The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-06-09
'CRAZED FARMER
 DIES IN BATTLE
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 believe that Robbins may have com mitted suide as a detail of 20 heav- ily-armed state troopers closed in on him.
 Death was caused by single bul- let that entered the left chest, crossed the chest and passed out the lower right chest" Dr. Baker told the United Press. "It was a very close wound however, it will be im- possible to determine definitely whether he committed suicide until the bullet is found"
 Autopsy Coming
 Dr. Baker said he would perform an autopsy this morning.
 State troopers planned to search the scene of the shooting for the missing bullet.
 The wounded officer was Elliott Hairyes, 40, father of three children. He was hospitalized at Worcester for wound in his left hip Att taches reported his condition flair" and expected he would recover.
 His Last Stand
 Robbins, husky six-footer, made his last stand in underbrush behind a cluster of Millbury factory build ings three miles from the Sutton farm which he fled Sunday.
 The search shifted to Mlllbury shortly after micnight when Rob- bins, pistol in hand, suddenly con- fronted Raymond Roach, 21, who had just bid good night to girl friend.
 "E1e looked horribly dazed and half-crazy," said Roach. "He waved his pistol and asked the way to Millbury. gave him an exaSive an- Swer, headed my automobile for the center of the town and stepped on the gas"
 Roach reported the incident to Police Chief Thomas Dolan and Off, tlcer Hairyes and Special Officer George Caplette, a Millbury fire man sworn in as deputy for the manhunt, sped to the scene in beach wagon driven by Charles Stockdale.
 Cautious Approach
 After alighting. Hairyes and Cap lette cautiously approached under brush. AS the uniformed men drew near, Robbins began shooting. Hairyes and Caplette returned fire.
 Five shots pierced the beach wagon. One wounded Hairyes, but Caplette and Stockdale were unhurt.
 Lieutenant James E. Hughes and detail of 20 state troopers drew up in armored cars as the gun battle ended.
 Hairyes was hurried to hospital and the troopers deployed into the underbrush in ar effort to surround the fugitive. As they were closing in on the spot where he last was seen, single shot was heard.
 Minutes later the troopers stum- b!ed across Robbins body. His re- volver, one chamber still loaded, was beside the body.
 Only 12 hours earlier, Robbins mother, Mrs. J. Orrin Putnam, 60, stocky and haired, had gone into Sutton woods alone in an effort to persuade her son to surrender. For two hours she wandered through the forest, futilely calling Homer"
 Searchers were withdrawn tc give her a clear field. But when she final ly emerged, soaked from rain, she was alone. Disheartened, sine told police she had found no trace of her son.
 A state trooper notified Mrs Put nam of her sons death.
 T told you so," she said. T regret now that I didn't find him when l went into the woods. If ! did, he would be alive now"
 Robbins became the object of one of Worcester county's biggest man. hunts Sunday, when he fired on a state trooper who had gone to Mrs. Putnam's farmhouse to return him to Worcester state hospital.
 The trooper, Howard Read, re- turned the fire, but the maniac es- capped into woods behind the farm house. Late Saunday night, he ex- changed shots with Corporal George FiSke and escaped.
 Robbins escaped from the hospital where he had been under observa- tion, March 2 and since had lived with his mother on her farm. His re- turn was ordered after parents had reported he was molesting children who passed the farm enroute to school.
 blood circulation left her system