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TWOREPORT DEAD XENIANSLAINATTEMPTED I OFFICER»♦• ■continued From Plage One»emerged several minutes later with all their belongings, re-entered the car and drove away toward Dayton, Hull said.The implication that Black, and presumably Grubbs also,, participated in the unsuccessful hold-up on 1 he Infirmary Road near Dayton late Tuesday night, in which Robert Bowser, 36, R, R. No. 6, Dayton, Jefferson Twp. constable, Montgomery County, was shot in the right leg by one of two bandits who. he claimed tried to rob hinj, partly explained the circumstances under which Black was fatally wounded, officials said their inqury indicated.Bowser, taken to St. Elizabeth Hospital in Dayton, declared he was seated in a parked auto with William Harris, Germantown Pike, also a constable,, when the bandfcts in an auto approached the parked .car. H claimed one bandit grabbed Harris and that the other covered Bowser with a gun. The shooting occurred when Bowser resisted.Sheriff John Baughn. who is cooperating with police and the Dayton detective in the investigation, expressed himself as not altogether convinced as to whether Black and his companions w'ere bandits or were themselves hold-up victims.Black, according to information obtained by police, came to Xeniaabout nine, days ago. His wife, Martha, had been here for the last two weeks*visiting her?mother,Mrs. Moon.Hull, proprietor of the tourist camp where Black and his companion had been staying, said the two men, after renting a cottage a week ago and paying in advance, told him they only wanted it for one week while they were “work ing this territory.”Hull presumed they were sales men because their Chevrolet coach, bearing a Dayton license, contained what appeared to be sample cases. Grubbs was described as being of slender build and of dark complexion, the car, a 1927 model, owned by Black, was driven most of the time by Grubbs.Mrs. Moon told officials her son-ifi-law and his friend had supper at her home in the evening, and then left, after the ewening meals.*Mrs. Moon v'as not acquainted with Grubbs.,The watch shot off Black’s wrist and found at the spot where the constable reported the hold-up was attempted, was identified Wednesday by Black’s widow as belonging to her late husband, Sheriff Baughn and Detective Jannings revealed.Black, who was born in Kentucky, lived at one time at Princeton, Ind., and it was there that authorities believe he met Grubbs, whose parents, divorced and then .remarried, live in that city. Grubbs is reported wanted by Princeton police.Detective Jannings olsclosed that the Chevrolet coach in which Grubbs drove away correspondedto an auto used by bandits held responsible for numerous robberies in the Dayton vicinity within the labt tw'o months. One of the headlights was dimmer than the other, and this peeularity was noticed in various instances by victims or witnesses.Theory that Grubbs complice of Black in of Ernest Sesslar a also given credence description of the two highwaymenwith that authorities havefugitive.Black is survived by his his parents, living at Grand and by several brothers and sis ters. They have no children Pun-eral arrangements have not bef-nmade, pending arrival ot the parents.hold-upwas the ac-the hold-up month ago was when Sesslar’s second of thetalliedclosely of thewddow.Rapids,PLEADS NOT GUILTYLIQUOR CHARGECharged with possessing liquor. Algernon Allen, colored, E. Mar ket St., pleaded not guilty whenarraigned* before Municipal JudgeE. Dawson Smith Tuesday. His j hearing was aligned for 9 a m. October 10 and Judge Smith ordered the youth committed to jail in default of $500 bond.Allen, county authorities re vealed, was with Jame* Wilson, 37, colored, XeniH, when Wilson was apprehended by Sheriff John Baughn ahd his deputies recently on the Rlckett Hoad three miles east, of this city, with ton gallons of w'hiskey in his possession.Wilson, charged with possessing liquor, third offense, also pleaded1 not guilty when arraigned in Municipal Court Monday. The cases of both colored men may be investigated by the October grand iurvnext Monrlav.
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Xenia Evening Gazette
Xenia, Ohio, US
Wed, Sep 30, 1931
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