This article was in the Ironwood Daily Globe (Ironwood, Michigan) Dec 7, 1935 It was also in the Mansfield News Journal (Mansfield, Ohio), Dec 7, 1935 RIFLEMEN HUNT BANDIT KILLERS Two Gunman Flee With Loot After Killing Sheriff, Wounding Another. ________ BULLETIN New Tazewell, Tenn, Dec. 7 --AP--Sheriff Frank Riley said today Frank Hopson, 22 year old Clairborn County youth, had surrendered to him and admitted being one of three bandits who robbed a bank here yesterday and killed Sheriff L. B. Hutchison of Union county during their flight. The sheriff said Hopson named Gus McCoig, 22, and Pete Dean, 18, escaped Tennessee convicts, as his companions and declared that "McCoig shot and killed Sheriff Hutchison." _______________ New Tazewell, Tenn, Dec 7 --AP-- Mountain riflemen joined officers in the hunt today for three gunmen -- two identified as escaped convicts--who looted a New Tazewell bank of $1,000, killed a sheriff and woounded a posseman. Officers said two of the fugitives were Gus McCoig, 22, and Pete Dean, 18, who kidnaped a deputy warden in a daring break from the state penitentiary at Nashville Tuesday. Sheriff L. B. Hutchinson of Union county was fatally wounded in an attempt to halt the gunmen at a highway bridge as they sped from the scene of the robbery yesterday. He died in Knoxville hospital. Surprised by a posse in a lonely mountain cabin near here last night, the bandits shot their way out and apparently escaped unscathed. Leonard Barret of Morristown, Tenn., was wounded in the shoulder. Possemen combed the rugged mountains of upper east Tennessee searching for them. McCoig, Dean and George Wilbur Moss escaped from the penitentiary by kidnaping Deputy Warden Ed Conners and forcing him at gunpoint to drive them out. Later they freed him unharmed, but kept his car. Moss was captured at Bunchtown Thursday. East Tennessee officers recalled that McCoig was an associate of Clarence Bunch, slain leader of a gang that terrorize this section last year. ==== TNCAMPBE Mailing List ==== Milly Piros, List Administrator Any problems contact me MPiros1120@aol.com To See Previous Posts http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/TNCAMPBE