TWO BANDITS'SHOT

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 199, 23 July 1937, Page 7

TWO BANDITS'SHOT

FARMERS’ EXPERIENCE. CARRIED OFF IN CAR. USED ROBBERS’ WEAPON. (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received July 23, 10.20 a.m. BOSWELL (Oklahoma), July 22. Two farmers shot dead Fred Tindol and seriously wounded Peter Troxler, two of the three' armed bandits who broke out of the Texas prison on July 8 and a week later kidnapped Mr Baird Markham, junr., the 21-year-old son of a wealthy oil magnate. J lie bandits had kidnapped the two farmers. A police posse had previously shot dead ChnpJnan, the third bandit involved in the" Markham kidnapping. lindol and Troxler, in their efforts to escape, had stolen a number of cars and liad kidnapped several persons.

The two farmers used the bandits’ own weapons when the latter dozed during the forced ride.

A message from Allen, Oklohoma, on July 17 said that three armed bandits, Peter Troxler, Fred Tindol and Charlie Chapman, who had escaped from a Texas prison on July 8, kidnapped Mr Baird Markham, junr., ihe son of a wealthy oil man, from the wells where he was working when on vacation from Yale. He was forced into a stolen motor-car and held as a hostage, but later was released unharmed.