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their revolver. Each carried a nickel-platod gun. Then they tied the bandkerahleis across their noses. They grasped their suns. They sn&de dash for the machine.! One to the north, one to the south of the ear. They ran. They ran into the trap. The assignation place of lovers aow tount a rendezvous with death, Howard Fowler, aged 21 years, a graduate of high achool and business college, a highwayman, a thus, an outlaw, dashed for the car his game. He whirled to the north side of the machine. There in the rear eat sat the woman. It was as always. She would scream. He would threaten and silence her. His partner, on the other side of the machine, would take care of the man. It was so easy. "STICK 'EM IT" "Stick 'em up, and shut up," young Fowler snarled, as he thrust his gun over the edge of the auto door. From the bushes Behind, Sergeant Singer rose to his feet. It was the intention of police to take the bandits captive. 6inger advanced. Fowler did sot see him. Fowler aw only the masculine face of Mros suddenly thrust from the draperies of a wide-brimmed hat. Fowler saw only the hideous mistake he had made as the hand of "the lady" Mros Jerked from her skirts and pumped a leaden cartridge into his neck. It swept him off his feet. His gun dropped from his hand. He dumped to the running board as a stream of blood spv.ited from his seek and dribbled down the side of the car. To his overwhelmed senses came the thought, "I must get away." He flopped to the road. "The Lady" Mros leaned over the car. The gun was pointed again at his quivering form. Singer, from the bushes, bad lost sight of Fowler when the latter dropped. Now, Fowler, Ignorant of the weapon above aimed at his body, suddenly leaped to his feet. The gun barked again. But Fowler was gone. Like a startled animal, maddened, terror stricken, he fied to the rear of the car and disappeared in the woods on the opposite side of the road. Sergeant I-andrel, hidden in the thicket to the south of the road, emerged as "the Lady" Mroz fired. Fowler's partner. "Bold Jack" Parisey, two steps behind his comrade, made a spurt for the male occupant of the car. Then the shot from the revolver of "the Lady" Mroz. The answering scream of pain from his buddle. Fowler, as the latter received the death wound. And "Bold Jack" turned. Turned square around and started to run. Run away. "Halt!" this from Fandrei. There was no halting "Bold Jack." Fandrei fired. The shot, as intended, went Into the ground. "Bold Jack" kept on running. Fandrei fired again. "I give up! I surrender!" Too late. "Bold Jack"! The bandit, who had made a gooa start Into the woods, pitched lorward on his face. He rose, stumbled, and fell prone. The officers dashed up. "Bold Jack's" legs, thighs and back had been peppered with buck shot from the gun of Fandrei. His' bowels had been virtually blown away. When they turned him over, "Bold Jack's" eyes rolled piteously. He murmered: "I used to come out here during the day, sometimes. I loved this walk." They put blm into the police auto and took him into the hospita1. When they arrived "Bold Jack" was dead. FITTO DY1XG BATDIT Later the police returned to the scene. They were hunting Fowler He had fled. Now they came to find him. They knew his wounds were serious. That he couldn't get away, Fowler had managed to get to a little dell, a vale. There he lay. His shirt and coat were soaked with gore. His breathing was short, hard. The pain of the gun-shot wound was excrutiatlng. Like a frelghtened rabbit, he huddled close to the ground, wondering what next to do. They were after him! They would find him He couldn't run. He clung to the grasses and verdure arouna slra as though it would shield him from the prying eyes of the manhunters. The blood gushed from his mouth. He moaned. Laboriously he extracted a few papers from his pocket. A letter from a sweetheart. An automobile certificate of title. It showed that bo had purchased a Ford car but two weeks previous. These he tore Into tiny bits. The he raised his arm. He tried to scatter the fragments. His arm fell. He was too weak. ' The torn paper fluttered to his side In aheap. He was growing faint. They found him, sprawled In his own gore, unconscious, a gun clasped In his band, and tt his feet the fragments of all that might tell them who he was. At the hospital he regained consciousness. He thought of his sister. His mother. His father. "My name Is Claude Blair," ie said. "T come from Bluefield, West Virginia. I've been living at the Y. M. C A. Hotel. Chicago." Dying, his one thought was to preserve as far as possible his sister and family from the stigma of public criticism. Asked his next of kin, ho gave tha name of Mrs. Helen Scoch, 635 Olcott ave., St. Louis. Police say tne name and address are fictitious. With that last sacrifice, Howard Fowler, gun-man, outlaw, desperade, sank Into 'Unconsciousness, denying himself, the solace of his sister's presence. This he might have had, and did have later, had he informed hospital and police officials at once that Mrs. Mabel Eads. wife of Fay Bade. 466 .Eaton street, formerly a cashier In the De Luxe Theater box office, was his sister. Not less Important was the night's activities of the first auto load of police crusaders. In the arrest of the self-confessed box car bandits, Carlson, Warner, Xlimbach and Beasley have taken in to custody two alleged hardened criminals with. the third an apt and willing pupil. They are: Frank Conewicz, 382 Carey are., Indiana Harbor, aged 80, held for the X T. C. special police, I
declared to have served six months on the penal farm for burglary; Vlneent Adams. 8917 Carey ave., Indiana Harbor, aged 26; and Stanley Dumbrowskl, S842 Carey ave., Indiana Harbor, aged 28, four times arrested on elmllar charges. AH ro held on open charges pending action of railroad special agents. The trio admitted, police say, to
have ventured forth for the purpose of pilfering box cars.
SIDELIGHTS ON BANDIT BATTLE IN LOVER'S LANE There is some Question about which made the better woman. Officer Beasley or Officer Mroz. Eeasley occupied one car; Mroz the other. Sergeant Carlson, who played the part of Eeasley's consort. Is noncommittal about his "gal." Beasley, though, eays he's willing to tip off this information to the girls of Hammond, that Charlie Carlson makes a keen lover. Because the road bandits were believed to have known the police flivver license at sight, precautions were taken before venturing forth Monday night to equip both machines with Illinois licenses. It was a messy job cleaning the blood stains off the vampire car occupied by Sergeant Kuni and "the lady" Mroz. Both the right running board and the floor of the sedan were spattered. When Howard Fowler flung open the door of the police auto which he believed contained naught but an innocent pair of lovers it Is thought he even then failed to penetrate the ruse. He did not suspect that "the lady" Mroz was anything but a lady. He probably did recognize Sergeant John Kunz. Not many days ago Sergeant Singer and Sergeant Kunz, standing on a street corner, sighted Fowler. Singer called to the young man. In the presence of Kunz he questioned the highwayman. Singer said to Kunz, "take down his name. Watch him. I've cautioned him about the gang he travels with. He'll turn out a bad actor." Kunz did that. Fowler probably recalled the meeting and prophecy as the gun of "the lady" Mroz flashed in his face. From a dozen known victims of the Parisey-Fowler combination, police received almost identical details of the appearance of the bandits. They always wore white masks; carried nickel plated revolvers; spoke good English; were brusque, unchivalrous and speedy. They always put out of commission the car of their victims. Many did not report their losses to the police. Here are some that did: Jim Finnernan, 501 Sibley st Charles Clark, 157 State St. Clinton Biehl, 1074 Ray ave. B. J. Edwards, 400 Cedar st. Lloyd Partsey, alias Jack Boyd, bails from Oconto, Wisconsin. He was 28 years old. Parisey, police think, had a record. They are trying to determine that today. Parlsey's next kin is said to be a sister living in the Wisconsin village. Fowler, brothern-law to Fay Eads, 466 Eaton street, had been staying there for several weeks. One week ago yesterday he left with Parisey. He did not tell his brother-in-law where he was going. "He was always coming and going. Bui heaven knows, neither his sister nor myself ever suspected anything like this," said Eads. The sister is prostrated. The trap set by police Monday night was not the first. For many nights during the past ten days they have haunted the stamping ground of the highway bandits. Police were confident they would get their quarry finally. Way off In sunny California there is a girl, believed to be the sweetheart of young Fowler. Among the shredded papers torn to) bits by Fowler as he lay dying in the bloody corpse near the scene of the shooting police found the fragments of a letter from this girl. Pieced together they reveal the following epistle: "Dearest Howard: "Well, so you are on the go again? I wonder if you ever will get to California? I hope so. I won't believe it though until I see you. "Things are going a little better with me now. I'm working at least, even If It is only temporary. I've been here three weeks and am pretty sure they will keep me steady. It's a swell place to wok and I like It fine. Tes, Euth ts going to get married in about two weeks, so Ma and Pa are going to move. I don't think I'll move with them. I think I'll have to get myself married, too, like the rest of the dames. "I guess you know that Helen has a baby girl. Oh, boy, she's a regular little mother now. Betty Is still ron the eligible list and her and I smoke so many cigarettes that I think we're going to, look like one soon. Arlene wrote to me yesterday and says that she might be down In Oakland soon. I sure hope so. Poor Harold. I got a letter from him and his father died. I don't believe he was sick one day. I sure feel sorry for the kid! "We're having wonderful weather here. Today It's Just like real summer. All the girls have on their sport clothes. There's some cute fellows and girls up here, believe me. "So old Roy thinks he wants to come back to California. He sure takes all prizes when it, comes to being a Royal H. A. Hun! "Well, baby, I'll have to close now and get to work. I hope I see you soon and will let you know where I am if I'm alive. Love." The girl's name la lost. Police say her address was given on the back of the envelope as 3513 West avenue, Oakland, California, She was employed in the offices of Sherwin Williams Paint Co. The letter was dated May 6, 1922. Monday marked the last day of pre-vacation duty for Sergeant Sandor Singer. He was to have left Sunday for a two weeks vacation. Eut ho worked one day more. . He told Chief Bunde his vacation would be pleasanter if the road thug3 could be wiped out first. Ko enters his vacation now, satisfied. In the breast pocket of Parlsey's coat police found the $130 stld watch stolen Saturday night from Jim Finnernan. It is the only loot police have yet been able to uncover. The car purchased two weeks ago by Fowler -was bought from Jerry O'Nell, local Faige distributor. It was a Ford. Fowler Is said to have owned and operated a Dodje in the same game.
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