Escaped Convicts Killed by One of Their Hostages Boswell, Okla., July 21.
Mr J. E. Denton, a mild-mannered oil field worker, to-day hot and killed Fred Tindal and critically wounded Pete Traxler, the most dangerous gunmen in the south-west Both Victims had escaped from the Eastham, Tex. prison farm on July 8. since when they had been fugitives Mr, Denton and Mr. Fred Trimmer, a farmer, had been hostages of the desperadoes since last night, when the convicts stole Mr. Trimmer's car. Mr. Denton seized Tindol's pistol! while the convict' was sleeping, exhausted, on the road outside Boswell.
Five hundred men comprising a posse ceased their search for the two convicts on learning of the wounding ct Traxler and wounding of Tindal. Yesterday ihe posse almóst seized the two men, but they escaped. The pursuers caught Traxler's wife, who fainted when a "dead-end" road forced the fugitives to abandon the stolen car.—United Press.
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