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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 1, 1948)
HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON THURSDAY, JAN. 1, 1948 SERIOUS CRIME TAKES HOLIDAY i r PACB FOURTEEN lly HALE BCARBROUGII tierloui crime took a well de served holiday In Klamath county durlnr 1947, but the petty stuCf bad cherkt, bunlarira and car theft really flourlahrd. Only one homicide went into the bouki and that one ti .till In the doubtful category. On July 1, Mel vin Laraon died from Injuries re ceived In a fight and Wayne Fetter waa charged with murder In con nection with the death. The charre waa later reduced to mantlauihter and letters la out on bail awaiting grand Jury action. The year started off with a vengeance, when Donald Yancey waa given a life sentence for second drgree murder of Miss Mary Mc Comb. The killing occurred in De cember, 1946. and Yancey was sen tenced last January 3. Only one other life sentence was delivered in the local circuit court, that to Charles Samuel as a habit' ual criminal July 1. Murder Early last January the El Rancho Tule murder and robbery of the year previous broke Into the news when Sheriff Lloyd Low went to Washington to question a suspect. But no arrest was made then or since. The El Rancho Tule crime is still one of the major unsolved cases of the Klamath basin. Jack Kyle Perry. Klamath Palls resident, was sent to San Quentin for the rest of his life last February for a degenerate attack on a local high school girl near Dorris. Perry was sentenced from Siskiyou county. On February 3, Donald Gordon Roberta, in custody and awaiting aentence for car theft, made break for liberty at the courthouse and was shot and killed by Deputy Sheriff Marion Barnes. The officer was later exonerated by s coroner's jury in a report that he acted in line of duty. City Police Officer Vera Wagner, Indicted late in 1946 for assaulting a city prisoner, was found guilty after a trial in March and was put on parole for one year. 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The Indian reservation came into the news early in June when Roland Hicks was sought for the shooting of Eveland Chiloqutn. Hicks gave up after an all-night standoff in a Chiloqutn rooming house. Clitloqutn recovered and a federal grand jury did not Indict Hicks. June 15 saw the start of a crimi nal case which had the entire Paci fic coast upset. It was the "Little Miss X" beating and abandonment a two-year-old girl was found nearly dead in a clump of bushes back of a Weed. Calif., dance hall. After a sensational run of some two weeks, that story ended when Hugh Otlreath and Mrs. Louise Medlln were arrested near Grams Pass. They are serving 20-year terms in the Oregon prison and "Miss X" has been Identified as Mnry Jane Medlln. In September, F.rnest lluitnn , Clark waa captured Inside a Main street Jenrlry store with some J'lO.OOO worth of rings and watches stuffed in his pockets, lie got fire ; years. t tilrl Killed I Latest of the crimes of a m'Umi- j tlonnl nature to hit the headlines : was tile dtsupiicariuu'C from Klu tnnth Falls of Lulu Mac Eitslcy. 'Jii-year-old Stockton wultrcss, m No vember. Later the disappearance changed to murder when the girl's body was found near Rosrvllle. Calif. She had been shut six times and hrr male companion. Kenneth Allen Miller. Is being sought as the triKBi'imiui. The county grand Jury has not been In session since June and cun Hrqurntly will have around -0 felonies to consider sometime this mouth. However, ttirre are very few crimes of any great consequence hanging over tutu the new year. Prcsorva Those Valuable Papers and Documents Let Us Copy Them t p to NVsll" tiOc Underwood's Camera Shop r.'l Muln I'honr 70M TBS IT'S HERE! 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