SHOT BY OWN CAPTIVES
—Press Assn.
Armed Bandits And Kidnappers TEXAS GAOL-BREAK
(By Telegraph
— Copyright.)
(Received 23, 10.40 a.ta.) BOSWELL (Oklahoma), July 22. Two farmers shot dead Fred Tindol and seriously wounded Peter Troxler, two of the three armed bandits who broke out of the Texas prison on July 8 and a week later kidnapped Baird Markham, the 21-year-old son of a wealthy oil magnate. The bandits had kidnapped the two farmers. A police posse had previously shot dead Chapman, the third bandit involved in the Markham kidnapping. Tindol and Troxler, in their efforts, to eiscape, had stolen a number of cars and kidnapped several persons. The two farmers used the bandits' own weapons when the latter dozed during a forced rid.e*
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 159, 23 July 1937, Page 5
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