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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1953
Page
4
Reports from Columbus say more than ten men began preliminaries for a dam funded by GWA dividends. Officials debate a possible tax levy increase beyond 1214 mills. council meetings earlier week addressed levy and budget concerns. A local attorney moved offices, and a factory accident threatened finger amputation. A heavy fog blanketed Corry, prompting several auto accidents.
Mrs Helen Heymann testified on Wednesday that her husband Fred Heymann had accumulated about 245000 dollars from an estate allegedly tied to a Stroudsburg man and kept the money privately at home. The couple’s testimony, plus statements from John Hall, painted Heymann as frugal and hard to trust as he fights a 53000 fraud judgment and other charges while imprisoned on bond.
Clarksburg West Virginia Theo dore Roosevelt Johnson 35 of Jamestown convicted of first degree murder in the September 8 death of Robert Garrett 30 of Fairmont by a Harrison County jury after a two day trial The verdict carries an automatic life sentence for Johnson who allegedly shot Garrett outside the Color-OOS
A Corry Evening Journal puzzle page presents a 10 question memory test with scoring levels from genius to poor. It blends trivia on politics geography law and history, asking about a Republican Senator in Columbus, a country Phnom Penh, REA, violins Stradivarius, and Eisenhower era politics alongside a section on a court subpoena and the term economic royalist. The page includes a sample monthly memory score and advertising notes.
In a Clarksburg incident, Garrett died a few hours after being wounded and Ellis Glib also perished. Both victims are identified as Negro. Howard and Willie Hines, brothers from Carolina, Marioni County, testified that Garrett approached Johnson outside the hall and asked about keys during the trial.
A fragmented report describes two kidnap slayers suing until death in a prison scene. Wirden Ralph N. Bidson recalls the event as a cyanide cloud enveloped the captors. The piece mentions Bobby Greenlease's family, Norbert O’Neill, and a $600,000 ransom tied to a Kansas City bridge. The tone mixes crime, legal action, and odd insect trivia about queen ants living up to 18 years.
WBEN presents tonight at 2:00 Big Top and at 1:00 Wild Bill Hickok followed by Your Schools at Work and a 200 film feature. Channel 4 lists varied programming including a Buffalo-area lineup.
In a fragmentary testimony, Johnson claimed he reached for keys with one hand and heard a shot, saying he had no gun and did not shoot Garrett. The account contrasts with statements that Garrett was shot by Johnson during a tense incident.
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