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-POLICE STILL SEARCHING FOR MASON CITY MANMuoa City, la., rri! —Although poses searching for Norman Edwards, wanted for resisting officers and detectives following a series of daring robberies at Owatonna Thursday, lired two shots at the Mason City bandit today when at one time they were within one block of the fleeing man, until a late hour today they had not come upon his lair.His overcoat, presumably one he had borrowed after losing the bullet torn one at Albert I-ea Was found in an old barn near the tile works here. There was a sack of tobacco i j in one pocket.| j It is almost certain that the youth ■ stopped at the home of Mr, and Mrs, Edgar K. Martin on North Main street last night.‘ Edwards, or someone who exactly fits his description, stopped her and knocked at the door and asked for some bread and butter. My husband told him he was a laborer also and that he did not feel able to help him/'When Mr. Edwards went to Ict her mail from the mailman at 10.30 o'clock this morning there was a large pool of blood on the front porch where the man stood the night before. Leading from the pool were the imprints of a man’s fee? drawn in blood. The rtacks ran north and west from the house to Police were called to the scene The funeral of the brother, Lealio took place at Albert Lea at 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon, .dr. and Mrs. Henry J. Edwards, the parent and seven brothers and sisters were in attendance
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Dubuque Times Journal
Dubuque, Iowa, US
Tue, Apr 26, 1921
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