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REPORT DEAD XENIA* SLAIN IN ATTEMPTED HOLD-UP BY OFFICERI Newell Black Victim; Companion Is Sought; BodyIdentified As .Jamestown Pike Bandit; Constable Wounded In Gun Fightmm? one of three bandits thwarted in an alleged attempt to hold up and rob two Montgomery Countv constables near Dayton late Tuesday night. Newell H. Black. i‘27, died about 2:3() a- m. W ednesday at the home of a relative in Xenia of a bullet wound below the heart, believed to have been inflicted during an exchange of shots with the of-jficer.I he partial indentification, made W ednesday morning ; by Lou ,burnings, county detective from the MontgomeryI County sheriff's office, was thought authentic because a wrist watch worn by Black, shattered by a second bullet that pierced the man’s left wrist, was picked up near the scenej af (he attempted hold-up.Authorities of three counties—Clark-Greene, Montgomery and launched an intensive search for the second manabout 25 years old, known here as “Grubbs,” reported to be Hassell Grubbs, Princeton, Ind., suspected of being an accomplice of Black, who disappeared after bringing the fatallywounded man to the relative's home in Xenia shortly beforeinformation about themidnight Tuesday.Additional evident;® that Black,! give any who was ostensibly employed as a shooting.eollmitor for n mechanical' phono The physicians notified police, graph concern at Grand Rapid*, Officials, att.-r communicating with Mich , may have In reality been Springfield authorities, discoveredconnected with a aeries of recent no shooting affray had been report*hold-ups, most of which were per* **d In that vicinity.Hesslar,Tracing the movements of Grubbsafter he had left the home of Mr*. Moon, police learned the man. whom I hey for a time had suspect* Kayetto i ed of being Black’s assailant, had identified Black as one of driven away in Black’s auto to awho. posing combined tourist camp and fillingpot rated near Dayton, apparently ; was supplied hv the Joint invest!I gallon of authorities Wednesday, After viewing the l»ody, Krneit‘ip;County.two youthful banditn . dry officers, robbed him of a station operated by Hoy Hull, Daypocketbook containing $25 on a highway east of Jamestown August 29. The bandits, one of whom wore a badge, were driving a Chcv-ton A vc.Hull told police that Grubbs, who wlfb Black, had rented a cottage there ilt; week ago Tuesday night.role! coach and before robbing drove Into (he station about 12:1.5Besslar, made a show of searching a. m. Wednesday, Just as he washis car for liquor.With a bullet wound an inch andShout to close up for the evening.Entering the cottage in -which hePRESIDENT SILENT ABOUT COOLIDGE'SWITHDRAWAL MOVEa half below the heart and another ami Black had been staying. Grubbsthat had shattered his left wrist.1 - . - ~-■the injured man was brought by I (Continued on Page Two)his companion. Grubbs, to thehome of Mrs. Ida Moon, mother in* i iaw of Black, at. 15Vv W Market,St., late Tuesday night. jAroused by a knocking on the door, Mrs. Moon told police she :was confronted by Grubbs, who was carrying her son In law on hismiaou ider. Grubbs entered the room.paced his companion in a chair and started to leave when Mrs.;Moon asked him how Black hadbeen hurt. iGrubbs (old her briefly, she said.) that Black had been shot tn an affair “near Springfield/’ but of fered no explanation. Grubbs summoney Dr Paul D. Pspey and Dr.A, 0, DsRtfts, who, lealitlng ifjfcj . s ^ ........man was in a c ritical condition, j though President Hoover has pre-refused to have him removed to a served strict silence concerning mepital explaining that to move Ca,yjn Coo]W(fn dramatlr gelf.him would he fatal, fn a semi con \ , , ,, ,, ,HrfoUH I.indlllon, Mluik could not from all political con-j sideratlon for 1932, the expectationLetter Of ThankwS May Be ( onsidereri As AnnouncementWASHINGTON. Sept 30. — Al-MSSBaMtfvM■
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Xenia Evening Gazette
Xenia, Ohio, US
Wed, Sep 30, 1931
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