The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-11-10

FIees Jail to See Baby and
Shoots Police Chief-Es-
capes to Hills
y InternatIOnaii News Service

B ASHLAND, ~. H, Nov a0.--
Carrying orders to "shoot to kill, .
200 armed citizens were searching
every nook and corner Of the
mountains near here today for
DELI Fellows, twenty-five-year old
outlaw.
Fellows, scion OF a wealthy Yer
mont family, escaped from the
State penitentiary in Nashville,
Tenn, three weeks ago in order
to see his two weeks old baby.
He was christened George Ordell
Fellows. His parents are highly
respected and wealthy residents of
Canaan, Vermont. At an early
age, residents Of Canaan said, the
boy, who was called Dell" was
hard to control.
While still in school he was in
volved in a shooting affair at
CRANKY, Vermont. in which Michael
Nolan was seriously wounded.
Eluding the officers OF the law.
DELI Fellows jumped aboard a
freight train and made his way
west His father adjusted the
troubles with Vermont Authorities.
The next heard Of Fellows he
was serving in the Marine Corps
and he is said to have made a
brave and excellent soldier.
While Chief of Police George
Dow was attempting to arrest the
fugitive late yesterday in the street
here, Fellows drew a revolver and
pumped five bullets into the chief.
probably fatally wounding him.
Determination to get Fellows
dead or alive" was in the heart
Of every member Of the big posse
today as the mountain sides were
Lramped.
The shooting of Chief Dow and
the man hunt which followed fur
nished a new chapter in the story
Of the life of a wealthy young man
gone wrong that reads like novel
After his term Of enlistment was
up, Dell" returned to Vermont and
began a career as school teacher in
a Lunenburg school.
AS a village schoolmaster, young
Fellows eloped with Miss Marion
Brunnell, known as the prettiest
girl in the town.
A few weeks later, Deli Fellows
was in trouble.
The village minister called at the
school one day to suggest that dis
cipline was lax in the school.
Fellows promptly grabbed the
clergyman by the collar and threw
him bodily from the schoolhouse.
Escapes From Posse
He was arrested and placed in the
Lunenburg Jail. Securing saw
by some means unknown, Fellows
cut the bars Of his cell and es-
capped
A posse followed his trail to a
farm house where the young school
master was cornered.
When Fellows came downstairs in
the farm house he carried a coat
over his arm and beneath it had
concealed a saWed-off shotgun.
The deputy sheriff. an elderly
man, in charge of the posse, was
struck over the head by Fellows.
AS the deputy fell, Fellows jumped
through a window Of the farm
house and escaped in the woods.
For months the young fugitive
was hunted in the mountains. His
name became terror in every
household in the North country.
Fellows knowledge of .woodcraft
made it possible for him to travel
over the mountains for weeks until
he reached Plymouth, N. II. At
Plymouth he is alleged to have
stolen an automobile.
Driving back into Vermont
through the Gordon of men on the
lookout for him. the young outlaw
picked up his young wife and
started South
In the Tennessee mountains the
young couple were arrested. Eel
lows was sent to the Nashville
prison, but his wife was released
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