The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-01-16
Bandit With Long Criminal
Record Passes Into Land
of Unknown Mystery;
Car Overturns
DALLAS POST OFFICE
ROBBERS CAPTURED
POLICE OF TWO CITIES SEARCH
FOR MASTER MIND THOUGHT
TO BE GUIDING ELEMENT
IN RECENT CRIME WAVE.

Dallas. Texas, Jan. 15.-The report
ed recovery Of nearly quarer OF
a million dollars In liberty bonds and
currency and the tragic death Of one
Of tho bandits, were the outstanding
features carly tonight in the police
investigation into last nights sensa>
tonal robbery of sub-postoffice sta
ton here. The total amount Of loot
taken by the six robbers was not
known, and four OF the band remained
nj liberty. Early police estimates
placed the sum at about S2S,OOO.
W. S. Scrivener. one OF the band
who was injured when the bandit car
overturned on a road nelr Fort Nori !
three hours after the robbery was con
mitted. lei officers 20 cache eight
miles nor n of Fort Worth today. Hc
cached 5000 in Liberty bonds. ana
sae.O0C in currency was found m two
registered rail sacks, according tc
cal police. Strivencr. who was p'na-
ed undernel,l the wrocked autom )-
bic. WIS arrested 10y Fort Worth of-
flcers and brought here early today
| subsequently he made a complete CON
| f. on. police said, implicating
master mind" behind the robbery
whose arrest, detectives said, vii
cause a sensation.
Pat Murphy. alias Rufus Clcmons
alias W. w. Mm,hcws, another mem
bcr of the outlaw band. was instantly
killed when the bandit car" turno'
turtle near For, Worth. According I,
the ulleged confession OF Scrivcnei
police SAID. he and Murphy were re
aurning 10 Fort Worth after havin
cached the lot following wild nigh
ride from Dallas. The four other mem
bers Of he band had taken refuge In
house at Fort Worth.
, Five Dallas detectives returned (
Folg Worth with Scrlyoner shortl
before noon today. on the latter
promise to lead them to his four CON
radcs' hiding place. Tho house wa
! found unoccupled. but indication
| were that II had been hurriedly Va
/ Gated. The officers then were cor
Quoted by Scrivener 10 the loot cach'
= Search For the four. whose idontl,
- Ia known TO officers, continues In Da
, las and Fort Worth and local pole
t reiterated late iodly the sensations
+. developments were impending.
. In addition 20 the approximate
= soi6.OOO recovered near Fort Wort
n more than $4,000 Of the stolen Gu
@ rency was found In a house In Soui
[ Dallas toily. Police searched Il
h house on the strength OF Scr,vencr
;. purportcd confession.
Extra precautions wcro taken !
!, policc 20 guard Scrvcncr here and
: his trip TO Fort Worth today. VIII
o outwardly the situation waa duiC
p murmurs OF violence wcrr heard
4 Tho city. Feeling is intense over a
IA shooting of rhrcc postal employees WI
!. offered no resistance during the 70
!. berry OF the sub-statIon. Mono we
b. crit cally injured. however, physical
/, slid today. Scrivcncr. in his allcg
n confession. declared nervousness on q
l. part OF one or the bandits unused {;
,, roi,hcr TO accilcntally discharge |
Il 0ls ol. Tho entire band then fir
a. more than twenty shots into tho pos
v stat on. he said.
IS Roth Srivencr and Murphy
N Clcmons as he was known 10 local !
}, Ice. were notorious characters. Scr
oncr scipcd from n Texas penRcntia
las December Is. fio had been ~
,cnced 60 serve 30 years for parti
r patton In n payroll robbery here &
7 years ago. Murphy also had served
= prison term and only recently was
n leased. lie escaped from the penit,
NJ ihry years ago. and was recaptur
" at Little Rock, Ark. after sem
n tlonal gun fight. with police thero
v Fort. Worth. Texas. Jan. i5.-w.
Sorivencr. confessed participant In
r s2s.0Oo Dallas postoffice holdup. ~
T. his arrival here shortly before M
% conducted officers 60 n house
or Jennings Avenue. which he n
" was occupied by one of the bar
j. gang, II was empty. though tho
he stoves were burning oil over
" place and the. furniture was unt
I. tufhed.
Neighhors said the occupants
ng hurriedly Friday night. carrying "
n them two bic trunks. No one In
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