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Show MEN CONFESS BURGLARY OF 0. UIRPORT Investigation Made by Federal Fed-eral Official, and Parties Held for Appearance Before Be-fore Federal Grand Jury Full confession that they were responsible for the burglary at the airport on the black hill west of St. George on the night of Friday, January 13, was made to the sheriff's office this week by Me'lvin Warren, 33, ot Price, who admitted that he and his brother, Bill Warren, committed the robbery. In a report of the burglary, he said: "On Friday night, January 13. my brother, Bill, and I went to the airport. Bill broke open a pane in the upper sash of the window, then unlatched the sash and unlocked the window. Bill got insid e and handed out nine five-gallon cans of aviation av-iation gasoline to me. We also took out a cross-cut saw and a band axe, which we left at our camp near the Santa Clara bridge on the Indian reservation. reserva-tion. We carried the gasoline down the black ridge into the St. George valley, where we had driven our car. We then loaded the gas into the car and drove on to the Indian reservation, where we buried six cans jf the gas. The other three we poured into the tank of our car in St. George, where we left the empty cans. "We were broke, had no gasoline gas-oline anel were out of groceries. We had come to this country to trap but were unable to cai.h any furs and decided to go and get the gasoline at the airport. I admit that we did commit tin-crime tin-crime of breaking into the building build-ing and taking the gas and other articles." Bill Warren, brother of M, '.-vin '.-vin v'atfori, maintained that he knew nothing of the b-irgbuy. He stated that since coming front Price, they had been in I. as Vegas, Ve-gas, and had camped at a wash near Searchlight for thro, niphts. They then returned, lie -aid. to the Shivv.iis Indian res. :ation. v.hcoc they load t-r1 11 ..apl-ug. loo car. he d-Hs . i d . hed-n't'd to .Mrs. Nciiio Fry.re;.! lltilbf.nd. who a- or- i-anit ,1 ;: ...... 1 lis stai. oe.nt toi otvs: "Yde did not !;:-..., any'ire; d'otit the theft of A:a- i;;,.. fee he a'tpoi t. Oar car lias v. vc : he. n in i he da $. d r-.H,- ! tiie s- iiori f f. Y.d: r n we w a : re-t.;d. I to'd tit, .-In I: i I f ; i it p v. a , a nd t - ': i a tie i e. but. t'ii't i : H a id; - 'In .1 er.aaay is : i ;? ' -d o-.i-i ( ,. oar !)'.:! e : r v. .'. Ii , !. - a; a car s of g - in t a e fa., da' I told him I did not linov ;i-e n,: :': of a-.yd ina i d So e,a i : - . di !. i d a 1 a - j '' '"' Lj ' ' r i |