Iowa
Old Press
The Des Moines Tribune
Saturday, August 6, 1938
OTHERS ARRAIGNED.
Others arraigned, and the charges:
Sam Guilliams, rape; Harvey Moats, lewd acts with a child; Earl McKeehan and William A. Helm, breaking and entering (two indictments against each man); Weldon Shore, larceny; J. W. Ladlie, breaking and entering; Jesse Bonwell, larceny in the nighttime; Joe Baker, larceny; Richard Thompson and Cruse Aguilera, breaking and entering; Richard Thompson, Earl Brown and Howard Ewin, breaking and entering.
[transcribed by L.Z., Jan 2020]
DesMoines Tribune
Monday, August 29, 1938
Enters Guilty Plea, Paroled.
Earl Brown, 19, one of three Des Moines youths indicted for breaking and entering, pleaded guilty Monday and was paroled by District Judge Russell Jordan from a 10-year sentence in the men’s reformatory at Anamosa, Ia.
With Richard Thompson, 17, and Howard Ewin, 19, Brown was accused of breaking and entering two oil stations and a grocery store.
Both Thompson, said by police to be the ring leader of the group, and Ewin pleaded guilty recently. Each was sentenced to not more than 10 years in the reformatory.