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Arraignments To Include O'Neil, Welch On Mur der Charges. TRIALS TO BE FIXED 2 Indicted For Burglary While Awaiting Appeals On Same Count. Arraignment of prisoners held in the county jail awaiting trial on felony charges, will be held Thurs day morning before Judge Ann Agiler. Prisoners on bond will be called in to enter their pleas before the end of the week Trials will be fixed immediately for those who plead not guilty, and the criminal work of the term will be cleaned up before the summer vacations. Michael O'Neil, one-leered cross ing watchman, who admitted he shot and killed Louis Novak near Justus last week as they were re turning In Novak's buggy from the victim's home, and Morris Welch, charged with a murder here nearly a year ago, were indicted in the second degree. O'Neil and Novak had been pals for years, and the former said the shooting was accidental, his pistol being fired when Novak grabbed it as he was about to shoot at an animal on the road. O'Neil was said to have been intoxicated. Welch is charged with killing Mrs. Mabel Burkhart nearly a year ABD. He was arrested in Akron recently when Mrs. Burkhart's five year-old son recognized him and pointed him out to his father, who called police. Welch was arrested in a picture house. It is alleged that he shot Mrs. Burkhart because she resented his attentions, Charles Phys Thomas and John fF. Zuber, under conviction and sentence to the penitentiary for burglary, were indicted on the same bar as the result of another of fense said to have been committed while their first conviction was pend ing in the court of appeals. They were arrested for ignoring a stop6ign in Minerva and search of their automobile disclosed goods and tools which resulted in a charge of burglarizing an Alliance garage. John James Murray was indicted with them. Other indictments announced as a result of the grand jury's work include: Ralph Myers, robbery; Frank Cassidy, pocket picking; Sam Grant, Leslie Coleman, Luke Coleman and Herman Hermyer, burglary and lar ceny; Ed Williams, robbery; Frank Yodice and Harry Anderson, rob bery; James J. Lewis and Vera Tews, grand larceny; Sam Smith, shooting to kill; James Staten, grand larceny.
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Canton Daily News
Canton, Ohio, US
Wed, Jun 16, 1926
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