The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-01-16
WIlH DEATH AT WHEEL, CAR
Hl'RTLES MAN INTO ETERNITY
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neighborhood knew who the people
We're as they had lived there only n
short time.
Scrivener said ne had no idea
where the occupants had gone. The
search for the missing money and
the missing bandits is how centering
around Lake Worth.
Many clews have been found in
that vicinity police said
Dallas, Texas, Jan. 15.-Quick retri-
men who robbed the jackson Street
sub-postufficc station here last night
when Rufus Clemons of San Antonio
and Fort Worth was killed in the
wrecking of the bandits car near
Fort Worth according to announce
ment at police headquarters today.
w 5. Scnvener, who, police say,
confessed to participation in the rob-
berry is in Jail here having sustained
slight injuries in the automobile
wreck, Four of the bandits still are
at large
Police announced al o'clock this
morning that w. 5. Scrivener, injured
IN an automobile wreck near Fort
Worth last night and suspected of
being a participant in the Dallas sub.
post office robbery, has been brought
mere from Fort Worth and was being
questioned. He was first enormously
Identified as W. S, Wroe officers said.
Police headquarters also announced
hat the man killed in the automobile
accident. was Rufus Clemons. First
reports identified him as W. NJ. May
field
W s. Scrivcncr, alleged 10 have
confessed completely in yesterday S
robbery Of n sub-postoffice, was taken
TO Fort Worth this morning where
he promised to lead officers to four
Of the bandits who still are at lib
erty. He was escorted by five Dallas
detectives, who said their prisoner
claimed to know where his four al
legged comrades are in hiding.
Police said they expected to make
n sensational arrest of the master
mind" in the postoffice holdup on
Information given in Scrivener's al
Legged confession. This master mind"
officers said, probably was the leader
in recent wave of crime in this
section
Twenty-elght thousand dollars. most
Of which was not negotiable, because
az 70 tot
cred pouches the bandits secured at
tho postoffice, was divided between
the robbers at the leaders home here
Inst night according to the police
Police did not give details of the
robbery as given in Scrlvener's pur-
ported confession, but said the man
told them he and Clemons had driven
into the country at Lake Worth, near
Fort Worth, to ditch" their portion
of the loot. On their way back 10
Fort Worth. three hours after the
robbery. the automobile turned over
nj dangerous curve. Clemons' neck
was broken and Scrivener was pinned
beneath the car. About $4,000 was
recovered from Scrivener and Clemons
when Forth Worth Officers reached
The scene.
Little Rock. Ark, Jan. l4.-Pat
Murphy, cx-convict. killed in an au-
tomobie accident near Fort Worth,
Texas, last night, had two gun fights
with Little Rock officers in Feb.
1915. and his capture was effected
by Night Jailer Clarence Evans, after
the officer mad broken Nlurphy's leg
with Il shot from his revolver.
After Murphy and his confcderates
had perpctra,od several daring rob-
berries in Texas, officers received tips
that he was disposng OF stolen prop
crty through fence" here. Later
they learned he came here.
Police chief r.. c. Roto"bcrry, sue
ceeded in recovering two diamond
rings and valuable watch which
Murphy had disposed Of through the
fence" Murphy however, refused
to testify against his confederate and
no further arrest was made
one OF the diamong rings was re-
covered ut "a pawn shop while the
other was taken from local busl-
ness man who had purchased IL.
when Murphy was taken back TO
Texas Tor tyial, he was carried ON "a
s,rctchcr.
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