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Show Ij BANDIRDOING Two Officers Killed, One Fatally- Wounded, Three Slightly Wounded. ESCAPED MEN BUSY Attempt to Rob Bank at Mount Morris and at Arcadia. DENVER, Colo., Sept 11. The kill-ins kill-ins of Patrolman Luther McMahlll here early today brought the casualties inflicted bv the automobile bandits who began terrorizing .Colorado Springs' and Denver yesterday lo two officers flWed, one probably fatally wounded and three slightly wounded. McMahill was killed at 4 o'clock (his morning when he stopped to investigate investi-gate a closed automobile standing at Sixteenth avenue and Colorado boulevard. boule-vard. His slayer escaped. Detective Chief John Rowan of Colorado Col-orado Springs was killed and Detective Detec-tive J. D. Reilly was dangerously wounded at Colorado Springs yesterday yester-day by the bandits. Three Denver po-f po-f lieemen were slightly wounded in two skirmishes here last night. Of seven men sought in connection with the robbery of a Missouri, Kansas Kan-sas and Texas train at Koch, Kan., July 10, Roy Sherrill and Frank Lewis arc in custody. Suspect Seriously Wounded. Sherrill is in a hospital here, seriously ser-iously wounded. He was shot when he and Miss Eva de Morris, sister of Lewis, wore captured at Palmer Lako early today. Their automobile was one stolen here last night from O. D. Otter of Chicago and Miss W. M. Gates of Texas who were driven twenty miles Into the country and set down on the prairie. Miss de Morris denies any know-f ledge of the train robbery and says" she took part in the shooting. Lewis, captured at Palmer Lake, fwas taken to Pueblo for safety. John Babb, stepfather of Lewis, Mrs. Babb and Mrs. Lewis are held hero pending investigation. The police still are seeking five members of the alleged train robber band. Lloyd Dale, alleged to bo a member of the bandit gang, was arrested at Sedalia, Colo., this morning. Ray Long, who said ho was a Denver motor mo-tor car driver not connected' with the party, also was detained -by the police po-lice at Sedalia. Attempt to Rob. DIXON, 11., Sept. 14. Five automobile automo-bile bandits, four of them believed by the police to be Earl Dear, "Big Joe" Moran, Lloyd Bopp and Frank Mc- IErlane, who escaped rrom tne county Jail in Chicago last Thursday, made an unsuccessful attempt today to rob the Citizens' State bank at Mount Morris, Mor-ris, eighteen miles northeast of here. The bandits drove to the town in a large touring, car early this morning and forced the door of the bank. The noise they made aroused Miss Florence Flor-ence Weaver, telephone operator, in an office directly over the bank. Sho notified noti-fied an official of the bank, who was mot with a fusilade of bullets when he approached. Miss Weaver attempted to reach the sheriff at Oregon, III., but the robbers had cut all wires between Dixon and Mount Morris. Citizens who attempted to reach the bank were driven back by the bandits fire. The robbers made two unsuccessful attempts at-tempts to blow the vault before fleeing flee-ing in their automobile. One Killed One Prisoner. flrtCADIA, Kan., Sept 14. One bawiit was killed and another taken prisoner in a skirmish with citizens following a raid by three men upon the Home State bank here today. On the body of the dead robber was found a draft registration card from a Kansas City, Mo., board bearing the name of Pete Marrazzo. The attempted robbery was discovered discov-ered b employes of the St. Louis and San Francisco railroad at the depot two blocks from the bank building. Cashier J. M. Fowler was notified. He aroused his brother and the two, armed, arm-ed, rushed to the bank after starting a telephone alarm throughout the town. The Fowlers found the robbers at work on the vault into which they had broken. The two men opened fire and the bandits replied while retreating through the rear of the building. By this time aid was coming to the "Fowlers and citizens advanced after the bandits. Two hundred feet south of the bank the body, of the dead robber was found and the wounded bandit fras captured a mile west of the town. The third member of the gang escaped. |