News from past issues of the Timber Lake Topic and Isabel Dakotan
Timber Lake Topic
November 1930
Scranton acquitted on bank robbery charge
Melvin Scranton, whom it was alleged, was a member of the trio which held up and robbed the Glencross State Bank on the morning of July 28, was found not guilty of the offense of bank robbery by the circuit court jury here on Monday night of this week and is now a free man again and completely exonerated from the crime as far a…