The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-18
TW|CE-'KILLED'
BANK BANDIT
IS HELD, ALIVE
Records Show Clinton Rob-
Der Is oklahoma Jack
Dead Two Years.
KEEPS SILENCE IN JAIL
Third of HOIdup Gang Dies
of Wounds at Dan~
vile, Ill.
KEEPS SILENCE IN JAIL

Doubly dead" notorious okla
homa Jack" was resurrected in Yer
million county's Jail today to await
probable Indictment for murder.
Fingerprints in files of the crimi-
nal bureau here lent drama to iden-
LITIGATION of the Clinton Qnd.) bank
bandits today when they pulled one
Of the bandits from the grave to
which police correspondence had
consigned him, and showed him
very much alive.
There was a third fatality today
among the bandit quintet when E.
H. Hunter, Terre Haute rum run
ner, one of their number, died of
bullet wounds in the Vermillion
county home at Danville, Ill.
Criminal Records Searched
TWO of the gang, G.. w. Landley
IS, Frankfort, Ind, and Thomas
Bell, AZ, of Pittsburgh, Pa, COM
mitted suicide Tuesday when they
turned their weapons upon them
selves, arther than surrender to
the posse that entrapped them near
Sidell, Ill, few hours after the
robbery of the Citizens State bank
az Clinton.
Today's search Of records in the
criminal bureau in the statehouse
concerned the remaining two, held
in jail at Newport, Ind, pending
action Of the Vermillion county
grand jury, called by Judge w. G.
Wait to convene next Tuesday.
At Newport they were docketed as
William M. Long, 80, Moberly, Mo-,
and Walter Dietrich, IS, Chicago.
Wanted All Over Nation
But microscopic examination of
finger prints prove, criminal bu
reau attaches said, that Long is
oklahoma Jack" james M. Clark
with a half dozen aliases and want
ed all over the country for bank
robberies and holdups.
For two years, they say, Clark has
enjoyed that supreme delight of the
gangster-to be regarded dead.
Across his finger print card in the
criminal bureaus files had been
penciled the words: Reported killed
in Kansas, 1928"
As if once killed wasn't enough,
files produced letter from Okla
homa police, asserting Clark, "Okla-
homa jack" was killed in the Semi
nola (Okla,) bank holdup in 1928,
after escaping from the Oklahoma
state prison.
''BiI" StubbOrnIy Silent
What Bill" has been doing with
his last two years of death" he
has stubbornly refused to tell Sher-
if Harry Newland at Newport.
He was known to have been a
former associate of Herman Lamm,
alias Thomas Bell, one of the two
bandits who shot themselves Tues
day rather than surrender.
That Walter Dietrich, the other
bandit held at Newport, is William
Martin, probably of Chicago, was
the word from the criminal bureau
this morning.
Landley, and possibly others of
the gang were believed to have par
ticipated in the robbery of the
Farmers bank Of Frankfort, Ind.
two weeks ago.
Death Penalty Mandatory
Bodies of the three dead bandits
are being held in the morgue at
Sidell.
Death also will be the fate of the
remaining duet if they are con-
victed on the murder charge, for the
law makes the death penalty man
datory for murder in preparation
of a robbery and Clinton authorities
say the same provision extends to
to the pursuit of bandits.
Joe Walker, former deputy sheriff,
who died of machine gun wounds
suffered in pursuit of the bandit
car Tuesday, will be buried Friday
at Dana, his home. His widow,
mother, one brother and sister sur
vive him.