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Alleged Slayer of Zue Crook CaughtAWOL Soldier To Be Ex* amined For SanityHarrison, Ark.. Oct. E lt;7Pj—Four Marion county residents* said today they had seen Kenneth D Specie, 23-year-old AWOL soldier near the | mountain cabin where a state pol | iceman and a retired railroad man ' were killed.Police said the four positively identified Speegle as the man they hid seen near the cabin of Sue E. Cook former Flora and Logsns-port. Ind. man. Crook's body was found nearby in a shallow grave after state patrolman S. V. Pavatt was k Med Sept. 25 by a shot fired from «he cabin.Two other witnesses /ailed to i-dentjfy the suspect. A seventh picked another man.Specie, captures: in Oklahoma Tuesday, was brought io state police district headquarters today tf. be viewed by thf witnesses. Prosecutor R. E. Ruh. Harrison, nncd and stale police Capl. J. Earl 'ding | Scroggin said Speegle claims his memory is blank from the time he left Fort Lewilt;, Wash., until shortly before his capture.Speegle cries when his war decorations are mentioned but otherwise has shown no emotion during his questioning. Today, however, he laughed when one of the witnesses, a woman, picked out another man He is under two first-degree murder charges and is to be committed to the state hospital for k mental examination after the state police comolctc their questioningTrain Likely To Be
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Logansport Press
Logansport, Indiana, US
Sat, Oct 09, 1948
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