Salt Lake Telegram | 1949-10-01 | Page 2 | Train Robber Shot in Tulsa Home

Train Robber Shot in Tulsa Home TULSA, Okla., Oct. 1 (UP) Two-gun Willis Newton, one of four cowboy brothers who aided in a 12.050,011 train mail robbery at Rondout, III., in 1924, waa in critical condition Saturday after being shot by a hidden sniper. The mysterious assailant fired two shots through a bathroom window Friday night at Newton's New-ton's six-room home in a middle-clans middle-clans neighborhood here. One bullet hit Newton under the right shoulder, pierced his lung and emerged near his left collarbone. Detective Sgt. L. N. Hedgpath identified Newton aa a member of the family which conspired with several other criminals, including a postal inspector, to pull the 1924 robbery of the Milwaukee Road's fast mail train. No. 57, near Chicago. Chi-cago. Hedgpath'Said he doubted that the shooting had anything to do with the old robbery, although $75,000 worth of loot in cash and bonda was never recovered. He said it was more likely that Newton, was shot as result of a gambling feud " here. Newton operated two night clubs, the Shangri-La and the Stable, both of which were closed after recent gambling raids.