Show r TRIO SHOT IN HIGHWAY BATTLE 41 Bullets Fly as Officer Halts Auto Containing Manacled Passenger It ft 11 Three Jump From Car With Pistols Flaming andAre and and- Are Wounded MACHINE SPEEDS AWAY JAY A Police Beli Believe ve Man Baing Taken for Ride or c cB B y Aw Associated Pren WESTON VESTON Mass April 19 Three men in a machine were wounded today during a pistol duel th Ith a motorcycle ff who halted car on the Boston Post road near the Weston Natick line Motorcycle Officer Alfred Alred Raynor of the Weston Veston police who tired fired on the men said there were six perSons persons per per- sons in the car He said one had hada a a towel wrapped rapped around his head and nd his hands were manacled Raynor was patrolling the highway early today when the sedan roared past him He caught up with the machine mile chase and ordered the driver to halt haJt Three men stepped from the car carand carand and began firing pistols The Tho officer eer jumped over a roadside stone ston stonewall wan wall and returned the fire With three shots he wounded the three men who limped to their machine ma ma- chine and the car sped away before Raynor could get his motorcycle motorcycle- under way y again Raynor raced t to a telephone and notified Corporal Henry Eliason i in charge ot of the Massachusetts state police radio station at Framingham State police were ordered out on the roads anda warning was broadcast to all ll wHee cruising cars Raynor said th the machine bore JUt nois registration plates State police e believed the manacled man was being or taken for or a rIde heard Cry for Help The policeman later told his supe Iupe riot s that he heard a faint cry for helpas as the machine hurtled Up to noon however searching palice po- po lice Uee had failed to find the slightest trace or of the mysterious car or its supposedly sup sup- wounded Examinations of the where Raynor fought it out with the gunmen however showed three pools of blood and more than 30 discharged cart cart- ridges During the gunfire the led and blindfolded man managed to force his hiD way from the car and Raynor tern tern- em withheld shooting He was was unc unceremoniously thrust back into the vehicle however as the three wounded wound wound- ed men were helped to safety by their theu companions |