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• *' Oil heir gels f four years for burglaryDALLAS (UP!) — James LeBus, heir to an East Texas r,;-oi! fortune and a member of r- the Wichita Falls country club .set, yesterday was sentenced r.. to four years ui prison for J masterminding a burglary ; ring that preyed on hisI ; ..wealthy friends,t The trial, which had been-*■. ’ ^switched from Wichita Fallsi* ’on a change of venue becausei i' of publicity, began early thisr - week with LeBus, 3?, declar-i • . Uig that he was innocent of alli .. - charges.»•; ■' But suddenly during the ; midst of questioning, hie an-n'nounccd that he wished to ’ ■ 'change his plea to guilty.' i\;Judge Stanley Kirk stopped I' the trial and senterxed the stockbroker to prison.Ai- LeBus, a well-known-amateur golfer in the state,: • ‘ confessed to obtaining gold i ^ • and silver bars taken in a £24.000 burglary of the Metallic Development Corp.J - ” iii Wichita Falls, nn Dec. 21, 1974. He also said he helped , ^ “distribute*’ them on the East ‘; ' Coast.i •■ • The wealthy Texan alsoi pleaded guilty to three other f indictments returned by theII Wichita 'County grand jury.\ o The grand jury reportedly re-I ► lied on information gathered ? t by a vigilante group known as* - the ‘’Victims.*’ which stakedout suspects in the case and* ____j i __________
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Daily Review
Hayward, California, US
Thu, Sep 02, 1976
Page 2
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Wichita F.
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