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AMARILLO GIRL1 si:t12all-dayI HOLDUP IN ON 1Fs/Mor(to; Mildred Poothman, Aged ,icpnver Fifteen, Is Shot Five flniiate | v r\ • n b,,e8or- 1 mies; Companion, Ray i chfn Allen, Robbed j**r*i—— cityon-sla-hercrime in outskirtsOF BORGER, OIL TOWNla shotthe Attorney General Sargent KhPt Recently Had Ordered In- stm vestigation of Unlawful andlt;AN! Condition in Camp ;«lt;*P) ! - 'th«the AMARILLO, Texas, Oct. and nor 12 (AP)—Mildred Pooth- ic a al1- man, 15-year-old Amarillo nnrr school girl, was shot and in-1* stantly killed by highway-|un(1' unt. men after they had robbed forn lLi’a her companion Tuesday ,hel1 . night in the newest outbreak A of lawlessness in Borger, an PF_’,* the oil town near here. *OW81 The’ Kiri and Ray Allen, her ally, escort, were returning through - i Borger to Amarillo from the Iim* re- pire oil ramp, when the highway* use men stopped them near a railroad olo- crossing, Allen reported. After robbing him, he said, the bandits her opened fire on the girl, shooting she | her five times. igg-•me The shooting followed close on u«t ! the heels of an order issued by J ( 1'4 will | I'nited States Attorney General ‘ ’*nj the Sargent last Friday for a federal j ado ] investigation of conditions in i ude Borger. His order followed a com- iand j plaint to Federal Judge W. H. At- iin well by a delegation of Borger res- I . *idents that a “reign of terror ex-nighfori wen ; of tl ! who I Kan | engr i The ! whein*wn j isted in the oil town, and that !snatea authorities seemed unable to cope Ari- i with lawlessness existing there.'on* j A posse Tuesday night sought . *orlt;^ I the slayers of Miss Poothman.vonthe a tHISTORIC r.FMS
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Albuquerque Morning Journal
Albuquerque, New Mexico, US
Wed, Oct 13, 1926
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