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Womi ia Refomatory | A laloae Harder oa West Side' Prosecuting Attomej S. A. Skelton :L]i• I Sheriff Bfirry Dunham will co-op-t-rntc in making a complete investigation of 1 lie story that Miss Amy Robin* ►tie. of McArthur, now a prisoner in ihe Marysville Reformatory, hmi told .ircmu stances of a crime that mayleadfrequent tripo to Portsmouth and vicinity with Steele and that *ne of these trips had something to do,with*the cutting of a Iain's throat and the throwing of the body from an automobile. Steele is in the big pen at Columbus serving a life sentence for the killing of10the lifting of the veil of mystery that j Sheriff Collins, of Vinton county• \ m t . a I 1C* 1 fS 1 ■« . « n I aior severnI 3'enrs has enveloped the Henry Malone murder on Dry Run,West Side- ■'The body of .Malone^ with his throatear was found.diisbeil from ear to ear was found in Drr Kuii several'day a, aftenf he was seen'in West ftnd business'places with a big' roll of money. According'to the story ^niil to lmve been told by the Robinette unman, star witness agaihst George convicted in Jackson coiinty re-lt;cully for the-slaying of Sheriff Fletcher Collins, of McArthur, she made• Ii Ida cbai Mer was TbertMerpedher.GARDEN10-20cMusic That Is The Talk of the TownFORRESTiBRADFORDAnd HuRecordingORCHESTRAPlaying aX 1:30, 3:30 7 and 9 P. M. PhotoplayrpkEgreatest snow p*o ture ever filmed ICLAIRE WINDSOR PAT O’MALLEY ROBERT FRAZERsBn A SWIAnofBrwhmilJo:ifttsh«Prosecutor Skelton and .Sheriff Dun: ham in making a thorough .investigation of the Robinette worn ah’s story will no doubt visit'the two prisoners in an effort to obtkia-additional, light on theease.* •* *It:is from the itory told to a womandetective in the Vinton county jail bythe Robinette woman that the local case has been revived.. at - the present time.The Robinette woman, now In the Marysville reformatory, where* she was sent after being convicted in Vinton county on a charge of stealing some automobile, tires, told^Miss Kathleen M. Chase, an operative of a Columbus detective agency, the story of the killing. It was to Miss Chase tliat thb Robinette woman confessed to knowledge of the-killing of George ‘Steele ■ or Wilfcesvllle, Vinton county, accusing the younger George Steele. The Robinette woman toll! the detective who spent some time In the Vinton comuy jail, disguised: Sbas a prisoner Jn order to get the evi-! _deuce in the . case, ‘that «he met George Steele after the slaying of the elder Steele, whose body was burned when his barn, was .burned. The Robinette woman told the detective, and said on the witness stand in the’ Steele trial, that GKeorge Steele admitted to her that he Imd Killed his uncle, aqd sair. t'hrtt he gave her a large sum of money to '.'keep her mouth shut,”Trfls #f Other KillingThe Robinette woman told MI$y Chase, the operative said last night, iu a long distance telephonic conversation that she and Steele mademany trips Co Portsmouth. /• Mrs. Fletcher Collins, w'ho succeeded her husband as sheriff.of Vinton county, said last night, that the Robinette woman told of a killing in 'Scioto county, hilt did not, re-memlier the name of the man who was aloij), or the particulars. Sheriff Collins said that the Wilkesviilep.fa iwi si I fiv Pith th H. sc! ha t!lt; j COhe rcjoKkillinir was to be further Investigated and that official action might lx taken «t some later date.Prosecuting ’ Attorney Harry B. Reese of Jackson county,- who headed the staff of state’s counsel prosecuting George Steele for the Collins killing, said that he rejnembcred the Robinette woman telling of another killing, the circumstances of which tallied with the facts of the Scioto county murder.Recall Mysterious Case Officials, upon learning of the Robinette woman’s statement, were recalling the Malone ease Friday. It will be remembered that Malone's body wa* found a short time after tbe ‘Newman-Doyle double murder on Scioto Trail-The body was held in I he Lynn morgue for weeks before it was finally identified by ndativea from Fsjette county, who wctc searching for Henry Malone who was missing- and upon learning of jizi unidentified body being held here, came- down -and identified it a« thatof their relative.Hrrbi
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Portsmouth Daily Times
Portsmouth, Ohio, US
Fri, Jan 22, 1926
Page 14
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Scioto C.
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