The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-11-13
YOUTHFUL BANDIT
At LAST RUN DOWN
After RObbing Eudora, Kan.
Bank for Second Time, Tries
Suicide to Escape Mob.
SHOOTS DOWN CASHIER
OF ANOTHER INSTITUTION
Had Committed Murder While
RObbing the Same Bank
Net Long Ago.

EUDORA, Kan, Nov. 12.-Drivcn 10
bay by IN armed mob, Earl Bullock, the
seventeen yearold bandit of Lawrence
Kan, who twice within the last month
has robbed The Eudora State bank
murdered 4 policeman and shot anoth-
cr man, probably fatally wounded him
self in an attempt to commit suicide
near here today.
Bullock 5 attempted suicide followed
his second robbery Of the bank here
today, and his shooting of Fred Starr,
cashier of the Kaw Valley State bank
Of Eudora, who was in the Eudora
State bank with his days clcarings,
Accompanied by Boy.
Accompanied by William Mckay. l5
years of age, of Jascksonville, Fla,
Bullock held mp the bank Although
Starr offered no resistance 10 The hold
up, Bullock shot him. through the Jaw
Snatcbing more than $500. Bullock
He'd, followed by bis companion Each
youth had two rcvolvcrs
Harry Wilson, cashier of tho robbed
back, spread the alarm. ard crowd of
citizens, armed with shotguns, rifles
aud revolrers, pursued the boy ban,
dits across the fields. In attempting
10 SWIM the Kaw river The boys lost
ground, and a few minutes later the
mob was at their heels Mckay sur
rendered, but Bullock, wrenching the re
Yolver from his faltering partner s
hands, sped on into a patch OF woods
John Miller, 4 farmer, in no way
connected with the pursuit, stepped
INTO BuIlock's path and the boy.
thinking him an enemy. fred His
shots missed Miller, :,Dd The posse, see.
ing the youth was ready to shoot.
hred score of shots at him
Turns to Suicide.
Bullock returned tbe FIRE. but rcaliz.
ing he was about TO he captured, he
shot himself through tho head
Meantime, the crowd threatened TO
lynch Mckay. Officers hurried him to
Lawrence in an automobile and placed
him in jail.
Bnllock's previous bold-up of fhc
Eudora bank and the murder pf Police
man Wilson PringIe took place on DC
tobcr !. While in charge of d. S
Wood, deputy sheriff of Lawrence, who
The boy on charge of robbiug
a second hand store, Bullock drew two
rcyolvers and forced Wood and Cashier
Wilson into the bank vault Snatching
between $500 and $1,000, he fed
That night Pripgle was shot while
attempting to arrest Bullock at his home
the door and called fer Bullock, His
answer was rain of bullets, which
swept hIm down. lie died in few
days,
Had Eluded Officers.
Efforts 10 locate Bullock were useless
Iic was reported tot he hiding in al
wood near his home. Later il was re
ported he had been captured in Okla
,oma. Rewards aggrcgating SI,5OOl
Ycrc offered for hIs arrest, Until Me
Kay made written Statement OF mis-
Confession with Bullock today, his
was not known, Ac-
wing at a fashionable hotel in Jack |
onyillc under the name Of 81. Donald |
,on. -
lie had money on dcposit i'm the Flor.
da National bank here under that
lame Mckay said.
Mckay, apparently WAS led into the |
.rime by Bullock s lurid description of |
he thrilling adventures OF a boy des
,cT3do.
Statement Of AccompIice.
Bullock. whom 7 knew rs Donald |
son. picked me up in Jacksonville uud |
me royalty said Mckay. !
: He used 10 take me ont 10 dinner !
md give me checks TO cash for him |
md had robbed n bank. | thought it, |
you'd be fine to be real robbcr like
I'm.
"One day Bullock told nc nc wanted
nc 10 90 10 Kansas City with HIM. as |
ic know where there was = little bank |
lcsr iherc with only ono man in IL |
hat We could rob without any trouble
lc promised 10 pay all the expenses OF
nc trip.
owe left Jacksonville Sunday and |
arrived in Kansas City Tuesday. We
vent to several little towns around |
Kansas City aud finally arrived al
Jenatc. Kan. two miles from Eudora |
'cstcrdav He gave me snmn ammnni |
ion aud two rcyolycrs and told mo wc
would rob tho bank today.
" was supposed 10 guard tbc door
,nd see, that, nobody ESCAPED. He
obPed the bank and shot the man. Then
!c told me 10 follow him.
80 WAS SO badly frightened when the
mob began 10 follow us that ! wanted
o stop and surrender soon after we
eft the bank.
Would Not Give Up.
q" No. ! II not surrender. he said
4 real robhcr fights on until the last
will die before | Will give up. -
All of the money taken from tho bank
oday was found in Bullock IS pockets
when he was picked MP in tho woods
{ was returned TO The bank tonight.
Many threats were made against
Bullock when it was learned he had
obbcd the bank n second time. When
he report camc that he had shot him
,clf the threats ceased He was
here. whcro his wound was at
ended. Bullock was unconscious.
Fred Starr. who was injured in the
state bank today, has been taken TO
l hospital in Lawrence, His wound is
said not TO be serious.
Rumors that Bullock had been
brought here and placed in Jail caused
/ noisy crowd TO gather at the prison
.onight, but wheu it was explained that