Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-12-27 | Page 3 | Attorney Slain on City Streets

A ATTORNEY n RN SLAIN lAI lAION ON Oil Father of Youth Killed in Attempted Arrest Takes His Revenge SEDALIA Mo Dec 27 21 AP AP- AP Robert K Bardwell today shot and killed Claude Wilkerson local attorney at at- torney torne on principal Sedalla's thor thor- Bardwell's son Elbert Eibert Bard Bardwell well and Billy Palmer were ard ad killed a few months ago by D Deputy uty Sheriff Ollie Jenkins of ot Boonville Boon who sought them in connection with the robbery of ot a Pleasant Gre Green n bank last Jul July Later Claude Wilkerson was WIlS Indicted on a charge o of ot complicity In the robbery The father tather of or young Bardwell Is said to ha have believed that Wilkerson Wilker- Wilker son was responsible for tipping off the tire officers about the movements movements movements move move- ments of Elbert Bardwell ane ant anC Palmer Pith Pill mer just before they were slain Bardwell readily accompanied the officers to police headquarter when they called at his home