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Ofedeaknt)mmun-at then week, ers, as-ind bc-nething iy have er one e help-Sheriff Shoots As 2 Suspects Pull Gun, FleeSearch Started; Believe One Wounded by Independence Officerpeak*veredmcntrningverybothnightvouldeach-hlld’si could wear nd pu-aluable all the ndivid-j many iny en-me in t all of ate to justing mdinga f them our We can where e knowinformer t “evenic prob-od idea Ith the: “the would mow-eited, Id do, odlf-*11 or their i . thef ouropingtheni timeitfk*lt;T1*1WATERLOO, IA. (/P)—Peace authorities today were seeking two men, one believed to be i wounded, who were believed to have abandoned a car on Highway 297 near here after they had pulled a gun on Sheriff Emery Hart at Independence and escaped from the sheriff's office.Waterloo Chief of Police Harry Krieg said the car, recovered last night and brought to Uie Waterloo police station, had been stolen Nov. 12 at Elgin, 111. There was blood in the car, he said.At Independence, Sheriff Hart fiald he had ascertained from a social security card on one of the youths that he was Gerald Dean Olson, of Union, III. The otber youth gave the name of Dick Gordon, Sheriff Hart i»ald.The sheriff said he had called Mrs. Alfred Olson, the mother of Olson, at Union, 111., and she had asked that the two boys be held, as they were wanted by Illinois authorities.• * •“THEY had pulled some kind of a job In Illinois,” Sheriff Hart said.Hart gave this version of the escape:“1 got a call from Everett Ax-line, a junk dealer who operates a shop on Highway 20 a quarter of a mile west of Independence. :He said these two had driven up to his place and stopped, and he was suspicious of them.aI DROVE; out there,: and found only one license plate, and it was awfully dirty and on the front of the car.“I called Mrs. Olson, and after talking to her I told the boys I would have to hold them. I took them up to the office and started to search Oison.Am I Jerked a pair of dirtycoveralls off Olson, he passed a gun to Gordon and Gordon pointed the gun at me.*T backed Into a closet and pulled my gun, and they ran out of the office. ,I fired at them once while they were in the hall, and then they got into the elevator. I fired three shots at them in the elevator before they closed the door, and I wounded one of them. There was* : considerable blood in the elevator.I ran’ down the service stairs. . They broke the glass in a locked side door and ran out to their car. I fired at them twice, more and put a bullet in the roof of the car.” Hart said neither of thekAtii fiarl at himST. ANGI Angela a* articles, i works onj. w.ElectOM AH AIowa-Nebrat today urgec its utmost. build free • tion, within as throughoA resolutiNewman G dent.Other l Taylor, Ia .president; field, Ia., Whitehead Svoboda, Norman Neb., and Glehwood,
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Carroll Times Herald
Carroll, Iowa, US
Sat, Nov 15, 1947
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