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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1959
Page
6
A three pound eight ounce premature girl was found on the rear porch steps of Mr and Mrs William Meyers near Butler at 3 a m. The infant is in an incubator at Butler County Memorial Hospital while state police search for the mother. A towel wrapped the baby inside a shoebox.
Troopers John Dussin and Paul Conrad captured a robber after an eight Mile chase in Clearfield County. Robert James Maxam 25, sought on New York parole violations and connected to the Saratoga diner robbery, was arrested following the Hotel Logan holdup on Sunday. About $170 was taken after a knife point demand at the desk clerk.
An oil well in a Wyoming field blew out during rework operations. Herb Pittman and Ken Pomeroy, both of Powell, were overcome by fumes and fell into oil. Two co workers who tried to help were also overcome but rescued by others.
Alma Helen Stevens 26, linked to failed bank robbery in Cleveland two weeks earlier, told detectives she was coerced to participate and stayed on the run, sleeping under a bridge before arrest. She admitted aiding the failed attempt after the Cleveland Trust Co. heist ended with William Ansley’s suicide.
Meadville police nabbed six Linesville residents after they attempted to steal about 150 dollars in wool and 102 dollars in tools from Morrison surplus store. They were confronted as they left and arraigned before Justice Alpine McLane. four pleaded guilty, two pleaded innocent, and all were sent to county jail. Local veteran newsman Lawrence M Shadbolt, 69, NY Sun correspondent in Mexico era, died.
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