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16th Street Church Bombing — Part 22
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News iat wtites
ee icmmliise
BY GEORGE 0
RENE
of an early Sunday running
gunbatile that left the man's
pretty school teacher compan-
jon dead and two other per- | as the gunman. Tucker testi nef, 3
© sons — including a patrolman } fied that affer he rammed a jy > arreeay saly a few days azo
s — critically Injured, __. ol speeding ‘late’ model black ad been’ struck by: bullets
* Buick chased from’ the scene
a The gunfire broke out after’ of the - alleged attempted |.
police attempted to arrest the | hombing, the driver, whom he |”
f man near tie home of a ° jdentified as Tarrants, turned
dropped his pistol but ran to’* ” police officials would not ‘con-
‘the black: Buick -and fled firm a report that seme 10
under a barrage of. withering men staked out the house
fi police fire. area Saturday night
information it ¥
ed.
Tarraats “was
Collins i." DB
widely-known Jewish busi- " machine gun on the police
nessman where they had been f. car. . .
staked out. HATCHER ‘AND. “Tucker,
“the only’ offigers at the scene;
with an automobile, attempted,
0 block the path of the Buick”. pany of Sam
but wound up ina highspeed," | Bowers Jr., Imperial Wizard
bullet-punctured’ “chase, for *{ of the Imperial Knights of the °:
Ku Klux Klan and now under
| Tucker ducked beneath the t
<a) Thomas Atbert Tarrasits 1,4 car. dashboard but Hatcher
22, of Mobile, rea ed in a caught four slugs as he leaped.
Matty Hersee Hospital room: “from the patrol “cat — two ¥)
‘this morning. an armed | and possibly three shots strik-
Meridian policeman at his ing im through the wind- | approximately 18 blocks — *
bedside and Mississippi high ; shield, °°" ">. ‘when Tucker. ‘ranimed the’!|7J0-vear federal sentence for
way patrolman posted out- | Burton was cut down bya |. Buick and _it.went “out “of 3 Slaying “of three civil
© side. " purst. from the submachine ‘ control” styiking’ “an “embank. “fnants workers in” Philadel-
] e) .
2 While his condition was _ So when be emerged from a a thi police “4 Collins officers found an j
listed as serious, police were J... . n was a is point, e
advised by hospital oficials mearhy residence to See wha ” (charged Tarrants fired on the M-3 submachine gun in the
late Sunday that he is expect- appened, omneers with the submachine "Sas a passenger.
sed to survive. He was wound- Found dead on the floor
ate fired until the weapon
| was empty, dashed across asg
nearby lawn, and “was' trying
to climb over a fence when
both | Chiet Roy Gunn as Mrs. | other pursuing officers caught ”
Kathy Ainsworth, 25, a Jack- | jim with thelr fire. 5,
Tt was unclear just where -
Mrs. Ainsworth ' was , killed.
Police said: it~"might have.3
happened during ‘the ‘first at
» Davidson's house, or more 5
, ed in a running gunfight with ard of the Buick later was
§. police following the attempted the body of a young, attractive
bombing of a residence here. — woman, icentified by police
condition |
of
J,
son school teacher, whose
Navyy purse Contained a loaded 25-
. viation Machinist Mate 2-cf caliber pistol and membership
§)--fRobert E. Burlon, who Tar} cards in both the. Americans
ants is accused of machine for the Preservation of the
gunning, were described as |. White Race ,and Ku Klux,
= estinl critical” 2 Klan. =
Hateher, hit four times with Chit Ginn gave the follow. }k_car with a ‘Winchester rifle,
slugs from a German-made ! ing account of the gun battle, 7 *;..She_was, struck in the bac
submachine gun, still had one * shortly after midnight Sunday * of the head and was Probably
slug lodged in the membrane- | which ended in her death, the killed instantly. .
- ous tissue of his heart early , Wounding of Tarrants, Hatch: Tarrants was described by’:
this morning, with.a second ; er and Burton, He stated that un, as’ a‘prime ‘suspect"! in,
“ slug closeby. 35 33 about: 15" officers; “wearin, i
"black polo shirts had staked.’
“A team of “Jeff ‘Anderson | out the 29th ‘Avenue residence,
Memorial Hospital surgeons #f” Meridian “businessman
removed two bullets from his |Meyer “Davidson whea the} 3,
upper abdomen during a more fs auinmobie was =e
than five-hour oper I" coving , past
F .: day morning but
atlempt fo goers f
bullets i the wick!
heart, owe
| when surge ee wy
sumed ’ 7
the, residence,
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