The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-11-08
Alarm 4f1Ours Late eHampers
 Murder Chase
State Police Search for Slayers of Arthur J. Donahue, Killed By Rifle Bullet Was For merly a Reporter.

Although all clues point to Bridge port. the police of this city did not receive notice of the Donahue mur- der, which occurred at Newtown, until four hours after the crime was com. mitted, and hence were greatly i'm peded in their search for the guilty persons.
 Il is the belief of the police officials here that the two men did not come through this city or if they did it was before they had received the report which was hours late in reaching this city. The police were further handi- capped inasmuch as the companion Of Donahue. his brother-in-law who was with him at the time of the shooting could not furnish a description of the murderer of his companion and outside of the fact that the car they used in getting away bore a license plate with three figures he could not give any details of description that would lead to the apprehension of the holdup men.
 Newtown. Conn.,, Nov S-Search Tor the Inurderers of Arthur " Dona- hue, former reporter for the New norS merican, who died at Danbury Hospital early Sunday morning of a bullet wound which penetrated his abdomen, continued today, though up to this morning Sheriff Morris D. Beers, who spent yesterday inVestigat- ing clues to the murderers, had been unsuccessful in obtaining any definite information State police were ex- l pected to take a hand in unraveling | the mystery today.
 Donahue was shot bv one of two men, driving Ford delivery car. in | which they had apparently come from Bridgeport, to steal gasoline from | tank on the premises Of Frank Good sell, who has charge of the state roads in this section and keeps a sup 1 ply of gas which is supplied by the state for his use.
 | 1 Mrs. Martin K. Donahue who have a summer home here. was walkiu 7 home with his brother-in-law, Ed ward F. Pitzschler, a barber, who | lives on the outskirts of the town. They saw the Ford car standing in the road without lights. Fearing that it might cause an accident and seeing no sign of the owners Dona- hue boarded the car and drove it a 1 distance along the road turning it l around so that it would be out of the way, Pitzschier walking the dis | tance.
 At this point the two men who | apparently owned the car came run ming across lots. One of them had a gun with which he threatened to shoot Donahue.
 Pitzschler told the men to put up their gun and calm themselves, as they were simply trying to get the machine out of the way to avoid an accident. One of the men tried to
 
 ran down the road and the men fired two shots at him, one taking effect in his back. The two then boarded their car and drove toward Bridge port. Donahue was hurried to the office of Dr. E. L. Kingman, who ad- ministered first aid. Rev. Father McAuliffe was called to administer the last rites of the church as Dona- hue was apparently dangerously
 wounded. He was rushed to the Dan- bury hospital. dying five minutes
 after he was placed on the operating
 table in the institution.
 Meantime Deputy Sheriff Beers was
 notified. He learned from Pitzschlef
 that the car contained two mi1ks cans and two Sledse hammers. PitzSchleI
 in the darkness was unable to make i out the license number of the car
 except that it contained two letters
 one a "B'' and the other an ''X'' ana
 three figures. The ''X'' would indi-
 cate that the license was a dealers
 Pitzschler was unable to give but . !, meager description of the two men : who apparently made good theil escape Word was sent yesterday morning to the Bridgeport and Dan
 bury police and general alarm wa. spread for the capture of the two men in the car.
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