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akenmngHausner mortuary in Chandler with burial in Mesa.services corrm were due at aof the house-XC )resti-I in* was ) see olicvwas?rsialArtCareermittee.Accused KillerEnds In Arrestlitteehowt’hitediterniild-Thev retur from a round Europe’s milit testimony is strong influei studying P r e 81.450,000,000 r Before faciithev were in' House to see sign new militlation designed play between they head.inneines— ;t these itSpaatimore n of Tan-diter work'd bv»•edonINDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 10. (JP)—Alandscape painter’s art career ended Wednesday when he was taken back to a jail from which he escaped more than 20 years ago while awaiting trial on a murder charge.Ralph Lee, 51, artist with a Gen. Spaatzrecord officers said included at asked to tell tleast 11 jail breaks In 17 years, vices committ* was arrested as he ate supper with as a combat clt; his wife, Mrs. Jessie Edwards Lee, at their home south of here in Brown coun*v.theofftheEscaped On X*w Year’s Evebigthe sky.TheB-36draftiroml-Tan* those Rashid anthat he had Iport” about titarv leaders anected withtlhadmderandsentrmedictionindercommIndiana state police and India- ordered afternapolis officers arrested Lee on a (R*Pa) told thcharge of escaping from the Johnson county jail here on New Year's eve in 1926. He was being held at that time on a charge of murder in the holdup killing of Abner Peek, Speedway City grocer.Lee’s record, as related by officers, started with a burglary sentence and an escape from the Indiana boys' school in 1911, when he was 13 years old.VIt includes, besides three breaks here, escapes from the Wells county jail at Bluffton, Washington state reformatory, Indiana state and th ,at Putnamville, and Indiana n0rtnnitv reformatory and Tennessee [ore the senaAs a report*azine (Xewsvhis onetime ch former assista for air. tell 1 was “absolute outside influer the builder ofThe four bv At tv. Gen.farmstatestatepenitentiary twice each.* intoetherViolated Arizona Paroletee were:' CommunistThe record lists also a parole vio- Gurley Flvnn new lation in Arizona in 1919. a gun self as a merstate- fight with Jacksonville (Fla.) po- committee::lliam lice in which he was wounded inand a sentence to federal pri-in Atlanta. Ga., in 1932 forn jn that f thex isonragoncounterfeiting while in Tennesseestate penitentiary.He was paroled by the federalCivil right,L. Patterson,secretary;United Neg ans of Americhntheob-. Jr. who saidgovernment in 1946 from Spring-,manfw-field. Mo., where he had beenprin-n up nd ofknewtransferred because of complica-! 'nonwounds inflicted by neniey*Theseat ahimmentwennesses prom isthe hearing oto the supreMcCarran (D-up public test Wednesdaw.tions fromFlorida policHis present wife is a one-timemissionary to China and Salvation Army worker who had engaged in religious work among convicts. He married her two years ago and settled in the Brown using county artist colony to paint land-sat gcapos.As officers walked in to arrest Lee his wife said, “I'm so sorry.He’s been doing so w ell . . . leading Peared a Christian life.”“Don’t be frightened, dear, we’ll foreign boiShe accuse*AttrencerencetheirOne spokes tion on Clar N 'w York vbrieflAmerican connsIntjust keep praying,” she added.A week ago a relative of Mrs. improper and Lee asked Detective Orville K. attorney gem GJeich if Lee was “still wanted for problems of tmurder.’*Tillv% -takes •utive n the! OtherGleich knew nothing of the case, hill: but he located Peek’s brother.Fred, and Lee's former wife, Dora Carmackle Lee, and gradually pieced the story together.devcMinimum 1Democrats pr house for a wage bill intri n Tov i
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