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Show T1I fw. iuvs--n TR1BUN&-SJ- BAlsT-LAK- E MJA1 J of bos ion! How the Neighborhood Terrors' Who Stole Cakes for Fun, Finished with You CMJ win V - A . Every croc Murder conrJ' is inthr7 ,of EVENTUALLY! "Every crook is constantly in the shadow of the law! Says This Poster Displayed by New York Police as a Warning to Evildoers. HILE two Hundred armed police men, many of them with bulletproof Tests, were scouring the woods in the vicinity of East Boston in search of two boy bandits wanted for murder, the.youthful culprits were hiding in a rooming house across the street from a police station, perusing newspaper ac- - ( counts of their wild exploits and ing the "romantic crook stones that had fired them with the ambition to be super bandits. . An amazing story of adolescent criminality was brought to light when they were arrested a story of buried treasure in an abandoned tunnel, of night maraudings when they ate jam and cakes while they were ransacking homes they broke into for loot, of stolen automobiles and joy rides with the flapper sweeties they wanted to impress with their daring, of hold:ups and burglaries extending over a period of three years, and finally of the wanton killing of a policeman. Seldom has Boston been go aroused as it was by J J VICTIMS WIFE. Mrs. Frank J. Widow Corneas, ! the Slain Policeman- - "ANGEL FACE." At Right, Albert Deshon. 17, Leader of the Boeton Boy Bandits, Who Admitted Killing a Policeman. jt vrfl d- F- - V . v-v- i JUs :I v? I j,f-P- - 'i'yZ-'k- ' v. A W y , MS, y r4. W V ' - ft s V - a V- vV t ; y DISTRAUGHT 't K V. , V Io.V - - I V ' I vv.vNk .fe J v V'- - .. MOTHER. KIN OF SLAYER. Mrs. Laura Dashon, Mothar - TOLD ON GANG. Jeanette .Toothaker, Who Was Stunned by News That Her Son Stanley Was a Criminal. of INVAUD BOY BANDIT. Robert Sambursky, 17, tha Consumptive Boy Gangster Who Didnt Cara It Ha Cot Shot. the shooting of Police Officer Frank J. Comeau in the suburb of Dorchester. Fifty suspects were rounded up by law officers, a five thousand dollar reward was offered by the city, Greater Boston was raked for clues to the identity of the slayer. It was not until nearly a month afterward, when Stanley B. Toothaker. a slip of a boy of seventeen arrested for housebreaking, confessed his part in the crime and named his two boy accomplices, that the mystery began to be cleared up. Then started the ten-da- y hunt by armedf posses, nfle squads with bulletproof vests, policemen instructed to shoot to kill, if necessary, when they encountered the boy gangsters. Deshon and Robert Samburskyj r Albert both lads of seventeen, were the two whom Toothaker had named. Their descriptions were sent broadcast, notices of the reward were published in newspapers and flashed on motion picture screens, and tha aid of the whole populace invoked to hasten their capture. The dazed police were deluged with reports So many from all sections. people declared they had seen the boys that the pursuit developed into s wild goose phase extending over all the area around Boston. From the woods in the vicinity of Medfield came the tip that seemed most reliable. Two bbys and two girls had been sighted by a salesman passing in an automobile. A Medfield storekeeper reported that two bovs, perfectly-answerinthe description of Deshon and Sambursky, his store. food at had purchased 1 I Stanley Toothaker, First Confess to tbe Polices members of the posse who needed rest and refreshment. And all the time the boy bandits were resting within the shadow of an East Boston police station, in a rooming house across the street where they had been for a week. They walked into a picture theatre within plain view of the policemen across the way. One of them boarded a street car to Boston while an officer was near enough to touch him. And when the rooming house proprietor confided his suspicions to the police, he declared, they laughed at him. The desperate boy bandits living ajmost in the police station itself? Absurd i But the rooming proprietor wanted to SHOT DEAD At Left, Km Policemen Frank J. Slain .by a Boy Comeau, Bandit. with money on the table. He went back wife they were not simple but a couple of hard-boil- and told his j country lads, , share in that five thousand dollars reward, and he insisted. The two boys had come to him a week before, he said, claiming to be two simple country lads from New Hampshire who wanted a nice room "near His suspicions had been a church. aroused, however, when they requested that he put a stronger lock on their door, and he became still more skeptical when he found them one day playing cards. ed eggs. The two boys resisted when they were arrested by a squad of police, but they did not make use of the automatic revolvers the officers found in their room. Along with the guns were found, half a dozen detective story magazines, crook thrillers, and current newspapers containi ing lurid account of their banditry, Deshon, a handsome, dear-eye- d boy whose Byronic good look commanded the admiration of even the police, seemed to have the "brains of the gang, although the trio had shown no superabundance of gray matter after the killing of Policeman for they had continued their Comeau, Y M: ( Araad HUNTED LIKE WOLVES. , Police Pooot of Two Hundred Which Scoured the Weed Near Be toe Seeking the Bey Gaegsters. . IN CUSTODY. Albert Deaben, Left, and Robert Sambursky, as Tbay Looked at Police Station After Their Cepturn. Pwrnw 1M M, 1 because bit unbelievable stones of amazing exploits had made her uneasy. A former pal of the "baby gangsters," George Edward Hanley, aged 18, who he laughed, eaiday he has reformed end is trying to "I didnt straight, told kow the boys had begun their career of enme et the age of mean to do it. and aspired to get out of the "I had him covered, thirteen, baby crime class and in with the "big but he wouldnt do leaguers. began by stealing what I said. He got bicycle for They rides, he said, robbed out his gun and put store fow joy and good things to eat, it against my fore- as well as candy money, and often raided the head. I could feel the x In a house they had entered, so cold of the muzzle. I could enjoy themselves eaung. didnt know what to they Robert Sambursky, the boy captured do. Then Comeau just with Deshon, is thm and pale, a boy with Put that a hollow laughed. cough who is aaid to be a sufthing up. Kid, and ferer from tuberculosis and heart trouble come with me he as welL His mother said he cam home aeid. every night almost too ill to eat. " What if I ret shot? Robert always "I dont know whet I must said to his buddies. "A short Lfe and a .happened. have pulled the trig- merry one I cant last long, anyway. The Last Boston po'ice, amazed by the ger, for my gun went off. It c a s g k t in boldness of the bevs m getting si room so Comeau's clothe end near the station asked them iromcally whv I let It fall. I dont they didnt apply at the calaboose itself remember everything, for lodging. but I picked up the "Well, said one of the baby bandit, f.nally didr cops gun and ran. ice-bo- y Part is The others ran, too. Comesu just threw his hands back over his head and said, Oh I and fell back." The shooting of Comeau occurred in front of the wagon house of a Dorchester r police station, in the early evening when a crowd was just turning out of a nearby church where services had been in progress. The boys were in a stolen automobile, and were having engine trouble. "We thought the wagon house was a fire station, and that one of the firemen would help us fix the engine, said MOURNS SONS FATE. Deshon. "This fellow came out in trousers Mr. Sambursky, Mother of Bobbio, Being and vest and started to ask us questions, I thought he was only a fireman, so when Comforted by Hor Daughter. it seemed as though he was going to call hold-up- s and burglaries in the very same fop help, and hold us, I pulled my gun. vicinity. It had been on one of these oc- The other two only watched me. "Then he got his gun and put It against casions that Stanley Toothaker, the first of the gang who turned informer, had my forehead. I didnt mean to do it. I been caught. Neighbors called the police didnt know what was happening. All the boys come of poor parentage, when they saw a light in a home from which they kntlw the family to be absent and had no money to pay for their legal The three were surprised In the act of defense: The Judge before whom they leaving the place, they fled; and Toot- were arraigned appointed lawyers to dehaker, who was lugging a heavy suit case fend them, and a sum of $500 was allowed full of stolen goods, waa captured. Then to pay for investigation and search for he confessed. witnesses. It was said the boys' defense would be not guilty by reason of the fact Deshon, frho took his capture philosoeven down did not break and that the shooting was secidentaL phically One of the witnesses expected to be when his tearful father visited him In jailj admitted he killed Po4 celled was Victoria Roman us, a pretty liceman Comeau, and Roxbury schoolgirl, who admitted that she absolved the other of was a friend of Albert Deshon, but had been forced to break off their friendship J The police believed themselves hot on the trail. State troopers were despatched to the Medfield vicinity. Every automobile traveling in these parte was held up and its occupants questioned. al J hard-worki- g Pose armed to the teeth with riot guna, rifles, revolvers, tear bombs everything but cannon end eutlsseee petrolled the roads and beet tha woods feverishly in search of the hunted lade The Medfield State Hos-p.tthrew open its doors as a first aid measure for the relief L of Albert, and Her Daughter. on. |