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Two Deputies Shot In Back; Youths HeldBodies Are Found In Brush Near Redding; Boys Found In TruckeeBULLETINTRUCKEE m — Two youth* sought to the slaying of two sheriffs deputies near Redding were captured today by California Highway Patrolmen.Patrolman George Shrom said the youths admitted killing the two officers. He said the guns of the sheriffs officers and three pairs of handcuffs were found in a grip the boys were carrying.• • •REDDING (X) — Two sheriffs deputies were found dead today near Gibson. Both had been shot through the back.An hour or so later, Deputy Sheriff Rex PurseU said the car that had been stolen from them was found near Truckee.The two were Undersheriff Earl Sholes, and Deputy Dan Heryford.The bodies were found in brush off U.S. Highway 99.Gibson is about 40 miles north of Redding.The sheriff said the two officers were returning from Seattle with two youths who had been captured there after escaping from the California Youth Authority camp at. Whitmore.The boys were identified by Sheriff John Balma as James McKay, 18, and Robert Sturm, 19.FOUND IN BRUSHHighway Patrolman Homer Osborne, who discovered the bodies, said the deputies’ pistols were missing, as was the car in which they had been traveling.Sheriff Balma and the State Highway Patrol immediately threw up roadblocks around -he area.The bodies were found in brush about a quarter mile off the highway, near the highway division camp at Gibson.Balma said McKay and Sturm escaped from the Whitemore camp April 29, and stole an automobile in Redding.They were captured in Seattle. Sholes and Heryford were sent north to return them.In Sacramento, officials of the (Continued on page seven)
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Daily Independent Journal
San Rafael, California, US
Fri, May 26, 1950
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