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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (May 28, 1946)
Canadian Officer Slain In Chicago rmr A nr Maw OP ISA Mn Jor John F. Fletcher, 46, an edu- rei I inriaa 1 r(( rr in Iho Pnnndiftn army, wai shot to death in his room In the Morrison notci ibsi night and Police Copt. Jerome Looney said Donald R. Murray, 41, Chicago salesman and a long ! S r ,,t t a nffirnr was held for questioning in connec tion wun tne slaying, Looney said Murray's wife, Doris, 36. was in Fletcher's room When the shooting occurred. He said Murray and Fletcher, a former bandmaster and teacher in the Elgin, 111., high school, Man Locked In Car Two Weeks YAKIMA, Wash., May 38 JP) After being imprisoned in a rail road refrigerator car for more than two weeks, Alfred J. De gutis of Seattle was released last night by a warehouseman who beard him kicking the door. Oegutis said he entered the car at Auburn, Wash., the night of May 9 and someone had closed the door. Without food or water, his weight dropped from 196 pounds to 142. Seven days after he became locked in the car, he said it was connected to a train. Railroad officials at the Northern Pacific freight office said the car had come across the Cascade moun tains from Auburn May 13. "Today is my 43rd birthday and it's a grand present to be released," Degutis told police of ficers who took him to a hospital for examination. The hospital reported his condition was good and that he might be released in three or four days. had been friends for more than 20 years. Looney said no for mal charge was placed against Murray, a former Du Page coun ty township supervisor, but he was to be questioned further to day, Police who were summoned to the skvscrauer hotel at Clnrk and Madison streets near mid night said Fletcher, the father ot three daughters and estranged from his wife, a mathematics teacher at suburban Wheaton academy, had been shot four times. The officer, clad in a bathrobe, fell across the bed and died instantly. Loonev said Mur ray handed investigating foficers a .32 caliber pistol. Wife Found In Room Looney said that Fletcher, who had been on leave from his base at Vancouver, B. C, had been Klamath Drivers Nabbed At Yreka Citations issued to traffic vio lators at Yreka, Calif., this week included several from the Klamath basin. Ray Zirkle and Harvey Charles Addington, both of Klamath : Falls, were charged with tampering with a vehicle and were taken into custody following their arrests. Thomas A. Edwards, Mac- doel, was charged with having no operators license and no tail light. PILES, SUCCESSFULLY TREATED NO PAIN SO HOSPITALIZATION N. Lois f Tim. Permftntel Rtsnltt! DR. E. M. MARSHA Cbtr.pr.rtto Pbrtlcl.fl N. 1th Eiq.lr. Tbt.lr. Bllf Fb.ia. 10U driven to a railroad station by Murray yesterday, presumably to board a train. Later Looney related Murray told him he found that his wife was not at her place of employment and he began a search , (or her which, he snid, ended in Fletcher's eighth floor room in the Mor rison hotel. The police captain said that Fletcher, who had been visiting with his mother. Mrs. Laura Fletcher in Wheaton during his leave which began April 19, had been a guest at the home of the Murray's several times. The Murrays have no children. Attorney William J. Terrell, who was summoned to central police station after the shoot ing, said that Fletcher and Mrs. Murray recently had conferred with him separately about filing divorce suits. He said he had ad vised them they had insufficient grounds to file the suits. Terrell also told police that Fletcher had told him he expect- ea to oe promoted to lieutenant colonel on June 1 and that his leave ended June 19. 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