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Slain Pal's Haunting Him, Lifer Says BOISE, Idaho (P -Kenneth tings, a life termer in the Idaho State Penitentiary, says he wants to be taken out of his solitary confinement cell and hanged to escape the ghost of his former partner in crime. He has given prison guards a typewritten statement saying the image of Ivan Baker -whom he says he shot after a tavern holdup in 1951-comes to "sit in my cell and grin at me. I just can't take The 31-year-old convict's story was disclosed yesterday by penitentiary officials, who said they were sceptical. Hastings told it THE ABILENE REPORTER- NEWS 16-A Abilene, Texas, Wednesday Evening, September 29, 1954 (-City Rites Friday For Mrs. H.

Heckman COLORADO CITY, Sept. 29 Funeral will be held 4 p.m. Friday in Kiker and Son Chapel for Mrs. Harry Heckman, 43, of San Francisco, Calif. Officiating will be the Rev.

Jack Ellzey, pastor of the First Methodist Church, assisted by the Rev. J. E. Shewbert of Lubbock. Burial will be in Colorado City Cemetery.

Mrs. Heckman was the former Agnes Berry. She had lived in where Hastings said he left Baker's on parole after her conviction for bullet-ridden body, failed to bear assault with intent to commit: robfruit Monday or Tuesday. A bery. party is going out again Wednes- Contacted in Pocatello yesterday, day.

she said she was too drunk after William Owens, a penitentiary the tavern holdup to remember inmate who joined Hastings in the Boise tavern holdup and in a Boise what happened. grocery store robbery three days Hastings said in his statement later, was asked about Hasting's he was in love with Miss Seckinger, but that Baker forced his atsteffe's crazy." Owens said. tentions on her, so he shot Baker Hastings and Owens were sen- four times in the chest and once tenced to death for the fatal in the back of the head, and hid shooting of the Boise grocer. The the body under a clump of sentences were commuted to life brush. imprisonment.

A companion in the The disappearance of Baker has I grocery holdup, Ruth Seckinger, is long been a mystery to police. OAKWOOD ADDITION SOUTH OF NEW HIGH SCHOOL ABILENE'S FASTEST GROWING ADDITION RESIDENTIAL LOTS BUSINESS LOTS CALL M. BOYKIN OR J. FOOSHEE 202 M. I Phone 4-6109 Come to S.

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Hastings said he had decided that if he failed in the escape attempt he would confess and ask for the death penalty. He said he was unable to shake off the spectre of the murdered man while he shivered in the woods, scores of policemen closing on him. Warden L. E. Clapp said that Hastings, long a trouble maker in the penitentiary, might be ing some sort of angle." A search of the desert country near Atomic City in Eastern Idaho, 3-piece Wardrobe! Bond's Wool and Miracle MATCHMAKER $65 $70 VALUES 5490 Your business suit PLUS your sports outfit! Matching trousers and jacket take you to work -and out on the town afterwards.

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