The border vidette., 1933-09-02
MURRELl is ReTURNO HERE TO
FACE TRIAL

Ted Murrell, 21. alias Irving
Wharburton, Of Los Angeles,
jointly charged with attempted
kidnapping Of Jack Trippell. 12-
year-o!d son Of Mrs Dorothy
Trippell of this CITY, was ar
raigned before Justice Charles
E Hardy here today and was
held to trial in the superior court,
says Yesterdays Herald. Bond
was fixed at $4,000.
Murrell, who waived extradi
ton in California. also waived
preliminary hearing today in
order to expedite procedure.
Murrell was brought to No
gales this morning by Sheriff
Harold j. Brown who left here
Wednesday night for Los An
geles where Murrell was being
held.
A new charge, drawn here
August 18 by Cou nty Attorney
E. r Thurmsn charged Alfred
A. TrippeIl, Richard Sommers.
and Theodore r Murrell with
attem pied abduction Of the Trip
pell boy.
Sommers is being held in Jail
here and the elder Trippell is at
large 10 California.
According to differs the at
tempt to kidnap the Nogales boy
was made on last July 4. Muir
rell, who came here under an as
sumed name of Richard Whar
burton. accompanied bv Som
mers, attended the Circle z rodeo
and it is said that they lured the
Trippell boy to the Nogales air
port where an airplane was wait
ing.
The boy, sensing danger. ran
screaming to the protection of
White, airport manager, and
Murrell jumped into the plane
and took off in the direction of
California.
Sommers was arrested the fol
lowing day in his room here but
Murrell escaped. He was later
located in California and at first
fought extradition but later
waived the procedure.
According to reports the father
of the the Trippell boy, "A. A.
Trippell, who is divorced from
bis wife, was allegedly behind
the attempt to kidnap the boy
1t is said that before leaving Los
Angeles for Nogales Murrell was
seen 10 conference with Trippell.
The Baptist ladies missionary
society met Thursday afternoon
at the church on Smelter street
at 2:3O for a business session,
after a. vacation of several
months. Regular meetings will
be held every Thursday during
the fall and winter.
Mrs. w. w. Lockhart and two
children are here from Mesa for
a week and will be the house
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Robert
S. Burns of Court street. and
Mr.. and Mrs. j. J. Harris of
Noon street. The Lockharts re
sided here before going to Mesa.
A Labor Day Legion dance
will be held tonight at Legion
club house, Camp Little, starting
at $50 p. m. The Legion com.
mittee in charge is A. G. Reid,
chairman; Robt. S. Burns, B. B.
Buckeridge. T. Turner and E. T.
Richards. Music will be furn
ished by Peltier's orchestra.
Dudley Pitts, of Los Angeles,
who with his wife is making his
home in Nogales, has opened nice
Offices in the Montezuma hotel
and will deal in mining properties
and mining machinery, including
gold mills, wet and dry gold
washers. List your mining prop
critics with Mr.. Pitts if you want
quick action.
Four persons we're seriously
injured late Monday night on the
Nogales- Tucson highway near
Kinsley's, when the small sedan
they were driving overturned
three times as a cause of a tire
blowout. The injured, Mrs. Rose
Holden. Charles Chase, Charles
Winston and a Mr.. Cahill, we're
taken to the St. Mary's hospital
in Tucson.
Carlos Ruppelius, formerly of
Nogales, who with his family
now resides in Phoenix, arrived
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