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Ex-Atlantic PairHeld In $10,000Chicago TheftLarry Dean Baker, 18, and Murla Faye Turner, 15, former Cass county residents, are being held by San Diego, Calif., authorities after their Mexican elopement plans were foiled by border guards Sunday.Police said Miss Turner had nearly 88,000 in her purse and admitted taking $10,000 of her mother’s savings from a aafo deposit box to finance the trip.Miss Turner until recently had been staying with her grandmother, Mrs. George Jorgensen at Anita. Two months ago she went to live with her mother near CJiicago. Baker recently began working in Chicago.Authorities said they found $7,904 in their luggage, includ mg 38 $100 bills. They also found a pistol.Plan To MarryThe couple had plaonr*. to ge married in Tijuana and Mva h Mexico, it was reported.The mother, Mr*. CJeo Turner a said Baker visited in their home in Chicago last Friday morning but left before Murla left for school. Mrs. Turner said Murla arrived at the cafe where th mother worked later and said ah needed five signatures for a school paper she was going t write, asking her mother to sig her name at the bottom of a sheet of paper.San Diego Police Capt Ltoyd Devore quoted Mias Turner i saying she signed her mother name to a note stating Baker was her mother's nephew and should be allowed to open a bank aai deposit box with a key the gt had obtained earlier.Plew Te Prlaee % She said they flew to San Fra cisco last Friday, where they used ISM of the money to buy a 1181 convertible to drive to 1Juana, Mexico, where they hoped to get married.They were stopped at the bord er because the girl did not appear to be 18 years ok). Persons under 18 must be accompanied by a parent or legal guanttaa in order to croat into Mexico.Miss Turner is held at the Juvenile hail in San Diego. Baker was booked at the city JaH on suspicion of robbery and other charges.The girl's father, Archie Turner, live* in Atlantic. He and his wife are separated. Mrs. Turner said the safe deposit box contained her life savings of about $13,000.Baker is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Bollie Baker.pit
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Atlantic News Telegraph
Atlantic, Iowa, US
Mon, Sep 16, 1963
Page 5
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