Ogden Daily Standard | 1918-12-05 | Page 8 | Lloyd Bopp to Die on Gallows Friday, Dec. 6

LLOYD BOPP 10 DIE ON GALLOWS FRIDAY, DEC, CHICAGO, Dec. 2 Lloyd Bopp, who is to die on the gallows Dec. G for the murder of Herman Malow, a motorcycle motor-cycle policeman at Oak Park, a Chicago Chi-cago suburb, was a member of the notorious no-torious band of criminals who figured in the sensational jail break here several sev-eral months ago. Earl Dear, a gunman, and "brains" of his fellow gangsters, also took part in the escape. He, too, Is under the sentence of death. After a long legal battle, the state supreme court on Oct. 21 affirmed the judgment of the trial court which sentenced sen-tenced Bopp to death and fixed the date of execution. Many times in recent re-cent years Bopp's checkered campaign cam-paign was halted temporarily, but he always succeeded In obtaining freedom free-dom after comparatively short periods, per-iods, until finally convicted of murder. Dear, who specialized largely as a dealer in stolen automobiles, was arrested ar-rested with Eugene Hartnett, another notorious crook, and convicted of the murder of Rudolph Wolfe, a chauffeur, chauf-feur, who had shown fight when they attempted to steal his employer's automobile. au-tomobile. Then began the unraveling of a series of daring robberies. Hartnett finally was sentenced to 1 1 years in prison and Dear was sentenced sen-tenced to death by hanging, but through influential friends Dear obtained ob-tained a stay of sentence for several months. It was while confined in jail that Dear came into contact with other members of tho gang, including Bopp, Frank McFarlane, whose intrepid exploits ex-ploits were long known to the police, and "Big Joe" Moran, who was notorious notor-ious for his ability to break jail and uoasieu mat ne couiu uo it again. The escape was planned and successfully suc-cessfully executed, and then began a nationwide search which continued for several months. The men finally were located in a house in Chicago's fashionable fash-ionable northshore district. Police reserves were called out and the house was surrounded in preparation for a long gun battle. But the bandits furnished fur-nished another surprise by calmly surrendering, sur-rendering, while the 300 heavily armed fofficers looked on in amazement. Moran was taken to Jolict to serve an indeterminate sentence for highway high-way robbery, and McFarlane will serve a like sentence. nn