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Florida Police Barely Missed Catching PairINDIANAPOLIS (AP) - A Florida policeman came within inches lusl month nf capturing I wo mass murder suspects warned in Indiana, foji apparently didn't see them, one of The suspects said.David Wayne Smith, 17, whn f n c e s first-dogreo murder charges fur the Fell. 14 shotgun slayings of four young men, was returned to Indiana Friday after his extradition order was s igncd in Lexington, Kent urky.Smith said hi? and fellow fugi-ijve Roger Clay Drol linger, who is still sought, were hiding in hDint* hushes during a day-long manhunt near Cocoa, Fla., after they had been spotted by several poop!e.Smith said I he policeman actually looked right at Ilium, hut apparently didn't see them because of thick underbrush, according to a stare policedetective who accompanied Smith lack to Indianapolis.Smith said they escaped on a Inrin after (heir near-rapture in Flo [idaSmith is expected to fie arraigned Monday in Parke County, near the rural community cf Hollandsburg where the murders took plaee.Smith was i/ue.stinned at the Indiiinnpulis airport by state police defectives and the FIJI During the ini er rugat inn, S m ith began to cry, hut police said that was because uf llin attention he was get ring from repealers whn were watching through a glass wliximv.Smith was taken to the Indiana Diagnostic Center atPlainfield, west of here, where he was to held over the week* t*iitl before transfer to the Parke County Jail at Rockville.
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Naples Daily News
Naples, Florida, US
Sun, Apr 10, 1977
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