Show SLA YER KILLED IN N GUN BATTLE WITH N I if if iT M lr M or M 6 VI A Al r CALIFORNIA AlIfORNIA BD BOY BANDIT IS SlAIN 2 E EMad Mad Career of f Joe Ends With Battle in San Francisco Apartment 2 KILLED IN TEXAS Dance Hall Row Results in Death of Telephone Operator and Constable SAN FRANCISCO N Nov v. v 13 13 United Press Press Joe Joe youth youthful ro th- th ful ui California desperado was shot to death today today in a close e range gun battle iri battle in a McAllister l street basement apartment S The murderer who created a a. reign of of terror for months after after he and his pa pal Floyd Floy lJ Hill Hall ll escaped from San Quentin prison last A April ril fell fell his body riddled with bullets a second after he had wounded Detective Detective De De- Sergeants Sergeant Earl Ear Rooney and I Vernon Van Maitre was killed Instantly Rooney shot through the abdomen abdomen abdomen abdo abdo- men toppled to the tile floor but a few feet from gasping lIe He got me first but I got him But it was not until they looked at the body of ot the slain man that the detectives realized th they y had ended the career of of the notorious killer The TI-e mad career of and Hall two of the states state's most moat noted criminals criminals- started in September 1923 1023 when the couple ab about ut to be arrested for speeding shot hot and arid killed Constable James Jmes Meehan of ot Redwood City SENTENCED TO LIFE Sentences of life imprisonment were wera passed on them In November 1923 and both were removed to San Quentin April 8 8 19 1925 1925 5 th they y efe effected te sensational sensational sen sea escapes over the tho walls of ot the he penitentiary and started a rampage of ot robbery and shooting which centered In Sacramento vat- vat ley ey Hall was wis captured in a Sacramento Sacramento Sacramento Sacra Sacra- mento lodging house after alter he and had killed E. E Litzberg a Sacramento merchant during a holdup S The murder followed a series of robberies in and around S Sacramento Sacramento Sacra Sacra- cra- cra mento during which the men stole automobiles looted kitchens to se secure secure secure se- se cure meals and for hours bouts during the warmest part of the manhunt wore were only a short distance ahead of pursuing officers S Their trail at one time coursed through h Sacramento a few blocks from the capitol with the criminals criminals crimi crimi- nals dashing dashing- madly through the str streets ets in making their escape HIDING UNDER BED Halls Hall's capture was Wa not in line line- with his career caree he was found hiding hid hid- ing log under a bed in a cheap lodging house He said he did not know where was Hall was wa- sentenced to han hang r f for Or r Continued on page 5 5 f BO BOit BOY it DIT IS SlAIN I JOTS JOIS 2 POLICE from page 1 1 g murder and is now in waiting a new trial grant grant- n mis Is Sought Double Murder ATE U E. E Nov 13 AP 1 hunt was on on throughout ut ig 19 aji ii 11 county oil fields toda todar toda I 1 34 in connection double killing at a hotel Best last night Coats V to to witnesses shot and George Hayes and Bean Bean 19 telephone oper- oper V killed a moment later Is' Is s' s gun was discharged in ing g le with C l' A. A Jones who d in the arm ti tf tins g his ejection from the the Santa Rita hotel by ind Jones Coats Is said to to Hayes on the theor theor or and shot him in the thene the ne head Jones rush j jcl cl ci clinch with the slayer and t n Ii the arm about the time timea jai a fell dead with a bullet temple p s to have escaped u mobile WITH PISTOL Before the shooting Cona Con Con- lajes a es r td id struck Coats over the butt of a pistol orts forts to eject him from the hose 1086 present said ead was vas bloody when he heit it t was said a nt was made County At- At tA Moore said about 11 that Coats was cutting up es w vac ic summoned Ifor for a n. of years was Kt the Suggs ranch In this rant raming r Coats was wall wasby it by Justice of the Peace rt and given to Sheriff V who mustered every I deputy and set out after I |