Also printed were the police records of the youths: .

Here are the police records of the four young toughs facing murder and robbery charges in the "streetcar" slaying of William P. Hall, 27-year-old Ross school teacher:

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M -, 16-Mar. 20, 1956, reported missing, located in Sacramento; Dec. 9. 1959, booked for battery and sent to juvenile court, where he agreed to make restitution for victim's teeth; April 10, 1959, victim of assault by teen-age gang. R

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H—, 17—Mar. 2, 1954, arrested for burglary, charge dismissed because he was only 10 years old; Aug. 28, 1959, cited for speeding and driving without license; Dec.

31, 1959, booked for disturbing peace and made ward of juvenile court Jan. 1, 1960; Oct. 31, 1960, victim of attack by juveniles in Fillmore District.

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C

,17

-April 25, 1956, suspect in malicious mischief involving sling shots, admonished by juvenile court and sling shot taken away; Nov. 12, 1956, treated at emergency hospital for injuries suffered in fight; Jan. 21, 1957, reported missing and picked up same day for stealing auto, booked for auto theft; three curfew violations in 1960, latest Dec. 21, 1960.

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16-April 25, 1956, involved in same sling shot case as C—; Jan 21. 1957. involved in auto theft case with C

And from the San Francisco Examiner we learned something about the boy's families. (Repetition from the preceding excerpts have been deleted from the following two.)

On May 5:

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FATHER 'DIDN'T KNOW' WHERE HIS SON WAS

"I don't know anything about it."

That statement came last night from RT. K

whose son, M 17, is one of four youths charged with murder and robbery in the "Muni murder" of a school teacher.

VERY STUDIOUS K—

-, 50, is listed in the City Directory as a school janitor. He would not tell The Examiner his occupation.

"My son is very studious,” he said. "He's always playing basketball and other sports. He's an upright young man."

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But K-

admitted,

rather angrily, that he didn't know where his son spent his time nor who he spent it with.

"He goes to the Eureka said. Valley gym," K "Other than that, I don't know what he does. My whole concern is with this job I'm trying to hold.

"It's too much to watch over him. He's old enough now to know right from wrong."

The four admitted they had left a Mission District church dance in Kilkenny's car, according to police.

"I'm working at that time," the father said. "I'm presum-

On May 6:

ing my car is where it belongs. I left here with the idea the car was in the garage. I'm gonna fix it so nobody can drive it but me."

MOTHER 'BUSY'

The boy's mother, he said, has three other young ones to care for and "she doesn't want to get mixed up in this." is a soph. Young K omore at St. Ignatius High School.

"He gets fairly good grades, as far as I know," the father said.

Then he said:

"Why ask me? I don't know anything about it. Nothing."

'HE'S A BUM!' FATHER CRIES

By ED MONTGOMERY A gray-haired father, tears rimming his eyes, yesterday summed up his 17 year old son in three words: "He's a bum." 0C— 52, a hard-working service station owner with calloused hands, was speaking of W————— -, one of four youths charged with robbery and murder in the death of a school teacher under the wheels of a Muni streetcar.

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MADE PROMISE

I gave him a licking once with my belt and he promised he wouldn't run around with those kids any more," the father said.

"The boy will just have to go to jail. We have relatives in Nicaragua and when he gets out of jail I want the authorities to deport him, send him back to Nicaragua and make him stay there so something like this will not happen again.

"If he stays here it will only mean more trouble, more trouble."

He wiped at the corner of his eye with a forefinger. is the Young C product of a broken home but his story is similar in one respect to those of the other three-no one knew where they were spending their time.

"He was running around with a bad bunch, from what

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