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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1959
Page
7
A bank robbery attempt at a Cleveland Trust Co branch ended with the holdup man dead after police siege and tear gas. Fox, the manager, was kidnapped but released along with some employees. his daughter Marilyn aided the escape and provided details of the event.
Marilyn described a kidnapping in which a woman presented a ticking object and claimed it was a bomb. The captor tied Bonnie and Marilyn's mother and herself but not gagging them. Marilyn freed herself, called police, and gave a description: a dirty blonde woman in a knitted blue suit, about 5 feet 4 inches, age 30 to 35, with short straggly hair.
Edward Montey, wounded burglary suspect in the Gross Lumber Co. case, waived extradition to the Virginia State Penitentiary after FBI confirmation of his Virginia escape. He was shot by Carlisle Police Chief Lonnie Fryman while fleeing Sept. 17 and required extensive treatment. Montey has prior sentences in Leavenworth and South Carolina prisons. The investigation found broken drawers at the Gross offices with no missing items.
Three boys stole three horses from Charlton Livery Stable in Newark. Sol Green, the stable operator, said he last saw the aged truck horses as the youths headed south.
Janes Edward Mills 26 died after collapsing while playing basketball with former Franklin High School teammates at the north end playground. He suffered a cerebral hemorrhage and did not regain consciousness at Middletown Hospital. Survived by parents William and (unnamed) Mills, brother William Jr, sister Mary Lou Brown, and grandparents. Funeral 2 p.m. Friday at First Baptist Church. Burial Woodhill Cemetery. Burial arrangements by Wilson Memorial Home.
Elizabeth Booth 87 of 144 Orchard St died at 12:30 am at Garden Manor Nursing Home after 10 months illness. native of Warren County she lived in Middletown most of her life. Survived by daughters Ada Walters J R Bowman sister Julia Milne two grandchildren one great grandchild. Services Friday 2 pm at Church of the Ascension Rev Sidney C McCammon. burial Woodside Cemetery. Memorials to the church urged.
Nell Kramer 64 died after a heart attack at Middletown Hospital. A Middletown resident 25 years, she worked for P Lorillard Co and belonged to Holy Trinity Church. Survived by husband Fred, daughter Helen Barker of Danville KY, and brothers Cardinal and Bernard Gibbons. Requiem High Mass at Holy Trinity Friday 9:30 a.m. Burial Woodside Cemetery. Visitation at Joseph R Baker & Sons Funeral Home tomorrow 3-5 and 7-9 p.m.
Miss Louise Richter 96 former head seamstress for John Ross Store died September 7 in Wilsonville Oregon. She lived with a niece Mrs Harry Lane and had previously lived with the late Mrs Barbara Reinhardt on 2nd Avenue before leaving Middletown 16 years ago.
The obituary notes she worked at Ross for 25 years and belonged to Bethlehem Lutheran Church. Surviving sisters live in Wilsonville and Cleveland.
Graveside services for Mrs Mary Florence Watson 75 a native of the Lebanon area will be held at 11 a.m. tomorrow at Washington Park Cemetery near Indianapolis. She died yesterday at Wright Rest Home Mason and resided with her daughter Mrs James C Free 117 Pelham Dr Kettering the sole immediate survivor. Arrangements by Oswald Funeral Home.
Elmer D. Wills known as Jack, 60, of 129 FE Main St., Lebanon, died at 9 30 a m yesterday at Miami Valley Hospital Dayton. A World War I veteran and native of the area, he is survived by his wife Bonnie and a brother Rev Robert Wills of Cleveland.
Friday service will be led by Rev. J. Thor McHendry at the Oswald Funeral Home with burial in Lebanon Cemetery. Friends may visit the residence after ten tomorrow and in the evening.
Sister Mary Edith SND de na dies at Notre Dame Convent. Funeral services set for 8:30 a m at Notre Dame Convent Chapel.
London reports Field Marshal Lord Ironside 79 died Monday night after a heart attack. In Britain his long army career is noted as among the most romantic in 41 years of service. Also from Maine John Mead Howells 91, architect of landmark buildings, died Tuesday at Kittery Point.
Vienna report says composer Josef Matthias Hauer 77, theorist and author of the 12 tone technique, died Tuesday. He was associated with notable buildings and campuses, including Harvard Yale Columbia Tribune Tower Pan Hellenic and Daily News structures in New York. The obituary notes his influence on modern music theory and serialism.
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