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Author: Obits101
Surnames: Castro
Classification: death
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The Daily Oklahoman
08-04-1922
p.14/14
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FOUR ARE DEAD IN FIGHT WITH HUNTED MAN
Former Convict Kills Officer,
Two Women and Then Shoots Himself
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug.8 -
The xxxxxing Wilkens-Castor bandit murder case that
has baffled local police for months came to a
senseational climax Thursday when Walter Castro,
fugitive ex-convict and suspect, trapped in his
mother's house, snuffed out the lives of his
sister-in-law, a police detective and seriously,
perhaps mortally wounded another, then turned the
weapon upon himself, ending the tragedy with his
own life.
.....
dead:
Bailey, local detective
Gable, local detective, shot in the eye (possibly fatal)
Mrs Robert Castor, sister-in-law to fugitive, Walter Castro
Mrs Henry Wilkens, orginally killed
Walter Castro, fugitive
.........
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