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THREE ALLEGED BAHTS TAKEN AFTER GUN FIGHTMan, and Two Women Are Cornered by Posse Accompanied by Prison Bloodhounds.*; SECOND MAN IS ARRESTEDI Prisoners Are Charged With Robbing Filling Stations * and Kidnaping Men.M’A LESTER, Aug. 20.—lt;/P)—.An i armed posse with state’s prison blood-i hounds captured three members of an f alleged holdup and kidnap gang after a gun battle near Wetumka early to-s day.Those arrested were Arthur Gooch,* 26. Bessie Beavers, 19, and Maudio Lawson, 20, all of McAlester.Later, another man, Bill Johnson, said by officers to be a former Mus-J kogee county convict, was arrested in [ a hay barn near Wetumka. He had $47* on his person. The two couples allegedly robbed two 5 filling stations at Arpelar, forcing the ■ operators, Cecil Thompson and Charlie1 Regileskl, to accompany them. \Three Arpelar farmers set out in ! ; I pursuit but were captured by the gang, * ‘ 5 disrobed, beaten and left naked on the ' 1 highway with the warning “Don’t move j 1 for 30 minutes or we’ll kill you.” ITraveling westward some 20 miles to j j i Calvin, the gang robbed the Blalock \ filling station and forced Blalock to go along as they turned northward toward Wetumka. j Fugitives CapturedA posse of Pittsburg county officers and Grady Anderson, state’s prison ; ' sergeant in charge of bloodhounds, soon were in hot pursuit and a gun-fight near Wetumka ensued. When poasemen’s bullets punctured the tires on the fleeing car, the suspects took to their heels but the hounds quickly brought about their capture. 1The four were turned over to Hughes county authorities for prosecution in lt;connection with the Calvin robbery. 1 The Arpelar farmers who were strip- ( ped by the quartet were Wallace and Dee Howell, brothers, and Turley Me- i Gee. lt;Arpelar is in Pittsburg county; Oal- i vln in Hughes county. , t
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Ardmore Daily Ardmoreite
Ardmore, Oklahoma, US
Mon, Aug 20, 1934
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