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ARMErS CATCHFUGITIVE KILLERBlack River Fails, Wis.— {IP}— Acting Sheriff I. S. Hollenbeck said Monday night that two Jackson | county farmers captured a man who identified himself as Richard Rutledge, 28, sought for several weeks in connection with a Milwaukee slaying.Hollenbeck said that James Hen-sel and Tom Slater, armed with shotgunSj cornered Rutledge in a clump of bushes seven miles north of here after HensePs 80-year-old mother, Mrs, TilJIc Hensel, told them to look for a man who had tied her hand and foot, ransacked her home and took $30 in cash. Rutledge, who answered the description, was held by the two men until Hollenbeck arrived and took him into custody, the acting sheriff said,Rutledge admitted, according tobed, and after tying her with cord and a necktie, searched the house until he found a sum of money. Then he sat in a chair alongside the woman to wait for the sun. He remained approximately four hours. After inflicting a gun shot wound on his chest, he untied her and left the house, she said. Mrs, Hensel then ran to the barn and found her son.Milwaukee police sought Rutledge in the slaying of Dorris (Tex) McGee, operator of a club, who was found dead August 29 after an all-night poker game. Rutledge is a former hotel clerk.Dummies which precisely duplicate airplanes they represent are used for teaching Naval aviation j ordnancemen the best procedure for arming and servicing carrier-based combat airplanes.Hollenbeck, that he had entered the Hensel home, Rutledge was suffer-, J rag from a flesh wound on the left breast, admittedly self-inflicted, Hollenbeck said. Mrs. Hensel said she heard the shot while the man was in her house.Mrs. Hensei was alone in the house when Rutledge entered. Her son was assisting a neighbor with farm work. She said that the intruder threatened her with a revolver, forced her to lie down on a
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Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune
Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin, US
Tue, Sep 19, 1944
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