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Birth [Dec 27, 1931, differs from headstone photograph] and death dates and locations, mother's maiden name Bundy, from California Death Index Records.
15-year-old Patricia Ann Crandall was interred, per the Chico Cemetery Association Records, in the plot noted, on June 22, 1946.
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Madera Tribune, Number 120, 20 July 1946: BOY HELD BY CHICO COURT FOR MURDER Mothers of Victim And Confessed Killer Have Sharp Exchange of Words. CHICO July 20. —Fourteen year old Albert Jones, who said he had an “impulse to kill ’ was held for trial today for the murders of a teen-aged girl acquaintance and a Chico housewife....
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Birth [Dec 27, 1931, differs from headstone photograph] and death dates and locations, mother's maiden name Bundy, from California Death Index Records.
15-year-old Patricia Ann Crandall was interred, per the Chico Cemetery Association Records, in the plot noted, on June 22, 1946.
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Madera Tribune, Number 120, 20 July 1946: BOY HELD BY CHICO COURT FOR MURDER Mothers of Victim And Confessed Killer Have Sharp Exchange of Words. CHICO July 20. —Fourteen year old Albert Jones, who said he had an “impulse to kill ’ was held for trial today for the murders of a teen-aged girl acquaintance and a Chico housewife.
His arraignment on a single murder charge yesterday was amended to include two slayings after the death of Mrs. Myrtle Mae Nielsen, 47.
Albert's arraignment in justice court on the murder of Mrs. Nielsen and 15-year-old Patricia Crandall was punctuated by a sharp exchange of words between his mother and the mother of the dead girl.
Mothers Argue. As Albert entered the courtroom, Mrs. Lydia Crandall leaned over the rail and demanded: "Why did you do this to my little girl?" The youth’s widowed mother, Mrs. Ada Jones, 41, screamed. "You leave him alone!" and lunged at Mrs. Crandall, flailing the woman with her fists.
Mrs. Jones shrieked “persecution" as court deputies stepped in and pulled her away. She ran outside the court room and threw herself on the floor, sobbing and screaming. Then the processes of law continued.
Want Full Penalty. Justice of the Peace S.P. Robbins assigned the case to the juvenile court. The case may be decided there or he may be remanded to justice court for preliminary hearing and further certification to superior court for trial.
Butte County District Attorney Jack M. McPherson said the state would demand the lull penalty because Albert “knows right from wrong.”
During his arraignment, the youth unconcernedly admitted both slayings, and later confided to reporters that he also had a third victim in mind Harlan Hume, 14, son of Chico’s city manager and his “best friend.” “I wasn’t mad at him." Albert said. “I just thought about killing him. I was going to push him into the creek and drown him.” [Via the link:
http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=MT19460720.2.14] |
