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SEARCH NORTH FART OF STATE FOR FUGITIVEMan Who Fled From U. S. Agents Thought to be Vol Davis%Aurora Til Fob R AT' An intensive search was underway today through northern Illinois for r federal prisoner his idenUtv: veiled it: TmMer ui:lt; st um d a daring escape yesterday from a federal agent in a Yorkville hotel bar.Sheriff William Maier of Kendall county denied reports that the fugitive was Alvin Karpi.s number one public enemv hunted since he shot his way out of an Atlantic City hotel The sheriff quoted the bartender who served them and the driver who brought the U S agents and their prisoner to Yorkville after their plane was forced down as saying the prisoner was not Kar-pisAuthorities SilentFederal authorities remained silent on the identity of the man who cracked an agent on the chin as they stood before the hotel bar, and escaped in a hail of bullets Belief that he was an important prisoner was strengthened by the fact that F ,1 Connelly federal Investigator who ]eq the attack on the Florida hideout of “Ma” and Fred Barker, appeared at the Chicago bureau of identification short-V after the escape Meanwhile, .squads of heavily armed men scoured Kendall and adjoining counties for the prisoner who was being brought from Kansas City in a chartered plane The stolen car in which he eluded searchers, was found late yester-Vv in Wheaton a few miles west 4|.. Chicago
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Dixon Evening Telegraph
Dixon, Illinois, US
Fri, Feb 08, 1935
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