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MEN SUSPECTS IN SERIES OF THEFTSSEVEN MT. VERNONuni cncnrrrd !BENTON. ILL., Jan. 8- (UP) — Franklin county authorities today I announced that seven Mt. Vernon men were under arrest an suspects in a series of robberies atid a murder.ISheriff Browning Robinson said that one of the suspects admitted that members of the gang had slain Rosier Green, Jefferson county farmer.Five of the men— Herman Rich,Flwyn Gates. Russell Seffleld, Ross Moore and Joseph PhiMips -are under arrest here. Raymond Daily, the Sheriff said, is under arrest inPocahontas, Ark., and the seventhsuspect. Virgil Summers is in the Carrolton, 111., jail.One member of the gang, whoseidentity officers refused to reveal, said that the gang had held up filling stations in more than 20 southern Illinois counties.Information which led to the arrest of four members of the gang was obtained when three of them were arrested by State Highway Police in a stolen automobile near Monticello, 111.i
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Murphysboro Daily Independent
Murphysboro, Illinois, US
Mon, Jan 08, 1934
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