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Coroner’sJuryLauds Cops ForSlaying GunmanrNILES. Sept. 2* lt;AP~ A six-man coroners, jury has cited two state police mho ran down and killed holdup man Bruce McLeod of Pontiac for “courageous action.At the same time the Berrien county jury condemned the practice of sending lam* enforcement officers alone on dangerous as.sig-is, citing the kidnaping of Cass couiv Deputy Sheriff FYcd Gardnerbv McLeod.♦The jury sitting Monday commended State Troopers Andres Muth and Patrick Lyons. They asked that the troopers' action be contained in a full report at state police headquarters.Muth and L\ons chased McLeod, a 23-year-old ex-convict, Saturday, and shot him down near Three Oaks. It Mas the end of a wild crime spree that began Friday night when McLeod robbed a Highland Park supermarket of $8,000.McLeod then kidnaped two motorists. stole three cars and disarmed two deputies kidnaping one of them. Muth and Lyons ran McLeod down in a fast automobilemchase. Muth testified to the jury that he fired twice in the air and McLeod had fired twice at him before he shot the desperado.The jury said Muth had acted “onlv In the line of duty” and “at great personal risk to his own life ”The comer's jury was composedof J. L. McOmber, foreman; Paul Mantke, Charles Moon. Durlm Wheeler. Walter Miller and NedDunn.—all of Niles.Dr. Franklin Rice, comer presided at the inquest.Meanwhile in Bloomfield township near Pontiac, police found two sacks containing $608. Thev saidI!the money wasthe loot McLeod the robberv Wiltn he wasprobably part of had gathered m}shot, state policeat Niles found $3,975 on his body.KIDNAPED BOYSTILL MISSINGParents Frantic For BoyStolen From School By ‘Praying’ WomanKANSAS CITY. Sept 29 (AP) —The millionaire parents of a 6-%ear-old bov. kidnaped by a woman who! pra\ed before the abduction, said I today they were willing to go to any length1? to get their child back safelv.The bo\. Robert Cocgro\ e Green-lease. Jr.. was lured from his classes I in an exclusne private school on a
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St Joseph Herald Press
St Joseph, Michigan, US
Tue, Sep 29, 1953
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