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16th Street Church Bombing — Part 22
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out Carry, ga :
‘Well “after “Hatcher's “police ,
"_gupbatile that left the man’s | -prowl car partner,” “patrolman |
“pretty school teacher compan: | -T. E, Tucker, named Tarrants
jon dead and two other per- | as the gunman. Tucker testi-_
sons — including a patrolman | fied that after, he rammed a |
_— critically Injured. . sont ons - speeding late” ‘“niodel, black |
on ae pect ne tobe"!
&. 4: The gunfire broke ¢ out ‘after. a Bul ck cha ‘ileged stented Ls dropped. his pistol, but Tan io” police officials would not ‘con-
& .' police altempled to arrest the | yombing, the driver, whom he | i ‘the Black ‘Buick and fled =: : frm a Teport that, some 19.
gy. Man near tne “home of a \ identified as Tarrants, turned | he oi ce fire ee: ne _ withering | » Saturday night after ae
4 eee eetnore they had been f machine gun °?. the. Police it ere : formation ¥ would be Gon
; ‘ een .
nessman where they had been ear. ,
_ [staked out. oy "HATCHER ‘AND: "Pucker,
Be Tucker ducked beneath the I’? the only officers at the scene;
. gh) Thomas Atbert Tarrants 111,4 car. dashboard but Hatcher *~ with an automobile, attempted |
“22, of Mobile, remained in a caught four slugs as he leaped, 10 block the path of the Buick”
+6. “Matty Hersee Hospital room: ‘from the patrol” car — two © but wound up in, 1 highspeed, *
this morning, an armed’! “and possibly three ‘Shots strik-” : bullet-punctured * Chase” ‘for?
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f an early Sunday ruaning™
y ¢ only a few days apy:
a struck by bullets.
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fired from _a “speeding car. But +
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“pany of Sam Holloway
ei" Bowers Jz, Imperial Wizard
if “ad the Imperial Knights of the °
Ku Klux Klan and now under
= 10- year federal sentence for
the ‘Slaying : of tiree civil a
‘rights’ workers in: Philadel-
_ phia.
Meridian policeman at his ing him through the wind- approximately ‘15 blocks ~_-
‘pedside and Mississippi high- ; shield. ayes ol when Tucker, ‘rammed the [7
way patrolman posted - out. Burton ° was cut “down by a |; Buick and . went. ‘out "of
FT side. burst from the submachine ‘control ‘stfiking™ ‘an “embank- «
_ _ ae ment. - at
x While his condition was | &w9 when he emerged from a 1 at this point, police Collins officers found an
# listed as serious, police were nearby” resi dence to ‘s was -}M-3 submachine gun in the
: advised by hospital officials (re by Fesidene fo see wha ; charged Tarrant fired on ine car driven by Tarrants with |
late Sunday that he is expect- ‘officers with the submachine } -{\.owers as a passenger. - +
“2+ -ed to survive. He was wound- * “ysun. ces 1 = ews
Blin Found dead on the floor-* §° He fired until the weapon ) -
ed in a running gunfight with ard of the Buick later was |
$i +. police following the altempted "the body of a young, attractive |
~ bombing of a residence here. — woman, identified by police
|: -was empty, dashed across an
Look TH. fart ze |
Uniti mo¥Y WLlinn aS Mrs, E
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t
nearby lawn, and was en
to climb over a fence when_
¢. £ oahe condition — of both | c : other pursuing officers ‘caught ©
~ Meridian | voce = ..M. | Kathy Ainsworth, 26, a Jack- -him with their fire.
af an S22. son school teacher, whose . |
Mike) llatcher and ~ Navyp ' purse contained a loaded 25- | Me. wai sworth as we
a viation Machinist Mate 2} caliber pistol and membership , oP hh id = it-smi ht: have
€-- Robert E. Burton, whe Tar cards in both the. Americans’ ae ea et
* ants is accused of machisc ~ for the Preservation of the See ee ‘first at
ee were described as |.
Chie Gina 5 gave the follow:
x Hatcher, hit four ‘times with .
“ glugs from a German-made " ing account of the gun battle;
submachine gun, still had one * Shortly after midnight Sunday
slug lodged in the membranc- ! which ended inher death, the’
“ous tissue of his heart early , Wounding of Tarrants, Hatch-
this morning, with. a second ‘er and Burton, He stated” that’). oe
slug closeby. 3; keh * “he about: 15": officers, “wearing }; other ‘bombings and. ——
. “black polo. shirts had staked .' “nightrider’ ‘vidlence: ‘here!and0"%
A team of “Jeft ‘Anderson © oot the. 29th Avenue residence, in Jackson. The ‘Temple Beth-
Memorial Jospital surgeons Meridian “pusinessmant ” “Asracl Synagogue’ here, ‘shat- =
‘removed two bullets from his ier Davidson when oe op fered by a dynamite: blast:
‘Gunn « as a prithe ‘suspect®! ne
upper abdomen during a more “Buick auinmohte was seen several weeks. ago, was ‘the F
only instanceof, “pombing . at
than five-hour operaben Bune _ Irving past the
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