Typed as spelled and written
- Lena Stone Criswell

THE DAILY DEMOCRAT
Thirty-First Year - Number 12
Marlin, Texas, Friday, May 15, 1931

THREE MEN WHO ELUDED
SHERIFF LATER CAPTURED

Taken Into Custody at Itasca and
Returned to Houston by
Officers.
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       A trio of men riding in an automobile alleged taken from Harry Miller when he and a girl companion were hijacked near Houston Wednesday night, who eluded Sheriff Reese, in a chase in and around Marlin early Thursday, were reported captured after proceeding beyond Waco later in the day.
       The three men wanted were caught at Itasca by Marshal Walters of that town, and were brought through Marlin Thursday night, heavily manacled, bound for Houston.  They gave their names as Virgil Dunbar, Hilliard Hagood and Paul Humphries.  From their conversation it developed that they were quite familiar with the highway and it is said had changed cars three times since they left Houston.
       The three men were caught at Itasca after the automobile in which they were riding overturned.  Officers reported finding a number of watches, rings and knives in their possession.

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