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een ne ggg ee al J uid ie Noe é “Underhill eppeared taken by surprise and made a notion as though to © comply, but suddenly whirled as to pick up hia guns. At this junctiena— Hurt discharged ea teer-gas ahell through the window and the writer fired directly at Duderhill three times with a Thompson Mechine Gun, and at the firat or second shot, Underhill fell to the floor and the | writer and Hurt becked away from the building ea we were at thet moment in a possible line of fire from the front of the houses, which was — only a shell frame. We could not see Underhill any more and firing then broke out from the other officers in front of the house about the sam time thet Underhill's guns began to bark from the rear window. However, it is difficult to state definitely the exact order of the firing. The firing then began generally into the house from both the front and the rear and additional gas shells were fired into the house on the front. It afterwards developed that almost immedietely after . Hurt and the writer fired the first shots from the rear of the house that Underhil} turned and ran through the other darkened rooms and out the front door, clad only in his underclothes and being bare footed. A number of shots were fired at him from the front of the house where azents Frenklin, Birch and Edgar were with ehot guns and at which time - Agent Birch fired six shots from the Browning Automatic Shotgun and Underhill was seen to fall twice and each time recovered his footing end turned between two houses some two or three doors South. It was imposeible and unsafe for anyone to follew him then on account of the continuous firing being poured in that dire¢tion from the other of- ficers. It was some moments before the writer discovered that he hed — left the house. In the nesntine, we shouted for the other occupants of the house to come out, and one Raymond Rowe, alias Ralph Rowe, crawled out of the front door being blinded by gas and unable to stand erect, having been shot through the elbow and top of the shoule der end stating that he was psralyzed and could not get up. Also, - another woman came screaming out of the house and fell on the lewn in front of the house. About this time, Hazel Underhill showed up in the light in the beck bedroom and Clarence Hurt called her by neme and told her to come out immediately. She recognized Hurt and | stated that she would eurrender. Apparently ahe hed become overcome by the gas and had lein on the bed during this interval of oamtinuous firing. She came out and was taken into custody. Rowe, and the other women who developed to be Eva May Nichols, e beauty perlor operator — from Seminole, Oklehome, were pleced in an ambulance and taken to the hospital. . ; The writer and most of the other Division Agents inmediately scattered throughout the immediate neighborhood with fleshlighta and ; cars endeavoring to pick up the trail of Underhill, but were unable to - do 80. also, a call was placed immedistely to the Stete Penitentiary ~~ - at McAlester asking for blood hounds which, however, did not arrive until 6:45 Ae Me, MoAlester being some 100 miles away.