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INK SLINGS,
BY GEORGE R. MEEK.
—So far as this neck-'o-the woods
is concerned March came in like a
very gentle lamb.
—Gen. Smedley D. Butler, the
stormy petrel, has decided to run
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SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE
—Seven Erfe county men were fined
$550 each Saturday for illegal fishing in
Erie Bay. The men were accused of
fishing with nets and without state li-
censes,
~The Shindel Mill of Hughesville has
opened after being idle for one year.
The mill, with a force of 100 operatives,
reopened under the management of the
receivers of the corporation which re-
cently went into bankruptcy.
—Suspension of operations at the Sus-
for the United States Senate in
Pennsylvania. He will be extra-dry, |
but not Mumm.
—In thirty-four days the trout
fishing season will open. We are
not looking forward to the great
event with our usual impatience.
‘There are so many idle men in the
country that we fear our flies will
‘be tangled on fishermen all the time
we will have to devote to our favor-
ite recreation.
——We are glad that both Col. |
and Mrs. Lindbergh were at home
when their little boy was stolen
from their country house near Hope- |
well, N. J., Tuesday evening. You |
know there was considerable talk |
that fl !
Sout Ly i et ving gee foreman of the jury of eleven
| men and one woman, at 7:30 o'clock
when he was only a year old.
lon Saturday evening, as their verdict
—A big, husky tramp called at ;; tne case of Warren M. (Piney)
an apartment house in Bellefonte, & geaton, tried for the murder of
day or so ago, in quest of a pair | Robert Moore, on the morning
of much needed pants. It just hap-| Febiuary 6th, at the Desert hunt-
pened that he found himself atthe no camp in the Allegheny moun
door of one occupied by two lone | tains. and “guilty of voluntary man-
women and it is reported that he |g, ghter” answered the jury in cho-
was promptly informed that he was |, immediately thereafter.
in the right church but the wrong | N. B. Spangler, attorney for
bi Heaton, made no remarks to the
—Adams county sportsmen have court upon the verdict and when
petitioned the Game Commission to asked if he had anything to say be-
close that county to deer hunting. fore sentence be pronounced Heaton
They say they can satisfy their urge replied: “Your Honor, Judge;
for the thrill of the chase by hunt- fore you, my God and my family,
ing in the northern counties of the I promise never again to take a drink
‘State. That's sportsmanship for you. | of liquor, never to play cards or
Other counties where deer are to gamble during the rest of my life.”
‘be found ought to petition the Com- | In pronouncing sentence Judge
mission to permit them to refuse Fleming told Heaton that he ought
licenses to the Adams county bunch. to be very thankful that the jury
Cc Ly
Congress is going to give torty- | 1ioqed the crime with the leniency
i did and that he was not before
on bushels of wheat that 18 | im for sentence on a first degree
bulging the Bu of [88 Federal | verdict. He said that he sympathized
Farm Board to feed the poor. ThatS | yin nis family and also with him
tulatedting, Wit we're vigH © put it was his duty to impose sen-
predist ‘that the poor yaminet | tence not only for the crime for
because it isn't ground into flour!
‘and baked into bread for them. And Wiiich the jury Sede] Him guilty.
most of those who do accept it win | Dut as a lesson terrent
fortwith sell it at any price, thereby
taking about the last shingle off the
VOI. 77.
“Guilty of voluntary manslaugh-
ter,” intoned the voice of A. C. Lon-
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BELLEFONTE, PA.
Heaton Drew Verdict of
Voluntary Manslaughter
‘Given Sentence of Six to Twelve Years in Penitentiary
others that they cannot take human
life without paying the penalty there-
AND FEDERAL UNION.
MARCH 4,
STATE RIGHTS
WILLIAMS BREAKS JAIL
BY SCALING HIGH WALL
| Takes Leave Just Five Hours After
Being Sentenced to. the Peniten-
tiary For Robbery.
for Killing Robert Moore at Desert Hunting Campin w. ¢ winiams, who has spent
Allegheny Mountains on February 7th.
| fourteen of his thirty four years
| behind prison bars, and who, at 2:30
‘o'clock on Saturday afternoon, was
to the barber shop. Warren Heaton given seven and a half to fifteen
| was there. Played rum. Heaton years more in the western peniten-
| was in the game. While there some- | tiary for the part he took in the
one came in and told of a partyat robbery of the offices of the Citi-
'the Desert hunting camp. Took 8 zens Building and Loan Association,
load out in his car--a 2-door Ford at Philipsburg, on the evening of
sedan. There were eight of them, December 7th, 1831, escaped from
of | four on each seat. It was after 11 the Centre county jail within five
o'clock. Camp about three miles hours after receiving his sentence
| from Clarence. When we left the phy scaling the twenty foot wall
barber shop went to Pete's. Had which surrounds the jail yard.
| seven quarts of beer. Andy Bogash| The exact hour or minute of his
| joined the party. Had whiskey at departure is not known definitely.
‘barber shop and bought whiskey gheriff John M. Boob had opened
at Pete's, a pint bottle. Warren ty, jail doors about four o'clock and
Heaton and the witness each took permitted the prisoners the freedom
a drink of whiskey a half mile|or tne jail yard for their daily ex-
from the camp. Robert didn't take gpoige. Both he and deputy sheriff
any. Parked the car about tem jon, Bower were in court in charge
‘yards from camp and all wentin. of warren M. Heaton being tried
Heaton went in and said, "you gor murder, while a trusty was in
threw my boy outof camp.” There charge of the prisoners. At supper
were three girls in camp. I told {ime he called them in to eat and
him not to cause trouble or he'd wijjams was with the others. He
have to walk home. He later came gto sparingly then went out again,
to me and kicked me under the | pu soon returned and drank some
‘chin. A fight started. Had been'of pig coffee. He again went out,
there about fifteen midites The | but that time failed to return.
Be a en mer any | LA. six oclock, Believing ul i
Paul Shank were standing near the Dro ger inside, The iy Totked
Ford supply truck. Heaton went in. | the t 8 ang hos Y ar 2 the
tw camp. Saw Heaton in door of | JEDULY ST NAL ai (he doors. were
camp with gun in hand. Turned), .4 1t was close to eight o'clock
around and heard shot. Heard my | Aridi io
oF 33y, "Tm in the stom- | "hen the trusty went to lock the
Lots Re LW shot prisoners in their cells that he found
ach. w running around co... oe missing and he quickly
1932.
quehanna silk mill at Lock Haven, Sat-
urday night leaves more than 600 work-
‘ers out of work as the plant has been
| closed for two weeks because of the
| garment workers strike at New York
| city.
NO.
w ™ His clothes still afi Louis Cohen,
| —His c¢ si re, 8
DENY REPORT OF 0 50, was found burned to death near the
INMATES BEING SHOT | tyrnace in his home, at Wilkes-Barre
i * | Cohen's brother, Harry, found the body
| Early in the week a persistent | _, he came to the house on a visit.
‘rumor was circulated about Belle |g said the man's clothing had apar-
fonte that two inmates at RoCK- ently caught fire while he was fixing
view penitentiary Lad been shot by the furnace during the absence of the
a young man living on one of the family from the house.
| prison farms. Officials at the peni-| —While splitting a large piece of wood
tentiary not only characterize the |from a white oak tree he had recently
rumor as a malicious falsehood but cut down, C. R. Seaman, of North Bend,
| are endeavoring to trace its source found in the center of the wood, a
iminal horseshoe, with all the nails in place.
[ath 8 Tw. gy lsuLE ey who | The horseshoe had evidently been nail-
proceedings pe 'ed to the tree many years ago, and the
started it. it,
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YOUNG MAN JAILED —Hundreds of fish in Sandy Lake,
FOR WORTHLESS CHECKS Mercer county, are dying, and samples
| of water have been sent to the State
Last Friday morning chief of | Fish Commission for analysis. The
police Harry Dukeman took from a | source of pollution of the lake has not
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| certain ho in Bellefonte | been determined. A survey today shows
. boarding house nearly 800 fish dead or dying in the
a young man and woman who mot jo. "Anon them are muskellungs
|only were posing as man and wife, | oq, wall-eyed pike, salmon, perch and
(but the man had succeeded in pass- upp
|ing several worthless checks at _jonn Baker, of Scranton, was burn-
| different places in town. He gave his ed to death Monday morning when he
name as Fred Truman, of Irvona, was pinned under a truck load of sugar,
| Clearfield county, and it later devel- of which he was the driver, when the
‘oped that the girl was not his wife truck left the road, upset and burned
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but a high school girl from Punx- 3 Wind Gap, near Euston. Leroy Orwig.
of Moosic, who accompanied Baker, waa
'sutawney. As there was no direct
seriously burned but managed to escape
| charge against her she was sent ,.... 1, truck. He was taken to the
‘home to her parents. In order tO guston hospital,
protect the girl as far as possible | _puniic schools at Bloomsb:
| the authorities are withholding her | grdered closed eto ——— rh
| | Monday because of an outbreak of grip
| All told five checks were passed among the pupils. High school basket
| by the young man, four of them | ball games with Berwick on Friday and
being for $5.00 and one for $5.75. Lock Haven on Saturday were post
They were all signed with the name poned. One hundred and seventy-four
of Moore. The checks were of 800 students in the high school, as
Fred . | well as several teachers, were down
passed at J. D. Hunter's stationery ' _. ... disease.
store, A Fauble, Mingle's shoe store, —Mr. and Mrs. Peter Sharkey, of Exe-
in Bellefonte, the Milesburg Store |... porough, were saved from burning
Co, and Frank L. Wetzler, Miles-|; death by their two children when
burg. Truman waived a hearing and | fire broke out on the first floor of the
is being held a prisoner in the family home. Their escape being cut off
county jail. by smoke and flames sweeping up the
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bark and sap gradually covered
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roof of the poor farmer who pro-
fore. He then sentenced him to pay
~duced it.
—The mobilization of the U. S.|
fleet for maneuvers in the Pacific
is, of course, merely part of the
of perfecting itself
feast
tentiary for not less than
more than fifteen years, and stand
committed until the sentence is com-
The verdict came
of a hard fought trial, which, how-
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lieve were it not for the announce- ever was devoid of any intense thrills, |
ment that two hundred and two, ji ag well known that the Com-
vessels are in the maneuvers. It 1s | monwealth was not after a death
not usual for such a large number
| verdict, though a strong fight was
-of our fighting ships to concentrate made for either a first degree with
anywhere in times of peace. The imprisonment or second degree,
present movement is more likely a _.... would have carried a
penalty
roundabout notice to Japan that if of ten to twenty years.
diplomatic notes from us command While many facts were not brought
HO. Yespest by Wer someting else out at the trial, politics, love and
might: passion, inflamed with liberal po-
—During the Collins trial last tions of moonshine liquor, washed
week a Bellefonte woman undertook down with foaming steins of home-
‘to crash the gate tothe courtroom. made brew, were all interwined
A State policeman was on guard either directly or indirectly in Heat-
and tried to shoo her off like he on's fight for life.
had done hundreds of others during Drawing of the jury to sit on the
the day. Being a woman she want- trial was made on Thursday night
ed to know what the big idea was and resulted as follows:
and wanted the officer to know that A. C. Longer, merchant, State College
because she is a taxpayer she owns 6 Lott H. Neff, funeral director, Howard
part of the building and is going Harry Gunter, contractor, Philipsburg
to look into it whenever she wants to. | J. W. Merryman, laborer, Rush Town-
| ship
Whereupon the minion of the law
da
‘said: “Lady, I'm too tired to start, ea R. Askey, farmer, Burnside
another argument. If all you want jum O. Graden, laborer, Gregg
‘to do is look in come on and take i,wnship
a peep.” She proceeted to the glass s B. Wasson, farmer, Harris township
‘door, saw Collins on the stand and John W. Shuey, laborer, Port Matilda
departed happy because all she had Mrs. Edna Billett, housewife, Spring
wanted was to see him. With fifteen township
hundred people fighting to get into! Joseph Peters, farmer,
five hundred seats we imagine that MP
officer was telling no lie when he William Reese, miner, Rush township.
said he was too tired ite Mr. Reese also served on the jury
another argument.
Benner town-
murder in the first degree for the
—We owe .Gen. Edward Martin, | killing of Elizabeth Hickok.
Republican State Chairman, an apol- When court convened at 9:30
ogy. Last week we identified him | gclock on Friday morning district
as the gentleman who had returned attorney John G. Love opened the
‘one of the police “courtesy cards” .gge for the Commonwealth in a
the camp with gun in hand. I got
Robert and we put him in carand
drove to Snow Shoe. Got to camp
12:30 o'clock. Robert was
| started for the court house to no-
|tity the sheriff. The latter was on
'his way up to the jail with Heaion
‘and as soon as he could get him
COLLINS MURDER TRIAL
| WILL COST COUNTY $1000.
| stairway, Anna, 14 and Peter Jr,
| climbed out on the porch roof, dropped
| to the ground, secured a ladder and led
| their parents to safety.
—The
after two days
standing about two yards from the
| porch when shot. Porch about four
feet wide, Saw Heaton about ten | Williaa
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o'clock Saturday morning. Said then
that if he went to camp that eve-'
| ning there would be trouble.
i On cross-examination Moore ad-
i mitted that he was blamed for
| being drunk. At Pete's they drank
| seven quart bottles of beer. Had only
|one drink on way to camp.
had climbed onto a porch roof ex-
tending from the laundry into the
|jail yard, and with a board which he
had torn from an old boardwalk and
stood on end on the porch roof was
able to climb up to the top of the
twenty foot wall. He had taken
| with him a hook torn from a water
The next witness was Paul Shank. | oot and some geven oF aight feet
He testified that he was a member | © a wire clothes line cut from the
of the supper party. Told of going
t2. Philipsburg for the. givis.apdcf|ive Strung i the jal yard. .
young Heaton coming to camp and) Walking on the wall to the eas
locked up he started a search for
Mifflinburg Body company,
Mifflinburg's largest industry, received
ward at Rockview penitentiary, will Dalits, Wednesday of week. The
cost Centre county taxpayers in the bodies for the use A ia Pout mes
neighborhood of $1000 by the time department. This order will be good
he has been put to death in the news for many men in Mifflinburg as
electric chair. Appointed to defend ' It will mean steady employriant for
| some time. At present a special ambu-
the hegte gy & oon will | ce patrol body is being built to be
ga a 3% Sgn Te shipped to the Hawaiian Islands.
- . y ’ | =—Unless Margaret McClure, address
psychiatrist who testified as to Col- known, appears at the clerk of courts
ling’ sanity, charged a fee of $300. office in West Chester within two weeks,
Commonwealth and court costs a legacy amounting to $190 which she
| amounted to $138.43. Bringing Col- inherited from the estate of the late
| lins in from Pittsburgh and taking
The: horrible: Grime of Fred Collins, |
also of the larger party coming
later. Heaton was pretty drunk;
He was trying toget the “pickup”
truck started. Warren was in and
out of camp. Saw John Moore throw
Heaton down. Didn't know where
Robert was at that time. After the
scrap between Heaton and Moore,
Heaton went into camp. Saw him
in there with a gun in his hand.
Did not see shot fired, as he was
standing with his back to camp.
Helped pick the body up and put
it in the car.
© On cross-examination Shank said
he went to camp for a chicken din-
ner.
didn't see any beer.
what Robert was doing just before
the shot was fired. On redirect ex-
amination Shank identified photos
of the camp.
Had one quart of liquor but!
Didn't know
Margaret Stone will be turned over to
end of the yard he managed tofas- him back after his conviction add- the State. Attorney General Willlam A.
ten the hook in a crevice on top of led $144.72 to the bill of expense.
the wall and tying the section of Other miscellaneous costs will run
clothes line to it let himself down the total up to about a thousand
on the outside. But he miscalculated ' dollars:
the height of the wall and in the It might be interesting to the pub-
drop from the end of the clothes lic to know that the jury on the
line to the ground suffered a badly Collins case took but three ballots
| sprained ankle. while it was out. One on the ques-
| He was able to make his way tion of the negro's sanity, one on
‘his guilt as indicted, and one on
down to Pike alley and along the
‘alley to the home of Mrs. Belle Mc- the punishment to be meted out, and
Kinley where he leaned against the there were no dissenting votes on
‘house and remained some fifteen either ballot.
‘or twenty minutes. It was near 8
o'clock when Clyde Lingle, Mrs. Mc- SHORT SESSION OF
Kinley’s son-in-law, of Lewistown, COMMON PLEAS COURT
who was over on a visit, returned
from a trip down town. Williams Of the nineteen cases scheduled
trial at common pleas court,
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accosted him and offered him six for
dollars to take him to Philipsburg. |
| As he was a stranger Lingle hesi- tinued, and the result was that it
this week, all but three were con-|
Schnader petitioned the Chester county
court to have the money deposited with
the State Treasurer. The $190 has been
awaiting the missing neir for seven
years,
~—A year old sheep, inoculated last
| week with dangerous and contagious
| disease germs, was stolen from the ex-
perimental laboratory at Charleroi-Mon-
essen hospital, on Monday. Hospital
attaches and police are making frantic
efforts to recover the animal, which is
laden with potential illness and death
for persons with whom it comes in con-
tact. Fear is expressed that needy per-
| sons may have taken the sheep for use
‘as food.
—~—Struck by a train as she pushed
| her five-year-old granddaughter froma
| Pennsylvania railroad track crossing
| Mrs. Rose Messerel, 65, of West Hick-
| ory, died Friday night in Warren Gen-
| eral hospital. The child was unhurt.
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‘which convicted Fred Collins of |
John Moore, on being recalled, tated and finally telling him to wait
stated that it was a pint bottle of |a few minutes, came back down
liquor he had at the barber shop. town to see Mrs. McKinley, who
Joe Shutika was called but did works in Mrs. Martin's restaurant,
not respond. |in the Heverly block. She told him
Clyde Goodyear was the next if he did go to take somebody along.
Heaton. Saw him at Desert camp | Lyman Osman, his cousin, and ask-
about twelve o'clock. Came inand ed him to go along and he agreed
| grabbed me and started to tussle. to do so. The two men went back
I got kicked on the jaw. Wentout- up the alley, helped Williams into
side and gotinthe truck. Was back the car, as his ankle was badly
in the camp a few minutes after- swolen by that time, and they
wards. Saw Heaton standing at the | started. When they got down onto
| stove but didn’t notice that he had Allegheny street Williams gave Lin-
| anything in his hands. Went back gle a ten dollar bill and Osman went
(out and got in truck. Stayed in| into Parrish’'s drug store and got
| camp after all theothers had gone, some adhesive tape and ointment for
and about two o'clock two fellows Williams to ban-dage his ankle. They
came after me. He also identified also got some gas and oil, the total
photos of camp. On cross-examina- bill being about two dollars and
tion witness stated that he had Williams told them to keep the bal-
gone along with Paul Shank to ance as their pay for the trip.
Philipsburg to get the girls. He They took him to Philipsburg, left
stayed at camp to hunt the keys him out on Second street, where he
for the truck which had been lost. hobbled from the roadway and
William Harnish testified thathe glumped down onto a porch. The men
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witness. He testified to knowing Going out onto the street Lingle met |
‘required only one day to dispose | Mrs. Messerel and the girl, Jean Mc-
|of the three cases. The first was a Kinley, started across the tracks un-
| case in assumpsit brought by S. R.| aware of the approaching freight train.
| Baol The woman pushed the child to safety
Bishvat 3gaing ok og Life's but could not save herself. She suffer-
. plain led a fractured skull and died three
| testimony the court granted a vol- , ... 1.er
untary nonsuit.
| —Alleged drunken drivers, arrested
The second case pertained to the .
| either in Williamsport or Lycoming
opening of a judgment and Was... ure to be examined at the ex-
| brought by W. A. Fye against Myrtle pense of the county, district attorney
Huber and Anna L. Krumrine. Ver-| john C. Youngman announced last week,
dict in favor of the plaintiff for | after his plan had been approved by
the fuil amount of the claim. the court. The State Highway Patrol,
In the case of Anna Zeleznick!' police chiefs in the boroughs of the
vs. the Spring Township School county and the city police have been
| board, a non-suit was awarded. | notified of the plan which is to be put
i into effect at once. Doctors called upon
| soish Pusieg 193) State police made to examine alleged drunken drivers will
: be paid $6 If the call is made during
| tions ran to 82% of the: total. ordinary business hours and $10 if the
examination is made outside of regular
business hours.
| T—— —
| gle and Osman took him to Philips-
! burg or not. —Miss Louise G. Thomas, former tell-
i The fact that he was injured in'er of the closed Anthracite Trust com-
| pany, at Scranton, for whom a warrant,
[nis Jump 3 1 y charging embezzlement of $10,708.30, was
: 0! A a,
aid in his recapture. Prison officials a
| at Rockview struck off one hundred
of his pictures and pri oy Thomas appeared before Alderman Davis
recently sent out by Maj. Bugene ery brief address to the jury.
H. Lederer, burgess of State College, The first witness called was Dr.
candidate for Congress and political yw R, Heaton, whose testimony was
thorn in the flesh of the Hons. J. pref and confined to a description
Hus A i Burs fot the: wound iusile ly 3 Re eet
: | Moore, which cau death.
that ho might bs one of these (el |" Th’ second witness was tuners
mouth. As a matter of fact it was |g op oR. Baan 9 th
another Mr. Martin, having the ce, who told about preparing the
‘body for burial and of the finding
same initials as the General, who | wad in the dl of
wrote the rather uncomplimentary | SE Hapet 3 e clothing
letter to Burgess Lederer concerning | oo" apd . The wad was ident!-
his “courtesy cards” and inasmuch . offered as exhibit No. 1.
as it made the front page of the Moore's sweater was also offered
State College Times we imagined | I* evidence as exhibit 2. ae boi
its author to be an important per-| = TC Hat ris told of the y
son—say the distinguished gentle- | ng | rought to him an
" man who is just now trying to get | that death had probably occurred
the Japs in Philadelphia and the
Chinks in Pittsburgh into a peace
parley so that we Democrats don’t
run away with his State next fall
We wrote the paragraph with some
misgiving, because we could scarce-
ly believe Gen. Martin to be the
kind of a man we were picturing.
We are glad to have discovered he
is not and giad to make this apol-
ogy for our hasty conclusion.
| fifteen minutes previous. He also
‘described the wound.
| The next witness called was John
| Moore, brother of
He stated that on Saturday evening,
| February 6, he had made a trip to
Snow Shoe and when he returned
|got his brother Robert and Joe
| Shutika and took a short drive.
| Returning they went to Pete's place
| (Pete Girardi.) Returned from there
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Robert Moore.
went out to the camp early toget
the chickens ready for the dinner.
Roy Heaton came there but didn't
stay long. Saw Warren Heaton
about twelve o'clock. He
on the table and grabbed me by
the neck. Several fellows caught
him and I went out and got in the
| car with the girls, who had left the
(camp. The gun was kept at the
|
(Continued on page 4, Col. 5.)
then reurned to Bellefonte, arriving which were broadcast on Sunday, as
here about midnight, and it was not well as news of the escape sent out
until Sunday morning that they over the teletype.
learned that they had unwittingly As stated above Williams has
jumped | and without their knowledge aided | spent fourteen years behind prison
bars. He was sentenced on Saturday |
a prisoner in getting away.
from the jail he left his hat and for his part in the robbery and
overcoat behind and it has not been |faces a duplication of his latter sen-
definitely established whether he tence for breaking and escaping.
had a hat or overcoat on when Lin-| jail.
When Williams made his escape |to seven and a half to fifteen years
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and entered bail in the sum of $3000.
| George W. Morrow, her counsel, said
| that the authorities were hasty in hav-
ing a warrant issued for her as a fugi-
tive. He said Miss Thomas had been
out of the city for an extended period,
and until she heard of the warrant being
issued had no idea that she was tobe
so seriously accused. Miss Thomas is
accused of appropriating the bank's
money during a period extending from
June 4, 1980, until August 14, 1931. The
amounts ranged from $30 to $4800.