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BANDITcc♦; i‘i.u;l(Src\r.it!*A{•1•Ai:Ifa:£*uVContinued From P*te Oneconmy. say me he was bcmK forced n:to drive to Chicago.Manhunt Start*There is no explanation of how Schreiber managed to make the phone call. Mis. Schreiber notified Pontiac authorities, and the manhunt was 0:1.Paw Paw state police called the Cass county sheriffs ofTice and alerted the sole officer on duty shortly before 6 a. m. He was Fred Gardner Gardner shortly these- , after spied the fuqiuvr car soir.e ^through town. .fSrizr% Ca** DeputyOcput v Gairiner cn ex look McLeod ana iv. captive. Schiruv'r. near Ca-'sopoli'' Both cars stopped, but uh.cn Gardner attempted fo arrest McLeod the latter covered him ^with a cun. jMethod oideied Schreiber to ■Wdam ' with his car and he then so: in Deputy Gaidr.ers car and at cunpomt ordered him to dine on In the vicinity of Barron lake ihcv overtook a car driven by I*'-Hov Clemens of Riverside or.. Niles. Mcl-eod stopped Clemens. He ordered Gardner to cct into Clemen's car. Clemen4 u a - forced to pet into the Cas- county sheriff s car withMcl-eori. who instructed Gardner to dm»' toward Edwarri^burc.One fa Be move and I'll kill tins ^ man «C!emein.‘ McLeod uarneriDeputy Garor.cr.Tie* Cop To Tree cAt a secluded spot near Eduard**- c bur£. McLeod ordered a stop. Gardner. who was following. also complied. There the eunman attached Gardner to a tree by his own hand- r :ruffs and tied Clemens with a rope. !H? then dro\e off m Clemen4' car « Clemens managed to free himself, ^ ar.d urns instructed by Gardner hou lt;n to U'C The police radio in hvs car. 3 A short tune later Gardner was r freod by officer4.State police Then up road 5.block*- in the arlt;\« rMcly'od ran through one of the c police blocks at Galien. Hi4 fatal ‘shootme followed. 1; McLeod had a criminal record come back to boyhood. When killed i lie was a fucitnc from justice. ,An clique fisture. he spent some I •time in the Boys' Vocational school |in Landnp for car theft at the ace -'of 35. He was arrested in November \ 'of 194? lor burqlarv and car theft., t but while auamnc trial at Howell escaped fiom jail and was never •locaptured. ^ )Pontiac sources aLo said MrI*od was an escapee from an Ohio prison fuA 1n
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St Joseph Herald Press
St Joseph, Michigan, US
Sat, Sep 26, 1953
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