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By Public DefenderGun-Toting Youths Are ArrestedSix Sc. Louis youths are being held in the Jackson County jail after three of them were taken into custody Saturday following a break-in at the Royalton Cun Club. The others were picked up later.Jackson County Public delender Elmer Medlin and a hunting companion, Morris Castle, both of Carbondale, disarmed and arrested the three in the gun club, three miles east of Elkville, at 8:30 a. m Saturday.The other three youths were found in the vicinity of the hunting club Saturday afternoon by a Jackson County sheriff’s office search party.The first three captured were identified as George Wells, 22,2606 S. Broadway St., St. Louis his brother, John Henry Wells,15, of 814 Ann St., St. Louis, and Jatnes Edwin DeSherlia, 12,4492 Laclede S:., St. Louis.The three apparently were taken by surprise when Nledlin and Castle entered the gun club. Mcd-lin is the club president.The two Carbondale men were hunting near the club when Castle noticed tracks. As they approached the club house, Medlin saw movement inside, and said he thought some members were in the building.He opened the door, followed by Castle and found George Wells holding a shotgun and apparently (_ surprised by«the unexpected ent-0 ranee. ^Medlin sa d he pushed, Wells-Into a ■ftrner, not far fromwhere the other two youths were Jackson County’ state’s attor-1 taDdijig. They also were holding-. . . .A COOL ONEJohn Henry Wells, 15, calmly rolls his own cigarette as he awaits questioning in thenevsoffice Saturday. The youth and two others were arrested by Public Defender Elmer Medlin in the Royalton Gun Cub.
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Southern Illinoisan
Carbondale, Illinois, US
Sun, Nov 29, 1959
Page 3
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