The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1948-07-30
Slain Man Is Canadian Bank Robber;
Two Held In New Orleans In KILLING
Mode Escape From
Prison Following
35-Yeor Sentence
By The Associated Press

NEW ORLEANS-Detective
Lloyd O'Brien said today that
two men are being investigated
here in connection with the
Staying of Ulysses Lauzon, 26-
year-old Canadian fugitive,
near Pascagoula, Miss, earlier
this month.
O'Brien said the men are list
ed as Miles Porter, 20 years old,
of Moselle, Miss, and Marion
Williams, "a, of Laurel, Miss.
He said Sheriff Guy Krebs at
pascagoula had been advised of
the arrests and that the men
are being held for him.
Third precinct police said
Porter was booked on a charge
of carrying concealed weapons;
and that Williams was being
held for Investigation of ag-
gravated battery in connection
with an assault on a soldier.
O'Brien said Porter and Will
Hams rel arrested on the
street here last night and that
a AS calibre pistol was found
on Porter. Officers later re-
covered two small calibre rifles
from an apartment where they
We're stopping on the Jefferson
Highway, just west of New Or
leans, he said.
The New Orleans detective
said that the two men, in a
statement to police denied any
connection with the Staying of
Lauzon but said they were
present at a fishing camp near
Pascagoula when the Staying
: occurred.
O'Brien declared that when
Porter and Williams were TAX
en into custody here they had
in their possession an automo-
bile with blood stains on the
rear seat.
The mysterious murder victim
whose body was found by the
side of Highway 90 near Nine
Mile Lake July 19 was identi-
fled Wednesday as Ulysses Lau-
zon, convicted Canadian bank
bank robber who with two COM
panions escaped from an Ontario
penitentiary last year, Sheriff J,
Guy Krebs announced.
Believed to have been involved
in three bank robberies totaline
half a million dollars, the e.
year-old Lauzon had just started
serving a 35-year prison term foi
armed robbery when he and two
fellow prisoners made their es.
cape at the point of a machine
gun seized from a prison guard
Sheriff Krebs said. One of the
three, Nicholas Minille, Sc, of OF
tawa, was captured in the Los
Angeles area last May. The
third member of the trio, Don
aid Mickey Mcdonald, Al, To.
ronto, is still at large, according
to information received from
Canadian police.
The identification was made
through finger prints sent by To-
cal officers to New Orleans where
they were found to be those Of
the hunted LauZon.
Canadian police said the des-
perado was a tough guy" and
often Dragged about being q
crack shot with a gun. Police
blamed the $4,000 robber of a
Windsor bank about a week af-
ter the Kingston escape on Lau-
zon and Mcdonald and also said
Lauzon carried a machine gun on
the robbery.
Thousands View Body
The body is being held at
Stokes Funeral Home, where ii
was taken following its discov-
yer, until Canadian police can
locate Lauzon's wife, who with
their child, is believed to be liv-
ing in Canada, Coroner M. c.
Porter said.
Between 1000 and 5000 per-
sons viewed the body in an eff
fort to establish identification,
Coroner Porter said, coming from
several counties and adjoining
The body was discovered the
morning of July 19 lying in the
gross on the fill beside the Pas
eagoula-Mobile highway. Death
had been caused by two bullet
wounds through the head and
one bullet wound through the
chest. Officers expressed the be-
lief that the man had been dead
at least three days before he was
found and that he had been kill
ed somewhere else and his body
brought to the spot where it was
discovered. The body was cloth
ed only in a sport shirt. under