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TRAIL OF BLOOD GIVES POLICE CLEW IN $1,800 HOLDUPA few hours after a lone gunman robbed the Bank of Brookston Monday, Theodore Loveless of the state police announced Clarence Sekema, 20-year-old Tippecanoe county farm youth, had confessed the robbery and was held at the West Lafayette barracks.Between $1,500 and $1,800 taken from the bank's safe and drawers was recovered from a pasteboard carton in Sekema's home near Badger Grove, along the White-Tippecanoe county lineState police, warned by radio of the holdup shortly after it happened found the stolen automobile used in the robbery wrecked on state road No 43 where the driver had attempted to turn on a side road. Following a trail of bloodstains. Loveless said, they came to a farm sale and learned that Sekema. with a head injury, had appeared there and asked a friend to drive him homeThe officers followed, and arrested the youth Loveless said Sekema told of stealing the automobile at the farm sale, driving to Brookston and waiting for the bank to reopen after the noon hour before he enteredOfficers said Sekema was under suspended .sentence of two years for the $100 robbery of a grain elevator at Fowler.Miss Jessie Alkire, assistant cashier of the bank, was alon when a man with a handkerchief tied about his face entered, compelled her to lower the blinds on the bank's front windows, then gathered up the money from the cashier's cake and fledPleading guilty to a charge of bank robbery while armed. Clarence Sekema. 20 years old. son of Mr. and Mrs. Chester Sekema. residing eight miles southwest of Brookston. was sentenced to 20 years at the Indiana Stat? Reformatory by Judge Ralph McClurg in White circuit court shortly before noon Tuesday. The youth was taken to Pendleton by Sheriff Wm. J. Hayes.
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Delphi Journal
Delphi, Indiana, US
Thu, Jan 09, 1936
Page 5
Full Page
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William C.
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