Susanville Officers Arrest Theft Suspects
October 28, 1943
Sheriff Olin S. Johnson has arrested Floyd Jackson Hudson, 39, an alleged inmate of Folsom prison as one of the alleged night prowlers who broke into several Susanville homes on Tuesday, October 19, stole a number of valuables and terrorized the victims. Also jailed is Robert B. Wilson, 34, another alleged Folsom prison inmate, held as a suspect of complicity.
The prison convicts held here are part of a group of forty-seven prisoners from Folsom prison camped at Coppervale ranger station on road work. At the request of Sheriff Johnson the Coppervale station and the prisoners returned to Folsom.
Hudson and Wilson are confined to the Lassen county jail pending charges of grand theft.
