The San Bernardino County Sun from San Bernardino, California • Page 3

Wednesday, Oct. 16,1957 THE faAILY SUN 3 LIFE AND DEATH OF A KILLER -I I i m.m mwwmm Big Camera Built Two Meetings Slated For Aircraft Firm Hire for Mis Gun Was On Disease Quarantine CHICAGO (UP) One of the SACRAMENTO (UP) The cooper's broomrape, a parasite of. tomato plants. The agency said the south stata hearing will be held Oct. 23 in the Mirror, Building, while Sacramento session was set for Oct.

29 in the department's headquarters. largest cameras ever built, a State Department of Agriculture and Edward Eugene. Townley and his wife, dope peddlers who have scheduled public hearings for Los 000 unit that weighs five tons and is more than eight feet high, has Editor's note: Gene Paul Norris was described by lawmen as the most dangerous man in the Southwest before he died in a been missing for months. Okla Paul wanted most was to free Pete, once the FBI's public enemy No. 1.

He tried once, springing his brother from a prison farm, and drew eight years in Angeles and here on a proposed been completed by a Chicago homa City bootlegger -Orville quarantine regulation" to corral manufacturer of photomechanical Lindsay Chambless, implicated in hail of bullets last April. This is equipment. the Western Hills job, has been Huntsville Penitentiary for his the first of two dispatches outlin trouble. ing his career of robbery and The photographic giant, which missing for some time also. FRANK CATES CASE After serving two years of that FOR RENT OR BUY ON OUR RENTAL fURCHASE PLAN ALL LATE MODEL MACHINES fit" Xli-t has a reproductive accuracy to sentence and gaining parole, Nor murder.

By JOHN G. WARNER 12,000 of an inch, was built by Norris was reported to have been hired as the trigger in a plot ris drifted to Fort Worth, where Robertson Photo-mechanix, Inc. to erase four Oklahoma City boot FORT WORTH, Tex. (UP) for the Covair Division of Gener he teamed with Alcatraz graduate Floyd Hill. leggers.

al Dynamics San Diego. 470 4th St. The case of Frank Cates shows In October, 1953, Hill and a ma The camera, 30 feet long and chine gun-wielding pal held up a something of Norris nature. S. feet high, will be used to re Slight, boyish-looking Gene Paul Norris would kill anyone tor a price.

When his gun wasn't hired, he had no trouble finding uses for it. Norris pulled some of the most trio of Cuban gun-runners at the Cates, a 61-year-old rum-runner, produce hyper-accurate metal Phone TU 9-3611 OpM Monday Niqhts Western Hills Motel in Port procurer, confidence man and hot gem dealer, became interested in templates for jet aircraft parts. Worth. The take was $248,000 Hi Hill's partner was undoubtedly gambling. He set up shop on the darinjr robberies the Southwest Norris, but he beat the rap.

has seen since -Prohibition days Although the gun-runners iden outskirts of Fort Worth but de-i cided he wasn't making enough. He hired Norris to eliminate six He was. without doubt, the tified him as the man who was to worst killer Texas has known have helped them obtain muni competing gamblers. since the turn of the century. His record is far worse than that of Cates didn't stop there.

He mmmi i. LAS VEGAS PHOENIX hired the late Jack Nesbitt to kill Norris after Norris eliminated the Clyde Barrow. "It is widely rumored in the un tions for a revolt in Cuba and instead robbed them, the jury acquitted Norris when he produced witnesses saying he was in Duncan, at the time. derworld that Norris killed 40 gamblers. Gene Paul caught wind In Ontario: YUkon 6-6724 In Riverside: OVerland 9-6221 or your travel agent of this doublecross and on Aug.

persons," Texas Ranger Capt Jay Banks says. "That's a pretty HILL ARRESTED Hill wasn't so lucky. The FBI 2, 1956, a bomb ripped Cates' house, nearly killing him. well-founded rumor, too." round trips daily Soon after Cates recovered, arrested him while he was dig i-4i ry-vx if Other estimates come lower, such as that of Fort Worth Police Bonanza Air Lines serves Norris called him and said he had ging up his share of the loot and ARMY'S 'HAWK' Two soldiers check a single lanuch er holding three "Hawks," the U.S. Army's newest surface he was convicted.

Norris went some hot diamonds to dispose of. Chief Cato Hightower, cred zr 17 Cities in California, Arizona and Nevada back to prison, however, as a pa On the night of Oct 8, 1956, Cates to-air guided missile, at the White. Sands (N.M.) Proving role violator and was released in went to a meeting with Norris at its Norris with nine murders. All of those directly concerned Fort Worth, however. Norris was the Grounds.

The launcher can be transported over highways or 1955. a lonely spot near Watauga in I L. JN by helicopter or airplane. The "Hawk" will reinforce the Tarrant County. He drove a truck to a Wichita Falls warehouse, posed as a new Army's air defense system against low-level attack and triggerman in the Dallas -Fort Worth gang, and several of the gangland killings are attributed Cates' body was found in his car the next day, torn by a shot gun blast.

salesman for an oilueld equipment company, and drove off with thousands of dollars worth complement the high-altitude defense provided by the Army's "Nike" defense ring around vital areas in the United States. to his gun. Norris, black-haired and smil Next The last big job. ing beneath the baleful eyes of a of equipment But a trucker saw him and was scheduled to star for prosecution. One night before the trial the witness disappeared.

Norris, in Fort Worth, caused enough trouble in a tavern to be tossed in jail that night. He had a perfect lei) rattlesnake, didn't come cheap. The underworld rumors his fee at 55,000 for. one killing. DAYS NUMBERED Not all were contracted.

Norris killed to protect himself, also. "If he used a man to help him on a job, that man's days were probably numbered," Banks says. Norris didn't like loose witnesses hanging around. Gene Paul followed his older brother Pete into the bloody life. Pete was soon derailed and is now serving a grand total of 700 years in prisoa alibi, therefore, when the trucker was found in a crude grave near Burkburnett last year, his head If VV'V ir i bashed in.

It was possibly only if the first time Norris had to get someone else to do a job. Norris was credited, among oth er things, with the deaths of gangsters Leroy. (Tincy) Eggles- ton, Frank Cates, Olen Ray Tyler It has been said the thing Gene SPARKS 'CRASH' PROGRAM 1 Satellite Has Toy Retailers, As Well as Others, in Tizzy I 1 1 I f. i "Our designers are working on it now," says the store. RUSH JOB By WALTER BREEDE JR.

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