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Three bound over todayThree men were bound over to circuit court for the filing of criminal charges after probable cause hearing in Saline County Municipal Court this morningMunicipal Judge 0. Wendell Hall found probable cause for the filing of burglary charges against Clifton R Swanson after Deputy Sheriff Joe Romeo testified that Sunday night he and Deputy Sheriff Lenard Lewis had responded to a call concerning a burglary in progress at Jellystone Park on Highway 5 and had apprehended Swanson after Swanson came out of a window in the store building Romeo and Lewis said in anPurcell to seek his third termLt. Gov. Joe Purcell. 53, of Benton said Monday he would, as expected, seek re-electionPurcell is serving his second term He earlier served as Benton city attorney and later as Benton municipal judge. He also served two terms as attorney general, but, in 1970, lost his bid for the Democratic nomination for governorHe was chairman one year of the Democratic Party State CommitteewOffice-separation ordinance passedThe Saline County Quorum Court has ap-incident report that inside the building several items had been found in a bag. Bail for Swanson was set at $3,000.In another case the judge found probable cause for the filing of burglary charges against Randolph Wallace and Willie Mitchell, both of Little Rock, after Deputy Sheriff Nolon Higgins testified that he and Deputy Sheriff Mick Richards had arrested the two men Thursday afternoon because they and the vehicle they were in answered descriptions given by a woman who returned home and found two men attempting to burglarize her Hilldale Road mobile home on Wednesday Higgins said the woman had stated that the men had chased her and brandished a gun. Higgins said the woman had identified the suspects as the two men who had been at her home. Higgins said he and Richards had pursued the two men on Highway 367 at speeds up to 90 miles per hour before apprehending them The judge set bail at $10,000 each on the men.In another case the judge set bail at $1,000 for Gerald Jackson, 19. of Grant County, who was accused of burglarizing the Haynes supermarket at East End Sunday night No hearing was held on the facts of the case. Sheriff Joe Richards said Monday that a juvenile had bee arested in connection with the Haynes burglary and was turned over to juvenile court Incident reports by Deputies Roy Huggins and Skeeter Griggs stated that the burglary was reported at 1:45 a m Sunday and a short time later two suspects were arrested by Trooper Gary Allen in Grant County and $62.65 worth of merchandise was found in the car and in another location an additional $307.34 worth of merchandise was found
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Benton Courier
Benton, Arkansas, US
Tue, Feb 28, 1978
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