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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1959-05-14, Page 2Paid Doctor By Shooting Hirai TkreFleagle brothers, ;Jake and Ralph, were Bard up. Their rarming gamble hadn't paid off, ao there was only one solution: back to their olid business -- 4 robbery with violence. Jake had already served a term of imprisonment in Okla- homa and narrowly escaped a much tenger one iii California for train robbery. This time the brothers decided to tackle a bank robbery, Their target was the National Bank in the small . town of La- mar, in Colorado, not far inside the state boundary with Kansas. Although this bank did not rate armed guards, some of the staff carried revolvers, so the Fleagles decided, regretfully, that they would need help for the raid, They enlisted another pair, named Royston and 'Ala - shier, as reckless and callous as themselves. In a stolen car, the bandits drove up outside the tiny bank. Swiftly they strode inside, post- ed one men at the door as look- out, "Reaoh for the sky!" 'rasped Jake .Fleagle. The bank staff were taken completely by sur- prise. With a few customers they raised their hands. Grabbing fistfuls of notes and eoins, the bandits rammed thein Into holdalls. About $350,000 was collected within a few min- utes. It was only as the robbers were leaving that the elderly manager, A. N. Parrish, plucki- ly pulled out a revolver. He shot Royston in the jaw, but was 'himself shot dead. His son, a cashier, fell wou.,d ed on his father's body. The bandits then seized as hostages another cashier named Lungren and his assistant, Kessinger, and drove off with them towards Kansas. Law and order in Lamar in 1928 was still represented by a sheriff and his deputies. The sheriff, without waiting to col- lect a posse, set off with one man in pursuit. The fugitives' car was heavily Iaden and he soon began to overtake it. Same of the raiders got out and opened fire with rifles, Before a bullet disabled the sheriff's car he was with- in revolver range, and in the fusillade, Lungren, the bank cashier, was killed. His body was thrown out on the road as the gang drove away. They were making for the Fleagles' farm. Royston's shat- tered jaw urgently needed at- tention, and late that night the brothers reached the Kansas town of Dighton, rousing Dr, W. W. Wineinger from'his bed with a story of a farm hand injured in a tractor accident. The doctor was presuaded to accompany them in his own car. He did not return to Dighton. Two days later his body, bound, blindfolded and riddled with buckshot, was found beneath his car in a guiley. The car was spotted by an aircraft taking part in the search. A note in the doctor's pocket suggested from its wording that the writer was one Charles Clin- ton, an unfrocked preacher with an insane hatred of medical men. He was known to Ralph MO YOU RECALL? - Reminis- tent of the 1920s is this bead - fringed dress, in, a green -and - pink satin print High -waisted green sash forms a trailing back panel, The dress is offer- ed in a rprind •collection by a teen derimer Fleagte, who had, in fact, Writ- ten the note, While a hue and cry went out after Clinton, a genuine due twined up. Wineinger's car had been wiped over with an oily rag, but one clear fingerprint on the rear window remained; A photograph of the print was sent to the F.B.I. at Wash- ington. In the meantime, ano- ther discovery linked the mur- der of Wineinger with the out- rage at Lamar, The body of the bandits' second hostage, - Kes- singer, was found in a desert- ed shack not far from the gulley into which, the doctor's corpse had been thrown. Kessinger had also been tied up and shot to death — the fourth man to die because the Fleagle brothers were short of money. In the end, the death roll was to be doubled. The gang, having divided the loot, had dispersed, and it was still not known who they were, There were then no single fin- gerprint files at Washington, and to search tens of thousands of forms bearing ten finger- prints was a long process. Charles Clinton, the ex - preacher, was run to earth, and three other wanted men with him, but though witnesses from Lamar confidently identified all four, they had been far away at the time of the raid. It was chance that speeded up the investigation, in the form of a batch of fingerprints forwarded to the F.B.I. by the police of Stockton in California. The office] classifying the batch recognized the print of a single finger belonging to one Holden, arrested for the train robbery already mentioned, but released for want of evidence. :His print was identical with the print left on Dr. Wineinger's car. Reference to the index turned up "Holden's" prints, filed in 1916 after receipt from Oklahoma. They were Jake Fleagle's, There was now a firm start- ing -point for the inquiry—the, Fleagles' farm. Information gained there and from neigh- bours, put the police of yet an- other state, Illinois, on the track' of Ralph Fleagle. Two years had gone by since the raid on the bank at Lamar, but Jake Fleagle, the moving spirit in the robbery, remained at large. The police of every state in the Union were looking for him. Four states had already figured in the case; it was in a fifth, Missouri, that at long last, in October, 1930, he was run down as he was about to board a train at the town of Bran- ston. He was made of stouter stuff than his accomplices, and he fought it out in a gun battle un- til he was killed. Murderers Were Caught By Mud • If enough mud is slung, some of it will stick. Even without being flung it will stick look how it sticks to a criminal! • A murderer denied that he had ever been in the district where the murder was commit- ted. Yet a tiny piece of mud con- taining rare earth from that very district was found on his shoe — under the blacking. In another case, all a murder- er's movements were traced back by examining the different layers of damp earth caked on his shoes. A man who was suspected of having broken into a flour mill had his shoes examined. The mud on the soles was in two layers divided by a white ma- terial. It showed clearly that the man had walked over muddy ground, then over a starch deposit, and again over the muddy ground. But earth clues are not only found on the feet. A man was murdered in the Ruhr, Germany, and the killer got' clean away. Months later and more than 100 miles away a man was questioned because he was thought to have known the victim at one time. He denied all knowedge of this, but the police noticed a small scar on his thumb. This was examined and in'it were found minute particles of coal and earth which could have come only from the mining district where the murder was commit- ted. BLINKING GOOD IDEA After working late in his of- fice, David Camp locked up his desk and made his way to the main doors, Unfortunately they, were barred and bolted from the outside, He attempted to 'phone for assistance, but the line was dead. Remembering his Morse code, he returned to his office and blinked lights on and off in a succession of SOS calls. His dis- tress signal was spotted by a patrolling policeman, who roti- fled the owner of the building Camp wag released some 15 minutes later. HIDDEN TALENT — Revealing an unpublicized talent, Gina Loliobrig!da places finishing touches on a clay bust of her nearly 2 -year-old son, Milko Jr. Between movies she practices, TA13LE T4&LKSeicavz Anc Did you know that you can make a very delicious Chinese- style Chop Suey at home? It's a very good way to use uwp the last of a roast of pork and if you don't want to serve it right ' away, you can store the Chop Suey in your home freezer foe a few weeks. Although this recipe calls for canned mushrooms, you may prefer to use the fresh. If so,, simmer them along w i t h the other vegetables and the meat instead of adding them later. For 1 can of stents and pieces. or sliced mushrooms, substitute 1: pound of fresh mushrooms and use 2 cup of water in place of the mushroom juice to mix with the cornstarch. CHOP SUEY 3 tablespoons lard or cooking oil Pk cups diced cooked pork 2 tablespoons Soy Sauce. 3 cups sliced celery 1 cup chopped onions 2 cups chicken bouillon or soup stock 1 can (10 -ounce) mushrooms (drain, reserving juice) 1 can (20 -ounce) bean sprouts, drained Salt and pepper 1 tablespoon Soy Sauce 2 tablespoons cornstarch Heat the lard or cooking oil in skillet; add, pork and 2 table- spoons Soy Sauce. Brown meat slightly, then add celery, onions and bouillon. Let simmer about 20 minutes. Add mushrooms and bean sprouts and simmer about 5 minutes more, Mix Soy Sauce, .cornstarch and the juice off mushrooms. Pour it into the Chop Suey and reheat, stirring until sauce is thick and clear. Serve with fluffy boiled rice. Or, let cool, package in freezer cartons and freeze. p 8 ,p EGGS DE LUXE 2 tablespoons butter 2 tablespoons flour 1 cup milk Ys teaspoon salt 1/ cup grated cheese 2 English style muffins 4 eggs 4 slices Canadian bacon or boiled ham Blend butter and flour to- gether. Gradually pour in milk and cook until sauce thickens, stirring constantly. Add salt and grated cheese. Cook until cheese "melts. Keep warm over hot wa- ter. Poach eggs by sliding them into 1 inch of gently boiling water and cooking 3-4 minutes. Split muffins and put on broiler rack with bacon or hate, Broil 3 .minutes on one side; turn and broil 2 minutes on other side, Butter muffins; top each with bacon or ham and pour cheese sauce over them. Serves 4. k k k UPSIDE-DOWN PEACH CAKE lh cup butter % cup sugar .1,4 teaspoon salt 2, teaspoons baking powder 14 cup milk 4 fresh peaches, peeled and sliced (or canned peaches) , p/s cup brown spear 1 egg well beaten 11 cups cake flour 1! teaspoon vanilla i/e teaspoon almond flavouring Melt IA cup butter ('/Z stick). in an 8 -inch -square pan, Sprite kle; with'. brown ,sugar; arrange peach slices in rows; set aside Cream remaining ;butter W i in sugar; add beaten egg and fla. vourings. Mix well. Sift dry in. gredionts and add, altcrnatrly with milk, Blendwell and potir over peaches, Bake at 375 de grces 5'. for 45 minutes. Turn out at once on serving plate. Serve either warm or cold with whipped cream. Serves 9. k * * "Children enjoy these spinach pancakes," writes Mrs. Minnie D. Feldman. "They are go o d served with cream sauce, grated cheese or bacon, Serve them either as the main dish for a meal or as a vegetable." SPINACH PANCAKES 1 pound cooked spinach drained and chopped 2 soda crackers 1 egg, slightly beaten Salt and pepper Combine ingredients and drop by large spoonfuls in hot short- ening, being careful not to burn. ("You may use bread or un- cooked cereal in place of crack- ers or you may add chopped onion or bits of fish or meat," says Mrs. Feldman.) Keep Fit By Skipping If you want to be fit — skip. That's what the health experts are saying. Skipping is one of the best possible ways of toning up the system if you di it in moderation, they declare. Children are skipping more and feeling all the better for it; so are adults. Famous men, in- cluding stars of the entertain- ment world, find skipping bene- ficial. Down in Sussex there are more regular adult skippers than there are anywhere else in Brit- . ain, especially at Easter time. The village of Alfriston, for in- stance, has an Easter skipping custom that dates back many years. Good Friday was known a century ago as Long Lines Day. The skipping in Alfriston goes back tb the ancient fertility rites when men and women jumped up and down on the ground to make the crops grow again.• Early on Good Friday these enthusiastic Sussex skippers of to -day walk six miles over the downs from Newhaven to Alfris- ton carrying a long rope. Outside an inn they start skipping in twos and threes. When somebody drops out through lack of breath, there's always another villager or visit- or to take his place. Fancy skipping 13,265 times in an hour and five minutes! That was the achievement of a Mr. H. George, of Neath, an April 23rd, 1921. Five years later he set out to beat the one and a half hours record of 15,600 set up by an- other enthusiastic skipper. He did, too, and achieved 17,727. Why She 'Had. Her Nose Reshaped Finishing her afternoon shop- ping a little earlier than usual, the shapely,blue-eyed house- wife decided to malre a brief Call on her ' equally attractive married sister, Jill rang the door -bell of the flat and waited. The ring was answered by her sister Joan's stalwart husband, Bill. "Darling!" he exclaimed hap- pily, "I managed to get away early from the office and I'm going to take you out to din- ner and then on to a show." And, drawing the astonished girl to him, he hugged her before she could utter a word, kissing her ardently several times. "What on earth's come over you, Bill?" gasped his' sister-in- law, putting h e r smart little navy-blue and white hat straight. "Where's Joan?". It was Bill's turn to gasp as he realized that he had mistak- en his sister-in-law for his wife. The girls were identical twins and often wore similar clothes. Joan, who had popped down in the elevator of her New York flat to do some shopping in the store below, came in a few min- utes later and, grinned. good- humouredly when she heard of the rapturous greeting her hus- band had given her sister. "But don't let it happen again!" she exclaimed in mock reproof. Marriage is a lottery — and the man who marries a twin sister sometimes has small chance of winning permanent wedded bliss unless he can dis- tinguish his wife from his sis- ter-in-law. A German twenty -three-year- old blonde named Harblean Kramer, found her .husband kissing her twin sister by mis- take, Harblean didn't like the idea of her sister enjoying kisses which were intended for her. She decided that one mis- take was enough for a lifetime. The following 'day she went to a plastic surgeon and asked him to alter the shape of her' nose, making it retrousse. Now there can be no mistaken identity plea from her husband if she ever catches him kissing her sister again! Two lovely Californian sis- ters, Lois and Louise, who were identical twins, lived happily as single girls, but when they turn- ed their thoughts to marriage their troubles began. They had argued that an ideal matrimonial arrangement would be for them to marry good- looking twin brothers who, like themselves, were exact coun- terparts of each other. "Let's make the experiment et - it can't go wrong," they decid-' ed. When the news got around, nearly fifty bachelor pairs of twins wrote to the sisters, en- closing their photographs arid mentioning their hobbies and other interests. The girls even- tually chose Ray and Roy, and the double wedding took place secretly to avoid too much pub- licity. The experiment started smoothly enough. "Everything was fine till the boys learned to tell us apart," Louise later revealed. "Until then they were kind of embarrassed because neither was ever sure he hadn't whispered words oflove into the wrong ear. But when they discovered I weigh two pounds less than Lois and am a quar- ter of an inch taller, they began to order us around." There was such a clash of Masculine and feminine wills after that that the two mar- riages were dissolved and the ISSUE 19 - 1959 young wives returned to show business. Some of the parallels appar- ent between twins are amazing. Twin Durham brothers, for Instance, who developed a tal- ent for painting often worked on the same picture without consulting each other. The re- sult was always what the other had planned. A Gloucestershire twin left home some time ago. Shortly afterwards his brother met with an accident, falling and sear"ring his knee. The absent twin, more than 100 miles away, fell at the same time, incurring an exactly similar scar. So extraordinary is the affin- ity between some brothers who are identical twins, that doctors have spent years studying such eases. "There is a peculiar bond in such twins hip — something above and beyond the ordinary tie of brotherhood," one expert stated. "There is an indescrib- able sympathy and 'understand- ing understanding between them." The life history of 3,000 twins was investigated by a university professor. He found that . hands and even fingernails, eyelashes, eyebrows, lips and noses, all tended to be identical "to the point of sharing the minutest irregularities." He quoted the case of twins who got the same answers in written examinations so regu- larly that they Were accused of cheating. Even when they were given a rigorous test their an - s w e r s were similar and tee wording of sentences ideiitical. Scientists are puzzled by the fact that so few twins ever be- come famous. Throughout his- tory, said one, there are only a few isolated instances of twins who lived exceptional lives — though you get outstanding ex- amples in sport like the Hedger (cricket) and Rowe (table ten- nis) twins. He stressed that this has nothing to do with differ- ence in intelligence because usually there is nothing to choose between the intelligence of average twins and that, sf -- other people, ' An authority on eugenics, Sir Francis Galton, verified and published the story al twin sis- ters in Edinburgh who wanted to buy "surprise", birthday' gifts for their mother. The girls were anxious to outdo' each other, so each girl said "nothing to the other as to her choice. Eventually it was found that the twins had bought china tea services of precisely the same pattern, shape and colour, al- though they had made the pur- ohases in shops miles apart ! SUCCESSOR? — Ludwig Erhard, 62, above, might well succeed West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, who will soon step out. Erhard is at present econo- mics minister and vice chancel- lor. Adenauer, 83, is almost certain to be elected to the less politically sensitive post ofi president in September. KIDDY SUMMIT — The Iron Curtain means nothing to these Russian and American .youngsters - at a kindergarten party in Moscow. U.S. youngsters are Leslie Mapes, (elbow on table at right) and four-year-old skater Robbi La Londe, bottom right, They're, with 1.1.5. ice show.