The Hopkins County Echo (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 57, No. 48, Ed. 1 Friday, November 30, 1934 Page: 3 of 22
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THE HOPKINS COUNTY BCHO
PARIS OFFICERS
HELD 24 HOURS
BY KIDNAPERS
For Sale .
FOR SALE—5,000 Bois D’Arc posts,
six to ten feet tong, blocks one to
three feet long, end piling. SeO
Oscar Adair, Cumby, Texes.
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Miscellaneous
Eleven families applying for direct
relief in Hopkins County Monday:
had a total of 127 mouths to feed..
Ten of the families had ten children,
plus the two parents for a total of
twelve people. The eleventh family*
had seven members, the father of
the household being only 29 years of
20 lbs.
SUGAR
SUGAR
10 lb. Cloth
Bags
4 lbs.
RAISINS
Bran, Shorts, Cotton Seed M<«1, Hominy Food,
Corn FOed Moot, Rko Bran, Scratch Food, etc.
BRING YOUR CREAM AND EGGS
Your Buaineaa Appreciated ;||||hP
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PURIN
trail of Diliinger mobsmen, had been
with their chief when John DilKnger
and his elusive killers battered their
ballet-slugged way through a troep
of Federal agents et the Little Bo-
hemia resort in Northern Wisconsin
last April 22.
At that time Agent Baum wee
slain. The Department of Justice
blamed Nelson- -OSa
Another agent, apprised of Hob
& NELSON,
_Jipli 1,
i SHOT TO DEATH
(Washington, Nov. 28.— “Baby
Face" Nalxon was found dead this
afternoon at Niles Center, Illinois.....7------ - --
He had been shot five times in the lis’ death, blurted out in the
stomach, twice in the chest and five,
times in each leg.
rl Attorney General-Cummings said
{Inspector Samuel P. Cowley and
f Agent Herinan E. Hollis, who were
# killed, shot Nelson.
I Tile body. In a dttch, was clad in
| underclothing.
Chicago, Nov. 28.—Samuel P.
J Cowley, federal ace man-hunter, died
I today from wounds inflicted in a gun
I battle with George (Baby Face) Nel-
son in which Federal Agent Herman
[ij. Hollis was killed.
, The Justice Department disclosed
[that Cowley was the real leader of
[the drive that ended Diliinger’a ca-
reer, and commanded the hunt that
tracked down (Pretty Boy) Floyd.
Maksed government forces, state
ind city poltce sharpshooters were
lushing the Nelson search over
hern Illinois today. The Justice
irtment said that Nelson’s career
it be cut short at all costs.
Agents were instructed to “shoot
tf yj'r • \ .'.•■> _
Nelson is blamed for the deaths
three federal agents. Crowley and
>His were considered two of the
irtment’s best men.
Chicago;—The death-rattling ma-
chine guns of Nelson, Diliinger des-
era do and Public Enemy No. 1,
te Tuesday took the life of anoth-
« Federal agent—an agent revealed
a co-owerker as one of the actual
yen of John Diliinger.
squad of agents neat out by
head of the Chicago division
_ the Bureau of Investigation,
ought to trap Nelson, another man
nd their woman companion near
uburban Barrington.
Gangater guns biased and Agent
[ollte, about t§ fell mortally
pounded. Crowley, chief assistant
Purvis, dropped critically Wound-
I with bullets in his abdomen.
of his emotion:
•“Damn them. Hollis killed Dil-
iinger, and now they got him.”
Previously, it had been assumed
that either Purvis or Cowley, along
with Indiana police, fired the shots
that killed Dilljnger.
Cowley was rushed to a hospital
in nearby Elgin, 111., and surgeons
performed an emergency operation
in efforts to save the life of the
ace agent They shook their heads
doubtfully as to his chances.
Federal authorities believed the *
woman in the car was wounded.
The machine zoomed away after
its farewell of death and evaporated
in the darkness. All Federal agents
in the vicinity, sheriff’s deputies,
State Police and police of the sub-
urbs and Chicago joined in the most
intensive roan-hunt since Diliinger
was shot down.
Purvis, who was not present at the
gun battle, said he wss certain that
the automobile contained Nelson.
Reports made by the agents to
Washington headquarters corrobor-
ated his assertion.
He rushed to the hospital where
Cowley was taken and stood In the
operating room as surgeons probed
for the bullets that struck Cowley.
Mild-mannered, looking more like
a football player than a sleuth,
Cowley had a name that was as
feared by the underworld that dar-
ed to affront the "Government men”
as was his superior, Purvis.
Hollis also was known as an agent
to be feared.
He stayed with the service de-
spite pleas of his young wife, who
feared for his safety as the Dil-
lingers roved in their mad lust fori
killing and robbery.
Hollis stuck — the specter of
Baum’s body on the red-stained Wis-
consin snow spurring him on. In
addition to his widow, he is sur-
vived by a son, four years old. Cow-
Paris, Texas, Nov. 27.—Newt Ba-
ker and H. R. Marks, Paris police-
men, were released near Antlers,
heat Okla., early today after being held
prisoners for 24 hours ^ an ..armed
pair. The officers were not .hurt.
The officers SaH the# were held in
a wooded section between Paris and
Antlers.
F Cowley sod Hollis, tong on the ley also was married.
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fate.
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The released officers said their
abductors, believed to be Nix and
Gooch, who escaped from the Hol-
dcnville, Oklahoma, jail one month
ago, continued their flight in the of-
ficers’ patrol car.
Officers of four States had made
search for the abducted police-
men.
Officers said that Baker and
Marks were certain that the kidnap-
ers were Nix and Gooch. The kidnap-
ers’ abandoned automobile was defi-
nitely known to be the one stolen at
Durant, Okla., October 31.
The abducted policemen said they
rode 100 miles with the kidnapers,
always covered with guns and in
danger of being shot,
Department of Justice agents join-
ed in the hunt for Gooch and Nix.
Officers said the fugitives faced fed-
eral charges for taking the police-
men across a state line. They also
will be charged with violating the
federal automobile theft act.
briaf but fu
The gun battle
rious. .....
Purvis said that his office had a
“tip” that an automobite.kiraw'n te
have been in. Nelson’s possession,
had been seen in Barrington.
The fight occurred when,.the des-
peradoes* car and the agents’ ma-
chine passed. The agents spotted
the ear, swung around, and started
in pursuit
The fugitive car halted, the agents
. advanced on foot, pistols in hand,
and when they were 20 feet from
the car a blast of machine gun bul-
lets spat out.
Hollis fell, his head almost sev-
ered by slugs and pthers found, a
mark in his back as he spun. Cow-
ley dropped as the other agents open-
ed fire and Nelson’s car speeded
away.
HeUfa was dead when taken to .*
hospital but Cowlef was still con-
scious. ...____________
“Did you get Purvis?" he asked.
“I must talk to Purvis before 1 die."
| Purvis was soon at his side and
came out of the operating room to
state. .
“Baby Face Nelson was the driver
of the car. The Woman we believe
to be Mrs. GiHis, his wife. We’re
not certain of the identity of the
other man.”
Then to additional Federal agents
and police who rushed to the hospi-
tal, he said:
“Now*. out and get them."
HE
IT
^nksoTv
i A’ Message
T appreciation
owe much a»d fo
their patronage.
Okla., mu) learned that descriptions
given by George Dawson, proprietor
of The Paris lunch stand, where the
bandits ate prior to the kidnaping,
fitted Nix and Gooch, who with two
other men and two women escaped
from jail there OeL 26. Holdenville
officers said Nix, Gpoeh and the two
women stole the car from Durant
One of the women, Lawson, was
forced from the car at McAlester.
She was arrested there and told of-
ficers of the theft of the car. The
Oklahoma officers also said a physi-
cian’s medicine case, containing a
quantity of narcotics, was stolen
from a Holdertville doctor shortly
after the jail break there.
Before the officers encountered
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the bandits, they had been notified^ a time, he told us to go to the next
Twelve hours after they were kid-
naped, two Paris policemen still
were missing Monday afternoon.
Officers and special deputies of
three states, including more than a
score from Paris, were seeking some
trace of Baker and Marks, the mias-
iug policemen. The two were forced
at the point of guns to accompany a
pair of fngitives believed to have es
caped October 26 from the Hdlden
title, Okla., jail. >.
Abduction of the officers occurred
at 3:40 o’clock Monday morning,
when they started te question two
men who had stopped their car at
Clyde Moore’s service station bn N.
Main street, to have a tire repaired.
Evidently fearing arrest, the fugi-
tives held their guns on the police-
men, eommandered the police car,
forced the officers into the back
.pent, and drove out the north high-
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way.
The outlaws and their captives
have not been seen since, to far
can be definitely established.
Officers and special deputies learn-
ed at Talco that a blatk sedan which
might have been the police car turn-
ed Off the highway a mile north of
there about daylight, on a road lead*
ing to Omaha, Texas. The car was
traveling at high speed' and. came
near overturning in making the turn,
it was said. At Omaha, there was no
trace of the car.
As soon as the report was receiv-
ed here, two more cars of police and
deputies were dispatched to the Tal-
co-Omaha section, to search the
wooded area between the two towns,
that the fugitives and their cap
Other reports, unverified, were
that the fugitives and their captives
were seen 40 miles west of Texar-
kana. Officers from that city were
guarding the highway.
At least a score of policemen, dep-
uty sheriffs and special deputies
from here were searching the coun-
try within a radius of 100 miles from
Paris Monday afternoon. One car
went to Idabel, one to Omaha, one
to New Boston, and two to the area
between Talco and Omaha. Earlier,
officers had gone to Hugo, and to
Durant and Denison.
Investigation Monday showed that
the car abandoned here by the out-
laws had been stolen Oct. 31 in Du-
rant, probably by Nix and Gooch,
who escaped from the Holdenville,
Okla., jail Oct. 26. A description of
the two kidnapers furnished by the
operator of an all-night lunch stand
here where the pair ate,, tallied with
that of Nix and Gooch.
Officers from the Automobile
Theft Bureau at Dallas were due to
arrive in Parti Monday afternoon,
wtth photographs and descriptions of
•Nix and Gooch. • g
The abduetors transferred a shot-
gun, a rifle, several pistols and a
quantity of ammunition from the car
they abandoned to tye police car
i which they commandeered, according
to Williams, who repaired their tire
“ at the Moore service station.
A quantity of ammunition for
Shotguns, rifles and revolvers, bed-
ding. clothing, forid, a *ma?l amount
' several mvodiarifile
that two men driving an automobile
similar to the one abandoned here
had robbed a lunch stand near Tyler
about 9 o’clock Sunday night, leaving
the proprietor and a negro porter
tied to trees about-a mile from the
lunch stand. Mr. Williams, who was
repairing the tire for the kidnapers,
said both men were inside the station
when the officers walked in and be-
gan asking questions about the car.
When Officer Baker started to
search the smaller of the two, Mr.
Williams said, he Bhoved the officer
back and jerking a gun from his
pocket, told him to put up his hands.
Officer Marks had his gun out of the
holster when the second man cover-
ed him with a pistol and said, “Drop
that gun, or I’ll kill you.” The
smaller of the two men told Wil-
liams to go ahead with work on the
tire.
Disarming the officers, the men
forced them outside and while one
guarded them, the other transferred
several guns from their car to the
police patrol car. The officers were
forced to get into the back seat of
the patrSl car and, with the larger
man at the wheel, they drove out N.
Main street, leaving their car at the
service station.
Dawson, proprietor of an all-hight
lunch stand opposite the service sta-
tion, said the men came into his
lunchroom and ate lniich. He describ-
ed the smaller man an being about
five feet, seven Inches high and
weighing about 160 pounds. He said
son said, wrii wearing a black,
and black coat. He Said the latter
men’s clothes looked as though they
had been slept in.
The men had stopped at the ser-
station where they *te
plates were also found In
he abandoned car was iden-
i the motor number as one
B Oscar Caldwell of Du-
ll. 31, bjr .members of
Theft Bureau at Dai-
would probably kill us if they caught
lie again.” .
As I agreed with him. we remained
r>h the side of the mountain for about
two hours after we were released
ai 9:30 o’clock. * V
When wc- had Decome nwfully cold
and could not get a good fire burn-
ing, we went ‘back to the highway
about 11:30. It must have been at
least ten miles to «se first house. We
shouted until a man came to the
door. We told him we were Pans,
Texas, officers who had been kid-
naped and wanted to get him to take
us to Antlers. We were not in uni-
form and hq didn’t know whether we
were officerti or not. All we had to
show were our empty holsters. After
house, about 100 yards from there
and see if we could get the man who
lived there to take us to Antlers. We
told him we had no money, but could
get what we needed at Antlers. He
finally said if the man at the next
house Would net take us to Antlers
bp would.
Going to the next house, we woke
the man who lived there but he said
he could not take us. .
Returning to the first house, we
told the man, whose left name is
Franks, that his neighbor refused to
take us. /.
“I don’t know you fellows," he
said. “I will take you to Antlers if
you will let mo load my shtogun with
buckshot and take * man with me to
watch you."
“I don’t care if you take three
-guns,” Officer Marks said. “AU I
want is to get to a telephone so I
can let my folks know where I am.”
We had a drink of water at Mr.
Franks’ home and though it was
“gyp” water, 1 believe it was the
best drink I ever had.
Reaching Anthers at 3:30 o’clock,
we drank some coffee and then I
called the station at Paris. One of
,the sweetest sounds I have ever
h^ard in my life was Desk Sergeant
Floyd’s voice when he said, “Police
station;” Within an hour, Chief of
Police Gas Cothran, H. C. Haynes,
Van 'D. Anderson and J. R. Camp-
bell of Paris were in Antlers to take
ua back home.
Throughout the more than 26
this man wore a light gray suit and hours after I was abducted I suf-
gray hat. His companion, Mr. Daw- fered considerable pain from, a
in said, wM wearing a black hat |WOUnd in my hip, which I received
a short, time, asking to have thc.tire
repaired. AJ1 available county and
city officers are being nsed to try to
pick up the trail of the kidnapers.
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{Although the car started
possibly circled through,the city, or
around the city lake ind doubled
back on ettber' of the highways out
of Paris.
PARIS OFFICER TELLS
STORY OF HOW HI
WKKIDNAPED
(By Newt Baker, in Paris News.)
I have been a peace officer for
12 years and have served seven years
in the United States army, including
22 months of service in France dur-
ing the World War, but I never had
such an experience as I underwent
from 3:80 o’clock Monday morning,
Nov. 28, to 9:30 that night. Even in
France, I knew what to expect and
was able to resign myself to it, but
being under constant threat of death
at the hands of two known despera-
does whose mood changed often is
quite another thing.
All the time Officer Marks and I
were held, we never knew what min-
ute might bring a charge of buck-
shot into our faces from the muzzle
of a sawed-off shotgun, hjp one who
hgs not undergone a similar experi-
ence has any idea of my feeling*.
The knowledge that my wife and ba-
bies were anxiously awaiting word
from me and that Paris friends and
officers were just as eager to hear,
only served to aggravate the dread
of death, which was frequently
threatened hy our captors. In addi-
tlon to the mental strain, we were
a forced to do without food and water
for 18 hours.
After we were released on the side
of the mountain about 300 yards
from Highway 271, we were afraid
to return to the highway. Out cap-
tors toM us not to corai hack to the
highway until daylight. They had
«• a flashlight and we walked
ornaworics" and” several hypodermic down into the valley. They kept the
a?** “ *l*4s«
when shoved into a showcase in the
Clyde Moore service station by one
of the men who kidnaped us. The
tin me, n«i -» —- only means we had of satisfying our ^ wlt^ Ul
vice atotion where «fey xte lunch hunger and thirst was by smoking, i heard one
m* bou**rknaWife.J'&0*n* ttfrttftof • Marks ind I had driven w00(ja_
N. Main street, they returned within out tforth Main street about 3:30
" * o’clock Monday morning when I saw
an automobile with an Arkansas li-
cense plate on the drive at the ser-
vice station. The men made us low-
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took four shotguns, a rifle and a pis-
tol from their car. They also took a
suitcase from their car and threw St
in the back seat with us. While one
of the men drove, the other held a
sawed-off shotgun pointed at us.
They cursed us almost continually
until we reached Arthur City and
threatened to kill us if we made any
trouble,
They drove off the highway at
Kitchens’ filling station beyond the
river, but when they found the road
muddy, backed up and went on thru
Grant to a gravel road to Goodland.
At Goodland they turned north and
into the edge of Hugo. When we
came close to lights they made us
lie down in the car. Going through
the edge of Hugo, we went east to
the Speneerville road. There we left
the highway and drove through
Speneerville and Rattan. A short dis-
tance beyond Rattan, they stopped
and told us to take off our jackets.
When we obeyed, they took off their
coats and spreading them across the
ruts, drove off a by-road. A man
coming down the road, caused them
to grab our jackets and their coats
and throw them into the car. We
drove about 300 yards from the main
road and stopped. We were forced to
get out after they had taken the
guns some distance from the car.
They then searched the car for other
guns. Wc were forced to get back
into the car. One of them stayed
with us while the other returned to
the main road and carried water in
his hat to pour into the ruts to ob
literate the car tracks.
When we returned, they told ns
to stay in the car until they gave
permission to leave it. They gave us
a carton of cigarets and matches. We
were allowed to leave the car when
necessary, but they would stand 15
to 20 feet from us With a gti|. It
was here that I persuaded them to
dress my hip. On the road I had
complained of it bleeding and one
of the men said, “I don’t give a damn
if you bleed to death.”
We left this place about e’ark on
Monday night and returning to Rat-
tan, they bought gasoline and oil,
paying for it in nicklea and small
coins taken from a bag which seemed
almost full. They tamed around at
Rattan and drove on to Highway 271
beyond Antlers.
The pair began discussing what to
do with us. Listening intently, we
suggest,taring us in the
woods. “No, we can’t do that,” said
one, “they would freeze.” After
much debate they drove from the
highway and turned us loose on the
side of a mountain. Before freeing
vice swiivu. xu= ...v.. ---------- ua, one of them asked what kind of
er our hands as we got into the back a description we were going to give
seat of the patrol car. One of them of them j sajd I didn’t know either
held a gun on us while the other of them ^hen they asked what kind
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STRAYED—From my place on Com-
merce road, red bay horse mule,
white nose, weight about 860. Nptify
A. D. Gowen, Sulphur Springs,
Route 3. wl«»3tp
NOTICE—I still have growing crop#
in my fields and any stock found
on my premises will be empounded
and held for damages. D. A. Stur-
divant. '
DON’T SUFFER with callouses,
swollen feet, bunions, when it is so
easy to enjoy shoe comfort by wear-
ing Wolverine Shell Horsehide work
shoes. Rain or shine, they’re always
comfortable. Always dry out soft
after soaking. Call and ease your
feet into a pah-. Harris Shoe Co., Sul-
phur Springs, Tex._w30-2tc
SEE ME before selling your furs.
Dwill be in the old Theo Wester
building on Tomlinson Ave. See roe v
on Saturdays and First Mondays.-
Oscar Lee. w30-3tp '
FORECLOSED Farm Bargain# —
Hopkins County farms, 45 acres to
300, acres, including a number of
places of about 76 acres, which are
well improved, for aale with 20 per
cent cash payment, balance long time
6 per cent interest, on or before
option. Buy one of these homes and
secure possession January first, in-
formation fnrnished upon request.
Jeff Still, Kemp, Texas, or R. D.
Sanders, Sulphur Springs, Texas.
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of a story we were going to give the
newspapers when we got back I said
I didn’t know. The other man said,
“Hell.' I know what he will do. He
iwill tell everything he knows.”
POSTED—No hunting allowed day
or night on land belonging to any of
the undersigned: F. R. Hester, W. T.
Wilson, W. W. Stone, F. Ray, Jno.
Brandenburg, Lowell Glenn.
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