California Gun Battle
(N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) NEWHALL (California), April 7. Two gunmen shot dead four young highway patrolmen yesterday, and one of them later took his own life as policemen surrounded a secluded canyon home in which the owner had been held hostage for almost five hours. The second gunman, wounded in the chest by the driver of the truck he commandeered in a wild escape attempt, was captured on a freeway as he tried to drive off in the stolen vehicle. The killers were said by the police to be Jack Wright Twinning, aged 35, and Russell Lowell Talbert, aged 28, both of Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Talbert was a gun collector with an arsenal of machine-guns and rifles in his home.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32266, 8 April 1970, Page 15
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122California Gun Battle Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32266, 8 April 1970, Page 15
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