Gas attendant is slain Robert P McKee By Bruce Hertz NEWS Skowhegan Bureau NEWPORT - A 35 - year - old Newport man was slain at a service station here early Friday morning during an apparent robbery The body of Robert P McKee a teacher at the Vickery School in Pittsfield and a night man at the McNally’s Texaco station was found at 3:55 am at the station by a Rhode Island man McKee the father of a six - year - old girl and a three - year - old son died of multiple gunshot wounds of the head He had just started working full time for McNally as the late man at the station which is open 24 hours a day Pat Perrino an assistant attorney general in charge of the investigation said Friday that the service station robbery - slaying might have been related to a hold-up about 7 am Friday at a store at the Canadian Trail Cabins at Wyman Lake in Bingham He had said tne two crimes were being investigated in conjunction with each other Four persons later were arrested in the store robbery case and police indicated then that there appeared to be no connection with the slaying - robbery Perrino said the bullets that killed McKee were from a small - caliber weapon McKee was found by the Rhode Island man who had just finished eating at Shorette’s Diner which is nearby He and five other men were heading for a fishing trip When no one came out to pump gasoline he went to investigate the lighted office He found McKee in a pool of blood between the door and an opened cash register Mike McNally owner of the service station said about $600 was missing from the cash register ana there was no money in McKee’s wallet About 35 gallons (130 liters) of Cont’d on Page 5 Col 2)
