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Show Last of Four Brothers Is Surrounded Sur-rounded in Wisconsin Swamp tyj, Z " TVITHEE, Wis., May 1. A largo posse by led blood hounds today enveloped envel-oped a swamp near here in searchof Louis Kruegor, for 18-months a fugi- ... tivc from justice, on a charge of mill- Stary draft evasion. "Brought to bay last night at the home of his mother, Mrs. Louis Kruc-ger, Kruc-ger, . tho man escaped by leaping through a window amid a fusillade of bullets from possement and took xefuge In the swamp ncraby. A cordon of deputies was thrown about the swamp immediately and it Is bolicved ho is still within the circle of the deputies. Today's activity recalls the "battle of Krueger farm" in Septomber 1918, when Harry Jcnson, station agent at Owen, was killed and four other possemcn wounded,- and which brought life sentences for Frank and utmm Leslie Krueger, brothers of Louis. n'iZjfJ The 'two brothors are now serving mBs 1 their sentences in "Waupun prison. jEfiffl j Tho fight at the Krueger farm In JSRI I 191S was precipitated when United :feiJ States deputy marshals sought to ar- rest tho four Krueger boys as draft SyjjttljJ evaders. Tha fight lated some time. Jwfilf ' rueSer finally surrendering, MKfm Leslie and Ennls, two other brothers WH escaping. Ennis was killed a few days later by a federal agent and Leslie um n was caught several months afterwards fffl I in Minnesota. |