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Coursing around the country in stolen cars, he kidnaped nine people, killed six of them. He threw five of his victims-Carl Mosser of Atwood, Ill., his wife and three children-down a well in Joplin. He shot the sixth. Seattle Salesman Robert Dewey, on the Southern California desert. He was caught in Mexico, returned to Oklahoma City to answer for the Mosser killings, and sentenced to 300 years in prison. But last year a California jury sentenced him to death for killing Salesman Dewey. Last week Billy Cook walked into the gas chamber at San Quentin, breathed cyanide fumes...
Married. Phoebe Atwood Taylor, 42, writer of mystery chillers with a Cape Cod setting (Deadly Sunshade); and Dr. Grantley Walder Taylor, 54, Boston physician; she for the first, he for the second time; in Providence...
...ATWOOD WORCESTER Cleveland...
Attack: McWilliam (Williams), Wadleigh (New Hampshire), and Patterson (Springfield); Midfield: Fiertz (Dartmouth), Rockefeller (Yale), and Lyons (Dartmouth); Defense: Atwood (Springfield), Fields (Yale, and Bloomer (Dartmouth; Goal: Vincent (Springfield...
Cook got out and flagged down a blue 1949 Chevrolet sedan. It was crowded. A 33-year-old Atwood, 111. farmer named Carl Mosser was taking his wife and three little children on a vacation trip. Cook squeezed in and made them his hostages. During the next three days & nights, the blue Chevrolet traveled almost 2,500 miles in an erratic course around Oklahoma, Texas and Arkansas...