New Britain herald., 1927-12-29

up their hands and go towards the back. There were two or three GUS toners in the store and we made all these people go towards the back. | There were two doors in the back oi ! the store, one on each side, and my partner went through the door to the right. Welby Hunt backed tn" druggist and his wife ahead of him and I went through the door 10 tn" left with the customers. forcing them inside the little room in tho back Of the store.
 When we got in the back We saw the officer or the law standing in the rear and l called Welby to , take his gun as I had my gun on | him, but before he attempted this the officer wheeled about in posi- 1 tion just opposite me. He started | firing his gun at me and just at the same time I started firing at him and Welby started firing. l was fir ing directly at the policeman as far as I kneW. and I judged that Welby was firing at tho policeman. all i though I did not have time to watch him.
 When several shots had been fired and only a few seconds elapsed We both started to run from the store. l left first. AS Welby left the store he was limpinc. When We got in the car he acted like he had been shot and said he had been shot. drove the car and We hurried back to the room in the Alto hotel.
 We came in the back way and entered our apartment and I took off Welby's oNercoat and his other coat and opened his shirt to see just bullets just cut the flesh on his right shoulder. There were two cuts on his right shoulder. I saw they were not serious and took a wet cloth and bathed the wounds. Then I noticed on his left shoulder hole where l thought bullet had entered. Il seemed as if the bullet had gone in and struck the left shoulder blade and came out"
 After the Rosehill robbery and shooting. Hickman said, he and Hunt went to San Francisco where they staged three robberies.
 They stole four or five automo- piles. later to abandon them and on January Is returned by boat to Los Angeles.
 They made their home with Mrs Carrie NJ. Brickell of Alhambra, Hunts grandmother. Hickman said that although she did not at first know Of their criminal activities she learned of them later.
 That was after my mother came 10 California;" Hickman said. "Wc had our revolvers in suitcase but they were not discovered until some time after my mother came out here We decided 10 take the guns apart and throw them away and to destroy everything we had in connection with work"
 The automobile used in the Rose
  Chrysler sedan, which he and Hunt had stolen in Kansas City and which they drove to the coast. The car was stolen. he said. on LinWood Boule- yard just off Main street. Tine car was unoccupied and unlocked ana Hunt drove it away while Hickman
 followed in a rented car. Hunt Confcsses
 Hunts confession gave a new de. . tailed account of young Hickman'> criminal activities.
 Hunt said he was l. years old. DO you remember going into q drug store last Christmas Eve and staging a hold-up?" he was asked
 "Yes, sir" Hunt replied. "Who was your accomplice::
 Edward Hickman" ] "Tell us in your own words how . you happened to hold up the drug , store and what occurred" the dcter- ; tives ordered.
 Well, l don't know just what happened. It seemed like I was sort of dazed after l went in, We went in, saw the officer and about that time I decided il was time to run and I started to run, just as tho officer started shooting. Edward , also started to run about the same l time.
 "I was hit in the shoulder as " l left the store"
 . 'I don't know who suggested rob.
 ping the place, Edward generally , made those suggestions. I've were both armed. I had ( : Colt .3S automatic, but don' : know what kind ot q gun Edward , had
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