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llII% IJOHN VITT DRAWS A HEAVY SENTENCEIThe Kansas City Hoodlum Convicted of Springfield, Mo., Robbery.»(Hit t hr AM/cltitcd Prc*9.)SPRINGFIELD, Mo., March 30.— The legal-luck that rode with him through - thirty-six - arrests without ! a conviction in Jackson -County soured today on dapper, baldishJohnny Vittorino, better known asI Vitt, the Kansas City hoodlum, whomoved out of,his orbifcjdast fall to ply'his' trade in Springfield. Nowlt;-V:Johnny has to s$rve ten years in f the Missouri .penitentiary. .A Greene,Co.unty jurg here today found Vitt guilty. of buvgulary andf larceny in connection with the rob-'V/ i IlM\ bery last November\e 16 of two f Springfield dress shops/ His pun-. \’y'. . j Jl' i* . *I ishm'ent'is si^years on the burglaryVI:e. of John i .‘one s.ds to ation phos-some aimdsscharge and four for larceny. His trial began Monday.Although Kansas City'police have arrested Vitt many times, he ‘has escaped prosecution there:Last November 16,-’J;. Fj Judkins and.H. D. Brigham, .highway patrolmen, ' caught Vitt ' and .^Salvatore Harris; and v Jimmy George near Holmes Park outside Kansas City on U. S. Highway No. 71:; .-In their car/’, were forty-seven dresses and fifty-seven furrco^at$--y^Sed'';at.. $4,-000, stolen that night^|Iroitiv“iwo Springfield shops. * ‘ Hanris- ; • and • George, are awaiting trial.In the falli. of 1936 Sergt. Matt j Ryan .and two other officer£shot at j a motor car'driven by Vitt when it sped away.from the Westem-.States Grocery company warehouse.; at 406 Independence* avenue, Kansas City, where the safe was robbed that night of $40. Charged with second degree, burglary Vitt was freed when Bernard C. Leep, a patrolman who was with Ryan, could not identify
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Chillicothe Constitution Tribune
Chillicothe, Missouri, US
Wed, Mar 30, 1938
Page 5
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