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Garrow listed in good condition after shooting climaxes manhuntPLATTSBURGH. N Y. (API - Robert Garrow Sr.. charged in an Adirondack campsite slabbing death, was in good COHBtion at a ho»pilal here today after being shot in the climax to a massive manhuntGarrow. 37, refusing to surrender to the last, was felled Thursday by four blasts from a 12-gauge shotgun after ignoring an ccder to halt Conservation officer Hulary leBlanc of Ballston Spa shot the armed fugitive as he Red into a wooded area near the northern New York hamlet of Wither-bee. about M miles south ofGarrow. charged with murder in the July 2? slabbing death of Philip DomMewski. 18. of Schenectady. N Y„ was an experienced woodsman who successfully eluded lawmen for U dais in rugged mountain terrain he knew well.The Syracuse bakery mechanic suffered a fractured nght arm and chest and back wounds Blootounds flushed him out after troopers trailed his nephew . David Mandy. 16. who was taking supplies to his unde Mandy. son of Garrow's sister who lives near the place Garrow was shot, has beencharged with hindering prosecution State Police also said thev planned to question Garrow about the killing July 20 of .mother Adirondack camper The body of Daniel Porter. 22. of Concord. Mass . was found id miles from the site where iXan-Mewski was killed near Speculator Troopers said they also want to ask the father of two about the disappearance of Porter s campaign companion. Susan Petr. 21. of Skokie. Ill The search for Garrow. who had served an eight-year sentence on a rape charge began after the discovery’ Ihxnblewski's body lashed to a tree near a Hamilton County campsiteThe- manhunt attracted upwards of 200 searchersThe bakery mechanic narrowly missed capture the first night of the search when state troopers chased his car down a highway after lie slipped through a roadblock Garrow ditched the car and disappeared into the woods surrounding Speculator, eluding trovers He later visited and left without capture his sister. Mrs Charles Mandy. whose homeWitherbee residents relieved it’s overWITHERBEE. N Y i APi Residents of this northern New York hamlet seemed relieved following the capture Thursday of Robert Garrow Sr . charged with the slaying of a camper m the Adirondack*The shots that felled the JT-year-okJ Syracuse man and ended an 11-day manhunt could be heard througtout the community and in Minevlle. Garrow s hometown, one mile away “I was afraid someone was going to get hurt. said an elderly Witherbee resident Too many people with guns Too many people who lt;km t know how to use guns We kept the itoors locked, but we didn't have anything for protection;' said Myrtle Sharrow of Witherbee after the capture Everywhere you went you had to go through • couple of roadblocks.' laughed another man I am going to have to put a new trunk in my car The other one's worn out.”Elsewhere there also was relief Phyllis Domblewski of Schenectady, whose brother Garrow is accused of slabbing. said. 1 am glad they found him.'* Garrow'* wife Edith in Syracuse, broke into tears and hung up the telephone when areporter told her ot the fugitive's capture A sister in Schenectady expressed relief I'm relieved it's over, but I wish it hadn't happened this way.' said Mrs Florence Brooks of Schenectady. I don't hold the police responsible for shooting him It's just Uk. bad all this had to happenI still can t believe he did what they say. the sister added Garrow . sought snce the stabbing death of Philip Domblewski. 18. of Schenectady. July 29. was reported in gcod condition at a Plattsburgh hospital after his capture My worst expectations have happened. God said (’.arrow's attorney. Frank Armani. c4 Syracuse, after hr learned of (■arrow's wcwinding Armani had earlier pleaded in Uipcrecordcd messages for Garrow to surrender Witherbee residents talked of the community’s quiet existence before Garrow’s capture one-half mile from the home of ani.lher sister. Mrs Charles MandyTill get back to be nice and quiet like it was. one woman said See how nice and quiet it is.It was very exciting, tense and scary .”was under state police surveillance The young Mandy was arraigned before Elizabethtown Town Justice Richard Burpee and lodged in the Essex County Jail pending a preliminary hearing Slate Police Maj. Donald Ambler, in charge of the search effort, said I c Blanc fired at ('.arrow after the fugitive ignored three commands to halt Garrow was armed with a loaded 30-30 Winchester rif. Ambler said.leBlanc 27. who has been a cwiservation officer 18 months, became ill with nervousness after the capture. Ambler said.(.arrow was taken by ambulance to Champlain Valley Physicians Medical Center Hospital in Plattsburgh after the shooting A hospital spokesman said Thursday night his condition was good, but the prognosis was guarded The fugitive, pursued by bloodhounds and the search team, stumbled another 10 yards before he collapsed from his wounds after a half-mile from the Mandy home His wife Edith left her Syracuse home for Plattsburgh soon after learning of the shooting. She burst into tears and hung up the telephone when a reporter told her Garrow had been wounded (’.arrow pleaded guilty in 196’. to first-degree rape in an assault of a 16-year-old Albany. N Y . girt and was sentenced to 10 to 3) y ears in prison He was paroled in August 1968 fn*n Auburn state prison A Syracuse yudge has issued warrants charging Garrow with first-degree sodomy. sexual abuse, attempted rape, inlawful imprisonment, possession of a dangerous weapon, cnnunal inpersonation and endangering the welfare of a child. The charges involve the alleged abduction of a girlU.S. Magistrate Edward M Oman signed a warrant in Syracuse last week charging Garrow with violating the federal firearms law The warrant alleged that the fugitive had falsely certified he had no felony «irv Motions when he purchased a rifle at a Syracuse department store Ikimbewski\ three fellow campers told authorities a man wielding a hunting rifle ordered them out of their tent and tied them to separate trees They quoted the man as saying he had killed before and would killB 'lhe three freed themselves and later fled Garrow as their assailant A sister. Mrs. Florence Brooks of Schenectady, told a reporter last week. He'll either kill himself or they'll have to kill hun I remember him saying one time. TH never go behind bars again. It's too tough Die years of loneliness are just too much for you’.”Search cost
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Auburn Citizen Advertiser
Auburn, New York, US
Fri, Aug 10, 1973
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