HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON
THURSDAY, JAN. 1, 1948
SERIOUS CRIME TAKES HOLIDAY
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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.
On March 31, two San Quentin
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escapees, Alfred Paine and Norman
Jacklln, had a gun battle with offi
cers here in town. Jacklin was cap
tured and Paine was later found
In Russellvlllc. Ark. Both went back
to San Quentin.
Probably the nicw.t sensational
criminal rase of the year came in
May when a Portland minister was
arrested for contributing to the de
linquency of a 10-vear-old local
girl. Kagrl was found guilty after a
prolonged trial and Is appealing to
the state supreme court.
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.
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