The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-04-25
Gunmen Are
Nabbed Here
Car
Potrolmun's Wife
Helps In Arrest
Of Vented Trio

The suspicious looks" of three
men peering from a parked car
by the Texas Company bulk
plant on Highway 80 Sunday af-
ternoon led County Highway Pa
trolman Bud Gray to arrest the
gun-toting occupants and there
by round UP a gang which later
checking showed to be wanted
or state and federal charges
about the country, while inves-
tigation on the scene revealed,
police said, that the men had
just broken into the oil plant I'M
mediateiv before their arrest.
One highlight of the incident
was the participation of Mrs.
Bud Gray, wife of the patrol
man, who held one of the pris-
oners under guard with his own
old-fashloned cowboy type AS
revolver, while Patrolman Gray
searched the other occupants of
the car. producing a Luger au-
tomato, a blackjack and assort-
ed burglar tools.
The three men were charged
with breaking and entering and
are being held here while fur
ther investigation of their record
proceeds. Patrolman Gray said
that the men confessed that they
were already on probation for
car theft in Michigan. He said
a quick check of their identity
with Michigan authorities by
means of the police radio sys-
tenn disclosed that they are also
wanted for stealing a l94l Ford
coach from Schullsburg, Wiscon-
sin, and for stealing a license
tag for IL in Dubuque, Iowa. This
was the automobile IN which they
were arrested, he said.
Stolen Car
The men were listed as Howard
Williams Feagan, "a, of Sagi-
nav, Mich; George Charles
Green, ", of Port Huron, Mich;
Clayton Albert Todd, 81, also of
TUT IluiOfl.
County authorities said Feagan
and Green were also wanted in
Michigan and Wisconsin for
breaking and entering. PATROL
man Gray said Feagan confessed
to breaking into the Texas bulk
station Sunday while the other
men were changing a tire on the
automobile. He said that Feagan
said the men we're BROKE" and
that he was looking for money.
When none Was found, nothing
else was taken from the office.
The total wealth" of the
three men when taken was the
sum of 18 cents. The county Of
ficer said the men stated they
had been recently in Galveston,
Texas, and were en- their way
to Oak City, N. c., when arrest
ed. He said they apparently had
run out of money and were low
on gasoline, and decided the
Texas station was a convenient
place to stop for a quick burg
larry and get away.
1t happened that Gray and his
wife were returning just at this
time from Gulfport, where he had
gone to have the tWo-Way radio
set in the highway patrol car
repaired. As he drove past the
parked automobile, he said, Fea-
gan, who was standing against
the car door on the outside, duck
ed down and peered through the
window, and the other men fol-
lowed him with his eyes.
Gray went up the road a piece
and turned around, then drove
in beside the parked car. Getting
out with his hand on his gun
he walked quickly to Feagan,
who had a bulge in his shirt, and
frisked him, taking out an an
cient Colt revolver of the 1871
model" which innumerable cow
boy d~esparadoes made famous in
the days of the Wild West.
Old though it was, the 'shoot-
ing'arn" was still in excellent
condition and loaded. Gray put
Feagan in the highway patrol
car and gave his gun to Mrs. Gray
who covered him while he COM
pleted his search. Fortunately the
Luger automatic in the car with
Green and Todd was unloaded.
The patrolman said Feagan
had thrown a prying-bar under
the Ford as he drove up. This
had been used to force the win
dow of the oil plant, he said.