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Police Expected To Go To DallasMADISON, W. Va. (UPi) — Two West Virginia state police officers were expected to travel to Dallas, Tex., today to bring back a suspect in the kidnap-robbery of a Madison jeweler and his wife whose bodies werev found last week in a remote -region of Tennesee.Clifford Caudill, 38, of Huntington, waived extradition proceedings Monday to face charges of kidnapping and robbery in West Virginia, according to Trooper C. R, Duncan. A Dallas charge of illegal possession of a gun wasroutinely d mooed.Duncan said Wes Finley, Jr., 26, of Dingess, Mingo County, held in Boone County jail on similar charges, escaped from a Georgia penitentiary in Dec. 26, '1976, while serving a sentence for burglary and car theft.Boone County Circuit Judge Jerry Cook set bond of $200,000 Monday for Finley and a third suspect, William Wesley York, 23, also of Dingess, Both men were arrested after the bullet-Committee (COMPAQ, doui support Miller and predict he’llpunctured bodies of Aubrey and’ Alberta Hawkins were discovered near a mountain stream.Police said $176,000 in jewelry and cash was taken from the Hawkins shop. An undisclosed ^amount was retrieved in Huntington Monday, ..Dallas police said they found jewelry and cash in Caudill’s car Sunday, when he was picked up during a routine traffic check.Authorities said no murder* charges would be lodged until an autopsy determines whether the Hawkins and his wife were killed in Tennessee or West Virginia.“We are led to believe the shootings took place in Ten-* nessee,” said Boone County Prosecuting Attorney Matt Bouldin. “If it should later develop the shootings took place in West Virginia, warrants would be prepared here.”Following the bond hearing, Bouldin theorized that other persons may have been involved in the crime.“You have a big robbery, it doesn't just drop out of the sky,’ ’ said the prosecutor. “Somebody’s going to buy that jewelry.”However, Bouldin said he had no evidence to support his“idea.”
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Weirton Daily Times
Weirton, West Virginia, US
Tue, Jun 07, 1977
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