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Question Sweethearts in Effort to Learn Destination of the BanditsCHILLICOTHS,- 0., Oct. 10—Police and county officers today, disappointed to some ; extent, In their unsuccessful effort to capture John and Montrose Hickman of Columbus, bandits wanted ior the .slaying ’ of Patrolman Dan Garrett Thursday even-1ns, while the,two men were in-fieldsthe city Friday, ‘expressed the belief tofiay. that the murder;of'their fellow officer was sure to be avenged,expressing ihe . hopeful. . opinion .onthe fad that-thh-two gunmen-are;so well known-that they are sure to .fall into the cluutchos of. the law soon^ 'Die two nieii- escaped from. a posse of about 200 officers,'uatiomil guards-gitives.' ■¥ •At - the same time Mayor Gunning said lie had .receive*! word rroin Parkersburg, W, Yfl.P tljat an. Aban-. doneij automobile bearing an Ohio license number hart been found thftsi late FridayJt Is thought possible. that- Ibe .fugitives escaped the ring thrown out In Ross county for them, and - succeeded. In reaching Parkersburg*v Girls Arrested. '■Folke learned the 'identity of the fugitives-through the license cm their abandoned car.' But they were wltli-out clues to fheir whereabouts untilkiif. iimen and citizens j Friday /afternoon two girls, companions of the gunmen, when it. was thought the men were , were taken into custody at the Trac-eornered'In a corn field near • Mt. j’t Ion Depot * at 11:30 Friday mo rut ng.Logan, their hiding place havingbeen*divulged ..by two young- women who bad been with the xnen all night Thursday, and' who were arrestedFriday- . : / ? ’■John Hickman1 -fired the shotstf^that killed the officer, liosetUi Boland, 16t and Cieo Webb, DoimeSville;companions of the Hickman Brothers on Uiq night of the shooting, told police. They said they learned • this •■whcyfcthe men took -them from a rooming house here to .a cornfield, iu the country where they spent the. ntght,;dGcr the shooting.: . Thdy also declared the brothers ’.weV Implicated in the Tire ShopThey gave their, names’ iis Cleo .Webb and Rosetta Boland, and both admitted ,they were sweethearts of the slayers. ■ They told of accompanying the Hickman boys-to ChKlLcothe on Tuesrtay night of stopping at a-rooming .house', where, they remained until after tlie killing, of the patrolman,' who sought them for the.rob-liery of the Jotiu Herllhy tire shop 'Wednesday evening. •They related how the two youths came to the rooming house, washed.and cleaned up while police weresearching the railroad vardS for-tobtery; ■ which Garrett sought- ro • qu^tldb them about when . he was 1 bridge, where Athe/ sal 'ghoN'dowV v.- ■ I Thursday night Theythem, and told, then of . the entire party elaving for the ‘.field in the Scioto bottoms,' ■ near the Kilgoreaid they spent built a bon-.Jimris liiaL.Uie moiners-ijaa uwn1 ure, me gjriti sain. ictin, r riuuy.V'stei^-the jLnderbrush v: along • the * morning, the two girls declared they ’/Sciotp^rlVer soutKVof the city, during caught a bus far McArthur, in-?‘‘.ihe-'night, spurredih£; posses, weur-.tendirjj? to catch a train there for Columbus, but'falling to have enough money, begged .a ride back to Chil-V ied:fey hours of constant vigil.• Mrsl, i’almer Iliefiman, Columbus,faoU^-0f the two boys, has pledged \ licothe and were waiting for. a trac-' -fieVj jHdiiu’ capturing '• the you.ths, (tloh car when caught. / .wiionl she said she feared were past 'jt^mption.’' Walter Hickman, a ;f)rother. declared he wanted to see ' them ‘'get their medicine”, chargingat.they had recently stolen his au-itonftb)E:I t^OTfbUe .and smashed it up. . .*Prosecutor. W. M. McKenzie announced that in _the event the slayers are caught a special grand jury wilt he called immediately.Police this afternoon , refused - to givt? out definite information as to the supposed whereabouts of the bandits but let it be kno.wn that they —-i.were working on the trail of the two ypmen.I Questioning of the girls, was con-i ducted today by Mayor, J. .R. Gun-S ning and County .Prosecutor .-Wilbur1 McKenzie in an. effort - to find 'theI txjsslble whereabouts of’ the' two' furImmediately on hearing the story officials .rang the.t riot alarm -and guardsmen were ~ mobilized! The guardsmen, together with police officers, ’deputy sheriffs! and volunteer., posseirien, -left at noon for:the ..field,1 where.the' girls resorted they slept'the night before ntid a-cordon wasthrovnv about it, Confirmation of the girls’ story was found in tracks which' had led a party of searchers directly to the field.John Hickman, eider of the two batfdits, Is believed to have shot Garrett. as 33-caliber bullets caused the officer’s death, arid John Hickman's sweetheart: declared John carried such u.'weapon.: Montrose Is snid to' have carried a: 44:callber revolver.-•' The funeral of the slain officer will be held Sunday afternoon.TtBurlt;firmwen; 'culti Tl of i the eratDtmce rem deni M..r [•Bra ’ Sftn MU'aCha
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Portsmouth Daily Times
Portsmouth, Ohio, US
Sat, Oct 16, 1926
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