Young Robbers Caught After Neighborhood Chase in Miami
In Miami two teens stole a purse from Rose Marie Vernell and were chased by about 30 citizens. Police Maj. Philip Doherty rescued them as residents captured one suspect with a chain. Johnny Battle, 19, was charged with robbery. the 14-year-old was returned to his parents.
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Miami
Philip Doherty
Johnny Battle
Doherty
Rose Marie Vernell
Miami Beach
Thomas Hill
Jack Carr
Rudolph Shoucair
Ma. Vernell
Hill
Personal News of Paris Excerpt Highlights Local Events
Local residents return from holidays visiting relatives in Harrisburg and Leavenworth. A son Cecil Brian Turnbough was born December 16 at Community Hospital in Moberly weighing seven pounds four ounces. Mike Norman will assume duties January 5 as music and youth director at Paris Baptist Church. Various church events and seminars on death are announced through February led by Reverend Bundy and others. The state Baptist evangelical conference is set for January 10 to 12 in Springfield with several church committees listed.
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David Turnbough
Dee
Community Hospital
Moberly
Cecil Brian
Roy Turnbough
Russell Boston
Paris
Cecil Reichart
Mike Norman
Paris Baptist Church
Norman
Tom Carr
Roger Harris
R.V. Spencer
Dean Turner
Dallas Bundy
Robert Warbritton
E.H. Agnew
Floyd Lawson
State Baptist Evangelical Conference
Springfield
Roger Levings
Oscar Tawney
Wallace Orton
Charles Ensor
George Flynn
Carl Wood
Phil Havens
Charles Forbis
Alan Million
Ken Woodward
Steve Enger
Paris Christian Church
Macon
Innocent Of Murders Found In Mental Health Ruling
VERSAILLES Mo AP A Barnett man aged 54 was found innocent by reason of mental disease or defect on two counts of capital murder and a felony assault charge. He was ordered to a state mental hospital for psychiatric care. The case involved the stabbing death of his wife Bertha Purl 49 and the shooting of two Barnett teenagers Paul Grose 16 and Eugene Blain 17 on January 14 1976. Purl surrendered after an 18 hour manhunt by Missouri authorities.
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Versailles
Barnett, Mo
aVend Purl
Morgan County
Dean Whipple
Purl
Barnett
Bertha Purl
Paul Grose
Eugene Blain
Jefferson City
Highway Patrol
Missouri
Grose
Blain
Inmate Stabbed at Penitentiary in Sunday incident
Donald Wyrick, a state prison inmate, was questioned after a prison corridor stabbing that left Robert Rutan with 14 stab wounds and in serious condition at the prison hospital. Rutan, 32, was from St. Louis, serving a 13 year term for first degree robbery with two additional 10 year terms for two inmate murders.
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Jeeperson City
Donald Wyrick
Robert Rutan
Rutan
Wyrick
St. Louis
Personal News of Wellsville Holiday Socials Recap
Personal News of Wellsville lists Christmas gatherings and holiday visits across towns. Families hosted relatives from Bellflower Columbia Benton City Laddonia High Hill Martinsburg Vandalia Wellsville Kirksville and St. Clair with guests including Mr and Mrs David Mitchell and sons, Miss Peggy Oliver, Miss Holly Hale, and Ruth Reagan plus Roger O Leary and Micky O Leary in Peoria.
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Wellsville
David Mitchell
Herbert Blaue
Virgie Lehnen
Dean Rodgers
Bellflower
Randy Rodgers
Peggy Oliver
Columbia
Jim Whalen
Benton City
Billy Blaue
Laddonia
Andy Lady
High Hill
Holly Hale
Martinsburg
Terry Gibson
Vandalia
Sam Fort
Dale Blane
Paula Reagan
St. Clair
Ron Reagan
Kirksville
Ruth Reagan
Roger O'Leary
Micky O'Leary
Peoria
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Mexico
Briggs & Stratton
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Earl May
Leland May
Cook County Board
George W. Dunne
Cook County
Democratic Central Committee
Chicago
Dunne
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