Evening star., 1933-06-02
KANSAS FUG|T|VES
ARE SOUGHT IN Vain
II ConvictS EIude Officers,
but Two Oklahoma Prison
erS Are Recaptured.
~ Inc Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHELSEA, Okla, June 2.-Scarred
BY more bullets and a bank robbery,
the trails of ii Kansas prison fugitiveS
twisted anew today through the Okla
homa-Arkansas hill and mountain
country. but two escaped Oklahoma
convicts were back again behind bars.
The reckless killers and robbers who
broke from the Kansas State Peniten-
tiary at Lansing during Memorial
day bag2 ball game, are blamed for
killing a Chetopa, Kans., officer; have
stolen ard Communicated numerous
motor cars, held half dozen men and
women as temporary hostages, engaged
in running gun fights with man hunters
and climaxed their contempt for the
law late yesterday with the S2.l00 rob-
berry of a Chelsea bank.
Not so elusive were the tryo convicted
killers, Jim Stribling and a. D. Brad
bury, who fed from the Oklahoma
prison at McAlester, late Wednesday,
with the arms and automobile of
guard. They we're caught last night at
Stuart, 20 miles west Of the peniten-
tiary, by two marshals who surprised
them trying to board train They had
abandoned the guards motor car on
mountain road.
Believed in Arkansas
The trail of one group of the Kansans
seems hot several miles northwest of
Sloan Springs, Ark. where three auto
thieves shot it out Wednesday night
with the police chief, Bob La Toilette
A posse started a new search over the
steep foot trails in that section after
three fishermel late last night had re-
ported seeing three armed men making
their way along Flint Greek. There
are no motor roads in the immediate
vicinity
Earlier in the day another posse had
lost the convict trail two miles from
where the fishermen sighted the TITO.
Bands of armed citizens and cha
grtned officers from half dozen Okla
homa counties secuted the Chelsea
countryside until late last night, but
returned empty handed. convinced the
desperadoes again were securely Sc
oreted in hideouts in the rough hills.
Pursued by posse, the bank robbers
fed in Southwesterly direction from
Chelsea, town Of 500 about 40 miles
northeast of Tulsa, then circled west
and north and finally were lost while
travelling eastward toward the upper
corner of the State. Shots were ex-
changed, but apparently none took eff
feet, One pursuing car was disabled
and careened into ditch after it was
riddled with robber bullets, but the oc-
cupants were uninjured
Missing Drivers Found
Oficers said they did not believe VIII
bur Underhill, notorious Oklahoma and
Kansas killer, was implicated In the
Chelsea robbery, although an eyewit-
nees of the affair identified him from
photograph.
Sheriff John York Of Vinita, Craig
County, where much of the convicts'
activity has centered, said he was con-
vineed Underhill was with the Sloan
Springs group.
Excitement over the desperadoes'
wholesale misdeeds grew still higher for
a time yesterday, when two men and a
boy, part of a convoy moving new au-
tonlobiles westward from Detroit were
missed on the road near Alton and
were not found all day. Officers said
they believed the trio had been kid
naped and the two ears they occupied !
stolen. Last night all we're found safe. !
They reported they had had minor
accident and missed the others in the |
party along the road.