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MI BURGLAR SHOT - 1
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LS BUILDING
A pool of blood lies near the door of Bick and
Ruck's liquor store, just east of the Fort "orth
c7-ye ar old Johnny Alsup
city limits, where a x mxatxjm k was shot
and killed during an early morning burglary.
Nightwatchman L. A. Sells says he was asleep in
the rear of the store at about 1:30 when heheard breaking glass.
2ells says he saw two men
at the front door, one of them with a bowling
ball that arnarently was used to break in.
One
of them, says Sells, was reaching through the
door for a case of beer. He ordered them to halt,
When they did not, he fired once with a 38-calibre
pistol. Alsup, who lived ink the Riverside sectji
of Fort ''orth, dropped to the sidewalk. He wasdead on arrival at ai hospital.
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Arrested later
was 20-year old Edward Lee Robertson, of 38-07
Galvez, in 'iverside.
In his statement to xharifd
Sheriff's Investigator uie, Robertson admits
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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: Burglar shot], item, January 10, 1960; (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc861864/m1/1/: accessed March 29, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.