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a*ex,aheLt-te.nerek:eIDENTIFICATION POSITIVErCommute rrtjtai fijeb Onciofofsr,vs.r-■hk-tdr,Vttl-0.aentl.tmorning, after Identifying Youtsler and Finn. Mrs. Youtsler said she knew Finn and had been requested by Mrs. Clara Finn to determine if the man killed near here was her husband.Mrs. Youtsler said she and Mrs. Finn would claim the bodies and take them to Joplin If they could get the money. It Is expected, officers said, that Lyon county would help pay the cost. Youtsler is survived by his widow and two daughters, one 15 and one 17 years old. Finn is survived by his widow and a son. 8 years old. Mrs. Youtsler safd she worked in a factory in Joplin. Mr. Youtsler. she said, had not worked in a long time. Mrs. Youtsler told officer! her husband had served three penitentiary sentences, but she did not know he was a gunman, according to Emporia officers, Mrs. Youtsler said she did not know th# man identified as Mitchell.The bodies still are being held atthe Roberts - Blue undertaking rooms. State highway patrolmen are trying to find relatives of Mitchell.Taggert’s Work Praised.John DeLong, of Emporia, who was a member of the group of highway officers who ran onto the three men in a car east of Emporia and north of Highway SOS last Thursday. came to Emporia late Saturday afternoon with photographs, fingerprint classifications and records of the three men. The fingerprints checked with those Policeman Ben Taggert made Thursday night after the men were shot and DeLong said the state police credited Taggert’s work with finding the Identity of the men,Mitchell, who was sentenced tothe Kansas penitentiary in 1916 for bank robbery, also had served terms in Oklahoma and Texas prisons, the records showed.Finn's records showed he had served nine years in the Missouri penitentiary and also had served in Oklahoma and Kansas.Youtsler had served In Missouri, Oklahoma and Kansas. He was con victed of larceny, burglary andbreaking Jail.Wfll Send Bodies to Joptin.11(1tiftstCounty Attorney Clarence V. Bd3PkBeck was making arrangements this afternoon to send the bodies of Youtsler and Finn to Joplin, Mo., for burial. Widows of the two men, in a telegram to Beck, said they had arranged for funeral expenses at Joplin. Beck said the law requires the county to pay for embalming the bodies at Emporia. He was not so sure that the county could be held responsible for transportation expenses to Joplin. However he planned to obtain the monev from some source and hoped to put the j Ttwo bodies on a southbound Katy i :a train this afternoon. Beck raid he j1 n probably would ask the state high- I sa way department to share the ex- re penses with Lyon county. |BidTa111
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Emporia Gazette
Emporia, Kansas, US
Mon, Aug 13, 1934
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