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Messamore was seized in an open railroad coal car.“He was wet as a rat and w’hite as a sheet,” Caldwell County Sheriff W. O. Towery, one of thecaptors, said.Sheriff Towery, Princeton Police Chief Roy Rosser and Deputy Sheriff Lonnie Croft caught Messamore. He was unarmed and offered no resistance.Sheriff Towery said he found a hacksaw blade in Messamore’s right shoe.Mesamore, who slugged Deputy Jailer William Owings and the officer’s son, Bobby, was placed in the Caldwell jail here. He will be taken to Eddyville Prison or to a jail at Bowling Green.
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Rushville Evening Daily Republican
Rushville, Indiana, US
Wed, Jun 15, 1949
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