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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1954
Page
6
Pennsylvania Game Commission records show $293 paid in September from the Game Fund for predators killed in Erie County. Trappers and hunters received $4 each for 10 grey fox and 62 red fox and $5 for one great horned owl, part of a state total of $21,288 for the period, with $24,481 paid since June 1.
Albert E. Steele aged 34 of Clarendon died after a self inflicted gunshot wound. He was found seriously wounded by his wife Kathryn at home and died en route to Warren General Hospital. A 22 caliber rifle with a discharged shell lay beside him and police assume suicide amid ongoing investigation. Steele, a maintenance repairman at United Refining Company since 1945, was staying with his mother in law Elsie Bullock in Clarendon. The Galapagos tortoises comment appears as a separate note in the report.
Erie County driver James R. Kress was ordered to pay $5,592 to Michael Wilkose and $1,300 to Neale Hopkins after a three day trial for a head on collision on September 22, 1963 two miles east of Route 99. A separate trial awarded Frank Stannard $1,951 in a different case.
North East man Cleveland A. Miller pleaded guilty to drunken driving after swerving before North East officer James Cimimist on a routine call. He admitted never holding a Pennsylvania driver's license. Judge Samuel J. Roberts imposed a $100 fine and two years probation with conditions including selling the car and ceasing to drive.
Willard Freeman faced a $100 fine and two years probation after pleading guilty to the same charge. Freeman was arrested when his car struck a parking meter at Peach and 18th.
The U S Treasury will auction the holdings of Butler County squire John P. McHale for non payment of income taxes. He disappeared about two weeks ago after a $39 000 shortage surfaced in Muddy Creek Township funds. The sale in Portersville next Friday will include a power shovel a bulldozer two water pumps and an automobile.
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