The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1935-03-29
SHOOTING, KIDNAPPING,
BANK LOOYINC MARK
ALL.DAY GUN fight
Raymond Hamilton Believed
One Of Pair Sought N
South Mississippi
TWO OF POSSE MISSING
Despsradoss Still In Vicinity %
Militia, Officers Continue
Search

Jackson, Miss, March -. - m -
Sheriffs' posses and state troopers
pursued Friday two gun-toting des-
peradoes1one believed to b Ray.
mond Hamilton, tho southvest's No.
bad man-who terrorised south AGis-
sissippi Thursday with shoottngs, hid.
napings and bank robbery.
Two persons were wounded, others
were kidnapped. and harassed peace
officers engaged In sporadic 9un bot-
ties as the pair careened Ill day In "a
automobile over . Sig-Ag course
within . radius o6 80 miles q Prem.
tiss.
They were believed Friday still
within the locality o1 PrentisA whseo
they had held up the Bank Of Hunt
vile and escaped with 9l,l0o after
locking five persons in the vault.
Deputy Sheriff W. J. Lee oe JeSfer.
son Davis county, who swappe6 Gho&s
with them 1T one stage Of the chase,
said he had tentatively identified one
Of tho men as Hamilton, fugitive from
Texas penitentiEry.
Two KIDNAPPED sta1 lGlm1ne
Two Of the persons kidnapped Wsee
still unsccounted for. They Woeo u.
E. Smith. jefferson Davis county
farm agent. And Ralph 0allib q
Prentiss.
The others were released q escaped
during the spectacular race over
county highways. 1lrs. Smith, almost
In Mysteries, aid sl3e had received no
word from her husband since his q.
duction.
!. Smith and Aallle.. Aseanbaeu a =
pose a. lS-all q whom war oVot.
powered b. the pair-were taken O
hostages. Smiths car Was comman.
deered and Smith forced along @
driver.
Deputy Sheriff Leo aid Sheriff Ens
mis- Crawford Of oovington county.
who WAS kidnapped BY the bandits,
was slightly wounded In the head
during . shooting skirmish. Thu
sheriff escaped during one Of the gun
battles.
Mrs. Rodney Polk Of near Preutank
was shot through the left arm when
her father-in-law, J. r. Polk. opened
fire On the bandits q they attempted
to commander his automobile.
Deputy Sheriff Lee reported the ar
rest Of three women, caught running
across . field near Prentiss. He ex.
pressed the belief one OF them drove
the car in which the men ESCAPED
after the bank raid.
NTAI1STnNy vUre AANsr>xmn
CAPTURED IN CHICAGO
Chicago, March D.-R>-A tho q
bank bandits confessed. the police
said Friday, to attempting 70 loot the
State Bank Of Mauston, VIA. and
kidnapping eight hostages In their Wild
flight precipitated by the bullets Of q
bank cashier fighting off the raiders.
Federal Officers and police Of two
states followed . trail marked BY
Communicated and abandoned cars
along the l75-mile highway from
Mauston to Chicago, and seized three
youths who confessed, Chief Of De.
tectives John 1. Sullivan said.
The youths held were Edward
Cudecki, "a: Thomas Stopa, n, and
Michael Monczynski, Il, former Wis.
consin farm hand.
Identities OF the last four hostages.
kidnapped by the trio in their auto
near Janesville late Wednesday, 70.
manned mystery, but the youths
said the quartet was freed In Chicaeo.
and police believed THEY did not ~
port to authorities because Of fear Of
retaliation from the bandits.