Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-08-20 | Page 1 | Police Court Clerk Held in $24,000 Theft

POLICE COURT CLERK HELD IN $24,000 THEFT Mystery Robbery of Los An cjeles Court Takes New Turn With Arrest LOS AXdELES. Aug liO. Clyde C. Johnston, police court qlerk, who re-pyrted re-pyrted Tuesday that the :ufe in the court room had been broken open and ;Jj4,000 in ball money taken. Was :n -rested today on a charge of eOlbezsle-mcnt eOlbezsle-mcnt and lodged in the bos Angeles county Jail Hail was fixed at fS0,Q00. Johnston, Tuesday, sold he found the lock forced off the inne: door of llio safe, the other door, he said, had apparently been opened by snmc one familiar with the combination and rc-locked rc-locked after the theft The court room Is directly over the 100m occupied by the police dete live i ureau. Witnesses before the grand jury which Indicted Johnston included a city detective, a stock broker with w liom Johnston was said by Depot-District Depot-District Attorney W C Doran to hav" bad dealings, und the auditor of a Lank in which Johnston had a personal per-sonal account. no