Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-10-03
high JACkERS"
H0LDUP TUtSANS
Gasoline Tank is Punctured
With Shots From Ban
dts Revolver.
MEN WERE SEEKING WHISKY
Gray-Haired Veteran Stops
Party Near Here; Had
High-Powered Rifle.

Bringing a story of an encounter
with high jacks" in Rogers county.
who shot down their car on the pub
lie highway and at the point of six
shooters held them at bay while the
desperadoes went thru their belong
ings. Mrs. E. l.. Vaughn, 312 South
Denver, and Mr.. and Mrs. A. Il. Hart
and son Hubert. 1S, of Okmulgee,
reached Tulsa about o'clock last
night in a highly nervous condition.
They had been gone on an overland
trip east since July travelling in a
new passenger Premier auto
mobile belonging to Mr.. Hart, and
on their return trip when they met
the bandits. Mrs. Vaughn still shiv-
cred as she sat in her home and de-
tailed the story of her experience.
Sensational Thrills.
1t had all the sensational thrills Of
the encounters travellers relate of
meetings with Dick Turpin and Robin
Hoods famous bands of highwaymen
But the polite and gentle manner in
which these historic Opersons relieved
their victims of valuables was quite
lacking in the gruff and uncivil
hrusqueness with which the high
Jacks" of Rogers county held up the
women in Hart's party and ordered
them to shell out what they had
provided they had liquor.
Not having any liquor, they were
ordered to move on in the same
.menacing manner in which they had
been stopped.
Mrs. Vaughn and Hart and fanny
left Ohio IL days ago. When .,ear
Talalah, IL miles this side Of Nowata,
they overlook a Buick automobile
containing four men. All were young.
hut redfaced, desperate-looking and
drinking. AS the Tulsa tourists ap-
preached them their driver signalled
to Hart to pass, and he did so. He
had gone but a short distance, how
ever. when Mrs Adams. In the rear
seat. discovered on looking back that
the strangers were overtaking them.
Begins Firing.
Those men are following u.s." she
said. ''and one of them is on the run
ning-board with a pistol in his hand y
Almost Immediately the man with
the gun began firing 1t. and the bull
let's penetrated the gasoline tank OF
Harts ear. which was in the rear.
Had they gone but few inches higher
they would have struck Mrs. Vausnn
and possibly have killed her. Hart
firing at his tires but 1t is probable
they hit Just what they fired at-his
gasoline tank. from which the ''juice'
began pouring in heavy stream.
In minute the outlaw Buick dashed
up and as it came alongside the
driver deliberately locked wheels with
Hart's Premier. At the same timv nir
three companions leaped from the
car. six-shooters drawn, and covering
Hart and his son, ordered them To
throw UP their hands.
One of the men, presumably the
leader. red-faced, hard-looking
chap. barely above his twenties. went
to the Hart car and peering into It.
demanded in gruff voice, "Whatsoha
got here?''
Frightened almost out of their wits
the women hastily replied that they
had nothing they ought not to have
and assured the highwaymen that
they were neither whisky runners nor
officers.
The space in front was filled with
the party's grips and on the floor in
the rear were stacked small boxes
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