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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (April 6, 1952)
Cottage Grove Farm Girl Shot to , Death Near Home ' Cottage Grove 4J.R Mary El len Campbell, 18, a deaf mute farm girl, was. found shot to death near her home here Sat urday with a bouquet of flowers clutched in her hand. Harlan Belcher and his son, You Stiil Have Tim to PLANT OATS for hay crop this year Th Valley needs more hay! The . price will be good! MORTON MILLINO 10 Wwt Jackson SfrMt Ken, neighbors of the Campbell girl, found the body in heavy brush on a wooded knoll about four miles south of Cottage Grove and reported she had been shot in the back: . Belcher said he saw only a bruise on her forehead when the body was found, but Lane county District Attorney C. E..Luckey and Coroner Fred Buell said death was" caused by a small caliber bullet which entered her back and lodged in her .chest. Luckey said the circumstances of the airl's death were "un usual" but he had no suspects and was not certain that foul play was involved. Her parents', Mr. and Mrs. Dana Campbell, said she was last seen about 6 p.m. Friday as they left the house briefly. Mary El len waved to them from a win dow, they said.. When they re turned, she was gone. Later Friday night, they be came worried and with police and neighbors began a search. The body, with the bouquet clasped in a hand, .was discov ered about 1 ajn. Deaf Mute Woman Dies in Accident Hear Myrtle Point Myrtle Point (U.R) Mary Minter, a deaf-mute from Chl cago, was killed Friday whenj a car in which she was riding with three other deaf-mutes col lided with a logging truck near Bridge, Ore. The car. driven by Rodger Meisman, Chicago, tried to pus another car on a curve and crashed into a logging truck driven by Ralph Thomas Chap pel, Myrtle Point. Two Hospitalised Meisman and two other deaf mute passengers were brought to a hospital here. The others were identified as Jack L. Val entine and Clemens J. Barth, both of Chicago. Murder of Father Admitted By 16-Ycar-0ld Minnesota Boy; Youth Dynamites Body Bemidje. Minn. U.B A lft- year-cld boy has confessed that he shot and killed his father, draggSl his body into barn, dynamited it. then burned the barn to the ground. ' Lloyd Knutson told authori ties he had planned to kill his father. Earl Knutson, the 87-year-old gravedigger at Back duck. Minn., for at least two weeks.' "I hated him for a long time," the boy said. Will Seek Indictment Beltrami County Attorney Herbert Olson said he would file a Juvenile delinquency petition against the youth and if that were approved he would go on to seek a first degree murder indictment. The father's body was found Joe Roush, a pasenger in the j Wednesday in the splintered and truck, suffered a leg injury, State police said Meisman would be charged with reckless driving on his release from the hospital. . The four deaf-mutes were em ployed by the Leon Krakover Deaf-Mute Sales organization of Chicago. burned wreckage of his barn at Blackduck. Olson said the boy had worked out an elaborate plan to kill his father. On Tuesday he took a large caliber deer rifle and hid it in a wood shed, OLoa said. He also obtained two sticks of dynamite. Bizarre Suicide Revealed By Young College Student Phoenix, Arix. . U.R) A called it "the wierdest case WORKINGS FOR YOU! Savin,, n. or Dfor April 10th earn ' Afo crfiwti or D.pxit interest from April 1 st. T Mo,M, Money in the bank is not "idle money" when you open a savings account at The First National Bank of Portland. Here your money works for you every day at the increased rate of 2, regardless of the size of your account Remember, There's No Substitute for a Bank Saving, Account...so start sav.ng today at The First National and earn interest from 1 .April 1st. tlt MEDFORD march FIRST NATIONAL BANK L) OF PORTLAND far pM te W Stt DAT A -UTS HMD OMOOM young college dramatics student told authorities Saturday he drove with a friend to the desert near here, waited while the friend committed suicide with a hose to the car exhaust, then drove "the stiff back to the college. George Lee Augspufger, 22, of Phoenix, told sheriffs deputies he and another friend then sat with the body and discussed the death. The victim was identified as Fred Wcge, 22, whose home is in Ridgcficld Park, N. J. Note in Pocket A note was found in his pocV et which said: "This is an age of speed, and the man who finishes first is not to be looked down upon." Deputy Sheriff David P. Ed wards said Augspurger told of ficers he and Wege and another friend spent several hours Thursday night in a tavern near Arizona State college at Tempe. where the victim was a sopho more mathematics student Waited on Rock Augspurger told the deputies he walked away and "sat on a rock" for half an hour. When he returned, he said he found the engine running and a garden hose which they had picked up at Augspurger's home was running from the exhaust through a window. The note found in Wege's pocket said he was leaving his possessions to his roommate, and his body to Dr. Herbert Stahnke, a professor at Arizona State college at Tempe. Edwards and Heffelfinger they ever heard. The Carr mortuary in Tempe said it had contacted Wege's mother, but she was too upset to state what she planned to do. The youth's father is believed to be an Army major serving in Korea. caps and fuses used by his father in logging operations in this sparsely-eettled north woods area. When th youth returned from school Wednesday, Olson said, he told his father he was going out When the man came out Ol son said, young Knutson fired, striking his father in the chest The man staggered but .did not fall. Olson said. Olson said the boy was an ex pert marksman. He took careful aim and fired again. The second shot hit his father in the head, killing him. , The boy then dragged the body into the barn. He placed one stick of dynamite under the stomach and the other under his head. He rigged the fue and lighted them. The explosion decapitated the father. Olson said. Leaves la Car Then the boy set fire to the barn and left the farm in the family car. ' Young Knutson picked up his 17-year-old sister. Agnes, and told her what he had done. The brother and sister, ac companied by schoolmate. Cor don Bloomquist returned to the farm, verified that the father was dead, then drove to the home of a relative. Stanley En- berg, where authorities were no tified. Olson said the . boy's long standing hatred for his father apparently was the sole reason for the slaying. American Man Wounded In Night Spot Brawl Sidney, Australia UR An American ship's engineer was wounded critically and a woman injured in an early morning brawl Saturday in an apartment in fashionable Darling Point here. Police said Arnold Dahlberg. 31, engineer aboard the Pioneer Castle, was found in the entrance of the apartment by detectives. Police found Kay Biliski. 27. col lapsed on a bed in the apartment suffering head wounds. Dahlberg had been shot in the lower ab domen. . , Police arrested Mikxlav Tuma. 27. part-owner of a Sydney night club, on charges of shooting Dahlberg with intent to murder and assaulting Miss BiliskL $206,662 Income Tax lien filed in Seattle Seattle UJ0 A $:60.62 federal income tax lien was filed in the county auditor's office Fri day against Emory L. Coleman, Grand Mound. Wash. The tax lien was for the years 1044 to 1950. 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