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AGENTS RAIDfrONTVNITKU VROM KACR «»Ntt) Jof the* farm.Alter th* agents had o upilt; tthe house, this regulation was rc-i taxed.I It was learned that, about 15 agents took part in tin* move on the house, Into which throe tear gas bombs were thrown.One of the bombs lighted on a bed and set it on fire. The bedwas thrown from a window and the fire beaten out.Explosion of the bombs shattered many window’s in the house, a rather pretentious country home and considerably larger than the average farm house in the area.Cars Hoar Away At least five ears roared away from the house and toward unknown destinations before outsider# reached the house proper.Ageitts ears parked on the near by highway during the raid showed license plates from Arkansas, Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas.Yesterday, while the federal men were gathering in Little Hock, a chartered plane from Cleveland brought in five men reported in Cleveland as justice agents, who joined live parley at the state headquarters for the department of investigation.Some neighbors of the raided farmhouse reported hearing shots fired while the officers maneuvered up to the building, but the agents dented any shots had beenfued, asserting the tear gas bombs had made a considerable noise Local officers said they learned the housei owned by a Hot Springs man now’ living elsewhere; had been rented about a month ago to two men and two women whose names they did not know. Chapmon Fletcher, in charge ofthe department 'of investigation of the justice department in Arkansas. returned to his Little Rock office shortly after noon after an absence of several hours, declined any comment on the raid.MThe only thing 1 can say is that i have no comment, he said.He refused to answer a question whether the object or ob-i jlt;«ts of the federal hunt had escaped before the raid.
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Fayetteville Daily Democrat
Fayetteville, Arkansas, US
Mon, Mar 30, 1936
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