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i Telling Southern Oklahoma About the World.TWENTY PSHOT TO DEATHDavid S. Smith and George Smith, Brothers, Slain Whiles Resisting Robbery; Another^ Bound and Gagged.FOURTH MEMBER PARTY ESCAPES•A *1 'Police Start Immediate Search for Young Men Who Did the Killing.r. * * *MUSKOGEE, April 20.—(AV-DttTtd; \||$Smith and George Smith, brothers of Connecticut, were shot to death W— f,AI'c'g1two robbers in a hotel room here _tbrnJght- ■ • mm''.John Wike, who was traveling Wlthitjbe-:i0 Smith brothers, was bound and gagged.' Siand a fourth member of the party,H.\ Seeley, who was in a bath; toohli adr Joining the room in which the occurred, was unharmed. Seeley Wike also are from Connecticut.fSeeley told officers two y dressed in brown suits, entem and attempted to rob the Sn ers and shot them to death wh■»«#«S-.-'wl• resisted. They then bound and gaggp$gg Wike and fled.fifVfOfficers Start Search **Officers immediately started a search for the pair but had found no trace *oi them 45 minutes after the shooting.David Smith and Wike were frbn-Sharon, Conn., George Smith was from West Cornwall, Conn., and Seeley wa from Washington, Conn. All were loa, brokers, traveling through Oklahoma f*v V business. ’ . * J• ^*. .’tOther persons in the hotel declared they heard no. shots. The two brotfieip were believed to have had considerable money with them. It was not learned immediately, however, whether the bers obtained any loot. v *
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Ardmore Daily Ardmoreite
Ardmore, Oklahoma, US
Sun, Apr 27, 1930
Page 11
Full Page
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