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)ldikiun-thecek,labelingaveoneelp-f-ditKyhitdi-uldrearpu-tblethevid-anyen-in I ofto :in g nga lem our can lereSheriff Shoots As 2 Suspects Pull Gun, FleeSearch Started; Believe One Wounded by Independence OfficerWATERLOO, IA. (/P)— Peace authorities today were seeking two men, one believed to be 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 I night and brought to Uic Waterloo police station, had been stolen Nov. 12 at Elgin, 1)1. There was blood in the car, he said.)At Independence, Sheriff Hart aaid he had ascertained from a social security card on one of the youths that he was Gerald Dean Olson, of Union,III. The other youth gave the name of Dick Gordon, Sheriff Hart aaid.The sheriff said he had called Mrs. Alfred Olson, the mother of Olson, at Union, XU., and she had asked that the two boys be held, as they were wanted by Illinois authorities.• * •“THEY had pulled some kind ofa job In Illinois, Sheriff Hart said.Hart gave this version of the escape:“1 got a call from Everett Ax-llne, 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.
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Carroll Times Herald
Carroll, Iowa, US
Sat, Nov 15, 1947
Page 4
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