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Show ! 0 in n n Fb M" - i p ' TOWN i i Fatal Battle Between Officials and Three Train Robbers Muskogee, Okla., June 18. In a battle bat-tle between officials and three train , robbers, who held up a St. luis. Iron VMountain & Southern freight train, near Ilragg, Okla , early today, Dep-uty Dep-uty Constable Johnson Kirk was Kill- i Td. Paul Williams, one of the robbers, , was shot through the breast, and cap- ' tured. The other two robbers es- i capod, and a posse Is pursuing them. The object of the robbers was to get I tho money of tho train crew, who had just received their pay envelopes. The railroad men resisted the robbers, and the sounds of fighting soon brought i Kirk and Deputy Constable Wycks to the bcene. i Robbers and officers, armed with pistols, engaged in a battle,, and Kirk, was shot, through tho head and Instantly In-stantly killed. . . j |