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KillionADMITS TRYINGTO ROB STRANDTHEATER’S SAFEYouth Also Confesses toRobbing Drug Storeat Afton.01 yelp I? Killion, 23. of Afton. today pleaded frailty to a charge of breaking and entering in connection with the attempted burglary of ■ he Strand theater here Aug. G,He was sentenced by Judge George a Johnston of Crest on to verve an indeterminate sentence not to exceed 10 years ut the men's re-1 ihmatory at Anamoa Killion It!*e yes'erday signed a• confession that he was the manwhom City Officer Art Campbell discovers! at work on the Strand theater's safe about 1.15 in the morning of Aug. 6. y vfl|; 'Tu the same confession Killion admitted robbing Sales Drug sore at Afton July 24 and also robbing j the Tank-Up restaurant, on EastMontgomery street in Creston clur-I ing July.Arn sled Friday.Althaiyh arrested last Friday, ; Killion had maintained since thenI that he was not the man whomCampbell surprised Last night, however he admitted that he wasflie one who crashed through a glass window to the roof of the theater canopy dropped to the ground andmfled as Campbell fired at him.In his confession the Afton youth 1 told how he had been living in Aslrland. N b., with his uncle,i George Nye In July lie came back fiom Afton and on the night cl July 24 broke into the Sales Drug stoic I taking two watches and some other merchandise. ID hid the next day 1 in the Catholic cemetery west of- .'BBSi Alton. Then he came to Creston land took a freight train back to Ashland.Made Lead Hammer.On Aug. 3 he again came to Crlt;-s-ton and stayed in the park here that Friday n:ght On Saturday he bcr-lowed a car from a friend here and drove to Afton where, in a ditch near the railroad tracks, Tie melted lead and made a hammer. IThe same nigh' he came back toCieston and again stayed in tlv park at night. Sunday, the day be- lore the attempted burglary, he was around town and went to the Strand theater Sunday evening, his mallet and a flashlight Concealedunder his shirt.Alter the last show was over, he hid m the back ot the balcony until everyone was gone. Then liewent to the theater's office to .starti work on the sate. When he heard Campbell coming up the stairs, he threw the lead hammer through the window.I t Dropped toThe opening wasn't large enough(Continued on rage 7.»
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Creston News Advertiser
Creston, Iowa, US
Tue, Aug 21, 1934
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