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Sea Coast Echo, August 17, 1928
MAN KILLED, POLICEMAN SHOT, NEGRO MURDERER ESCAPES, OFFER REWARD
John Victor Dambrio Is Dead, Chief of Police Mark Oliver Seriously Wounded as Result of Shots Fired By Negro Tuesday at City Hall
John Dambrino, 32 years old, of Kiln, Miss., was killed and Chief of Police Mark Oliver of Bay St. Louis was wounded with two bullet wounds Tuesday when Silas Richardson, 30 year-old Logtown and Bay negro, shot his way to freedom at the city jail where he was held as a suspect in an automobile theft. The negro escaped after the shooting, going around the northwest corner of the jail, running through the park behind the jail, reaching the home of his parents, Ben Williams and wife, where he changed his clothes except his shoes, reloaded his gun and took three additional rounds of ammunition for it, and escaped to the woods.
Searching parties including several hundred men and officers from the entire Coast section scoured the woods and roads and trains from Bay St. Louis, east, west and northward through Tuesday night, Wednesday and Wednesday night, without finding the negro.
Story of the Shooting
The clearest story leading up to the shooting and of the shooting itself that could be obtained from questioning many connected with the case is given below:
The negro was suspected of having stolen a Willys-Knight sedan about 6:30 o’clock Tuesday morning belonging to J. H. Duncan of New Orleans who is spending the summer at Henderson Point and who commutes daily to the city, leaving his car in the care of Monti Brothers Garage on Hancock and Union streets. Police were notified and Mr. Oliver arrested the negro near the traffic bridge on Front street and took him to the Monti’s Garage. He was not in the car. When questioned as to the car the negro denied knowing anything about it. It was later found back of the college baseball park. The negro had formerly worked for the garage on the greasing and washing rack but had been fired about three weeks ago, and had been suspected of taking this same car once before. Claude Monti told officer Oliver to lock the negro up, which he did, taking him to the city jail.
About an hour and a half later officer Oliver went to the jail to search the negro for the keys belonging to the auto. He was accompanied by Mr. Dambrino who formerly worked for the Monti Garage but who had not been regularly connected with the garage for several months, but who was there Tuesday working on his own car, putting on a fender. He is said to have gone to the jail to see what was going on.
Two boys, Linoel Vicery, 15, and Johnny Dameran, 15, were sitting in the hallway of the hail talking to the negro who was in a cell when the officer and Dambrino arrived.
As officer Oliver opened the cell door he told the negro he had come to search him; The negro took a pen knife out of his pocket and gave to the officer stating that was all he had. Officer Oliver started to search the negro and the negro resisted the search backing up going into the cell with Oliver following. The boys, one of whom was lying on the