GAOLER'S SORROW
PATTGIfTER'S ESCAPADE TWO, GUNMEN RELEASED *•> *Y '* ;i tttW* S '-t AJ 1; r FATAL SHOOTING FOLLOWS ; (Received October 6, .8.50 jj.ra.) A ' ' NEW YORK. Oct. 4 The " county gaoler at Lexington, North Carolina, Mr. T. C. Kimel, locked up his weeping daughter Lulu/ to-night and resigned his post -after . obtaining from the girl an admission thlat she hid released two handsome young desperadoes, James Godwin and. Bill Wilsonf ' ;• • j» Lulu sobbed'louder when she learned that the youths, a few hours after she' handed - them her father's : keys and revolver, fatally shot a mill worker, : and kidnapped a taxi driver and stole hte'eaf.'/'" •* 1 1 ' to Godwin, Lulu said: "He promised he wouldgo to church' and behave, and I believed him. I wish I had not ;leVriim out." Her father, Who sings bass in the choir, wrote to the sheriff: "I am humiliated and grieved beyond control. I have put iny daughter in gaol so the , law can take its course.'' - , Hundreds.' cfy volunteers and police jure'hunting for' the youths. '• •'«'•;. 7 - • J - r "%■.}*/
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23161, 6 October 1938, Page 14
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174GAOLER'S SORROW New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23161, 6 October 1938, Page 14
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