Show Berserk Mailman Kills KiDs Three in Gun Battle MISSOULA Mont March 11 UP UP George George Smith a mild- mild mannered year old mailman lost civil a suit involving a horse His friends at the post office jokingly called him horse thief It wasn't a joke to Smith he brooded and stopped speaking to o them e Their kidding rankled him so he couldn't sleep at night and his wife made him stay at home hom Tuesday She was up Tuesday morning doing her housework and she thought her husband exhausted exhausted exhausted ex ex- ex- ex hausted was in bed When Richard Richard Richard Rich Rich- ard 24 called to read the electric meter she didn't stop She heard the report of a rifle and looking through the door saw groveling on the ground Her husband was leaning leaning leaning lean lean- ing out of a window holding a smoking gun Mrs Smith waited to ask no questions She fled to toa toa toa a neighbors neighbor's house Hour Four Battle That was the start of a four- four hour gun battle that ended with two more men dead and Smith wounded after he had been driven en out with tear gas Sheriff Jack gathered a posse and besieged the house firing into it from behind parked automobiles with an ap apparently apparently apparently ap- ap inexhaustible supply of ammunition returned their fire I When one of his shots killed Herman Herman Herman Her Her- man Green 25 threw four gas bombs into the house and ordered his deputies to try to bring the killer in alive Deputy Lloyd J. J Stringer tried to obey instructions When Smith appeared at the door he ordered him to drop his gun Smith fired and Stringer died with a bullet bulletin in his stomach Shot in Shoulder Twisting and shooting the mailman mailman mailman mail mail- man fled but a dropped him along Rattlesnake creek As officers gathered around aroundhim aroundhim aroundhim him Sm Smith th clutched a wounded shoulder and said If I had any more shells I 1 would have gotten more of you you Smith a crack shot and member member mem mem- ber berof of a rifle club was taken to toa a hospital Physicians gave him hima a blood transfusion from a county prisoner and they said it was not likely he would die unless he contracted pneumonia |