The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1909-11-18
BOY BANDIT KILLS TWO MEN
PROBABLY FATALLY WOUNDS
SELF IN ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.
Youth Robs Bank Twice Within
Month--ls Driven To Bay
BY Mob.

Lawrence, Kan, Nov. 13.-Earl Bu!-
lock, who yesterday attempted to rob
the Eudora Bank, when cornered
attempted suicide ard died today from
the effects of wound inflicted.
Eudora, Kan, Nov. 13.--Driyen to
bay by an armed mob, Earl Bullock,
the 17-year-old bandit of Lawrence,
Kan, who twice within the last month
has robbed the Eudora State bank,
murdered policeman and shot an
other man, probably fatally wounded
himself in an attempt to commit sui
eide near here.
Bullock attempted suicide following
his second robbery of the bank here
and his shooting of Fred Starr, cash
Eudora, who was in the Eudora State
bank with his days clearings. Accom-
panied by William Mckay, Is years
old, OF Jacksonville, Fla, Bullock held
up the bank. Although Starr offered
no resistance to the hold-up. Bullock
shot him through the jaw Snatching
more than $500, Bullock fed, followed
by his companion. Each youth had
two revolvers. ---
Harry Wilson, cashier of the robbed
bank, spread the alarm, and a crowd
OF citizens, armed with shotguns,
rifles and revolvers. pursued the boy
bandits across the fields. In attempt.
ing to swim the Kaw river the boys
4 lost ground, and few minutes later
the mob was at their heels. Mckay
surrendered, but Bullock, wrenching
the revolvers from his faltering part
ner's hands, sped on into a patch of
wood.
John Miller, a farmer in no way
connected with the pursuit, stepped
into Bullock's path and the boy,
thinking him an enemy, fired His
shots missed Miller, and the posse,
seeing the youth was determined to
resist, fired a score of shots at him.
Bullock returned the fire, but realiz-
ing he was about to be captured, shot
himself through the head. .s ...s- e.
Meantime the crowd threatened to
lynch Mckay. officers hurried him
to Lawrence in an automobile and
placed him in jail.
Bulleck's previous hold-up of the
Eudora bank and the murder of Po-
! liceniaS Wilson Pringle took place on
| October II. e.. ~ .aa
While in charge of D, S. Woods, a
| deputy sheriff of Lawrence, who ar
rested the boy on a charge of rob-
bling a secondhand store, Bullock
drew two revolvers and forced Woods
and Cashier Wilson into the bank
vault Snatching between $500 and
$1,000, he fed. s. -l
That night Pringle was shot while
attempting to arrest Bullock at his
home in Lawrence. Pringle went to
the door and called for Bullock. His
answer was a rain of bullets which
moved him down. He died two days
later
New Albany, Ind, Nov. 1S.-Thomas
Jefferson Hall, the 17-yearold Louis
vile boy who killed ]. w. Fawcett,
cashier, and severely wounded John K.
Woodward, president of the Mer-
chants National bank, in an attempt
to rob that institution, in an interest
ing interview declared that Harry Al.
exander. porter of the bank, and
James w. Tucker, chauffeur, held for
completely in the affair, are guiltless.
Young Hall, who is held in the Indi-
ana state reformatory at Jacksonville,
talked freely of his deed with rather
careless air, although he said he was
sorry that he had killed Cashier Faw,
cett. He admitted that he had con-
ceived the idea Of robbing the bank
from sensational novels.
Hall told how he had constructed a
box in which he was to have made his
escape by being shipped to Knoxville
Tenn, in it
Waterfowl, S. D., Nov. 13-The
Bank of Norden. s. D., was robbed OF
| S2,3S4 in cash