M." 16, 1931 Country Constables Are Quick on the Draw Heroes of Hinterland Trap Big-City Bad Men

An extraordinary circumstance, a town authorities got their man, al- fire in th.ir hot.i, revealed them to though at the cost of a life. Tucson police. One squad seized The list of .mall-town law tri- Makley on the .treet. Anoth.r, umph. over d.speradoe. is unend- I.d by Polic.man Ch.t Sherman, ing. In 1928the late Eugen. (Red) nabbed Clark in a rented house McLaughlin, Chi e ago gangster. with his woman, Opal Long. He tried to batt.r hi. way out of the put up a terrific battle against hands of Hayward, Wis., authori- Sherman, but to no success. Thre. ties with a wrench, but didn't rookiecopa-ex-cowboya---captured reckon with Mayor Thoma. Mc- Pierpont, They didn't even bother Clain., who .topped him with a to search him, which was a mean shot and later remarked. .•Red Mc- trick on Pierpont, a killer, for when Laughlin'sjust anoth.r bum to me." h. finally .tood in the police sta- tion, surround.d by five policemen, e • e he attempted to draw one of three On March 16, 1932,Clifford Ed- pistols concealed on his person. ward., Lesli. Stanley, Eddie Mor- But he dropped his gun in a chill ris. and Earl J.ffri.s imprisoned as five pistols were shoved into his thirty-eight employe. and patrons 8urU Hom.r 8,,1••• ter (at I.ft with gwl) .hoWi how h. ccsptured fac.. The Tuc.on police were in the City National bank 01 Clin- Alfred Power emd BONrt 8uhCl!'.two New York gwlm'D. at Platta- quicker on the draw than h•. ton, la. (population 25,000), and Only Dillinger now remained at mouth. Neb. (AaMclaIilll rr- pMto.) escaped with '100,000,only to be large, but Police Chi.f C. A. Wo!- captured Immediately afterwara by tion'. then curr~tnt No. 1 public l~ and fifteen men soon cornered Clinton police and sentenced to enemy, M.rle Vandenbush. prison him entering a house with Anne prl.on within the we.k. breaker, kidnaper, bank robber. Martin. DilIing.r whirl.d as Wol- And on Feb. 9, 1926,five Chicago The important point about his lard accost.d him,and tried to .tart hoodlum. had a taste of .mall-town arre.t i. thi.: action with a aubmachin. gun. action in the same locality. On Vandenbueh, considered one of But he saw what Pi.rpont el•• • that day Harry Marks, Harry WiI- the worst bad men in the country, where had seen, only more of it- Ilams, and Joe Murray snatched who time and again thumbed hill fifteen gun. m.nacing him from Alfred Fairfi.ld and John Redman nose at the finest police in the ev.ry angl•. nation, was captured by country ..My GodI" wailed Dillinger. GWl Moll Bowe Parker. who Rural Police cope. "I'll be the laughing stock of the with her berd-mem compcm1oD. Not so long ago policemen such country, lettinp a hick-town police Clyde Barrow. wa killed b" Texer,remtre,. Dear GibalemcLtcr. No Longer a. Hendricks, Hergenhan, and force get me:' Orman w.re d.risiv.ly referred to e e e aa "hick cops" by their snobbish 1892. to b. speclfic- Charles T. Gump. a hardware merehent h'1 blue-coated brethren in the large He should not have felt .0 bad. "Hicks" Coffeyville, Kas., cried out, .•It'll clti.s. Thi. appellation is now for Tuc.on', police rank with the the DaltonsI" He was pointing to pa.se. b•• t, and hi. humiliation should By FRANK CIPBIANI five men riding into town. He was Aa the Colt "made all men have been nU In comparison with correct. The five were Bob. Grat. TOUGH nut was Merl. Van- equal" several generations back, Roger Touhy's •• v.n months ear- and Emm.tt Dalton and Bill Pow- denbu.h, escaped convict. the radio and other modern crime lier. Touhy, a gangster I.ader and A kidnaper, bank robber. He ers and Dick Broadwell, despera- deteetlcn and prevention devices kidnaper on Chicago's ncrthwest does. Town pollce and citizen!', not only flouted the writt.n laws have made all pollcemen equal. side. justly merited a certain dis- of three states and the federal gov- Thi. is not to say a great Inequcl- tinction, not only becau.e h. de- roused by Gump'. cry, gave bottle, .mm.nt but snapped his chubby ity had alwaya existed. Indeed fied blg-city polic. gen.rally but It was a short but furlou. one. fing.rs at police-all police. New not. The Dalton boys were brought the mighty Capone gang. Three citizens, a town marshal. York'. finest, the G bureau'. to earth by amall-town.rs forty-five On June 19, 1933,an automobile Grat Dalton. Pow.rs, and Broad- well were killed. Bob Dalton was .marte.t. and sundry ether enforc- year. ago. Harry Tracy reached crashed into a pol. near Elkhorn, The bWlet-riddled CNtomobUelJl which BODldePcuker emd Clyde (Ac_ photo.) wounded and eeptured with Em- .rs of the law alway. found him,a ' hi. trail'•• nd in battle with sllJ1.lIar (T••••• pMto.) Wi•., bringing to the .cen. Harry Barrow died. wriggle ahead, .nakily .lithering 'fo.s thirty-flve years ago. More mett. Bob and Emm.tt later w.nt Motorc:yc1e PoUcemem H a r r y to prison, .ventually w.r. freed out of their grasp. recently John Dillinger and Roger Ward. a roolde. who captured from deputy .herifs in Clinton after Utterly cont.mptuou. of the men Touhy learned the law's potency Boger Touh" ad hla VCDlg.te,. Fairfield and Redman had been and became estimable' citizens. follOWinghim, Tough Man Vanden- through the medium of what both a.ear Elkhom. WfL The voUbClg sentenced to prison for robbery. Emmett now !ive. in Lo. Angeles. bush, want.d for an assortment of w a a the vemv" CIIIUIlwsitiOD were chagrined to call " hick cops:' Th.y headed across the Mississippi e • e crime., ·mo.tly bank robberies, on And only a few w.eks ago two;) mavcaiDe. river, to find a vigilant. committee Feb. 25of this year drove into.Kato- New York gunmen, Allred Powel of police and citizens awaiting The cases cited merely touch nah, N. Y.. with two pal., George and Robert Suhay, had a taste o! for some fancy work. Th.y drove them al Chadwick, Ill. In the gun numerically the myriad instances and Anthony Rera, couain.. The the same stuff. Their story atill is to a highway .pot eight milessouth fight re.ultlng Marb was slain and in which country or .mall-city cops thr.e promptly raided the North- freah, but not too fre.h to retell a. of town and wait.d. At 10:30p. m. the ethers captur.d. have upset the criminal sophi.ti- ern We.tch.ster bank th.re and a mighty fine Illu.tration of what a ear an.wering the d.scription of Not to be overlooked in any list cates. and the analy.is reach.d Is .merged with '11,626. Th.y sped happen. when big-city outlaws col- Or. Hibbard's. and bearing two 01 ,desperadoes who have fallen ,that .scape from small communi- away in their coupe. To fool pur- lide with rural law enforcer•. men, passed northward. Th. Syl- victims to country peace officers tie. is oxtromely difficult for the suers, who naturally would be vest.r brothers followed. are the cigar - smoking gun moll. e e e outlaw. The reClsonsare many. lookingfor three men in a car, Van- The two men .topped on the Bonnie Parker, and her bad man, Community spirit is important. denbush and George R.ra hid in Like Merl. Vand.nbush, Suhay edge of Platt.mouth to examine a Clyde Barrow. who.e depredations A crime in a small town reuses the the rear baggage compartm.nt and Power on March 8 held up ('f highway sign. Sherif Sylvester and covered a dozen states. On Ma:- citizens, in the form of poISes or leaving vl.ible only on. man, An- Katonah, N. Y., bank, getting '18.- Deputy Sherif Sylvester drove up 23. 1934,th.se two·trlec:.to 'get past vigilante committees. to help the thony R.ra, the driver. 000. N.w York poltee and federal and with the nonchalance with a po... of Texas rangera near authorities captur. the perpetrator. Ov.r in North Castle. t.n mUes agent. w.nt after th.m, the G-m.n which th.y might arrest a hen- Gibsland, La., by speeding their This is also a matter of s.lI-protec- away, S.rgt. John A. H.rgenhan b.caus. the bank was a national roost thi.f ord.r.d the suspect. to car to 85 mile. an hour. The lion. ranger. fired on them, the hurtling and PatrolmenW.Gerald Hendrick. ;bank. Suhay and Power ned to ••Gil out and throw up your The inherent suspicion of the or- car plung.d over a steep embank- and William Orman receiv.d aU."Topeka, Kas., where th.y lat.r hands." dinary country con.tabl. is another ment, and the po••e finish.d its radio fla.h of the crime, warning b.gan rec.iving mail at the gen- Th. men looked out into the factor. Strangers in, any small them to watch for three men in a eral d.livery window of the post- PoUcemea.exClm1Derear compartmellt of car lJl which Merle Vemclell- job by riddling· the machine with yawning muzzles of two .hotguns town or city a r. imm.diat.ly coupe. The three hurri.d to the offic.. G-men trailed them and on bush emd Ckorge BerG were coa.ceat.d whell PcrtrolmemW. GerGId bullets. The man and the girl were and into two pairs of determined spotted. main highway and waited. Th.y, April 16 trapped them in the post- eyes. They got out. They not only Hendricb d1acoyeredthem. (Ac_ ••••• > taken out dead. Th. lack of hiding places in the halt.d the fir.t coupe te- appear. office. Suhay and Pow.r shot Iheir threw up th.lr handa but thr.w Hundreds of similar Instances open country or .mall community The driv.r was Anthony Rera. He way out, fatally wounding Agent down their guns. Th.y were Suhay Ward.. a rookie motorcycle cop. may be paaeed over to select two Is a third reason. an.wered th.ir que.tion. politely. Wimb.rly W. Baker. Suhay was and Power. He found four men, much the wone. dusty case., the finales of Harry He said he wa. out for a rid.. wounded. Scanning the voluminousrecords for drink, and a damaged pole. Tracy and the Dalton brothera, Added to th... explanations is the fact that rural. amall-town,and Rera ••• med to be a harml.ss In their 'g.taway Pow.r and of important arr.st. accomplished Ward questioned them. They Traey, cool. brave, and fierce, small-citr cops bow to no police citizen and might have been wav.d Subay wr.cked their car near Sa- by rural, small-town, or small-city anawered polit.ly. He told them ehet hi. way out of the Salem, Ore.. on but for the fact that Policeman betha. I(as., after which they Im- pollce, on. stops ahort at two out- they had damag.d a pole and prison on Jun. 9, 1902,killing two in the own.r.hip of courage. Your Hendricks po•••••• d more than an po.ed th.m •• lve. on Jo. Garver, a standing instances-Dillinger and would have to pay for the damage. guard. in the deed. For two .mall-town police are not yet, of ordinary amount of curio.ity-and farmer. He was forced to call Or. Touby, both of recent memory. They offered him $200to forg.t the month. he tantalized-and killed- course, on a par with big-city po- pursuers: Trapped by one poase. lice In pure .leutFling, but other- •uspicion. H. saunter.d to the rear Sam Hibbard to tr.at Suhay's • e e unfortunate eeeldent. The bribe of the ear. He casually lifted the wound. Th. N.w Yorkersthen kid- offer whett.d Ward's suspicions. he killed two m.mb.re; trapped by wise they are at I.a,t equal. Mor. and more of them are studying compartment cover. H. hastily naped the physician in his own John DUlinger and his band 01 He took the four men to the sta- another, he killed one and wound- crime det.ction at police .chools. •Iamm.d it .hut with an exclama- machin.. They ej.ct.d him a few Indiana desperadoes ran wild in tion, holding the driver and letting ed a •• cond. He seemed to enjoy tion of surprise. In the brief In- mil.s out. H. hitch-hiked to Sa- the greater Chicago metropolitan the three others wand.r out in .hooting his way out of tight spots. But their main problem. are not stant he had rai•• d the cover he betha; Garv.r did likewi... They ar.a in 1933and 1934. They fel- search of beer. Then he examined All told he killed seven men and slick. myst.rioue crime.. They art! had .een .omething. notified Town Mar.hal P. M. Craw- low.d th.ir prison d.liv.ry at their car. He found guns. plenty wounded five. On Aug. 5 near the bolder, more apparent ones. H. had gazed into the muzzle" ford. Th. mar.hal immediately Michigan City with a seri•• of bold of guns. With other pollcemen Creston, Wa.h.. e;m unpublicized and on the.e th.y ulually clean up of two r.volvers. broadca.t an alarm. bank robberies and murders. Late Ward speedily rounded up the ab- d.puty sherif and four citizens sur- in a hurry. And so it mu.t be said: H.ndricks drew his gun; hi. part- Up at Platt.mouth, Neb., sixty In January, 1934, afte!; a $20,000 sentee beer quaffera. They werl'! pris.d and wounded him. He The so-celled ••hick cop .. of ners, •• nsing .omething ev.ntful. mUes from Top.ka, Sherif Homer bank robbery and the murder of a Willie Sharkey, Edward (Father ("-.-.) crawled away Into a field, ana other y.ars no longer exists, and overpow.red Driv.r Rera, and a Sylve.ter and D.puty Cas. Sylves- policeman In East Chicago, Dillin- Tom) McFadden, and G u s t a v The wounded Bobert Suhay. biV- there, as the law officersclosed in his succesaor, a mod.rn poll:cema:t f.w minute. later Vandenbu.h and t.r, hi. brother. peace officersof all ger and thr.e of his most de.perate (GloolI}YGus) Shaeffer. The man 'time vua.memwho wa cCNvhtby on hnn, committed SUicide. in all respects, ••will get you if you a country sherif. George Rita, unwitting pri.oners Caaa county, rec.ived the alarm. men. Charles Makl.y. Harry Pier- held as the driverwas Rog.r Touhy. Ten years earlier - in Oetob•.r,: don't watch out I .. in their own trap, peacefully sur- Th.y had had nothing more exeit- pont, and Russell Clark, h.aded No tougher quart.t of gunmen r.nd.red. in9 to do than to look out for chick- west. They •• ttled in Tucson,Ariz.. ever fell into the hands of a lone And thus was captured the na- en thieves; now they had a chanCtl population 33,000. pollce~an-country cop or big-city bluecoat. .•And can you imagine the big hick turning down the $200w. of- I.red him to forget about us?" sobbed Touhy lat.r. Touhy and "veral of his Iieut.nants are now serving 99-y.ar ,.ntences in Joliet prison lor the John Factor kidnap- ing. To r.tum to the DiIling.r case bri.f1y. Aft.r Dillinger's arrest in Tucson he e.caped from the Crown Point, Ind., Jail, taking with him H.rbert Youngblood. Negro des- perado. Youngbloodwas loon aft- erward trapped. in' Port Huro!'. Mich. He killedUndersherUCharles Cavanaugh and wound.d Sherif City gwlmea. who hold up armored web oa. the highwcry-.auch a II ahoWD 1DtJU action p1cturefrom a JOM DI111Dvader lOme of his trCDlV(~ea. cmd vtrJ,a)are arraiped lJl Tuc:80DAria. ..after police of that city William Van Antw.rp, but was moYie.are more them Ukely to fiDdtheir a.emella II some bac:lrwoodacoutule or rookie motor cop who II trap them. DlWa.verII the mcm lJl the cea.ter. (~ •••••••) • slain in so doing. Again .mall- full of covClve cmd quic:kOilthe draw.