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Internment Camp Escapee Killed, Another WoundedRoswell, N. M„ Jan. 14—LD—Onei . ■. ;' . ’i prisoner was killed and another wounded of a trio of internees who escaped from the Roswell internment. - camp here Jast night, Colonel Murray! F. Gibbons, commanding officer of ithe camp, announced, today.Colonel Gibbons issued the following statement . ;‘‘Sometime last night after 5 p.j m.j three, prisoners escaped from the Roswell internment camp. They attempted to steal a car near Artesia. The owner of the car killed one of them, slightly wounded another one. The two living prisoners tfere taken1 into custody by the civil authorities at Artesia, who notified the camp authorities of their action. We sent-to Artesia for them, took them back into custody arid they are now in our hands.” /Mark Fanning, a*,farmer living 11 j miles southeast of Artesia, was | identified by an Artesia deputy-sheriff as the man who killed one of j1 Vthe prisoners and captured the other lt;two,-holding them until officers ar-j rived , from Artesia. Artesia is 43 miles south of Roswell..The deputy sheriff. said the capture took place on the Fanning farmabout 10 p. m., last night. j
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Kalispell Daily Inter Lake
Kalispell, Montana, US
Thu, Jan 14, 1943
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