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ftieTWO ARMED MEN)-wasorerX)V-5 on ola-law, rail-i heSTEAL NEW CAR,DISARM OFFICERState Officer Bob LafolletteThinks Same Men WereRobbers at WeinerMAY BE CHAPMANLShFlt;la:tothroOklahoma Authorities Believe They Are Chasing Three Of Four TexavS ConvictsAltomdr/ ir-[ ITL Rison, Ark., July 15 (A^-Two fc,„ men armed with a machine gun thlYl stole a new automobile from a wIt*# Ford agency today at nearby For- fcdyce, and escaped after disarming ja deputy sheriff who sought tq halt their flight. I icBob Lafollette, assistant stately police chief, said he believed the ^ two were escaped Texas convicts j ti and that they were the same gunmen who robbed a bank at Weiner riev-|and a filling station at Clarksvillew *n recently. j Tratic Lafollette also expressed the slt;)r ; possibility that the man handling Jnand]the machine gun was Charles aChapman, Arkansas desperado | n con- I who escaped Eastham prison farm j ii s for in Texas last week, but said the of its j tactics, weapons and description I t]-and-1 of the two fitted the Weiner bank a raiders. dheld,itives n aArk.,urialnoon.long-everlator.monystan-mkedeen-mber,ason’sNineteen prisoners escaped the] u Texas prison farm nearly four j f weeks ago. Fifteen of them were! e captured. One of the convicts, t Hiram Prather, was apprehended c at Blytheville, Ark., in the east-|g ern section of the state where the Weiner holdup was staged. Four of nine who fled the Texas farm last week still are at large.The two men drove up to the Fordyce agency in an Oldsmobiie sedan, Lafollette reported. One of them went in, made away with the new car and the two machines headed toward Rison. Officers there were notified.Deputy Was Taking One n'and Gunman to Jailfrom j Deputy Sheriff Harry Darby started out on the highway to b*netlmeet the gunmen. He let the h of- oldsmobiie pass and halted the r, and ! Ford and its driver and brought .s will; the prisoner and car to jail here, s ros-| On the courthouse lawn as Darby started to take his man to jail, the Oldsmobiie drove up and the prisoner’s confederate alighted with a machine gun. They disarmed Darby and fled in the two cars to the north toward Pine Bluff.e willp will ?ham-s will imongullips,the i Eight state rangers and peace B*____■______ al
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Fayetteville Daily Democrat
Fayetteville, Arkansas, US
Thu, Jul 15, 1937
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