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Shelton Mason County Journal
Shelton, Washington
June 29, 1978     Shelton Mason County Journal
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ury finds Jim Lee West guilty of burglary in trial this week Mason County Superior jury Tuesday afternoon less than an hour to find West, 30, Bucoda, guilty burglary. was accused of breaking the Mann Real Estate Office 1. The jury was selected &apos;nday morning and began evidence in the case aftemoon. testimony in the case with a deposition from Mann, owner of Mann Real who testified when he to work the morning of 1 he had found the back of the office forced open, safe open and papers about. He said the tumbler had been off the safe, the safe and papers scattered lann said in the deposition he later became aware a ttle-First National Bank card he had in the was missing. He became of it, he said, when he a call from the bank if he wanted his lost card Mann's deposition, Dobie, a detective with Shelton police department, the witness stand to testify gone to the Mann Real Office the morning of 1, had found the back door open, the safe opened and scattered around. said he took five from the front of fe and sent them to the Bureau of Investigation him he had found the card in a boat he had purchased the day before in Portland. The officer also said West told him he had lived in Arkansas, Missouri, Texas and California and had never lived in Washington. He said West had originally been stopped because he was carrying a red gasoline can which was similar to ones which had been reported stolen in Astoria. He said after finding the gasoline can was not one of those he was looking for and getting identification from West he had allowed West to leave but kept the Mastercharge card. He said he received a call from Mann about the card June 30. Also testifying was Ken Killum, another officer from the Astoria Police Department who testified he was on duty with Sandercott the evening of June 4 when West was stopped and that he had written down the name and number on the Mastercharge card after it had been handed to him by Sandercott. Defense attorney John Jarrett questioned both of the Astoria officers closely about their identification of West as the man they had talked to June 4, 1977. The next witness called by Applying for marriage licenses in the Mason County Auditor's Office this week were: Arthur Mall, Jr., 22, Shelton, and JoAnn Ellison, 18, Shelton. Glen Smith, 25, Shelton, and Irma Hayman, 22, Vancouver, B.C. Todd Brewer, 21, Shelton, and Joan Gibson, 20, Shelton. Scott Lovgren, 23, Shelton, and' Anita Hoepfner, 18, Shelton. Donald Coulombe, 35, Shelton, and Nancy Lauzon, 30, Shelton. Kim Nicklaus, 23, Shelton, and Stephanie Gill, 23, Shelton. Ronald Raymond, 44, Shelton, and Neva Hoepfner, 42, Shelton. James Waldrip, 20, Shelton, and Gayle James, 19, Shelton. Matthew Mulanax, 19, Lynnwood, and Sandra Johnson, 17, Lynnwood. Deputy Prosecutor Richard Admason was Mason County Deputy Sheriff Dean Byrd, who testified he had taken West's fingerprints when West was booked into the Mason County jail May 1, 1978. The fingerprints, he said, were placed in the county jail records. Jean Lester, records clerk for the Mason County sheriffs office, was next on the witness stand. She stated she had taken the fingerprint cards which Byrd had taken and sent one of them to the FBI office in Washington, D.C. Benjamin Moore, a fingerprint specialist for the FB1 in Washington, D.C., testified lie had compared the fingerprints I taken of West at the Mason County jail and those taken by Dobie t'ronl the safe at Mann Real Estate ,and that the two sets of fingerprints were of the same person and no one else. West took the witness stand in his own behalf as the defense opened its case. He said lie and his wife and children were on a trip from California, where they were living at the time, through Oregon and Washington in May and early June of 1977. He said they stopped in Shelton during the trip and he remembered parking his vehicle in front of a bar and walking through an alley where he observed a door open in one of the buildings. He said he went inside, where he saw a safe open and papers scattered around. West also said there was a Mastercharge card among the papers, he picked it up and put it in his pocket and then left. He said the family proceeded on its way and that the card was taken from him by police officers in Astoria, Oregon. The family, he said, arrived back in California early in June. Under cross-exanfination by Adamson, West admitted he had been convicted of possession of burglary tools in Missouri in 1975. He said he had gone into the building where the safe was about 2 p.m. Kawasaki JET SKI RENTALS From 10 aem. weekdays From 9 a.m. weekends at ason Lake aPllla Outboard fuel • Gioceries • Boat rentals • Pop • Beer Phone 426-8870 r 4< Dobie on the less stand was Steven a patrolman with the 0ria, Oregon police He testified that on Waning of June 4 he had West in the downtown in Astoria and, when Was asked to produce tification, he submitted a 0uri driver's license. said in seeking 0hal identification he had to see a Mastercharge card observed in West's wallet West was looking for his license. The card, he had the name of Kurt L. and he had it checked out. said West told Come see the old fashioned 4th of July Fireworks Dmsplay on Hood Canal Between the Quarterdeck Tavern and klderbrook Inn near Union. Fireworks will be fired from a ...watch from shore. Barge on the canal Compliments of Quarterdeck Tavern -- Alderbrook Inn -- Tipi Discount Tuesday Night, July 4th, 10 p.m. West also testified he had a broken collarbone which he had received when he was thrown out of a Jeep in late April or early May. He had a brace on his shoulder at the time he was in Shelton, he said. Ann West testified the West family was on a trip through Washington and Oregon in May and June of 1977. She stated she did not specifcally remember stopping in Shelton. They arrived back at their home in Scott Valley, California, on June 7. She said at the time they were making the trip her husband had a broken collarbone and was in a brace, which made it difficult for him to move his arm. lte had difficulty shifting the vehicle they were riding in, she said. Members of the jury were Ilse Jones, Mona Riddle, David Johnson, Melvin Cleveland, Nels Person, Rebecca Hutchins, Harold Harsh, Dianna Lynn, Kim Goldsby, Diana Niemyer, Janet Barren and Albertha Zenew. l00°t! 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