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RAY HAMILTONi(Continued from Page 1, Col. 7)companions of Hamilton and his confederate in the Prentiss robbery, were questioned at Jackson, Miss., by Department of Justice agents today.“We have nothing to give out. as yet..’’ A. Rosen, one of the officers said, declining to comment on whether he had learned anything of Hamilton’s possible hideouts Another woman held in connection with the bank robbery, booked as Mrs. Virgie Johnson ot near Prentiss, was brought to the Hands County jail today for questioningM. E. Smith, farm agent of Jefferson County, Mississippi, and Ralph Bayliss. a store rlcrk of Prentiss, who were left locked in the rear compartment of Smith’s own automobile when the gangsters reached Memphis yesterday, were back home today.Officers had no intimation, th y said, of how Hamilton and his companion escaped afte leaving fnith and Bayli s loc ked in the cutomo-bile, which they abandoned near a large downtown hotel.Smith and Bayliss managed to extricate themselves with the aid of a tire tool.After Hamilton, who faces death in the electric chair in Tex , and his companion robbed the bank at Prentiss they wounded a '‘'erlff,disarmed sea, kidnaped the two Mississippiarr ml drove t Memphis “without meeting h*riff’s posses or troops’’ for a dist nee of more than 200 miles. Sheriff Campbell said, describi. this feat as “an amazing store of luck.”Two things had officers puzzled.Long Without Sleep.When Hamilton and his confederal reached Memphis they apparently had had no sleep in 48 Lours ( more.Hamilton’s usual policy, the officer said, is to eal a car for his ever e. No i .'ports of recent car thefts have been made to police here.Police checked railroads, bus companies and taxicab operators to learn whether the men pu vised t* importation to Arkansas or some other state Raids continued today on downtown rooming houses on the possibility the desperadoes sought sleep there.A telegraphic tip that the bandits had head 'd for Oklahoma sent Department of Justice agents scurrying there from Tulsa last night but no word of their progress had hern heard today.
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Amarillo Sunday News Globe
Amarillo, Texas, US
Sun, Mar 31, 1935
Page 38
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