The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-28
NELSON STAYS
z U. S. AGENTS,
MAKES ESCAPE
Babe-FaCe Killer Sought for
Numbering Crack Fed
eraI Men.
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William Gallagher. state highway
patrolman, saw the chase approach
ing while buying gasoline in a filing
station His account Of the tragic
oenoument was the most lucid avail
able.
7 heard a roar Of motors down
the road and then a burst Of shots"
ne said I think the officers fred
first. but the men in the first car
shot right back.
Officers Started Firing
About a thousand feet west Of the
hlling station the F0rd-the car in
front-slammed on the brakes and
skidced into a driveway into North
side park. The Hudson ran past
nearly 500 feet before 1t stopped
sliding.
Two men in the second car
started firing on two men and a
woman IL the first car. The woman
Jumped out and dived into a ditch
covered with tall grass. Her men
Topped behind their car. One OF
them had a machine gun and one
a shotgun-and how they USED
theml"
Gallagher ran into the filling sta
ton and obtained a .32-caliber rifle.
but did not use il because ne could
not determine which group OF COM
batants he should aid. CrOuched in
grass beside the road he watched
the battle. with bullets whining all
around. One narrowly missed Mrs
Frances Kramer IN the filling sta
ton and another smashed glass IN
a car belonging to her son.
I don't know how many shots
we're exchanged" Gallagher said
you can't tell when those machine
guns are going. But the two men !
later learned we're federal agents
fell. One dropped on one SIDE OF
their car. parked croSs-wise in the
street. and his companion on the
other"
Freed After Gangsters
The firing ceased Immediately
The woman believed 70 be Nelson's
wife ran from her refuge IN the
ditch 10 the steering wheel Of Mr.
COwley's Hudson. She drove back
for the men. who leaped IN as she
passed. gaining speed toward the
west.
Gallagher fired SIX or seven shots, /
but apparently without effect. He
believed. however. that the uniden-
titled man IN the gang limped as he |
ran for the car. as though wounded |
when I got up 10 the man lying
IN a pool OF blood on the south side I
OF the road" Gallagher ended his /
part of the story, ne was mutter- I
ing and moaning. He said to me:
I'm an officer. Help me, /
please
That was Mr. CoWley.
Il ran across the street to where
the other wounded man was.
turned back his coat and found he
was a federal agent. That was Mr.
Hollis. he died a little while later"
Wife Near Hysteria
An ambulance took Mr.. Cowley to
the harrington General hospital
but because Of his critical cOndi-
ton he wss moved 10 the Sher-
man hospital here, better equipped
for emergency operations. Because
OF lost blood. surgeons were unable
10 remove bullets from his abdo-
men.
Mr.. PJEvis. notified in Chicago.
fastened here. He obtained only
few whispered words with his
colleague before surgeons admins
tered an anesthetic.
Mrs. COWley. attractive and
youthful. WAS near hysteria when
she arrived from Chicago with her
ve-mCnths-Old son in a basSinet.
A special nurse put her and the
baby TO bed in a room on the floor
beneath that Of her husband. Her
4-year-old boy was left IN Chicago
with friends.
Brunette Mrs. Hollis. not yet 25,
was waiting for her husband IN his
Chicago Office when she overheard
strangers discussing his death. Her
4-year-old son wept terrihedly. hear
ing and COmprehending the news.
Baby Boy Terrified
"win they kill us. too. mama?" he
sobbed
The widow went 10 Darlington,
but did not see the body Of her
husband before it was removed 10
Chicago. She will attend an in
quest today
A few hours after the shooting the
flgitives were variously reported as
seen in Sycamore. Aurora and
Evanston. III. On the western edge
Of Evanston a speeding automobile
with a smashed rear window col
uded with another car. iniuring Mrs.
Nora Smith Of Glenview, an occu-
pant. The offending car continued
without a halt
Mr.. Pury1S. taking charge Of the