The Pulaskian., 1921-12-15
SUPER OUTLAW
 KILLED BY TRAITOR
CONVICT FOR WHOM HE OPENED GATES OF ARKANSAS PRISON
 KILLS TOM SLAUGHTER.
POSSES FIND HIS BODY
Slayer surrends With Two Negroes of Escape Party-one Shot in Gun BattIe-sIauahter Robbed
 Many Banks.

Little Rock, Ark.-TwO bullets pass Ing through the head and aaotker through the heart, fired by another es- capped convict as they lay near tiny campfire in the Ozark wilderness of Saline county, has written 'finis" to the dime-noyel career Of Tom Slaugh- ter, murderer, bank robber, 5ail break. CT and greatest desperado since Jesse James.
 All doubt surrounding the famous bandits end was dispelled by the off cial announcement from the governors 5 office and the prison that Slaughter's body had been found in the woods near Benton.
 J. c. Howard, a forger from Hot Springs, whom Slaughter forced to ac, company him in his break for liberty, told of shooting the arch-bandit to death. His story was substantiated by note he left in the prison after Slaughter had ordered him to flee with him. It read: twill be back-' It was found in the commissary by War. den Dempsey.
 Tells of Killing.
 'It was his life or mine" stated Howard, relating the killing. He knew I didn't want to go.
 q shot him twice through the head and once through the heart. He was lying before the fire we had built, with his gun in his right hand and his hand under his head.
 'T whirled on him with my gun, ordering him to straighten out his hands. He came up with his gun in stead, and I got in the first shot. knew he would kill me and leave no trace Of his getaway
 Slaughter never spoke after I shot ground and groaned for fifteen min him. He thrashed around on the utes. Then l emptied my gun on Bus ter and Cannon"
 Negroes Corroborate.
 Towards story of the staying was corroborated by Jim Wells and Clifton Taylor, negroes, both under sentence of death, whom Howard brought out with him when he surrendered to Steve Ferguson, farmer, living near Benton.
 Jack Buster and Willis Cannon, ne- groes, are still at liberty. while the fifth negro, Charles Jones. Is also wan- dering around the woods with bullet in his body, received in an exchange of shots between the escaped conyicts, in a Ford, sand posse which met the car in the streets of Benton.
 Under Death Sentence.
 Slaughter was under sentence of death for staying Deputy Sheriff Roy Brown in Garland county, Ark, while eyading arrest. He escaped at the time, but in October, 1920, he was taken in Kansas onsa charge of rob- bing the Aluwee State Bank.
 With two companions he was caught near Sedan, Kan, and although he sub- mitted without struggle, he surprised his captors by attempting to darw his pistol while on the way to the lookup. He was then disarmed and returned to Arkansas, where the death sentence resulted from the trial of the Brown case.
 According to friends in Dallas, Tex, where Slaughter was born 27 years ago, he was a criminal from the age of A. His first cases were charges of auto stealing.
 Escaped Many JaiIs.
 Tn 1916 Slaughter escaped from the Dallas county jail, liberating seven oth- CT prisoners at the same time. He was later arrested in Oklahoma and sentenced to a term in the Texas state peniteniary, but his escape was only matter of months. He was caught and sent back, but escaped again
 Then Slaughter engaged in series of bank robberies in Kentucky, Kan sas, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Arkan. sas. He was finally captured and placed in the Bartlesvine. Okla, jail, from which he fled in three days. Sen tenced to the jail at Nowata, Okla, he held up the jailer and made his way out. Another of his many jail breaks was made in county jail near Leuis. vile, Ky.