Show M w I KIDNAP POLICE J 1 f WIDE 4 MAN HUNT Shackle Officers To Tree Flee In Stolen Autos HANOVERTON Ohio April 14 UP Three UP-Three Three heavily heartily armed bandits bandits bandits ban ban- Thursday boldly two policemen from the Weirton W. W Va police station and shackled d them to cherry trees on a farm near here touching off the biggest man hunt since Ohio's famed mad dog killers ran wild through th the state last summer Law enforcement agents in five states joined the search for the three gunmen believed to be the same trio who robbed a bank in 10 Follansbee W W. Va Wednesday of oC The bandits believed heading toward Chicago in a stolen toen C car Cr r were the object of oC a dragnet by state police and the F FBI B I. I Racing westward in a series of or stolen cars the gunmen were last known to be driving an auto owned by a Scott field Ill soldier Home to Mother The gunmen had been stopped by two Weirton policemen Lt Al AI Rossell and Patrolman Tames James Herman Herman Herman Her Her- man and were being held for questioning ques qUe- when they overpowered the officers Shortly before beCore the t h e bandits shackled the policemen to trees with their own handcuffs they listed busted one of oC their party from Crom the car and told him to go home to your Jour mother The two policemen said aid they surprised th the gunmen in the act of changing license plates on th the holdup car on on a a. Weirton street strett t and took them to the th-e police station for questioning Get upstairs the officers ers told them when they walked into the first floor Upstairs 7 asked the gunmen and as the police nodded one of the robbers pulled a gun and ordered the police into the car The occurred at 1 30 am a.m. The gunmen with their victims victims victims vic vic- tims raced through the streets of oC Weirton across the Ohio river bridge through Steubenville and then headed for country roads Saws Saw Down Tree The shackled policemen were er found at 6 30 am a.m. by farmer ar r George Betz Betz sawed the tree down so the handcuffs could DC tie slipped free The holdup men stormed Into the bank before noon Wednesday armed with pistols and a submachine submachine submachine sub sub- machine gun They herded em ern- and customers into a corner and grabbed the money from the tills as one of them stood guard They told cashier Maurice Dunlope Dunlope Dunlope Dun- Dun lope to stand still and bruised his back by jamming a a. gun against him He was ordered to open the vault or Ill I'll blow your brains out He said the bandits appeared appeared appeared ap ap- ap- ap nervous and warned the victims to speed it up |