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From: "bleach" <>
Subject: Re: [TNCAMPBE-L] Sheriff Hutchison
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 15:27:48 -0500
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This article was in the Ironwood Daily Globe (Ironwood, Michigan) Dec 7,
1935

It was also in the Mansfield News Journal (Mansfield, Ohio), Dec 7, 1935


RIFLEMEN HUNT BANDIT KILLERS
Two Gunman Flee With Loot After Killing Sheriff, Wounding Another.
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BULLETIN
New Tazewell, Tenn, Dec. 7
--AP--Sheriff Frank Riley said today Frank Hopson, 22 year old Clairborn
County youth, had surrendered to him and admitted being one of three bandits
who robbed a bank here yesterday and killed Sheriff L. B. Hutchison of Union
county during their flight.
The sheriff said Hopson named Gus McCoig, 22, and Pete Dean, 18, escaped
Tennessee convicts, as his companions and declared that "McCoig shot and
killed Sheriff Hutchison."
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New Tazewell, Tenn, Dec 7 --AP-- Mountain riflemen joined officers in the
hunt today for three gunmen -- two identified as escaped convicts--who
looted a New Tazewell bank of $1,000, killed a sheriff and woounded a
posseman.
Officers said two of the fugitives were Gus McCoig, 22, and Pete Dean,
18, who kidnaped a deputy warden in a daring break from the state
penitentiary at Nashville Tuesday.
Sheriff L. B. Hutchinson of Union county was fatally wounded in an
attempt to halt the gunmen at a highway bridge as they sped from the scene
of the robbery yesterday. He died in Knoxville hospital.
Surprised by a posse in a lonely mountain cabin near here last night,
the bandits shot their way out and apparently escaped unscathed. Leonard
Barret of Morristown, Tenn., was wounded in the shoulder. Possemen combed
the rugged mountains of upper east Tennessee searching for them.
McCoig, Dean and George Wilbur Moss escaped from the penitentiary by
kidnaping Deputy Warden Ed Conners and forcing him at gunpoint to drive them
out. Later they freed him unharmed, but kept his car.
Moss was captured at Bunchtown Thursday.
East Tennessee officers recalled that McCoig was an associate of
Clarence Bunch, slain leader of a gang that terrorize this section last
year.


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