Everett Lee Anderson and Willie Ray Welch
Used Cap Pistol in Bus Holdup

Article taken from The Zanesville Signal, March 29, 1947

Two Kentucky youths who admitted using cap pistols to rob a bus driver in Scioto county last Saturday, were arrested at Cambridge yesterday by state highway patrolmen. The youths, Everett Lee Anderson, 18, and Willie Ray Welch, 17, both of near Sterling, Ky., were hitchhiking on the National highway in front of the patrol barracks when they were arrested. They said they were on their way to Columbus. Patrolmen said they became suspicious of the pair while they were attempting to obtain a ride from passing motorists. Under questioning they readlity admitted obtaining $60 in the robbery which occurred near Wheelersburg. The pair said they were the only passengers on the bus at the time. the silver-plated cap pistols which they used in the hold up. They were held in teh Guernsey county jail last night and were taken to Wheelersburg this after-noon.

 

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Continues Case in Bus Riot

Portsmouth, O - Jan. 6

Municipal Judge Kenneth Cranston today set bonds of $5,000 each and continued their cases on 11 felony counts for two Kentucky brothers accused of terrorizing a Greyhound bus between Ironton, OH, and Wheelersburg last week.

Neither Hobart Griffith, 26, nor Ralph Griffith, 20, both war veterans, entered pleas after Chief Deputy Sheriff Burl Justice signed affidavits charging them in the beating of Driver C. L. Stillwell and two passengers, and the intimidation of 21 others.

The youngest brother was named in six affidavits while Hobart was named in five.

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