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Afto nfCOUNTY OFFICERPLANS TO FILECHARGES TODAYClyde Killion, 23, Held asMan Who Fled fromTheater Office.A county attorney's informationcharging breaking and entering in connection with the attempted burglary of the Strand theater sate here Aug 6 will be filed today against Clyde Killion, 23, of Alton by Marshall Camp, county attor-ney. j ■».$ I %K ill ion has been held since late last week Tor investigation. He was arrested Friday at the home ot Ins cousin, Chen Palmer near Alton.The youth had cuts on both arms and on one knee, according to police who questioned him The Alton boy sa.td he had received the cuts in hurdling a barbed wire fence at a picnic near Lincoln. Neb., not longI:ago.•Says He Came from Nebraska.He also said that he came from Nebraska the day before the attempted burglary took place here and that he was in Creston that day until about midnight when he went to the home of his cousin near Alton.Officers here said that Killionwas on parole from the district court at Lincoln, Neb., on a chargeof forgery.Killion is charged with being the man whom City Officer Art Campbell discovered in the office of theStrand theater about 1:15 in thenorning, Aug. 6. ~Campbell had investigated the of Tice when he discovered the tliea-1 :er's front door was Open. As he •eached the head of the stairs lead-ng to the manager’s office, he heard the glass in. a window of the ffice shatters.Burglar Escapes.When Campbell entered the of-ice, he discovered 'hat. the bur* ;lar had crashed through a heavy .iass window to the root of the heater’s canopy. When Campbell itempted to follow tie* man throughhe window to the canopy roof, he ell. As he fell he fired twice at he fletire. 11The burglar jumped from the I *roof to the sidewalk and I(led westward. Campbell fired i1gam as the figure disappeared hrough the driveway of the Skelly )il station half a block west,The burglar left bus tools, a waist * ratch and bis cap behind him in jns flight Badly cut by the brokenlass of the window through which ie had crashed, he was trailed by Lis blood for eight blocks into theity’s western residential district be-ore the trail was lost.Money Not Taken.The knob on the safe’s dial had cen broken off. an investigation -roved but the safe had not been j pened and the theater’s Sunday pceipts. amounting to several hun-red dollars, had not been touched.The Killion youth’s cuts officerselieve were caused by the glass of he window through which he es-aped They also claim they have root that the wrist watch left be-ind by the burglar is Killion’s. Clothes, which police claim are loodstained although they have een washed since are held by offi-ers who claim the clothes belongo Killion.
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Creston News Advertiser
Creston, Iowa, US
Mon, Aug 20, 1934
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