| Newspaper | Wheaton Journal - Vol. 18, Number 41 |
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| Date | Thursday, January 21, 1932 |
| Headline | Take Prisoners To Penitentiary |
| Text | Carl West, sentenced to two years for burglary and larceny and Chas. Watts, sentenced to two years for forgery were taken to the penitentiary at Jefferson City last week by A. C. Holman and Silas Ball.
Watts, who at one time was an engineerman on the M. & N. A. Railroad and also worked as engineerman for the Frisco Railroad, was a drug addict and was making his home with relatives near Butterfield. He had only one hand, having lost the other one in a train wreck. He claimed he received several thousand dollars from the railroad as damages, but had "blowed" it for automobiles. Watts received his sentenced to the pen after pleading guilty to a charge of forgery the name of D. R. Kelly of Purdy to a morphine prescription which he had filled at Cassville drug store. He has been in Wheaton several times and had prescriptions filled that were signed by Dr. Kelly. E. A. McCallister proprietor of the drug store here, became suspicious of the prescriptions and recently refused to fill one. Watts then went to Cassville where he was caught. |
| Resource | State Historical Society of MO Microfilm |
| Submitted by | Donna Cooper |
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