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Trio Shoots Woman, Gags Others In Robbery Of HomeDecatur, 111., Dec. 4 (APThree gunmen shot a woman then bound and gaged her and three other persons yesterdaywhen they invaded a Decatur area home and robbed victims of $1,-100 in cash and an undertermined amount of jewelry.Mrs. Marian Lee, 34. a resident at the home of Mrs. Della Smull, was shot in the arm when she struggled with one of the gunmen. Mrs. Lee, Mrs. Smull and Mrs. Helen Morell 39, housekeeper at the Smull home, were trussed up in bedrooms of the house.Harry Bickers, 33-year-old electrician working In the basement at the time, also was tied up by the gunmen, who then spent an hour ransacking the house before escaping in an automobile.1Jttsri.rhad no flight training, but that in 1946 he stole a plane in Indiana while AWOL from the Army and flew it successfully.)McIntosh said he amused himself during part of his flight in the light plane by diving at boats he saw on the rivers.McIntosh was being held at the, Madison county jail today. He spent a large portion of the night i Tinder questioning by the FBI, es-! pecially in relation to the possible whereabouts of the other escaped, prisoners.
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Carbondale Free Press
Carbondale, Illinois, US
Thu, Dec 04, 1947
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