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Kidnaped Police Chief Whose Companion Was Slain by Outlaw Freed.rFORT SCOTT, Kans., April 7. OP)—Clyde Barrow, phantom deperado of the southwest, fled before a growing arm of police today after releasing a kidnaped police chief whose companion he had murdered. Scores of offiaji s went jjitu actionialong the Kansas-Missouri border | cafter the desperado and his two compions released Percy Boyd, Commerce, Okla., chief of police, early today. They had held him prisoner for more than 14 hours.Constable Kilted.Thoy abducted him near Commerce yesterday after Barrow had shot and killed Cat Campbell, G3. Miami, Okla., constable. Boyd and Campbell had sought to investigate actions of two men and a woman whose motor car was mired in a mudhole.Barrow shot the constable with a machine gun. The trio then forced Boyd into their car and sped away.Boyd, who suffered a scalp wound, said iic was positive as to the identification of Barrow and Bonnie Parker, the desperado's cigar smoking companion. Ho expressed the beli-ef the other member of the trio, a tall, sandy haired man, was liay-rnond Hamilton, alleged associate of Barrow'.Drove Into Kansas.The killers drove into Kansas soon after the Commerce shooting. At ter spending most of the afternoon on skle roads between here and Pittsburg, Kans.. they entered Fort Scott where they purchased a newspaper giving an account of the murder. It was then that Barrow learned he had killed Campbell.The officer was released seven miles south of Here ‘after Barrow had made another trip into the city in an unsuccessful attempt Lo steal a motor car.Barrow is accuse'! of slaying no less than half a dozen pence officers in Missouri, Oklahoma and T^xas. Hamilton recently escaped from a i Texas farm where he was serving i 63 years for murder and robbery, [
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Mason City Globe Gazette
Mason City, Iowa, US
Sat, Apr 07, 1934
Page 8
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Myke G.
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