Evening star., 1933-01-08
FIND TRIGGER MAN !
IN PAUL SLAy|NG|
Print Experts Identify Slain
Gunman-SiSter and Lover
Executed in 1881.

A three-year search by police of the
Nation for the trigger man" in the
lurid murder for which Irene Schroeder,
blonde thrill bandit, and Glenn
Dague, her lover, were executed in 1881.
was brought to a dramatic end yester-
day when f1ngerprint experts OF the
United States Bureau of Investigation
identified a slain bandit in Missouri as
the missing gunman.
Fingerprints of the bandit, killed with
a companion in gun battle Tuesday
with police of Cape Girardeau, Mo,
were found to be identical with those
of Thomas Robert Crawford, brother of
Mrs. Schroeder and said to have fired
the bullet that killed Corpl. Brady Paul
Of the PENNSYLVANIA State Police in De-
cember, 1929
Crawford, his sister and Dague fed
after Staying the policeman, who sought
to arrest them for a hold-up, Mrs.
Schroeder and Dague later being cap
tured on a mountainside in Arizona by
a posse, aided by airplanes. Two deputy
sheriffs were killed in the gunfire that
accompanied the capture and an addl-
tional murder charge was placed against
the pair as a result.
Refused to Aid in Search.
Crawford eluded arrest and his sister
refused to aid police in their search
for him. Mrs. Schroeder and Dague
were executed February "a, 1881. after
a sensational trial and after futile ef-
forts to obtain clemency from Gov.
Pinchot.
Fingerprints of Crawford and of an
other man were received Friday at tne
division of identification of the Bureau
of Investigation, with notation from
Missouri police that identity OF the SUD
iects was unknown" The Two nao
been shot to death by police, the pu-
reau was advised. A thorough check
of the approximately 100000 criminal
fingerprints on file here resulted in the
identification of the dead men as CraW-
ford and John Huff. Huff also had
prior crime record.
According to the Associated Press,
Crawford and Huff were shot by seven
Cape Girardeau officers last Tuesday
after the robbery of small MorehouSe,
Mo- cafe. Trailing them to a down.
town fiat in Cape Girardeau, the po-
licemen battered down the door and
found Crawford and HUFF seated on
bed
The pair drew their revolvers and
attempted to shoot it out with the po-
lice detail. From room to room the
battle ragged until both .gunmen were
shot to death. The police were un-
Scathed.
Labels Cut From Clothes.
For nearly a week the bodies Of the
dead men were viewed by thousands IN
an effort to identify them. To prevent
Identification in case of capture the men
had cut the labels from their clothing
and in other ways had sought to con-
ceal their identity. Huff had been ar
rested for vagrancy at Texarkana, ARK,
and at Joplin. Mo.
The murder of Corpl. Paul occurred
December 81, 1929, on the highway pe-
tween Butler and Newcastle, Pa. Paul
had been notified to watch for car
containing a blonde girl, a small child
and two men, who had participated IN
the robbery of chain store in Butler.
The car was stolen.
Paul and a brother officer stopped
car answering the description given ana
asked the driver, Dague, for his drivers
permit The answer was shot from
the car which felled Paul with a fatal
wound. The car sped on.
The slayers were trailed across the
country, several skirmishes with police
of various cities marking the flight to
the Far West Crawford separated from
his sister and her lover en- route to
Arizona.
Following their spectacular capture
Mrs. Schroeder and Dague maintained
defiant air, but finally relented just
before they went to the electric chair.
Testimony of the child, Donnie, 5-year-
old son of Mrs. Schroeder, aided in con-
viction of the mother
According to police, Crawford had
told a friend that he fired the shot that
killed the policeman, and the hunt for
the fugitive assumed Nationwide pro-
portions.