Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-16
SUSPECTS CONFESS
TO BANK ROBBERY
Three Deny They Slew Deputy
in FIight-Money Found
in Clothing.
BY the Associated Press.

| BY the Associated Press.
GARDEN CITY, Kans., March IS
Police Chief Lee Richardson of Garden
City said tonight that the three alleged
to be robbers of the Manter State Bank
who were captured near Jetmore today
had admitted they robbed the bank
The men were questioned here en- route
from Jetn1ore to johnson.
The trio denied they had killed
Deputy Sheriff Charles Hickman, Eads
| Colo, and wounded three other persons
in their Colorado flight.
Richardson said the three told him
they had given fictitious names and
| identified themselves to him as:
John Walker, Al, Joplin, Mo-; Andrew
Halliday, %, Webb City, Mo-, and Clyde
Rhea, "a, Webb City, Mo.
Money Found on Them.
The police chief also said they told
him Of taking $500 from the bank
Most of the money was found in their
underclothing, Two money. bags left
unopened in the abandoned car con-
tanned about 500 in change.
Richardson said the of1icialS of STAN
ton County, in which the robbed bank
is located, profeSsed willingness to have
the trio extradited to Colorado to be
prosecuted for the staying
A 24-hour search by hundreds of
Kansas and Colorado possemen, heavily
armed, was ended by the arrest of the
trio near the Kansas Colorado line early
today.
Druggist Identifies Trio.
Jack Collins, Manter druggist who
was in the bank yesterday at the time
of the holdup, identified the prisoners
as the robbers.
Following their identification the al
legged robbers we're taken to the county
jail at johnson. Mrs. w. D. Rorick
the sheriff, will have custody of the
prisoners.
Latest methods of criminal pursuit,
including 10 airplane scouts and mod
ern means Of communication, were en-
listed by the officers and citizens par
ticipating in the chase.
Immediately after yesterdays robbery,
officers Of the Sparsely settled territory
were notified and established guard over
the principal highways. Shortly after
ward, at Eads, Deputy Sheriff Hickman
challenged occupants Of speeding car
and was shot and killed in a gun fight.
W. H. Mosher. county employe, was
shot in the leg.
The careening automobile continued
toward the northeast. Five miles west
of Cheyenne Wells, Colo, Sheriff w. D.
Coe and Marshal George Hollingshead
attempted to hold the fugitives. Coe
was wounded seriously in the left thigh
and Hollingshead was shot through the
right shoulder.
Sheriff Is Wounded Seriously.
Sheriff Coe is in a serious condition
in a Denver hospital. Following their
second clash with Colorado officers, the
fugitives sped back into Kansas.
The capture of the trio followed the
abandonment early today, in a blind al
ley at Jetmore, Of an automobile COM
Wandered yesterday from two youths
west Of Kanorado, Kans. Rifles, shot
guns and automatic pistols were found
in the car.
Bloodhounds took up the trail, but
lost it at a nearby creek. An intensive
search began, featured by the drone OF
the airplanes.
Later in the afternoon the three were
apprehended in the shack. Other than
slamming the door on the approach of
Len Racer, citizen posseman, they
offered no resistance.