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Caught Taking Coal Valued at $2 from Crisrnan Firm Thursday Night. Plead Guilty.VOW THEY’LL NEVER ATTEMPT IT AGAINGary residents who believe they can come over into Porter county and carry away property have another think coining.Lloyd Burke, 2R, married and father of two children, find Alvin Moore, 32, single, were sentenced t.o -Y'Ovt/M- county jail-f.r sixty tiny:? and fined $10 and costs by Judge Mark B, Rockwell in Porter superior court tliis morning on petit larceny charges.They were apprehended in the : a;:t of stealing 400 pounds of soft 1 coal valued at $2 from the property cl the Crlsman Caul company, at Crisman, Thursday evening about 3:30 o'clock. iFrank Nicholson, a farm bureau deputy sheriff, assisted by his : brother, George Nicholson, arrested : the pair, and turned them over to i Deputy Sheriff Frcemmv Lane and 1 •Jaff Turnkey Lafe Cobb.According to Nebs Nicholson, one 1 of the officials of. the Crisman Coal : cqmpany, from eight to ten tons of coal and more than 500- railroad ■ tics have bsen stolen fruu the com- ' pany this winter. ;Both inert entered guilty pleas to t the attempted thievery. The coal : was in the rear of Burke's Chevro- ] let car when Deputy Sheriff Nichot- i son placed them under arrest. Both i(Continued on page s, column 4) 1
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Valparaiso Vidette Messenger
Valparaiso, Indiana, US
Fri, Mar 11, 1932
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Porter C.
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