St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1957-07-12


around the clock on the case
and finally located Speicher as
he came TO his home at 1910
Vincent Av. n. at s a. IN. sat
urday morning.
Speicher had only returned
from the hospital three weeks ago
where he went to recover from a
bullet wound which he received
when a bullet he fired from the
same gun in pistol practice richo-
cheted and struck him in the alb
domen.
The Varnado shooting occurred
according to Earthia Wiley, 10
years old, 22l4 Twelfth Av. S.
who is in General hospital suffer-
ing from a wound from the same
bullet which fatally wounded Var
nado, and Howard Nolan, Is.
1901 22nd Av. N, both of whom
were in the car, after Speicher
and a companion approached the
car TO demonstrate with Varnado
about IS Speicher and COM
Panion had allegedly given Var
nado to buy whiskey.
Statements to the police claim
Varnado took the money and
made no effort to get any whiskey
for Speicher and his companion.
Varnado then picked up a couple
Of girls whom he drove to the
Fremont Av. address.
Following the Varnado car.
Speicher claims his companion
Lucky" jumped from the car
when the other car stopped and
ran to with with a fashlight in
his hand.
SPeicher admits he also APP
preached the car with his gun
which he told police he didn't
know was loaded.
Speicher claims someone grab
bed the cooked gun and it went
off.
The gun was empty" Speicher
said. Il was sure Of that. I cooked
the pistol for a show Of strength.
Someone grabbed the gun and it
went off. I don't know how the
bullet got in there"
He told the police he threw the
pistol in the Mississippi River.
Nolan, who was released from
custody Wednesday said substan-
TALLY the same thing about how
the incident happened. He is I'M
der grand jury subpoena.
Speicher is being held awaiting
action Of the grand jury. He is
former army paratrooper and has
been a telephone repairman for
the past three and one-half years.
He has no prior police record.
Varnado served with the Air
Force in Korea. Since leaving the
service he has been picked up by
Minneapolis police on various
charges as many as 20 times re-
cords show. His last arrest was
for investigation in June.
The shooting set off a spate
Of rumors. Many persons said
the police would make no effort
TO locate the gun wieIder but
the department put six Of its
best detectives on the job and
the case was closed as far as
police work goes, within IS
hours.
Second Man Caught
Walter Rhodes Of police identi-
fication and the city jail staff is
credited with searching through
hundreds Of photos to find and
identify the second man with
speicher, John LacI<lineo. 1s, who
offered no resistance when de-
tectives found him In a hotel
Capt Calvin Hawkinson gave
Rhodes credit He said Rhodes,
armed with only a sketchy des-
cription successfully searched for
and found his man.
speicher who said he did not
know his companion identified
Lacklnea when the photo Rhodes
selected was shown him.
Lacklineo and Speicher both are
held in jail awaiting action by the
county attorneys office and the
Hennepin county grand jury. Des-
pite a newspaper report that the
sale Of narcotics was involved,
police say. sPeieher and Laeklineo
both asked for whiskey rather
than pot" which is street jar
gon for narihuana-