BOOSee: ) OT Mrs, jold Benton county woman, re Awaits Decision Of Murder Jury PANES HENRY METHVIN oo AMILTON TRAIL BECOMING COLD | Outlaw and His Wounded Companion Elude Host of Searchers in South MEMPHIS, ‘'enn., March 30—(P) {—Raymond Mamilton, brazen Tex- as gunman, eluded capture today as practically every federal and police officer in the South sought him in the government's latest “shoot-to-kill” manhunt. Department of Justice agents veiled their movements in secrecy, but police officials felt the desper- ado ang a badly-wounded gangster | confederate had left but a cold trail to follow since they disappeared from here yesterday after dump- ing two terrorized hostages in the heart of downtown Memphis. Memphis police believed the des- perado pair headed into Arkansas yesterday morning, possibly hoping to reach the Arkansas - Oklahoma {hill country without further brush- es with the Jaw such as marked their wild ride through Mississippi |'Thursday night following the loot- ing of a bank of $1,100 at Prentiss. Two women, booked as Dorothy and Estelle Davis, Houston, 'éex., sisters, and said by officers to have been companions of Hamilton and his confederate in the Prentiss rob- bery, were questioned at Jackson, Miss., by Department of Justice agents today. “We have nothing to give cul as yet,” A. Rosen, une ef the officers, said, declining to comment on whether he had learned anything: of Hamilton's possible hideouts. An- other woman held for investigation in connection with the bank rob- bery, booked as Mrs, Virgie John- son of near Prentiss, was brought to the Hines county jail today for questioning by federal operatives. M. E. Smith, farm agent of Jef- ferson county, Mis: ppi, and Raiph Bayliss, a store clerk of Prentiss, who were left Jocked in the rear compartment of Sfnith’s own automobile when the gangsters reached Memphis yesterday, were back home today. Officers had no intimation, they ‘| said, of how Hamilton and his com- panion escaped after leaving Smith tand Bayless locked in the autemo- bile, which they abandoned’ near a large downtown hotel Smith and Bayliss managed to extricate themselves with the aid }of a tire tool. A telegram “tip? that the ban- dits had headed for Oklahoma sent Department of Justice agents scur- ‘|rying there from ‘Tulsa last night, but no word of their progress had heen heard today. Aged Woman Ceases Roadside Gunplay GRAVETTE, Ida Ark., March 30— Robinson, 75-year ed to her home and laid aside her “six-gun” — toda after cowing crews on ¢ highway juw here for four Mayor Herb Lewis persuaded the aged woman to conclude a de- termined picket. of property. in front of her residence and permit road crews ta resume work on the highway. “Eo knew she would not harm me," the mayor said later, “we had been friends too long.” But road workers took heed when Mrs. Robinson threatened to “Kill the first man who steps on my land,” and it was not until the mayor interceded that she gave in, Four days ago, when Mrs. Rob- inson feared the road work would bring a repetition of encroach- ments on her land, she took up her post at the roadside, gun tn hand. Today, the mayor promised that she would be paid for her property aud produced a court or- der to prove it. Mrs. Robinson has resided here for 39 years, Three years ago she was married for the first time. SSSR SSSSSSSOOCCOCSOH VERDICT IS NOT AGREED UPON IN INITIAL SESSION Judge Instructs Jurors To Retire for Night, Resume This Morning THREE ALTERNATIVES Instructions Provide Death Penalty, Life Term or Acquittal d Y fou BULLETIN . The Methvin case jury was locked up for the night at 10:10 p.m. after the members. had reported to Judge Ad V. Coppedge that they had not reached a verdict. The jurist instructed them to retire for the night and resume delibera- tions this morning. The district court jury in the trial of Henry Methvin, Texas ex-con« vict, for the slaying of Constable Cal Campbell at Commerce last April 6, had not reached a verdict at 10 o'clock last night, four hours after beginning its deliberations. Many persons remained in the courtroom in hopes that a verdict would be reached before the jury. was locked up for the night. Judge Ad V. Coppedge was to remain in or near the courtroom un- til the verdict was reached. A stat~ ute prevents him from leaving the county until a verdict is returned and he could not return to his home in Grove until that time. He planned to stay in a local hotel in the event it was necessary to await overnight. THE JURY The district court jury which deliberated Saturday night on the fate of Henry Methvin ins cluded George Payne, Leon Horn, Walter Berkshire, I. J. Fowler, E. H. Stauckey, J. A. Drennan, Guy Jennison, Hugh Wood, S. M. Smith, J. C. Hutts, Jr, W. B. Douthit and J. A. Cook. Instructions Given The testimony was concluded at 3 o'clock and after a short recess Judge Ad V. Coppedge came in with instructions to the jury. The instructions, prepared carefully on the evidence presented during the three days of the trial, left the jurors only three points of decision, In the event Methvin was found guilty they were to sentence him to death in the electric chair or to life imprisonment. The other was acquittal, Both state and defense attorneys put up strong arguments during a session that was not finished until 6 o'clock. Defense attorneys hrought out that there was no tes< timony offered to show that Meth- vin fired any of the shots at the time Campbell was killed. Assert ed shortcomings of state witnesses were gone over in detail by the de« fense. Differences of opinion con- cerning the seene of the actual shooting were once more outlined, He Tried to Get. Away? The principal point of the de- fense argument was that at no time was Methvin with Barrow and Bon- nie Parker of his own free will, The defense contended that Methvin was under duress during his stay s pair and that he sought constantly to find sume way to get rid of them through their capture or death at the hands of the law. Such action was accom- plished seme time after the Com- shooting, the defense fur- contended, Methvin, said the defense, ae- complished what an entire nation of offieers had sought for some time to do—bring about the death of the Texas killer and his woman companion. Prosecution Strikes Back The state in turn bore heavily on the question of duress. County Attorney A. Clark pointed out nus ferous opportunities when Meths vin could’ have escaped, one being at the time Campbell was killed, when he and Boyd returned to the murder car, in which only Bons nie Parker was sitting, Barrow having gone up the road to obtain another car, There was ample opportunity for Methvin to ask the aid of Boyd in killing one or both of the outs laws,” Clark pointed out. Methvin was armed with an aus tomatic rifle at that time. The state contended that Meth- vin was not asleep in the car when it hacked into the ditch, The dee fendant testified he was a-leep in the rear seat of the machine until the shooting started. The state further contended Methvin was directly engaged in the shooting although no direct evidence was produced to substan- tiate the claim. pe ee (Continued on Page Two),la 1e 1e k t- t, ne r: is rl ey 8 gy 1 )- f- le .{Bonnie Parker were told on the 1| were killed. .| forced them to help push the mired j|voad, then got in the back seat with me, and after that we went to Fort} a VERDICT IS NOT AGREED UPON IN INITIAL SESSION (Continued From Page One) “[t is beyond reason that one man could have fired a& many shots as it has been said there were fired,” the county attorney stated, Last Witnesses Heard The arguments followed exam- ination of several chief witnesses during the morning session of the trial and rebuttal testimony short- ly afternoon, Witnesses called this morning included R. A. Younger, loca) pho- tographet who took pictures at various points at the scene of the slaying; George Simpson of Cas- ter, La., a logger and former em- ployer of Methvin, and Methvin himself, Simpson testified that he was well acquainted with the defend- ant and that he worked for him before the time he was sentenced for a crime in Texas and later af- ter Barrow and Bonnie Parker Rebuttal Witnesses Heard Rebuttal witnesses of the state included former Sheriff Dee Wat- ters, Percy Boyd, Mrs. May Phelps and George McDermott, operator of the Lost Trail mine near the scene of . the shooting, McDer- mott’s testimony concerned the amount of tailings north of the mill and the amount between Mrs. Phelps’ home and the point where the Barrow car was said by Boyd and others to have been mired in the ditch. The state tried to bring another surprise eye witness of the shoot- ing on the stand, He was Clyde Davis, who with Chick Green, an- other state witness who did not testify, claimed to have witnessed the shooting. Green was kept off the stand because of a I>gal error and Davis for similar reasons. Davis was not contacted by author- ities until last Friday night. The defendant and his attorneys knew nothing of him until he was called into court. Defense Motion Sustained In both cases, the defense was not properly advised of the wit- nesses and in Green’s case a wrong postoffice address checkmated the state’s efforts to use his testimony. The court recessed the jury to hear Davis’ testimony before su taining a defense motion prohibi! ing him from testifying. His ver- sion of the shooting did not appear sound enough to warrant using him as a witness in the trial, Methvin’s own version of the shooting and other phases of his companionship with Barrow and stand Friday afternoon. Methvin Tells Own Story Methvin testified, not only of the events of the day which saw Camp- bell--killed and Police Chief Percy Boyd of Commerce held prisoner 14 hours by the fleeing Barrow gang, but also told of his alleged betrayal of Clyde Barrow and the Parker woman to officers who killed them near Arcadia, La. Methvin began his recital at the time the Barrow-Parker-Methvin automobile was mired in a ditch, and was investigated by Boyd and Campbell, “TI did not fire any shots,” Meth- vin testified. “I was asleep in the back seat of the car two hours that morning, and the first I knew of the trouble was when I heard shots and a bul- let came through the windshield, Clyde Was Shooting “TL raised up and saw Clyde out in the road and he was shooting. When he quit shooting he ordered me to go down the road, see if those officers were alive, and, if they were, to bring them up there, “Bonnie also had fired several shots from her Browning auto- matic rifle, She gave me this rifle and I went down the road, “When I got near Boyd's car, 1 saw that he was alive. I told him to come up to the car with me, I Just carried the gun in my hand. Boyd had his hands up.” Methvin said when he returned to the Barrow car, a number of persons had gathered there from nearby farms and from passing automobiles, aid that Barrow had automobile from the ditch. “Clyde turned the car around and I got in the back seat first. Clyde told Boyd to get in the car with us and Boyd looked up and down the Scott, Kas.” Officer Released There Boyd was released. Methvin said the first time he Barrow staged Methvin's delivery from the Eastham, Tex., prison farm, more than two months be- fore Campbell's slaying. Methyin contended that from shortly after that delivery, he bent his effort toward “turning Clyde and Bonnie over to the law.” He that on May 22 he told his parents he was going with the gang to Shreveport, La., and that his father said arrangements had been made with officers to “get" Barrow and the Parker woman. On that same day, he testified, ambushed and killed, he “gave them the slip” in Shreveport, dodg- ing out the back door of a restau- ant while Barrow and his gun moll ised the block. Methvin said he ever saw Clyde Barrow was when} § tuld of two alleged meetings with] s “|his father, in Texas, and testified the day before the outlaw pair was] i Chetopa years, who died here F; day, will be held al day after- noon at the a Mr. Lehi in Labette, ¢ ties. He wa g commercial He was em- lerk in a Ger- topa, where he of his brothers, dore Lehman. as the Star stofe,\was one of the “Sig,” as as popularly known, was admitted to the firm in 1890, A fear later he bought is brothers, that store with the vie no longer, and that they could be “put on the spot.” Methvin stayed in Shreveport in hiding, he testified, until he heard that Clyde and Bonnie had been slain. Deputy Testified John Joiner, farmer near Arca- dia, La., a deputy sheriff, testified he had acted as intermediary be- tween’ Methvin‘and officers plan- ning the Barrow - Parker ambush. farmer acquaintance of the pair on the highway with a broken-down truck.. Barrow and the Parker wo- man were trapped, he said, when they stopped to inquire the. old man’s difficulties. Methvin’s mother, Mrs. Henry Methvin, Sr., ecrroborated her son’s story of his plans to turn up the desperadoes, telling of his visits and arrangements which he made. Earlier before the state closed its case at noon, William Hughes, Charles Dodson and Jack Boydsun testified they were in the group forced by Barrow to push the out- law car out of the ditch. All agreed that Barrow was in command, and that Methvin did not utter a word in their presence, . 8S. Treasury Has Deficit, But Shows Surplus in Mare ASHINGTON, March 30—( e Treasury closed its books eb-quarters of the fiscal $2, 193, 000,000 in the Seek, 1931, the accounts office said, have the and that reporte-, In addition lections wert The result v the month of $ ditures aggre loaving a tidy coo. For the quarte: year to date, howd was different, Siy id for the fiscal er, the situation ve December 31, $1,001,009,000, it Pvas stolen. News-Record Want _ “Ads get got word to a relative that he was sults — try them?