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IHAPMAN FATEnIISTILL UNKNOWNouitiono Offictr ThinksSouthwest BodmonProbably DeadxMil I GoI oflor ru» (thfpelt; indoPHILADELPHIA, Min , Nov. 2.-*(#) | tai-Is Charles Chapman, the southwest'*[o, t bad man, dead? Or has he mark nother of his sensational escapes j ^ rorti the law. j °fIa.vureScores of peace officers, from Mis-iIissippi and Louisiana, converged onpiis hideout here Monday night, poured : ,hA K Si k v ato Ajfet t m ^ MMHfpta* i^ ^ * * ^ »tachine gun, rifle and pistol pulletst him as he fled, and captured two tten and two women. j ®Major T. B. Birdsong of the Mia-iaippi highway police and MajorMurphy Roden of the Louisiana high-vay police, said they were almost cer- | n ain the outlaw was wounded as he I pcd for the woods, firing at the of- j Sleers as he ran.I believe Chapman was mortallybounded ” said Major Roden, it is : .ny opinion that he will be found j Isomewhere in the woods dead. How- ,?ver, he might have escaped and is being hidden out by some of hi* manyfriends in this section.”Major Birdsong said he was doubtful if the fugitive was dead but that it Mseemed almost Impossible” for him j ito have escaped wounding. j 1Chapman’s lawless forays have ex- j j tended through Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas and Mississippi* He abandonedhis work as a respectable contractorduring the depression and started at;4*i S* *
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Monroe News Star
Monroe, Louisiana, US
Wed, Nov 02, 1938
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