The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-02-16
BANDIT ESCAPES


/ of the Topeka avenue road. Iarlmer
had left his car about one-eighth of a
mile of the house. E. V. Lineberry
| of the Southwestern Bell Telephone
company was left in the car.
Bandit. Ran Into Fence.
Larimer and Miller turned and
I hurried out the rear door and around
| in front. They were told by Line
berry that one man, the one who es-
| capped thru the rear door while Lari-
mer and the other bandit were ex-
! changing shots had run outside into
fence and then had hurried to the
they were told, fled north ACROSS the
| fields. That was the last seen of either
of them.
/ For a quarter of an hour Larimer
and Miller continued the search.
Then Larimer was induced to be taken
to his home where DR.. Charles Ham
! mond dressed the wound. The bullet
was extracted from the left breast. 1t
i struck near the right lung and plowed
across the sheriffs chest, up six or
was extracted by Doctor Hammond
about 1880 o'clock this morning. I'm
| less there are complications the wound
| will not prove serious. The bulled
extracted was steel jacketed from a
.38 cahber revolver.
Search In Zero Weather.
| The police department was notified.
Every available man hurried in ma
chimes to the Jones home. Twice dur
J ing the night, Clyde Tresner, chief of
I detectives, and Maurice Leonard, as
sistant chief, drove to Pauline believ-
ling the men might attempt to get on
train there. The officers nearly froze,
tho wrapped in heavy clothes. How
| the bandits withstood the cold of last
night. dressed only in underclothes
and in bare feet, as Miller believes
! created much Wonderment.
Police officers TODAY EXPRESSED belief
that they must have had another ma
chine somewhere in the vicinity and
ran to it or ran to some house in
South Topeka where they held up a
family and might now be secreted in
the house keeping the family inside
awaiting for night to fall before leay-
ing.
In the house the police found much
stolen loot. They found a box of PEN
MES which they say was stolen from
the Berryton State bank when it was
robbed several weeks ago. In a closet
they found a spike maui stolen from
the section house at Pauline, the night
of the Berryton robbery. In a pack
age they found a quantity of stamps
in an envelope which were identified
today as stamps stolen from the Fitch
drug store, Seventeenth street and
Kansas avenue, a week ago last Tues
day night.
Find Stolen Cigars.
Cigars stolen from the store also
were identified. At the time of this
robbery, the front window of the
! store was broken open and a small
safe was carried away. The safe
could not be located on the Jones
Y place. Since that robbery account
books and check books belonging tc
Fitch were found by the police on
v Topeka avenue and on lower jackson
street.
In the rear of the house the police
y found a Chandler Six, the engine OF
which was running when Larimer and
Miller called at the house at 10 O'Clock
Sunday night. Records at the office
V of the state Automobile license in
y spector showed that the license mum
Der of the car, 36,545, Kansas, was is
sued to Lon johnson, Rural Rote 2
Argentine, Kan. The license was fol
a Packard truck.
Discover a Stolen Ford.
This morning, the police found z
Ford sedan in a shed. The license
| number, E IT'S, Kansas, was one los
several months ago by deputy sher
Tiff at Wyandotte county, it was stated
a the secretary of states office today
4 The engine, numebr 304S61S. is po
q the number of any car licensed il
y Kansas it was stated.
There was safe in the house con
tanning a watch and some jewelry
: | This, Jones told the officers, wa
= owned by him. Fitch, the druggist
u stated that it wasn't his safe.
10 There also was a quantity of men,
. trousers and coats, various sizes. Thu
II tags and all other identifying mark
- had been torn off.
it Police Find RevoIvers.
Under the large window in the par
lor thru which the bandit made hi
# headlong leap, Clyde Treasner, chic
q of detectives, found two revolvers
e Both were .3s caliber hammerless
,e Six cartridges in one revolver had beer
ss exploded. Thee cartridges in anothe
n were exploded, showing that tn
a bandit had two revolvers and fire.
# nine times at Larimer and Miller.
Jones and his wife-were both full
- dressed, the police say, when the
is were arrested by Patrolman Abne
- Taylor and Orville Brownell about
- o'clock last night. Jones was taken t
- the county Jail Immediately. Mrs
IF Jones was permitted to remain IN IN
IA room. She has been working at tn
Mutual laundry, Third and Quinc
III streets. But this morning she went t
= the home of Katherine Tassel1, wher
ie the police located her after consider
able difficulty.
House Owner on Parole.
Jones has been in trouble man
G times the police say. On table
the house south of Topeka they foun
IN parole issued from the district cour
in releasing him from serving time j
ne state prison for violation of the liquo
h. traffice.
BY Jones told the police that he an
a. his wife locked the house early
January and went to Topeka. He de
&c MED that he knew anything about TIL
al men living at his house. Neighbor
m. however, declare that they saw bot
he Jones and his wife at the house sine
IL the men began making the place
es rendezvous. Neighbors admitted the
ce had been suspicious for q week thu
rs something was wrong but believed ii
r. house was merely being used as
Ill road house frequented by men an
he women from Topeka
,ir Yeggs Had Many Visitors.
r. Mrs. H. NJ. Ellis, living a quartz
.xt of a mile west of the Jones plac
IS 1 told officers this morning that durir