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*FAYEITE-CO.ACTIONJamestown and Springfi eld Men Wanted for Variety of Offenses. Includ ing Several Bank Robberies and Holdups in Jeffersonville and Washington C. H.Cleveland, May 12.— —A revolver brought to D. L. Bowles, baNlirtics expert of the Cleveland Police department did not fin* the pellet fielieved to have caused the death of H. M. Saylor, president of the Farmers Deposit Bank of South Vienna. Saylor was shot recently in a holdup.Springfield, ()., May 12—(/I'*) A pair of ex-convicts were held in the dark county jail today on first degree murder charges while authorities attempted to connect them with a series of hank robberiesand tilling station hold-ups.They are Vernon Taylor. 28, of Springfield, and Henry Hopkinsof Jamestown, O., and with them is held a woman who gave her nameas Mrs. Thelma Mitchen. She isR[ iARMPP**'**Henry Hopkina Vernon Taylorcharged with participating in a fill-ing station holdup.The three were captured in an early morning raid on a houae In Richmond, Ind., where police used tear gas bombs to route them outand discovered a large supply ofweapons.The murder charges accuse themen of the death of H. M. Saylor, 57, president of The Farmers Deposit Bank at South Vienna, nearhere, on April 20. Hopkins was pa. roled from Ohio penitentiary last December. Taylor had been serv-a liquor law sentence which was commuted after repeal.Prosecutor Orville Wear and H. O. Robinson of the Bureau of Crim.inal Identification took a revolver found in the suspects possession ta Cleveland ballistic experts to determine whether it was used In thoSaylor killing.Sheriff George W. Benham said the men had been identified from photographs as participants in the jobbery 0f The Farmers Merchantsbank of Milford Center on April 17, j and the holdups of The Farmers I Bank of Plain City last Wednesday.EXAMINER EDITORIN OFFICIAL AUTO HURT IN ACCIDENTGrover “Out of Frying Pan and into Fire” in More Ways Than OneThe victims of several filling sta.tlon holdups also have Identified their photographs, the sheriff said. They are accused of a series of filling station robberies in the vicinity of Washington C. H.Hopkins and Mrs. Mitchen are j formally charged with robbery in I connection with the $17 holdup of■ I ■ Ej i ' H f'Vi-. . - ‘K ii v ‘L. B. Wolfe, operator of a filling station at New Carlisle, 12 miles west of here, about six weeks ago.iDayton, ()., May 12.—(/P)—Grover Fleming, 52, editor of thd American Examiner is in a critical condition in a hospital here, suffering internal injuries sustained when the automobile in which he was rid ii.g with two Hamilton county officials, upset on a road north ofhere shortly after midnight. j would not be servedFleming, who was released at j midnight from the Sidney jail, where he had been serving a term '• for libel, was being taken to Cincinnati to face a charge against him there.Several miles north of Dayton, the machine driven by Deputy Sheriff Emil Oau, was struck by acar driven by Marlon Schlagle, of I Fostoriai Q May 12_/«_Two Dayton, causing the former to up- bank ro5bery and murder suspect3Sheriff Icenhower indicated Saturday that the warrants held hera for the two men for robbing the Jeffersonville Auto Co. station and Ohio Oil Co. station in this city,unless gjthe murder and hank robbery charges against Taylor and Hopkins failed.The warrants here were obtained soon after the robberies wrere committed, so that the men could bo arrested on the charges and held by other officers until they could he brought back here.!set.now in jail at Springfield wrere not among the holdup men who raided the first National Bank of Fos-toria May 3, two officials of the local bank said today.| Photographs of the captured pair, | Vernon Taylor and Henry Hopkins, were shown to President Andrew Emerine and cashier It. S. Powley, and both of the officials w^ere posi** tive In denying recognition of tho men.Fleming sustained a deep cut in his left side, near the heart and tost considerable blood before being removed to a hospital, where physicians said his condition was fair. None of others were injured.Sidney, O., May 12.—(/P)—Grover Fleming, whose writings in The :)hio Examiner have caused him to be indicted and jailed on charges of criminal libel, was released to Cincinnati authorities last night
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