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Angry Crowds in Carroll Threaten Lynching but Officers Are Not Alarmed—Lindquist ShotCarroll, la., Nov. 3.—Fat” Hatton, city marshal of Carroll, was shot and killed one mile west of Glidden, by Ernest Lindquist, one of a pair of housebreakers whom he had pursued from Carroll and caught.Lindquist and his pal, Oscar Larson, who were captured by a posse armed with shotguns, rifleB and revolvers in a corn field near Glidden have confessed and are in jail here.The streets are full of people, and there is a great deal of talk of lynching. Many in the crowds declare that the two men will be strung up. The officers do not anticipate trouble, although they are preparing for any possible emergency.Lindquist, who shot the marshal, was hit in the back with a bullet fired by some member of the posse during the chase following the shooting. The bullet is of 22 caliber. It entered the back, and the physicians who probed for the bullet think that it lodged somewhere in the bowels. It Is a dangerous wound. The other man is unhurt.Hatton was called to the T. A. Lyman home Monday night about midnight. Burglars had been in the house. They had made their getaway when Hatton arrived. He kept up the search and Tuesday morning got a clue that the men had started east on the Northwestern track. Se-
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Fairfield Journal
Fairfield, Iowa, US
Wed, Nov 10, 1909
Page 7
Full Page
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