Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-05-26

The physician was kured from MS
home here Thursday night by man
who said a friend had been injured
in n tractor accident. The doctors
body was found by a road about 20
miles south Of Oakley. He had been
shot in the head and had been dead
only a short time when officers
reached the scene shortly after noon.
His automobile had been pushed over
an embankment.
A scrawled note was found in the
car. 1t said:
"Oh, YOU murderers-ye-Drs.
Sweet revenge Dickon-Co.-Enter-
prise
While officers were unable 10
link the note with previous develop
ments. il was thought that the
wounded robber may have died while
undergoing treatment and that DIR.
Wineinger was slain when the three
dcsperadoes resumed their flight
without the handicap OF caring for
their companion. There is n town
named Enterprise in Dickinson coun-
~. in east central Kansas.
Finding Of the physicians body
increased fears for the safety of
u. A. kessinger. assistant cashier OF
the First National bank of Lamar,
who was kidnapped after the robbers
shot the cashier and president and
fled with upwards Of $4,000 in cash
and Liberty bonds. During the
search yesterday. there were persist
ent rumors that Kessinger's body had
been found near Scott City, Kans.,
but possemen denied this.
While the fugitives were reported
at several places in northwestern
Kansas and southwestern Nebraska
the last place all four were known
to have visited was Trinidad, Colo
Entering a drug store there Wed.
nesday night they forced n woman
70 attend the wounded man. She said
he had serious wound In the side
and also had been shot in the arm
He was wounded IN an exchange oi
shots with bank officials in which
A. y. Parrish, president OF the bank
and his son, John Parrish. cashier
were killed.
Belief that the robbers had turned
west again caused Wyoming officers
20 send posses through northeast
Colorado 70 aid volunteers IN Kan
sas and Nebraska.
With two airplanes already aiding
searchers, passenger ship, carry
ing machine guns. was sent from
Denver TO assure an ample supply OF
arms and ammunition should the
robbers be located. Officers said
they did not expect the men would
ask or give quarter, il cornered.
DENVER, Colo. Stay 26.-LP)-
Squads OF Denver policemen and de-
tectives searching the City Park dis.
trict where a Denver patrolman ex-
changed shots with men in a mud
splattered automobile today failed "a
find any clue to the whereabouts
OF the machine. Police were inclined
to discount the theory that the car
may have carried the bandits who
held up the Lamar. Colo, bank and
expressed the opinion that the auto
mobile from which shots were fired
at Patrolman Jack Hawthorne car
ried bootleggers engaged in running
liquor into Denver in the early
morning hours.
The patrolman. driving n police
car. passed the men near City Park
here. and. noticing that the descrip-
tion Of their automobile Tailed with
that Of the widely sought killers. he
gave chase and. when the other
speeded up, fired single shot at
the men.
His shot was answered by a fusil-
lade. A number of bullets struck
the police ear. some or them shatter-
ing the windshield and temporarily
binding The officer. whose eyes
were filled with bits OF glass.
The officer. forced 10 stop, fired
several shots more "a the men and
then gave up the chase.