun gunfire fire in their flight light All AH the hostages were released a ash sh short rt time alter after the robber robbery Ted TedDo Donley Do nicy assistant cashier was the last to be released He was thrown out unharmed 12 miles west of Arkansas Cit City Hostages and towns townspeople said they did not believe that Raymond Hamilton Hamil ton Joe Palmer and Blackie Thompson Thomp Thomp- son who escaped from the death house louse at the Texas penitentiary at Huntsville Sunday were in the gang NEWKIRK Okla Okia July 24 The A P The Kay xay county sheriffs sheriff's office was wa advised advised ad ad- today that the O Oxford lord Kan ank robbers had stolen a light truck from rom an unnamed man on the Okla Okla- Kansas lonia-Kansas line south of Wellington Welling ton this morning |