Evening Star Newspaper, March 29, 1926, Page 19

[SCAPED CONVET | SOCIETY KILED N BATILE o | leader' of the A Club, de ndience with two groups) . lda Clyde Clark of a talk on “A New an Old World.” ,” produced s of the club, Mrs. tistinguished her Francis “Red” Burns Shot After Wounding Motorist in Long Auto Chase. | lighted the f song. Woman Looks In the play by three m Chester were all well pronounced a The eve- | ning closed by all joining hands and singing “Auld Lang Syne." farch 29.—Fran- e ,‘l’: oo ot and killed in 2 running battle over a distance of several miles. A patrolman and a otorist were wounded in the fight. More than a hundred shots we fir d ut the autornobile in which Burns was fleeing. | Christopher Galarte, the motorist, | said Burns stepped into his machine | d and at the paint of a pistol ordered | Betrothal to Crown Prince Hum- him to drive out of town. Galante| bt TolRxpectediBoon, Kays slowed down on seeing Traflfic Offi Brussels Dispatch. MAY WED ITALIAN HEIR cer Michael Tenore and Burns immediate- | 1w shot Gallante in the leg, pushed | him from the shot twice at | Tenore through the windshield and | drove off. ! Three other policemen gave chase | n commandeered automobiles the machine with bullets. The fu tive's flight was halted by the lowered railroad gates at Hillside. He was surrounded and in the ensuing battle | received seven bullet wounds. ile died [at Bordighera her name was linked | in a hospital at Elizabeth. Patrolman |with that of the It.tliun Crown Prince, les Wentlandt was wounded |but some months ater it was reported v in the thigh in the firing at|that Humbert . .izht wed Princess the railroad crossing Beatrice of Sp:.n Police said Burns escaped March w Hamden Farm in N By the ed Press, ROME, March 20.—A Br pateh to the Popolo di Roms neess Marie of Bels Last vear when Princess Marie was 1t ‘Wheelin-, Church Head Dies. WHEEL!.{G, W. Va., March -Right R Mgr. O. H. 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