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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1973
Page
15
Independent Press Telegram funds a 100000 reward for tips leading to arrests and convictions of criminals or fugitives. Informants are unnamed. contact Secret Witness by phone within stated hours or write to P O Box 67 Long Beach California 908... without giving your name.
Fragmentary OCR shows a vignette urging readers to choose a name and account code, with phrases about soil Harvey typed or printed information and a bottom letter code. The text mentions a code combining three letters and three numbers and instructions to tear off a page corner. Names like Georg Kanes appear in brackets.
The paper lists rewards for arrests and convictions in major cases, with amounts ranging from 500 to 4000 dollars. Names include Richard Roehl Jr, La mont Hale, Joyce King, Irving Watson, Michael Vander Schaaf, Kathleen La Chanee, Helga Brown, Velma Harris, Marguerite Makeig, Elliot Lawson, Frank Schiavone, and Shirley Schiavone. Information must go directly to Secret Witness.
In Pasadena Superior Court Carl McQuillion and Walter Curry face testimony from Virgil Bradley's friends about where he lived and whether he owned a phone or car. Jerry Stephens, friend of Bradley’s brother, testified Bradley was small, light, and not linked to a working phone. The case stems from a Dec 26, 1970, robbery and killings at Balk and Frank Sporting Goods, Long Beach. Proceedings continue Friday with the district attorney poised to call a West Virginia-based witness.
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