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SehRapernereee ee Irene Schroeder’s Brother Finds End in Potters Field . Bodies of Gunman, Kin of Executed Woman, and Fel- low Gangster Identified After Three-Year Flight and Battle With Police. ' ©’. Cape Girardeau, Mo., Jan. 7 (AP.). A three-year Night from the police ended in the potter's fleld here for Thomas Robert Crawford, brother of Trene Schroeder, blonde gun girl, who. lwith Glenn Degue, her lover, slew Corporal Prady Paul, of the Pennsy)- vania Btate police, in December, 1929. The body of a gunman, who with a ;companion was shot and killed by igeven Cape Girardeau policemen last ‘ puesday when they resisted arrest, on a@ charge of robbery, was identified today as that of Crawford, who fied with the Schroeder girl and Dague In _ 1929. ‘ Informed that the robbers of a mall Morehouse, Mo., cafe could be found in & downtown flat ‘here, the policemen battered down the door end found Crawford and John Huff, an- other gunman seaterie-n a bed. _ The pair drew their revolvers and attempted to shoot it out with the police detail. From room to room the Dettle raged until both gunmen were shot to death. The police were un- For nearly a week the bodies of ‘the dead men were viewed by thou- sands in an effort to Identify them. Today a report from the National Identification Bureau identified fin- gerprints of the pair as those of f ~ ; Crawford and Huff. The Morehouse cafe proprietor had previously iden- tified the men as the robbers who took 850 and a fifie from bis res taurant. — _ To prevent identification in case ef capture the men had cut the labeis from their clothing and in other ways had sought to eonceal thelr identity. Huff had been arrestd for vwagrancy at Texarkana, Ark, and at Joplin, Mo. : a - The bodies of Crawford and Huff Me in the potter's field here, marking the end of the last of the triumvj- rate which participated tn the mur- der of Corporal Paul and led police in a spectacular chase through many States. Irene Schroeder and Dague were executed in Pennsylvania in 1021 after @ posse, with the aid of airplanes and grass fires which light- ed up the slope of a mountain jo Arizona, where the pair took refuge, captured them. — = - Deputy Sheriff Joe Chapman, of Chandler, Ariz. and Deputy Sheriff |' Lee Wright were fatally wounded either by the fleeing couple or the guns of the posse as they went be- tween the fire of both. . — . Crawford Gisappeared and his als- ter Irene refused to tell his where- . eee a Bk te Sa a oa