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BOYS CONFESS HOME THEFTS| Trio Held for Jury; Are Turned Over by Juve-in •nile CourtThree young confessed thieves and burglars were held to the intermediate grand jury Tuesday when they were arraigned before Municipal | Judge Cyrus W. Hall on felony | charges. Two of them were charged Si with four offenses and the third r( with one offense. r ; They are John Carney. 18 years 1 old. of 1005 Hendrix avenue: Russell Walker, 17 years old, of 1437 Frame street: and Richard Carden. 15 years old. of 1512 Seventh avenue.^ I All three were sent to the state I industrial school for boys at Prunty-| town in 1934, Detective Finley Cook cj said Tuesday, and all three escaped.| They were caught and returned to ’ the institution and were later re-■ | leased. In 1935, the Carden youth 131 i w^s sent again to the reformatory, , but was released, Detective Cook | said.j The juvenile court here, the de-3* | tective said, refused to handle the i latest cases of the youths.In Several Thefts te! Carney is charged with stealing 2. a car, valued at $700, from Victor h j Johnson; breaking and entering the is I home of D. P. Cox.' of 623 Grant j; ] street; breaking and entering the j home of Mrs. Herbert C. Harrison, j. at 922 Red Oak street; and breaking ,s ! and entering the home of G. E. Trout j n at *725^12 Central avenue.Walker is charged with breaking and entering four homes, those of Mr. Cox, Mrs. Harrison, Mr, Trout | and T. E. Garner, of 1207 Park ave-S nue.J? i The Carden boy is charged with ! breaking and entering the home of i Mr. Garner.Detective Cook said that the three, after questioning, readily confessed breaking and entering the houses and stealing various articles and some money. Carney, when arrested by Officer Dan Prowse, was in the , stolen car. getting ready to leave the city, Cook said.Gang Believed Broken Detectives said Tuesday that with ^ j the arrests they believed that they (r i had broken up one of the gangs that ,sjare burglarizing West Side homes. s As a result of the confessions of d; the youths, a police investigation may be begun into West Side gam-1, I bling places.J. j The boys in confessing what thev t j had stolen from the homes, they en-j- j tered, according to Cook, said that I- j they had spent what money they | got in a West Washington street n gambling place, in betting on horse a! races and for baseball tickets,‘ { The boys took detectives to a va-cant lot at Park and Central avenues. I and told them that was where they j, had thrown two watches that they , l_* | had stolen from the Garner home, j ’I The detectives, searching in the lot. I found the watches, d Detective Cook said that some of _ j the stolen articles had been recov-a I ered.Arrested on SuspicionOn Sunday afternoon. Detective £! Cook and Officer Dan Prowse ar-c j rested Walker on suspicion. His h | shoe. Cook said, fitted a shoe printleft at one of the homes that had ^] J I V V c» u vj been burglarized.!J j Tom Robertson, juvenile probation _ | officer, and Detectives Cook and Ed Shuck began questioning Walker, d! and he finally admitted breaking and jt i entering the houses and implicated | Carney and Carden.In the meantime. Detective Cook!. ! said, Carney had learned of Walk-t er’s arrest and was preparing to- j leave town. When Carney was ar-| rested Sunday night by Officer , Prowse. Cook said, he had stolen a, ! car belonging to Mr. Johnson and { was ready to drive to Moundsville. :1 j where he planned to visit an aunt, ij j Carney readily confessed. Detee-j jtive Cook said, when he was con-j fronted with the informatoin that -! the officers had learned from Walk-- er.
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Charleston Daily Mail
Charleston, West Virginia, US
Tue, Jan 14, 1936
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