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SAILOR ARRESTED ■ .. ON BURGLARY CHARGE9 mHeld After Intruder Fled• *From Terrace ClubHeirfog Set For October $; Tiverton Man Df»let Illegal DredgingOf Quahogi»’ Bernard F. Cochrane, 30, of the navy, was committed without ball, when Edward L. Martin,!clerk of the district court,.'entered; r not guilty pka for him to a charge of burglary, brought by atate pollco of'the Portsmouth barrack's. The case was set down for hearing October,3.- : . ’: .. Cochrane, according* {o'police, entered the penthouse, apartmentoccupied by the family of . Commander'James W. Darroch; atop the Terrace Jlotel in *• Middletown, shortly .before • midnight a week last Tuesday, Commander Darroch awoke and surprised the burglar, who fled through a window onto the roof outside the apartment, .Middletown police . obtained a description of the sailor and found articles^ of i women’* clothing outside where : they , had apparently been hastily dropped. The assistance oU '-state police finger-printing expert was asked and the state-police took over the inquiry-- • ......Police said Cochrane, who appeared last Friday In court limping wajt picked,up as a. result of the description furnished them. Police theorize the hurgUr made his getaway'by going down a fire ea-cape after ’ jumping from tho toproof to a lower one.H*riPrF .T fnuafxi I'T ■
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Newport Mercury and Weekly News
Newport, Rhode Island, US
Fri, Oct 03, 1947
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