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era.Cockrell, vylth Sherman and Dallas officers, brought the pair through the pair through here and carried Hamilton to Dallas, the sheriff returning here early today.Death SentenceTo Be SoughtDALLAS, April 20.—(/P.—Clanging jail doors lammed shut here today on Raymond Hamilton, abruptly ending the dapper outlaws futile efforts to make crime pay and confronting him with a passible death penalty in his impending trial for looting the Grand Prairie State Bank of more than $1,500 on March 19.The robbery with firearms charge against him for that hold-up carries a maximum penalty of death in the event of conviction and state authorities say they will seek to hare the capital sentence imposed at his trial Monday on the 20-year-old Dallas gunman, whose activities with the Clyde Barrow gang of desperadoes made him one of the most-wanted fugitives of the nation.couldn’t see and advantage on meet-' ing them on even terms.For many months the names of Raymond Hamilton. Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker, the woman who has been Barrow’s companion in crime in many a brush with the law, have been on the lips of officers over the country as the most troublesome gang to work in this section in years. A split up at Terre Haute, Ind , recently resulted In Hamilton going his own way. while Barrow and the woman are continuing their furtive existence somewhere else — officers don't know where.Road Blocked.When two deputty sheriffs and another man blocked his road late yesterday at Howe, seven miles south of Sherman, and ordered his surrender for his latest offense against society, Hamilton and his accomplice in the hold-up tw’o hours before of the First National Bank of Lewisville gave up without a signol resistance.Quite talkative and taking his downfall philosophically, Hamilton explained that he and the “kid who got into trouble by accepting his invitation to make some easy money—T. R. Brooks were armed with pistols, so they chose not to try to shoot their way out of the trap. If they had had a machine gun, Hamilton intimated, he might haveWoman Held.Acting quickly after Hamilton’s capture, officers took into custody at Amarillo his alleged woman companion of more affluent days — Mary O’Dare — she was occuping a hotel room there with another man. Officers rushed her to Dallas and will question her closely concerning what she may know about Hamilton's activities.The capture of Hamilton accidentally cost the life of Howard Gunter, special deputy, whose skull was fractured in an automobile accident as he was driving the stolen car Hamilton had used in the Lewisville robbery, into Sherman. Gunter had been driving behind a car load of officers, which halted suddenly. Gunter lost control of his machine and crashed into the car ahead and creened into a roadside railing, being thrown headlong to the pavement.ISCREEN TODAYPALACE—Lionel Barrymore inThis Side of Heaven; Bing Crosby Comedy; Cartoon.1 tried to get out by shooting the officers. The officers were armedonly with pistols and HamiltonDREAMLAND — Katherine Hepburn in Little Women with Fiances Dee, Joan Bennett, Paul Lukas, Edna May Oliver; SLhange As It Seems; Cartoon,Injury Doesn’t Stop Him.DAT rp l ai/D rvfnpvr Uit Uanir
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Denton Record Chronicle
Denton, Texas, US
Thu, Apr 26, 1934
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