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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1974
Page
8
Police say coyotes or other wild animals likely killed a string of Brentwood cats. Earlier reports blamed devil worshipers. Lt. Roy Salis noted residents buried cats before officials could gather details. A cat found with a torn abdomen was attributed to a nearby mountain predator.
Long Beach detectives said a 20 year old Paramount man, Frank Edward Archerd, was arrested on fingerprint evidence and tied to 73 burglaries in the Wrigley district since June, with property losses up to 25000. Archerd is held on 5000 bail for burglary and narcotics charges.
Gerald John Schill Jr., 7 year old San Pedro man, held on $100,000 bail after prosecutors say he confessed to murder. He faces one count of assault with a deadly weapon after an ax attack on a 19 year old Long Beach State coed in Signal Hill. Police link him to the slayings of three Southland women. detectives probe further in LA and Costa Mesa cases. Preliminary hearing set for Oct 29 at 1:30.
An experienced pilot on a Long Beach to Santa Monica flight may have crashed into a mountain north of Altadena on Oct 7 after a radar controller lost track of the four place Cessna 205. Investigators say the Los Angeles radar station did not issue a required left turn. The crash occurred in bad weather in the Angeles National Forest. Pilot Norman Mannis, 43, of Bel Air, had filed an instrument flight plan and was under Los Angeles air traffic control after takeoff.
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