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Escapes from Farm I puLast Saturday evening he took a 1 scl notion to escape and to expedite his t 0p get-away he appropriated a truck ber I ^ longing to a dairyman in Woodstock.44 UU11 \11UU1 ill n uuuciutiv. |‘fie had with him another youthlasatitiiT\inCl*pi th u rnamed August Hirth and together they rode away on the stolen truck. The theft was reported and a checkup of the boys on the farm made when it was discovered that Duffv and Hirth were missing.. Jhe theft 1 of the truck and the escape of the 11 boys were connected and then it was learned that they had a .3S automatic pistol which was fully loaded. This information was broadcast, but the fugitives avoided capture by traveling infrequented roads, “and within a shoyt time reached La Grange, where j they abandoned the truck and stole 1 a Franklin sedan‘for greater speed. | ^ The LaGrange police notified the j neighboring police departments by telephone and radio, but the lads were not apprehended that night.Ho|d Up Bakery HereSunday morning about 7 o’clock : h they drove into Brookfield bv ae\tlO'sJ round-about way, and wnile Duffy sat j t.cm the car, young Hirth entered the t! delicatessen of Mr. Jezek, ffloG Lin- j t. | coin avenue, and at the point of a gun L. j demanded his money. Jezek told him it»? the money was in the kitchen and ! (O^ j that he would go and get it. The j ; inexperienced hold-up youth said, “Ai- r right, 1*11 wait.* ... -— j;Now Mr. Jezek had no telephone, . but he thinks fast and when he reach- |A the kitchen he yelled to his wife, ; t j ; “Call the police, quick! It s a hold- i, ^ 1 up. Call the police-** 't Upon hearing the order given Mfs. i, Jezek, young Hirth ran out the door i t and leaped for the running board of i ’ the car as Duffy was pulling away, j .Halt an hour later Mr. Jezek re- ; ported the attempted hold-up to the ■ \Brookfield police who, put it ^on thelin' am!,. u short aftervard the !; two lads' were captured in the stolen! n ’ car by the Berwyn police, who turn-^ithenvover to the LaG range officers,^ who in turn lost no time in return-, ing them to the correction farm at Woodstock. .. 'I he different policemen of the various - villages In this section hope n. lne-v stay there; because, as, one policeman was heard to remark: “They are too young to the of lead poison.u11e.i}
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Brookfield Suburban Magnet
Brookfield, Illinois, US
Thu, Oct 20, 1932
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