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Says He Wrote I Just Too MuchAnil Sih|M*rl Itchim! The1 Bam Here To Fare Forgery do nutDonald A. Drake, the man with a detective school diploma for private investigation, was in the Howard county jail facing two forgery indictments, not because “I talkedtoo much, but because 1 wrote toomuch.'*He has been the object of a two year search by the sheriff's department, particularly so since he admittedly mailed a card to one of his victims and adjuied the “sheriff to start praying.**Deputy Sheriff Andrew Merrick, who pushed the case, gained cus tody of Drake in Florence, Ails. and returned him here when Drake waived extradition. Deputy Bud McKinney, Coahoma, accompanied Merrick on the 1,500 i die trip and assisted in returning Drake and another piisoner, Jeff Doweli, here from £1 Paec.Merrick wrote more than 50 letters and made a score of other in quiries on Drake before he finally located him in Florence, Arts., | more than a week ago. Drake said he had married recently at Phoenix, Alia, under the name of J. A. Blake. iDowell, enlisted in the Eighth lt;Cavalry at Fort Bliss, is under In- i dictment here for forgery, i
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Big Spring Daily Herald
Big Spring, Texas, US
Fri, Apr 30, 1937
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