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MARSHALL AT FOREST CITY SHOT BY BANDITSBandits Captured—One Confesses toAssaulting OfficersAMEl jIiWuThi elect! Post roomHaraE. E meml by 'SPay* Dulackthe (mayNotJoin,quiteyearimeaiwillgarding 'areto (mon.»,;Night Marshall Clarence D. Montgomery of Forest City is recovering in Irish Hospital at that, place from p ;%ound in -his leg suffered, about 5 :30 A. M;, Sunday, Oct. 11, when he engaged in a gunbnttle with three bandits.Montgomery was on his way to the M. St. L. depot to take care of the mail from the early morning train.He noticed a Chevrolet sedan parked in ihe alley by the Thompson lumber yards, and upon investigation found three men. asleep in the.car and that one was heavily armed. He took the number of the car and immediately notified the sheriff, who with his deputy and Roy Arnold chief of the Vigilants, who appeared on the scene Jiist as Marshall Montgomery wa.e arousing the occupants of the car:The driver of the machine jumped tint and started, schuffling with Montgomery: The other bandits got out of C(M the car and hit Montgomery a blow j on the head with the- butt of a gun.\li three of the bandits flashed guns pos| and forced the sheriff and his men to take to cover behind the’lumber yard. ^ Tn the fracas Montgomery was shot, .Bali the bullet passing thfu the calf of his leg. The sheriff and his men were xmn unable to return the fire of the ban- ^93* dits for fear of hitting Montgomery. gve The bandits then jumped in their car I and while backing out of the alley xot tlie sheriff and his men cut loose at £ the . car, but they made their getaway. j# ; Sheriff Swenson immediately notified ^ .the surrounding towns to be on the ^al lookout for them. ' . M.All Three Bandits Are Captured Ma Those, held are: G.Everett Weber, 21, held, at Blue b. Earth, Minn. *. ” .. NalAIfffi Weber; 19 held at Faivmont, sj n Minn! . ' . ' DisJohn Skogerboe, 23, held at Forest Goi City. Ra;£Fu a confession signed by Skoger- Au boe, Alvin Weber wap named as the one who shot Marshall Montgomery. Toi Tom Boynton, Winnebago County I 11 Attorney, is in Des Moines pushing h I extradition proceedings against Alvin tin Weber and Everett Weber, and hope sci to have all three boys in Forest (5ity I Tt! by today for prosecution. f The'SYebers hi are cousins. • ’ . V 'S ' Co:‘Car Shot Up • , fCl. Boy Arnold, who was driving tlie fes bandit's ear back to Forest City, stopped in Buffalo Center fora few belt; fminutes yesterday noon, and showed Na a number of the local* townspeople! •what a .45 could do. 1 There were eight holes in the rear of the car t01 about .an Inch in diameter: How any St; of the bandits escaped being hit is tv otl miracle. / lw*of
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Buffalo Center Tribune
Buffalo Center, Iowa, US
Thu, Oct 15, 1931
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