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Winchester Evening Star

Location

Winchester, Virginia, United States of America

Date

Mar 31, 1950

Page

6

Arrests Made In Kidnapping Near Governor's Mansion

FBI traced fingerprint from a bottle at the assault to a car owned by Utah Eugene Wilson, prompting a nationwide search. Two brothers were charged with kidnapping and killing 18 year old Jo Ann Dewey near Vancouver Washington, with her body found March 26 at Wind Creek near Stevenson. The investigation linked abandoned cars and a faulty exhaust to the case. Jo Ann Dewey had called her mother from the Vancouver depot asking for a ride to Portland minutes before the attack.

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Preaching Planned at Galilee Sunday Evening

Local notes report Mr Arthur O Orndorff improving at his Winchester home after a ten day illness. James Taylor bought a Studebaker in Winchester last week. Banquet by C L Brumback & Sons for International Harvester at Winchester Armory draws many locals. State Highway crews shoulder the Welltown Pike Road.

Motorola James Taylor Studebaker Winchester Joah Good Dessie Hensell William Good Kernstown International Harvester Co William Lockhart C. J. Orndorff Washington Baltimore

Martinsburg Man Given Eight Years

James Roscoe Walburn, 34, of Martinsburg, was sentenced to eight years in Maryland state prison for charges of brutal abuse of his infant son. The mother testified he shook the child by the shoulders, squeezed the infant between his knees, held it by a foot, shook it, and slapped and mauled the baby at their Deep Creek Lake home in Garrett County on October 29.

James Roscoe Walburn Martinsburg Maryland

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