MISSOURI DESPERADOES

Hokitika Guardian, 7 January 1932, Page 5

MISSOURI DESPERADOES

SHOOT EACH OTHER TO AVOID CAPTURE. (United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) t VANCOUVER, Jan. 5. Harry Young, and lus brother, Jennings Young, the two murder suspects, for whom there lias been a hunt, 'in the State of Missouri, U.B. A., accepted their mother’s published advice, and killed themselves, lati.er than submit to being captured by police officers, who had surrounded their hiding place. On Sunday, men to the number of fifteen hundred, uttering threats id lynching, had successfully searched the rugged country in the western part of the State of Missouri for the brothers, following on. tiie wanton killing of six police officers on Saturday. " The brothers were known as the most desperate men on the Western plains since the days of the Jesse

Janies gang. The 31) officers surrouiedc the building wherein the brothers were sleeping. The officers projected tear gas into the room. Several volleys were exchanged. Filially, Harry Young called from the window: “Colne aild get, us! We are dead!” Several shots followed, and when the gas brut cleared, the officers found both the brothers dead, They were the most formidable desperadoes of recent years. They had killed two policemen and several citizens before Saturday s

affray. The Chief of Police stated that the brothers had faced each other and fired at the some instant. Each died with a bullet through the . forehead, fired at a distance of fifteen feet. BOY CRIMINALS. OHIO BANK HOLD UP. VANCOUVER, Jan. 5. Fourteen youths robbed a bank at Deshler, in the State of Ohio, taking £BOO. The three oldest of the boys, all of whom are under eighteen years of age, entered the hank in M ild West fashion, firing in the air as they leaped from a car that was driven by a boy of the age of twelve. The hoys forced the manager and the cashier to lie with their faces to the floor. Then they rifled the tills. SHOCKING DEED. BOVS BURN A FAMILY. VANCOUVER, Jan. 5. Another juvenile crime that has shocked the American nation is that of two lads in the Boys’ Industrial Home at Lancaster, in Ohio. They have confessed that they made a luucml pyre of a farmhouse nearby, when James White and Ids seven children died in the flumes, The two boys said that they had lit the fire because they had a grudge against White, for a beating that he gave them.