Fate of Gunmen Kept From Canfield

By SUE CRONK

Minneapolis Tribune

Staff Writer

Patrolman Ward Canfield doesn't know yet that the O'Kasick brothers, whose bullets killed his partner and put him in the hospital Aug.17, will slay no more. The 35-year-old policeman was on the operating table-for the sixth time in a month-when his fellow officers joined highway patrolmen and sher-iff's deputies to kill two of the fugitives and capture a third. "I don't want him to know about it for a while," his wife said last night outside Canfield's hospital room.The operation "left him too, groggy to understand what happened," she said.

CANFIELD REMAINS in critical condition four weeks after the O'Kasicks shot to death Patrolman Robert.Fossum, sprayed bullets at Canfield and dragged him 20 feet up Thirty-ninth street beneath the wheels of their stolen car.

James O'Kasick also lies in critical condition at General after his capture yesterday on the Carlos Avery game farm in Anoka County,

"I only wish O'Kasick, hadn't killed (Eugene) Lindgren," Mrs. Canfield said, "I WAS AFRAID something like that would happen." Canfield's three children, David, 11, Sandra, 8, and Gregory, 6-hadn't learned of the new developments last night. "But we won't be able to keep it from them," the mother remarked. "The neighborhood children probably will tell them all about it."

In her home at 2748 Cedar avenue, Fossum's widow quietly awaited the arrival of her fourth child. "IT'S DUE in three weeks, but it may be sooner at this rate," she said, upon hearing of yesterday's wild, back woods chase. "I just feel sorry for their families," Mrs. Fossum said. "It must be terrible." The Fossum youngsters- John, 8, Joan, 6, and 19 month-old Janean-were informed that their father's killers had been hunted down. Their mother wanted to keep her children's comments about it to herself.