Juné 20, 1940.
THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE, PA.
Page Seven
MT. EAGLE YOUTH HELD
IN MURDER OF FAYE GATES
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cuffed to Sheriff Miller on the trip, that Ri hard aliended school as far |
from the jail to the 'Squire’s office
Was Suspected Early
Millinder, it developed the
at
as the eighth grade and went to Mt
| Eagle with another youth in 1836 to
|
hearing, has been under suspicion |
gince May 14, when he was first
picked up for questioning.
and on later occasions
was questioned and each time in-
vestigators noticed discrepancies In
Then, |
the youth |
his stories. At one time, Millinder |
was quoted as having sald
that |
“things went black” just before he)
caw the Gates car approaching him,
snd that he couldn't
what occurred after that
Final and complete
came early Friday morning and the
remember |
{ girls and
confession | *
suspect followed his statement with |
sh re-enactment of the crime at the |
geenie, In the presence of State Po-
lice and county officers. He then Is
reported to have signed a
written |
cdnfession, and on Saturday morn- |
the
once
ing returned to the scene of
crime to re-enact the events
again while photographs were made. |
According to partial accounts of
the youth's statement released by
police, he traced his activities from
the day before the murder was com-
mitted until after the crime. On
Saturday morning, May 4, It is re-
ported, Millinder rode with Faye
Cates’ father, Willlam Gates, from
his home across the road from the
Gates’ residence, to the Nancy
Leathers home near what was to be-
come the scene of the crime
Millinder spent the morning
the Leathers home, helping
butcher a calf. In the afternoon he
sccompaniéd members of the Leath-
ers family to Bellefonte where the
calf was disposed of Returning to
the Léathers home, Millinder and
members of the family spent the
evening playing cards.
| Mrs. George
in!
to!
| had been the
| Innocence
+ About 12:30 o'clock Millinder arose |
and sald he was going home, alleg- |
edly expressing the belief that he
might get a ride down the road with
Faye Gates upon her return from
Bellefonte, where she had spent the
evening.
Shortly after leaving the Leathers
home, Millinder saw the Gates car |
&pproaching. Faye stopped, as she
had done on other occasions, to give
him a ride home. Millinder's con-
fession is reported to continue with
the statement that he made ad-
vances and that Faye repulsed him
A ‘struggle ensued during which she
was dragged from the car and
thrown on the ground. The suspect
picked up a stone and beat the girl
on the head, the statement sets
forth. He denied that he had any
sexual rélations with the girl
Millinder's statement, it is claim-
ed; then sets forth that he got in
the Gates car, turned it around and
then walked home. He offered no
reason for turning the car, police
claimed.
Friday morning police took
gone with which the girl Is
the
to the county jail, in an
be- |
lieved to have been beaten to death |
}
effort to
have the suspect identify the wea-|
pon. “I guess that's it.” he said “I
can't tell for sure. It was dark”
Tan Car Cleared
i The much sought and widely dis-
cussed “tan Plymouth sedan with a
buggy whip aerial on the right side.”
i
which State Poliee Commissioner’
Lynn G
was the car In which the killer rode,
has been declared to have had no
part in the crime. Police admit that
& car probably trailed the Gates ma-
chine from Milesburg to the detour
barrier, and ‘from there along the
detour for some distance, but they
&ddegd that the car passed the Gales
machine and continued on its way.
Col, ‘Adams scoffed’ at a sugges-
tion made in the early days of the
Cates Investigation that a man on
foot could have perpetrated the
¢rime. He declared that beyond the
erime scene there were tracks on the
detour where the tan sedan had
turned in the road
The tan sedan entered the hunt
Adams repeatedly insisted |
the morning Miss Gates’ body was
discovered when Miss Maude Rager
snd Miss Ruth Robinson, Mt. Eagle
girls who accompanied Miss Gates
from Bellefonte to the detour bar-|
rier: the night before, sald the tan
Plymouth had followed them from
Milesburg, tooting its horn at fre-
quent intervals, They said that when |
they got out of Miss Gates’ car, the
tan sedan followed her car over the
detour to near the Nancy Leathers
home Where thelr view was obstruct
ed by an intervening hill.
Suspect’s Life
Millinder is a son of Mr. and Mrs
Jacob Millinder, of Wallaceton
Clearfield county, where Mr. Millin-
der is employed as a brickyard work-
er. Reports from Wallaceton are
aby
| daughters
}
work on the farm of Ray Love
He lived at the Nancy Leathers
home for about four years prior to
his marriage 15 months ago to |
Evelyn Leathers, a cousin of Faye |
Gates. Mrs, Millinder's mother is a |
sister of Willlam Gates, father of
Faye. The Millinders are the parents
of a ten-months’~old son
Friends and teachers who Knew
the suspect in Wallaceton describe
him an “ordinary level-headed |
boy,” who did not run after the |
was not a particularly |
gOOd mixer.”
Millinder's original story to police |
was that he was walking toward |
home near the Kennedy Methodist
church when he heard the horn ol
Fave Gates’ car toot several times
Turning, he said he could see the
lights of her car shining above Lhe
crest of the hill, but when the car
falled to make its appearance he |
continued home on foot. This was
the story he is reported to have told
members of the Leathers family late
Sunday morning when he visited the
home after the murder was discov
ered
us
Has Loyal Friends
When news of Millinder's confes-
sion reached the Mt. Eagle area
friends and relatives were unani-
mous in their expression of bellel
that he did not commit the crime
Schneider, of York, a
sister of Faye Gates, who Is at the
Gates home, said: “If he admitted
killing Faye, they forced him to do
it. He couldn't have faced us if he
guilty person
Mrs. Nancy Leathers was similar-
ly strong in her belief of Millinder's
“Even if he admitted
killing Faye, they'll have to prove it
before I belleve it,” she said. “When
he lived here we trusted him com-
pletely. He was mild mannered and
never did anything to
distrust him,” she added
tinued with the statement
cause u to
She con-
Mil-
that
“He Didn't Do 1
In this photo are shown two of
Richard Millinder's stanunchest
defenders. Mrs. Nancy Leathers,
left, and her daughter-in-law, Mrs,
Joseph Leathers and Baby son,
were emphatic in their statements
that “Dick” Millinder could not
have done such a thing.” Millin-
der played cards al the Leathers
home until about 12:30 o'clock a.
m., May 5 when he said he was
going home, adding that he might
get a ride with Faye Gates when
she returned from Bellefonte. The
Leathers home is about a mile
west of the Gales and Millinder
homes, along the “Spook Hollow"
road.
linder was frequently at
bor’s home when only the young
were present, and that
there had never been any trouble
Admit Confession
Announcement of Millinder’s con-
fession, Priday morning was admit
ted shortly before noon by Captain
Harry J. McElroy, of the State Mo- |
tor Police, who was In direct charge
of the investigation.
Others who took an active part in
the probe were Detective William
a neigh.
£ gromn
Hecla Park
Restaurant
Managed by
Mr. & Mrs. Robert Funk
Sunday Dinner
.. JUNE 23rd
Berved 12 till (?)
TOMATO JUICE
HOME-MADE NOODLE SOUP
HALF FRIED SPRING CHICKEN
T-BONE STEAK
ROAST BEEF
MASHED POTATOES
BAKED CORN
SALAD
PICKLES
Desserts:
FRESH STRAWBERRY SUNDAE
PIE AND CAKE
TEA
SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS
HOT BISCUITS
: CELERY
COFFEE
FRUIT CUP
NEW PEAS
COLE SLAW
OLIVES
MILK
"SANDWICHES AND SHORT ORDERS AT ALL TIMES
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| Smith,
{ciple to practice
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AERIAL VIEW OF GATES AND MILLINDER HOMES
EN
This aerial picture shows the section where Faye Gates, and her confessed slayer,
lived prior to May 5, when Fay was murdered less than a mile from her home.
left
which appear just above the Gates
“Spook Hollow
inder,
The Gates home Is near the center of the photo,
¥., where Millinder lived,
he road leading to the right of the photo is the
while the road extending to the top of the photo connects the
Highway,
Ciates propest
howe,
occured,
the Bald Eagle Valley
of Harrisburg
sed his «
A. Miller
in the
that the
foot and
other
Case expie
murderer
that the
wi a
tan Plymout
car had noth
case: ( J. Hani
Harrisburg
man
Officer C
burg
Pinned
Miller's room in
tel, Bells p10 inte
map of the Mt
map figured prominently
i
vestigation
wall of
the Penn Belle
wos a larg
Eanele seclion
checked
every
time
of them
who could 1
¢ R
of his activitie
1500 Attend
Kiwanis Picnic
(Contin HN Page one
awarded
50-yard dash for gh
16 years: Freda Smith
and Ruth Grubb
75- yard dash for
Richard Humphreys
John Pron:
Consolation for boy
Day Paul Smith, Charl
Jack Krumrine, and Dein Brin
Amateur nites Anna Mar
Harpstier iF Burn
mond Musser, and
Smeltzer
Youngest babie
twins (6 weeks
Large:
children.)
Rolling -pin
were
Rut}
Ova
John
Henry
My
race
gat
garet
reda
Mar
ATM
old
Lt family
throwing fos
Ruth Poust, Helen Homan, Mr
Clair Burns, Peggle Markle, Hele:
Fry, Mary E. Homan. Mrs Cal
Shawley and Mrs. Raymond McGee
Hog calling (women): Mrs Riley
Hunter, Mrs. Samuel Ishler and
Mrs. Earl Neidigh
Hog calling (meni: Lynn Moth-
ersbaugh and John Burkholder
Log sawing M and Moth
ersbaugh, and Yarnell and Rickell
Nail driving (women): Mrs. Ray
Magee. Mrs George Waite, Mrs. Roy
Wert and Mrs. C. M. Harshberger
25-yard dash
for boys under 8
Sonny Gentzel, John Johnson, Har-
old Brooks
H-yard dash for girls under 6
Winnie Thomas, Annie Mack
25-yard dash for boys under 12
Wynn Witmer, Ardell Gross, Edwin
Crawford
25-yard dash
Betly Moyer
Bonnie Powell
50-yard dash
vears
wamen
JREOT
for girls under 12
Mary Johnson and
for boys 12 to 16
John Tressler, Lynn MeClin-
Gilbert McClintic and Edwin
Crawford
Horseshoe pitching
Paul Rudy,
| Harry Peters. and Earl Homan
Back race: Junior Dutrow, Willard
Bernard Vogt, Marvin Shar-
er, Dale Confer and Jim McKervi-
son
Consolation race: Ruth Burris and |
| Luella Homan
I ai
Trading at home is a good prin-|
but there
for all washable surfaces
IT CLEANS LIKE MAGIC!
Detective
is no;
pas
(Photo courtes
toward the
Is half hidden by trees
now being rebuilt
| Make Plea For
Red Cross Funds
rts
wed from page one)
is Sum in many
the nation has
gen-
Red
and ciotl
Mug hout
enthusiasm by
and today the
end food
ime ls
Hed
proud
rep t
een
Work eng
Cross!
One day last wes a group of
: ! the
news|
5
e thei
OeRri-
the Art
HE esp
for help
the call
The result of Lhe
FTL
given
V could x
was that thu
Comnmitice
fe hand 0
3
help the
meeting
Red Cn
them a
campaign
200. Thus far thes
themselves into and
plan among other things a dance.
place posters. and finally to make
a house-to-house canvass
establis
v
Ir carry on the
“sary $3.
organized
O raise the necs
ave
commitiees
These young citizens have asked
inform the people of the town
ough our papers of thelr intend-
work, and the Red Com-
mittee asks you to them
with the same gene You have
received us in the past
us to
th
od Cross
receive
iy
In time of emergency the Amer.
ican Red Cross has always rushed
aid to those in need quickly and ef-
ficiently. Today the people of the
United States can be confident that
{this time-honored institution will
reach the needy directly, and not
through the medium of a conquerer
who might have o’her plans for such
aid
“Remember
would give
cents, the
But above
each individual
than thirty-five
quota would be realized
all beware the “let
George-do-it” attitude, for while we
rare looking for “George” somebody
is dying. Let us show America, as
America 18 showing the world, that
{ Bellefonte has not forgot the mean-
ing of the word humanity.”
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I. 0. 0. F. PATRIARCHS TO
if
less
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riarchal Anniversary Association of
| and evening, June 22,
branch are urged
campment as well as some of the
Grand Lodge officers who expect vid
be in attendance
i The following program has been |
arranged: 2 p
‘come by Burgess H. P. Harris; re- |
| sponse, Patriarchal Anniversary offi |
i m., business session; 4 |
p. m., trip to Pisherman's Paradise; |
6 p. m., supper at Diamond restaur- |
ant; 710 8 p. m., band concert and |
{cers; 2:30 p.
| entertainment; 8 p. m., school of in-
struction, Grand Encampment offi-
cers,
es MIP
WALKER TWP.
SCHOOL NEWS
The following eighth grade pupils
passed the county examination for
entrance into high school: June
| Blerly, Paul Bressler, Nevin Deitrich,
| Margaret Fiedler, Willlam Oates,
! Lois Gilmore, Ralph Harter, Jennie
{ Lamey, Miriam Kessinger, Margaret
! Miller, Arthur Nilson, Richard Ri
ka, Carl Stitzer, Dorothy Vona
| Mertam Vonada, Norman Wells,
Orace Whitman, Warren Witmer,
Marie Yarnell, Jemes Yarnell and
Earl Zellers,
MEET HERE SATURDAY
| the Bellefs rpor . .
The annual meeting of the Pat. ante al t Inst Wednes
m., address of wel- |
y Lock Haven Express)
Richard Mill-
The tenant house on the
detour, where the murder
“Spook Hollow” road with
URCH
Evangelical Howard Parish
Sched Suncay
day school, H
worship, Chil-
Howard, Sun-
Anna Pletcher
E Junior and
ly Communion 7:30
Schoo], W. Fisher
m. Hublersburg Sun-
Albert Coder
Sunda Hoa
8:30
services §
Sur
: 8:30;
rvice 10:45
Mrs
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Hi
NOoAay
non
Supt
Har
pt
First
Rev. H
Church school at
But
Methodist,
wr
LL
Bellefonte
Hartsock Pastor
$30 a m gf
Morning worship with
10:45. Ep-
m. Even-
1 7:30. The
be held
inesday
Per Ser.
will be held
on Friday evening
pext Communion ser-
held on Sunday, June
Qype
Suey
wv tt) rad ict £3
¥ * DRslor
!
League
We
ve
the
will be
church
Cur
Nittany Women Win
3-Way Golf Match
tany Country Club wo-
the Blalrmont
lub women's team of Hol-
and the American Le-
Club women of Mt
three-way Central
Association malch
ma.ches were play-
men golfers defeated
Country C
lHdaysburg
om a) ountry
$1 non Mi: 2
Cotinties Golf
last week. The
Nittany
Members of the winning team are
Mrs. Lewis Orvis Harvey, Mary
Rankin, Jane Curtin, ‘Ruth Orem-
lish, Katherine Love and Elizabeth
Cooney
Low
ed at
medal honors for the day
went 0 Miss Bleanor Hudson. of
Mt Union. with a 85. Mrs Har-
vey, of Nittany, waa runner-up with
#9. In a sonia] match Mrs Klatz-
in, of Blairmont, won the low med-
alist award
mi MP ——
Centre Hills Golfers
Defeat Nittany Team
Centre Hills Country Club golf-
erg won a Central Counties Coll
Association match from the Nit-
tany Country Club, Saturday after-
noon, by a score of 55% to 34%
The meet was held on the Nittany
course
C. C, Alexander, of Nittany, shot
a
the afternoon Pete Stuart took
medal honors for Centre Hills with
ia 7 i
Kuchenbuch Funeral
Funeral services for Mrs. May 8
| Kuchenbuch, wife of Fred Kuchen-
buch, whe died at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. Roy Immel, near
day morning were held Tuesday
| afternoon Im home, with
the West Branch Valley 1. O. O. F.| a the mel
{ will be held in the 1. O. O. F. Hall}
{ at Bellefonte on Saturday afternoon |
the Rev. H. O. Kline, pastor of the
Milesburg Bapiist church, officiat-
ing
a E———— EBS SUT SOIR
McCormick-Deering
FARM
EQUIPMENT
SALES AND SERVICE
Liberal Trade
ALLOWANCE FOR OLD
MACHINERY
¥
M. Harold Betz
HOWARD, PA.
PHONE 2131
June
76 to take low medal honens for |
Interment was made in the
| Zion cemetery.
All members of the Patriarchal!
to attend these
sessions and meet the Grand En-|
—
,
| Commencement
Held For Firemen
(Continued from page one)
uation exercises was Battalion Chief
Cieorge Perrier,
delphia Pire College, who illustrated
his talk with slides of many of that
city’s major fires. Other speakers in-
cluded George Townsend, astistant
principal of the Public Bervice Ine
stitute; Millard M. Tawney, ex-chief
of the Harrisburg Fire Department
and the Rev. Father William E
Downes of Bellefonte
AL the dinner Chief Tawney pre-
sented Mr. Carpeneto, instructor of
the local school, with a photograph
taken in Harrisburg when Mr. Car-
peneto was learning the rudiments
of fire fighting In that city many
years ago. Mr. Carpeneto, who pres
sided as toastmaster, extended his
‘hanks to Pire Marshal Phillip Bay-
lor, and Chiefs John Gillen and Ar-
thur Boob for the valuable assist-
ance they gave in the work of the
school
House
of several
The program at the Court
included showing
sound motion pictures on fire pre-
vention, fire fighting and salvage
work. The showing of the films was
made possible through the of
Hugh OG. Pyle and 1. C. Boerlin, of
Penn State, who brought projection
machinery for the
supervised its operation
I'he
marked
Lhe
aid
here occasion
and
commencement exercises
f 18 weeks of |
the part of
class Courses
jon In every phase of
fighting and the
have been
in wi
Gap and Miles
been In action
the close o
tensive on
members of the
cluded instruct
fire
study
scientific re.
of the tr
recent
sults gaining
denced at
Bellefonte, Pleasant
burg firemen have
Members of the
panies who received dipioma
Undine Fire Company: Bleve
dovich, Luther Smith, Joe Delallo
Ed Kustanbauder Vincent Flynn
Charles Saxion, Albert Knisel) :
Henry Casper, Melvin Wright
bert Knisely, Jr Frank Rak
Harry Keeler, Joseph Bauer
Confer. John Gillen, and Pau
erick
Logan Fire Company
Hazel, Charles Martin
lor Ww B Chandler
A.A Boob G M. De
Love
fires
various fire com-
were
Ro-
Herman
Philip Sa
Daniel] Hines
ker, and Fred
Ye
Milesburg Fire C
Rober:
Franklin
ompany .
Malcolm Swar Miles
Heaton, and P. 1
Pleasant Gap Fire Company
sion Derr, A. Besecker, F Bh
F. Benford, H. Noll. John Mulf
C. Bunday. Thomas F G
ward N. Adkins, 8 Beightol
Adams and R Brook:
Instructor, George
Ral.
gy Ye
wn Inger
Mil
WA
Activities at the “Y"
The fol
DOW in use at ihe 0a Y
A. Every Monday, Wednesday
Satur are boy days Wilh
hour follows: Cubs, boys uncer
12. ten a. mm. ; Cadets, boys twelve
fifteen, 11 8. m.; young men, fifteen
to eighteen, 2 p. m.; senior men, 7
to 8 ppm Women's and girls
Tuesday and Th
girls, 12 and under
12 t0 15. at 1] a no
2 p. m. Older girls, 3
m. Employed girls, Tt0 8p m Evens
Saturday night, 7 to 8, Is “Pamily
Night” This includes children only
when with parents; also couples over
16. There is no extra charge for per-
sons having Y membership cards, for
persons not having Y memberships
there is a charge of 25 cents, Child-
ren under 18 are admitted free. Be-
ginning next week wo new begin-
ner groups will be organized, one for
little girls, every Tuesday at 1:30 p
m., and one for little boys every Fri-
day at 10 a. m. These two groups will
be limited to beginners only and
will be under the personal super
vision of Secretary Heineman
Four Held
In Theft Series
(Continued from page one)
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day the
ay
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ursday as fol-
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married
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Every
lows
girls
women
two implicated Runkle and Shirk,
and Rockview officers were called in
to aid in locating them. Private J
| P. Jordan, heading the Rockview in-
| vestigators,
said Officer Donald
Johnson of the Bellefonte Borough
Police, had assisted in the probe
from the start
Runkle and Shirk were taken into
custody yesterday and last night
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