New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 13, 1929, Page 4

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, AUGUST 13, 1929. COUNTY SHERIFF SOLVES BIG THEF Cnlorado Ofticer Near Goal mi " §288, aoo Bank Holdup : that the Fleagic ranch had long |been a strange place. No crops or stock were raised on it, strangers | were unwelcome, but the Fleagles always had plenty of money. The neighbors suspected that they were moonshiners. Sheriff Alderman and Chief Rich- ardson arrested Jacob Fleagle, Sr., and two of his sons, Walter and Fred. Two other sons, Ralph and Jake, Jr., were supposed to be va- cationing in California, Developments multiplied fast. The officers found that the Fleagles had | dropped with a bullet in his brain. lof a fingerprint on the doctor’s car. Blood was streaming from the|He had read of such things in the wounded lead mouth. It cov-|new cred his face, soaked his shirt and | | ran all the down to his shoes. |He made a grisly figure as he con- tinued to direct the robbery, giving orders in the same quiet tone and scooping money and bonds into can- yas bags that he carried | Hurriedly, he brought them to the The job completed, the leader |scene in an airplane. ide B. A. Kesinger, a teller, and | The bandits had taken pains to kel clerk, get up | wipe out all prints inside the car, and carry the money bags o the|put one had escaped thelr notice— bandits' waiting auto—a blue Buick |4 fine impression of a blood-stained lan. Dropping their revolvers|ihuymb in a rear window. And on Fih e | ond plobingup ”’-'“‘ that “""fi in | that the whole case hinges. I his tife | ‘”‘ lonneau, the bandits sped Off 11| sheritt Alderman had this finger- - A ‘” ’“'”h‘ e S print photographed and a copy sent o to the government’s bureau of iden- | < 3 tification at Washington, that vast learing house for criminal records. Months passed. nothing happened. Just a few weeks ago, however, | vo men were arrested in Stockton, | opened it and read it. lif.. on some trivial charge. fin-| Decoy Letter Nabs Man in Tllinois ¢ bank and gave chase in his auto, | 8erprinted and turned loose. Thes | _The letter had been mailed at iliee A n e vend prints, too, went to Washington. An | Kankakee, IIL, asked for an imme- ted the speeding bandit car and | c@8le-eyed government expert dis- ity et i e |covered that the thumb print of one the’ hip ® v ve ; a pistol was|Of the men arrested in California, he has at the $238 nen with rifies| Who gave his name as William Har- | n > Chi ¢ e f 3 and blazed away at the |Tison Holden, wasJdentical with the |drove to Kankakee. Guessing right- 10ld 2 derman dropped | thumbprint found on the glass of Dr. | ly that Ralph Fleagle would call for ) machine as it twas| Wineinger's auto in Kansas! | his reply at the general delivery tled with rifie bullets But “William Harrison Holden” | ¥indow, Alderman arranged matters 200 Scour Country in Big and his pal had vanished. One| est manhun well search for the pro- Jam cedle in the haystack. » border reg few days later, however, the with a finetooth | Washington expert discovered that | the this thumbprint identical with that of a certain Fleagle. who had served a term in the Oklahoma penitentiary yea links began to cor Fleagle Family is Nabbed on Ranch Sheriff Aldcrman Oklahoma penitenti everything he could about Fleagle—his address, his habits, his | record, the persons with whom he corresponded while in prison. Strangely enough he found that Jake Ileagle was the man's real name and | that his father owned a ranch near Garden City, Kan, Alderman went there -sheriff knew nothing of fingerprint science himself, but he ordered the car carefully guarded and called in Police Chief Lee Rich- dson and Fingerprint Expert R. S Terwilliger of Garden City, Kan. days 0 various banks under different names, the amounts once reaching as high as $150,000. the was dumped out the murdere found in & road, ur had a box under an assumed name in the Garden City post office and | watched that box. In a day or so there came a letter and Alderman Days later was gerprint ¢ with glory heriff of Kesinger housc Alderman, telephone at his home notified rushed to he | gle. Quickly, Sheriff Alderman hop- ped a plane, flew to Chicago and his Ma T nhime waited. Ralph came and the sheriff nabbed him. The officers jailed Ralph and kept quiet and, guessing that Jake was not far off, watched Ralph's hotel bandit for telephone calls. They were re- Wineinger which of Digh- arby, Deing told Ralph was out, left word for him fo call a certain address in Peoria, Til. Sheriff Alderman telephoned Peoria police to make the arrest at once and hurried there. Arriving, he found they had arrested a Dr. George DeMoss, whom he did not know—but in front of the police station was Dr. DeMoss's auto, the selfsame blue Buick sedan in which is was some his home that night told him a friend had 1 a tractor accident and come. Dr. W o his murdered body was in his bloo ined car on a ly road Obviously, om or ben in ced 1 Seven Jailed by Sherift Dr. Wineinger had been pped by the bandits to dress eir leader and mur- ved to prevent their identity. So, Alderm there e a valuable clue in the form | | whom || Kidr il ound of n reasoned, and found The Willett Corset Shop 300 MAIN ST. 2ND FLOOR den City, Kan, who St man missed by only Peoria, 111 t Fleagle rest,~ Sher t him brought him six othe Colorado Sy No yellow-backed tion ago cou daring hold lay. under i el Gi}l)( ) Sale on Al Children’s Dresses STARTS WEDNESDAY Children’s Dresses, formerly $6.95, $5.95 $4.95. Ages 6 to 14. Sale price .. $3'95 Children’s Dresses, formerly $3.95, $4.50. 2 Apes 2 to 14, Sale price .c.cussisss $2 75 Children’s Dresses, formerly $2.95, 932 50. $ Ages 2 to 14. Sule price . Children’s Dresses, formerly $1.95. Ages 2to 6. Sale prico o Misses’ Lmembles, fonmell\' § $3.95. Ages 6 to 14. Hale price . ildren’s hnseml)les, formerly 959 Raleiprice it Wi Children’s Romper formerly $1.25, $1.50. Ages 1to 2. Sale price .. in thr ip of ir v mode hardly six cond 0” foot, ) rade sheriff. . Five Bandits Tlee With It was 1 o'clock in of May 23, 1 rushed into the here, headed by a leader unarmed. “Up with your hands!” the un- armed leader comm ed the bank employes and customers. And then, a moment later: “Lie down—ey body lie face down on the ftloor But, two men neit p thei hands'nor dropp floor. One™was presi- dent of t senator and a when the wild wes He snatched a revolver pointsblank at the leader, him in the mouth Ignoring his wound h the “blood spurted,, the unarmed | leader motioned to one of his fol- | lowers: | “Get - | manded Bank President is Shot Dead A bullet cra through th bank president's brain, The other who did not pi up his John youth bar and a bank ¢ a telephone booth for aly 1.95 . $1.00 olorado state the was really ik a ( veteran o and. fire wounding from | | Infants’ Dresses, formerly $1.95, $2.95. Sale price . man hands was a rifle s rested there. t him leader comms excited to the Parish armed | too!” nded A Modern Electric Washer at a Moderate Price The Wringer T UNIVERSAL at 90.50 (Slightly more on time) It Is COMPACT— FAST— WELL BUILT ATTRACTIVE— LOW PRICED— young Made By Landers, Frary & Clark “Lovely Skin Essential” say Movie Dlrectars HOLLYWOOD, Calif. movie ¢ girl i unless agree th Every household is now given the opportunity of obtaining a fully reliable Electric Washer at a price all can afford. ET US PLACE ONE IN YOUR HOME FOR FREE TRIAL Phone 3600 The Conn. Light & Power Co. NEW BRITAIN PLAINVILLE TEL. 3600 TEL. 560 in Hollywaoc keep thei the chosen t screen stars made the official soap rooms of all the great been depositing enormous sums in | They found, too, that Fred Fleagle | | diate reply and although unsigned | |it was obviously from Ralph Flea- | with the Kankakee postmaster and | | warded by a man who called and. | {he bandits had escaped from La- mar after the bank robbery! Alder- man’s heart leaped. Jake Fleagle Escapes by 10 Minutes The sheriff found the Peoria po- iice had just released a woman com- panion of Dr. DeMoss—a great blunder, he says—but they had the address of her apartment, 50 he rushed there. He learned that Jake Fleagle had been living there with DeMoss and the woman—and that Jake had fled only 10 minutes before he arrived! Fleagle had departed so hurriedly that he had even left his hat. In the apartment, Alderman says, The oficers found a small arsenal consisting of five rifles, an auto- matic, shotgun and 2,000 rounds of ammunition. In the room, too. was a blood-stalned canvas sack like that used by the leader In the La- | mar bank robbery to scoop up the money. Blood tests will be made of the stains on this sack to compare them with the stains on the dress of a woman bank employe on whom the wounded bandit dripped blood. DeMoss refused to go to Colorado without requisition papers and was left in jail at Peoria, but Ralph Fleagle walved extradition and the \sheriff brought him back from Kan- kakee in an airplane. He is believ- ed to be the first prisoner ever so transported. Tralled Bandits in Many States During the 14 months before the Washington expert stumbled upon the fingerprint clues, Sheriff Alder- man had been busy. He traveled thousands of miles all over the United States, personally investigat- ing bank robberies and aided in the arrest of 150 men, 40 of whom were found to be ‘“wanted” in various cities. He was just on the verge of clamping down on one suspect when the latter was shot and killed in a bank robbery at Fountain Square, Ind., last May. Seven men are now In jall as sus- pects in the Lamar robbery as the “Uptown” Store—Main at East Main result of Sheriff Alderman's per- Wil sistence. \ “We arc going to get them all,” he | says, “and we are going to h.u\g them, according to the law. in the | penitentiary at Canon City, Colo.” AVIATION STRESSED AT BERLIN SESSION Advertisers Told of Power of Planes in World’s Work Berlin, Aug. 13 —Aviation as one of the most important future meth- ods fqr advertising was discussed before the international advertising | association in convention here to- | day. Lester D. Gardner, former presi- dent of the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce of America, just ar- rived from a tour of 20 countries | by air, told the congress: “The aerial age has commenced and flying will serve publicity at every point. It will speed up all preliminary work of advertising, and deliver journals to distant points so rapidly that radius of mer- chandizing will be enlarged for all products. Better Delivery Seen “Goods will be delivered over wide | areas in a shorter time than local | deliveries can now be made.” He added that, thanks largely to the| press, “that has not only recorded | progressive stages in the history of | flight but has stimulated the art of flying by offering prizes and trophies | and awards that have been a great | incentive,” a world wide network of | international airways soon will be | developed that will have as great an | influence on industry as the ‘ele- graph and railways, Belief that advertising in the fu- Matching our style our color our rype in New Britain. Worst of it is, you know she’s right. Main Street—opposite the Strand Theatre—on Friday, August 23d. We'll be mighty glad to see you there, too. NG MAG & SONS Agency for LONG'S —— ture will occupy a more important place in our economic life than in the past was expressed today by Francis H. Sissons, vice president of the Guranty Trust Company, New York. 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It is in his power to stimulate industrial pro- gress, not only by the direct method of co-ordinating demand with out- put, but also through the encourage ment of high standards in business and personal life.” The delegates today were divided into 15 specialized groups for lunch- con meetings to study different fields of advertising. One of these, de- voted exclusively to radio, was led by Robert H. Rankin of Willlam H. Rankin Company, New York, and F. B. Duisberg, manager of the Ger- man Post advertising. 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