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Show Bandit Caught in ss7 Wyoming Taken to Omaha for Trial Fred Brown, alias Gus Grimes, Omaha "chain bandit," shot and captured cap-tured near Medicine Bow, Wye, June 17, ufter a spectacular pursuit through Nebraska and Wyoming in stolen automobiles au-tomobiles since May 27. This photograph photo-graph was taken at the Wyoming penitentiary pen-itentiary at Rawlins immediately after Brown's wound, a clean hole through the body Just above the heart, had been dressed. On May 27. Brown kidnaped kid-naped two women at Omaha, locked them together with a log chain about their necks and held them captive for three days. A passing motorist responding re-sponding to the women's cries, was also captured and held prisoner two days. Brown was digging a grave for the man when the latter managed to escape. Brown fled, stealing auto after af-ter auto and for more than a fortnight kept officers chasing along his crisscrossing criss-crossing trail At Sidney, Neb. he captured a deputy sheriff and the town marshal, hound tliom with their own I suspenders and escaped into Wyoming ' Four days later he was run down, his auto having bogged. He was shot while running for cover. Brown was recently re-cently taken to Omaha for trial. oo |