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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1938
Page
8
Fringes of a city committee plan final discussions at Gourmal building Friday at 2:20 for Tuesday primary. Reports include insurance ad talk by Fiduciary Counsel Inc executive, and various local items from Corry area including council, hospital treatment, and rail traffic data.
May 11 Erie reports state troopers under Private Mathias intensified a drive against gambling and policy rackets. Jack Slaper of 309 Short Street was arrested after officers seized 500 treasury and baseball tickets 50 policy numbers and lottery slips from his home following a search warrant. Slaper appeared before Peace Justice Walter J. Goodwin and was remanded to Erie County Jail on $500 bail ahead of a Friday preliminary hearing.
Erie County reports a May 1 general balance of 63 451 20, with large bills held for tax receipts. Controller Harvey M Willis notes payments postponed until current taxes are received later in May.
Rev H F Reagle, former pastor of the United Brethren in Christchurch, is seriously ill at his home in Rew near Bradford after a week of illness and slow improvement. The news notes his condition and location as of the report.
State Industrial School for Boys Superintendent John D Pennington and former assistant S M Washbaugh were indicted by Huntingdon county grand jury on involuntary manslaughter charges over the tear gas death of Daniel LaMuarr, a Philadelphia inmate, after a Christmas Day disturbance. Pennington dismissed the indictment as baseless and said he will be vindicated.
Harrisburg May 11 The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture started its fall apiary inspection on May 2 and will continue until next fall. About twenty eight thousand beekeepers exist in the state and the department aims to cover as many counties as possible. Pennsylvania ranks first among the forty eight states in number of apiaries.
York state troopers kept Perry under surveillance after he was surprised in a Dolgeville area auto. He admitted stealing the machine after leaving a Herkimer beer parlor. He agreed to waive extradition and return to Corry for further action.
A detailed confession outlines the suspect’s movements from Dolgeville after leaving his young wife in January to this city and back. He recounts a prior theft record including a two year term in Atlanta federal prison for a Dyers Act violation and involvement in multiple car thefts, one from Arden Ferry around 1940. He describes acquiring a Syracuse purchased car, parking it in a Clymer garage, and stealing another on Clinton Street before returning to Dolgeville with companions, where state troopers arrested him upon his return to prove possession.
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