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Young Brothers Massacre.... Brookline, Missouri...
Young Brothers Massacre.... Brookline, Missouri...
Item # 718500
January 06, 1932
CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE, January 6, 1932
* Young Brothers Massacre - ends in Houston
* Brookline, Missouri - Public enemy era
* The Ozarks Mountains - police killings
The top of page 3 has a one column heading: "SLAYERS OF SIX KILL EACH OTHER WHEN CORNERED" with subhead. Photo of Harry and Jennings Young are on the back page with heading. (see images)
Complete with 28 pages, rag edition in very nice condition. A few small binding holes along the spine.
AI notes: The 1932 Young Brothers Massacre was a deadly ambush that occurred on January 2 near Brookline, Missouri, when ten lawmen attempted to arrest fugitives Paul and Jennings Young at their family farm. The Young brothers, both heavily armed and with a violent criminal past—including robbery, jailbreak, and the murder of an Oklahoma lawman—opened fire on the officers as they approached, killing six of them almost instantly. Those slain included Sheriff Marcell Hendrix and five other officers from Springfield and Greene County, making it one of the worst single-day losses in American law enforcement history at the time. The brothers escaped the scene, sparking a nationwide manhunt that ended a week later in Houston, Texas, when they were surrounded by police and chose to die in a murder-suicide rather than surrender. The massacre shocked the nation, highlighting the dangers faced by law enforcement and prompting changes in how police approached high-risk arrests in the years that followed.
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