Evening star., 1933-12-31

:Shouted: Stick EN- up. Wllpul;
The Nichols woman was shot through
the stomach and probably fatally
wounded.
Wife Wears Diamonds.
The bandits wife wore several large
diamonds when taken to the hospital
ito see her husband. She was attrac-
lively dressed. ,,.
Assuring his wife the officers have
nothing against you" Underhill told
. her where she could find his auto
mobiles and valuable papers. ss
Rut the only valuable papers ON
cers had located were $4,000 in bonds
! of the Franklin Title & Trust Co. OF
I. Kentucky. found in the outlaws CLOTH
/ ing after he staggered from the raloeo
Before his wife came to the hospital
the outlaw had boasted that he would
The posse which raided the hideout
Included Frank Smith, another Okla
yhoma City Federal operative. VINO wa
( a survivor in the Kansas ClIy OiiAo''
( Station shooting.
A light was burning in bed room
?. Colvin and Clarence Hurt, Oklahoma
; CITY policemen, cautiously approacheu
! an open window after other ofncerS MAO
! surrounded the house.
/ "Colvin and 1 walked up to the WIN
dow of q northeast bed room IN th>
{ house" Hurt related. There was Un-
/. derhill. standing near the bed in his
underwear, and his wife was sitting on
: the bed"
Colvin was armed with a machine
gun. Hurt with machine gun ana q
tear gas gun. =.
When the officers shouted at him 70
: surrender. Underhil whirled, grabbed
and fired,
Police Fire Is General.
His first shot brought rain of lead
from the poSSemen'S machine guns,
ShotgunS, rifles and revolverS. The ON
. GERS shot not only into the Undernlll
, bed room but into an adjoining room
which was dark. Roe and the Nichols
woman were in the dark room.
We saw Underhill Stagger when the
volley opened said Hurt. Then ne
jumped into another room. His wife
tainted"
The firing lulled, then Underhill
darted from the front door and ran
across muddy ground into the darkness
, He disappeared behind another house
Hurt estimated 200 shots were fired
He said he believed Underhill fired at
least 60 of them. None OF the officers
was wounded.
With Underhills capture. all except
one of the II persons indicted for the
Kansas City killings have been ar
,rested or slain. The man still sought
his Richard T. Galatas, Hot Springs,
Ark, gangster.
One Convict at Large.
Only one Of the IL convictS who es-
capped from the Kansas prison on
Memorial day is at large. He is Ed
Davis. All of the other fugitives have
been recaptured or killed.
Underhill'S capture had been ex-
pected for weeks. Some time ago he
escaped an early night raid on the
farm home of George Nash, near
Konawa, 80 miles southeast of Shawnee
At that time he left the farmhouse
scantily clad and ill.,
While officers were reticent as to the
clues leading to the deSperadoS appre-
henSion, it was disclosed that one clue
came indirectly through the Nichols
woman after Underhill went to her shop
IN Seminole to be treated by doctor
following the Konawa escape.
Mrs. Underhill said today that she
her husband and the other couple ar
rirs. - EAewnes !a.t midnight from
Oklahoma City.
TIE posse which found Underhill in
the furniture store was led by Sheriff
Stanley Rogers of Oklahoma City.
His body was completely riddled BY
bullets" Rogers said How he man
aged to keep going through that ma
chine gun fire and how he managed tC
get that 16 blocks to the furnitur,
store is beyond understanding
Underhill gained his name, the "Tri
State Terror" through his viciousres!
as a killer and his widespread Grim
Kansas and Missouri.
Serving Life Sentence.
He was serving a life sentence in tht
Kansas Penitentiary for the murder o
Merle Colver, Wichita, Kans., police
man, when he escaped from the Kan
sas Penitentiary last May 80 by kid
mapping the warden. He led the breal
with Harvey Bailey, now serving lif'
sentence IN Leavenworth Federal Peni
tentiary for the 100000 ransom kid
naping of Charles F.. UrSchel, Oklahomi
City oil millionaire.
: Underhill had escaped from tn,
Oklahoma Penitentiary in July, 1881
He then was serving life sentence To-
murder in Okmulgee County. The muir
der of a boy at Pitcher. Okla, also i
charged against him as well as mum
.erouS bank robberieS.
To close the books on the other prln
.ctpal Southwestern outlaws still DEFY
ing capture, officers still seek Charlie
(Pretty Boy} Floyd, Clyde Barrow, rob
Rre 6nd murderer, as well as DAVIS.