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Itent by pile# of wood and small trees,and fired four shots at the officer* j a* ho disappeared in the nearby jWffpdO. 1Those arrested at the Inn were Its proprietor, Grady White; Babe Kuth William*, described as White's com* j panlrm; Mrs. Odessa White Williams, J Whites sister, and a man listed as W. j D Decker.Major Roden said ha believed j “Decker” was A. Audrey Grave, a western desperado.JccfICHAPMAN COMPANION HEM) IN LOLIblANA BATON ROUGE, La, Nov. tHfhMajor Murphy Roden, assistant super-intendant of Louisiana sUte police,. said today that the captured compan-j { ion of Charles Chapman, fugitive Ar- j f kafisas bandit, was being held in ij Louisiana jail.Roden said he preferred to keep secret the whereabouts of Chapmans companion but admitted the man was being held somewhere in this state.The assistant superintendent, withMajor T. B, Birdsong of the Mississippi highway patrol engaged In a gun battle with Chapman at a filling ate-lion near Philadelphia, Miss. Chap- j man escaped but, Roden said, the! bandit was severely wounded.Roden said Mississippi officers were j scouring that state for Chapman, half jbelieving they would find him deadfrom the wound.The Louisiana officer promised he might have additional information1il! Ii' Iconcerning Chapman’s companion,captured in the gun battle, later in theday. Roden said he has not aa yet succeeded In Identifying the man.\
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Monroe News Star
Monroe, Louisiana, US
Wed, Nov 02, 1938
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