This is Ross Bethea and his wife Molly at their restaurant. Ross spent a year in the trenches of Europe in WWI with Co. M. 142 Infantry, 36th Division.
The inquest to determine who got the reward said both bandits were killed by buckshot and only Bethea and the barber were using shotguns. Makes you wonder if he brought home a Model 97 Winchester "trench broom," doesn't it?
