Monday, Jan. 08, 1934

"Terror" Trapped

Of the eleven desperadoes who fled the Kansas State Penitentiary last May, nine had been killed or jailed when the tenth was trapped last week in a small house at Shawnee, Okla. He was Wilbur Underbill, known as the "Lone Wolf" and the "TriState Terror" for his killings and robberies in Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri.

Shawnee, Oklahoma City and Federal police caught the "Terror" in his underwear, preparing to retire with his bride. An officer stuck his head in the window and called: "Stick 'em up, Wilbur!" At that Wilbur grabbed a gun, fired through the window. The police returned with the opening rounds of a 140-shot fusillade. Mrs. Underbill got no more than a bad scare, but a beauty parlor operator in the next room was hit in the stomach, later died. Underbill fled from the house, fell once, disappeared. He was found at dawn, bleeding from back, neck, leg, arm, in a bed in a furniture store into which he had broken. "I don't think I can live," moaned the Tri-State Terror. "I'm shot to hell. They hit me five times. I counted them as they hit me."

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