LEAP TO DEATH.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 234, 2 October 1937, Page 4 (Supplement)

LEAP TO DEATH.

I j BANK ROBBER'S END. I ! FAOIXG MURDER CHARGE. | Already sentenced to serve 40 years in prison for bank robbery. and also facinjr extradition tn lowa for trial oil j a charge of murder, (lair <:ii>*nii dived |to his death from tile third floor of ; Ram spy pontitv jial. St. Paul. Minn. His attorney wa~ wait ins: on the fi"#t . floor to talk with him when he made 1 the plutijre. •j William fioslin. pra'der. went to .1 second floor eel] to yet t;il>-.'ii v.lien li>» attorney, A. .T. HnlVman. aii -i at the , prison to in fur in him the fed mm I C"Veminent had designated an I<>wa prison [ for hi* ponliupment. When (Jot-lin unlo'-ked the ceil door • Ciibson ran out. fled up to the third floor and dived before fiord in c..dd i'~n •'» him. [ Cibson had admitted 22 lis•.k r >hberies to Federal a; n:-. II- " :1S , : arrpsti'd in Oregon and returned to St. . j Paul. lie pleaded «»i!i v t > bavins | robbed the State hank of C'oM i>:-infrs. 1 Minn., in .Tune, lP.'iti. and the Slate hank of Evota, Minn., in December, ; I!I3C>. [I Carl Riepel. companion of fiihson in at least one hank rohberv. »a' . at Hannibal. Mo. Request for his extradition had been made bv Governor Elmer A. Benson. Following sentenep on the hank robbery charge. (iibson waive<l extradition ■ to lowa, where he was wanted for the murder of .Tames Zrostlik. a farmer, of Rritt. Zrostlik was shot- to death on ! November '2. lO.'h'f. when on his way to ' church with his wife and child. ThfSC -thandlis lialtcd. liia *«r to HL