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.ate-liasFri-Ufllive f 2, the ■ter avyUr,itH.in mr-tn-i inntsclyllH.viauseiiv.er*nn-nts111.Dillresto2 Denver Youihs, Adams City Girl Shot in Arkansasift-JStHin.islLIU30itsill;k.nilriliu-‘0-*woriyit.mllieettoir.erofy-idsylira?:iilian-Yeilville. Aik., Dec. 29-4*)-Two young men and a 15-yeQr old girl wanted Tor small robhcrics wore wounded In a gun battle with Arkansas atate policemen near here this afternoon.The girl, Identified by State Po-.lice Sgt. Dill Walker as Wanda 13owen of Adatna City, Colo., was reported to be in a eerlouB condition at a GasBvllle, Ark., clinic. A shotgun charge struck her abdomen.Walker said the two boys gave their names as Charles Beagle, alias CharleB Wallace, and David Coffman, both 28, of Denver.The boya bad slight buckshot wounds snd were Jailed at'Yell-vllle.No charges were filed.NpTth ArkanBRB officers were alerted after the post office at Mammoth, Mo., just north of the Arkansas-Miasouri line, and a Btore at Three Brothers, Ark., just south of the line, were robbed this afternoon.Trooper Clarence Montgomery spotted the car carrying the young trio and gave chase. Bullets knocked out a headlight and crushed throught the windshield of the police car but Montgomery was unhurt. 1Two miles east of YellvJllc the youngsters encountered a roadblock . established by other state police and turned off on a silde-rnnd. They jumped out of the car nnd van.Walker said Montgomery nnd Troopers D. J. Bodenhamer and Kirby Cowan followed them into the brush and engaged in the brief gunfight which resulted in capture or all three. None of the officers was injured.Officers seized two rifles, twD shot guns, two pistols, a supply of am munition and slightly more than SCO frum the prisoners.Walker quoted the glrj us saying the trio had held up the Mammoth lioet office, the Three Brothers Stors and other establishments, which worn not. id mil I fled, between Colorado and Arkansas. The state police sergeant also said the car in which the youngsters were traveling was stolen in Colorado.fllt;insaW*thIhdrtoram'eranofduth3,daNcTfcrlaofyco:teDenver police said Coffman, was the youth who terrorized the Bar-num Area of Denver, On Oct. 19, he invaded six homes and threatened housewives with a pistol. When police surrounded the area, lie escaped iu n taxi to the nearby foothills.A dragnet failed to capture him for two days. He finally was picked up in a restaurant in Morrison. 20 miles west of Denver.Now frco on a ?2.500 bond ptnil-itig trial for aggravated robbery, Coffman was Identified by a Littleton, Colo., couple as one of a young trio who hold them up Wednesday, hound them nnd escaped in the couple's 1050 automobile.Coffman's t,trial on the Denver charges had been sot for January S. He was found to be legally sane at a recent sanity heaving.re*Vafot Cii to Th 9 r No wh the J t rat JStttheteslerC|U«' 1 prctagini]Tineigin fiO a ncproFe51,IsVagrtuckslaimoicenbeeTdepnanlugandprelofratiHT(SI
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Greeley Daily Tribune
Greeley, Colorado, US
Sat, Dec 30, 1950
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