The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-09-28
VICTIMS IDENTIFY
3AUT0 BANDITS
Hold Youths for Hijack-
ing on Highways of
County
CAUGHT AFTER CHASE
Wreck Auto at Dawson After
Police Pursuit; Victim
Led Officers

Two OF the bandit gang, identified
by numerous victims of recent hold
ups as those responsible for the Sc
ries of hiiackings on and In the
nelghborhood OF Federal drive dur
ing the past 10 days, were captured
shortly after midnight Tuesday by
Motorcycle Officers f. w. Johnson
and l.. f.. Roach. following a 4-mile
chase, which began on Federal, east
OF the Rose hin cemetery and ended
at Dawson when the bandits wrecked
their car near the Frisco station. The
men gave their names at the police
station as II. II. Lewis and Theodore
York, The third member of the gang,
Stonewall Smith. was arrested at 10
O'Clock Wednesday morning after the
others had implicated him In their
statements.
shortly after the police had re-
Ceived several reports of hijackings
in the general neighborhood Of Fed
cral and East Tenth street late Tues
day MT ht. John Witchor, employe
of the oklahoma Tool and supply
company reported at the police sta
tlon that he had Just returned from
out Federal drive and that he had
passed three men in Ford delivery
truck, whom he recognized as the
gang that had held him up In the
same neiphborhood about a week
| ago.
Victim INsads Officers.
Officers johnson and Roach OBJ
tained permission to accompany Wit
cher on a return to the district an
nouncing that they would either re-
| turn with the hiiackers or stay out
there all night" After combing the
roads between Federal, East Tentn
and the Broken Arrow highway for
/ more than an hour and half. the
| officers encountered the bandit car
| about three miles out on Federal!
| Witcher, who was driving, and a
/ young lady companion, Immediately
| identified the car. ut was evidently
| their intention TO stick Us up,' john
son said, until they saw our uni
| forms tor they made an attempt to
| crowd us to the side OF the road
| They Immediately changed their
minds and sped past us toward
| Dawson"
There followed q chase for -four
miles along the road and into Daw-
son, where the fug'tives swerved
/ the car past the Frisco station, bare
! ~ missing It, and crashed into an
| embankment. throwing "A front cas-
| ing and breaking the radius rods on
/ their car. and then skidded into a
wire fence. from which they wore
| trying to extricate themselves when
| the officers appeared on the scene
and, covering them with pistols
| placed them under arrest. smith
made his escape Mt some point dur
| ing the ne1ee before tbs arrival OF
| officers a IS apprehend"d late'
| in the mos. ~ at his place II en-
| hi Mt
were taken TO the police station anc
questioned. had admitted his ccnnec
| ton with thcm.
Suspected of Crimes.
The career of the suspected gang II
believed to have begun nearly two
weeks ago when the police first be
gan receiving reports from person:
held up in the nelghborhood of Fed
aral drive. The victims In several in
stances reported that the bandits mac
appeared in n Ford truck corre
spending IN description to tho one
captured Tuesday nlisht. At Other
times the men wese rcUcrted as be
ing afoot. The captured truck. off
GERS declare, is the delivery truck ol
the York brothers dairy. which is
| located In the neighborhood neal
where the robberies occurred. and OF
the owners.
The three suspects were also iden'
titled by Mr.. and Mrs. w. r. Hoi
comb. who were held up IN the "in'
fected" district about three hours be
fore the capture. 4 watch. knife and
| pin. taken from the persons Of tho
captured men, were identified BY
| Holcomb as the loot taken from him
Others who claim to have been held
up recently also made identifications
Witcher stated that he had seer
the party on several occasions In the
neighborhood since they held him W
and had tried to follow them bu
that they had always succeeded II
Guiding him. They are being held iT
the city TAIL on investigation pendini
the filing OF information agains
them by persons who have made
identificNtions.