Evening Star Newspaper, September 29, 1929, Page 16

NEIGHBORS AFRAID R SR - OF FLEAGLE GANG : Famuly of Outlaws Reside in :'Big, Unpainted, Repellant Farmhouse._ - GARDEN CITY, ' Kans, September 28 (N.AN.A)),—The- Fleagle house is 23 miles northwest of here, a big, twa- story, ‘square, frame bullding. It has never been painted. Its sides are weathered ‘& blpak-looking gray. It is ' gloomy, lonely, repeliant. In this house was born and bred the Fleagle brood, two of whom, along with two of their friends; are accused of Tobbing the Lamar Bank of $212,000 in cash and securitiss, shooting down its president and vice president, kid- naping ‘and. murdering its cashier and later killing a doctor they called in to | Zrsss a wound received in the battle at the bank. Last Thursday a warrant was sworn out for the arrest of young Jake Fleagle, charging him with leading the Featuring -Our 'Re‘gular‘ High Grade 40-In. 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The nearest neighbor to the Tleagles is Walter Fleagle, a son of ‘Olll Jake" Fleagle, and his house is a mile away. He is the only one of the brothers who ever married. He has five children. ‘The mn;)e yard is as forbidding as ' the house. Not a flower, not 2 shrub in it, but the same dead . thistles and weeds that are the only crop of Jake Tleagle's barren prairie farm of 640 acres. He has neither tilled, planted nor grazed it for years. Mrs. Fleagle opened the door for the caller. She is stouter than the aver- age woman. She wore a loose, faded ‘wrapper. “I'd like to say something for my boys,” she said, “they've been hounded so but——"" she broke off sud- denly and said, “here comes dad.” A man was comlng across the prairie, & big shot gun in his arms. He dodged under a fence wire and squared off, the barrel of the gun in the crook of his left arm, his right hand grasping the stock and his forefinger on the trigger. But he began to laugh and _toke when | he learned it was a reporter. I didn't know, when I first saw ye,” he said, “but what ye was the law, come again to pester us. Took $300 Cash. “The law come here and got me and my boy, Walter, from Ris place over yonder. 'They took $300 in cash from me when they pinched me.” He strutted as he said: “I always earry about that amount in my clothes.” He is a man of medium size and wity as a wild cat. He wore faded blue overalls, old shoes, scuffed red by the burrs and spines of the prairie woods, and an old felt hat, all faded and stained, its band a rag. Once, as he talked, he took off his hnt and it could be seen his head was haped lke an egg, bulged out round lnd big below the ears, tapering from the ears upward. His ears are enor- mous, a feature his sons inherited. Old Jake's son, Walter, whose farm 18 two miles north of his father’s, is building ‘2 new house which will cost $5,000. Walter is not much of a farmer- but he does a little. It has-always been a mystery where he got all the money he has had. When a bank failed in this town some years ago he was the largest depositor with $40,000 credited to him. Evenmauy the bank paid ail depositors Made Big Deposits. ‘The Fleagles have always had big de- posits in banks in Garden City, Dodge City, Scott City and other places—as much as $60,000 at once—some of it in their own names, much in the names of Ezra Thompson, David Fedderman, | Jlms Buffington and Florence Miller., Florence Miller is the only daughter of Jake Fleagle, She lives on a farm south of Newton. Old Jake Fleagle always brmed about his money, loved to get in cmwd and show a big wad of bllls n gossi) that little Jake used to pln $20 bills together and hang them around his neck as he played. Old Jake has a long record of arrests for drunkenness. He told a story to show how smart he had been in outwit- ting the jailer in Glrden City. “A few years ago,” he n\d “the law pinched ‘me. for having a little tco much tea aboard and, of course, they searched me before locking me up. But they only frisked my pants pockets and never touched my overcoat pockets ‘where I had a bottle of wmsky a deck of cards, my terbacker and knife. Laugh on Jailer. “Next mornin’ the jlfler come around and there I-sat in my cell, drunk as a biled owl, playin’ wumre and. cuttin’ a chaw of terbacker offen the plug with .- 1 (\le.sx I had the laugh on hjm all right. 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