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Northern Counties Look For Jens Thompson; ThreeAre DeadALBFRT ISA Minn., July 23.rp Hhrrlff s deputies and farmers in southern Minnesota ami northern Iowa today lotned in an extensive search for I**n* Ttuimp • •*»n. heal -erased 34-year-old farmer charged with ilavtnf three farmer nr tit h bom and critically wounding the son of one victim. Dead were Louis, Joe, and Anton Lukes Faye Lukes, 14-year-old son of Louis, was In critical condition .Sheriff Hi lines Myre a id the slaver of tli** Lukes hr«*hers used a .22 calib»*r rifle He said thlt;*senrch for Thompson is being directed toward Myrtle Minn, where Thompson is aid to have purchased gasoline for his car.The Lukes brothers, all married were sfm of Anton Lukes, sr. Tor whom Thompson is said to havecall'd prior to the shootings.Oiiftcisis said ail three brothers a» r»* shot through the head andthat the boy’s left lung was pierced by a bullet .According to Sheriff Myre. Thompson received no aruswer when he drove to the farm of Anton. sr, and asked the latter’* wif*» her husband's a hereabouts Thompson a crack shot with a rifle then drove to Joe Luka’ farmThompson, he said, stepped from the car and fired once.shooting Joe, L .H Strouf. a neighbor helping Joe ran but no wtinapt was made to fire on him.From there the iisti iani ac-ci»r*Hng to Myre drove east a halfmile to where Louis and hisbrother, Anton were cutting grain, with a neighbor. Eddie Pell, andAnton’s son, FayeThe sheriff said Thompson, from a distance of about 60 feet.t(»k aim and shot Louis and Anton first, then shot the boy.
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Fairfield Daily Ledger
Fairfield, Iowa, US
Fri, Jul 23, 1937
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