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Rookie Cop Hero and His Captives
Elmer Hehr of Wheeling West Virginia cleverly identified the fleeing auto and helped capture three desperadoes and a woman companion wanted for robberies and a jailbreak in Missouri. The captives were Dolores Castle of Tulsa Oklahoma Dave Rogers of Detroit Michigan Eugene Booth of Bloomfield New Jersey and William Montgomery of Pittsburgh Pennsylvania.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elmer Hehr
Wheeling
W. Va
Missouri
Dolores Castle
Tulsa
Okla
Dave Rogers
Detroit
Mich
Eugene Booth
Bloomfield
N. J
William Montgomery
Pittsburgh