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IL)fhol-3ry-rnic son the i hes to 3un-: it's■ be lack the to a of a indi-ssfulpe-their),000costpitaltion-:omeiates d de-ver. pert.inves-MetonMcHenry Is Freed of Murder Charge(Continued from Page B-l)Aggravated assault declined in Lakewood — 109 to 100. County wide, it increased from 3,719 to 4,-191— up 13 per cent. Lakewood auto thefts were off— down from 256 to 220, compared to a countywide gain of 7,507 to 8,037.In a biennial report on Los Angeles County crime,ies) is of major statistical significance when considered in light of a national crime-rate increase, the report said.LOS ANGELES County homicides, rapes and assaults (and other violent crimes against the person) increase 12 per cent in 1966-67, the s h e r i f f’s report showed. An additional' 1,617 burglaries gave that crime the greatest numerical increase.One index of the county’s booming crime business:Girl Killed,Hur led FromA 19*year-o(d San Pedro girl, injured earlier when she was thrown from a motorcycle, died Thursday in South Bay District Hospital, Redondo Beach, police said. :The victim, Naomi Usher, of 19U9 Grenadier Dr., passenger -on a motorcycle being ridden by William' Powell, 24, of'805 Via Car-melitos,- Long Eeach, suffered fatal head injuries Wednesday night when Powell lost control of the vehicle and it flipped, Torrance police said.Powell, who was not hurt, told officers-he was breaking for a slop at Callc Major and Via Mesa. Grande when the machine hit wet pavement, and skidded.‘McHenry testified he saw Frutcliey hitting Morgan with the gun.. ‘That’s all f saw of the gun,”- he said under cross examination by Eumett.He said he tried to separate the two men, but was knocked down. When he got up, he said, he was aware of a-“shadowy figure” standing beside him.“She was standing there when ;I heard the shots,” he said.* * * * WAFTER MCHENRY testified he heard Mrs. Morgan's voice • telling him to help her husband up, lie said he.got Morgan to his feet and led him into the house.Then, Ball called Virgil G. Crabtree, an investigator from his law office and in-troduccd Mrs. Morgan's statement, which Crabtree said he had taken Nov. 16, 1967.The twu attorneys argued for almost half an hour before Judge Allen Miller overruled Burnett’s obpections and admitted the statement.At Burnett’s insistence, Mrs. Morgan took the witness stand and refused t.o. answer any questions on the grounds her testimony might tend to Incriminate her.if * if *IN THE statement admitted in evidence Thursday, she told of arriving at the Frutchey home about L a.m. and finding her daugh-house indicated an altercation had occurred, she said, she called her husband andtold him to niuve Charleen and the children out.WliUe she waited, her statemenL said, Frutchey . arrived, “drunk and belligerent” and grabbed her by the arm and asked: What's going on here.”■ She said she got away— from Frutchey and went outside to meet her husband, and while she was out in front of the houseshe heard what she thought was a shot.When she went back intothe house, the statement said, she saw a gun lying on the floor, and saw the two . men fighting.* if. * * •“I RECALL pointing and firing the gun and hearing . the sound of explosions.“I have no distinct recol-..lection of how many sho.ts I • could have fired, but I believe I was holding the gun about two or three feet from Jim Frutchey.“BecaiKSe of my discover-; ing the gun in the trunk of ■' the car several days later. Ibelieve I must have returned to the house by way. of my automobile, parked in front of the garage, at-which time T must have thrown the gun in the trunk of the car.”Thieves Take Fifty FrocksBurglars smahed a rear window of Con ternpra Fashions at 3520 Long Beach Blvd. and escaped withBeach police Thursday.Legia Clayton, owner nf the store, estimated the loss at $5,000-the Sheriff’s Department a gun in the waistband of hailed the ' helicopter - pa- his trousers when he ar-troled Lakewood crime rec- rjVed. ord.“This single fact (reduction in Lake wood robber-more than 50 dresses, it ter, Charleen, asleep.- Be- .was reported to Long cause the condition of thei Saves Man Who Refused Blood
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