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Alleged Western FugitiveShot Fleeing Maine Police**kSouth Paris, May 7—lt;/P—Shot country to Maine. All others in jthe gang have been apprehended.r j oo Prech, Francis said, had been iLeonard Preen. Zo. alias jonnny 4 , 4 ■ I •, f sentenced to eight years in the*while trying to escape police,Savage, alleged Oklahoma pern- i Oklahoma institution. 1tentiary fugitive, was held here ■ Surround Place-today by Oxford county authori- | Tipped off that Prech was at ties for the FBI which Sheriff F. the Bethel home, Sheriff Francis,1F. Francis said wanted him for State Trooper Stephen Conant* * r _ 1 1 % /-i ■ * t n # 1 1* A. it**1 1 Vinterstate transportation of stol- and Deputv Sheriffs Robert Mil-en cars. ton of Paris and Fred Grover of _____ _ .. Of | !Prech surrendered to Sheriff Bethel, surrounded the place. As Francis and a force of deputies Sheriff Francis entered the houseI I i*ilv 4 i ^ • w ^ ^ L ' - • ■ ' “ - - - — * ' - • — _ _ _ _ —and state police last night after Prech fled through a rear door to he had been wounded in the arm j the woods. The other officers fired■ _ at- mm, ' 4k. -■ ml mm 't . ua . i*. • .’v H 'A- . Atm * i.' M it -Am •Wt ■ ‘Jftearlier in the day while fleeingfrom the home of Olie Olson in Bethel.Sheriff Francis said Prech wasand although the fugitive hadbeen hit he continued running.An all-day wait by the officers was rewarded about 6 p. m. whensone of four prisoners who escap- j Prech emerged from the wood; ed the Oklahoma prison and em- and surrendered. After being» ft ■ % • I A A 1 __barked on a career of car steal-1 given medical treatment he was ing that took them across the lodged at the county jail here.
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Biddeford Daily Journal
Biddeford, Maine, US
Mon, May 07, 1945
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