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VOLUME 105ESTABLISHED 1857$6000 JewelryRobbery SolvedColorado county jail has a new tenant, and Marshall Windham has many of the watches and rings taken from his jewelry in a burglary Mar. 6 back again.John Edward Perry, 38, of Beaumont, brought to jail here Monday evening from Houston, has admitted to officers that lie pulled the $6000 burglary and that he was the man Atty. Jack Allen surprised in his 2nd-floor office Mar. 5.All but 7 of the 59 watches and about half or more of the 200 or more rings taken in the burglary were recovered in Houston and others may be recovered as Deputy Sheriff Marvin Buller and Hunger Hollis Sillavan continue cheeking Perry’s. trail..Mr. Windham accompanied those 2 officers to Houston Tuesday and identified watches and rin^s recovered, many of them found in an apartment rented by Perry at 202 16th st.- in Houston. a sack of the diamond rings was found in the reservoir of a commode.A Houston jeweler With' whom Mr. Windham had done business tipped Houston officers about a rirs he suspected was taken In the Columbus burglary, .and Capt. Tommy Clark of the Houston police department telephoned Mr. Sillavan with that information Tuesday morning.Houston Detectives Tom Moffett and Tony Colca assisted the local officers in tracing Perry to :• the apartment which he had rented under the name of J. t). WarrernArmed with a search , warrant die officers went to the apartment and awaited Pefry’s return.Perry told the officers;'that he hid some of- the - watches ; and rings along a highway' but hadshop but now vacant.He picked up iron bars and tools from various places, pried open the back door of the N, L. Goodwin tax office the night of Mar. 6 and then chipped a hole in the wall between the tax office and the jewelry store.All but 3 TeachersHere Hired Again;Hiring of all Columbus school teachers except the Negro school principal, football coach and special education teacher was authorized Tuesday evening at a meeting of Columbus school board attended by all 7 members and Supt. Marley Giddens.Resignations of Principal Ralph Preston, Coach Henry Fluckus and Teacher Maude Booker have been accepted, effective'at- the end of the- school -year.Board Members O. P. Moore Jr., Roy Heffley, It. E. Walters, C. I. ShuJt, Mrs. J. H. Wooten, W. T. Youens auu N. J. Mainer discussed possibility of adding one or 2 more class rooms at the Negro school.-More roomjsneeded to relievecrowded 'conditions in fhe elementary school, Supt.- Giddens said.-The board also discussed their . efforts to pick a jsite for a new high school, plant, and Special Committee Members Mainer, Heffley and Wolters reported Engineer R. E. Schiller is checklh'^' bwf^r*PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY, COLUMBUS, TEXASCOLUMBUS Atty. Jack Ailen says this is the way a man was standing beside his desk about 8 p.m. Mar. 5 when Mr. Alien returned to his office. John Edward Perry, now in jail here, has admitted he was the man Mr. Alien surprised and also the one who burglarized Windham’s jewelry the next night.Citizen Photo* \It’s Show Time SoonColumbus FFA chapter's blggeat *Sheridan, Schulenburg publiclt;• . 1 » '__1__. —V J- TllnViAn YU^ flAhftAIevent of the year, the annual Livestock and Poultry show, is almosth«V. ':P- :■FFA': Advisers Jeff Farris andschool and Bishop Forest school bands and the . junior and seniorColumbus baadsi*'.: ••• -V ✓ v'.X.Qfivarnl WprAfnnl Anil AnfftlR
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Colorado Citizen
Columbus, Texas, US
Thu, Mar 14, 1963
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