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Page8A Aiken Standard, Aiken, S.C., Thursday, June 1, 1978Police Find Fugitive While Answering AdTACOMA. Wash. (AP) - Police Lt Krling Marvik. shopping for a second car. answered a newspaper ad for a 1970 Valiant Instead of buying a car. he found himself scuffling with an armed fugitive wanted on murder, rape and kidnap charges.Robert Carl Hohenberger, wanted m Louisiana and California, died late Wednesday of a bullet woundreceived during his arrest earlier in the day. Police said Hohenberger shot himself in the head with his own 22 revolver.Karl Averill. a spokesman for St Joseph Hospital, said Hohenberger lived about 2'z hours after doctors operated to remove bullet fragments from his brain Marvik. head of the Tacoma police internal affairs office, said he answered an ad on Tuesday for a used car.Dressed in street clothes. Marvik. who had not identified himself as a policeman, visited the apartment where Hohenberger lived in a commercial. industrial section of TacomaI felt there was something rather suspicious about the situation.” Marvik said Wednesday “It was a Louisiana car. he was living alone here, said he was broke. I just thought something must be out of placeMarvik ran a computer check on the car Wednesday morning and found it was registered to Frank Henry Green, an alias used by Hohenberger in Morgan City. La , where he did odd jobs from December until he disappeared about two weeks ago Marvik returned to the apartment Wednesday to arrest Ho-henberger. bringing with him several plainclothes police who waited out of sight while he approached the apartment“I told him I wanted to look at the car once more, he walked out of the apartment. I gave a pre-arranged signal and the others came in.” saidMarvik.“I told him he was under arrest, he looked around and tried to run — tried to make a break I grabbed him. wrestled him to the ground and the gun went off.The lieutenant said he had not seen the gun before the scuffle, but knew from teletype reports that the man probably was armed with a 22 revolverFBI agent Ray Mathis in Seattle said warrants outstanding against Hohenberger. 35. included first-degree murder and kidnapping charges in Louisiana and rape, kidnap and sex-perversion charges in CaliforniaHohenberger. a drifter originally from Indiana, was sought nationwide after the bodies of three teen-agers were found in Morgan City, La., late last week — two in a cylindrical septic tank and another buried about five miles away.Hohenberger was wanted on charges of kidnapping and raping a California coed late last year, shortly after he was paroled from a California prison He had served several terms on for assault convictionsHohenberger was working at a Morgan City welding shop under the name of Frank Green when he disappeared after two girls were abducted from a shopping center onMay 11
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Aiken Standard
Aiken, South Carolina, US
Thu, Jun 01, 1978
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