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Show C&st Youths Cmughi Don gdteuu Qun B&tMe Trio Detained as Suspects In 3-State Terror Reign Br Ernie Cox Telegram Leased Wire - OGDEN, July 2 A running gun battle through Ogdea streets Saturday ended ia the capture of three youths suspected of being the gunmen who terrorised three states In a week-long crimp spree. - - Captured several hours after they had fled to North Ogdea through a hail of bullets in stolen ear, the trio of teen-aged California youths admitted, according ac-cording to Detective Russell G. Fort, armed robberies in San Francisco and a series of crimes at Elyr-Nv where they robbed citisens and shot out tires of ears, ".They were captured Saturday at S:M am. near Utah General depot after they fled from a depot guard who tried to halt them. One of the youths gave himself up readily, and the other two were trapped after a wild two-block chase through a field. ' All ef Calif orata They gave their names sa Maurice Mau-rice O'Brien, IS, and John BarU man. 19, both of Saa Francisco, and James Wheellhaa, IS, Oak land Cal, when they were booked at the city jail for" investigation. They told police they were f Just knocking around," and had no particular reason for being In Utah. They said they stopped Friday Fri-day night In Salt Lake City and saw a movie, but denied they had committed any crimes there. First sign of the men was reported re-ported Saturday at 2:30 am., when Patrolmen Derrell J. Taylor and Ordean Benson noticed a new Hudson Hud-son sedan being driven out of George T. Frost Motor Co., Inc., 1850 Washington blvd. (It was later learned the place bad been burglarised end the--oar stole.) Begaa Firing . Officers Taylor and Benson attempted at-tempted to stop the suspicious trio. However, before they reeched them, one of the desparadoes started start-ed firing at them through the rear window of the stolen car. In a hail of bullets, the three See Page S. Coeasaa 4 Ogden Officers Nab Youths After Running Gun Battle were arretted after they wracked a ear, Coviae aald Whoclihan told him. Covieo said they were- carrying newspapsr clippings describing the escaped ea, including th atory of holding up a couple In Nevada, robbing them of 16S in cash, then returning 19 to the woman, a mother of a smell child, "because she had that little baby In her arms and looked so pitiful," a Wheellhan described it Cased Motor Firm They came to Ogden Friday afternoon aft-ernoon oa the Bamberger railway, apent several hours on lower 36th street, in bar, then went out to the Froat Motor Co, where they aald they "cased" the Job, for later return and the burglary which followed. . Other deputies In the man hunt were Chief Deputy LaRoy Olson and Ralph 8 packman. Det. Fort said no on waa injured in-jured In the running exchange of gunfire, although more than a score of shots were tired during the downtown chase. Con tine ad from Page One youths fled north en Washington blvd., with th polio ear In hot pursuit la North Ogden, th fleeing flee-ing car turned off on what the gunmen apparently believed to be a side road. However, it turned out to be a pasture. Th car broke down a fence and th trio abandoned aban-doned It ' Every polica officer on duty during the early hour went to the scene, along with five Weber county coun-ty sheriffs deputies snd two blood-bounds. blood-bounds. Air, Grained Bunt A three-hour search of th an-tlr an-tlr area, with road block set up on outlying roads, and search by an airplane failed to turn up the gunmen. In an airplane over the scan was Dean Orr, Ogden merchant patrolman. Depot guard Lt. Lester M. Simmons, Sim-mons, civilian guard In charra of th ehtft. and Patrolman Henry O. Johnson, saw the gunmen trio on a railroad track east of the Utah general depot The guard had previously been alerted by local author! tlea snd sttempted to halt the men. They fled and Lt Slmmonc ahot over their heads. One of the gunmen stopped snd was held by the guards until Deputies Hadley and Mlchelaon arrived. - With the help of Lt Simmons, the deputies pursued the other two men through an adjacent wheat field. When they were found In a ditch, Lt Simmons called out: "Come out with your hands up or we will shoot" r t iu.m Th men surrendered. When they were booked at police headquarters head-quarters they possessed $24.02 among them, police reported. Officer A R. Covieo, who Joined In the chase, aald only one gun, a 48-callber automatic pistol, was found on the men when they were captured. Two other guns, a 45 and 32 caliber pistol, had been lost by the men when they fled oa foot Wheellhan admitted that the three were responsible for five holdups ; and "about nine" car thefts since they suited en their crime spree In San Francisco more than s week ago, according to Officer Covieo. Carried Clipping " Their ' first holdup, they said, was at Fir Water. CL, near San Francisco, when five men were In the original gang. Two of the man |
