Salt Lake Telegram | 1912-12-10 | Page 1 | Safe Blower is Killed in Police Raid

SAFE BLOWER IS KILLED IN IN- IN POLICE RAID Kinney Bergen Surrounded Surround Surround- ed by Memphis Police i Fights to Death MEMPhIS Term Tenn Dec Dee 10 In 10 In a po police poUce po- po Uce lice raid on ott a 8 houseIn the outskirts of or Memphis today Kinney Screen en believed be be- ed to bo ho a a- widely 1 kno known afo ato blower Was aB Killed hilled b by city detectives e Frank Hall 01 who Is Js credited i ruth 1 Ith a police record In many clUe two other men and anda andr r a a. woman oman were arrested Bergen was killed after he had h maima maim made a t spectacular escape Detectives cs heavilY the house and nd captured oth other r members of the party without trouble trou le Hut Bergen cn he ho would not be bo taken laken alive e directed a steady Ire fire at the police drove o them back a afew few tew feet then leaped from rom a a. garret parrel windo win win- do dow Surviving the thc foot thirty foot fl Jump without apparent Injury Bergen sot got ot away A A. short time tinie afterward however he returned to tl the house tIM on guard lIard surrounded urro him and In Iii tho pistol battle battlo that t followed was killed Chief of oC Detectives hoper Koper r planned theraid tho the raid rC Jl Today Toda six sic detectives sur- sur the hou house c and one of oC them knocked at al the front door dool The Tue woman oman as ns yet ct Unidentified appeared She was i before she could make an m outcry v thon then th the th detectives softly BOrU entered the house hous They captured Holloway and two to of oC the men known as lodas Wallace and Jack Monday without 1 a a. fight Bergen Berson however apparently nUy having taken when the tho detectives del ap appeal appeared ap- ap JI peal ed at tho the house had arm armed d' d himself and the spectacular battlo and BerSen's Bern Ber- Ber Sen's Sens n escape followed follow holloway who Is credited with tho tho J of or lid t gang n wa was arr arrested In Chicago a L few months ago o and H Hat at that time made mado an alleged lIf trl confession himself In inthe tho the of or the New e B B. CI C bank hank when hn In a sum excess of 1110 J was al stolen HP lie confessed Jt Jl IB is said to lo avoid l petit font to h Texas where he lie was tr wanted for 1 safe blowing holloway however was wait returned to Rusk T Tex Tx C and sentenced to seven sen n years In the pent pent- After hi his hla conviction he lie pleaded illness and while on hl his wa way to a hospital hos hios- pital Jumped from Crom a fL fast Cast moving mo train and es escaped I d. d