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“wetr ‘argent use jail yard Treaday }| all.
moraine ‘ast, . ae eo. “Last May tne Mudiann County Grand
aw Rew. Fataey Monti prayed with-them Jury indicted them for murilet, and
gpd administered thu last rites of tbe H when arruigned for trial they entered

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f euns and death wha inetantaneous. ouity to iwprisuvoment jor life, DUB}
heir pulses aeased to beat in dt nod: the jury failing to reccommend it. "

ale there was 00 niternative left the Judge |;
Age SH maine? their bodies were tara Hat to. pronounce the death penalty.

or. tn their Zriends- Sa yniy 3b was the day set for their ex-
*Tthe creme for which thesa two men BouviGn. which tuey heard with BLO }

3 ratvanies respectively. After hang-
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Wrre vxeuntetl Wile one of uavsdabl jciswD.

Arete. in Getoher, 1503, they were “shortly after their incarceration the

‘BRand over by a justice ol the peace t” Catholic priest. Father Monte. vom-
‘menced bis sacred mission « 2 spiritual

BAFRIG C8 action of she grand jury on
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gna was vac principal witness ugainst || \yevond.”
fhe, and snortly after the cowmit- y Drey at first seemed indi terent, but
fay. ytoyl they eaticed him inte a4 ‘gader his garhiags became wronght f,
Awe De qioked him to death, weightet np tw a nizvh sute ot religious emotion.
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SCOTT, William and Frank, blacks, hanged Canton, Mississippi, on

July 31st, 1894
- Laat fall the Sootts were accused. ofa :

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: lore: détive. “of the’ peace. he chief :
William aa F rank Boot Exeonted bal aepacyl Sees borin an mae ee:

- ef fF year old negro boy named Norman Hob- |.

vat Canton Toda. pes a tee ‘who. -wsa--Yaised: near Brandon. |

pot] hen on a came on Hobeod did pot.

‘turn uo, but:as he was “of-a ro pg j

‘| fang for Murdering a a Boy Witnens ee ver ag was. thonght of a4 :

pease absence, and the case. wen efault. |:

Faticed Him Inte the Weeds, Kiled and {theme ‘She fise in. cy and The eae

Thre j the news of her ghastly fin @. vi

ne ae Rody In a fee: ey proved to be: that.of the bey. Norm rman.
obson, the missing witaves, He had

been knocked in the head, @ nuinper of:

: | ential sf | low poin 8, old axes, ete., tied: to his
twang Into’ B.eraity: ‘Prompuy at” i neck Find the body ehrowal ihe lakes

es ee a aa ae 8: :80. uk Moraion ee | The case against the Scotte was. thos
isi esac <=. [recalled and the: were arreated on sue.

Rat at vee ae picion «When charged’: with the. crime
pret to. sine sCearionceedpie: sd | [they madea Iull confession, saying they

“Oanton, July 31 —William ani Frank | | had enticed the: boy” into. the. swamp

Bostt, ‘colored, were hung this morning| | #vowed!y to bunt hogs, but in reall 2
sti nay Puerto pged eis] thi ree egy Soke

atered. the last ritusof | The marder : occurred in November,
the. Catbolic church at4, ‘o'cloek,” .pfter| | 1893, and the body, gunk in the Jake

ee ‘oan 1 =| wherait remained | 1) cae 1894, an
| which. set zone. dead the death ven waa fouind as abpve stated. eta

‘utes. pp eect yo Paadvaner banging
[thirty sniniites :t the bodies ware: ent

( negro :
aid: the. “death: Saaaliy: was;

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\ tory of Madison county, meet cs WAL Say ON }

CLARION-LEDGER, Jackson, Mississippi, 7-31-1894 XEX
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JA LIFE FOR A LIFE.

John Sasser Pays the Penalty

Of Tom Lard's) Murder.

The Unxecution Witnessed by
. About 7,000

People.

These who had Contdence ta Governor
Longino's Discrimination, Wisdom
In) Dealing
ihe Basser
are not Disap-
polluted,

and Firmnness

with Cane

Sheriff Applewhite received the fol-
lowing communication from Gov.
Longino on Saturday morning, setting
forth his reasons for declining to com-
mute Sasser's sentence:

Executive Depagruent,
Jackson, Miss., March 7, 1902.

M Iss,:

Dear Sir—I am in receipt of a
petition, numerously signed, for the
commutation of John J. Sasser. The
petitions set MW no facts nor allege auy
reason to justify the course requested
of me by.them. In view of the fact
that Sasser has bean given a fair trial
before u jury of his peers in the county
where he resides, and hag been found
guilty and sentencod by the lower
court and tho judgment thereof af-

See My way clear to set aside the judg-
ment of the courts by commutation,
unless there is some better reason for
so doing than is shown by the petitions
on file with me.

I have the deepest Sympathy for his
family, and if it were a personal mat-
terI would be glad to grant the re.
quest, but as Governor, with the grave
respousibility reeting upon me, I feel
that I must let the law take its course.

T expect to be called to St. Louis to-
morrow to be absent for some days,
and feel it my duty to advise you of my

decision in this matter so that there
may be no misunderstanding.
Very truly,
A. H. Lonctyo,

Governor.

On Sunday, Sheriff Applewhite, ac
companied by Deputies J. W. Wil-
loughby, Duncan Magee and Luther
Harvey, went up to Jackson to bring
Sasser down. To avoid the extra
large crowds which are usually hang-
ing about the depots on Sunday, the
Sheriff delayed his return with his
prisonor until Monday morning, arriy-
Ing in Brookhaven a little after six.
No chances were taken of escape, and
to guard this point, Sasser was hand.
cuffed to Deputy Willoughby, while
jthe others acted as guards. Sasser
made the trip in good spirits, saying he
| Was glad to get away from the Jackson
jail.
He refused to see any member of
lthe press Monday or make any stato.

ORDERLY. WELL BEHAVED CROWD}

Dr. R. R. Applewhite, Sherlff, Brookhaven,

| false testimony about me.

ple are here to-day who expect to hear
mesay something. Some thought my
Derve would fail, but you see it basn’t,
and it Is not going to. There bas
been a heap said in the pepers about
me that Is not ‘true. I have been per-
secuted, There has been a Reap of
I don’t
know where Pritchard is. I have noth.
ing against anybody—not a speck.
Another thing I want to say, that I
have never belonged to any band or
Secret organization, though some peo-
ple thinks I have. I have always been
true to my friends and I always intend
tode till l go away from here to-day
and some of you are not going to hear

/me tell what you expected to hear.

Pritchard's statement was a lie from
beginning to ending. If Pritchard
had told the truth, I would not be
standing here to-day. Some people
think I have been engaged in burning
houses and other property in the
county, bat I have been persecuted
and haven't done all the mean things
charged to me,

I want to give fafr warning to old
and youog. I am passing away this
way and it is well. You could not get
anybody else to stand up and speak
here as Iam doing. -I have never be-
longed to any organization.

The March wind was very high, and
from the start, the condemned man
had to raise his voice toa high pitch
to be heard, which was evidently very
exhausting. He atno time during his
talk directly denied murdering Lard,
acd the nearest he came to it was what

firmed by the Supreme Court, I do not |’

he said in referring to Pritchard.
Further along in his talk, he declared

that Pritchard had been visited in the
jail and bribed to swear falsely against
him, and that the man who did this
was then inthe audience. <A distinct
impression made by several of his re-
marks was that he had intimate knowl-

sdge of a great deal of lawlessness and
wrong, including the murder of Lard,
which he was unwilling to divulge,
even in the face.of death on the scat.
fold, because of the trouble he might
get men into whom he considered his
friends.

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nal enemies. He delivered a fow
friendly remarks to the colored peo-
ple present and then went on to say
people had come here expecting he
would blow on bis friends and fill the
jad], give the lawyers plenty to do and
send a lot of men tothe penitentiary,
but they would be disappointed. He
said he wasthe first white man to be
bang in Lincoln county and predicted
that he would be the last one fora
good while to come, without stating
any definite reason for his faith. ~

He spoke of the bad and cruel treat-
ment he had received while to the
Jackson jail, being chained down, and
notrid of the Iloe when he got to
Brookhaven, but praised Sheri ff Ap-
Plewhite forthe kind treatment he
had received at his bands.

Two or three times during bis talk
he stopped and asked if his time was
exhausted, but was gently assured by
the Sheriff that he might have all the
time necessary to oonclude his re-
marks. His hands were manacied as
hespoke, and while he controlled his
voice well, his manner was that of a
man struggling to control himself an-
der a supreme nervous strain.

Sheriff Applewhite | bad requested
Town Marshal George Vernon, of Bo.
gue Chitto, to adjust the noose around
Sasser’s nook at the proper time, but
Sasser took occasion during his talk
to say that he had requested Sheriff
Applewhite to select as substitute for
Vernon, Marshal R. C. Applewhite,
of Brookhaven, as the latter had
proven himself bis friend and Vernon
had oot, and -he did't want any man
who wasn't his friend, putting his
hands on him at such a time.

Nearing the close of bis talk he
said: “I hope and think when I leave
this gallows I will go to rest. It was
almost death, next door to death, to
suffer in jail like I have since I got

into this trouble. I'll be better otf
'when I'm gone.” Again he ex preased
a forgiving spirit toward every body
in the audience. “After I'm gone,” he
continued, “people will still wonder
who killed Tom Lard. False swearing
will get people into trouble, remember
that.” ~
Then with the air of a man who felt
himself complete master of himself
and the situation, he invited bis audi-
ence to ask him any question desired.
“Tell us did you kill Tom Lard®”
rang Out clear and direct like a rifle
shot from some one in the audience.
This was a question evidently wholly

unexpected by Sasser, who was visibly
“rattled” by it, and his only answer
was, “I've done stated that I've done
stated that: I beKeve that is all I want
to say,” and he closed, apparently
confused and quite exhausted by his
effort.

Some who doubted ‘Sasser’s guilt

before, were convinced by his last

words.
Another song, “Jesus Lover of My.
Soul,” was sung by the ministers in

ao ee

attendance, and then R. (, Applewhite |'

5/27 ; 02 (/-3r)

He refused to see any member ou
the press Monday or make auy state-
ment for publication, and only varied
and conflicting reports could be heard
on the outside of what he had said or
might say, when he reached the gal-
lows.

During Mouday, Sasser expressed a

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friends.

Spiritually he professed to be a
changed man and declared he had
‘made his peace with bis God, and was
ready to die. He strongly commended
the Bible and urged everybody to do
right. His cherished purpose, be said,

| desire to see Rev.C W. Crisler, pastor
lof the Methodist church of Brookba-
ven, and Mr. Crisier visited him in the
jail Monday afternoon and Tuesday
| morning. During these interviews
|witb the man of (:cd, ha made a pro-
fession of religion and on Tuesday
motiiog was baptized in tho jail, ac-
cording to the ordinance of the Metho.
dist church.

Ov the Gallows. Susrer Makes a Long,
Rembling Talk on Various Topica,

Lard's Marder.

The execution of John J. Sasser,
the murder of Thomas Lard in Brook-
baven on Jap. 27th, 1{X)1, came off here
yesterday afternoon witbout 4 hitch
anywhere in tbe proceedings. The
banging was public one, and it is es-
_ timated that fully seven thousand peo-

ple were gathered in sight of the scaf-

fold in the Courthouse yard when the
trap door w@ sprung which usbered
the murterer jnto oternity,

It was the first iegal hanging of a
‘white man that bad ever occurred in
the county, and people came from sur-
rounding towns and country far and
near to witness it.

It wes exactly 1:55 p m. when the
condemned man ssoended the scaffold
with Sherif RoR. Applewhite at his
side, followed by R. W. MoNair, Dan-
can Magee, Dr. Walter Weathsreby, h.
C. Applewhite and Elbert Lovell, who
mounted the scaffold as guards or a6
friends, by request of Basser. The

wire fence about 60 feet squsre, and
inside this enclocure were admitted
special guards, members of the Bosrd
| of Bopervisors, Dr. J. T. Butler, county
\health offtoer, and other physictune,
ministers of the gospe! and members
of the prese, while a vagt crowd sarged
against the en¢losare on all sjdeg.
Rageerle & had greatly

wee lean end heg-
indbeated that he

Bat Dodges all Particulars Aboat |

scaffold wag suprounded hy § barbed |

Ppsarancs
changed since he wae last seen by the

be wore & Heel, Tther are
|. She alac expresacd a atrang recerd

or|hodge at bitched

‘had he not gotten inte this tenaure.|
|

‘and bad his earthly career cut sbort,

carefully adjusted the noose around
Sasser’s neck. When this was done,
he shook bands with R W. McNair,
Dr. Weathbersby, Elbert Lovell, R. C.
and Sheriff Applewhite and bade them
farewell, and then Marshal Applewhite
adjusted the black cap over his face
and fastened it and all was ready
3:07 Sberiff Applewhite

sprung the

‘was tu vecome a preacher and go/|trap and Susser dropped in # twinkling
'

,about over the country proclaiming |

ithe trutb and doing people good.
lIf be could become « preacher be
could make money and get rich
laud do pecple lots of good. He
idociured \he harbored no ill will or

| malice toward his enemies and those

| who had used him disrespectfully, but
jhe drew a broad distinction between
| bis enemies and his friends, which he
| repeatedly emphasized. His friends
| be detined as those who bad signed his
petition for executive clemency tu save

|bim from tbe gallows, and his enemies

for | Rll those who had refused to sign or

influence against bim.
personated by name

‘used their
| Several were

|who had befriended bim in {his and

other ways, and several of his “‘en-
emies” were given a good, pious

and failing to treat him as he claimed
he deserved. Among the latter was
the editor of Tne Lyapes, who be de-
clared had published numerous false
statements about him and been guilty
of base ingratitude. He made no
specifications of what the false state-
ments wore; but the alleged ingratitude
consisted ofthe editor’s accepting the
hospitality of bis father severa) years
ago while attending & Baptist Aseocia-
tion, aud then not joining in ‘the
petition to save bim (Jobn Sasser)
from the gallows. He clopged his orit-
iciem in this convection, however, with
assurances of forgiveness, and the
hope that after awhile he mignt meet

“roast” for not trying to save his neck |.

“in Tho Sweet By and-By.”

He pald a feeling tribute to the de-
votion of bis fatherand mother avd
acgnitted them of sll blame for bia
own wrong-duing, end said bis father
was reconciled to his fate He de-
olared thet from bis fatber be jnberit-
ed his boasted nerve. He further de-
oiared that full reetitution would be
made to bie father by bis (the speak-
er's friends) for all Lhe outlay of time
wad money spevt fo bis pebalf, but
thas thg publi; woatc mot know who

fay bia. own family and boasted thet be
‘ruok ons cf bis obildrea, gone home|
Aruap end riddet bis borse into the
“Rin fo the bed
ke high-

"Yq ths

this mendacluus and ungrateful scribe |.

some «six or seven feet through the
opening below. Nota muscle or limb
moved after the fall and in exactly lo
minutes he was pronounced dead bs
Dr. Butler and other physiciaus, sod
taken down. The neck was broken.

The remains were then tuken 10
charge by undertaker C. B. Perkins,
placed in a neat coftin and carried out
to the home of Sasser’s father and
mother, 9 miles in the country, where
they will be buried today.

Basser was about 39 years old and
the only child of his parents, for whom
great sympatby is felt by all. He
leaves besides these, 8 four
daughters and a small son, whose home
is in Wesson.

wife,

The crowd was an exceedingly arder- |

ly and well-behaved one.

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At:

38 The Master

Detective

Awe-struck spectators looking down the steep embankment to where the inhuman and fiendish assassins tossed the
brutally battered Mrs. W. B. Wagner, leaving her to die. Arrow indicates where the body was found

Furniture had been overturned in a manner that plainly
told of a desperate struggle within the room. The floor
was splotched with blood, though in .some places |
could see that the stains had been smeared in a manner
that indicated a futile attempt to remove the tell-tale
substance.

“In my first examination of this room,” the Sheriff said,
“TI knew that nothing short of murder would have wrought
the havoc that was evident in this quiet home. But I was
at first puzzled by the absence of the victim.

“T quickly realized that at least one member of this

household’s highly respectable occupants had been done to -

death in ‘a horribly brutal manner. But if only one of the
two had been killed, what fate had befallen the other? The
bedroom looked like a slaughter pen!

“Distinct prints of a man’s shoes were discernable in the
blood-smeared area of the polished hardwood floor. It
looked like the murderous invader had stalked back and
forth across the bedroom.” fh

The Sheriff recognized in these crimson. imprints a po-
tential clue that he hoped to utilize in running to earth the
perpetrator of a dastardly outrage.

Careful not to obliterate the tracks, we proceeded to the
dining room. Across the linoleum rug and continuing on
through the door leading into the kitchen ran the trail of

the bloody footprints. The table had been. upset. A chair —

was overturned.

In a corner of the dining room the Sheriff pointed -out
another frightful discovery which he had made prior to our
arrival. It was an axe—the most barbarous weapon imagin-
able in the hands of a fiendish assassin!: The axe blade was
covered with blood that had not had time to dry. Ob-
viously, this had been the lethal instrument of destruction.

It had been left untouched until a fingerprint expert could
be called in to‘examine it for latent prints.

It was while Sheriff Doyle had been busy observing the
gruesome spectacle within, and just as he found the axe
that was to become his most hopeful clue, that a clamor
outside had attracted his attention. Some of the spectators
i had congregated in the yard had found Mr. Wagner's

ody.

The crude grave was located beneath a spreading pepper
plant, close to a high fence at the back of the flower garden,
about eighty feet from the kitchen door.

BENEATH a thin layer of earth, scattered over with the

broken branches from a budding peach tree, the body
of the sixty-four-year-old capitalist had been discovered.
The Sheriff left his methodical search on the inside of the
house of death unfinished and hastily joined the horrified
assemblage in the yard.

Already some of the neighbors were throwing: aside the
sods and removing the clods with bare hands. Six inches
down they uncovered the lifeless form of William Wagner.
Faces of the men grew grim and determined as two of their
number knelt down and reverently ‘lifted the dead man
from the hastily dug grave’and placed him upon the-grass.

Examination disclosed that the victim’s skull was crushed
to a pulp in the region behind the left ear. His forehead
had been bashed in, and a huge gash, that later corres-
ponded in measurement with the axe blade found in the
house, marked his face from the right forehead downward
across the left cheek. Such had been the brutal handiwork
of the most atrocious killer ever known to invade a Mississ-
ippi household. ue

For a moment, everyone stood dazed and helpless as

be in direct command and will use the troops and employ such force of arms as may be found
necessary to accomplish his mission, General Hairston.said he anticipated no disorders,"
TIMES-PICAYUNE, New Orleans, Louisiana, June 7, 1931 (8/h).

mater Valley, Miss,, June 11, 1931-Sam Whitaker, 18-year-old negro accused of the ax

. slayings of W. B, Wagner, Water Valley bank president and merchant, and his wife, was
found guilty early tonight of mrder in the first degree. A yersdiet of ‘guilty as
charged! on an indictment changing murder in the first degree for the killing of Wagner was
returned a few minutes before 6 o'clock = 11 minutes after the trial closed and the case
was passed to the jury for its finding, The verdict carries with it the death penalty
Sheriff's deputies armed with machine guns and tear gas bombs were stationed in the courte
room during the session of court, One of the guns was mounted in a window over the judge's
desk. Court adjuourned immediataly after the verdict was recorded and the courtroom was
cleared within a few minutes. There was no demonstration, Tomorrow Emmett Shaw, a 0=
year=old negro = like Whitaker a former employeeof the slain banker - will face another jury
to ‘be tried for his life on the same aria Bg TIMES PICAYUNE, New Orleans, 6-12-1931 .(3/h)

"Water Valley, Miss., July 1, 193l-An anonymous letter,' believed to have been mailed at Mem=

| phis, received by Circuit Judge Greer L, Rice of Charleston, criticizing the action of his

-court in the conviction of the negro slayers of W. B, Wagner and his wife here during the
early part of May, has been turned over to postal authorities of the district for investigation,
The letter was addressed to the judge and sheriff and forwarded to Ri@e at his home at Charles=
ton, Judge Rice turned the ltter over to the government. ,He said it wasilliterate and was
inclined to make light of if," TIMES-PICAYUNE, New Orleans, 7/2/131 (8-6).

"water, Valley, Miss., July 16, 1931-Sam Green Whittaker and Emmett Shaw, negroes, are sche-
duled to be hanged here shortly after 11 o "Clock tomorrow florning for the ax mrders. of W,

B, Wagner, a leading banker and merchant, and Mrs, Wagner, May l; last. The negroes, indicted
and convicted recently, were quoted as Hayang confessed the crime, Whittaker was the. Wagner's
houseboy and Shaw was employed at Wagner's store, The double execution in the parish jail
will be conducted by the sheriff, C. T. Doyle, and will be witnessed only, by the pemired
official witnesses, and wo, ministers. . _ Whittaker will be hanged first," _ TIMES PICAYUNE,

New Orleans, 7-17-1931 (3/5)

WWater Valley, Mississippi, July 17, 193l-Sammie Green Whitaker; 18-years-old, and Emnett
} Shaw, 40,-negroes, were hanged here today for the murder of Mr, and Mrs, W. D. Wagner,
prominent Water Valley residents, on the night of May h. Wagner, a banker and merchant,
| and his wife were slain in their home. with an ax and the bodies buried nearby in shallon
graves," TIMES-PICAYUNE, New Orleans, 7-18-1931 (Part two, page one, column two)

. SHAW, Emmett & WHITTAKER, Sam Green, black

”

July 17, 1934.

"TRAPPING the

The dawn revealed
the axe-battered

body of the foremost
citizen of Water
Valley, Mississippi,
and the horribly
mutilated body of
his wife. Why had
this peaceful couple
been slain? Who
were the mad
murderers ?

N the morning of May 5th,
1931, the town of Water Val-
ley, Mississippi, was plunged
into the greatest maelstrom
of public excitement it has’
ever known. That date marked the
beginning of a series of shocking dis-
coveries at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
W. B. Wagner. Within a few hours,
the peaceful center was suddenly
hurled into a vortex of bewilderment
that swirled about the modest resi-
dence of one of North Mississippi’s
most prominent and affluent families.

At eight-fifteen, | arrived at my
office in the Columbia Mutual Tower
in Memphis, Tenn., and found the us-
ual stack of reports and mail. No
sooner had I| turned to the papers
on my desk than the door opened; my secretary entered.

“Mr. Eugene Wagner is waiting in the reception room and
wishes to see you.” ‘

“Show him in,” I said, sensing the probable importance
of whatever matter it was that had brought him to our
office at such an early hour.

| knew Mr. Wagner as a conservative business man of
this city and anticipated that his call might be for the pur-
pose of employing the agency to conduct an ordinary in-
vestigation. When he entered, however, I saw that his face
was white with horror, He spoke nervously:

“My uncle, W. B. Wagner, President of the Bank of
Water Valley and owner of the Wagner Department Store,
was murdered sometime last night at his home in Water
Valley, Mississippi. First news of the tragedy was tele-
phoned to me a few minutes ago. His wife is missing and |
fear that something terrible has happened to her!”

“What were the circumstances surrounding the murder?”
| asked.

“I was given only meager details, but I learned from the

OF NORTE S

Some of the principal figures in one of the telephone conver-
most famous criminal cases in the ‘history ; ,
of the State of Mississippi. (Left to a that aed
right) Deputy Sheriff A. K. Burt, of Uncle's body was
Yalobusha County; Deputy Sheriff Charles found in a crude
Thompson, of Leflore County; and Em- grave near his
mett Shaw, trusty in a Mississippi con- home and that he

Fie Sas eae had apparently
been hacked to death with an axe. When the cook went
there to prepare breakfast for Uncle Will and Aunt Mamie
the house was found in disorder and she became alarmed
and called in the neighbors.

“It seems that their search quickly disclosed the fact that
my uncle had been murdered, but up to the time when |
was notified of that sad discovery, it was reported that
no trace could be found of Aunt Mamie.

“The Mississippi authorities will do everything they can,
but I want to engage the expert assistance of your agency,
Mr. Fox, for I believe it is going to be a very baffling
case.” :

A few preliminary questions elicited the information that

conver-

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MAD MURDERERS

MISSISSIPPI

the slain banker-merchant’s family (Figures from left
consisted of himself and wife. Their £0, #@At) Sam Whit:

only son, William Wagner, Jr., was rly sist bert ore

last heard of in South America. sister, ,Adelle Whit-
The elderly couple lived alone, taker; and Deputy
employing servants who came in Sheriff Leon Ware.
the mornings and left at night.

Our client explained that not having been in close con-
tact with his relatives who were involved in the tragedy, he
could ascribe no motive for the crime. In the absence of
some helpful knowledge by which we might formulate a
tentative theory as the basis for our initial steps in the
investigation, it was of the utmost importance that we get
on the ground at the earliest possible moment.

“We will start for Water Valley immediately,” I told the
client, and I pressed the buzzer to summon Captain W. F.
Wattam, one of our crack operatives, who has aided in the
solution of more than one diabolically perplexing murder
mystery.

We left Memphis a few minutes later with Captain Wat-

By Detective

JOHN J.
FOX

As told to
HOMER G. WELLS

tam at the wheel of a fast car. |
watched the speedometer hover
around the figure “70” over most of
the eighty-seven mile trip; my mind
occasionally reverting to the grim
duty ahead. It was a thrilling ride,
but I was not sorry when our desti-
nation hove into view and the dron-
ing motor gradually receded to re-
lieve my taut nerves.

OUR first stop was at the court
house in Water Valley. I in-
quired for the sheriff and was directed
to the murder scene on Wagner
Street. Throngs jammed the avenue
that had been named in honor of the
now lamented citizen until it was with
difficulty that Captain Wattam and |
wedged through the crowd and finally
reached the police lines that were es-
tablished a short distance outside of
the frame bungalow that housed the
blood-red riddle.

Sheriff C. T. Doyle and City Mar-
shal Leonard Redwine were making
an examination of the house in search
ut clues, while deputies struggled to prevent the growing
crowd from over-running the premises and destroying evi-
dence of vital importance, and everyone wore a grave coun-
tenance that bespoke their awe and uncertainty. We gained
prompt admittance and were cordially received by Sheriff
Doyle and Marshal Redwine.

They reviewed the details of their efforts to penetrate the
mystery prior to our arrival, pointing out to Captain Wat-
tam and myself the facts which they had been able to de-
duce from the physical aspects of the case.

Sheriff Doyle paused to explain how the condition of the
house and the absence of its occupants had first produced a
suspicion in the mind of Callie Wiggins, the colored woman
who came at sunrise to cook breakfast for Mr. and Mrs.
Wagner, and caused her to spread an alarm among the
neighbors. It was the Sheriff who arrived in time to lead
the way into the horror chamber from which the cook had
fled in terror, and now he directed our attention to the
things that had convinced him that a horrible murder had
been committed in the bedroom where they were standing.

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Tt OF Law

COM e eet er t

798 Miss. 17 SOUTHERN REPORTER, 2d SERIES

complainants to aver in their bill the specific
factual details, which the bill on its face
shows the complainants could not reason-
ably supply without the aid of the dis-
covery sought. The motion having been
overruled and properly so, appellant there-
upon filed nine special demurrers setting
forth separately the same grounds sub-
stantially as mentioned in the motion for
a bill of particulars. In brief, the motion
for a bill of particulars was transformed
into nine special demurrers. The demur-
rers were overruled and an interlocutory
appeal was allowed “in order to avoid
expense and delay as well as to settle the
controlling principles of the cause”.

[1,2] When a bill is sufficient as a bill
of discovery, as this bill is, it is not com-
petent to challenge it by a motion for a bill
of particulars or by special demurrers on
grounds that, as to matters about which
discovery is sought and is due, the bill does
not allege in that detail and precision of
averment required when the complainant
is in possession of the facts which will
enable him so to allege. The purpose ofa
bill of discovery is to obtain the specific
information and to permit such a challenge
would contravene or circumvent the reasons
for which bills of discovery are allowed and
have been throughout the long history of
chancery—as a practical matter it would
be to eliminate bills of discovery from our
roster of remedies.

[3,4] From what has been said it is
at once apparent that the questions pre-
sented by the special demurrers raise issucs
belonging to the procedural or adjective
or remedial side of the law and we have
several times held that an interlocutory
appeal will not lie from rulings on pro-
cedural or adjective matters. Stirling v.
Whitney Nat. Bank, 170 Miss. 674, 683,
150: So. 654; -Breland v. Lemastus, 183
Miss. 150, 183 So. 500; Lott v. Windham,
191 Miss. 849, 4 So.2d 342. Such rulings do
not settle all the controlling principles in
the case,

[5] Nor are such appeals on procedural
questions saved on the assertion that they
avoid expense and delay. If such a bill
stated no cause of suit, and in that respect
is unamendable an interlocutory appeal on
a general demurrer might save cxpense,
but such is not the case here; and as to
avoiding delzy the appeal has caused delay,
one reason pertinent to this case, being
that it has intercepted answer and in con-

sequence has delayed complainants ‘of their
avail of Section 1551, Code 1930, Section
1712, Code 1942, which cannot be used
until issue has been joined. Givens v.
Southern Exp. Co., 106 Miss. 834, 64 So.
737.

Appeal dismissed.

SMITH, Chief Justice (dissenting).

This appeal should not be dismissed,
but the several questions raised by the
appellant’s demurrers to the bill of com-
plaint should be decided. If, however, the
appeal is to be dismissed the Court should
not decide, as it has, that the bill sets forth
a case for a discovery, but if that question
is to be decided, I am of the opinion that
it does not so set forth.

McGEHEE, J., joins in the position taken
in the first sentence of the dissent of the
CHIEF JUSTICE.

SIMMONS v. STATE.
No, 35653.

Supreme Court of Mississippl.
' May 8, 1944.

Judges €=28

The circuit judge in vacation has no
authority to fix a day for the execution of
a sentence. Code 1942, § 2559.

—-——

In Banc.

Appeal from Circuit Court, Harrison
County; L. C. Corban, Judge.

Eddie Simmons, alias Doc Simmons, was
convicted of rape which conviction was
affirmed, 15 So.2d 287. From an order of
the circuit judge in vacation, after remand,
fixing a day for execution of sentence, de-
fendant appeals.

Reversed and remanded.

See also, 16 So.2d 617.

Bidwell Adam, of Gulfport, for appel-
lant.

Greek L. Rice, Atty. Gen., by R. O. Ar-
rington, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.

RICHARDSON
17 80.24 —s ee

GRIFFITH i
i , Justice. Cowles Horton, of Grenada, f
at has heretofore happened in this lant. , ieee se

case is set forth in Simmon

he is Soo s v. State, Sig & Stone, of Coffeeville, for appel-

Peg nas the remand to the circuit court :

— 2 ieee of a day for the execution of ROBERDS, Justice.

— ac eg Section 1311, Code Sayle, in this bill, seeks to (1) ]

Heme se : : Code 1942, the district as a cloud upon his title, the clai eas.

pee y ; ec a petition returnable in va- pellee, Mrs. Mattie H. Jones eel hat ak

re Be peayeeg, that the judge ihe cir- approximately five acres of hind a ies

cation fix a day. The peti- to procure a i

tion was sustained and in vacation the both of the arpaiens “The Chance a,
; is-

ona A
judge made the order prayed for, and from missed the bill, thus denying all relief

that action the convi
vict has appealed. Upon careful examination of the record

s grace Rowe + 4 in the circuit judge and the law we are of the opinion he
bg mars ve ay for the execution correct except that he should have rend ba
a wr ng = y ee the cited sec- a Personal decree against W. C Soke
Be e nee i what is to be failure to do which was likely an Soceaieht
vc papell Say hw ee the court, not called to his attention. The bill "il
ene partieg found which authorizes leged execution of a note by Jones to Sa aa
i aaa Phe Paragon Compare for $287.12, dated January 20, 1936 vd
: ; iss. 307, 188 So. 8, due November 15, 1936 bearine ei ht *e
eversed and remanded. cent interest from date. Jones sented he

executed the note and that nothing has

been paid upon it.

The decree will be affirmed as to Mrs
Mattie H. Jones but reversed as to W rel
Jones and judgment will be rendered here
against him for the principal and interest

SAYLE v. JONES et al,
No. 35596.

Supreme Court of Mississippl,
May 8, 1944.

Bills and notes €=540

Where defendant admitted execution
of note sued on and that nothing had been
paid upon it, court should have rendered a
personal decree against defendant for prin
cipal and interest of the note. ve

—_—~>__—_.

Appeal from Chancer
y Court, Yalobush:
County; L. A. Smith, Srz aemctee = 5

Suit by D. B. Sayle against W. C. Jones
and Mattie H. Jones to cancel as a cloud
upon his title the claim of last named de
fendant to a tract of land, and to sites
a personal money decree against both de-
fendants. From a decree dismissing his

" Dill, the plaintiff appeals,

Affirmed in part and reversed in Part and

) 1dg: ment re ¢ ed =!
against
u T I nd T tn fir st named de

of the note.

Affirmed in part and i
i re
and judgment here, tte al

RICHARDSON v. STATE.
No. 35560.

Supreme Court of Mississippi,
May 8, 1944,

1. Rape €=54(1)

A conviction for rape may rest on the
uncorroborated testimony of the person al-
leged to have been raped, but such testi-
mony should be scrutinized with caution
and where there is much in the facts in
evidence to discredit her testimony, an-
“agg jury should be permitted to pass upon
it.

2. Criminal law €=538(3)

Confessions are not conclusive and
may be of little weight.

Seeee

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64 Miss.

SIMMONS Vv. STATE.
No, 35721.

Re ut ahliaalibalanl rte ar gg ee ee NE TS neat?

20 SOUTHERN REPORTER, 24 SERIES

17 $o.2d 798, 799. The present episode is
that when as a result of his next previous

appeal he was brought before the circuit

Supreme Court of Mississippl.

court in term time for the fixing of another

Dee. 11, 1944. date for the execution, he presented, in a

Writ of Certiorari Denied Feb. 5, 1915.
Sce 65 S.Ct. 590.
* Constitutional law C266, 268
Accused could not contend that excctl-

manncr unobjectionable as to form, a state-
ment-of two assigned reasons why the ¢X-
ecution should not be ordered, these

rounds being directed towards the validity

of the original trial and sentence. He al-

tion should not be ordered because he was .
5 : leges that (1) he was put to trial, when, on

denied due process of Jaw in that he was
put to trial when incapable of adequately
aiding in his defense and confession used
against him was procured by force an
intimidation, where accused at time of trial
had full knowledge of the matters com-
plained of and made no effort then to pre
sent them to court. Code 1942, § 2559.
as Constitutional law ©2257

“Due process of law” guarantees to
accused only one full opportunity to be

heard.
Seo Words and Phrases, Permanent

Fadition, for all other definitions of
“Due Process of Law’.

3. Criminal law ca i2ig
The “legal reason against exccution

account of a wound previously suffered, he
was physically and mentally disabled, and
to stich an extent as to make it impossible
for him to adequately aid in his defense;
and that (2) in the trial an alleged con-
fession was used against him which had

been procured by force and intimidation.
His present statement is such, however, as
to disclose that he had full knowledge at
the time of trial of both of the matters
of which he now complains, and there is
no allegation that the officers of the court
in charge of the prosecution took any
measure, actually of constructively, di-
rectly or indirectly, to suppress or repress
his presentation thereof on his original
trial. lis contention, NOW made, that in
his trial he was denied due process cannot

of sentence” which convict may show un- 4 teat x : ; hw
der statute providing for fixing new date °° maintained 10F the elemental reason
that he was given full opportunity to be

for execution of death sentence must be
based upon happenings which have 0¢-
curred since original trial, Code 1942,
2559,
See Words and Phrases, Permanent
Edition, for all other definitions of
“Legal Reason Against JPxecution of

Sentence”.

_ oe ~—C

In Bane.
Appeal. from Circuit Court, Harrison

County; L.C. Corban, Judge.

Eddie Simmons was convicted of rape,
and from order overruling his reasons
why execution should not be ordered, he
appeals.

Affirmed and date fixed for exccution of
sentence.

Bidwell) Adam, of Gulfport, for appel-
lant.

Greek L. Rice, Atty, Gen., and R. O. Ar-
rington, Asst. Atty. Gen. for appellee.

GRIFFITH, Justice.
[1,2] Three appeals have heretofore
been granted appellant, andthis is his

fourth. 15 So.2d 287 ; 16 So.2d 617, and

heard, and the guaranty of due process
does not require more than one such op-
portunity. Levery person must have his day
in court; but this is singular, not plural.

[3] Appellant urges, however, that

whatever may be the gencral rule, the
provision is express in Section 2559, Code
1942, which is the section which author-
izes a new date to be fixed for the execctl-
tion of a death sentence, to the effect that
a convict when brought into court under
the section may show any “Segal reason
against the exccution of the sentence.”
This statute, as is the rule applicable to all

procedural laws, must be construed so as to
fit it harmoniously into the system of which
st is a part; whence it follows that the
reasons against the execution, in order to
be legal reasons, must be based upon hap-
penings which have occurred since, but not
at or before, the original trial. See Lewis
vy. State, 155 Miss. 810, 815, 125 So. 419. If
this were not the rule, a convict who had
succeeded in escaping and in remaining at
large beyond the date fixed for his excct-
tion would have, on his capture, the right
to an application for a new trial by invok-
ing the provision to which appellant now

points.

BRASHIER v. STATE E
Cite as 20 So.2d 65 Miss,

Appellant in his statement requested
that as a part thereof the record of the
original trial be considered. Acceding to
that request, we have examined the tran-
script of the original trial, 15 So.2d 287,
on the gencral docket of this Court, and it
1s interesting to note that appellant was
indicted on December 8, 1942, On the
same day an attorney was appointed to de-
fend him, and he was brought to trial on
December 29, 1942, giving ample time to
the attorney to investigate the facts and
the law, and nothing appearing to the.con-
trary, we must assume that he did so. The
record shows that no application for a con-
tinuance was made, and nowhere does it
appear that the attention of the court was
called to the fact, if it was a fact, that the
defendant was under any incapacity and
no such was shown or alleged in the mo-
tion for a new trial.

: But a still further interest is in connec-
tion with the present complaint about the
confession. The confession was made to
the witness Payne. On the cross-examina-
tion of the defendant, who testified in his
Stic on the issue of the competency

e confession, the following <
p. 95 of the transcript: SBM ay

“Q. What you
truth? A. Yes Pe gt aenarte ds

“ .

5 ck Rae did commit this crime?
; Affirmed, and Friday, January 26, 1945
is fixed as the day for the execution of the

sentence.

BRASHIER v. STATE.
No. 35681.

Supreme Court of Mississippt.
Dee. 11, 1944.

1. Witnesses €=68

~ A judge, especially in jury trial where
; ere is only one judge presiding, may not
estify upon merits of controversy.

2. Witnesses C68

oe Judge’s duty generally to exercise over
pio all powers of court needed for
ection of rights and administration of

justice is incompatible with simultaneous
20 SO 2d—5

65
exercise of rights of a witness to refuse to
answer incriminating questions and to pro-
tection of court in such regard.

3, Witnesses O68

Under statute prohibiting trial judge
from summing up or even making comment
upon testimony, or charging jury as to
weight of evidence and from instructing
jury orally, trial judge cannot take stand
as a witness and testify upon merits in
direct contradiction to that which a defend-
ant has testified. Code 1942, § 1530.

4, Judges 50
Witnesses €=68

Where a judge has notice that he will
be called as a witness in a case pending
before him, he should arrange for some
one else to try case and if he has not suf-
ficient notice “to make such arrangement
he should refuse to testify.

5. Criminal law €=1036(2)

Where judge testified on merits of case
and immediately thereafter defendant’s
counsel moved to strike testimony of for
4 mistrial and situation confronting defend-
ant’s counsel was unexpected and unusual
failure to object to procedure before judge
had testified did not preclude the assign-

ment of such procedu
Taz, § 1830. Pp re as error. Code

In Bane.

Appeal from Circuit Court, Lauderdale
County; Jesse H. Graham, Judge.

R. F. Brashier was convicted of the un-
lawful possession of intoxicating liquors,
and he appeals.

Reversed and remanded.

Cecil A. Rogers, of Meridian, for ap-
pellant.

Greck L. Rice, Atty. Gen., and Geo. H.
Ethridge, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.

ROBERDS, Justice.

Appellant was convicted of the unlawful
possession of intoxicating liquor and ap-
peals.

The trial judge testified on the merits at
the trial. Appellant says this was rever-
sible error. This is the picture: The Dis-
trict Attorney, while putting on the case
for the State, called the Judge to the wit-
ness stand. The Judge was sworn. He
then testified in substance that he received
the affidavit and issued the warrant for

$22 = Miss.

to be made; that affiant then prepared a
new notice of sale, leaving out all land not
owned by George W. Armstrong, but be-
fore he could have the same published, or
posted, the injunction was issued restrain-
ing the publication thereof.” Said counsel
further testified “I wanted to know (how
the error occurred) because I had to know
before I published another notice that I had
the proper land described in the notice of
sale”.

The published notice of correction con-
ceded error only as to the Ormonde and
Carson tracts. The decree of the Chan-
cellor found that appellant “undertook to
execute a release, releasing from the cover-
age of the said deed of trust the plantations
of land included therein which were not
owned by said George W. Armstrong
* * * which release so exccuted did re-
lease some but not all of the said planta-
tions so erroncously inserted in said deed of
trust”. Said decree retained the injunction
as to “the Ormonde Plantation, Beck Dow-
er Plantation, Hamilton Tract and other
tracts not owned by complainant” and
again “decreed that the injunction here-
tofore issued in this cause be and the same
is continued in full force and effect as to
all of the lands described in the decd of
trust which did not belong to complainant.”

[8] It is seen, therefore, that the Chan-
cellor found, and upon substantial evidence,

that not all the lands not owned by mort- ,

gagor had been deleted from the deed of
trust. Only two tracts were conceded by
the correction notice to be erroncously in-
cluded. We find no warrant for over-
turning the chancellor’s finding that the
proposed foreclosure would include lands
not owned by the mortgagor and his reten-
tion of the injunction against such con-
tingency. We sce no support for a con-
tention that appellant had acted or would
act in respect thereto in malice, bad faith,
or under deliberate error. Statutory dam-
ages under the injunction bond are ac-
cordingly denied.

The litigation between these parties has
been protracted and varied, extending
through both state and federal courts for
many years and has been characterized
by a prolixity and persistence which has
evoked a resourcefulness in defense com-
mensurate with the issues at stake. The
record is voluminous, containing, as it
does, the integrated records in former liti-
gation, The evidence is complex as is in-

21 SOUTHERN REPORTER, 2d SERIES

evitable where prolonged accounting is re-
quired and multiple issues involved. An
omission properly to index the testimony
and some of the briefs in disregard of
Rule 7 has retarded our progress toward the
truth. The increased demands upon judi-
cial energy and zeal have not, however,
overdrawn our patience, and we have ex-
amined every issue with care.

The deeree of the trial court will be re-
versed and deeree entered here in favor
of appellants in the sum of $80,909.06 as of
September 22, 1943, together with attorneys’
fees thercon in the sum of $8,090.91, or
a total as of said date of $88,999.97,

Reversed on direct appeal and decree

here for appellants. Affirmed on cross-
appeal.

° KEY NUMBER SYSTEM

anms

SIMMONS v. STATE.
No. 35721.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.
April 23, 1945.

Criminal law ©1003 .

Where appeal to United States Su-
preme Court from state Supreme Court’s
order fixing date for execution of sentence
was pending on such date, new date there-
for would be fixed by state Supreme Court
on remand of case to it following dis-
missal of the appeal.

a ns

In Banc,

Appeal from Circuit Court. Harrison
County; L. C. Corban, Judge.

Eddie (alias Doc) Simmons was con-
victed of rape, and after several appeals,
date was fixed for execution of sentence,
20 So.2d 64, but was allowed to pass be-
cause of pendency of an appeal to the
United States Supreme Court which dis-
missed the appeal.

New date fixed for execution of sentence.

Bidwell Adam, of Gulfport, for appellant.

Greek L. Rice, Atty. Gen., and R. O.
Arrington, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.

CLAYTON vy. PADEN ‘ Miss. 993
Cite as 21 So.2d 823

PER CURIAM.

An appeal was taken to the Supreme
Court of the United States from the order
made herein on a former day, 20 So.2d 64,
fixing the date for the execution of the
sentence here imposed, but that court dis-
missed the appeal and remanded the case to
this court. 323 U.S. —, 65 S.Ct. 590.
The date for the execution of the sentence
having passed, Thursday, May 3lst, 1945,
will be again fixed therefor,

So ordered.

aume

CLAYTON et al. v. PADEN, Chancery
Clerk, et al.

No. 35835.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.
April 23, 1945.

1. Countles ©=204(4)

Where competitive bids must be had,
order allowing claim against county must
recite and adjudge the jurisdictional facts
in, such respect, but where amounts in or-
der of allowance show that no competitive
bids were required, order need not go fur-
ther and negative a fact sufficiently nega-
tived by such amounts. Code 1930, § 6386.

2. Counties =204(4)

Mandamus Cl!tl
Order of board of supervisors allow-
ing three claims against county for less
than $250 each and referring to statute un-
der which it was made was sufficient on
its face without alleging jurisdictional facts
with respect to competitive bids to consti-
tute a valid, binding judgment, payment of
which holders of claim were entitled to
compel by mandamus. Code 1930, §§ 255,
6386, and § 6381, as amended by Laws 1932,

c. 196.

3. Mandamus ¢>168(4)

Holders of claims against county were
entitled to mandamus directing payment
thereof, where case was tried before trial
judge without a jury, both sides submitted
case for decision on sufficiency of order of
board of supervisors allowing claims which

valid and binding judgment, and defend-
ants elected not to offer any evidence in
support of their plea of the general issue
and notice of special matter thereunder.

—_>———-

In Bane.
Appeal from Circuit Court, Chickasaw
County; T. H. McElroy, Judge.

Proceeding by F. L. Clayton and another
against J. C. Paden, Chancery Clerk, and
others, for a writ of mandamus to compel
payment of certain claims against Chicka-
saw County which had been allowed by
the Board of Supervisors. From a judg-
ment of dismissal, plaintiffs appeal.

Judgment reversed, and judgment for
plaintiffs.

W. J. Evans and Paul M. Moore, both of
Calhoun City, for appellants.
George Bean, of Okolona, for appellees.

McGEHEE, Justice.

The Mississippi Oil Corporation, the as-
sets of which are now owned by the appel-
lants, F. L. Clayton and Mrs. Velma B.
Clayton, was allowed payment of certain
claims at the November 1938 meeting of
the board of supervisors of Chickasaw
County under the terms of the following or-
der:

“Be and it is hereby ordered by. the
Board that the following claims be and they
are hereby allowed and the Clerk of this
Board is hereby authorized to issue: war-
rants therefor: ,

“C_#1324, Miss. Oil Corp. Sup-
plies, Fund No. 1, Laws 1932, © :
Chapter 196,..... Jeni. elon cl
“C-#1271, Miss. Oil Corp. Sup-
plies Fund No. 1, Laws 1932; : i
Chapter <196,.....°.- Fen eei ects lew
“C-#351, Miss. Oil Corp. Sup- ee
’ plies Fund No. 1, Laws 1932,
Chanter 190. teas. cep Doon

Thereafter, the appellee, J. C. Paden,
Chancery Clerk, acting as clerk of the
board of supervisors, and with the acqui-
escence and approval of the members of
said board, refused to issue warrants for
the payment of said claims, respectively;
and, wherefore, the appellants filed this
proceeding for a writ of mandamus to com-
pel the payment of the same, making the
clerk and members of the board parties
thereto, and alleging that there were ample

was sufficient on its face to constitute a funds on hand in the county treasury for

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ng ertating will be comtinued, aad

thelr respective principals. ane

we Chamberlain iiant Board ts pow

tito fer a principal and is bopefal

the right man sborily, and It 1s

bellewed that each sehool will be

certiowing next term. The ultimate

view. and for whieh the plana

hy this plan of co-operation and

tol consolidation, ds the raising of

lu-Hunt inte a college, with the

wore preparatory gchoais ax feerd-

»denbt is fett that when this pont

{ there willl be na fluer college In

than Chamberlain-Hunt., Dr. Me-

has areepted the honor conferred

will bring to bear on the new plan

he same exeent}se and adminisira-

y whieh has characterized. bls work

NOUNCED hls
SE INCURABLE

ws GG J

Body Raw with Eczema—
was Intolerable—Was Even
‘ed in Plaster—Discharged
Hospitals as Hopeless.

FRED 14 YEARS
CURED BY CUTICURA

mn the age of three months until
years old, my son Owen's life

9
“™ =}

was made intoler-
able by eczema in
its worst form. He
was all right until
a red ras

y out on his
head, but we
not alarmed a
Very soon, h
the rash
spread ove!
and‘ shouldéfs, and
it caused him great
discomfort. I took
a doctor and tried half a dozen

Qejreatments, all with the same
no improvement all. The
D gradually sprea nearly

QRQud rear him.“ The regimenta

a
“Sw hopeless; at least, he said the
pe
ong enough, outgrow it to some
Ve had him in hospitals four
and he was pronounced one of
ist cases, if not the worst, ever
ed. From each he was dis-
ed as incurable; in fact he got
under.the successive treatments,
pre e hospital they incased him in
=, and this seemed to aggravate
} >reness terribly. He looked so
hat no one liked to go near him
s life was a burden to him. We
rying remedy after remedy, but
d got almost past hoping for a
Six months ago we purchased
! Cutioura. Soap, Ointment, and
rent Pills and persevered with
The result was truly marvelous
-day he is perfectly cured, his skin
=iving a blemish on it anywhere.
Lily Hedge, 51, Vaughan Road,
wairbour Lane, Camblewell Green,

V]y T2212, 1907.” ;
ito nearest depot for free Cuti-
« ook on Treatment of Skin Diseases.
ura Remedies are sold throughout the world,
; London, 27, Charterhouse oq. Paris, 5, Rue
ix; Australia, R. Towns Co., Sydney*
Wea. Lennon, Lid., Capetown, etc.; U.S.A.
Drug & Chem. Corp. Sole Props. Bost.

iW PEIZew BOF CORI POs vj
Selfout Isnprovement Assectatiou, wure
nwarded to Russell Ellas. Mount Zion, Bis-
tery prize. by the Schoo! Department Asxo-
tlation, fell to Mika Audrey Bullock, Heuek’s
Retreat. A dletionary, offered by the Perfps-
tetles for spelling, vas awarded to Misa
Uphella Hodges, Oak Ridge. Two prizes tn
drawing, by W. KE. Price, were awarded to
Maes Naomie MeCullongh, @rst, aud Miss
Trente MeCullongh, second. Both these yeung
ladies are Crom Hoth. A prise for excellence

jo arithmetic wan won by Miss Miriam Pfuteh-

Inson,yFalr River. For manual training, the
Norfleld) School won the prize on n desk mare
by Herman Rawls and Bi Yykes. The desk

was purchased fram the young nen for $4 hy
Mrs. HR. T. Schenck, who gare ft to the Noar-
field School. The globe offered br Grafton
Drug Company far best exhibit of xchool
work, wak awarded to Mount Zlon School.
These contests and fleid day sports werr
inaugurated In Linealn Counts four years age
under the ausplees of the County ‘Tenchers’
Axsocintion. and are growing In fntereet. The
officers of the Association are: J. 0. Brueck,
Frrexident: 1). M. Nelson, Vice President: Miss
Mattle Furr. Secretary: Milas Kate Perkins,
Trensurer; A. Schauher, Chalrman Filet
Duy Committee, Migs Anna TD. Jones, Chatr-

man Medal Committee: Claude Bennett, Coun-
ty Superintendent.
KE. RB. Lovell. of Fair River, gets eredit for

na navel turnout and the largest lend of people

ever Keen in this section. Fie brought over,
one limudred persyns, patrons and, puplly of
Falr River Scholl. to the wvantests on one
wagon. It was qn eight-wheel log wagon with
seats built speglally for the occasion. ‘The
motive powerAWwas alx yoke of fine oxen. A

few years ago Mr. Lovell won a prize offeres!
br a Brookbaven firm for bringing to town
the largest number of Indies at one load,
bringing sixty-five. As no one seemed in-
‘lined to try to break the record, Mr. Lovell
bad to do so himself.

CLARKSDALE,>

Forty-Two Indictmegts.
Clarksdale, Miss., April 24.—#he Afth day
of the Cireult Court brings the number of
Indictments returned to the Grand Jury up
te forty-two. Most. of those indicted are
negroes and residents of disorderly districts.
W. P. Wilberger. the foreman of the
wring no efforts to unearth lawless
me and bring offendera to just
‘of the parties indlated haye be
and efforts are being made to locate

DEKALB.
Negro Who Precinitated Kemper
Ruce Troubles Is Executed.
Sccoba, Miss., April 24.—Tom Simpson, a
noted negro criminal, convicted ut the fall
terin of the Circutt Court of Kemper County
for the killing of John O'Brien, a spectul
officer, who attempted to arrest him for cuc-
ting Conductor ‘Cooper, of the Mcblile and Obla
Kailroad, wax banged in De Kalb to-day. Le
met death without a quiver and spoke but a
few words on tbe scaffold, Sheriff Jobn Lee
Narbour officlated in. the execution, which was
witnessed by a large crown,

TY LERTOWN.
Puyne Was Widely Connecte

ylertown, Miss., April 24.—W. E
hu killed, a negress and suleided at/FOuston,
Tex., Was a Native of this place, and wus
Jurgely connected with the Payne family in
this section aod all over south Mississippl.
lle was for a.jong time In the basiness of
the Lampton Kros.’ Company here, but some
years ugo severed his connection with that
concern and moved to Houston to engage in
the real estate business. Hey has severul
uueles and other near relatives residing here.
He was o mmber of the local Masvnic Lodge.

COLUMBIA.
High School Carries Out Interesting
Closing Exercises. :

Columbia, Miss., April 24.—Tbe closing ex-
ercises of Columbia High School took place
bere last night ion the spuclous hall of the
mugneficent new school building, The grad-
uoting class consisting of Claude Conner.
Burruugh Coben, Lamar Willlamson, Katle
Northern, Ena Winborne, Annie Lloyd
Augtin and Ituby Rankin, read &ppropriate
essays and were given certificates of excel-
leuey as having completed the High School
ecurse. ‘The osual exercises, incident to this
occasion were necessarily cui short on account
of tbe schoul term being closed one momth
earlier thau was anticipated. This was not
known or determined upon until a few days
ugo. when the town council found themselves
without suicient funds to run the school tha
full term of nine months, und rather than
{mpose burdenship on the faculty by asking
them to teach on x eredit or discount thelr

warrants, It was deemed best to cut down,

DL. Mitehell, recording seeretary; Georgo |

corresponding secretary. The presi:
the following executive com:
mittee: De VM. Foikes, J. BR. Reyneldr,
Menry Latimer, Go CV. Grayson, To Heiden
hefm, LD. WH. Doty, U. Desporte and L. .
Dantzler.

Swan,
dent appointed

LAUREL. :
New Laundry Going Up.
Miss., April 24. — The
Luurel, Laundry is
Machinery will be tn-
ep cost of $4,500. Motive
he ‘electricity and heating wilt
hy steam and electricity. S. M. Gass,
“of the Chalmette Laundry, New Or-
Ix mmanager.

plant
under

Laurel,
of the
construction.
gtalled al
power will

Inte
leube,

AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE.

Inatitutes Begin July 15.
College. Mise., April 24.—Tas
regular suinmer Farmers’ Institutes will ve-
gin this reir on July A, and «all ‘countles
desiring on fustitute this | summer are re
quested to make, bi apace nut oonee, sa
that the routes and dates may he thxed party
enough to thoroughly each tmecl-
Ing. ATL requests four should 00
sent ta EB. R Liuyd, Director Fariners
Institutes, Agricultural College, Mississipol.

SCRANTON. .
Inland Waterway Delegates.
S¢ranton, Mlss.. April 24.—McVea Young,
Peter Smith, B. Ellis, Frank H.. Lewls.
M. G. Flore, M. M. Watkins, Dr. J. 7.
Evans and §. HI. Bugze were to-day named
br tbe mayer to represent this port at the
convention In Mobile, Ala.. May 7, regarding
the New Orleans-Atalacbicola Inland water:

way project. -

Farmers’
Agricultural

niivertixe
Juatitutes

HYMENEAL,

PANDELLA—BAKER.

Biloxi.’ Miss., April 24.—Michael K. Pan-
della and Mrs. Ella Baker were married at
the ghurch of the Redeemer yesterday by the
Cc. B. Crawford.

ey.

HAYDEL—BORDELON.
g Bridge, La., April 24.~—Miss Gertle
on, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Osear

of this vicinity, was married on
y to Dr. Je J. Hasdel, of Plauche-
e cermooy was pertormedy, by Rey.
jer, at Cottonport. .

NINE BLOCKS IN ASHES.

Fire in Business Section of Richmond,
Vt. Cuuses $100,000 Loss,
April 24.—Nine

cControlied wunttl

‘morning, causinga logs estimated at

Help was called from Bur-

lington. The blaze started in San-
dusky’s drug store, on Main Street,

a two-story wooden block, and was
checked at the Belleview Hotel, on
Depot Street, after destroying that
structure. The cause of the fire Is
not known.

WHAT SULPHUR DOES

One of the crude; but ‘bighly effective reme-
dies of our grandmothers’ days was sulpbar,
the universal “blood purifler,’’ tonic 6)
“tonre-all.”” The secret of the success of/thie
old-fashioned medicine wan In its acffon on
the liver and excretory organs, by wich the
blood was' purified and euriched u the en-
tlre system benefited by ie p pt ellmi-
nation of waate matertal.

In the early times ‘‘aulphor and molasses”
tras © nauseating dose, given io large qguantl-
ties to’ produce any effect. Nowadays in
Stuart's Calcium Wafers (obtalaed from Cal-
cium -Sulpbide) we get all the beneficial ef-
fects of sulphur in # palatable, concentrated
form, so that a single grain Js:more effective
than a teaxpoonful of the crude sulphor.

Dr. R. M. Wilkins sayw: . I know of noth-
ing so sofe and relinble an Stuart's Calctum
Wafers for corstipation, Mver and kidney
troubles, and all forms of akin disease”? -

For sale by druggists everywhere.

$100,009.

Write for free sample package to
Stuart Co,, 175 Stuart. Bldg., Marshall,

(/ af
Simpson

“this
case tnvrolres It was brought by the Bank
of Franklinton agninst the State Board of
Agricultere and the LouwlSluna State Unitver-

alty to force these {natitttions to place thelr
deposite fo the Franklinton Bank on the
rounds that tte bld far the money was the
Ighest. The amount fnvolved is 4 per cent
on the total deposits for the Fear, but this
fs an uncertain quantity. Judge Brunot has
the case under advisement, and the question

of whether it can be appealed rill come up
when the decision of the District Judge is
rendered.

The notice served upon the + Cumberland

Telephone. Company that §t would have ouly
three dlosys to begin the work of painting {ts
telephone noles {fn Baton Rouge served to
start that Conmpanr's representatives to work
early this meming dofng the painting act.
This notire was given the Company ysedterday
hy Rafe Mayer, Chatrman of the Streets nani
Landing Committee, after the Cumberland
Company bad had thirty days within whith
to begin thik work. The palnting of the
poles was Interrupted by the raln this morn-
Ing, but tt Ix presumed that dt will start
again promptly when weather condtions per-
mit. 7

The [Ratan Rouge delegation returned to
the city thie morning from Monree. where
they attended the State Convention of Elks.

“The local antters not only succeeded in get-

ting the
Raton Rouge,

State Convention
but

next year for
they were honored by a
latge portion of the offcers. W. Carruth
Tener, who is Exalted Ruler of the Baton
Ronge Lodge of Elks, was made President of
the State Awsotfation; J. Dupree’ Standard,
of Baton Rouge, Secretary and Treasurer, and
Dudley L. Weber, of Baton Rouge. Sergeant-
at-Arms. The Incal delegation report® having
a most enjorable stay at Monroe andinf be-
ing royally treated by the Ouachita Elks.

Governor Blanchard to-day _honored the
requisition papers of Governor J. M. Gillett,
of California, for the extradition of George

W. Wagner, who ts wanted In San Bernar-
dino, Cal... for obtainihg money under false
pretense. Wagener Ig now fn the Parish jail

n New Orlenns, and wilt be delivered
F. J. Sanger to be carried back for trial.

L. J. Amies and Jndge T. Samhola Joneg
returned to the city this afternoon from Nex
Orleans, where they went yesterday to hold
a conference with Governor-elect J. Y. San-
ders in regard to the Inaugural programme.
Govarnor Sanders. approved the programme
that has been made.

DONALDSONVILLE.
Number of Cases on Criminal Docket
of the District Court.

Donaldsonville, Lna., April 24.—The Grand
Jury and a two-weeks' Petit Jury have been
drown for the term of District Court, he-
ginning Monday. Amoog the cases docketed
are. Adam Hudson, who killed another negro
at Churchville ‘several months ago; ‘rank
Mitchell, allas Frank Williams, criminal as-
sault on an inmate of a house in the re-
stricted district, and Jying in. walt and as-
gault with intent to rob and murder the night
wateiman of the Texas and Pacific yards,
together with Louls Richard; Morris Butler,
criminally assaulting a negro girl at Burn-
side; Ed Kennedy, murdering a negro named
Scott, on the Burnside Plantation; Jackson
Young, larceny: Elijah Caesar, wilfully shoot-
ing at a son of Octave Tircult, a prominent
rice planter of the parish; and, Henderson
Ridley, cutting and stabbing with Intent to
murder n negro woman near Marchandville.

‘The Cotton Blossom Minstrels, composed of.

young men and ladies of thie city, gave a
successful entertainment at the Gondran
Opera House for the benefit of the Donald-
sonrillesFire Department. The company went
to Napéleonville to show for the benefit of a
schopt tund.

e Arrangement Committee on the inN-
tion of the Knights of Columbus have p
vided for one thousund visiting kolghts next
Sunday.

. LAKE CHARLES. .
Negro Pays Death Penalty for At-
tempted Criminal Assuult.
Lake Claries, La., April 24.—The fifth ex-
ecution which has taken place within the
walls of the Parish Jall withla five mooths
occurred at 12:30: to-day when the drop fell
beneath the feet of Tob Stevens, a negro, and
he expfated his attempt at a terrible ‘crime
pear Roanoke one olght in February last.
Stevens was pronounced dead eleven minutes
after the drop fell. At noon, after. the death
warrant had been read, Stevens was allowed
to address a brief talk to the ‘people of bis
uwn color who gathered about the windows of
the room.in the southeast corner. of: the. Jali.

Provision Made for »*

Guesdan, La...) Appil 24.
Bourd of the Gueydan High
tlon sand the Guerdan Seb
asked the Town Counell th:

Daspit Street between Ninth a
be condemned fot sehool pn
proposed to bulld the seh
The School Bullding Contnit:t
locate the new Kebool , buil
Street fronting west. che cen
Inw In the iniddie of the etree

dred feet east of a line ad
daries weet af the two seh
blocks 16 and 3. ° The Se
Ktrneted to get In touch wit
yitiog plank for the propose!
whieh i not to cost mor

including architect's commis
fixtures, The bullding ts to <
ment and two stories, with
anck one auditortm fo xenat

dred: also library, offfee and
ruuws. ,

EUNICE.
aLarge Class Re
Eunice, La., April 24.—One

children received thelr first
terdny morning at the Cathe
being ‘fifty-two boré and fift

conducting a ten @ass’ miss
administered the holy sucra:
Rev. Father Chastel, of Vi!
Bosh, of Chatalgnjer; Fat
of Gassier; Father Deno, ‘
ec Ingerbrink, of Opelousas
ministered the benedietion a
The eengregation will mert
devise ways and means to ti
which wlll In all probability
ture. The edifice now used |:
for the congregntion,

T. ¥. Wiliiains has sold tc
Alexandria, ls store bull
North Second Street, for $2,

ALEXANDR
Evidence Closed in Loc

gument to Be Mac

Alexandria, La., April 2
Black Hand triul was cont
trict Court to-day. The
evidence at & p.m, and cc
tll to-morrow morning, at
argument wil] be heard. F
the State and defense the
to go to thelr homes, witl
they were not to speak te
uence to the case.

The Grand Jury to serve tf
months Was empaneled to-d
Covuk us Foreman,

NEW ROA
District Court Pr
New Roads, La., Apriy 2
Court yesterday. the Dist
tered nolle prosses in the c
ter, embezziement and fo
Monica, using obsence lau;
ing the peace. Ant. Vourc
to using obscene language
peace, and Judge Clatborne
pay ‘a fine of $10 and co
and jn default of payine
prisonment. The case o
charged With cutting witb
fixed for tria] Munday.

SPIDER
Beaumont and Lake
moters Invest in

Grand Cane, La., April
ers of the Gullett Ol] Cc
met at Mansfield and inc
stock from $15,000 to
magnates from. Beaumont

have visited the field, J°

enumont, aud ¥, Li. |
arles, have purchased Ju

\
\ WEST LA

Three\ Persons’ Injure
7
\on Gasoline

Lake Charles, La., Apri
of gasoliue took place this
Wachsenu's guroline launch
juring three people, two
Mrs. Will Fountain was
and blown into the river.
seriously burned about th
and Tom Joncs, a néfro |
rible burns whileh may pr
Mra. Will-fountaln, Mr.
and the Siegro were about
at ‘West Lake in the ly

in the boat-and t

Father Vautler, of New Orr *

zeant Doyle Terry of the Wichita, Kan-
sas, Police Department.

‘I understand you’re looking for a
light-colored Chevrolet in that Holder-
field killing?” asked Terry.

‘That’s right,”’ said Pierce. ‘Have
you got a line on it?”

“No, but a ‘Fifty-nine four-door
Chevy was stolen from a parking lot
here on the night of January seven-
veenth.”

“Any idea who took it?”

“We have an idea but can’t prove it,”
said Terry. “A fellow who gave us a
barrel of trouble over the years left
town about that time. We've had no in-
formation on him since. His name is
Kenneth Slyter.”

Doyle went on to explain that Slyter
was 27 years old, five feet, seven inches
tall and weighed 165 pounds. He had
dark-brown hair and gray eyes. The
Kansas officer said Slyter was married
and had one child, an infant daughter.

“We sent him up for car stealing,”
Terry went on. ‘But here’s the part
that should interest you most: Slyter
attacked and brutally ravished an
elghteen-year-old girl here on the night
of August thirteenth, Nineteen-fifty.
He was only fifteen then.”

Terry said that Slyter had telephoned
the girl and asked her to baby sit for
his family. She was told to take a bus
to the edge of the city where he would
meet her. As they walked toward his
fictitious address, Slyter clubbed the
girl from behind with a hammer. The
hammer head flew off, but he kept hit-
ting her with the handle until she fell
unconscious into a ditch. He then crim-
inally assaulted her.

“We picked him up later and he ad-
mitted it,” said Terry. “He spent some
time in a mental hospital in Topeka
for it.”

‘The modus operandi checks with the
Holderfield killing,” said Pierce
noughtfully. “Do you know if he’s in
hese parts?”

‘No, but that car you’re looking for
matches the one that was stolen here.”

Terry said that he and his men had
made a thorough check of Slyter’s
Wichita friends and hangouts without
-earning anything of his present where-
abouts.

‘Does he have any relatives here in
Jackson?”

‘Not that we know of.”

Before he hung up, Terry promised
‘o send everything he had on the sus-
pect, including his complete descrip-
tion, a photograph and a resume of his
nabits. He also promised to send along
a more detailed description of the
stolen car.

MEANWHILE. the fingerprint men
reported they had been unable to
obtain any clear impressions on the
telephone booth in the Meadowbrook
Mart. Nor did a thorough check of tire
dealers in the Jackson area uncover
anyone driving a light-colored Chevro-
‘ee who recently bought a set of tires.

By now, however, the call from Ser-
zeant Terry was considered to be the
most promising.

‘The Kansas license plates have
white letters on green backgrounds,”
Pierce told his men a few minutes after
ais talk with the Wichita officer. ‘Our
.nformant on Livingston Road says she
saw a car with license plates of that
solor near the death spot around the
“ume it happened.”

Every squad-car officer and beat pa-
‘rolman in Jackson was instructed to
de on the lookout for a 1959 four-door
Chevrolet with Kansas license plates.
Sheriff Gilfoy promised to alert his men
shroughout Hinds County, and Techni-
clan Ivey agreed to notify every Missis-
sippi Highway Patrol car within a 50-
mile radius of Jackson. Informed of
she latest development at his office in
neighboring Madison County, Sheriff
Noble promised to alert his men also.

In the meantime, a close check of
Sam Crowell’s movements uncovered
the reason why he had been so re-
‘uctant to talk to the police. He had
deen out on the town on Saturday night

with another man’s wife. He was re-
leased from custody when it was def-
initely learned he was nowhere near
the Holderfield home around seven
o’clock that night.

“Which leaves us with Slyter as our
only suspect,” Pierce told Ivey when
they took a few minutes for coffee. “I'd
feel a lot better if I could be sure he
stole that Chevy in Wichita.”

“I think he did,” said Ivey, sipping
his coffee. “He lived only a short dis-
tance from where it was stolen, and he
disappeared the same night it was
taken. Add that to the fact that he’s a
known sex offender and I think we have
a pretty good suspect.”

“I hope you’re right.”

Sheriff Noble called to report that the
victim’s purse had been found a short
distance from where her body had been
discovered. “Nothing has been taken
from it,” he said. ‘“‘We checked it for
prints but found only smudges.”

Pierce hung up after Noble promised
to keep his searching party on the job
in hopes of finding some clue to the
killer’s identity.

Ax0vuT the middle of the morning,
Patrolmen A. M. Baughn and H. E.
Clanton were cruising along Fortifica-
tion Street when they spotted a 1959

' Chevrolet parked near the intersection

of North West Street.

“Hold it!” Baughn told his partner,
who was driving. “That Chevy has
Kansas plates. Let’s go check.”

Clanton pulled up behind the parked
car and the two officers got out. “The
license numbers check with the one
stolen in Wichita,’ he said. “And look
there! Isn’t that blood?”

Baughn saw that his partner was
pointing to a brownish stain on the
windshield on the driver’s side of the
car. Examining it more closely, he saw
that the smear was about four inches
long and an eighth of an inch wide.

“It’s blood, all right,” Baughn said.

Their curiosity aroused, the officers
examined the car and found a dent on
the right headlight and more dark,
brownish stains. Looking under the car,
they saw additional stains and what
looked like strands of blonde hair.

“Contact Headquarters at once,”
Baughn said. “I think we've found the
killer’s car!"

In a matter of minutes, the heavily
populated area was busy with police
officers. Among the first to arrive were
Detective Hammond and Sergeant
Sutherland.

They scraped flecks of the dried blood
from the windshield and put them into
a cellophane envelope. Then they care-
fully removed several strands of blonde
hair from underneath the car.

“Get this to the lab right away,”
Sutherland told his partner. “I’ll start
checking the neighborhood for the
owner of the car.”

After Hammond left, Sutherland was
joined by Freeman and Magee. The
officers then began canvassing both
sides of the street, asking everyone they
met if they knew who owned the light-
colored Chevrolet. They got nowhere
until they spoke to the attendant at a
nearby gas station.

“That Chevy?” exclaimed the at-
tendant. ‘Sure, I know who owns it. I
don’t know his name, but he works as
an exterminator for that pest-control
company just down the street.” }

Sutherland thanked him and was
about to turn away when the attendant
called him back.

“You won't find him there,” said the
attendant. “I just saw him going down
the street in one of the company
trucks.”

The officers hurried. to the pest-con-
trol company where they talked to the
manager, A. P. Harlow.

“Ken Slyter owns that Chevy,” Har-
low told them. ‘But he isn’t here now.”
“Where is he?” asked Sutherland.

“He said something about going over
to Canton to straighten out one of his
accounts,” Harlow said.

“Do you know where he can be found
there?”

“Not offhand. I can check his ac-
counts, maybe that will give some idea.”

But a few minutes later the manager
was looking at Sutherland with a frown.
“Slyter doesn’t have a single account in
= he said. “I don’t understand
this.”

“I do,” Sutherland said. He obtained
a description of the truck and its license
number and instructed Freeman to put
it on the air at once. After the detec-
tive left, Sutherland learned that Slyter
had been working for the pest-control
company less than a month.

Harlow was dumfounded when he
learned that his employee was a suspect
in the death of Sandra Holderfield.

“He seems like such a pleasant guy,”
he said, shaking his head. “I found his
work very satisfactory and he got along
fine with the other guys.”

UTHERLAND obtained Slyter’s ad-
dress, which was on Fortification
Street about three blocks from the com-
pany office. There, accompanied by
Freeman and Magee, they talked to
Mrs. Slyter, a pretty brunette who was
expecting a child.

“Kenny isn’t here,” she told the offi-
cers. “What has he done?”

“Any idea where he is?” Sutherland
asked, ignoring her question.

“No. I haven’t seen him since he left
for work this morning.”

She told the officers she had met
Slyter in November, 1960, when they
were both employed at the State Mental
Hospital at Whitfield. After their mar-
riage two months later, they moved to
Wichita, Kansas. She said he held sev-
eral good-paying jobs there before they
moved to Jackson in March, 1962.

Mrs. Slyter was stunned when Suth-
erland finally told her that her husband
was @ suspect in the killing of the pretty
high-school girl.

“That just can’t be,’”’ she said shakily.
“Ken is a very kind person. He couldn’t
possibly harm anyone.”

Sutherland had just finished ques-
tioning the distraught woman and re-
turned to the police car when word
came from Headquarters that Slyter
was in custody at the Baptist Hospital.

“Slyter tried to commit suicide by
drinking a mixture of DDT and kero-
sene,” Chief Pierce told Sutherland over
the two-way radio in the squad car.
“He went to St. Peter’s Roman Catholic
Church after drinking it. One of the
priests found him lying on the floor and
rushed him to the hospital. They’ve
just called us.”

While a guard was stationed near the
suspect’s bed, Mrs. Slyter was brought
to Headquarters where Chief Pierce

questioned her. She said that her hus-
band had been out of the apartment
Saturday afternoon, came back to eat
and left again around seven o’clock to
get some milk for the baby. He did not
return until nearly nine o’clock and
then he was wearing his denim work
clothes instead of the sports shirt and
slacks he had worn when he left.

“I asked him what happened, and he
said he had run over a dog and got blood
in a hurry, that we were leaving town.”

Slyter washed his blood-splattered
clothing over the week end and went to
work as usual on Monday morning.
However, he telephoned her a few min-
utes before the police arrived at their
apartment.

“He told me to get our things packed
in a hurry, that we were leaving town,
but he said he didn’t have time to ex-
plain.”

According to a statement released
later by the police, Slyter admitted kill-
ing the fifteen-year-old girl. He said
he drove her to lonely Johnson Ferry
Road after picking her up in front of
her home. There he beat her with a
jack handle and then ran over her body
repeatedly with the car. He denied,
however, that he had sexually attacked
the girl.

Slyter said he was in the pest-com-
pany office when he saw Patrolmen

anton and Baughn examining his car.
He realized then that he had to get out
of Jackson fast. He jumped into one of
the company trucks after explaining to
the manager that he had to go to Can-
ton, a small town about 20 miles north
of Jackson. But he changed his mind
after he had traveled only eight blocks.
He said he realized the hopelessness of
his situation after he had called his
wife. It was then he decided to drink
the mixture of DDT and kerosene. He
said he did not remember staggering
into the church and being rushed to the
hospital.

MEANWHILE, the autopsy revealed
that Slyter was telling the truth
when he claimed he did not molest the
girl sexually.

Kenneth M. Slyter was arraigned be-
fore Circuit Judge M. M. McGowan of
Hinds County on Thursday, April 26,
1962. He pleaded not guilty to the
charge of first-degree murder. At the
request of District Attorney William
Waller, Judge McGowan had Slyter
committed to the Whitfield State Hos-
pital, where he will undergo several
weeks of psychiatric tests.

The names Erno Steel Company and
Sam Crowell are fictitious in this story.

Two-Hour Romeo (from page 7)

hour Romeo. We know he went right
home after bowling, and he didn’t go
out on any other nights.”

“But you haven’t got any witnesses
who can actually place them together?”

Zatkovich shook his head. “The way
we figure it, she drove somewhere and
met him. They spent the two hours to-
gether, maybe in his car or her car,
before he went bowling. It’s going to be
tough to prove it.”

“How about other evidence? Like the
gun.”

“We've asked around about that. We
can’t locate anybody who ever saw a
gun around her place. She claims she’s
never owned a gun.”

“And we've checked out every gun
shop in the county without results,”
Strand added. “If she bought one, it’s
hard telling where she got it.”

“What’s your next move?”

“We thought we’d bring her in here
for a session.”

“You haven’t got much of a lever to
work with. Just two hours, once a week,
unaccounted for. And no witnesses.”

“We know,” Zatkovich said. “But
she’s really a nice person. She seems
real upset. If she killed him, this thing

must be working on her. She doesn’t
know how much we’ve got and if we
play our cards just right, maybe we can
get a statement.”

Drost smiled. ‘““You’ve only got a pair
of deuces to win a hand with.” He
added: “What's the chance we can de-
velop more evidence?”

“Unless we get some kind of a break
tracing her to the gun, or get real lucky
and locate a witness, we’ve had it.”

Drost sat for several minutes, con-
sidering all the facets of the case.
Finally, he said: “Sometimes, when
you’ve only got deuces, you’ve got to
bet them.”

“You think we should bring her in?”

Drost nodded. ‘“‘Let’s see how good
you guys are as poker players.”

The following morning the investi-
gators called on the divorcee, Johannah
Sather, and asked if she would accom-
pany them to Headquarters. When she
arrived in Drost’s office, the detectives
began a session of questioning, making
the most of every bit of evidence they
had been able to uncover.

For three hours, by innuendo and
suggestion, they built up a case in which
Johannah Sather and Fred Paskett sup-

of them had spoken to him at one time
or another. Once he mentioned that he
was calling from a pay booth because
he had not yet installed a phone at his
home. When he made his final call
around five o’clock, she -promised that
her sister, Sandra, would take the job
providing he would bring her home not
later than eleven o’clock. This he
agreed to do.

“Did you see the car when it picked
up your sister?” asked Pierce.

“No, Sir, but my thirteen-year-old
sister, Barbara, says it was a late model,
four-door Chevrolet, painted white.”

rror

“Could she describe the man?”

“Not very well. All she remembers is
that he looked young.”

Miss Holderfield’s two friends, Faye
Chisholm and Joyce Ray, were brought
into Chief Pierce’s office to see what
they could add. All three girls said
they worked as switchboard operators
for the Southern Bell Telephone Com-
pany and had known one another for
several years. Faye and Joyce told sub-
stantially the same story as their com-
panion.

“Do you have a picture of your sis-
ter?” Pierce asked Charlotte.

“Yes, I have a snapshot.” She gave
it to him.

“One more question,” said Pierce.
“When you were talking to this man,
could you tell whether he was using an
indoor or an outdoor booth?”

“It was an outdoor booth,” said Faye
promptly. “I could hear the traffic
sounds very plainly.”

Sandra Holderfield, who was hired to spend an evening baby-sitting

Patrolmen Baughn and Clanton with car killer drove; right, Officers Ivy and Pierce

The other girls agreed with her.

When Pierce was certain they had
told him all they knew, he excused
them with thanks.

“Get some rest and try not to worry,”
he advised Charlotte. ‘We'll probably
have to talk to you again.”

After the girls had gone he turned
to Freeman. “See that the description
of the car is put on the air and given to
the newspapers,” he said. “And check
the stolen-vehicles files. It may be a
hot car.”

Magee returned as Freeman was
leaving. “Nobody named Harris or
Farris works for the Erno Steel Com-
pany,” he said. “Nor does anybody
there own a white Chevy.”

“I was afraid of that,” said Pierce.
“He gave those girls a phony story from
beginning to end. Put out a state-wide
alarm for Sandra. Maybe somebody
saw her after she left her home on
North Jefferson Street.”

After this was done, Chief Pierce and
his men dug into the lives of the Hol-
derfield family on the chance that it
might lead them to the mysterious
caller. They learned that James E.
Holderfield, the missing girl’s father,
was employed as an automobile me-

' chanic for the McKay Motor Company

in Jackson, and that the family had
moved to Jackson from. Yazoo City in
1958. Sandra was one of nine children,
the eldest being 27 and the youngest
eight years old.

A thorough check also was made of
the missing girl’s friends and school-
mates on the possibility that one of
them drove a four-door Chevrolet, but
nothing came of it. Although they dug
far into the family background, they
could not find a single person who
might want to harm any member of it.
Sandra was a sophomore at Central
High School where she was majoring in
business administration. Pierce talked
to one of her teachers, Mrs. Mary Den-
son, but failed to learn why anyone
would harm the girl.

“Sandra is a very quiet girl,” Mrs.
Denson told him. “She doesn’t bother
with boys and is intent upon getting a
good education.”

“*

”

Told that he would have to be questioned in the eae high-school girl's death, this
young man had to be helped from police car by Detectives Sutherland, Freeman and Magee

Nor did a check of neighbors along
North Jefferson Street help. Appar-
ently none had paid any attention to
the Chevrolet when it stopped to pick
up the teenager.

While not wishing to appear pessi-
mistic, Chief Pierce realized that he
must be realistic. He knew from ex-
perience that missing-persons cases
fall into well-defined categories. Men
frequently disappear when life becomes
too much of a burden for them. Girls
like Sandra often vanish because of un-
requited love affairs or due to some
fancied slight by their parents. How-
ever, there was nothing to indicate that
Sandra had disappeared because of any
such reason. She had not known the
man who had come for her—and for
that reason alone, Pierce was fearful.

As the Sunday morning hours slipped
by without a sign of the girl, Pierce be-

gan to fear the worst. A veteran of
more than two decades of police work,
he had a feeling that the pretty blonde
would not be found alive. Because of
this apprehension, he called Hinds
County Sheriff J. R. Gilfoy and asked
his cooperation.

Gilfoy promised to throw the facili-
ties of his county organization into a
thorough search for the girl as well as
for the Chevrolet.

Shortly before noon, Chief Pierce
sent for Detective-Sergeant A. L.
Sutherland, one of his best men.

“I want you to take some pictures of
late-model cars to the Holderfield
home,” ordered Pierce. “Show them to
Barbara and ask her to pick out the
model she saw last night.”

Freeman reported there was no light-
colored Chevrolet in the stolen-vehicle
files. “I’ve put out a teletype to some

nearby states in case it’s an out-of-
state car,” he said.

Next, Pierce assigned Freeman and
Magee to check every pay-station tele-
phone booth in the Meadowbrook area
for anyone seen using the same booth a
number of times on Saturday after-
noon.

“Start at the Meadowbrook Mart,”
he told them. “There are plenty of out-
door telephone booths in that area and
that’s where the guy said he was from.”

Shortly after one o’clock a call came
in that a bus driver was sure the girl
had been one of his passengers on the
run from Jackson to Meridian late Sat-
urday night. According to the driver,
she had left the bus in Newton, a small
town about 75 miles east. Pierce
phoned police there and asked that the
report be looked into.

A short time later an elderly woman

reported she had spoken to a girl an-
swering Sandra’s description outside a
two-story rooming house on Lamar
Street. According to the informant, the
girl seemed in a confused state of mind.
Pierce sent two detectives to the ad-
dress. They found the young woman
the informant had described, but she
was not Sandra.

In the meantime Pierce issued orders
to pick up every known or suspected
sex criminal in the Jackson area.

“If Sandra’s been harmed, I'll bet a
month’s pay such a person did it,” he
told his men. ‘Find out where every
one of them was last night between
seven and eight o’clock. If you learn
anything related to the case, contact me
at once.”

Sutherland returned to Headquarters
a few minutes after two o’clock. “That
Barbara Holderfield is a smart kid,’’ he
told Pierce. “She took one look at the
late-model Chevies and _ instantly
picked out a ’Fifty-nine model as the
car in which her sister left.”

“Good work,” said Pierce. “Put out
a supplement bulletin on it right away.”

PROMISING lead came in a few

minutes later when a farm couple
in the Brandon area a few miles east of
Jackson reported seeing a man accom-
panied by a girl wearing Bermuda
shorts and a white blouse near their
Place late Saturday night.

“That’s what Sandra was wearing
when she left last night,” Pierce told
Detective F. C. Hammond. “Let's go!”

They found the farmer and his wife
waiting for them when they reached
his farm. “They were walking towards
a patch of woods a short ways south of
here,” the farmer told them. ‘The girl
was staggering and the man was hold-
ing her arm.”

“Did they have a car?” asked Pierce.

“I didn't see any.”

They said that the girl was a slim
blonde and appeared to be in her late
teens. Her companion was somewhat
older and much taller. He wore a khaki
shirt and dark trousers, and needed a
shave.

The farmer accompanied the officers
to the spot where he had last seen the
couple. They followed a faint trail of
footprints to a grassy clearing not far
from Highway 80. There they found a
number of cigarette butts, an empty
whisky bottle and several pieces of
tissue.

Chief Pierce studied the scene care-
fully before shaking his head. “There
was a girl here, all right, but it wasn’t
Sandra Holderfield,” he told Hammond.
“Notice those footprints? They were
made by spike-heel pumps. The miss-
ing girl wore canvas sneakers.”

Pierce and Hammond thanked the
farmer and returned to Headquarters
where they found Chief Deputy Frank
Jones waiting with tragic news.

“A girl’s body has just been found
about fifteen miles north of here in
Madison County,” he told Pierce.
“From the description Sheriff Bill
Nobel gave me over the phone, I think
it’s the Holderfield girl.”

A number of officials, including
Sheriff Gilfoy, accompanied Chief
Pierce on the trip along the Natchez
Trace to the isolated spot on the Old
Johnson Ferry Road. There they were
taken to where the body lay partially
concealed by sedgegrass. It was Sandra
Holderfield.

Nobody spoke while Pierce examined
the body. Sandra lay on her back, her
head in a pool of dried blood. One ten-
nis shoe and her Bermuda shorts were
missing. Her torn blouse was clutched
in her right hand. Deep cuts and bruises
marred her face, her lower lip was split
open and one ear was almost severed
from her head. Her entire body was
bruised and battered. One arm and
both legs were broken.

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because I lived for a while in Washing-
ton, D. C.,” Brown said. “I was mar-
ried to a girl who works there but we’re
separated.”

Brown talked at length about his
Omaha visits but made no mention of
any holdups.

“Are you sure you are telling us
everything important that you did in
Omaha?” Coleman asked.

“I’m telling you what I did while I
was there. I don’t know how important
it was,” Brown answered.

Foxall played his ace.

“Wouldn’t you call buying a rifle
from one of the boys important?” he
asked.

A look of alarm flashed across the
face of Brown but he recovered quickly.

“Oh—you mean that old twenty-
two,” he said lightly. “I just bought
it because I thought the kid might get
in trouble keeping it around.”

N\A HAT did you do with it?” Lieu-
tenant Coleman asked.

“T threw it into a field near Omaha
as I was leaving town,” Brown said. “I
couldn’t see any use in hanging on to

“I think he knows what we are driv-
ing at now,” Lieutenant Coleman said.
“Read him the warrant, Sergeant, we
might as well quit playing games.”.

Foxall looked at the warrant and

then back at Brown who seemed to be
losing his composure at a rapid rate.

“All right,” he said resignedly. Then,
according to the officers, he added: “I
knew you'd be coming after me sooner
or later. I needed the money, lots of
it, to pay off bad checks I had out. The
— were willing to let me pay them
off.”

Once he had stopped fencing, Brown
readily told them about all four of the
Omaha holdups, the detectives claimed.

He said that Officer Filenski gave him
the scare of his life when he stopped
him. He had gone to Minne Lusa to get
the addresses of the Donut Shop and
Dall Drug Store so he could mail back
checks and other documents he couldn’t

use.

Then Brown offered to go back to his
apartment and help Coleman and Fox-
all search for what they needed to
clinch their case.

They were surprised when they
walked into the neatly kept apartment.
They found more than 75 checks of
varying amounts that Brown had paid
off and picked up.

Some, yet to be paid, were neatly
listed by Brown on a paper.

In closets they found clothes similar
to those described by the holdup vic-
tims. Searching further they found
money order receipts from the Dall
Drug Store and a paper bag of the same

Death by Typographical Error (from page 18)

Noble, who stood nearby, shook his
head. “I’ve seen some badly mutilated
victims in my time, but this one is the
worst,” he said.

Pierce agreed. “Only an animal
would do anything like this.”

He rose and dusted his trousers. “She
put up a real fight, though,” he added.
“Notice those broken fingernails? If
she marked her killer, it might help us
get him.”

Noble lighted a cigarette. “Mr. and
Mrs. Lewis Culley found the body. Want
to talk to ’em?”

When Pierce said he did, the Madi-
son County officers took them to where
a couple in their 30’s stood.

“This is Chief of Detectives Pierce,”
Noble told them. “Please tell him how
you came to find the body.”

Lewis Culley said he was driving

home with his wife when he heard a
bulletin on his car radio about the
missing girl.
+ “The announcer had just finished
when I saw a white sneaker lying in the
road,” Culley said. “I stopped the car
and checked around. That’s when I
found her near that pine bush. I im-
mediately drove home and called
Sheriff Noble.”

“Did you see or hear anything un-
usual around here last night?” asked
Chief Pierce.

“We weren’t home last night,” said
Culley. “My wife and I spent the night
with friends over in Canton.”

Culley explained. that the death spot
was midway between farming land
owned by himself and a man named
Tom Wright. It was a favorite rendez-
vous for youngsters who wanted to do-
some necking.

Meanwhile, a search of the area un-
covered the missing tennis shoe, a
brassiere and a pair of panties. Only
Sandra’s small leather purse and pale-
blue Bermuda shorts remained missing.
A wider search of the isolated area,
which was near the Pear] River, was or-
ganized in hopes of finding the missing
articles.

Sam Ivey, veteran head of the Identi-
fication Bureau of the Mississippi High-
way Patrol, examined the dead girl and
made a tentative estimate that she had
died within an hour after she had been
picked up by her kidnaper. He also said
there were no indications that she had
been sexually molested.

“That's strange,’ Pierce said. “Why
would anyone kill a young girl—a stran-

ger to him—unless he had assaulted her
and wanted to prevent identification?”
“He probably intended to, but
changed his mind for some reason,”
Gilfoy said. ‘Perhaps another car
came along and frightened him.”
Plaster casts were made of some tire
prints found about 50 feet from the
body. From the size of the impressions
and their depth in the ground, Ivey and

his assistant, Charles Snodgrass, fig-.

ured the tires were fairly new.

“I don’t think there’s more than three
thousand miles on them,” Ivey said.

“They could be a good lead,” said
Pierce. “Can you identify the make?”

“That particular crisscross tread is
common on Firestone tires,” said Ivey.
“If you check out the Firestone dealers
in the Jackson prea you may come up
with something. The tires are seven-
fifties.”

Pierce said he would try.

ha THE meantime, a number of Jack-
son police officers and Madison
County deputies were questioning the
scattered residents of the area on the
chance that one of them might have
seen the light-colored Chevrolet on the
previous night. Everyone denied hay-
ing seen such a car except one couple
who lived on nearby Livingston Road.
They said they had seen the car, or one
like it, turn off the Natchez Trail
around 7:40 p. m., Saturday night, and
head in the general direction of the
Johnson Ferry Road. ’

“There was a couple in the front
seat,” the man said. “I couldn’t see
them too well, but the girl looked
frightened.”

Chief Pierce showed them the dead
girl’s picture. “This the girl you saw?”
he asked.

They said they were not sure, but
that she looked like the one.

“But you're sure it was a ’Fifty-nine
Chevrolet?” asked Pierce.

“Yes. I once owned one like it.”

“How about the license plates?”

“I’m sure it wasn’t a Mississippi
plate,” spoke up the woman. “Our
plates are maroon letters on a white
background. This car had white letters
on @ green background.”

“You're sure?” asked Pierce.

“Yes, Sir, I’m positive.”

Pierce took their names and ad-
dress and excused them. He considered
their information on the color of the
license plates a very important lead.

brand used in the Laurel Avenue Gro-
cery.

But one of their major finds came
as they were preparing to leave the
apartment.

“I didn’t throw that sawed-off
twenty-two away,” the officers said
Brown suddenly advised them. “You’ll
find it way up high in that kitchen
cabinet. I bought it for just what I
used it for—holdups.”’

Back at the Kearney Police Station,
Captain Behn and Officer McEntee
said they were completely surprised at
Brown’s statements.

“We went along with you but we
thought you were on a_ wild-goose
chase,” Behn said. ‘No one in Kear-
ney is going to believe it.”

Coleman and Foxall learned that
Brown had talked on television and dis-
cussed before civic clubs proper meth-
ods of dealing with juvenile delin-
quency. “It just shows you never can
be sure about anyone or anything,” the
Lieutenant said.

It was late when Coleman and Foxall
arrived back at the Police Station in
Omaha with their prisoner.

The next day both Foxall and Cole-
man were congratulated by Police
Chief Harold Ostler, who had been
closely following the case, and De-
tective Inspector Barnes, who had been

After photographers had taken pic-
tures of the body from many different
angles, it was removed to the Baldwin
Funeral Home in Jackson where the
autopsy would be performed by Doctor
E. R. Polk, Hinds County Medical Ex-
aminer.

Since the abduction had taken place
in Hinds County and the actual killing
presumably in neighboring Madison
County, the officials from both areas
agreed to cooperate in trying to appre-
hend the guilty person.

When Chief Pierce saw there was
nothing else he could do at the scene,
he and his men returned to Jackson.
There, assisted by Ivey and Snodgrass,
he began to list all the license plates
with white letters on green back-
grounds. While doing this, his phone
rang. It was the Newton police. They
had found the young blonde who had
got off the bus there and wanted to re-
port she wasn’t Sandra. Pierce ex-
plained that the missing girl’s body had
been found, then returned to his chart
of license plates.

“Eight states have those colors on
their plates,” he said when he had com-
pleted the list. “Alabama, Colorado,
Hawaii, Kansas, Massachusetts, New
Hampshire, Vermont and Washington.”

“T think we can eliminate Hawaii,”
said Ivey. “That leaves seven. Suppose
we start with the states nearest to Mis-
sissippi? Like Colorado, Kansas and
Alabama?”

“Good idea,” said Pierce. “I'll put
out a bulletin to those states right away.
If we’re lucky, maybe one of them has
a light-colored, ‘Fifty-nine Chevrolet
reported in their missing-car files.”

A few minutes after this was done,
Detectives Freeman and Magee walked
into Pierce’s office with news.

“We found the telephone booth used
by the killer,” Freeman said. He
dropped a piece of paper on the Chief’s
desk. “‘We found this stuck in a tele-
phone book in the Meadowbrook Mart.”

It was a piece torn from a newspaper
and one of the advertisements in the
“Work Wanted” column was encircled
by.a pencil line. It stated that a woman
was looking for work as a baby sitter.
The telephone number listed was the
same as that of the unlisted number for
Faye Chisholm and Joyce Ray.

“T've come across many tough breaks
in my time, but it looks now as if
Sandra. was killed by a typographical
error,” said Pierce, shaking his head.

“You mean the guy intended to kid-
nap the other woman?” asked Magee.

Pierce lighted a cigaret and shrugged.
“He called what he thought was her

actively in charge of the search for the
elusive holdup man.

Brown reportedly gave further details
of his holdup activities to members of
the County Attorney’s Office and
waived his preliminary hearing when
he appeared in Central Criminal Court
before Municipal Judge John Clark on
April 12 on the charge of robbery of
the Dall Drug Store.

He next appeared before District
Judge Robert Smith on April 17, 1962.
in the Douglas County Courthouse and
pleaded guilty to the charge.

Judge Smith deferred sentence until
the probation office could make its pre-
sentence investigation. On May 7, he
sentenced Brown to seven years in the
state penitentiary.

Standing in the back of the court-
room were Lieutenant Coleman and
Sergeant Foxall.

“Well, Buddy, there’s your birthday
present all wrapped up,” Sergeant
Foxall said with a smile. “But I don’t
mind telling you there were times when
I didn’t think you were going to get
i.”

“That makes two of us,” said Lieu-
tenant Coleman.

The names Bernard Tendler, Danny
John Palmer, Quentin Hall, James Til-
ton and Sam Archer are fictitious in
this story.

number, didn’t he?" he said. ‘This is
beginning to look more and more like
the work of a sex nut.”

Freeman explained that fingerprint
men were going over the telephone
booth in hopes of getting a lead.

In the meantime, the roundup of
known and suspected sex criminals in
the Jackson area resulted in the ques-
tioning of more than 30 persons. Nearly
all had airtight alibis for their move-
ments from seven to eight p. m., Satur-
day. And the few who did not were able
to prove they were nowhere near the
Meadowbrook Mart on Saturday after-
noon, when the phone calls were made.

News of the killing hit the people of
Jackson like a thunderclap. Although
this sprawling city on the banks of the
Pearl River has had its share of violent
crimes, the brutal slaying of the fifteen-
year-old girl shocked everyone. As a
result of this widespread indignation,
numerous telephone leads were re-
ceived at Headquarters from well-
meaning citizens. Although every one
was carefully checked out, nothing
came of them.

Late Sunday night a man named Sam
Crowell was brought to Headquarters
for questioning. Crowell, a tall, sallow-
complexioned man in his late 20’s, who
had a record of sexual molestation,
denied having had anything to do with
the death of Sandra Holderfield. How-
ever, he steadfastly refused to reveal
his movements between seven and eight
o’clock on the night of the slaying.

“If you won't tell us, then I’ll have to
book you on suspicion of murder,”
Pierce told him. “How about it, are you
going to talk?”

Crowell shook his head. “I can’t tell
you,” he said.

“Why not?”

“I just can’t, that’s all.”

MEANWHILE, a check of Crowell’s

clothing at his Mill Street rooming
house resulted in the finding of a blood-
splattered shirt. It was rushed to the
Highway Patrol Laboratory where Sam
Ivey checked the blood type.

Ivey telephoned Pierce a few minutes
before midnight. “It’s the same type as
the Holderfield girl’s,” he said.

Although Crowell became increas-
ingly nervous, he refused to talk even
in the face of this damaging evidence.

After several more hours of question-
ing, Crowell was lodged in a cell to
await a thorough check into his move-
ments on the night of the crime.

Pierce was conferring with Ivey in his
office early the next morning when the
telephone rang. It was Detective-Ser-

i 59

Baby Sitter Slain
and Mutilated

(Continued from page 53)

picked up a crumpled newspaper from
the floor behind the folding door. It was
turned to the want ad section and they
quickly found the ad which had been
inserted by the Jackson woman whose
phone number had been garbled. The

- ad was circled in ink. But no one could
identify the man who had monopolized
the telephone.

One witness, who had been kept wait-
ing to use the phone, said he had seen
the man leave the booth and walk to-
ward a light tan Chevrolet sedan parked
outside the store. “I’ve lived in Mead-
owbrook for years,” he said, “and am
sure I never saw that young man before.
His car was either a 58 or 709 Chevy,
I’m sure.”

On the hunch that the man they
sought was a stranger to Jackson, De-
tective Chief Pierce issued a bulletin
alert for a light tan Chevrolet sedan
which might be bearing out-of-state li-
‘cense plates. His bulletin also suggested
there might be blood and shreds of
Sandra Holderfield’s clothing still cling-
ing to the underside of the car, and
there would also very likely be bloody
evidence of a struggle inside the car.

Pierce’s hunch was rapidly proved to
be right. It was found the very next
morning in the private parking lot of a
pest control company on Fortification
Street in Jackson by radio car Patrol-
men H. E. Clanton and B. A. Baughm.

‘The light-colored ’59 Chevy bore a bent

’ Kansas license tag on its rear bumper.
Clanton found a blood streak on one of
the windows and under the rear bumper.
Baughm discovered several strands of
honey-colored hair, enmeshed in dried
blood, on the broken lead-in pipe to
the muffler.

Reporting their find to headquarters,

~ they were ordered to keep the car under

surveillance. Chief Pierce, meanwhile,

telephoned the Kansas State Motor Ve-

hicle Bureau with a request for a check
on the Chevy’s number.

Sergeants A. L. Sutherland and Fred

Freeman went to the pest control com- |

pany offices and made inquiries. They
learned that the ’59 Chevy was owned
by Kenneth M. Slyter, 26, a Mississip-
pian who had recently returned to Jack-
son from Kansas and taken a job with
the company. He lived nearby. It de-
veloped that he was not around and
also that he had failed to show up at a
job site that morning.

Other employees, however, told the
detectives that Slyter had arrived at
work at 8 a.m. as usual that morning,
but had left soon afterward without say-
ing where he was going. They said he
was a good worker, who had told them
he once lived in Clinton, Mississippi. He
had arrived in Jackson in early March,
in desperate need of employment.

“When he showed up this morning,”
one of his fellow workers said, “I
couldn’t help thinking he resembled the
description given of the man being
sought in the murder of that young girl
in Madison County. I knew he drove a
tan Chevy. I mentioned the coincidence
to him. He didn’t say anything, but.the
next thing I knew he was gone.”

Checking at Slyter’s home, the officers
learned he was not there, Their ques-
tions, however, elicited some very sig-

nicant information from his wife. He
had left the house Saturday evening
wearing slacks and a sport shirt, but

- when he returned he had been wearing

a blue denim work suit which he kept in
his car. He explained that he’d run over
a dog and got blood on his trousers, so
he had put them in a bucket to soak.
He seemed quite upset and kept repeat-
ing, “It was such a pretty dog.” He then
went outside to wash the blood from
his car.

Slyter had left for work that morning
at 7:45, but called home about an hour
later and asked to have a bag packed
for him because “I’ve got to go away.”

Slyter’s home was staked out and
Sergeants Sutherland and Freeman re-
turned to headquarters. They found
Chief Pierce on the telephone, speaking
to Detective Sergeant Doyle C. Terry of
Wichita, Kansas.

Terry knew Slyter well, he said, and

‘revealed that the dark-complexioned

youth had been in to see him only a few
weeks ago to tell him he planned to
move to Jackson, Mississippi. Terry said
Slyter had been arrested in Wichita two
years before for auto theft. He served
a short prison term, was paroled, and
was still under the jurisdiction of Kan-
sas Parole authorities.

Briefed on the crime of which Slyter
was now _ suspected,- Sergeant Terry
pulled the man’s record and revealed
that on the night of August 13, 1950,
when Slyter was only 14 years old, he
had lured a pretty Wichita schoolgirl to
an isolated bus stop on the pretext that
his parents wanted her to baby sit for
them. He slugged her unconscious with
a hammer, then raped her. She sur-
vived, however, and he was arrested at
once. He confessed the crime, was turned
over to juvenile authorities and was sent
to a mental hospital, which released him
as cured shortly before his 17th birth-
day. Slyter’s family then returned to
Mississippi, but the youth returned to
Wichita in 1958. Two years later, he was
arrested there for auto theft.

Laboratory reports soon confirmed
police suspicions that the blood found
in Slyter’s car was the same type as that
of Sandra Holderfield’s. The hair strands
found on the underside also proved to
be similar in texture and color to that
of the slain girl’s.

The search for the suspect was in-
tensified, but the next development came

‘from a completely unexpected source. A

call from Jackson’s Baptist Hospital ad-
vised police that a youth who reportedly
had swallowed a quantity of a pesticide
had just been brought into Emergency
by a local clergyman. Preparations were
being made to pump out his stomach.

Sergeant S. M. McGee and Detective
Hammond rushed to the hospital and
found the priest who told them that the
young man had come to his chureh early
that morning and said he’d taken the
poison in a suicide attempt. He said he
had swallowed several ounces of DDT
in kerosene. Police did not disclose
whatever else he had confided to the
clergyman.

A few hours later, after his stomach
had been pumped out and physicians
pronounced him well enough to’ be
moved, Kenneth Slyter was taken to
headquarters. The following details are
quoted from the statement he reportedly
gave to police at that time:

“I saw those two cops pull up to the
parking lot outside the factory where

I work. They got out and started over

toward my car. While they were ex-
amining the car, I slipped out of the
back way, called home and asked to
have a bag packed.

“But when I got home some time

later, I saw two other men, in jt 1
clothes, about to enter the house. Tha
when I decided to take my life. But?
couldn’t get up the nerve to swallow th
poison until a couple of hours later?

Under close interrogation, Slyter con
fessed to his questioners that he had
looked through the help-wanted ads
the local paper on the day before
with the intention of luring a young git
from home with the promise of ark

It was pure chance, he insisted,
he had selected an ad in which ‘
phone number was erroneously listed.
But he had stuck with this one, ¢
discovering the mistake, on the hunch®
that it would accomplish what he hady
in mind. If he had failed to get a gid
to “baby-sit” with this call, he admitted,
he would have tried.the other a inti
he succeeded. i

Instead of taking Sandra Holderf
to a new home in the swank Meade
brook section, as he had promised,-Sl
ter said, he ‘drove directly to these
cluded Lovers’ Lane north of the’ ei “
Upon reaching it, according to thes
pect’s signed statement, he attacked’ he
pretty young girl without warning. He
weapon was a tire iron which he 8
had stashed close to hand in the.
seat.

In the furious struggle which’
lowed, the girl’s clothing was torn f
her body, Slyter said, making it s
as if this happened accidentally. Ate
point, Sandra managed to slip out of
grasp and get out of the car, but
fell, half-unconscious, into the. .¢
roadway.

In a sudden panic then, Slyter st:
the engine and ran the car back
forth over the girl’s prostrate
she lay helpless in the road. «

Siyter was turned over to Ma
County authorities to face a charge:
first-degree murder. He was locked
in the county jail in Canton, the co
seat. After arraignment before a ju
of the peace, Slyter was committed
the state hospital at Jackson for a
week series of mental tests, at the
quest of his court-appointed atte
for a determination on his sanity.-

At the end of the six-week hospital
tests, psychiatrists declared the accumai,
man was sane within the legal definition:
of sanity and able to understand @&
charges against him. He was _re
to police custody.

On September 24, 1962, Kenneth: Sy-
ter went to trial in Madison e amy
Circuit Court in Canton. Presiding ®
the trial was Circuit Judge Leon Bim
drick.

The trial was of brief duratio
September 26th, the jury retum
verdict of guilty, with no recomm
tion for mercy. Judge Hendrick @
tenced him to die and set Novembe
1962 as the date for his executions?

A series of appeals delayed his aa
with the executioner for nearly@
months, but on March 29,. er
neth M. Slyter went to his "death im
gas chamber for the murder of a
innocent girl whose life was snuf ‘cam
by a cruel twist of fate. ae

A typographical error had s
life of one Jackson woman but, a
with a tragic chain of cir
had cost the life of pretty
Holderfield.

msi

EDITOR’S Note:
‘The name, Georgia Gro
used in the foregoing story, is
real name of the person cono
This person has been given a fic
name to protect her identity.

HE JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI,

businessman and his wife were
j driving home. from church on
Baster Sunday morning when he de-
ided to turn on the radio and listen
the 10:30 news. The program was
already in progress and the first thing
be beard was an announcement that
Police had requested the public’s as-
‘@istance in the search for a young girl
missing from her home since the
previous evening when she left for a
baby-sitting job. The girl was Sandra

Bolderfield, a pretty 15-year-old sopho-.

mere at Central High School, the an-
said. She had left her home

at 7:10 the night before in a light-
colored Chevrolet driven by a man
who had called for her. There was
some confusion about the identity of
this man.

“When last seen, Sandra was wear-
ing a white blouse, blue Bermuda
shorts and white. tennis shoes.” The
announcer concluded, “Anyone with
information about this girl’s where-
abouts is urged to contact the police
at once.”

Only moments later, as the business-
man and his wife were driving past
Old Johnson Ferry Road, a Lovers’
Lane running off the highway about

a The radio announcer said, “When last seen, Sandra

was wearing a white blouse, blue Bermuda shorts
and white tennis shoes...’ But when they found her —-
e she was almost nude, her hody horribly disfigured =

12 miles north of Jackson, the man
spotted a white tennis shoe lying in
the middle of the old road on his left.

“Look at that!” he exclaimed to his
wife as he applied the brakes. “I
wonder if that could have anything
to do with the girl they were talking
about just now.”

His wife suggested he’d better take
a look, so the man got out of his car
and walked over to the spot where the
sneaker lay. When he reached it, he
glanced around. A few feet away he
spied a white bra and a torn pair of
nylon panties. Walking toward them
for a closer look, he noticed a trail of

‘ “dcsaame eat ‘ J

in the tall grass, and a man’s bloodstained T-shirt 5

pyre TTT ET

In photo above, Detective Hammond, Pri.
Bowering check bloodstains on car used
to crush the pretty girl. “Murder car” |

- was first spotted by Ptl. Baughm, below

- blood leading from the garments to a
scrawny scrub pine tree on a'four foot
embankment a short distance farther
up the lane.

Following the blood trail, he came

to a patch of deep sedgegrass behind ©

the pine, and halted abruptly. There
was no need to go any farther.

Lying in the tall grass was the muti-

52 lated, blood-grimed body of a young

girl. She was nude, save for a ripped
white blouse and one white sneaker.

Badly shaken, the man hurried back
to his car and drove to his home,
which was less than a quarter of a
mile away, and telephoned the sher-
iff’s office. He was told to go back to
the entrance to the lane and wait for
officers to arrive. Madison County
Sheriff Billy Noble relayed the infor-
mation to Jackson City police before
leaving for the scene, accompanied by
a physician from the coroner’s Office.

Identification was made within the
hour; the murdered girl, beyond ques-
tion, was' honey-haired Sandra Holder-
field.

Hinds County Constable Fred Thom-
as, one of the first officers to reach the
death scene, had conducted a hasty
search in the vicinity of the body and
turned up what promised to be an

‘important clue. Between the edge of

the lane and the scrub pine under

_ which the girl’s body was found, he

found a man’s bloodstained T-shirt. A
subsequent, more detailed search of
the ground nearby failed to turn up
the dead girl’s Bermuda shorts. Tem-
porarily, at least, this led investigators
to conclude that the young teenager
had been assaulted and stripped else-
where before being brought to the
Lovers’ Lane to be murdered.

An examination of the blood-spat-
tered roadway indicated that Sandra
had been dragged from a car which
then had been driven over her body.

The examining doctor reported that
both of the girl’s legs and one arm
were broken. Several ribs were frac-
tured, as were bones in the upper face,
and the upper lip was torn away. Her
entire body was covered by cuts and
contusions.

It was considered significant that
every one of the girl’s fingernails were
broken, unmistakable evidence that
she had fought fiercely against her
attacker. When the investigation at the
scene was completed, Sandra’s body
was removed to a Jackson funeral
parlor for autopsy. In the meantime,
investigators from both Hinds and
Madison Counties, as well as Jackson
police, probed into the background of
the shocking crime.

They uncovered evidence that left
little doubt Sandra Holderfield’s mur-
der had resulted from a weirdly ironi-
cal stroke of fate.

The previous afternoon, Saturday,
April 21, 1962, an off-duty operator
for the Southern Bell Telephone Com-
pany had received a call from a man
who said he was calling in response
to an ad for a baby-sitter which he
had seen in the morning paper. The

. girl, Georgia Graham, told him there

must be some mistake; she. had not
advertised her services as a baby-
sitter. After some discussion, she con-
cluded that her number had been
printed as the result of a typographical
error. She suggested the man call the
newspaper, or try one of the other
ads offering sitters’ services.

The distraught man said he had
tried the others, but all were com-
mitted for jobs that night, and as for
calling the newspaper, he didn’t see

how that would help him. “I’ve pr
ised to take my wife out to dinner
night, and then we were going to
movies,” the man said. “We've only,
recently moved to Jackson from New:
York City, and have no friends down”
here. I simply don’t know where “to”
turn.” He told her he was employed:
as an executive by a local steel manu
facturing concern. He was well-spok
and seemed very sincere.

Sympathetic to the man’s problem,

Miss Brown said she would try to help

him find a baby sitter and she

for his number so she could call h

back.
“I’}] call you,” the man said. “W

just moved in to our new home

Meadowbrook and the phone isn’t

yet. I’m calling from a pay booth @

the neighborhood.” The caller gave bet
-his name, but he spoke in a sort

“husky Northern accent” and

Brown failed to catch his name.. “a9
After the man had hung up, Mise

Brown talked to a few people and

told that Sandra Holderfield frequent |

babysat and might be available.
was how young, pretty, vibrant Sane
became an “accidental” victim. ¥
he was given her name, the man called ©
Sandra and promised her that his wi
would pick her up in “her new
coln” or he would call for her in
cream-colored Chevy. si
Sandra was in the front room of bet
home when the horn sounded fram @ |)
light-colored Chevrolet sedan }
pulled up out front. She hurried to fam7
door, called back that she’d be he
about 11 o’clock, and ran down
walk to the car. A youthful appear
man, dark-haired, and wearing #
and a white sport shirt, got out ot &
car and held the door open for her

she entered the car. i

Sandra was reported missing a
hours after 11 o’clock had passed
she had failed to return home. fa _
lowing routine procedure in such caseq)
police reasoned that the girl might baw)
disappeared on her own volition iar
some private reason, possibly becamm

of some puppy-love romance or @ b
pute with her family. They were qu io
ly convinced that such was not:
case in Sandra’s disappearance.” 7

Sandra Holderfield, they learned, am

a youngster of spotless reputation 4
model upbringing. She was an md
and faithful churchgoer at the ne
borhood Presbyterian Church, wham
she had won medals for pet ect,
tendance since moving to Ja
1958.

A police check with officials
steel company where the calle
said he was employed convinced a
thorities the man had lied; they a=
hired no new executives in’
months, nor did any of their exec
live in the Meadowbrook sectic

Suspecting that Sandra had be
victim of a kidnaping or possibly em
a worse crime, officials broadca™
full-scale alert for the missing #
before daylight, Jackson rad
television stations were iss
letins on the girl’s disappearance™

The autopsy performed on &
body on Sunday afternoon. conficm

Fa ate ea

REORPE SBE:

“i

the police theory that the girl had been
-slain between eight o’clock and mid-
night Saturday. Details supplied by the
examining pathologist enabled them to
form a tentative reconstruction of the
Detectives were relatively certain
that the driver of the light-colored
_ Chevy had taken the girl directly from
ber home to the isolated farm area
morth of the Hinds-Madison County
_Iime. There, they reasoned, he had at-
tempted to assault her sexually. When
fhe teenager resisted, he knocked her
wmeonscious, stripped most of her
elothing from her and dragged her out

i ef his car into the roadway.

At that point, something probably
'@ecurred which sent him into a state
ef panic and he decided to kill her by
-Trenning over her body with his car.
Jackson Detective Chief M.B. Pierce
theorized that the murderer then
@ragged the girl’s body back from the

d and left it in the sedgegrass be-
ad the pine tree. He then returned to
his car and threw out the tennis shoe
amd lingerie he had ripped off her.
Only the girl’s Bermuda shorts, which
ould still be in his car, remained un-
@etcounted for.
» Police, meanwhile,
state-wide alarm for the light-colored
(Chevy and its dark-complexioned driv-
Detective F.C. Hammond, with the
seperation of the morning newspaper,
ad located the young housewife who
ad placed the employment-wanted
8 in Saturday’s paper offering her
ees as a baby sitter or nurse’s

“I called the ad in on Friday and
pr took it must have misunder-
ined me and got one of the digits of
‘my phone number wrong, or maybe it
‘Was a printer’s mistake,” she said. She
still visibly shaken by thoughts of
the fate from which a mistake had
canvass of other baby-sitter adver-
ws disclosed that none had been
id by the husky-voiced man. Ap-
ly he had decided: to stick with
mistaken number which connected
with the helpful off-duty tele-
operator. —

> Ome of the first police measures
m was to dispatch a score of
tives to the Meadowbrook area,
which, supposedly, the husky-
a man had placed a call in a
booth. They questioned mer-
s and service station owners who
pay phone booths on their prem-
By Monday morning they had
a Meadowbrook supermarket
per who told officers he remem-
seeing a slender, dark-complex-
‘man in tan slacks and white
t shirt enter his telephone booth
wal times on Saturday afternoon.
wasn’t one of our regular custo-
* the manager said, “and the only
-I noticed him was because
ml people were forced to wait
ie he remained in the booth, mo-

) @egelizing the phone.”
|) Bxamining the phone booth in the
“ 2. which had not been
since closing time on Satur-

detectives (Continued on page 60)

had issued a.

: After suicide attempt, suspect is
taken from hospital's emergency
room to Jackson's police station.

He told Rita they hadn’t got their
phone connected yet, and I didn’t get
his address. I only know it’s in
Meadowbrook and that he lives in a
big house with a swimming pool.’’

Mr. Holderfield winced at his wife’s.
suggestion that they drive to the
exclusive residential suburb and check
out every house with a swimming pool.
He iad a better idea. He dialed the
Jackson police. >

“Strife-torn hours passed until it was
Easter Sunday. At the neighborhood
Presbyterian church, where she had ~
won attendance medals since coming
to Jackson about four years ago,
curious people watched the doorway,
waiting for Sandra to come in from
the silvery outside mist. Sandra’s new
canary-yellow dress, an Easter gift
from her parents, hung in the closet,
of her bedroom, seeking Teassurance,
of human company... <=

Meanwhile, investigation info sare
- dra’s mysterious disappearance headed
at a brisk pace with Jackson police
questioning officials of the steel mill
where the man who called for a
babysitter claimed he worked. The
officers looked dazedly at one another
when they were informed that the firm
knew nothing of a new executive
arriving from New York City.

Intense excitement. gripped the
three-county metropolitan area of
which Jackson is the hub, as hot-eyed,
grim policemen threaded the vicinity
asking questions and leaving behind
detailed descriptions of Sandra
Holderfield. An incorporated bulletin
said she was wearing blue Bermuda
shorts, a white blouse and white tennis
shoes.

That night there was an underlying
tension in every Jackson household as
a similar bulletin was announced over
several radio stations and local TV
channels. The alert shredded a coarse
straw among the population of
Jackson and soon the police had
gathered enough volunteer recruits to
cover a hundred-mile area in one
querulous sweep. _

Before Easter day was over there
was an exciting development. The
news of Sandra’s plight had perked the
ears of a Jackson salesman and his
wife who were returning by car to their
farm along the sprawling tree-ringed
Natchez Trance Highway in southern
Madison County, north of Hinds
County, where Jackson is situated.
The announcer on their car radio was
requesting all citizens of Mississippi to
be on the lookout for Sandra Holder-
field.

Sparse moments later, the salesman

‘to an alder clump on a four-foot bluff
-that.dropped to bottom lands, then

couldn’t see what was there from his
>. vantage point. He yelled. back to his

pulled his car info a ceciused area a
relieve his bladder. There, in a woody-
hemmed area off Old Johnson Ferry ©
Road his eyes focused on a-small,
white tennis shoe. He proceeded to
make~. tour Of inspection further into
the ndless field. What he found sent
uneasy qualms through him — a white
brassiere and a pair of pink panties
lay in the scratchy grass, by the
roadway. ~
. The man moved cautiously into the”

tree-shrouded escarpments where the ~

trails grew narrower and where he.
noticed a tongue of blood that led.
from the lingerie items by the roadside

rose again to higher grounds. Great

menace, blotting out the.sun so: she

wife to stay in the car until he returned
“A quick, high wind sprang up:
changing the world from’ brass to

bronze. The wind howled loud and :

jagged lightning leaped over the bloody
ack that he followed. Between
thunder blasts he caught a glimpse of
a naked, mutilated, blood-drenched
‘body of a teenage girl, her face dead
white and her eyes staring... vividly
illumined by a flash of lightning. ©
At first he stared at her, as though
not quite comprehending. He felt a
band tighten inside his head and his
face seemed stiff and sore. Suddenly
his mouth and throat were dry and he
heard himself stammer: ‘‘No! My

CASTRATION

Ree ceed easter babysitters.
“While Mom and Dad were away,
he’d ‘play’ with the kids,’ Barraclough

God, No!” The echo was lost in the
_ftoar of the storm. 4

He ran steadily en the see
‘and darkness, never hesitating, until
he reached his car. The steering wheel
seemed to swell under his hands on
the long trip to a telephone booth
where he called the office of Madison
County Sheriff Billy Noble. The
salesman spoke with a catch in his
‘breath as he described the circumstan-
ces under which he had made his

; startling discovery.

Sheriff: Noble hurriedly called the.
‘Jackson city police, then notified a
‘coroner’s “physician that he would Pick

~ him up in a few minutes. :
mat We" ve gotta move fast, it’s wea-

7 up,” Noble said. ©:
**You just get here, I’ 1 be ready,”

girl’s nude body had been found.

» While the coroner examined the
body, a uniformed patrolman, Hinds
County Constable Freddie Thomas,
““impulsively brushed the eeric grassy

field for a clue. He found a man’s

‘bloody undershirt beyond the clumps,

“where the rocky point was rough with

old plowings.

- Search parties thrashed ‘through the

: ee blown timbers or fiercely beat the
surrounding deep sedgegrass, but they
failed to uncover Sandra’s blue

Bermuda shorts. Probers concluded

that she had been raped and stripped

of her clothing elsewhere, then
brought to the isolated Lover’s Lane
to be viciously bludgeoned.

The vague light that flooded the
lowlands they were searching, and the -
baying of the hounds, gave a bizarre
edge to the alarm. Rifles kept catching
in overhanging bushes and loud
swearing men peered ahéad through
the slow-melting gloom of a trail that
luridly showed how poor Sandra had
been dragged from a car and the
* vehicle repeatedly driven over her
body. An on-the-scene examination by
the coroner proved the girl had
suffered two broken legs, a broken
neck, a broken arm, several busted ribs
and broken face bones. Sandra’s upper
lip had been ripped out.

It was the distinctive stamp of a
frustrated devil man with a rapacious
appetite for sex and mayhem.

An inspection of the dead girl’s
crumbled fingernails clearly indicated
that she had fought against her
attacker before she was overpowered
and forced to submit to intercourse.
When homicide sleuths had finished

their chores at the crime scene, the

Sea oe

Coroner inspects remains of young babysitter (arrow). Her blood turned up later on car’s tailpipe.

coroner granted permision for the
removal of the body to the Jackson
funeral parlor. That afternoon a post
mortem examination confirmed the
initial police theory that the captive
teenager had perished between 8
o’clock and midnight on Saturday,
April 21st.

Reconstructing the crime, Sheriff
Noble theorized that the man who had
picked up Sandra in the ivory Chevy
sedan had held her confined while he
drove to the seclused farm area north
of the Hinds/Madison County line,
where he attempted to sexually assault
her.

She was small, but suddenly he
found himself in deeper waters than
he had bargained for: she fought with
a fighting Irish spirit. He knocked her
unconscious, and when she was. unable
to defend herself any longer, he
stripped her naked and dragged her
off the roadway with an utter lack of
emotion.

Continuing his theoretical recons-
truction of the crime, Noble believed
that at this point something unforeseen
happened to panic the rapist that
goaded him into running over the girl
with his car. Jackson Detective Chief
M.B. Pierce agreed, adding that the

killer probably dragged the body into
the thick-turfed shrubbery. He left the
murdered girl there, her body arranged
so that the first hiker or hunter who
happened by would find her. Then he
returned to his Chevy and tossed out
the tennis shoe, bra and panties he had
stripped off his pretty victim. {
Chief Pierce reasoned that the
missing Bermuda shorts, a valuable
piece of evidence, might still be in the
ivory-colored Chevy that had picked
up Sandra on that ill-fated night.
Eventually a state-wide bulletin was

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A bevy of investigators made their
way into the Meadowbrook area where
Rita Hershey said the caller had told
her he lived. They questioned countless
numbers of shopkeepers, gas station
owners and anyone else who had
public telephone booths on their
property. 24 Sigs 755°,

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manager of a mini-market in Meadow-
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remembered seeing a swarthy, dark-

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They found a crumpled slip of paper

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of the Jackson woman who was
seeking employment as a nurse’s aide.
. .For two days detectives questioned
the store operator and scores of
persons who had been at the market

during the three-hour period in which -

a suspected murderer made four calls.
No one could identify the man who
had left a crumpled piece of evidence
behind in the form of a classified ad.
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was among those. who had waited in
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on Saturday afternoon. He recalled
seeing the slender man. in tan slacks
finally leave the booth and strut stiffly
toward an ivory Chevrolet sedan
_ parked at the curbside of the store.

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“T’m not that good at remembering
things,’’ said the informant without
stirring, ‘but the car was no rattletrap,
it was in nice shape. I’d guess it was
no more than three or four years old,
maybe less.”? ©

The detectives were impatient with
anxiety. They now knew that the killer
was a stranger to Jackson, and he was
driving a car that would stand out like
a glint of sun-struck metal. Chief
Pierce notified ali law enforcement
officers in Hinds and Madison
Counties to be on the alert for an ivory
or tan-colored Chevrolet sedan that
could possibly be carrying an out-of-
state license tag. — - res

There was a great deal more; the
car might be carrying an endless
catalogue of clues according to Chief
Pierce. = : -

‘There might be splatters of blood
or shreds of Sandra Holderfield’s
clothing clinging to the underside of
the vehicle — where he ran over her,”
the Chief suggested. “‘And, there could
be evidence of a sexual attack inside
the car.”” ci Saga aes a

Cool-scented air poured in through
the windows as Patrolman H.E.
Clanton and B.A. Baughm rolled east

on Fortification Street in Jackson at 9
o’clock the next morning. As their eyes
strayed over the valley where the
telltale clouds hung, they spotted an
ivory Chevrolet sedan in the parking
lot of a pest control plant at the corner
of North West Street. They calculated
it to be a 1959 model. _ :

Screeching to a stop, the two lynx-
eyed officers approached the vehicle
to make a closer inspection. Both men
recognized a Kansas license plate on
the rear bumper. There was blood on
the underside of the tag, and dried
blood spotches under the back
bumper. Officer Clanton, who had
crouched froglike to look under the
car, added glumly: “‘I can see strands
of light brown hair enmeshed in dried
blood on the tail pipe leading to the
muffler.’’ The entire car held a mine
of information. In seconds they
radioed headquarters of their remark-
able find and requested further
instructions.

Barking like a marine sergeant,
Chief Pierce excitedly ordered the two.
policemen to guard the Chevy and
detain anyone who tried to drive off
with it. Next, he eagerly called the
Kansas Bureau of Motor Vehicles and
requested a check of ownership of the

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Meantime, another wad of lawmen
were dispatched to the pest control
plant to question officials there about
the owner of the Chevy.
questioning of the firm’s manager,
who told Detective Sergeants Fred
Freeman and Al Sutherland that the
owner of the car was Kenneth M.
Slyter, 2 26-year-old native Mississip-
piap who had been out of the state
fo. a few years. ‘‘He recently returned
from Kansas and we employed him,”
the manager said. ee

: Egged for an address for Kenneth

+ Slyter, the manager flipped through

his records and came up with 502 West

Fortification Street.-Asked if they

could question Slyter, the manager
shook his head negatively. *...

».. “Sorry, but we received a call about

an hour ago informing us he had failed

to keep an appointment to do some

~work assigned to him on the outskirts

Virtually every employe of the
inconspicuous-looking shop was
questioned by detectives and everyone
agreed that Slyter had arrived for work
as usual at precisely 8 a.m. that day,
but he unexpectantly left without so
much as a frail alibi. They described
him as a perfectly normal character
and an adequate worker. An authori-
tative-looking foreman said Slyter told
him he had formerly resided jin
Clinton, Mississippi, a tiny, homish
town close to Jackson. He also said

~ that Slyter was worried because he had
more attachments on him than a
vacuum cleaner, and needed a job
badly when he applied at the plant in
March.

The Jackson probers were particu-
larly impressed by the remarks of one
of Slyter’s co-workers who announced
importantly: ‘‘You know, when he
arrived for work this morning, I
thought to myself, ‘This guy resembles
the description given of the guy the
cops are searching for in connection
with the murder of that poor schoolgirl
up in Madison County.’ I know he
drove an ivory Chevy. I mentioned the
coincidence to him, half-kidding. He
seemed perturbed. Next thing I know,
he’s gone.’’

While the detectives continued their
interrogation of the suspect’s fellow
employes, Chief Pierce apparently
received data from the Kansas Bureau
of Motor Vehicles that the ivory Chevy
had been swiped in November while
parked in a picnic area under a clump
of sycamores, in Wichita, Kansas.
Now that he knew Kenneth Slyter lived

in Kansas before returning to his native

Mississippi, Chief Pierce briskly placed

a call to Wichita authorities. - mE,

Meanwhile, Sergeants Freeman and
Sutherland drove the hilly county
towards West Fortification Street,
where they were told that Ken Slyter
was not at home. But in the interro-
gation that followed, the two plain-
clothesmen picked up some crucial
information from an obliging room-
mate. gai ‘

-At precisely 7.p.m. on’ Saturday,
Slyter left the house saying he was

going.to the market for a pack of

smokes. He said he’d be back in a
twitch, but didn’t return for two
wearisome hours.” ~ pst
When he returned he seemed a trifle
nervous and was wearing a blue denim
Jumpsuit that he always carried in his
car. He explained that-he had changed
clothes because his trousers were
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He told his listener sadly that he.

had run over a stray dog that had darted
from some bushes in front of him. He
was in deep agony as he eloquently
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at one point sobbed. He kept repeat-
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little stiffly. “‘He was arrested here two
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a short stretch he was paroled. He’s
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only a few weeks ago and informed us
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**We’ve learned that Susie Lynch
threatened that if she could not have
her sons, nobody could have them,”
Tisdale said. ‘‘It is an unthinkable
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the conclusions that have been
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**We do not believe that Susie Lynch *
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Tisdale said that he did not plan any
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issued for the Chevy and its unknown
driver. A succession of persons who
had played unwitting roles in the early
happenings of the tragic murder were
questioned. From the telephone
operator who had contacted Sandra
about the babysitting job, police
learned of the wrong number phone
call that led to the teenager’s rendez-
vous with death.

Rita Hershey, the first telephone

operator who had been called by
mistake, tearfully related how she had
tried to be helpful to the man who said
he was looking for a babysitter and
had mistakenly dialed her number
from the Employment Wanted column
of a local paper.

‘Almost immediately Detective F.C.
Hammond located the woman who
identified herself as the Jackson
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paper, listing herself as available to
work in a private home as a nurse’s
aide.

“I called in the ad on Friday,” she
said in a wheezy voice, ‘‘and whoever
took the call got one of the digits in
my telephone number wrong.”’

Detective Hammond interviewed
several other ladies and schoolgirls
who took out ads seekings jobs as
babysitters in the same edition of the
paper. Meticulous questioning failed
to turn up anyone who had received a
call from the gravel-voiced man who

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**That’s typical,’’ the Wichita
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that 12 years hence, on the night of
August 13, 1950, when Kenneth Slyter
was only 14 years old, a vulnerable,
lovely Wichita highschool girl received
a telephone call from a phantom youth
who claimed his parents had asked him
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Cocksure that everything was O.K.,
the 18-year-old girl took a bus to the
outskirts of the city, where the boy said
his father would be waiting to drive
her on to their house in the corn-husk
wilderness. When she got off the bus,

a husky boy with coal-black hair,

who had been patiently waiting under
a thick clump of shade trees, levered
himself to his feet and hastily explain-
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down and he was sent to escort her to
his home, which was nearby. Her
smooth forehead wrinkled. ‘‘All
right,’” she said mechanically.

‘_ The street was inky-black and traffic
was nil. As they walked-the youth
suddenly slipped behind her, pulled a
hammer from his coat and struck her
over the head. The girl staggered by
the roadside. The boy scrambled after
her, hitting her time and again with
brutality and viciousness. A passerby
found her an hour later. She was lying
on her back in a leafy field, knees bent
and legs splayed, with skirt above her
waist. She had been appallingly beaten
and raped.

Before dawn the girl’s treacherous
assailant was captured. A passerby
heard the girl’s hysterical screams and
saw him strolling leisurely toward his
home whistling a jaunty tune. When
the police arrived at his house he was
busily washing the blood from his
white shirt.

With public feeling at fever pitch,
Kenneth Slyter, the rapist, was turned
over to juvenile authorities following
his confession to the crime. He laughed
and joked with guards all the way toa
mental hospital in Topeka. Three years

later he was pronounced cured and
released. His victim, meanwhile,
recovered from her injuries to lead a
normal life.

“He returned to Mississippi in 1958,
but was back in Wichita where he was
arrested two years later.for auto
theft,’’ Sergeant Terry said, ‘‘but since
his release Wichita police has kept him
under surveillance.”

Eventually rumors spread that he
tried to lure other girls from their
home via telephone. He was accused
of indecently assaulting a 13-year-old
girl but it was never proven, Terry
continued.

With the discovery that Slyter had
been confined to a mental hospital
with ‘‘aggressive instincts,’? Jackson

‘police issued a bulletin that the suspect

was ‘‘suffering from a mental imba-
lance’’ and the search was stepped up
drastically. Police techs meanwhile
analyzed samples of blood scraped
from the undercarriage of the stolen
Chevy. Their analysis proved the
samples to be of the same type as that
of Sandra Holderfield. The hair

~entangled on the bloody bumper was

similar in texture and color to that of
the victim.

* The case attracted the media like a"

rotted carcass attracts bacteria.
Jackson squad cars systematically
roamed the area and squad members
went to work activating the elaborate
informant system — a host of stoolpi-

. geons. Finally police received an

impressionable call from a Baptist
Hospital in Jackson. A youth had just
been brought into the emergency room
by a neighborhood priest. He had
taken a dose of pesticide.

Hastening to the hospital, Sergeant
S.M. McGee and Detective Hammond
were greeted by the priest in the lounge
of the emergency room. He said that
early that morning a young man in the
throes of death knocked at his parish
door and calmly announced that he
had taken several ounces of DDT
mixed with kerosene in a suicide
attempt.

Slyter’s suicide attempt was feeble,
and a few hours later after his stomach
had been pumped, doctors pronoun-
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Hardly able to walk, he was taken to
headquarters where he crumbled under
hammering interrogation:

‘*I saw those two cops pull up to
the parking lot outside the factory
where I work. They got out and started
over toward my car. While they were

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SCOrr, Jesse, 2R-year-old black, hanged Greenville, Mississippi, Dec. 7, 1933,

"tT have made my peace with my Boss, and if I have to go.that way, I am ready,’ were the
words of Jesse Scott, 2l-year-old negro, convicted slayer of Jen Ying, a Chinese merchant,
sehtenced to hang at.the Washington County Jail Thursday, to a reporter for the Democrat-
Times. Scott said he is praying and the Rev, McWilliams, negro Baptist pre.,her, has
visited him several times in the death cell at the county jail and prayed with him. 'I am
going to dress myself and walk on the gallows myself if I have to hang,' said the young
negro, peering throuch the bars of his cell on the second floor of the county jail. Al-
though he sees little chance for escaping the noose, Scott is hopeful, 'I am hoping that
Mr. Conner will have the heart to give me life in the penitentiary,' he said, He lost an
appeal to State Supreme Court, 'Yes, sir, I killed him. I don't know what was the matter
with me,' the condemned slayer said when questioned about the fatal shooting of Ying who
was killed in a holdup attempt in his srocery store at North Theobald and Bell Aire Streets
last February lle Scott admits that he fired the fatal shot when Ying failed to heed

his command to open a door, Scott's confessed companion in the crime, Flenoy Payne, 2l-
year-old negro, entered a plea of guilty and accepted life in the penitentiary, He is

now at Parchman. When Scatt was convicted last July he went into a raze and had to be
placed in a straight jackef for several days. Asked about this, Scott said 'my mind
wasn't all together.' He said he was struck over the head several years ago at Benoit,
Although identified by a half dozen Chinese merchants at Police Station, as having had a
part in the stickup of their stores, Scott denies the charges. He says that the stickup
of Jen Ying was the 'onliest time that I ever held up anybody.' Scott says he believes
that in event he is hanged for the death of Jen Ying, Flenoy Payne should be set free,

He fails to understand why he is given the extreme penalty and Payne who 'was in it as
much as I am' is given a life sentence, Scott admits that he was the killer of the Chi-
nese mrchant. ‘If I am living I will be 25-years=old Mf next April 22, 193h,' Scott
said, He had been helping his grandfather in farm work at Lobdell and worked in government
flood control crewsfor several years. He had just returned to Greenville from Vicksburg
when the fatal stickup was staged, he said." DAILY DEMOCRAT-TIMES, Greenville, Miss,,
12=5-1933 (8-72)

"Going to his death with a song on his lips, 'Heaven is My Home,' Jesse Scott, 2h-year-old
negro farm laborer and leve@ worker of Lobdell and Greenville, was hanged at Washington
County Jail this morning for the murder of Chu Ying, 53, North Theobald St, Chinese mer-
chant, whom Scott admitted killing in a holdup attempt last Feb, 11, The trap was sprung
at 10:30 aem and 15 minutes later at 10:li5 o'clock he was pronounced dead, Physicians said
his neck had been broken, Early this morning crowds began to gather around the jail yard.
At 10 a.m. around 500, mostly negroes, had assembled on North Edison, the Y& M. V. Rail-
road tracks and in front of theCcounty jail. Late yesterday Scott had been visited in the
death cell by his friend and comforter, The Rev. A. B. Friend, pastor of negro Baptist
Churches on Highland plantation and at Winterville. He prayed some during the night and
for s everal hours he slept. Friend had visited him at intervals for 3 weeks. Shortly be-
fore the hour of execution, Scott, who had dressed himself in the clothes in which he was
to be executed, was visited again by his pastor, Rev. Friend, ‘Elder, do I look good to
you?! he asked, With that he resumed singing of 'Heaven is My Home - I'm thoroughly satis-
fied.' Walking to the gallows, Scott asked for Lank Williams, local negro Baptist pastor.
Efforts to find Williams by deputies of the sheriff failed, and the Rev. A. B, Friend was
called again as Scott said 'Father is over all, and Heaven is my home.’ 'I want to go at
10 o'clock,' Scott said. He was informed that it was then 10:20. Elder Friend offered a
prayer and Scott delivered him a letter addressed to his pastor, Reve Lank Williams, asking
that he be given a funeral on the third Sunday, December 17, While thenoose was being
pleced over his head, Scott kept singing 'Heaven is My Home.’ ‘the rope was a little tight
at first and it was loosened a little as he asked that he not be choked, Askied if he had
anything to say before his execution, Scott said: ‘Heaven is my home. My Father was nailed |
to a cross, I'm thoroughly satisfied and I say this with a line around my neck,e' He
remindedhis comforter, Rev. Friend that he wantedhim to attend to his funeral and held 'no
grievance against anyone,' Referring to what he had told a Democrat-Times reporter a few

days ago in which he admitted that he fired the fatal shot that killed Chu Yin Scott plead
for the release of Flenoy Payne, 21, negro, now serving a life sentence at Far after

pleading guilty to murder of Ying, shouldering the entire blame for the murder, After
Scott had made his statement shouldering the blame for the death of theChinese grocer,
Sheriff Gildart said.Payne had been sentenced to serve a life term by the Circuit Court
here and that it wasnot in his power to set him free, The sheriff said he could let the
governor héar of Scott's request. As his head was being covered, Scott sangt 'Heaven
-is My Home! and these were his last words before his body plunged through the trap door
opening, The rope was cut 15 minutes Later after Dr. C. P, Thompson, county physician,
had pronounced him dead. Scott's relatives did not claim the remains and the body was

turned over to a local undertaker for burial in potter's field." DAILY DEMOCRAT-TIMES,
Greenville, Mississippi, Dec. 7, 1933 (1/7.)

rT.

BY STAN REDDING

HE YEAR OF THE TIGER was at hand.
And, all unknowing on that balmy night

of February 1, 1962, Joseph Ying Chiu
was waiting for death. It was 8 p.m., the hour
at which the modest grocery store he owned
and operated on Holman Street in Houston,
Texas, normally would be closed for the night.
But tonight a teenage girl, doing an errand

for her aunt, had run into the store just as Wally Gee, prominent Houston restaurateur, head of
Chiu was about to close up. He did not carry Chinese-American Citizens Alliance, posted $1,000
the item she asked for, but, with his usual reward for the capture of Joseph Ying Chiu’s slayer

consideration for his customers, he agreed to
wait while she ran to the house to ask what
her aunt would like instead.

Now Mrs. Chiu was busy checking the cash
register. In their apartment behind the store
their son and three daughters were waiting for
them. In that moment, 36-year-old Joseph Ying

Chiu was a proud and happy man. That was in the Year of the Dog, the year
It did not occur to him to think that he was 4632 by the ancient calendar of the Celestial
in danger of death, although his father, Ying Empire, or by the reckoning of some, the year
Chiu, had been slain in the grocery store he 1934. |
owned when Joseph was a small boy. But that The hounds of the law tracked down the
was long ago, and far away... killer, and judgment was passed upon him. On
It was on another balmy night in Greenville, a chill, dank morning, the sheriff led him up
Mississippi, that the grocer Ying Chiu, who had the steps of a scaffold built of raw pine, ad-
journeyed far from his ancestral home to find justed the noose about his throat, and the
success, was Slain. A slender, dark man walked slayer of Ying Chiu dropped through a trap-
into his store and at pistol point demanded door and his neck was broken and he died.
Ying Chiu's money. But this was small comfort to Ying Chiu’s
And when Ying Chiu, a proud man who had young wife, Lew Shee, who had been deprived
worked hard and honestly for the money that of the father of her three children. So she
provided for his family, resisted, the bandit took her two sons and her daughter back to eo)

shot him dead. Hong Kong, where she could be among her

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CIRCUIT COURT TERM: M RS. R U TH G . WAL i e R CHANCERY COURT TERM:
SECOND MONDAY IN JANUARY CIRCUIT CLERK, YAZOO COUNTY FIRST: MONDAY 1N MARCH
FIRST MONDAY IN APRIL FOURTH MONDAY IN JUNE
FIRST MONDAY IN AUGUST YAZOO CITY, MISSISSIPPI 39194 FOURTH MONDAY IN AUGUST

SECOND MONDAY IN DECEMBER
FIRST MONDAY IN NOVEMBER July 27 } 1978

Mr. Watt Espy

Law Library

Box 6205

University, Ala. 35486

Dear Mr. Espy:

In reply to your letter of June 22, 1978. I have been trying
to locate some of the criminal records of this county. I have
only been in office for 10% years and most of the criminal
dockets have not been found. The earliest Grand Jury docket
| that I have been able to find is October, 1930, and the earliest
‘ minute book is 1924,

I found on the docket the State of Mississippi Vs. John Fisher,
Cause #3537, and I have searched the basement and the top floor
where some old records were and the only thing I could come up

with was the State docket and I find that John Fisher was tried
in this county on a change of venue from Coahoma County and was
convicted of murder. To the side the notation or order for the
term of court in October, 1927 was this order "Jury and Verdict
of Guilty as charged and sentenced to be hanged within legal

hours on November 29, 1927". Now whether this was done, I have
not been able to verify. This is recorded in State Docket E,
page 265.

I find in October, 1948, that there was in indictment on Lavell

Shaffer and Otis Wilkerson, the State of Mississippi Vs. Lavell
Shaffer and Otis Wilkerson , Cause #5377, for a charge of murder.
I was able to find a court file on this cause and in this file

I find that Otis Wilkerson was electrocuted on Friday, July 14,
1950 at 12:03 A.M. Also, that Lavell Shaffer was electrocuted
on Thursday, July 12, [951 at 12:15:A.mM.

I am sorry, but this office does not have a listing of persons
who were hanged or electrocuted. I apologize for not answering
your letter earlier, but I have had to do some searching to come
up with this much. The lady who was here in this office for some
40 years before I came had passed away some several years ago.

Youre. truly,

kuth © Lorelle

Ruth G. Waller, Circuit Clerk

YAZOO CITY HERALD, Thursday, November 3, 199, p. l.

SHAFFER FOUND GUILTY
LAVELLE SHAFFER FOUND GUILTY AS CHARGED! BY JURY IN QUICK VERDICT

Deliberating anly about ten minutes the jury brought in a verdict of
"guilty as charged"! just before noon Friday in the case of the State vs. Lavelle
Shaffer, Shaffer was charged with the murder of Hardy "Bubba" Simmons in the
early hours of August 20 at the Cotton Club on the outskirts of the city.
The verdict returned by the jury automatically calls for the death penalty,
The State was represented by District Attorney M, M, Macgowan, County Attorney
Griffin Norquist, and Barbour & Barbour, special attorneys engaged by the Simmons
family to assist in the prosecution,

Shaffer was represented by John R, Poole, assisted by Dale McKibben. both
of Jackson,

YAZOO CITY HERALD, November 17, 199, p. 1.

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A summary of the action taken. ....

Lavell Shaffer and Otis Wilkinson, negroes tried separately on an indictment
: Yor the murder of Hardy "Bubba't Simmons, white youth, both found guilty as charged and —
sentenced to death in the electric chair, |
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MURDERER OF HARDY "BUBRA" SIMMONS TO DIE JULY 2hth

The Supreme Court Monday confirmed the deat; sentence of the circuit court agains’
Lavell Sechaeitfer charged with the murder of Hardy "Bubba" Simmons. Shaeffer will be
electrocuted July 2h.

It will be of interest to learn that John Poole, defense attorney, did not file
a brief for the defendant. He stated he had only been retained to represent the
defendant through the circuit court,

The Court reviewed Monday the case of Otis Wilkinson, also indicted by the
circuit court on the same murder charge. The court's findins will be revealed later,

YAZOO CITY HERALD, Thurdday, July 20, 1950,

WILKERSON DIES IN ELECTRIC CHAER; PARTNER REPRIEVED

Otis Wilkerson, negro convicted of the murder of Wiley Hardy Simmons, died here
Friday shortly after midnight by electrocution in the states's portable electric
chair,

The negro was found guilty along with Lavelle Shaffer an the October term of
circuit court and sentenced by the late Judge Hugh B, Gillespie. Shaffer's attorney,
John R. Pool of Jackson, received a stay of execution for his client late Thursday
afternoon from the U. S. Supreme Court. Shaffer was to be executed at the same time
as Wilkerson,

Sheriff San Parker brought Wilkerson to the courthouse here from Jackson, Only
a few more witnesses were there other than required by law.

YAZOO CITY HERALD, Thursday, October 20, 1949, p. 1.

GRAND JURY DELIBERATES LONG; SUBMITS 16 TRUE BILLS TO JUDGE GILLESPIE

There are 8 murder cases to be arraigned Thursday, all involving
negroes except that of Jack Brown, high school senior, who is charged
with the fatal shooting of his foster mother, Mrs, Fount Brown.

The negroes are Lavell Shaffer and Otis Wilkinson, charged with the murder of
POnbe ogame, white youths «6 6s ss és Wis «sie Cato...

YAZOO CITY HERALD, Thursday, October 27, 19195 >. le

CONFESSION GOES TO JURY AFTER LEGAL WRANGLE: STATE CLOSES TESTIMONY

The state wound up its case against Lavelle Shaffer around 3:30 pM.
Wednesday, with the testimony of a ballistics expert, who identified the
bullets submitted as evidence by the state as being fired from the guns in
possession of the defendant and Otis Wilkinson when they were apprehended,

The Court recessed prior to hearing testimony from defense witnesses,

The case of the State vs. Lavelle Shaffer has occupied the attention of
Yazoo County Court all of this week. He is accused of the fatal shooting of
Wiley Hardy Simmons at the Cotton Club here in August,

All Monday was devoted to securing the jury from a special venire ordered
by Judge H. B, Gillespie. The defense used practically all of its peremptory
challenges and some jurors were excused by the state,

The state Began presentation of its case Tuesday morning and attempted
to introduce the confession Signed by Shaffer in the Hinds County jail a few
days after the alleged crime, Defense attorneys objected and most of Tuesday afternoon
and Wednesday was devoted to testimony before Judge Gillespie in the absence of
the jury on the admissability of the confession, Defense alleged force was used
upon the defendant shortly after his arrest by Highway Patrolmen at the patrol
headquarters in Batesville before the confession was given County Attorney Griffen
Norquist, Special Attorney J.F, Barbour Ure, and Sheriff Sam Parker in the Hinds
County jail,

Shaffer's wif: and Otis Wilkinson, who will be tried separately on the same
charge, testified that abusive language was used against them and both Shaffer and
Wilkinson said they were beaten about the head with a club and black jack by members
of the highway patrol at their headquarters in Batesville before being taken to
Jackson,

The state introduced numerous witnesses to prove the contention was false,
including members of the heihway patrol and others who had contact with the
defendants prior to their incarceration in the Hinds County jail. Pictures were
also introduced to support the statets contention that no abuse was given the
defendants, Clothing with alleged blood Stains, said to have been worn by
Wilkinson at the time was introduced by the defense,

Judge Gillespie ruled that no force was used in connection with the confession,
and the document as signed by the defendant in the presence of witnesses was
read to the jurors by the prosecuting attorney early Wednesday afternoon,

eee ee No appeals,

SHAW, Emmett, and WhITAKER, Sam Green, blacks, hanged at, Water Valley, Mississippi, on
‘ July 17, 1931 -
CRIME
"Water Valley, Mississippi, May 5, 1931 = Murder with an ax was discovered here today with
the finding of the bodies of W. B, Wagner, 6-year-old banker and merchant, and of his wife,
Mrs, Mamie Wagner, 60, buried in a garden.and in a ditch, They apparently were killed last
night. Three negroes, one a houseboy reared by the Wagners, were. questioned tonight by
Sheriff C. T. Doyle and Memphis detectives, who came here to seek fingerprints from the
death weapon and from disordered rooms in the Wagner. house, Sheriff Doyle said Water Valley
was aroused and he was prepared to guard the county jail tonight if he kept the suspects
here. :
"Neither motive nor identity of the slayer was revealed by Sheriff Doyle, and he declined
to say whether either was known to him, They victims and their home apparently had not
been robbed, and no enemies were known, The houseboy, Sam Green, 17, aroused a neighbor,
N.. W. Spangler, .when he found blood on the floors of Wagner's bedroom and a dining room,
The bodies were found soon afterward. Wagner, slashed and mutilated, was buried in his
-garden near the house. Mrs, Wagner's body, the head nearly severed, was covered with sand
ina ditch a mile fromthe house, Their automobile, also bloodstained, was parked in the
garage where an ax was found, President of the Bank of Water Valley, and owner of a departe
ment store here, Wagner was considered one of the section's wealthiest men, His only son
| - is employed on a Nicaraguan plantation and the couple lived alone with negro servants,
"Wagner was last seen last night, and Sheriff Doyle believed he and Mrs, Wagner were killed
| before 9 p. m. -The condition of the house indicated-Wagner was killed in his bedroom and
Mrs, Wagner in the dining room One of the negroes held was said to be Emmett Shaw, 355
formerly employed by Wagner. The Wagners' cook, Callie Wiggins, alse was ouestioned,
Neighbors said they heard no screams and knew nothing of a struggle in the Wagner home,
Sheriff: Doyle's intention to bring bloodhounds to trace the slayer from Mrs, Wagner's grave
was abandoned when he found a crowd of several hundred about the. spet, They had obliterated
any tracks, The fingerprinting of the ax and a search for other evidence had not been
completed, These, and questioning of thenegroes, were the.principal hopes of any early
solution," TIMES-PICAYUNE, New Orleans, La,, May 6, 1931 (2/3).
"Water Valley, Miss., May 6, 193l=Mob threats today led officers to conceal Sam Green, 19=
years-old, negro house servant, while Sheriff C. Pf, Doyle probed:the negro's story that
others were implicated in the ax slaying of his employers, W, B, Wagner, 6l-yearseold,.and
wife, Mamie Wagner, 60, Sheriff Doyle said Green confessed that he killed the couple Mon-
day night because Wagner threatened to whip him for failing to return a borrowed shotgun,
Green was reared in the home of Mr. Wagner who was-a prosperous banker and merchant,. Green
and another negro, Enmett Shaw, 35, who the sheriff said was not implicated by Green,were
taken to the Greenwood, Miss., jail last night. Officers there sefused to comment on re-=
ports Green wasremoved today and rushed to another jail with a mob in pursuit, Sheriff Dpyle
said he knew of no@ mob having forme Sheriff Doyle detaimd another negro tonight and
sent him to another jail. The negro s identity and connection with the case were not dis-=
closed, is arrest brought the number held to three." TIMES-PICAYUNE, New Orleans, “a.,

May 7, 1931 (30=2),

"Jackson, Miss,, June 6, 1931-One hundred National Guardsmen, fully armed and equipped, have
been ordered to Water Valley Tuesday for the trial of Sam Whitaker, 19-year-old negro, who
is charged with the murder of Mr, and Mrs, W. B. Wagner. Brigadier-General J, M, Hairston,
adjutant-general, will be in direct command of the tpoops and will issue all orders verbally,
Movement of the troops will be veiled in secrecy until the negro, who is held in an unannoun-
ced jail in the state, is brought into the Yalobusha County circuit courtroom next week,

The order for the troops was issued today by Governor Theodore G, Bilbo upon request of
Sheriff Doyle of Yalobusha County for assistance in preserving order during the trial, The
executive order was sent to Adjutant-General Hairston who issued a special order designating
the officers and troops to be sent to Water Valley next week for the negro's trial, Wagner,
well-known banker of Water Valley, and his wife were slain early in May, Their bodies,
hacked, were found partly buried, the wife's body in the garden of the Wagner home and the
body of the banker about a mile away in a ditch, with sand thrown over it. In addition to
the 100 enlisted men, Adjutant-General Hairston wasordered by the governor. to take 18 offi-
cers, They will assist civil authorities in preserving law and order in the city during

the Whitaker trial...The order of the governor states that Brigadier-General Hairston will

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SLYTER, Kenneth, white, asphyxiated Mississippi (Madison) on March 29,

Bik: Tv hair :

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Odds against all the things happening that doomed the
pretty baby sitter were astronomical to the point of
being almost impossible—but, obviously, not quite!

# IT BEGAN WITH a typographical error and ended with the bloodiest murder in the
history of Jackson, the state capital of Mississippi. It began with an innocent situation-
wanted advertisement placed in a local newspaper and ended with the savage mutil-
ation of a young girl’s body. It began on the bright Saturday of April 21st, 1962 when
an ex-convict, a sexual deviate, dialed a wrong telephone number.

On Saturday morning, the advertisement appeared in Jackson’s morning newspaper.
It had been inserted by a middle-aged woman, seeking work as a medical aide. In addi-
tion to stating the applicant’s qualifications, the ad listed the Peepnone number to be
called by any prospective employer.

But a printer made a mistake. As the advertisement was set up, someone inadvertently
transposed two of the figures in the telephone number. Thus, the number which ap-
peared in Saturday’s newspaper was not that of the medical aide who sought a job.
It had been issued to two girls, both employees of the telephone company, who shared
an apartment at the corner of Jefferson and Carlisle Streets.

At 1l’oclock that afternoon, Faye Chisholm and Joyce Ray sat in their flat, entertaining °

a friend, Charlotte Holderfield. The girls were finishing their lunch when the telephone

‘ rang. Joyce Ray picked up the receiver.

DIAL WRONG FOR MURDER

by David Brown

Arrow points to the young baby sitter’s mutilated body under a pine sapling.

AMAZING DETECTIVE, August, 1969,

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to do it again.”

‘ Sandra smiled, kissed her sister and
bounded down the steps. She climbed
into the car which then headed north on
Jefferson Street. At its destination there
was neither a television set nor a swim-
ming pool; there was only death, cold,
lonely and violent.

By 1 o’clock in the morning of Sun-
day, April 22nd, Sandra’s parents, Mr.
and Mrs. James Holderfield, were mild-
ly worried. Their daughter had not yet
returned home and since they did not
know the address to which she had
gone, they were unable to telephone her
employer.

Three hours later, their mild concern
- had blossomed into fearful anxiety.
Mr. Holderfield telephoned the Jackson
police. A few minutes later, a squad
car pulled up and Detective Sergeant
A. L. Sutherland and Detective F. C.
Hammond were admitted to the house.

The officers gleaned little informa-
tion. Charlotte Holderfield reported the
three telephone calls which had been
made to:the apartment of her friends.
She had not been able to make out the
name which the caller had mumbled
over the wire. She did, however, recall
the steel company for which he had
stated he worked, and he had said that
he lived in the Meadowbrook area.

Hammond asked the parents for a
photograph of the missing girl as Suth-
erland went to the telephone and com-
municated with the Detective Bureau,
asking someone to check with the steel
company.

“We're looking for a man, probably
from the north, who was just trans-
fered here and lives in the Meadow-
brook area. Get the steel officials out
of bed. There’s a 15 year old girl miss-
ing.”

The officers then drove to the apart-
ment of Joyce Ray and Faye Chisholm.
Sergeant Sutherland apologized for
routing the girls out of bed. “But,” he
explained, “young Sandra Holderfield
is missing. We're trying to find her.”

The girls could shed no more light
on the matter than Charlotte Holder-
field had been able to. Neither of them
had taken the name of the mysterious
caller. Faye Chisholm explained that
the original call had been made to a
wrong number, probably a typograph-
ical error in the paper.

Sutherland and Hammond returned
to their headquarters. There they
learned that the personnel director of
the steel company had been roused
from his bed and driven to his office
where he consulted his records. They
contained no information regarding a
new employe from out of the state.

Sutherland ordered prints made of
copies sent to various papers through-
out the state. He wrote out a detailed
description of Sandra Holderfield, dis-
patched copies to all radio and tele-
vision stations, asking that news of the
disappearance be broadcast.

LL day Sunday, the teletypes clat-

tered out the news and description
of the missing girl. During each radio
news broadcast the audience was re-
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quested to keep an eye out for Sandra
Holderfield. Back on North Jefferson
Street, the Holderfield family sat anx-
iously waiting for the telephone to ring.

At 4 o’clock Sunday afternoon, Lew-
is Cully, junior, a Jackson business
man, and his wife were driving from
the city to their farm, just north of
Natchez Trace in Madison County.
The car radio was on and the Cullys
had just listened to the news, which
concluded with an appeal on behalf of
Sandra Holderfield. Less than a minute
after Cully had turned off the radio,
his wife seized his arm and pointed to
the side of the shady road.

“Lewis,” she said. “What’s that?”

Cully braked the car. At the edge of
the dirt road, lying by a clump of tall
sedgegrass, were a white tennis shoe,
a pair of torn panties and a blood-
stained brassiere. Cully blinked and
got out of the car. He walked to the
edge of the road and peered into the
sedgegrass. He returned to the car and
his face was grim.

““There’s a body there,” he told his
wife. “The nude body of a young girl.
I'll call the police from the farmhouse.”

Cully, upon arriving at his farm,
communicated with Sheriff Billy Noble
of Madison County. The sheriff, in
turn, notified Jackson police headquar-
ters. Within half an hour, the sheriff,
accompanied by several deputies, met
Jackson Detective Sergeants Suther-
land, Fred Freeman and S. M. Magee,
and Detective Hammond on the haded
dirt road where the Cullys had found
the mortal remains of Sandra Hofder-

field.

A thin trail of blood led from the
road itself to the spot in the sedge-
grass where the body had presumably
been dragged. The girl was not com-
pletely naked. She wore a single tennis
shoe and a torn white blouse, complete-
ly open down the front.

Her young body was horribly cut
and bruised. Both legs appeared to be
broken, as was one arm, several ribs
and the left cheek bone. One ear was
mutilated and part of the girl’s upper
lip had been torn away.

Sheriff Noble radioed for a repre-
sentative of the Madison County cor-
oner’s Office..In the meantime, the of-
ficers conducted an exhaustive search
of the immediate terrain, seeking some
clue which would lead to the identity
of the sadistic killer.

Sheriff Noble explained that this
area was known as the Old Johnson
Road and in good weather was used as
a local lover’s lane.

“On good, warm nights,” he said,
hundreds of couples drive out here, es-
pecially on Saturday nights. There’s a
chance that some one of them may
have spotted the killer.”

The coroner’s deputy arrived and
supervised the removal of the body
to a funeral home in Canton, where the
legally required autopsy would be per-
formed. When darkness precluded any

“further search of the area, the officers

returned to their respective headquar-
ters, clueless and frustrated.
Back in Jackson, Sergeant Suther-

The Jackson detective bureau and the

-the windshield.

land was informed that a team of de- a
tectives had found, in the Meadow- —
brook section, a newspaper in a tele-
phone booth; the paper had been open- ~~
ed to the classified ad columns, and
the medical aide situation-wanted ad-— ef
vertisement with the wrong telephone Bg
number had been checked with a pen- —~
cil. -
An eleven state alarm was broadcast 5
from Jackson police headquarters. ve
State and local police were instructed &
to examine all suspicious cars, espe- | ~
cially light colored Chevrolets.
During the night more than a hun- ©
dred cars were halted and searched in -
the state of Mississippi. None of them ©
yielded any significant jnformation.

Madison County sheriffs’ office were
under orders to work around the clock
until the savage, wanton murderer of
Sandra Holderfield should be brought
to account for his insane crime.

At 8 o’clock that’ morning a prelim-
inary medical report was issued by
the Madison coroner; it. only com-
pounded the mystery. The girl had not
been raped. She had been brutally beat-
en, mutilated, her legs, and arm and
tibs had been broken. However, she
had not been sexually molested in any
way at all.

A‘ 9 o’clock on Monday morning,
Jackson Police Officers H. E. Clan-
ton and B. A. Baughn had been rou-
tinely checking various automobiles
since they had been on duty, an hour
before. Now, parked at the corner of
Fortification and North West Streets,
they observed a 1959 Chevrolet, bear-
ing Kansas license plates.

The interior of the sedan seemed
quite clean. Then, Baughn noted two
narrow streaks across the outside of

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“Look,” said Baughn to his partner,
“that could be dried blood.”

Clanton nodded. “I’m going to crawl
under the car,” said Baughn. “There
might be some more stains there.”

Baughn disappeared beneath the
Chevrolet. A. moment later he emerged,
holding something silken and wispy in
his hand. He held it up. “All right,”
he said to Clanton, “what do you make
of this?” .

- “Tt looks like a tuft of human blonde
hair—a girl’s hair.” ‘

“That's what I think,” said Baughn.
“Radio headquarters. Ask them to send
out some detectives, and give them this
license number. Tell them to check the
owner.” i

A few minutes later, Sergeant Suth- +
erland, Detective F. C. Hammond and
Patrolman Bob Boering drove up. They
examined the suspected Chevrolet, then 2
impounded it and drove it to the po- 3
lice garage for inspection by the lab-~
oratory experts. pe

In the meantime, the Jackson offi-
cials had talked to the Kansas Motor ‘
Vehicle Bureau regarding the im- _
pounded Chevrolet; they learned that i
the car had been stolen in Wichita some
five months before. = Af. 8). 4

It seemed that once again the police

A man’s voice said, “I just saw your ad in the paper. I
wonder if you could baby sit for me tonight.”

The girl was puzzled. There must be some mistake, she
told the caller. She had run no ad in the paper. Perhaps, he
had called the wrong number. The stranger read the number
from the paper.

“That’s our number, all right,” said the girl. “They must
have made a mistake at the paper.”

An apology was mumbled over the wire and the caller
hung up. Joyce Ray rejoined her companions. She ex-
plained what had happened and added, “By mistake, they’ve
put our number in the paper. We'll probably get calls all
day.”

In any event, they ‘got another one within the hour. And

from the same man who had called before.

“Look,” he said and there was a note of desperation in
his voice, “I’ve just got to get a baby sitter. I want to take
my wife out for dinner tonight. It'll only be from 7:30 to
about 11.”

Faye Chisholm who had picked up the receiver on this
occasion, suggested that there must be hundreds of willing
baby sitters in Jackson.

“But I don’t know any. I’ve just moved here from the
north. I just want someone to sit with my three year old
twin sons. I have a color television set, a swimming pool
and two boxer dogs I can offer as an inducement.”

The man’s voice was pleasant and he sounded convinc-
ing. His accent was strongly northern.

“Well,” said the girl, “I'll see what I can do. Give me
your number and if I can find a sitter, I'll call you back.”

There was a moment’s silence. “Well,” said the stranger,
“I'd better call you. You see, our home phone hasn’t been
installed yet. I’m calling you from (Continued on page 53)

Sandra Holderfield was bludgeoned to death.

Detectives had to pull ex-convict suspected of murder
from a police car when they wanted to put him in jail.

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state police led groups, while Inspector
John L. Dempsey, Lieutenant John M.
Sullivan, and Michael Cullinane, all
state police detectives, also arrived to
assist. From Rhode Island came more
police and bloodhounds.

Still Miller remained at large.

That he would kill again and again—
as often as he deemed necessary to his
safety—there was no doubt. In Ply-
mouth, the cook about whom Miller
had quarrelled with Beatrice Orchal
was under police guard in his quarters
at the old South Street army camp.

Lareta, too, was being watched. Him-
self a member of the posse which was
seeking Miller, he was stationed at
home, in the possibility that Miller
might once more attempt to see him.
By his side he had a shotgun.

Outside the house were two state
police officers, armed with machine
guns.

And still Miller remained uncap-
tured». ,

What happened Monday morning
was Strictly a stroke of luck. A gang of
boys, anxious to improve their marks-
manship, set up tin cans as targets close
by the army camp, and began shooting
away.

Within a few minutes, telephone calls
began pouring into the police station,
reporting that shots were being fired
near the camp. Shortly, a large posse
was en route to surround the area, in
case it might be Miller, gone berserk.
The boys, meanwhile, ignorant of this
development, continued to shoot.

It was just about this time that a
milkman was standing in Braley Lane,

near the camp and talking with a wo-
man. ,

Suddenly he cut short his conversa-
tion.

Across the narrow road was Hubert
Miller, whom he immediately recog-
nized. Miller, crouched down, was run-
ning in the direction of the camp.

He immediately gave the alarm, and
within a few moments all available
state troopers, local police, and volun-
teers were also on their way.

As the men neared the spot, Miller
was seen dashing into one of the aban-
doned barrack buildings on the outer
fringe of the camp. .

Other Hondurans were running wild-
ly and screaming. As the posse came
closer, the hysteria mounted and the
Hondurans, anxious to be well out of
the way of the shooting they knew
would follow, ran into their own bar-
rack buildings. A few of the men
paused to shout to the posse men that
Miller had taken refuge in the camp.

The men had fanned out and were
posted, rifles in hand ready for instant

- use, when the figure was seen coming

through the window of a building.

It was Miller.

He looked about him wildly, like a
hunted beast, and saw that he Was hope-
lessly trapped. At one end of the build-
ing stood State Troopers James Martm
and William Grady. At the other end
of the building was Trooper Chester
Sarmak. Miller raised his gun to fire.

The troopers opened a cross fire.

There was a short barrageof lashing,

crackling sounds. “A
Miller fell to the ground, ‘dead.
4

Editor’s Note: The name John Lareta
is fictitious.

DIAL WRONG FOR MURDER
(Continued from page 11)

a booth. But I'll call again in about an
hour.”

The girl hung up and reported the
conversation to her friends. Charlotte
Holderfield suggested that perhaps her
younger sister, Sandra, might be willing
to take the job.

“That color television set should im-
press her,” said Charlotte. “Ill call
and ask her.”

The color television set did impress
the 15-year-old Sandra, though not any
more than the swimming pool and the
pair of boxers. When, an hour later,
the Northerner called again, he was
informed that his troubles were over.
He was also asked his name and ad-
dress.

He murmured his name indistinctly
and added that he lived in the Meadow-
brook area, an expensive residential sec-
tion. He worked, he said, for a promi-
nent steel company. .

“And thanks a lot,’ he concluded. -

“You’ve done me a big favor. I'll pick
up Sandra at 7:15 in a 1959 white
Chevrolet. Or, perhaps my wife will
call for her in the Lincoln Continental.
Anyway one of us will be there shortly
after 7.” i

ANDRA Holderfield was an exceed-

ingly pretty girl who, had it not
been for that fatal telephone call,
would, one day, have developed into a
beautiful woman. She attended Central
High School where her grades were well
above average and her attendance rec-
ord perfect. Her. Home Economics in-
structor had once characterized Sandra
as ‘the kind of pupil, a teacher appreci-
ates having in class.’ :

At 7:10 on this Saturday night, San-
dra Holderfield sat in the living room
of her home on North Jefferson Street,
eagerly awaiting the car which would
take her to the color television set and
the swimming pool. Through the win-
dow she saw a white car drive up. Its
horn blew sharply.

Her sister, Charlotte, accompanied
her to the door. “Now, do a good job,”

‘She said, “and maybe they’ll ask you

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ner had located the sus-
. dispatcher the tag num-

ag doorbells, asking ques-
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at a service station just
of the attendants whom
ie Kansas car astounded
its owner had just driven

vo minutes ago,” the at-
3 a panel truck. Belongs
ompany. I know the guy.
and he lives someplace a
block.”
hed to Fortification Street
in’s radio call at once act-
idant’s information. After
they located the pest con-
1 employed the owner of
vile.
ter, Kenneth Slyter,” the

said. “He’s from Wichita, _

minute and I'll get you his
it on Fortification Street.”
> had made the call passed
“eagues, then'asked the

e Slyter was supposed

id ask that,” the informant
i while ago and said he was
sn. I can’t figure what for.
are right here in Hinds

it to Kenneth Slyter’s home
ion Street were met at the
ct’s agitated wife. She said
ust telephoned and told her
she was doing and to pack a
ing. “I can’t tell you why,”
as saying, “but trust me,
We've got to leave this burg
iway.” A
nds and Madison Counties
it to pick up Kenneth Slyter
cription of the 26-year-old
ith that of the panel truck
ved to be driving was broad-
solice and commercial radio.
+ peace officers and auxiliaries
‘ks around Jackson and its
‘ork of highways. :
« in the afternoon, a police
ist Hospital formally termi-
1. Kenneth Slyter had been
had rushed him to the hos-
<ansan appeared at the parish
the savage murder of pretty
eld and to announce that he
wed a lethal cocktail com-
jsene and chlorodinated DDT.
o pumped Slyter’s stomach in
vard expressed the opinion that
stered poison was somewhat
-han deadly, The kerosene had
ctive coating on the stomach
yugh the murder suspect was
retchingly ill, there was every
e he would survive.
yn police headquarters by
sctives, Slyter -was lodged
tity cell. He was watched
were sternly charged with the
of preventing any further at-
€.
ie prisoner was not officially
il Tuesday, April 24, his wife
: slied details to the officers which,

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in their minds, obviated any doubt that Ken-
neth Slyter was Sandra Holderfield’s , slayer.
On Easter eve, it was learned, Slyter left his

home just before 7 P:M, to run an errand.

_ “He returned home later, but had changed
his clothes,” his wife allegedly told police. “He
told me he had run over a dog and had gotten
his clothes bloody as a result. He kept weeping
like a child and he kept saying ‘It was such a’
pretty dog.’” ;
According to Slyter’s wife, on the night of
the murdet he had soaked his bloody clothing
in the wash basin and refused her offers ‘to
wash them on Sunday morning. He finally
scrubbed the garments clean himself. Later,

on Sunday afternoon, Slyter hosed down his’

white automobile. x

On Tuesday morning, 26-year-old Kenneth
Marlon Slyter, the police say, confessed to
them. that he had slain Sandra ;Holderfield
when she resisted his sexual overtures. He beat
her with a tire tool, he allegedly admitted, and
then ran over her body twice in his car to make
sure that she was dead.

“J don’t know why I did it,” he reportedly
kept ° mumbling throughcut his recital. “I
don’t know why.”

Slyter led a party of official witnesses to the

brush-lined field off the Natchez Trace, where,
admittedly, h¢ had killed his pretty victim.
News of this: reconstruction’ at the crime
scene was accompanied by the ‘announcement
that in 1950, Slyter had been jailed in Wichita,
Kan, for clubbing and ‘criminally assaulting an
18-year-old girl. Only 15 at that time, he was
placed in an institution for retarded children.
At the time of the Holderfield murder, Slyter
was .on parole from Kansas where he had

‘served time for car theft. The white Chevrolet

in, which he, drove Sandra Holderfield to her
date with deathon the Natchez .Trace was a
stolen vehicle, it was further revealed. Slyter

allegedly had driven it out of a Wichita park- |

ing lot in December of 1961. ;
On the day that 26-year-old Slyter was

formally charged with murder and scheduled

to appear at a pre-trial hearing before Judge
Leroy Hawkins, Sandra Holderfield was laid
to rest in the new Easter dress that she never
got to wear. It was no consolation to the
throng of weeping mourners that her admitted
slayer was shortly to be tested at Mississippi’s
State Hospital for the Insane at Whitby to

. determine, at District Attorney William Wal-

Jer’s request, “whether he. knew. right from
wrong at the, time. of the crime.” a

Get the

Limping Eye-Witness:

continued from page 37

‘

Riddick and saw that this man was shaking
violently.” ‘

Officers were unable ‘to trace the phone tall ~

or obtain more details.

The next lead in. the mushrooming investi-
gation came from an’ Atlanta bank where
Riddick had an account. On Februaty 20, Jack
Riddick, had written and cashed 4 $1500 check.
on his account.. The check was cashed at
a Mexico, City hotel, but not the one in which
Riddick had been staying. | ‘:)

Examining physicians insisted Riddick died
not’ later than February 19, and possibly
earlier. Either the doctors’ were wrong, or po-
lice were confronted not only -by a killer, but
also by an impersonator. y

Police ‘agents interviewed: employes of “the

hotel where the check was cashed and found. .

“Riddick” had checked in on February 19, and
stayed until February 21, in Room 1001. ‘They
searched the room, but found no clues. ?

Officers ‘interviewed the credit manager of
the hotel, who had cashed the check. .

“He showed immigration documents, but all.

were without photographs,” the credit manager:
said. He said he’ cashed the check only after
two phone calls and an okay from the bank in
Atlanta. ‘ Mn

Officers showed him a picture of ,the real
Riddick. ‘

“No, this is not the man,” the credit man-
ager said. “The man in this photogtaph has?a
round, face. The man who cashed the check had’

_ an oval face, thinning eyebrows, wide-lined

forehead, big nose, thin lips but a large mouth.
He. also walked with a slight limp. ‘This pic-
ture. is definitely not of the same man.” =»

Officers, working under Jesus Miyasawa,
head of judicial police, and Colonel Ojeda,
Major, Rafael Cordero and Captain Manuel

Camargo of the Mexican Secret Service, col- ..

tion files, from a bill‘ from the hotel restau-
rant and from two notes from the bar of the
hotel. ~~. Ua, ‘
They compared these signatures with the
establishéd: Riddick signature on his hotel reg-
istration card. They also compared them with
the: signature on the $1500: check.

Already,. officials of the Atlanta bank had

“declared, that the signature on the $1500 check

was indeed Jack Riddick’s signature, “within
90 percent of accuracy.” . :

Perhaps the slayets had forced Riddick to
sign the check before they killed’ him.

Calligraphy, the analysis’ of handwriting, is
an inexact “science. Secret. Service officers be-
lieved’ they detected ‘significant differences in
the signatures, and’ they theorized 'that all were
forgeries except Riddick’s hotel registration.

They turned over the,'signatures to a Mexi-
can’bank for analysis. The bank’s report piled
-confusion on confusion. An expert calligrapher
-analyzed the. signatures and. reported that all
except: the carbon copy of the: airline ticket
-were written with a common ballpoint pen;
and after study under ultraviolet light, he

\ was ready to say they had the same color

lected. the “Riddick” signature from registra-.°

and same characteristics: - °. ‘

\ “The signature Jack Riddick made in his
“hotel shows normal velocity and fluency in all
the letters. Characters of this signature present
a frank slant toward the right. The ample and
large letters predominate ‘with uniform and

“normal precision and habit and‘ automation is

‘demonstrated in all: the characters. The signa-
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them > variable inclinations with predomina-
tion of round and vertical letters. In some,
variable characters predominate, and in others
vone can establish an absolute surety of identi-
“fication.” ’

He concluded that an differences were only
‘minor. ones due to the writer's varied mood

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line gun, another shotgun and
vers,

rs in the neighborhood con-
the sound of: shooting. The
ue Ford was now answering
efore he got the car moving.
:ross a lawn, moving wildly
allets. The car bounced across
smashing into a fire hydrant.
aed it into reverse, backed up
again and up over a lawn
the corner of a house and

closed in from all sides. They
man slumped over the wheel,
ied on the floor.
this end was over.
iber of the gang had run in
ction down North Francisco.
Catalpa Avenue intersection
nhardt, having discarded his
e chase with drawn revolver,
2 because of passers-by. ,
‘ed two blocks down Catalpa
Avenue intersection before
lear shot. He took aim and
2ll dead on a lawn.
1 more than 80 shots. The
several. But. not one police-
‘ent bystander had been hit.
er of the gang, shot in
ken to a hospital for
y identified as Pierre
an address on Pine Grove
‘d showed prison terms for
‘t and in a federal reforma-

were identified as Andrew
o lived in an apartment on
Avenue, and Kenneth Dan-
‘on Diversey Parkway.

the gunman shot by Han-
the one found dead at the

howed Daniels had served
tr cashing bogus checks, and
a on a grand larceny charge.
een arrested for investiga-

convictions, records dis-

on in Budlong Woods was
itown.

1 of reception we hope to
er the city,” Chief of De-
a

that similar detective teams
fashionable neighborhoods
n an effort to repeat the
said suburban police de-
operating with their own

suspected that the gang
was responsible for about
last 18 months, with loot
00. He said: silk stocking
| in each of these robberies,
3piotto and his men, not
m and good planning, but
he neighborhood ‘residents,
rs were high in their praise
intended victim said: “I
to express how I respect

dissatisfied was his
was at his grand-
ction,
iad been burglarized twice
t in a burglar alarm, The
iree times, and he believed

had scared the potential burglars 'away then.

After preliminary treatment, Mager was
questioned by police. He was quoted as saying
it was his “first caper” with Chervenak and
Daniels, and the first time he had carried a
gun. He told: police Daniels had been the
“brains” of the gang, and had gotten a tip

that there was a large amount of jewelry in-

this particular home. i

The owner told newsmen. he did not have |

any great amount of valuables in his house.

“I’m too young to have amassed a lot of.
jewelry and those things,” news: accounts :

quoted him.

Investigating the gang members, police learned’,

Chervenak was a barber in ‘a Chicago hotel
barbershop. Other employes in the shop said
Daniels came in daily for shaves and Cher-
venak took an undsually long time to shave

him, talking in hushed tones during the shave.'. '

Police dressed the bodies of Chervenak and
Daniels in the masked deliveryman outfits they’
wore when shot, and had.a number of home

robbery victims look them over, They re--

ported that several victims made tentative
identifications, . oa
Pictures of Mager were shown to: ‘victims,

.. and officers reported getting several statements
. that he’ might have‘ been involved in’ other

crimes. Mager was in the hospital, and police

, said they would complete their investigation
\of him: when he recovered and could be
~ questioned in detail and placed in showups,

They reported Mager was a handsome man
who spoke like a man with a good education.
They said he claimed he spent 12 years with
the ‘Criminal Investigation. Diviston of. the
Army and could speak French:

Police said they will charge Mager with at-

tempted robbery, conspiracy to commit rob-

, bery, and assault with intent to murder. —
Officers at this time are attempting to de-.

,termine how many home robberies the gang

had taken part in. And Chicago detectives are
still on the lookout for other home robbery

_ gangs; But. the heart is believed to have gone
out of some of these gangs when they learned ;

how devastating retribution can be. |

Sandra's Appointment with Madness

continued from page 21 ‘

to check soil on the clothing of possible sus-
pects. : : ;

Police officers who conferred at the scene ad-
mitted that the clues were slim. They hoped
that Sandra, in struggling, had conspicuously
marked her assailant; that the man was. suf-
ficiently bloodied to face the problem of dis-
posing of his clothes; that his car, bore discerni-
ble traces of his demoniacal savagery:

The car was still the best Jead of all, they
decided. It. was a white Chevrolet of: recent
make. If the owner, actually were a new ar-
rival to the Jackson area, the licensing of his
automobile would be ‘reflected in the record of.
recent. motor vehicle. registrations.

Darkness limited further investigations at:
the murder site. In the morgue at ‘Jackson
Baptist Hospital and in the city police crime
laboratory, grim officials sought for leads to
the killer’s identity.

Autopsy surgeons were unable to establish
that Sandra’s murderer ‘had actually consum-
mated a sexual assault on his teenage victim.
This did not preclude, of course, that the
wantonly sadistic killing was not of itself part

of a psychopathic pattern of perverted sex.

gratification.

The pair of undershorts, found at the crime :

scene, were examined for laundry marks and
other possible clues. They were taggtd with a
well-known brand name and stamped ‘size 34.

By Monday morning, April 23, two suspects
had been apprehended in the Jackson environs.
One was a vagrant with a Northern accent
who had been discovered sleeping off a drunk
in Battlefield Park. The other was a millhand
from nearby Tougaloo with a record of child
molestation and a bloodstained shirt which he

“was unable to account for.

Despité these arrests, with daylight the search
for Sandra Holderfield’s killer was intensified.
Police officers reporting for the day shift were

apprised of the case at morning muster. They ©

were ordered to exercise extraordinary vigi-
lance in observing passers-by and in seeking
out the killer’s automobile. Detectives were as-

signed the task of alerting Jackson’s laundries

' and dry-cleaning establishments to be on the

lookout for bloodstained clothing. Traffic pa-

'trolmen were asked to stop every white sedan

which they encountered in the course of their
rounds,

Patrolman A. M. Baughn and H. E. Clan-
ton, working as.a team, spent the entire morn-

, ing checking out cars. They toured. district

after district, stopping cars in the street, ex-
amining automobiles which were parked at the
curb.. In front of one apartment building,
Officer Clanton later related, they found four
automobiles which. matched the description of

‘the wanted car. Checking the vehicles and their

respective owners was a time-consuming job.
_A little before noon that Monday, Clanton
and Baughn, cruising along Fortification Street,
spotted a white ’59 Chevy bearing Kansas
plates parked at the side of the street. They
pulled up behind it.

“A fellow from Kansas would speak with a
Northern accent, wouldn’t he?” Clanton asked
his partner. att

“It wouldn’t be the kind of accent we're tised
to down here,” Baughn agreed.

They left their cruiser and made a painstak-
ing survey of the white Chevy. Clanton dis-
covered a ‘brownish smear about an eighth of
an inch wide and four inches long on the left
front window. 4 ay
_ “I think it’s blood,” he said. “Let’s look at
the running gear.”

They went,around to the front of the auto-
mobile. Under the right headlight, the officers
found a dent which was discolored with a red-
brown stain. Two strollers, curious, stopped to
watch the officers from the sidewalk. The po-
licemen waved them on. The driver of an un-
marked panel truck watched thern closely as
his vehicle rolled by, For the space of a sec-
ond, his eyes’ met those of Officer Clanton’s.

_ Kneeling in front of the car, Clanton: saw
more blood traces on the bumper. Underneath,
adhering to the right suspension coil, were
wisps of blondish hair. .

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ALL WASHED UP

™ Maude Horne was a retired school

teacher in her early 50s who lived alone |

in her small house in Milton, N. H.'‘When
she failed to show up at.a party on the
evening of February 3, 1939, several

friends came around to see what was the:

matter. They found her—strangled and

beaten to death. It was:obvious from the...

condition of the living room she had
struggled. fiercely before being ° over-
powered.

When Milton’s. police chief, Herbert
Down, and Deputy Sheriff Norman.
Plummer from Rochester, N. H., arrived

on the scene, the first thing that hit them’

was the disturbing fact that a half dozen
women were sitting around in the murder
room wailing. Because they. had not
thought it right for poor Maude to lie.
there exposed in the: ugly position of

death, they had wrapped the living room.

rug around her, thus altering the position

of any clues that might have been around .
the corpse. And their fingerprints nat-

urally were all over the place.

Down and Plummer weren't exactly
happy when they shooed the women out -

‘of the house and tried to launch a normal
investigation. Plummer shook his head.

“The lab rien will be here shortly,” he .
said, “but how much they can find now’.

is hard to say. Those women may have
ruined any chance of fingerprints.”

The deputy sheriff- was wrong. The
women hadn’t ruined a thing for there
was nothing to ruin. When technicians
dusted the living room they failed'to find

any prints other.than those of the women..-
_ Even Maude Horne’s prints were rare—:
only a few of them high on the walls and

on some pictures hung on the walls.
Maude Horne’s murderer had been the

careful sort. He had wiped off everything

in the living room to make sure he left no

prints behind. It was the same story in
the bathroom. But there was a bloody
towel and some crimson smudges on the
walls, The killer evidently had touched
the walls with his bloodied hands, then

smeared the stains with the towel so they:

left no - meaningful prints. A blood-
specked wash basin and a still damp piece
of soap also indicated the killer had
scrubbed off the blood before leaving. It
was a very thorough job.

That was why a man who'd taken the
name of Juan Enrique years before felt
so safe. He had known Maude Horne for
some. time and called on her once in a
while to get money from her, The day of
the murder he had called on the woman
and again demanded money. When she
refused, they quarreled and he killed her.

Enrique was certain he was in the
clear. No one could put the finger on
him in Milton, and he’d left. no evidence
at the murder scene. He: decided to play
it safe however, and leave the area to
return to Mexico, his homeland..He took
it easy getting there, stopping off at Har-
risburg, Pa., and then St. Louis, Mo.

ALONG the way he picked: ‘up a girl
and told her about all the good times
they’d have together in Mexico. Enrique

was living in a fool’s ages that end-.

ed in Corpus Christi, where police
grabbed him on the murder charge.

Enrique was dumbfounded. “How'd
you finger me?” he asked Deputy Sheriff
Down who came to Texas to escort him
back to New Hampshire, ‘where he drew
a life sentence.

Down smiled. “You did a good job of

wiping up all your fingerprints. Then you.

washed: your hands and left the most
beautiful set of prints you ever saw on

_ the bar of soap.” Lg a

Baughn radioed headquarters that he be-
lieved he and his partner had located the sus-
pect’s car. He gave the dispatcher the tag num-
bers.

Clanton began to ring doorbells, asking ques-
tions about the car and its owner. No one could
tell him a thing. But at a service station just
across the street, one of the attendants whom
they asked about the Kansas car astounded
them by saying that its owner had just driven
by in a truck.

“No more than two minutes ago,” the at-
tendant said. “It was a panel truck. Belongs

to an exterminator company. I know the guy.

He gets his gas here and he lives someplace a
little further up the block.”

Detectives who rushed to Fortification Street
in response to Baughn’s radio call at once act-
ed on the, gas attendant’s information. After
two telephone calls, they located the pest con-
trol company which employed the owner of
the Kansas automobile.

“His name is Slyter, Kenneth Slyter,” the

‘company manager said. “He’s from Wichita,

Kansas, Just wait a minute and I'll get you his
address. He lives out on Fortification Street.”

_The detective who had made the call passed
the address on to his colleagues, then'asked the
company manager where Slyter was supposed

“to be working.

“Funny you should ask that,” the informant
said. ‘He called in a while ago and said he was
going out to Canton. I can’t figure what for.
All’ of his accounts are right here in Hinds
County.”

Officers who went to Kenneth Slyter’ 's home
on West Fortification Street were met at the
door by the suspect’s agitated wife. She said
her husband had just telephoned and told her
to drop whatever she was doing and to pack a
suitcase with clothing. “I can’t tell you why,”

he was reported as saying, “but trust me,

Baby. Trust me. We’ve got to leave this burg
behind us, right away.”

Throughout Hinds and Madison Counties
the word went out to pick up Kenneth Slyter
on sight. A description of the 26-year-old
Kansan, along with that of the panel truck
he still was believed to be driving was broad-
cast over both police and commercial radio.
For the next hour peace officers and auxiliaries

' manned roadblocks around Jackson and sg

surrounding network of highways.

At two. o’clock in the afternoon, a ined
flash from Baptist Hospital formally termi-
nated the search. Kenneth Slyter had been
found. A priest had rushed him to the hos-
pital when the Kansan appeared at the parish

| house to confess the savage murder of pretty

Sandra Holderfield and to announce that he

‘had just: swallowed a lethal cocktail com-

pounded of kerosene and chlorodinated DDT.
‘Physicians who pumped Slyter’s stomach in

‘the emergency ward expressed the opinion that

the self-administered poison was somewhat
more dramatic than. deadly,.. The kerosene had
formed a protective coating on the stomach
wall and, although the murder suspect was
uncomfortably, retchingly ill, there was every
reason to believe he would survive.

Brought to Jackson police headquarters by
a full squad of detectives, Slyter:was lodged
in a maximum security cell. He was watched
by guards who were sternly charged with the
responsibility .of preventing any further at-
tempt at suicide.

Although the prisoner was not officially
questioned until Tuesday, April 24, his wife
reportedly supplied details to the officers which,

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that Sandra Holderfield was

missing. In his office shortly
after six o’clock on Sunday morning,
April 22, 1962, Chief of Detectives M. B.
Pierce looked over the meager reports
on the case while Detectives Fred Free-
man and Sammy Magee waited nearby.

The fifteen-year-old girl had got into
a light-colored Chevrolet shortly after
seven o’clock on the previous evening
and had not been seen since. The man
at the wheel had promised the pretty,
blue-eyed blonde a baby-sitting job in
the Meadowbrook area of Jackson, Mis-
sissippi. But he had not returned with
her at eleven o’clock as expected.

That was all.

Pierce finished reading the report and
looked up. “You have the missing girl’s
sister outside?” he asked.

Freeman nodded. “You want her,
Skipper?”

“Yes.”

A T FIRST, all the police knew was

Freeman left the little office and re-
turned with a tall, attractive brunette
in her early 20’s. Chief Pierce studied
her closely as she took a seat. She obvi-
ously was nervous and upset. She
twisted a lace handkerchief continu-
ously in her lap and her eyes were
swollen from crying.

“Now, Miss,” said Pierce kindly.
“What’s your name?”

“Charlotte Holderfield.”

“How old are you?”

“Twenty-two.”

“When did you last see your sister?”

The young woman’s lips trembled and
she had difficulty controlling her emo-
tions. “Last night, around seven
o’clock,” she said. “She got into this
car and hasn’t. returned.”

“Suppose you tell me about it,” said
Pierce. “From the beginning.”

Slowly, gradually, Miss Holderfield
told him. She said she had been visit-
ing two girl-friends in their apartment

How did a series of calls to an un-

listed phone number lead to the brutal

slaying of this

attractive Jackson,

Mississippi, schoolgirl? Why had she
been asked to go baby-sitting, anyway?

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on Carlisle Street when the telephone
rang. The girls, Joyce Ray and Faye
Chisholm, thinking it was one of their
boy-friends, made a rush for it, but
Faye reached it first.

“The caller was a man, but not any-
one they knew,” Charlotte said. “It
seems someone had advertised in the
paper for work as a baby sitter, and he
had dialed the wrong number. Faye told
him she knew of no one looking for
such work and hung up. I told her
Sandra sometimes sat with children in
our neighborhood. Then awhile later
he called back and asked for help in
finding a baby sitter. He said he just
wanted someone for a couple hours
while he took his wife to dinner and a
movie.” ;

She broke into heavy sobs at this
point and Chief Pierce had to wait sev-
eral minutes before she could again an-
swer his questions coherently.

“Did this man give his name?” he

asked when she had composed herself.

“Yes, Sir, but we couldn’t quite make
it out. It sounded like Harris or Farris,
something like that.”

“Did he say where he worked?”

“Yes, at the Erno Steel Company
plant here in Jackson.”

Pierce turned to Detective Magee.
“Check it out, Sam,” he said.

The officer nodded and left.

“What else did he say?” Pierce asked
the girl.

“He said he lived in the Meadow-
brook area and had a swimming pool, a
colored television set and two Boxer
dogs,” said Charlotte. “I guess they
were meant as inducements for the
baby sitter. He spoke like someone who
lives in the North, and said he had just
arrived in Jackson about two months
ago from New York. Also, that his wife
drove a Lincoln.”

Charlotte explained he had called
four times during the afternoon and all

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Hurt flung his shotgun to the
ground as the officers approached, and
threw his hands up high. “I’ve had
enough,” he cried. ‘I can’t take it
anymore.”

On the ride back to Ste. Genevieve,
in a low, dull monotone, his eyes
downcast, he admitted the shotgun
killing of beautiful Ethel Fahnestock.

“TI loved her, but she wouldn’t
pay any attention to me,’’ he mut-
tered bitterly. “I wanted to marry
her—but I couldn’t.”’

““Couldn’t?”? asked Sheriff Drury.
*‘Why not?”’

“Her family said I wasn’t good
enough for her. They were right.”
He explained the family knew he had
contracted a social disease.

“Go on,” Drury encouraged.

“Well, I knew I couldn’t live with-
out her. And I didn’t have a chance
of ever having her.”’ His voice broke,

and he repeated the words voiced,

before by so many twisted minds:

“If I couldn’t have her, no one
else would!”’

He had planned Ethel’s murder for
a long time. Two days before the
actual killing he had waited in the
barn to shoot her down. But Ethel
had not left the farmhouse. The next
day her brother had been too close
to her. ‘I was afraid of hurting him.
I didn’t shoot.”

On the tragic Thursday morning, he
was determined that nothing would
stand in his way. At 6 o’clock he had
crept into the Fahnestock barn. ‘I
waited. I knew she would come out
soon to milk the cows.

“She was later than usual. I almost

‘thought she wasn’t goi

to come
out. Then I saw her. She was so
beautiful. I closed my eyes when I
pulled the trigger. I saw her stumble,
ai she started running. Then she
ell.”’

He had, as the sheriff had guessed,
darted into the rear woods, circled
the farm, and caught a ride with the
merchant on the highway. ‘I was
going to kill her and then myself,”

e whispered, ‘‘but I lost my nerve.”’

It was a full year before Hurt Hardy,
Jr., went on trial for-his life. In a
desperate effort to save him, his at-
torney pleaded that the boy was in-
sane. Doctors and psychologists ex-
amined the youth and agreed that,
though he suffered fromthe advanced
stages of a social disease, he was sane.

It was his last chance. A jury, in
December of 1936, found him guilty
of murder in the first degree. No
mercy was recommended for the cold-
blooded slayer.

Three months later, a weak smile
on his face, Hurt Hardy, Jr., died on
the gallows. Watching his execution
with drawn faces and mixed emo-
tions were Burt Hannigan and Harold
Stone, the two youths Hardy had
tried to implicate in the crime. Hanni-
pan, taken into custody, had known

e€ was suspected of Ethel Fahne-
stock’s murder, but Stone hadn’t
learned that he, too, was suspected
of the crime until he returned home
after several weeks of unsuccessfully
hunting work elsewhere in Missouri. *

“ditor’s Note: The names Burt Han-
nigan and Harold Stone are fictitious.

BEAST AND THE BABY SITTER
(Continued from page 1 7)

section. He worked, he said, for a
prominent steel company.

*‘And thanks a lot,’’ he concluded.
“You’ve done me a big favor. I’ll pick
a Sandra at 7:15 in a 1959 white
Chevrolet. Or, perhaps my wife will
call for herinthe Lincoln Continental.
Anyway one of us will be there shortly
after 7.”

ANDRA Holderfield was an exceed-
ingly pretty girl who, had it not
been for that fatal telephone call,
would one day, have developed intoa
beautiful woman. She attended Cen-
tral High School where her grades
were well above average and her atten-
dance record perfect. Her Home Econ-
omics instructor had once character-
ized Sandra as ‘“‘the kind of pupil a
teacher appreciates having in class.”’
At 7:10 on this Saturday night, San-
dra Holderfield sat in the living room
of her home on North Jefferson Street,
eagerly awaiting the car which would
take her to the color television set and

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the swimming pool. Through the win-
dow she saw a white car drive up. Its
horn blew sharply.

Sandra bounded down the steps and.

climbed into the car which then head-
ed north on Jefferson Street. At its
destination there was neither a tele-
vision set nor a swimming pool; there
a only death, cold, lonely and vio-
ent.

By 1 o’clock in the morning of Sun-
day, April 22nd, Sandra’s parents, Mr.
and Mrs. James Holderfield, were
worried. Their daughter had not yet
returned home and since they did not
know the address to which she had
pone, they were unable to telephone

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Three hours later, their concern had
blossomed into fearful anxiety. Mr.
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tined tragedy of coincidence and
bloody error.

The coincidence that launched the
fatal sequence was that Minerva Watt-
son happened to be visiting two
friends in their Jackson, Mississippi,
apartment when, at 1 o’clock that
Saturday afternoon of April 21st, 1962,
the telephone rang.

One of Minerva’s hostesses, Peggy
Owenson, went out to the foyer to
answer. She was back shortly. “‘Cra-
zy,” she said. ‘‘Some nut said he had
read the ad in the morning paper and
wondered if I could baby-sit for his
wife and him tonight.”’

‘tAd?’? Adele Warender, Peggy’s
roommate said. ‘‘We didn’t run any
ad.”’

“That’s what I told him,” Peggy
said. ‘tI told him we were big girls
who worked for the telephone com-
pany. He asked our number and I
told him. He said it was the number
listed in the ad. I told him to get lost
and he mumbled something and hung
up. Let’s look at the paper and see.”

The girls buried their heads in the
classified section. Sure enough, in

bold print, an unsigned ad run by
someone seeking work as a medical
aide instructed anyone interested to
call Peg’s and Adele’s number.

‘What a booboo,’”’ Peggy hooted,
bent with laughter. ‘‘Now we’ll get
ont all afternoon; all weekend, may-

e.”’ ;

But it was a full hour before the
phone rang again. ‘You this time,”
ies said. ‘'You might have some
un.”’

Adele complied, and it turned out
to be the man who had called earlier.
He apologized, and said plaintively,
“I’ve just got to find a baby sitter. I
want to take my wife out for dinner
tonight. It’ll be only from7:30 to about
i

Adele assured him that there were

robably five hundred kids in Jackson
ooking for baby-sitting jobs.

‘But I. don’t know any. I’ve just
moved here from the north. I just
want someone to sit with my three-
year-old twin sons. I have a color
television set, a swimming pool and
two boxer dogs I can offer as an in-
ducement.”’

The man’s voice was pleasant and

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telephone said he |
wanteda {|
baby sitter, ph
but the nude corpse 1
in the grass
showed too late
what he really wanted

he sounded convincing. His accent
was strongly northern.

‘Well,’ said the girl, ‘‘I’ll see what
Ican do. Give me your number and if
I can find a sitter, Pll call you back.”

There was a moment’s silence. |
‘Well,’ said the stranger, ‘‘I’d better ~*
call you. You see, our home phone — §
hasn’t been installed yet. ’mcalling =
you from a booth. But I'll call again ««@
in about an hour.” BE

The girl hung up andreportedthe =
conversation to her friends. Minerva “|
Wattson suggested that perhaps a “J
young friend named Sandra Holder- /¥

field might be willing to take the job. —
‘That color television set should ¥

impress her,’”’ said Minerva. ‘‘I’ll call ~

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and ask her.”’ :
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the 15-year-old Sandra, though notany %
more than the swimming poolandthe | #\
pair of boxers. When, an hour later, “y
the man called again, he wasinformed J
that his troubles were over. He was 3%
also asked his name and address. 7§
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and added that he livedinthe Meadow- “4%
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over the wire. She did, however, recall
the steel company for which he had
stated he worked, and he had said that
he lived in the Meadowbrook area.

Hammond asked the parents for .a
photograph of the missing girl as
Sutherland went to the telephone and
communicated with the Detective Bur-
eau, asking someone to check withthe
steel company.

‘‘wWe’re looking for a man, probably
from the north, who was just trans-
ferred here and lives in the Meadow-
brook area. Get the steel officials out
of bed. There’s a 15-year-old girl miss-
ing.”

The officers then drove tothe apart-
ment of Peg Owenson and Adele War-
ender. Sergeant Sutherland aplogized
for routing the girls out of bed. “But,”
he explained, “young Sandra Holder-
— is missing. We’re trying to find

er.”’

The girls could shed no more light
on the matter than Minerva Wattson
had been able to. Neither of themhad
taken the name of the mysterious
caller. Peg Owenson explained that
the original call had been made to a
wrong number, probably a typograph-
ical error in the paper.

Sutherland and Hammond returned
to their headquarters. There they
learned that the personnel director of
the steel company had been roused
from his bed and driven to his office

sane

where he consulted his records. They
contained no information regarding a
new employe from out of the state.
Sutherland ordered prints made of
Sandra’s photo and copies sent to var-
ious papers throughout the state. He
wrote out a detailed description of
Sandra Holderfield, dispatched copies
to all radio and television stations,
asking that news of the disappearanc
be broadcast.

LL DAY SUNDAY, the teletypes

clattered out the news and des-
cription of the missing girl. During
each radio news broadcast the audi-
ence was requested to keep aneye out
for Sandra Holderfield. Back on North
Jefferson Street, the Holderfield fam-
= sat anxiously waiting for the tele-
phone to ring.

At 4 o’clock Sunday afternoon, Hol-
den Green, a Jackson business man,
and his wife were driving from the city
to their farm in Madison County. The
car radio was on and the Greens had
just listened to the news, which con-
cluded with an appeal on behalf of
Sandra Holderfield. Less than a min-
ute after Green had turned off the
radio, his wife seized his arm and
pointed to the side of the shady road.

‘Holden,’ she said. ‘‘What’s that?”

Green braked the car. At the edge of
the dirt road, lying by a clump of tall

/sedgegrass, were ‘a white tennis shoe,

a pair of torn panties and a blood--
stained brassiere. Green blinked and
got out of the car. He walked to the
edge of the road and peered into the
sedgegrass. He returned tothe car and
his face was grim.

‘*There’s a body there,”’ he told his
wife. ‘'The nude body of a young girl.
Ill call the police from the farm-
house.”’

Green, upon arriving at his farm,
communicated with Sheriff Billy No-
ble of Madison County. The sheriff,
in turn, notified Jackson police head-
quarters. Within half an hour, the
sheriff, accompanied by several depu-
ties, met Jackson Detective Sergeants
Sutherland, Fred Freeman and S. M.
Magee, and Detective Hammond on
the shaded dirt road where lay the
mortal remains of Sandra Holderfield.

A thin trail of blood led from the
road itself to the spot in the sedge-
grass where the body had presumably
been dragged. The girl was not com-
pletely naked. She wore a single ten-
nis shoe and a torn white blouse,
completely open down the front.

Her young body was horribly cut
and bruised. Both legs appeared tobe
broken, as were one arm, several ribs
and the left cheek bone.. One ear was
mutilated and part of the girl’s upper
lip had been torn away.

Sheriff Noble radioed for a repre-
sentative of the Madison County cor-
oner’s office. In the meantime, the
officers conducted an exhaustive
search of the immediate terrain, seek-
ing some clue which would lead to
the identity of the sadistic killer.

Sheriff Nobel explained that this
area was known as the Old Johnson
Road and in good weather was used
as a local lover’s lane.

‘On good, warm nights,’’ he said,
hundreds of couples drive out here,
especially on Saturday nights. There’s
a chance that some one of them may
have spotted the killer.”’

‘The coroner’s deputy arrived and
supervised the removal of the body to
a funeral home in Canton, where the
legally required autopsy would be per-
formed. When darkness precluded any
further search of the area, the officers
returned to their respective headquar-
ters, clueless and frustrated.

Back in Jackson, Sergeant Suther-
land was informed that a team of de-
tectives had found, in the Meadow-

brook section, a newspaper in a tele-: “

phone booth; the paper had been
opened to the classified ad columns,
and the medical aide situation-wanted
advertisement with the wrong tele-

phone number had been checked with A a

a pencil.

An eleven-state alarm was broadcast
from Jackson police headquarters.
State and local police were instructed
to examine all suspicious cars, espe-
cially light colored Chevrolets.

During the night more than a hun- |”
dred cars were halted and searched in «~~
the state of Mississippi. None of them —

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yielded any significant information. |

The Jackson detective bureau andthe

Madison County sheriffs’ office were”
under orders to work around the clock ;

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Nov. 12, 1886 (4/2)

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Nove 12, 1886, (4:1)

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reading of the crime, trial, conviction
and execution of Wm. Benth, col.,
who wag executed here to-day in the
~~ o{_the laryest crowd ever
nown in our gniet little county.
Smith came from Penola county
two or three ycare ago, and settled in
‘the edge of Coahoma county, where
he lived ‘a life until the 13th da
‘of June, l On that day he @
his mother-in-law, Mary Wallace,
after procuring some whisky, left
early in the morning and came dowa
into our county, far away from the
‘habitation of man, on Coldwater

river,-to spend 2 day, a+ Was sup-

jpoeed, in shiug and recreation; but
Smith’s object proved very different
After arriviug at their point of desti
nation, Smith struck Mary Wallace
several biews on the head and body
with a large hoe, aud then, to com-
plete his hellish pur threw the
body in tne river, and hastened home
to impart the sad news that hie dear’
mother law had fallen in the river
and drowned. The news soon spread,
and eariy next morning a large crowd
assombled at the Coroner's inquest,
where, upon examination, marks of
violeuce were readily seen, besides,
near the bank of the river, the ground
showed signs where a deathly strag-
ule had taken place, where no doubt
the poor woman fought nati! the last

‘tial, wae plain and clesr, and he was
committed to jail without bond. The

‘ayaimet him for murder at the Octo-
‘ber term of Circuit Court, and he
\was promptly arraigned &
| Attorneys iambiet and Chrisman did
0H they could to save his veck, but
ithe proof waeso clear and strong,
‘that the jury almost without hesita-
ition retarned a verdict of guilty aa
| charged, and the following day Judge
| Wynan, ina feeling and impressive
| manner pronounced the sentance of

4 Perhaps meay of the p of Ps-
nola county will feel az Interest. in

pointed to Smith as the murderer,
and he was promptly arrested and
tried before 3 Committing Covrt,
where the proof, though circumstan-

jary feand an indictment!

od tried.

rdeath. The prisoner toek his e#n-
‘tance coolly, and bas since

‘very indifferent to his fate, proclaim-
jing his innocence up to this mornigg,
lwhen he admitted his guik but posi-
‘tively denied striking the Diows.
| & moivister spent last night with
|him in prayer, and he arose early this|
‘morning as usual ate & hearty break-
‘fast, and being noufied that he would
ibe executed at twelve o'clock, be {u+
| sisted for all tha time tbat could be
igiven him aad throagh the kindness
ofthe Sheriff the time was extended.
At half past one he was conveyed
in a hack from the jail to the gallows
four or five buodred South of town.
On being astisted out of the hack he
moun the platform with a firs
and steady tread, not seeming to care
for his impending fate, andina few
brief remarks to the immense. crowd

he acknowledged drowning the de-
ceased but denied all else that was
charged againat him. Prayer ws

_}mownced. extinct. This ends the per

offered in hie behalf, hie haads and
legs were pinioned, the black cap and
wovse proper! arranged, the algual
wae given {in a second he was
suspened between Heaven ‘and
earth. Hia neck waa broken by the
fall and in LO minutes lite was -pru-

trator of the second murder ever

committed in (he county, and we,
it may be the last. ?

With best wishes to you and the|

yoo peonle of Panola, [ am
RestDENT.

for sweet life. Suspicion at once

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get up the nerve unt a few ‘hours
later.”*

Under further interrogation, Slyter, ©

a man of grim opportunity, put the
pieces together, telling authorities of
his ghastly plan to lure little Sandra
Holderfield from her home with the
promise of a job. The mere fact that
Slyter picked Sandra as his victim was
strictly a coincidence, he said. If he
had not succeeded with this call, he
certainly would have tried to find some
other gullible girl who had advertised
to meet him. :

Instead of taking the teenager to a
fashionable home in. Meadowbrook,

“| he had driven directly out to the

secluded Lovers Lane as a young moon
rode up the sky. There, under a full
moon that sketched out the hollow
between her firm breasts in the soft
shadows, he pounced on her with the
ferocity of a lunatic.

- Buoyed up with inner reserves of
strength, the teenager fought dazedly
as her attacker punched her in the face
and ripped the clothing from her body.
With miraculous luck she managed to

_} break loose from his bearlike embrace —
‘and ran wearily toward the downhill

road. Her killer jumped in his car and
ran her down — back and forth over

her body as she lay helpless by the :
* of the unsuspecting resident. But

roadside. .-- =»

After his announced confession,
Slyter was taken to Madison County
to face a charge of first-degree murder.
Pending a review of the evidence.he
was lodged in the old county jail at
Canton. At his arraignment before a
justice of the peace his lawyer made a
strong plea of temporary insanity: He
was committed to the state hospital at
Jackson. In a six week series of tests

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chologists. However, he was declared
sane within the legal definitions of

Sanity, inasmuch as he was able to
understand the charges lodged against

him.

On September 24; 1962, Kenneth
Slyter went on trial in Madison County
Circuit Court in Canton. Throughout
the trial he remained relaxed, urbane
and amused. Circuit Judge Leon
Hendrick presided.

During the brief trial, the j jury may
have been swayed by Slyter’s carefree
manner and perhaps this robbed him
of any sler.der chance he may have had
of escaping the death sentence. On
September 26th they returned a verdict
of guilty, with no recommendation for
mercy. The judge sentenced Slyter to
die and the date of execution was set
for November 9, 1962. :

Medical evidence, and sudden
outbursts of maniacal anger won him
delays with the executioner for almost
five months, but on March 29, 1963,
Kenneth M. Slyter went to his Cogs
inthe gaschamber.

‘Rape Me, Honey
... Then Kill Her’

(continued from page 9)

Jovita Navarro had been assaulted
after 4 o’clock in the morning. She
would have been suspicious about
letting anyone into the house at that
hour. ‘

How had the killer gotten inside?

The only other person in the house
was Jovita’s daughter. But it seemed
unlikely the teenager had anything to
do with the murder. She had been
greatly distraught when she ran next
door to get the police. And neighbors
said mother and daughter where
extremely close. The idea that Domi-
nique was behind her mother’s death
seemed absurd.

One thing bothered the detective
about the 17-year-old, she was the one
person who stood to gain by her
mother’s death.

He learned that, as sole survivor
under her mother’s will, Dominique
stood to gain title to the house, and
two life insurance policies worth
$35,000. Quite a bundle for a 17-year-
old not yet out of high school.

The investigation also revealed the

(continued on page 58)

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| een,
Lovell Shaffer
Executed July 12

Loveil Shaffer, Yazoo County ne-|'
8TO Was executed here at an early
{hour this morning in the state's
portable electric chair. The execu-
, tion, took pluce in the Yazoo Coun:y
jai.

Shaffer, convicted of the slaying
of Hardy (Bubba) Stmmons on tha
night of October 17, 1949, lost an
appeal to the Mississippi Supreme
Court. .

Governor Fielding L. Wright took
no action on a plea of clemency for
the man, made by a woman relative
'last Friday. Bie

Shaffer ts the second negro to be
executed for the murder of this
white youth. Otis Wilkerson, aiso
convicted of the crime, was executed
here a few months ago.

WILKERSON, Otis quay

; Te Pr 5 1951 and
HAFFER bangtrocuted Yazoo City, Miss., on July 12, ?
ea eleethucnbed Yasco City, Misse, on July 1), 1950.
LD, Thursday, August 25, 199, pv. 1.

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LAW OFFICERS NAB NEGROES FEEEING FATAL SHOOTING SCENE

ATTEMPT TO REACH NEW YORK ENDS IN HINDS COUNTY JATL

(caption under picture)

Attempting to reach New York, Negroes
Otis Wilkinson and Levall Schaeffer were
caught near Batesville by W. L. Brent

(holding pistols) of the Mississippi
Highway Patrol on their way to Arkansas.
The pair are charged with the fatal shooting
of Hardy Simmons at the Cotton Club Friday.
They were picked up less than nine hours
after the incident and lodged in the Hinds
County Jail.

Also picture is Sheriff Sam Parker (next
to Brent), W. W. Holloway, deputy sheriff,
and patrolman J, P, Flannigan,

Prompt and efficient action by
Sheriff Sam Parker, Deputy Sheriff W.
Holloway and officers of the Missis-
sippi State Highway Patrol resulted in
the capture of Levall Schaeffer and
Otis Wilkinson, Yazoo County negroes
charged with the murder of Wiley Hardy
Simmons, before they could get of of
the state,

the pair were arrested near Bates-
ville about 11 a.m, by Highway Patrol-
man W. L. Brent, about nine hours afte:
the shooting, They had their wives in
the car and according to the story the:
told SHeriff Parker, they were enroute
to Arkansas with New York their ulti-
mate destination. The pistols said to
have been used in the shooting of Mr,
Simmons were taken from the froup,

The two negro women were held in
Panola County jail at Batesville and
Wilkinson and Schaeffer were taken to
the Hinds County "escape proof" jail
at Jackson, When questioned by Sheriff

Parker and State Highway Patrol officers, they readily admitted the shooting,

Mr, Simmons was killed at the Cotton Club, negro night club located just outside the
city limits north of tom, It is reported that Mr. Simmons had ousted Schaeffer and
Wilkinson from the club about 10:30 pem. Friday for drunkeness and disorderly conduct,
The negroes told Sheriff Parker that Simmons! action made them "mad," and they left
the club and went home (near Bentonia) to get their pistols, returning to the Cotton

Club about 2:30 a.m,

Witnesses say that when Wilkinson asked to be served, Mr. Simmons told him and
Schaeffer that he had ejected them once before that same night and asked them to leave,
With that Schaeffer is alleged to have drawn his gun and said, "Us don't have to go
anywhere. Our money is as good as anybody's" and raised his pistol. When Mr. Simmons
Saw the pistol he ducked behind the co:nter anc Started to run. Witnesses say Wilkin-
son also drew his gun and both negroes started shooting,

Mr. Simmons was hit with only one bullet,

which entered his back and came out

through his tomach, Apparently it severed a major artery, as he was dead on arrival at

the hospital, The bullet was recovered and

sent to the FBI criminal investigation

laboratory in Yashington, D.C, along with bullets fired from the two pistols for

identification purposes,

Neither Schaeffer nor Wilkinson has asked fo
can be learned here they are without legal coun

October Term of Yazoo County Circuit Court,

r preliminary hearings, and so far as
Sel, The case will be placed tefore the

this further convinced the investigators.

The house-to-house search in the
neighborhood was intensified, but with-
out results,

On February 22nd, Patrolman J. R.
Johansen, cruising in the vicinity,
spotted two men in a car in which was
also a large, slick-haired black dog. The
officer waved the car over, and as he ap-
proached, his gun in his hand, he heard
one of the men speak to the dog, “Down,
boy, down.”

Neither of the men was armed, and
they told the officer they had found the
dog and were merely seeking his owner.
They volunteered to be viewed by the
witnesses to the Chiu killing, and Mrs.
Chiu herself. .

They were cleared.

February waned, March came and
went, and the detectives, though dog-
gedly pursuing any slender lead, were
no closer to nabbing the killer. The list
of suspects arrested, questioned and
cleared,. lengthened. :

“I don’t think we’re looking for a lo-
cal man,” commented Captain Short,
early in April. “I think this man is a
stranger to us. He’s too sure of himself.”

The reward for the arrest and convic-
tion of the killer was now $1,100, the
other $100 being added by a friend of
Chiu’s, yet the lure of the money had
failed to produce a single concrete lead.
But Captain Short and Lieutenant M. L.
Singleton were sure the killer was still
in town, sure he was a holdup man, and
almost certain he was still operating.

A study of holdups in the past three
months had provided significant fea-
tures: First, of the robberies committed
within a one-mile radius of the Chiu
store, five had been perpetrated by a
man fitting the description—either ex-
actly or generally—of the grocer’s killer.

Secondly, all of these holdups had
been pulled on either a Thursday or Fri-
day night, between 8 p.m. and 9 p.m.

And lastly, no one had ever seen the
bandit leave by car. He had always been
on foot.

The probers concluded that one of two
patterns was being followed by the
killer-gunman. He was either an ex-
tremely clever man, “working” a certain
area and living and hiding in another
section of town—or perhaps out of town
--to which he escaped by unknown
means, or he lived within the area where
he was pulling his jobs.

In which case, considering the thor-
oughness with which the area had been
canvassed and re-canvassed, someone
had deceived the searching officers.

Captain Waycott had been promoted
to Inspector of Police, and the homicide
squad was now headed by Captain H.
V. Hickman. Captain Short and Lieu-
tenant Singleton approached Captain
Hickman with a bold plan, one they
felt might “short-cut” the investiga-
tion and net them the killer of the popu-
lar grocer.

“Even if this fellow’s not the killer,
he’s worth catching,” Singleton declared.

The officers’ plan: to place a concealed
officer in every grocery, market, liquor
xtore, and drugstore in a 100-square-
block area the next Thursday and Fri-
day nights, April 19th and 20th, and hope
the elusive bandit would attempt a rob-
bery of one of the “staked-out” stores.

The entire homicide and robbery
squads were to be used, but this would
still leave Captains Short and Hickman
with far too few men for the mam-
moth operation. So they began borrow-
ing selected officers from Vice, Central
Detective, Burglary and Theft, and
various uniformed squads.

A canvass of the stake-out area was
begun, to determine which stores were

open after 8 p.m., and to enlist the co-
operation of every merchant. The co-
operation was given freely, and each
merchant agreed to keep the operation
a secret,

Meanwhile, a woman waited in the
office of Assistant Chief Deputy Sheriff
Loyd Frazier, in the sheriff's office a mile
away, to see that officer.

She had been waiting for over an hour
that Tuesday, April 17th, and she told
others who sought to help her that she
preferred to wait for Chief Frazier,
whom she knew. Frazier, who recog-
nized her as the wife of an auxiliary
deputy, was busy with stockmen and
Texas Rangers, tying up the loose ends
of a two-state horse-stealing case, but
he told the woman he would see her
when he could.

It was late afternoon when he found
time to listen to her story. She was
apologetic about taking up his time. “I
don’t know whether there’s anything to
this or not, Mr. Frazier,” she said. “I
wouldn’t tell anyone but you, because I
know you’ll check this out good if there
is anything in what I have to say.”

The woman explained that she had
been listening to the “husband troubles”
of a woman with whom she worked. She
hadn’t paid much attention until the
day before. “Then I recalled the things
she had said before,” the woman said.
“Yesterday, she left work suddenly after
drawing a $25 advance. She told me
she had to get her husband out of jail
before he got identified. She didn't
say any more, only that he was in the
Park Place substation, and that she
had to go quick.

“But I got to remembering how she
used to gripe about his not having
money, and how he came home every
Thursday or Friday night with moncy
on occasions, when he had no job. And
I remember one amount she mentioned
was $77. And I realized that was about
the time that grocer was killed-—-and
that’s how much moncy was taken.”

The woman told Frazier she knew
only the other woman’s first name,

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IT WAS NO GO

Luigi left his car parked over night In a street
in Trento, Italy. Next morning he sallied forth
to drive to his job—but he could not start his
car. After several minutes of futile effort, he
got out, lifted the hood—ond stared in shocked
amazement.

During the night some thief had made off
with the motor.

—Carl Deane

“Ethel Mae," and that the husband she
spoke of was named “Joe.”

“And he isn’t her husband,” the
woman added. “They just live together.”

Chief Frazier thanked the woman
and told her he would certainly check
out “Joe.” A call to the Park Place
substation disclosed that a Joseph John-
son had been released from that jail the
evening before, April 16th, after his
wife had paid a $25 fine. He had been
jailed by state license driver examiners
for filing a false application.

“That’s all I know about him. We
don’t have an address,” the sergeant in
charge told Chief Frazier.

The chief then called Ranger E. Good-
ing at Department of Public Safety
headquarters and asked the Ranger if
he could ascertain which state officers
had handled Johnson.

While Gooding was checking, Chief
Frazier sought to determine if Joseph
Johnson had a criminal record in Texas.
He had not, a search of police, FBI
and Frazier’s own department records
disclosed.

Wednesday, the 18th, D.P.S. License
Examiners Doyle Pittman and Joe
Thompson contacted Chief Frazier. They
had arrested Johnson on the 16th, they
said, after he had attempted to take
a driver’s license examination for an-
other man.

They had jailed him, Pittman and
Thompson said, because they felt he
was not telling them all he knew about
his activities in falsifying examinations.
“But we couldn’t nail him with anything
else, although both of us felt he was
more than just a stand-in for people
wanting drivers’ licenses the casy way.”
They had not associated him with the
Chiu killing, since neither was familiar
with the case, and the license examiners
generally were not involved in criminal
investigation activities.

They furnished Chief Frazier with an
exact description of Joseph Johnson, age
26, and his three addresses. One of the
addresses, 2212 Bell, was where he lived
most of the time, said the two examiners.

“We checked that address, and he
does stay there quite often,” said Pitt-
man.

Chief Frazier then called Captain
Hickman. Hickman at once hurried to
Frazicr's office and listened intently as
the county officer detailed the infor-
mation he had garnered.

Captain Hickman relayed the informa-
tion to Captain Short, and it was de-
cided to keep the rooming house where
Johnson lived under surveillance the
following night, along with the several-
score business places to be staked out.

Chief Frazier declined to participate
in the operation, although he offered men
if needed. ‘My only interest is to see
that the woman who told me about
this man gets the reward, if Johnson is
the killer,” Frazier declared.

Thursday night, April 19th, shortly
before 8 p.m., heavily armed officers
took up assigned stations in every busi-
ness establishment in the 100-block area
covered by the operation, If the killer
-~or any other bandit—-struck that night,
he was going to get a reception not
usually anticipated by such outlaws.

And in a darkened driveway on Bell,
where they could keep the entrance to
the. rooming house at 2212 under scru-
tiny, Detectives Gunn and Lofland sat
in an unmarked squad car.

The minutes passed. And then an
hour. It began to look as if the officers
again had been foiled. Then Lofland
nudged Gunn. A car had stopped in
front of the rooming house. A slender,
dark-haired man got out and went in-
side. Both men got a full-face view

of him as he lo
street.

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of him as he looked up and down the
street.

“That’s him! I know it!” exclaimed
Gunn, He reached for the radio mike.
Their orders had been to await assistance
if Johnson showed up, not to try to take
him alone.

Five minutes later, a cordon of officers
ringed the house. Quietly, Lieutenant
Singleton led seven men into the house,
and roused the landlord. “Joseph John-
son's room—which one?” asked the lieu-
tenant, cautioning the man to be silent.

“Number 8,” replied the man, wide-
eyed, “Upstairs.”

Softly, the men catfooted up the stairs.
Lieutenant Singleton motioned them to
station themselves on each side of the
door, and behind him. Then, easing the
safety off — his 12-gauge sawed-off,
Singleton raised his foot, kicked the door
open and plunged into the room, fol-
lowed by Detectives Gunn, and Lofland,
and the others in the raiding party.

Joseph Johnson catapulted off the bed,
then froze—the yawning bores of several
shotguns centered on his midriff. His
hands fiew over his head.

A search of his room turned up a
short-barreled .22 revolver, but nothing
else. En route to the station, he spoke
little, other than to say he was from
Morgan City, Lousiana, where he had
a wife and children.

At the station, officers said he broke
down and confessed he had robbed sev-
eral stores and liquor stores, but he
steadfastly denied he had killed Joseph
Ying Chiu. “I'll take a lie detector test
on that,” he stated.

The test was promptly run by T. Carr,
polygraph expert, who reported John-
son showed “definite guilt reactions.”

But he still maintained his innocence,
A ballistics test, run on the gun, failed
to connect the weapon with the slaying.
But the officers were certain they had
the killer.

“We'll let the witnesses look at him
in the morning,” said Captain Hickman.
The line-up was held at 11 a.m. Friday,
April 20th. Johnson was viewed along
with seven others who were of the same
age, coloring, height and weight.

Mrs. Chiu could not make a positive
identification, but both the delivery boy
and the girl picked out Joseph Johnson
immediately.

“That's him, that’s him,” they whis-
pered almost in unison, both indicating
Johnson.

Detective Gunn took Johnson out of
the line-up, and started back to the jail

with him. A newsman strolled along
with them.
“Did they identifiy me?” Johnson

asked, after several minutes of silence.

Gunn nodded. “Yes,” he said shortly.

Johnson stopped. He began to cry.
“Then the only way to beat the chair is
to confess,” he sobbed. “Before God,
Mr. Gunn, I didn’t mean to kill that
Chinaman,” he was quoted.

“T know it was a pitiful thing I done,
but it was an accident. I didn’t mean
to hurt nobody. Please, Mr. Gunn, Vi
take anything you give me. I'll spend the
rest of my life in the pen and die there,
but don’t let them kill me in the elec-
tric chair!”

With the reporter as a witness Joseph
Johnson then was taken to the homi-
cide office, where he reportedly made a
written statement to Detective Gunn,
detailing the events leading up to the
crime, and the crime itself.

He allegedly said he had left Lousiana,
where he had served a term in prison,
about six months ago because he had
wounded a man in a fight. He left his
wife and children and came to Houston
to seek work. Once in Houston, he

began an affair with “Ethel Mae,” with
whom he began living while secking
work.

“In the morning, I’d go down to the
employment office ‘and sit around wait-
ing for a job,” he was quoted. “When
I wouldn’t get one, Y’'d go home and
listen to the radio or buy a newspaper,
if I had change.”

As disclosed by the police, Johnson
gave the following statement:

In late January, he bought a .22 pis-
tol for $10, and on the night of February
ist, while walking past the Chiu grocery
store, he looked in and saw Mrs. Chiu.

“T thought she was alone and I de-
cided I would rob her. When I went in,
I saw she was a foreign-make woman,
and I asked for some cigarettes. When
she turned around, I reached into the
cash drawer, but she saw me_ and
grabbed me. I had the gun in my hand,
but I don’t know if it went off once
or twice. I ran out the door.

“When I got about 20 feet from the
corner, I heard two shots, and just as
1 turned around I saw a man chasing
me and I saw fire jumping from his
pistol.

“] fired my gun two times and kept
running.”

Johnson insisted he knew nothing
about a dog, He declared he had not
had one with him, and had not seen one
that night. “Wasn’t no dog there,” he
maintained.

As reported by police, he said he had
stayed in his room for five days, then
slipped out, caught a bus to Louisiana,
and threw the murder gun into the Cal-
casiue River. A week later, after cut-
ting a man in a fight, he returned to
Houston, he said. Soon afterwards, he
began pulling his periodic robberies.

Johnson said he had talked to several
persons about the robberies, and had ad-
mitted the slaying to at least two persons.
Both these persons, arrested and ques-
tioned, admitted Johnson had told them
about the killing. Both made sworn
affidavits. They are slated to be key
witnesses in Johnson's trial.

And while he has a morbid fear of
dying in the electric chair, Johnson could
die there if convicted. Detective Gunn,
although he promised Johnson nothing,
has nothing to do with the punishment
meted out to criminals in Texas. Juries
assess penalties in Texas, and Joseph
Johnson’s confessed crime is punish-
able by death, says District Attorney
Frank Briscoe.

Mrs. Chiu has now recovered from the
bullet wound, although she still is weak.
She has sold the store. She does not plan
to return to Hong Kong, however, for
she feels America, despite the tragedy
inflicted upon two generations of her
husband’s family, is her home.

“The American doctors performed
magic to save my life.” she said through
her niece, Miss Jeu. “Bullets go through
my body and yet I live. And so hard
the police worked to find the man who
killed my husband. I am grateful to
everyone concerned.”

Only one thing still puzzles officers
who worked the case. Was there a dog
with Johnson? Or did the delivery boy
see a ghostly symbol of a crime com-
mitted 28 years ago in 1934?

Which, on the ancient calendar of
China, was the Year of the Dog. $44

Eprror’s Norte:

The name, Pete Parker, as used in
the foregoing story, is not the real
name of the person concerned. This
person has been given a fictitious
name to protect his identity.

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Briminal assault on a middle-aged Laurel white woman at the point of a gun in a Gulfport
subdivision, was executed here this morning in the state's portable electric chair. Held
in the mob-proof SXRREREHE ERR} pa SZRBRERERZBRRAE jail in Jackson since his convic-
tion and during a long legal fight to the Mississippi and U. S. Supreme courts, Simmons
was brought here yesterday, and for EBSRNMHHEEEAEEEE his last meal requested chicken,

ice cream and cake. The electric current was applied at 12:13 a em. and after the third
‘shot of juice’ Simmons was pronounced dead at 12:23 by the county physician. His last
words before he took his seat in the chair was for the jailer to deliver a Bible to a
lady at the Daily Herald here and to tell her he read the scripture and was ready to 'meet
my Gode' However about an hour before midnight, Simmons attempted to take his own life,
the jailer said, when he tried to sever his jugular vein with an EQBHBSREBE improvised knife
he had made by sharpening a piece of wire RWKEBH on the cell wall."

CLARION=LEDGER, Jackson, 31 May 198) KEBAB (1:8)

286 Miss. 15 SOUTHERN REPORTER, 24 SERIES
y a \. |
c ‘nference ordinarily to be drawn, in
Vhi Sumner, and Jackson, the in to | sgh
Rae = ree a Jackson, for appellant. the absence of CSplaaN eceam the
eee ae: ee Gen by R. O eralization is quoted by the
Greek L. Rice, 4c os ;

A G : isi d it must be
decision of another state, and it
Arrington, Asst. ANY: en., for appellee. assumed that the Court was weighing mere

inferences of fact upon which it justified
ALEXANDER, Justice. a conviction in the light of the existing cir-
Appellant was convicted of an eine cumstances. This sort of inferences ;
to commit burglary with an intent to steal. ally the only material from w s !
The acts on which the charge t pigs jury may fashion its verdict, yet ee rule o
cated are the following: OS Eh a substantive law is thereby stated.
i _ Burt, testified tna e de- : :
she cage to her home at one o'clock [1] The circumstances Ay Pe oes
ib ss = i e on ackgr
in the morning and wakened her knock case must furnish th y oA with &vieW
-¢ at the back door”. She roused her decision, and must be assay ‘ pager
Rs ‘hues on a light, and demanded to to determining whether there larceue
std aha was there. The defendant re- traces of Semen e doubt as Serths eet
XT , ; . - <i 3 te The acts are arly
ied: “ he door. I am coming - ous intent. ; A
plied: “Open t : n Jones v. State,
bs deagggy 2 ae cca ao Sage ey 1610 Te where the defend-
y Her son likewise landed iss. 597, oo A
nggret and the defendant replied: “Open ant “rattled the window like he was 38 Be
oe “ade and let me in.” The son fired to get in”. This case, while seri ae
ae “e shot, whereupon the defendant 4 criminal intent implies a site genes
Sane a window “knocking at the house”. guch purpose aie = cam. < cummaaeat
i Hed to stantially, nevertheless ma
hen shot four times and ca stan E : be
bens haget help locate or apprehend de- the requirement that such intent rag
Qenest 30, eE criminal and must be proved bere a
r ’
t went away after the reasonable doubt. See 12 cc aa it rd
pape ; i - ther and commi
house was occupied and de- ther ane : hat was
yeti! 7 A aceen in about an hour. The and in doing so displayed re Ca nt
fende s pee again and he fled. He was more than merely any a vata
“2 a ivtanis caught and explained that event, committed an pits . ag
a edid a know what he was doing. The trespass. While his drun sneees ey Br
ab ais ‘aceite! testified that when he ar- no defense, it must remain a 3s ies
pi i defendant he was drunk, and judging whether Le nen AP
es ; i ” and nite intent to steal. is n
at he was “a bad drinker ni ry ve
ce ag Oe arrested for drunkenness. the wanton and ey ecaaenre pe
its fastened fendant to assert that while
to the home had been fe Z ak 93.8
cc pre buckles and had been broken jntent could reasonably re pap tes “ae
by try. tter of logic, it may
_, defendant. There was no en ma , : his. conclt-
open by defen Zt In reaching this ¢
nor weapons matter of law. 1 cui!
The ‘detenie ae ea sion we have curbed impulses erdingtl!
: : pre tment,
s excited by suspicion and resen
cies 3 have succumbed.

fendant.
The defendan

on his. person. j
Upon this testimony the : jury must
is etek of an attempt at burglary. — * which the jury :
the conviction is to be affirmed as agains [2] Under the entire circumstance
fe otion for a directed verdict, it must | se presented, we believe there was no
be sicained upon proof beyond all reason- aoe to find beyond all reasonable
i d to tin
able doubt that pie aeteacaet cio as doubt that the defendant was pega
commit the crime of larceny to carry out a burglarious ees yp Bootes
charged in the indictment. Sis 92 mit the only crime which ae 3 Late
It is true that in Moseley v. ak conviction here, that is, an inten 75 Miss
Miss. 250, 45 So. 833, it was conceded that J+ Jarceny. State v. Buchanan,

I fom
“some presumptions are to be indulged in 349, 22 So. 875; Irby v. State, Miss

against one who enters a building unbidden So.2d 881.
at a late hour of night”, and it 1s reasoned

i ischarged.
that “the usual object is theft; and this is Reversed, and appellant discharg'

-R. D., THOMPSON v. STATE . Miss. 287
15 So.2d 287
eye } : 3
Eddie SIMMONS, allas Doc Simmons, v. Mrs. Vlolet BABIN v. STATE.
STATE of Mississippl. No. 35170.

No. 35325.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.
Oct. 11, 1943.

In Bane.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.
Oct. 11, 1948.

In Banc.

Appeal from Circuit Court, Marion

Appeal from Circuit Court, Harrison County; J. C. Shivers, Judge.

County; L. C. Corban, Judge.
“Not to be reported in State Reports.”

D. M.-Graham, Jr., of Gulfport, for ap-
pellant.

Greek L. Rice, Atty. Gen., and R. O.
Arrington, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.

PER CURIAM.

The evidence supports the verdict and the
record discloses that the rulings of the
court below complained of by the appellant
present no reversible error, if error at all.

Affirmed.

Sentence to be executed Thursday, No-
vember 18, 1943,

2
W. A. COUNTS v. STATE.

No. 35227.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.
Oct. 11, 1948.

In Bane.
Appeal from Circuit Court, Lafayette

County; T. H. McElroy, Judge.
“Not to be reported in State Reports.”

‘G. C. Clark, of Waynesboro, for. appel-
Greek L. Rice, Atty. Gen., and R. O.
Arrington, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.

ANDERSON, Justice.

This is a “Jehovah’s Witness Case”.
ris Case is controlled by the decisions of
Se Supreme Court of the United States in
aylor v. State, Benoit v. State, and Cum-
mgs v. State, 63 S.Ct. 1200, 87 L.Ed. —.

Reversed, and appellant discharged.

“Not to be reported in State Reports.”

G. C. Clark, of Waynesboro, G. C. Pow-
ell, of Atlanta, Ga.,.and Hayden C. Cov-
ington, of Brooklyn, N.-Y., for appellant.

Greek L. Rice, Atty. Gen., by R. O. Ar-
rington, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.

ROBERDS, Justice.

Appellant was indicted and convicted of
a violation of Chapter 178, Laws of Mis-
sissippi 1942. The Supreme Court of the
United States, in the cases.of Taylor v.
State of Mississippi, Benoit v. State of
Mississippi, and Cummings v. - State of
Mississippi, 63 S.Ct. 1200, 87 L.Ed. 1600,
held that Act unconstitutional. It follows
that the judgment in the case at bar must
be reversed and appellant discharged.

So ordered.

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R. D. THOMPSON and Mrs. Lynelle M.
Thompson v. STATE.
No. 35256.

Supreme Court of MississipplL
Oct. 11, 1943.

In Banc.

Appeal -from Circuit Court, Clay Coun-
ty; John C. Stennis, Judge.

“Not to be reported in State Reports.”

Hayden C. Covington, of Brooklyn, N.
Y., and G. C. Clark, of Waynesboro, for ap-
pellant.

Greek L. Rice, Atty. Gen., by R. O. Ar-
rington, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.

McGEHEE, Justice.

The decision in this case is controlled by
the opinion in the case of Babin v. State of

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the contestees would be an empty one if
the committee failed or refused to act. The
second primary is fixed by the committee
for May 13, 1941, and it would hardly be
possible, in the event of the committee’s
refusal to amend the returns, for the re-
lator, after the judgment against the con-
testees became final, to obtain the relief he
desires prior to the date of the second pri-
mary. Under such circumstances, the
courts should and will permit relief to be
had by writ of mandamus, in the election
contest proceeding.”

It will be noted that in the above case
we referred to the case of Bauer v. Gil-
more, 165 So. 739, in which the Court of
Appeal for the First Circuit has held that
a plea of misjoinder was not well founded
under similar circumstances. In Bauer v.
Gilmore, the Court of Appeal for the First
Circuit cited Porter v. Conway, 181 La. 487,
159 So. 725, 732, in which the Supreme
Court said:

“In considering the exception of non-
joinder of parties defendant, it might be
well to state that the evidence offered in
the trial of the rule shows, and relator in
his application for writs alleges, that an-
other candidate, John B. Fournet, has quali-
fied to run in the October 9th primary. The
Secretary of State is only a nominal defend-
ant, his duties in connection with this con-
troversy being purely ministerial. The real
parties at interest are the new candidate
who has qualified and seeks.the nomination,
the Third Supreme Court District Demo-
cratic Executive Committee, whose right
to refuse to declare the plaintiff the nom-
inee and authority to order the October 9th
vrimary election are challenged, and the
electorate of the district, whose right to
express their choice by their note, as to
whom they shall select as a Justice of the
Supreme Court. The rights of these will be
denied if the plaintiff prevails.”

One of the contentions of the attorney
for respondents is that all that may be done
here is to declare relator the nominee and
that then the Secretary of State must place
his name on the official ballot. This iden-
tical contention was made in Porter v. Con-

16 SOUTHERN REPORTER, 2d SERIES

way, supra, but the Supreme Court held
that the Secretary of State could not act
except upon a certificate from the proper
Committee. The Court said:

“We are further moved to grant the
writs applied for by another consideration.
In Felix v. Michel, 122 La. 352, 47 So. 638,
the doctrine of which appears to us entirely
sound, it was held that courts are without
power to prevent the Secretary of State
from placing upon the official ballot the
names of all candidates that have been cer-
tified to him by the Executive Committee
under the primary law.

“Counsel for plaintiff contends that the
committee is nowhere required to make a
certificate to the Secretary of State under
the circumstances of the case at bar; that
‘all the Committee does is to call off the
primary; that the law makes the plaintiff
the nominee, not the action of the Com-
mittee; and that the Secretary of State
must put plaintiff's name on the ballots be-
cause the law says he is the nominee.” We
disagree with learned counsel, basing our
opinion on section 28 of Act No. 97 of 1922,
which we quote again:

“‘That the State Central Committee and
all other subordinate or local committees
of all the political parties coming within the
provisions of this act, as now constituted
are hereby recognized as the legal commit-
tees and the governing authorities of the
said political parties.’”

[2] The latest authorities are opposed
to the position contended for by counsel for
relators, therefore, the exception of mis-
joinder must be overruled.

We express no opinion as to the other ex-
ceptions not considered below.

For the reasons assigned the judgment
appealed from is annulled, avoided and re-
versed, the exception of misjoinder is over-
ruled, and it is now ordered that the case
be remanded to the Twenty-Fifth Judicial
District Court for the Parish of St. Bernard
for further proceedings according to law
and consistent with the views herein ex-
pressed.

Reversed and remanded.

WILKIE vy. WEST CONST. CO. OF TENNESSEE Miss. 617
16 So.2d 617

SIMMONS v. STATE.,
No. 35325.

Supreme Court of Mississippli.
Feb. 14, 1944.

1. Criminal law 1192

Where mandate of State Supreme
Court directing execution of defendant
had been filed before granting of 60-day
stay for application to Supreme Court of
United States for certiorari, and no appli-
cation was made within such period and
original date for execution had passed, trial
court had authority to fix new date. Code
1930, § 1311.

2. Criminal law C1193
The Supreme Court has power to re-
call a mandate issued by it to a court from
which an appeal comes only where it has
been inadvertently, prematurely, or errone-
ously issued.
—_—-_>—--——

In Banc.
Appeal from Circuit Court, Harrison
County; L. C. Corban, Judge.

Eddie Simmons, alias Doc Simmons, was
convicted of rape and after affirmance of
conviction, 15 So.2d 287, stay of execution
for 60 days was granted to enable defend-
ant to apply to the Supreme Court of the
United States for a writ of certiorari. On
motion by the State of Mississippi to fix an-
other date for execution of death sentence.

Motion overruled.

D. M. Graham, Jr., of Gulfport, for ap-
pellant.

Greek L. Rice, Atty. Gen., by R. O. Ar-
rington, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.

SMITH, Chief Justice.

[1] The appellant’s conviction of rape
was affirmed on appeal to this Court on
October 11, 1943, and November 18, 1943,
fixed for the execution of his sentence. 15
So.2d 287. After the overruling of a sug-
gestion of error filed by the appellant, the
writer hereof granted him a stay of execu-
tion of the sentence for sixty days to en-
able him to apply to the Supreme Court of
the United States for a review, by a writ
of certiorari, of the judgment of this Court
affirming his conviction. This sixty-day
period expired some time since without an
application having been made to the Su-
preme Court for a writ of certiorari, This

16 SO.2d—39%

motion filed by the State requests us to fix
another date for the execution of this
death sentence. We must decline to de this
leaving the discharge of that duty to the
court below, which is authorized to dis-
charge it by Section 1311, Code of 1930.

[2] Prior to the granting of this stay
of execution, the mandate of this Court had
been issued and filed in the court below
directing it to proceed with the execution
of this judgment. This mandate has not
been recalled by any order entered on the
minutes of this Court. We have the power
to recall a mandate issued by us to a court
from which an appeal comes where it has
been inadvertently, prematurely, or errone-
ously issued. White v. State, 190 Miss.
589, 195 So. 479. This mandate was issued
neither inadvertently, prematurely, nor er-
roneously, therefore we should not recall it.

Motion overruled.

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WILKIE et al. v. WEST CONST. CO. OF
TENNESSEE, Inc., et al.

No. 35506.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.
Feb. 14, 1944.

Master and servant €>129(1)

Where decedent ran to warn rapidly
approaching truck so as to prevent collision
with decedent’s truck then across a con-
siderable part of the road in rear of pick-
up truck, and decedent was killed by ap-
proaching truck, proximate cause was neg-
ligence of driver of approaching truck and
not the parking of pick-up truck 40 or
50 feet from where decedent was struck.

In Banc.

Appeal from Chancery Court, Calhoun
County; L. A. Smith, Sr., Chancellor.

On suggestion of error.

Suggestion of error overruled.

For former opinion, see 16 So.2d 154.

Stone & Stone, of Coffceville, and Paul
M. Moore and W. J. Evans, both of Calhoun
City, for appellants.

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| Wad to Be Supported by. Ropes Until e:

THE EXECUTION wis PRIVATE |

the Noose Could Be Adjusted =,
—Diea After Twelve:
‘. Slluntes

@ythe Assoc!atedPreses. pes
Hattiesburg, Miss., Feb, 28~—The
drop fell at 1:33 this evening and
Lem Shows, charged with the murder |:
of Harriet Murray, swung into: eter- |
‘mity more dead than alive, He was
almost carried béaily.to the gallows,
where he had to be supported by ropes | '
until the noose could be adjased.. A |
@ispatch ‘rom the Governor late yes- '
terday evéing bearing the informa- |.
tion that he could not interfere inthe
enso had the effect of producing a ‘Bale
lenness in the negro from which he |.
mever rocovered, and he had nothing’
to communicate either before or after
going on the gullows.

Twileve minutes aftr the drup he was
Pronounced dead and the body turned
ever to friends. The execution was

rivate, only a dozen being in ‘the en-
elosurs. ee

Davey CLakiow- L.spGER

efore the telephone rang
girl with the curlers in her
ed and her friend went to j
“Maybe Sandra would do
id, referring to her sister.
1 with kids.” She picked up

another dime,” the man’s 4
“I suppose I’m being aw-
istent. I just don’t know
o call.”
id ten dollars?” the girl

ie said eagerly. “And I'd
ip. Either I or my wife. It’s
n to ten. And, of course,
you home.”

sister, I’m talking about,”
d. “My younger sister.”

rr sister?” he asked du-
low young?”

s fifteen,” Charlotte said.
sounded old enough, the
Fifteen was fine. He made
nts to pick up the girl at

her .home on the corner of North

Jefferson and Fortification Streets.

Either he or his wife would stop by
at about seven,-he said. The car would
be a white ’59 Chevrolet.

After setting her friend’s hair, the
girl returned to her home, which was
only a few doors away. Fifteen-year-
old Sandra Holderfield, a sophomore

at Jackson Central High Sthool, was —

delighted at the offer of ten dollars
for a three-hour stint of baby-sitting
when her sister told her about the
persistent caller.

“It’s too much, though,” she pro-
tested thoughtfully. “It’s really taking
advantage. Six dollars is the most I
could let them pay.”

That evening, from ten minutes be-
fore seven, Sandra waited outside in
front of her parents’ attractive brick
home. She was wearing knee-length
Bermuda shorts and a white, calyx-
necked blouse. Before leaving the
house, she had whitened her well-

worn tennis shoes. She looked trim
and neat, somewhat older and cer-

‘tainly more mature than her 15 years.

Two small boys, riding their trikes
along the sidewalk, saw the white
automobile pull over to the curb and
recognized it as a Chevrolet. Across
the street, a householder, sitting on
the porch, caught a glimpse of the
driver. He had the impression of a
youngish man with thick, dark hair.
He was in his shirtsleeves, and the
hand which rested on the window-
frame held a lighted cigarette.

Sandra, carrying her cardigan and
pocketbook, walked over to the car
and got in. It pulled away from the
curb and headed north.

It was 10:30 that Saturday evening,
when Sandra Holderfield’s father be-
came anxious over his daughter's
failure to return at the expected time.

“There’s no excuse for that,” he
said. “If they said they’d have her
here by ten, they should have had her

nce!

here. Just who are these people she’s
sitting for?”

Sandra’s sister, going over the
sparse facts, was chagrined at how
little she could report. The man’s
name ‘had escaped her, when she
heard it over the phone. He’d said he
was recently from New York and his
accent was difficult to understand, she
recalled. And he’d mentioned he and
his wife had twins and a white Chev-
rolet. He’d told her he lived in the
exclusive Meadowbrook section of
town and owned a swimming pool and
a color: TV set.

To Sandra’s father, a thoughtful, no-
nonsense automobile mechanic, the
man’s story sounded more like a pitch
than a legitimate job offer. When 11
o’clock ticked by, his concern became
apparent to the rest of the family. By
11:30, he was out in front of the
house, pacing the perimeter of light
from the corner street lamp.

“Something’s wrong,” he told his

continued on next page

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4 tapi?

SANDRA’S
APPOINTMENT
WITH
MADNESS

continued

wife, “and I just can’t stand around here, doing nothing,

That kid’s in trouble. I’m calling the boys. We’d better start:

looking for her right away.”

Of the nine children in the family, the two oldest sons
were married and had their own homes. Their father tele-
phoned them and confided the reasons for his alarm. A man
in white Chevy had picked up Sandra at seven o’clock, he
explained. The pitch about color TV and a swimming pool
sounded like straight malarkey. And ten dollars for a three-
hour baby-sitting job, was probably more of the same. They
ibili there was no baby-sitting
job, that the man with the Northern accent was some kind
of four-flusher, trying to find himself a girl.

“Your brothers and I are going to scout around Meadow-
brook for that car,” the father said, “If you boys know any
likely places to look, start looking for that white Chevrolet.”

Pres

Detectives escort suspect who attempted suicide from hospital to jail for questioning.

At 4 aM, the father, the daughter who'd talked to the
caller and her friend drove to Jackson police headquarters.

distraught father, was certain that the baby-sitting job was
nothing more than a ruse devised by a ‘slick-talking girl-

Pierce quickly picked up several leads which had not been
exploited by the girl’s family.

leased to a former New Yorker.
On-the chance that the’ parents of twins would. be known.
to Jackson pediatricians, the police telephoned every baby

doctor
names \
The c
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Meadow
from w
telephor
land an
the Jac
advertis
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tered the
of the wi
At the
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girl. Wh
the Hold
Sandra’s
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“come hi
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the realt;
Finding
decided t

SANDRA’S APPOINTMENT WITH MADNESS: continued

down to work for Lakeland Steel.
Couldn’t I persuade you to do us.a
favor and sit with the twins, tonight?
We just don’t know another soul in
Jackson.”

Although it served no purpose, the
girl shook her head. “Sorry, sir,” she
said. “This isn’t the party you're try-
ing to reach. I couldn’t baby-sit for
you. No, sir.” She hung up the phone.

“What was that all about?” her
companion asked. Before her friend
could answer, the telephone rang
again. The girl raised her hands in
despair.

“Ves?”

“Ma’am,” the man’s voice continued
as before. “I don’t know just how to
say this, but it’s terribly important
that we get someone to stay with the
twins. If you can’t, maybe one of your
friends . . . you know, some girl you
could get for us. It’s just for three
hours and we’d pay eight dollars. Ten.
We'd give her ten dollars.”

The girl pressed her lips together.
Her eyes rolled toward the ceiling.
“Look, mister,” she said. “I don’t
know any baby sitters. I’m a telephone
operator. I’m awfully sorry about the
twins, and all. But I just can’t help
you.”

“We're out in the Meadowbrook
district,” he said. “You know where
that is. We’ve got color TV. And
there’s a pool. We’d—”

Suspicious stains on window of a suspect's car (horizontal streaks in
center of left photo) were scraped (R.) to check for blood content.

‘I’m sorry,” the girl said firmly. “I
can not help you. Goodby.”

She stormed away from the phone.
“Now if that isn’t the stubbornest
man,” she said. “I never—”

The phone rang again. This time
the girl’s visitor walked towards it.
“Let me,” she said again. “I’ll get rid
of him.”

“Ma’am,” the man said again. “It’s
hot in here and I’ve. just about run
out of dimes.”

“You've made a mistake, sir,” the
volunteer hairdresser. said. “Now if
you'll excuse us, we’ve got a lot to do.
Tomorrow’s Easter.”

“This isn’t the same young lady I’ve
been talking to,” the man said.

“No,” she admitted. “It’s not. I’m a
friend of hers. But that doesn’t—”

“Would you just hear me out,
ma’am?” the voice interrupted. “We're
in a real pickle out here. My wife and
I just have to keep this appointment.
Can’t get out of it and we don’t know
a soul we could ask to sit with the
twins. Couldn’t one of you girls do us
a real neighborly favor?”

“I’m sorry,” the girl said. “We're
both busy. We don’t know any—”

“Maybe you have a sister or some-
one,” the man said hurriedly. “We'd
pay ten dollars.”

“T’m dreadfully sorry,” the girl said.
“But really. No.”

The hair-setting proceeded for two

minutes before the telephone rang
again. The girl with the curlers in her
hair groaned and her friend went to
the phone. “Maybe Sandra would do
it,” she said, referring to her sister.
“She’s good with kids.” She picked up
the phone.

“T found another dime,” the man’s
voice said. “I suppose I’m being aw-
fully persistent. I just don’t know
who else to call.”

“You said ten dollars?” the girl
asked.

“Yes,” he said eagerly. “And I’d
pick you up. Either I or my wife. It’s
from seven to ten. And, of course,
we'd take you home.”

“It’s my sister, I’m talking about,”
the girl said. “My younger sister.”

“Younger sister?” he asked du-
biously. “How young?”

“Sandra’s fifteen,” Charlotte said.

‘Fifteen sounded old enough, the
man said. Fifteen was fine. He made
arrangements to pick up the girl at

her . horne
Jefferson
Either he «
at about se
be a white
After set
girl return:
only a few
old Sandra
at Jackson
delighted ;
for a three
when her
persistent «
“It’s too
tested thou
advantage.
could let tt
That eve
fore seven,
front of he
home. She
Bermuda s
necked bl!
house, she

- who'd talked to the
1 police headquarters.
lief M. M. Pierce de-

search. He, like the
: baby-sitting job was

' a slick-talking girl- .

white Chevrolet were
‘mination to lawmen
vere carefully quizzed
nknown caller. Chief
s which had not been

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jail for questioning.

doctor in town. Plainclothesmen at once checked out the
names which the physicians supplied. .

The caller, according to the girls, had spoken of dropping
dimes into a pay phone. Checking all public. phones in the
Meadowbrook area, the officers actually found the booth
from which Sandra’s. abductor apparently had made the
telephone contact. In the booth, Detectives A. L. Souther-
land and Fred Freeman found a page of classified ads from
the Jackson Clarion-Ledger. Checked in pencil was the
advertisement: with the wrong telephone number which
offered the services of a young colored woman who sought
employment as a nurse’s aide. The Jackson police technical
squad gave the booth its most painstaking attentions in an
effort to gain information from.the mute phone and the
blank walls.

(CHURCH bells pealed the Easter tidings into a glowing
dawn, but they brought small comfort to the Holderfields.
The Hinds County sheriff’s office, the state police and special
agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation had en-
tered the hunt for the missing girl, but there was no word
of the winsome teenager.
At the First Presbyterian Church of Jackson, the minister

_led his congregation in a prayer for the safety of the missing
- girl. When the service was over, the minister hurried to

the Holderfield home to give such comfort as he could to
Sandra’s distraught family. A small boy, the child of neigh-
bors, pleaded with the younger Holderfield children to
“come hide my Easter eggs.” They finally did what he asked.

It was late afternoon before there was news of Sandra.
It came from south of Canton in Madison County, from the
Devil’s Backbone country along the storied Natchez Trace.

There was a small lake, just off the Trace, which belonged
to a realty company. Late on Sunday afternoon, an official: of
the realty firm and his wife went for a drive in the country.
Finding themselves north of Jackson on Highway 51, they
decided to visit the lake property. When they turned into

the dirt road which led to the lake, the man saw the girl’s
scattered clothing.

“I saw a girl’s sneaker and some other things,” he later
related to the police. “Then I happened to look over to the
left and I saw it. It was about ten feet from the road and
I didn’t know what it was at first.”

Cautioning his wife to keep her head turned away, the
realtor got out of his automobile to investigate “it.” Lying
at the base of a small bushy pine was the nude body of a
young girl. The tatters of a white blouse clung to one arm.
Her undergarments lay in torn shreds, wind-scattered on
the grass. “

Ashen faced, the man went back to the car. “We'll have to
get in touch with the police,” he said. “It’s an awful thing
to look at .: . a horribly mauled little girl.”

Madison and Hinds County officers converged on the lake
access road in response to the realtor’s call. Captain J. B.
Hines of the Jackson detective bureau, one of the first in-
vestigators to view the body, forced himself to look at the
devil’s handiwork before him—the battered corpse of lovely
Sandra Holderfield. Part of the girl’s lip had been ripped
away. An ear was nearly severed from the head. Both legs
were broken, as was one arm and several ribs.

Officers studying the marks and bruises on Sandra’s body
concluded that the teenager had been savagely beaten to
death with a wrench or a tire iron. Not satisfied with this
venting of his blood lust, the killer apparently then had
driven his car over her naked and lifeless body.

Daylight was waning. While Coroner Harry Baldwin
made preparations to remove the body to the morgue, a
phalanx of officers searched for clues in the fading light.
They turned up a pair of man’s boxer-type undershorts
which-were stained with blood. All of Sandra’s clothing
was found with the exception of her sand-colored Bermudas.

Tire treads found in the dirt were sprayed with latex and
moulaged in plaster. Loam and leaf mould samples were
collected to be used as an index (Continued on page 65)

deadly drink,
suspect (L.)
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to the apartment on

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pretty dog.”
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was purported that
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the time of his release, the psychologists
had pronounced their patient cured.
“The crime you folks had down there,”
commented Sergeant Terry to the Jackson
officers, “came as no surprise to me. I’ve

time to time over the years.” Referring to
the Wichita rape, Sergeant Terry added,
“That was about as cruel a thing as I
have ever seen.”

Sergeant Terry
seen the accused
at police headquarters
bride to the officers.

“She was a pretty girl from Mississippi,”
concluded Sergeant Terry, “but it’s the.
only time I ever heard of an ex-con
bringing his wife around to meet the guys
who had sent him to jail!”

As we go to press, Kenneth Marlon
Slyter, accused killer, awaits his fate in
a cell in the county jail at Canton,
Mississippi.

Perhaps the psychiatrists and others in-
terested in the murky functioning of a
human mind might be interested in the
fact that when the suspect, believing he
was dying of poison, rushed to a priest to
shrive himself, he confessed only to the
sin of suicide. He said nothing of the
savage murder of Sandra Holderfield.

On Tuesday, April 24, 1962, Sandra
Holderfield was buried wearing the yel-
low dress which her aunt had given her
as an Easter present. The services were
held at Wright and Ferguson Chapel, and
the teen-ager’s schoolmates acted as pall-
bearers.

Two days later, on Thursday, April 26,
1962, Kenneth Marlon Slyter was given
a preliminary hearing before Justice of
the Peace Leroy Hawkins. Representing
the state were District Attorney Bill
Waller and Madison County Attorney J.
R. Fancher Jr. The accused, through his
lawyer, R. L. “Bobby” Goza of Canton,
pleaded innocent—a Not Guilty plea is
customary in Mississippi capital-punish-
ment cases.

Judge Hawkins ordered the 26-year-old
termite exterminator held on a first-de-
gree murder charge, without bond, for
grand jury action.

Later in the day, Circuit Judge M. M.
McGowan ordered the salesman to
undergo a_ sanity examination in the
Mississippi State Hospital at Whitfield.
This procedure would take from six to
eight weeks.

It will remain for a judge and jury to
decide whether or not Kenneth Marlon
Slyter is guilty of the death of Sandra
Holderfield. Nevertheless, the baby-sit-
ter wou'd be alive today had it not been
for the incredible events which followed
upon Agnes Monnand’s placing her ad in
the newspaper.

Kenneth Slyter and Sandra Holderfield
could have, in all probability, lived to a
ripe old age without ever having met each
other, had it not been for a jobless medical,
aide, a briefly careless typesetter, and the
fact that Charlotte Holderfield happened
to be visiting the home of her co-workers,
Martha Gamble and Virginia Beck, at
the very moment that the murderer
called.

The facts of the case still seem utterly
fantastic—but not to the Holderfield
family, the Mississippi police, or, for that
matter, to Kenneth Marlon Slyter.

Under the laws of our land, the accused
salesman is entitled to a fair and impartial
trial. He must be presumed innocent, un-
less proved otherwise.

(Note: The names Martha Gamble, Virginia
Beck, Agnes Monnand, George Burnett, John
and Dorothy Morlow, as used in the foregoing
story, are fictitious. The real names have been
changed to protect the identities of the actual

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and two of the children. Paula, 12, and
Kathy, 10, managed to escape, but were
seriously burned and cut by broken glass
in their attempt to rescue the others.
David, 2, and Patricia, 1%, died in the
flames. Jane, 14, was rescued, but died
in the hospital.

Investigation revealed that fires had
been set throughout the house, near
every exit, windows and doors. When
Miller’s alibi was punctured, he alleg-
edly confessed to setting the fires, then
driving to Pasco. Arrested and charged
with the crimes, he pleaded not guilty
and not guilty by reason of mental ir-
responsibility.

At his trial the prosecution contended
that Miller, an engineer for The Farm-
ers’ Association, had burned down his
home in order to free himself of his wife
and five children so that he might marry
another woman.

A BRIDE, A GROOM AND
MURDER
(MD November, 1958)

In Douglasville, Georgia, on Septem-
ber 27, 1962, a dramatic murder trial
came to its end in Douglas Superior
Court. The defendant was Billy Homer
Ferguson, now 23 years old. This was
his third trial for the July 17, 1958,
robbery-murder of Luke A. Brown, 52,
Douglasville radio and TV repair shop
owner.

At the conclusion of his first trial, on
September 23, 1958, Billy, then 19, was
sentenced to die in the State’s electric
chair. But his counsel, Attorney Paul
James Maxwell, a noted Atlanta lawyer
who later died in a plane crash, success-
fully carried Billy’s appeal to the U.S.
Supreme Court and the youth was
granted a new trial.

On October 5, 1961, for the second
time, Billy Ferguson heard himself pro-
nounced guilty by a jury and sentenced
to death. But again a new trial was
won for him by Attorney Buddy Asher,
appointed by the court to defend Billy
after the death of Attorney Maxwell.

The third trial began on September
24, 1962. And on September 27th the
jury of 11 men and one woman once
more returned a guilty verdict against
the young defendant, with no recom-
menation for mercy. On September 28th
Judge William A. Foster imposed the
death sentence on Billy Homer Ferguson.
_ Attorney Asher has again filed a mo-
hon for a new trial.

THE PINK LADY MURDER CASE

(MD January, 1962)

The second trial of Ronald K. Hender-
son, 28 a San Jose, California, car paint-
er, for the July 1, 1961, murder of Mrs.
Joyce Lovett, 30, came to its end on
October 11, 1962. The first trial had re-
sulted in a life sentence. This time the
Sentence was death.
és itenderson had been identified by an-
: . San Jose woman as the man who
‘ad attacked and raped her on June 1,
votes Mrs, Lovett, attractive blonde di-
re €, vanished after driving away
pa : San Jose tavern with Henderson

Wy Ist. Her body was found on July

12th 30 miles east of San Jose, in Pinole,
Contra Costa County. After his arrest,
purses belonging to the rape victim and
to Mrs Lovett were found in Hender-
son’s home.

Indicted on September 13, 1961, for
the murder of Mrs. Lovett, Henderson
pleaded innocent. But when his trial be-
gan, he changed his plea to guilty. Su-
perior Court Judge Hugh Donovan then.
sentenced him to a life term in San
Quentin Prison.

While in San Quentin, Henderson ap-
pealed for a new trial, on the grounds
that he had not been represented by an
attorney at the time he was sentenced.
The appeal was successful.

His second trial began on September
22, 1962, in the court of Judge Wakefield
Taylor in Martinez, county seat of Con-
tra Costa County. This time Henderson
pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.
The case went to the jury of six men
and six women on October 4th. After
three hours’ deliberation, they returned
the guilty verdict.

On October 11, 1962, the same jury,
according to California law, met again to
determine the sentence. They deliber-
ated for six and one-half hours, then
decreed the death penalty.

After being sentenced by Judge
Wakefield Taylor to die in the San
Quentin gas chamber, Ronald K. Hen-
derson was returned to the prison, where
before he had been under a life sen-
tence, to await his date with death.

MURDER TRAP FOR
\ THE BABY SITTER

(MD September, 1962)

In Madison County Circuit Court in
‘Canton, Mississippi, the trial of Ken-
neth Slyter began on September 23,
1962. Circuit Judge Leon Hendrick of
Jackson, Mississippi, presided.

Slyter, 26, was charged with first-
degree murder in the April 21, 1962,
slaying of 15-year-old Sandra Holder-
field of Jackson. Sandra had agreed to
act as baby sitter till 11 p.m., in answer
to a telephone call to her home from a
man who said he would pick her up at
7 p.m. When she did not return home
at 11 o’clock, as expected, search for
her was started. Her body, nearly
nude, was found next morning, Easter
Sunday, in a Lovers’ Lane 12 miles north
of Jackson. Her legs, arms and ribs
were fractured. Apparently the body
had been run over by an automobile.

Slyter was arrested April 25th in
Wichita, Kansas, after his bloodstained
car was found abandoned in a Jackson
parking lot. He had previously been
convicted on charges of rape and auto
theft. He signed a statement, admitting
taking the young girl directly from her
home to the Lovers’ Lane, attacking her
with a tire iron and running his car
over her.

His trial lasted three days. On Sep-
tember 26th the case went to the jury,
which found Kenneth Slyter guilty of
first-degree murder with no recommen-
dation for mercy. Judge Hendrick then
sentenced Slyter to die in the State’s gas
chamber in Parchman Penitentiary on
November 9, 1962. The automatic ap-
peal has delayed the execution.

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THE BRUNETTE AND
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(MD December, 1959)

On March 8, 1963, nearly four years
, after the crime for which he was con-
victed, Patrick Mahon McGee, 55, was
executed in the gas chamber of the Ari-
zona State Prison at Florence. The State
exacted the death penalty for the rob-
bery-murder of Ary J. Best, 66, a retired
and partially crippled Los Angeles busi-
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to Ary J. Best, and a brother identified
the body. Mr. Best, he said, was driving
back to Los Angeles after a visit in
Texas.

His car was found at a service sta-
tion. The manager described the couple
who parked it there and took a train to
Pasadena. They were arrested when
the train arrived in Pasadena, and
identified as Patrick Mahon McGee, a
former prize fighter, and his common-
law wife Millie Fain. Both confessed to
the slaying, but McGee asserted it was
in self-defense. Their car had stalled,
McGee said, and Best stopped and of-
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attacked him and attempted to attack
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Since Mr. Best was so crippled with
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MURDER TRAP FOR
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(MD September, 1962)

In the gas chamber of the Mississippi
State Penitentiary at Parchman, on
March 29, 1963, Kenneth M. Slyter, 26,
was executed for the April 21, 1962,
murder of a 15-year-old schoolgirl, San-
dra Holderfield, of Jackson.

On that April day, in answer to a
telephone call, Sandra agreed to serve
as babysitter until 11 p.m. for a man
who said he would pick her up at 7 p.m.
When she failed to return home at the
expected hour, her family immediately
began a search for her,

Her .body was found next day, Easter
Sunday morning, in a secluded lane 12
miles north of Jackson. Her arms, legs
and ribs were fractured. Apparently a
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in a Jackson parking lot was registered
to Kenneth M. Slyter, employed at a
pest control plant. Slyter was not at his
job, or at his home. On April 25th, he
was arrested in a Jackson hospital,

where he had been taken after swallow-

ing a pest repellent in a suicide attempt.

Recovering after treatment, he con-
fessed that instead of taking the pretty
schoolgirl to a supposed baby-sitting
job, he had driven directly to the se-
cluded lane. There he attacked her with
a tire iron, then ran his car over her
body when she fell to the road.

Slyter went to trial in Madison County
Circuit Court in Canton, Mississippi, be-
fore Circuit Judge Leon Hendrick, on
September 24, 1962. On September 26th,
the jury found him guilty, with no
recommendation for mercy. Judge Hend-
rick sentenced him to die on November
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tion until March 29, 1963, when he
finally kept his date with death.

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(MD February, 1961)

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Her story fell apart when Prieto sear-
ched her handbag and found a bankbook
made out in the names of Joan Irving and

Tom Waterbury. He also found a receipt »

from a jewelry store for the downpay-
ment on a diamond engagement ring.
‘“‘T have been seeing him but as a
friend,’’ the woman said. ‘‘I was getting
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**| didn’t want to take it,”’ she insisted.
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Tom was still married to Deborah.

‘‘T couldn’t figure it out,’’ Adkins
said. ‘‘Deborah was really a sweet girl
_-and I couldn’t understand why Tom tre-
_ated her like he didn’t like her.’’

‘Tom actually seemed more infatu-
ated with Joan than he did with De-
borah and promised that he would one
day wind up marrying her,’’ Adkins con-
tinued. ‘‘Joan wondered too,”’ the friend
said. ‘‘She said she asked Tom what his
plans were and he told her that he was
going to get a divorce and marry Joan.”’

Prieto wondered if Tom divorced De-
borah and married Joan how: was he
_ going to support her? He had a nowhere
Job and Joan had not struck him as the
type of woman who was willing to be
both the wife and chief provider.

An answer of sorts emerged when
Prieto learned Tom had purchased a
$100,000 life insurance policy on his
wife just a few months before the shoot-
ing and listed himself as the sole bene-

AOR

ficiary. Was this the motive?

‘There was nothing unusual about
‘that,’” the agent said. ‘‘His wife more
than made enough to pay the premiums
and it was about the right size policy fora
young couple in their income bracket.’’

The agent didn’t see Tom again until
January 2, 1981, when he walked into the
office and said he wanted to enter a claim
on the insurance policy because his wife
had been murdered during a burglary.

The icing on the cake came when
Prieto ran a computer check and learned
Waterbury had purchased a .25-caliber
pistol. Where was the gun? The question
was answered when police searched the
house and found the snub nosed automa-
tic in the master bedroom closet. There
were no fingerprints on the weapon or
cartridge clip, but a lab ballistics test
proved it was the weapon that fired the
slugs that killed Deborah Waterbury and

-wounded Tom. -

On January 26th, the District Attor-
ney’s office issued a warrant for Tom
Waterbury’s arrest. The 22-year-old
widower gave himself up to authorities
and was promptly booked into county jail
on suspicion of the murder.

At his trial beginning in September
1981, Prosecutor Raymond Haight Ll

portrayed the former Eagle Scout as a
cold blooded murderer who killed his
wife for the $100,000 life insurance poli-
cy and the love of another woman.

Haight told the jury Waterbury had
shot his wife twice at close range then
tried to conceal the crime by shooting
himself once and blaming an intruder for
the shootings.

The plan might have worked had
Waterbury been able to hide the murder
weapon in a safe place before police ar-
rived, Haight argued. But Waterbury
panicked when the bullet that was sup-
pose to exit out his back didn’t, and he
stashed the gun in the open pocket of his
hunting vest.

“It was almost the perfect crime,?’
Haight argued. ‘‘Except for the gun.’”

The jury spent just four hours in deli-
beration before reaching a verdict. On
October 14, 1981, they found the one-
time Eagle Scout guilty of the first-
degree murder of his wife.

Dressed in a tan sport coat and tie,
Thomas Waterbury received the verdict
with the same outward lack of emotion he
displayed through much of the trial. He
was sentenced to a 30-year term in the
State prison system, and is currently serv-
ing his term in the California state prison
system. *
(Editor’s Note: The names Joan Irving and Dar-

rel Adkins are fictitious. There is no reason for the
public to know their true identities.)

He Paid His Babysitters In Blood

(continued from page 23)

Green braked the car. At the edge of
the dirt road, lying by a clump of tall
sedgegrass, were a white tennis shoe, a
pair of torn panties and a blood-stained
brassiere. Green blinked and got out of

the car. He walked to the edge of the road

and peered into the sedgegrass. He re-
turned to the car and his face was grim.

‘*There’s a body there,’’ he told his
wife. ‘*The nude body of a young girl.
I'll call the police from the farmhouse.”’

Green, upon arriving at his farm, com-
municated with Sheriff Billy Noble of
Madison County. The sheriff, in turn,
notified Jackson police headquarters.
Within half an hour, the sheriff, accom-
panied by several deputies, met Jackson
Detective Sergeants Sutherland, Fred
Freeman, S.M. Magee, and Detective
Hammond on the shaded dirt road where
lay the mortal remains of Sandra Holder-
field.

A thin trail of blood led from the road
itself to the spot in the sedgegrass where
the body had presumably been dragged.

. The girl was not completely naked. She

wore a Single tennis shoe and a torn white
blouse, completely open down the front.

Her young body was horribly cut and

bruised. Both legs appeared to be

broken, as were one arm, several ribs and
the left cheek bone. One ear was muti-
lated and part of the girl’s upper lip had
been torn away.

Sheriff Noble radioed for a representa-
tive of the Madison County coroner’s
office. In the meantime, the officers con-
ducted an exhaustive search of the im-
mediate terrain, seeking some clue which
would lead to the identity of the sadistic
killer.

Sheriff Noble explained that this area
was known as the Old Johnson Road and
in good weather was used as a local lov-
er’s lane.

‘““On good, warm nights,’’ he said,
‘“*hundreds of couples drive out there,
especially on Saturday nights. There’s a
chance that some one of them may have
spotted the killer.”’

The coroner’s deputy arrived and su-
pervised the removal of the body to a
funeral home in Canton, where the legal-
ly required autopsy would be performed.

(continued on page 42)

SANDRA |
ABY-SAT
A MONSTER

by BILL KELLY

pril 2ist was a beautiful Saturday morning in Jack-

son, Mississippi. The forest and willows were alive with:
squirrels and chirping birds. In a deep-porched house

on a road that stretched through the hilly country, Rita.
Hershey, an off-duty Southern Bell Telephone employe,

stepped out of her shower, dripping wet, to answer her te-
lephone. Her caller, by the sound of his voice, was ay ung

man, relatively upset.

When Miss Hershey tried to explain
that he had the wrong number, he
bitterly protested: ‘‘No, I’m positive
I dialed the right number!’’ Then he
went on to explain how he got it from
the ‘Employment Wanted’’ column in
the classified section of the morning
newspaper.

‘“‘Then it certainly must be a
typographical error,”’ Miss Hershey
said angrily. ‘‘Why don’t you call the
newspaper...” i

“*] don’t have time for all that
rigmarole,”” the caller answered in a
dignified manner. “I’ve promised to
take my wife to dinner and the movies
tonight but we’ve got to find someone
to babysit our twins. We’ve recently
moved here from New York City, and
we don’t know anybody in Jackson.
Please, I don’t know what to do.”

Concerned and sympathetic, Miss
Hershey, still dripping wet and
wrapped in a bathtowel, suggested,
“Sir, there are several babysitters listed
in the paper. Have you tried any of
them?’’

The caller’s voice suddenly tight-
ened. ‘‘I’ve tried them all, but it’s

Saturday night and they all have
commitments.”’

The well-intentioned telephone
operator swallowed with difficulty.

ci re
Lie BS
“Pu ght

“Let me call around and see if I can

find you a babysitter. "Give me your

number and I'll get back with you.” -

“Our phone hasn’t been installed
yet,”” the caller replied. “I'm calling
from a phone booth. I'll call you back
in 20 minutes, okay?” =
~ When the phone rang 20 minutes
later, Rita Hershey recognized the
impassive voice. Miss Hershey was in
the midst of telling the stranger that
she hadn’t had any luck in locating a
babysitter when, by a freak accident,
another Bell switchboard operator
entered her house. She overheard the
conversation and instinctively inter-

eax

Teenage Sandra Hoilderfeld. As

** the monster ripped the clothes
_- from her body, she made one

“last break for freedom.

Suan soi oheas ORR

rupted: “‘Babysitter? It so happens that
a neighbor of mine has a 15-year-old
daughter who is looking for baby-
sitting jobs.””

’ When Miss Hershey’s friend got on
the phone the man repeated his name
and said he was employed as an
executive by a local steel mill. His
description of his house, with an

The trail ended on Lover's Lane,
grim and bloody. The fiend had
kissed and fondled his virgin
prize, then threw her out so he
could drive a few times
over her body with his car.

Kenneth Slyter is taken shoving

House. Even there ie showed
evidence of sexual abnormality.

enormous swimming pool, and luxu-
rious color TV set, provided a tasty
dish for any teenage babysitter. She
told him she would check with the girl
and he was to call back in fifteen
minutes. : :
He called back on the dot, and was
told that Sandra Holderfield would
_ babysit for him if his wife would pick
her up at 7:30 at the address she
supplied. ‘Tell Sandra to be on the
watch for my wife’s cream-colored
Lincoin,”’ he said with a sigh of relief.
»At precisely 7:20 on the cloudy
evening of April 21st, lovely, flaxen-
haired Sandra came running across a
wide garden where a sundial basked
on.a marble pedestal and a fountain
tinkled, the wind drifting its spray over
bright flower beds. Dressed immacu-
lately in a pearl-white blouse, blue
Bermuda shorts and new white tennis
shoes, she hopped into the ivory
Chevrolet sedan parked in her drive-
way. '

dressed man with a pale complexion
accentuated by bushy dark eyebrows
hastily explained to the startled girl
that his wife ran to the store in her
Lincoln when she realized they were
out of snacks ‘‘for our pretty new
babysitter,”’ so he was elected chauf-
feur. “My Chevy isn’t as swanky as
her Lincoln,”’ he joked, ‘‘but it'll get
us there.’’ . :

Mrs. Holderfield began to feel
concern when 11 o’clock arrived and
Sandra hadn’t returned home as
Promised. But then she assumed the
folks Sandra was sitting for had
probably run into a little unexpected
trouble. That seemed the likeliest
explanation. But then, as the moon-
light night faded, no explanation
exactly fit. :

Mrs. Holderfield violently shook her
husband awake, forcing him to sit up
and listen to her. ‘‘For God’s sake,
Tom, Sandra hasn’t come home yet.
Something dreaful has happened, I
just know it!’’ A call to the telephone
operator neighbor who had gotten
Sandra the babysitting job did nothing
to ease the Holderfield’s torment.

“T don’t even know his name,”’ she
gasped. ‘‘He said he was a big shot
for that steel mill on the other side of
town, and had moved from New York
with his wife and their twin babies.

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(continued from page 40)

When darkness precluded any further
' search of the area, the officers returned to
their respective headquarters, clueless
and frustrated. —

Back in Jackson, Sergeant Sutherland
was informed that a team of detectives
had found, in the Meadowbrook section,
a newspaper in a telephone booth; the
paper had been opened to the classified
ad columns, and the medical aide situa-
tion-wanted advertisement with the
wrong telephone number had been
checked with a pencil.

An | 1-state alarm was broadcast from
Jackson police headquarters. State and

local police were instructed to examine

all suspicious cars, especially light cae
-ored Chevrolets. ‘

During the night more than a handited
cars were halted and searched in the state
of Mississippi. None of them yielded any
significant information. The Jackson de-
tective bureau and the Madison County
sheriff's office were under orders to work

around the clock until the savage, wanton -

murderer of Sandra Holderfield should
be brought to account for his insane
crime.

At 8 o’clock that morning a pre-
liminary medical report was issued by the
Madison coroner; it only compounded
the mystery. The girl had not been raped.
She had been brutally beaten, mutilated,
her legs, and arm and ribs had been
broken. However, she had not been S€X-

ually molested in any way at all.

At 9 o’clock on Monday morning,
Jackson Police Officers H.E. Clanton
and B.A. Baughn had been routinely
checking various automobiles since they
had been on duty, an hour before. Now,
parked at the corner of Fortification and
North West Streets, they observed a 1959
Chevrolet, bearing Kansas license
plates.

_ The interior of the sedan seemed quite
clean. Then, Baughn noted two narrow
streaks across the outside of the wind-
shield.

‘‘Look,’’ said Baughn to his partner,
**That could be dried blood.’’

Clanton nodded. ‘‘I’m going to crawl]
under the car,’ said Baughn. ‘‘There
might be some more stains there.”’

Baughn disappeared beneath the
Chevrolet. A moment later he emerged,
holding something silken and wispy in
his hand. He held it up. ‘‘All right,’’ he
said to Clanton, **What do you make of
this?”’

. “It looks like a tuft of human blonde

.. hair — girl’s hair.”’
~~ **That’s what I think,’’ said Baughn.

**Radio headquarters. Ask them to send
out some detectives, and give them this
license number. Tell them to check the
owner.’

A few minutes later, Sergeant Suther-
land, Detective F.C. Hammond and Pa-
trolman Bob Boering drove up. They ex-
amined the suspected Chevrolet, then
impounded it and drove it to the police
garage for inspection by the laboratory
experts.

In the meantime, the Jackson officials
had talked to the Kansas Motor Vehicle
Bureau regarding the impounded Chev-
rolet; they learned that the car had been
stolen in Wichita some five months be-

fore.

It seemed that once again the police
were thoroughly frustrated. Apparently,
they had found the murder car but there
remained no clue to the murder himself.
Then, at 10:30 a telephone call came to
the detective bureau from an executive at
Jackson’s Baptist Hospital.

The hospital had just admitted an at-
tempted suicide and the law required that
all such cases be reported to the police.
According to the hospital official, the
patient, 26- -year-old Kenneth M. Slyter,
had been brought in by a priest to whom
the young man had confessed that he had
tried to kill himself by drinking a draft of
DDT mixed with kerosene. Slyter was

. @mployed by an exterminating firm.

Headquarters checked the address of
the exterminating establishment and dis-
covered it was less than a block away
from the spot where the blood-stained
Chevrolet had been found.

. A call to the firm answered three im-

' portant questions. First, Slyter was, in-
deed, employed there. Second, he was ’

the possessor of a 1959, light colored
Chevrolet, and third, he had inexplicably
disappeared from his job about 10
o’clock that morning. This information
was promptly relayed to Sergeants
Sutherland, Fred Freeman and S.M.
Magee.

*‘It all seems to fit,’’ remarked Suther-
land as the trio headed for the hospital.
**Slyter probably saw us casing his car
from the place where he was working. He
panicked, swallowed poison and ran
away.”

When the officers reached Slyter’s.
bedside, he was out of danger, a stomach.
pump had been employed to rid him of
the poison. He looked pale and weak as

_ he lay on the bed. Sutherland came di-

rectly to the point.
‘“*We’ve found blood and blonde hair
on your car,’’ he said. ‘‘The lab’s look-

ing it over to see if it matches with that of
Sandra Holderfield. Now, tell us where
you were on Saturday night after 7
o’clock.”’

Kenneth Slyter was in no position to
argue and he knew it. ‘‘All right,’ he
said, ‘‘I killed her. I don’t know why I
did it.’ He paused and added righteous-
ly, ‘‘But I didn’t rape her.”’

He went on to say that he had original-
ly called in answer to the advertisement
in order to obtain a sitter for his young
daughter while he took his wife out. Af-
ter being connected with the wrong num-
ber, he had changed his plans and de-_.
cided to trick the young girl who an-
swered into going out with him.

Slyter admitted hitting Sandra Holder-
field over the head and body with a tire
tool, and twice running his car over her as
she lay unconscious. He announced for
the second time that he had not com-
mitted rape.

An hour later, Slyter was releaséd ©
from the hospital, taken to the Jackson
jail by the three detectives. There, he was
transferred to the custody of Madison
County Sheriff Noble and two of his de-
puties. Slyter still refused to elaborate on
his motive.

Detective Sergeant Sutherland called
at the Slyter home and learned there was
something peculiar about Slyter’s activi-
ties on that tragic Saturday night. He had
left the house about 7 o’clock, ostensibly
to buy milk.

He had been gone for more than two
hours. When he returned he had changed
from his ordinary clothing into the blue
denim work overalls he kept in the car.

**‘My other clothes are covered with
blood,’’ he told his wife. ‘tI ran over a '

dog. I held it in my arms until it died. It
. was such a pretty dog.”’

At that point he had broken into tears.

He had gone to work on Monday
morning. Shortly after 10 o’clock, he had
telephoned home and asked to have a bag
packed.

‘I’ve got to go away,”” he said, ‘‘ina
hurry.”” |

But he never returned to the house to
pick up the bag.

The telephone call concerning the .
stolen car which had been put through to °
Kansas set the Wichita officials to look-
ing into the records. On Tuesday morn-
ing, Sheriff Noble received a report from
Detective Sergeant Doyle C. Terry of the

‘Wichita force.

Twelve years ago, when Slyter was
barely 15 years old, he had tricked an
18-year-old girl from her home by telling
her that his parents needed a baby sitter.
He had clubbed her unconscious with a

(continued on page 44)

He Paid His Babysitters In Blood

(continued from page 42)

hammer then raped her.

As a result of this attack, Slyter had
been sent to a mental hospital in Topeka.
He had escaped, was captured and re-
turned to custody. Later, he was dis-
charged as cured.

Sergeant Terry went on to say that
Slyter had been questioned on many
occasions in connection with numerous
telephoned attempts to lure Wichita girls
from their homes on the pretext that a
baby sitter was needed. None of these
various attempts had been successful.

In addition to his sexual crimes. Slyter
had been convicted in Kansas on two
charges of auto theft and one of burglary.

In spite of all this, Slyter’s fellow
workers at the exterminating firm said
that he ‘*seemed like a nice guy.’’ His
employer stated that he had hired Slyter
through an employment agency less than

a month before.

‘He seemed desperate for a job,’’ the
proprietor said. ‘‘He was a hard worker
and seemed to get along with every-
body.’’

On Tuesday afternoon, services were
held for Sandra Holderfield-at Wright
and Ferguson Chapel; her schoolmates
acted as pall bearers.

- Kenneth Slyter still did not make his
motive for the brutal and wanton murder

clear. It was quite likely that his twisted:

mind could not understand what terrible
compulsion impelled him to mutilate and
break the body of a young girl. Perhaps
the psychiatrists may come up with an
answer. Perhaps they may not. It is worth
noting that once he was discharged from
a mental hospital as sane.

It was not only Kenneth Slyter who
slew Sandra Holderfield. It was also a

series of utterly incredible coincidences:
If the medical aide had not written an ad,
if a printer had not transposed the tele-
phone numbers, if a girl had not been
visiting friends when the call came.

Any insurance actuary or, if you like,
any bookmaker will tell you that the odds
against all these things happening are
astronomical to the point of being almost
impossible.

But, obviously, not quite.

On September 26th, 1962, a jury in -

Madison County Circuit Court in Can-
ton, Mississippi, found Slyter guilty of
murder, and made no recommendation
for mercy. Judge Leon Hendrick, with no
alternative, sentenced him to die on
November 9th, 1962, but appeals de-
layed his execution. On March 29th,
1963, the killer held a rendezvous with
death in the gas chamber of the Mis-

sissippi State Penitentiary. *

(Editor’s note: The names Minerva Wattson,
Peggy Owenson, Adele Warrender, and Mr. and

Mrs. Holden Green are fictitious to conceal the

identities of innocent persons.)

Too Many Killers Spoil The Contract

(continued from page 21)

doubt that Handwerker had killed Erika
Dudka and that he had killed her in the
manner in which he said, but he doubted
very much that he had killed her for the
reasons he had given. There was nothing

about Reinhold Handwerker or his back- °

ground which would have led anyone to

believe that he was a man to kill women -

out of moral outrage.

The jury had not believed this either,
but they had assumed that Handwerker
had murdered his friend and patron sim-

ply in order to rob her. —

_ The inspector did not. think that this
was so. Handwerker was not a brilliant
man, but neither was he so stupid as to

' take such great risks for so little return.

The fact that he had given the booty en-.

tirely to Eckloff indicated that it had not
played a primary role in his thinking.

There had been other considerations
and, very probably, other persons in-
volved and, although the trial was over

_ and the murder of Erika Dudka was offi-
cially solved, the inspector continued his
investigation.

He had begun them with the thought
that Handwerker’s story concerning the
hired killer might be true, but reversed.
Erika had not been trying to hire a killer
to eliminate her husband. Her husband

had been trying to hire a killer to elimi- |

nate her.

Being a man with considerable busi-
' Mess acumen and a reasonably good
Judge of human character, he certainly

would not have hired Reinhold Hand-
werker to do the job. Even if he was a
murderer, Handwerker was not the pro-
fessional killer type and, if further proof
was needed, the fact that he had bungled
the Dudka murder and had got himself
convicted and sentenced to as close a life
sentence as is possible in Germany today
showed that he was not a man to be given
such a task. .

Rather, the inspector thought that
Klaus Peter might have done exactly
what Handwerker said that Erika had
done, he might have engaged him to turn
up a professional from the Munich un-
derworld. Like any big city, Munich has

-an adequate number of well trained gun-

man prepared to accept contracts for the
elimination of troublesome persons on a
sliding scale of fees depending upon the
importance of the person and the diffi-
culty of carrying out the contract.
Whether Handwerker would have
known how to contact such men, the
inspector did not know, but he was con-
vinced that he had not contacted any and
had simply decided to carry out the mur-
der himself and kept the fee. Presum-

* ably, he would have received an advance

from Klaus Peter with the balance to be

paid on completion of the contract.
The only drawback to this theory was

that the inspector could find no trace of

‘the money. Being rich, Klaus Peter’s

financial transactions were deliberately
beyond the understanding of any police

_ officer and he could have easily had in his

possession large sums of cash which had
never passed through any bank or other
institution where a record remained. But
Handwerker was not rich. If he had re-
ceived a large sum of money, he would
have had to do something with it and no
amount of searching had turned up any
trace of such a sum. As a matter of fact,
Handwerker had been so poor that he did
not even own a car, the financial and
social equivalent of being a leper in West
Germany.

In the end, during all the time up until
Handwerker’s trial, the only thing that
the inspector had been able to learn with
certainty was that all of the parties con-
cerned had known each other very well.
It had been a curious mixture of associa-
tions. Eckloff and Handwerker had both
been practically penniless, living off un-
employment compensation and a little in
drug dealing. Yet they had been on ex-
tremely friendly terms with the comfort-
ably well-to-do Klaus Budkiewicz who
owned the Lange Theke and who was
engaged to Simone Ebert. Even stranger,
they had been on close terms with Harald
Huber, Erika Dudka’s lover, and with the
Dudkas, both millionaires in their own
right, themselves.

The only explanation that the inspector
ever found for this crossing of financial
and social barriers was that the Dudkas,
being only newly rich, had not had the

fear of the impoverished, lower classes _

that persons whose fortunes are of less
recent origin often have.

(continued on page 46) —

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When his grocery store prospered, Joseph Ying Chiu (r.)
brought his pretty wife Kam Wong (above) and their three
children to America—then a gunman ended their happiness

own people, to bring up her family.

In Hong Kong Joseph Ying Chiu,
the first son and the bearer of his
father’s name, grew to manhood. He

was a slender, handsome youth, well '

educated in the schools of Hong Kong
and nearby Macao, and restless with
the desire to be, like his father, an in-
dependent merchant.

He sought success first on the exotic
island of Macao, and while he won a
beautiful bride—Kam Wong—he did
not fulfill, his ambitions. So he went
north, to the teeming city of Shanghai,
but his goal eluded him there also. In
1949, Joseph left his wife and three
children in Shanghai and, like his
father, sought success in the bountiful
land of America. He meant to bring
his family to America within a few
months, but it was to be ten years be-
fore he would see his wife and chil-
dren again.

For the hordes of Mao Tse-tung
closed the doors of China’s mainland
behind him. Joseph Ying Chiu’s wife
and children were among the millions
who became unwilling subjects of
the “Chinese Peoples’ Socialist Repub-
lic.”

Joseph Ying Chiu prospered in

America. He worked for other mer-
chants at first, in Wisconsin, and in
Arkansas. He worked hard and saved
his money and dreamed of ways to free
his family from Red China. In 1959—
the Year of the Pig—Joseph Ying Chiu
moved to Houston, Texas, and there he
realized his ambition. He became an
independent merchant, owner and
operator of a modest grocery which
grew and flourished through his tire-
less efforts.

In that same year, Kam Wong, her
two daughters and her son duped the
Red Chinese officials in Shanghai into
letting them visit Hong Kong. Once
beyond the border, Kam Wong fled
to the arms of her husband.

Joseph Ying Chiu was very happy.
He worked harder than before, and
his happiness was increased in 1960—
the Year of the Mouse—when a third
daughter was born to his pretty wife.
Joseph Ying Chiu was a proud man.
Proud of his tall son, James, proud of
his three pretty daughters, Ruth, Rose,
and Mary, and proud to be a success in

‘the country of his birth.

For Joseph Ying Chiu was a native-
born American.
And 1961—the Year of the Ox—

came and went. And the Year of the
Tiger was at hand....

The night of February 1, 1962, was
warm and balmy in Houston, and Nar-
cotics Detectives H. M. Gray and E.
J. Stringfellow were cruising with the
windows of their squad car down when
they heard the dispatcher put out the
“holdup—shooting involved” call to
the district patrol unit. The scene
of the crime was the J. C. Grocery,
3235 Holman.

“That’s just a few blocks away,”
exclaimed Gray, and he swung the
unmarked cruiser into a U-turn. With-
in a minute, the two officers were en-
tering the food market, which they
recognized an that of Joxeph Ying Chiu,
a popular, highly respected and well-
liked businessman.

A man, a teenage girl, and a tall boy
were grouped about the end of the
counter on which the cash register
stood. The man stepped aside as the
officers strode forward. Now Detectives
Gray and Stringfellow saw three young
girls kneeling around the prone figure
of a dark-haired woman, stretched un-
conscious on the ribbed walkway be-
hind the counter.

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cuary 1, 1962, was
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M. Gray and E.
' cruising with the
iad car down when
atcher put out the
involved” call to
init. The scene
he J. C. Grocery,

-w blocks away,”
id he swung the
to a U-turn. With-
) Officers were en-
rket, which they
Joseph Ying Chiu,
spected and well-

zirl, and a tall boy
t the end of the
the cash register
pped aside as the
d. Now Detectives
w saw three young
i the prone figure
aan, stretched un-
bed walkway be-

veld the woman’s

head in her Jap, and she was tenderly
stroking the woman’s face. The faces
of the three girls—the youngest not
even two—and that of the boy, obvious-
ly their brother, all registered shock
and bewilderment.

“It’s their mother, Mrs. Chiu,” said
the teenage girl standing near the
group. “She's been shot. Mr. J. C. ran
outside after the man. He hasn't come
back.”

Detective Gray turned and sprinted
outside, looking swiftly left and right.
Near the corner of Burkett and Hol-
man, he saw a huddled mass in the s
street. He ran in that direction. As na
he drew near, he saw it was the body rem
of a man.

A car careened around the corner at

a high rate of speed and roared north.
Detective Gray had only a glimpse of
the car and its rear license plate, but
his trained mind registered the make,
model, and color, and the last four
numbers of the license plate—2544.
The prefix on the tag was not legible.

A moment later, the detective stood
over the sprawled form of Joseph Ying
Chiu. Gray knew instinctively that the
36-year-old grocer was dead. He lay.
one arm outflung, the other crumpled
beneath his body.

A small blue box was beside the
body, its lid only inches away. Gray
knelt and examined the box without
touching it. It was, he noted, a man-
ufacturer’s packing box for a Smith
& Wesson revolver, the waxed paper
with its outline of the pistol still in-
side, .

A patrol car screeched to a stop in “I fired my gun two times and kept running,” Joc Johnson told Chief Frazier (¢)
front of the store, followed by an am- ~ata ‘ > Tat
bulance. A short time later, other offi-
cial cars arrived, bearing Deputy
Medical Examiner Ted Walsh, police
technicians, and Homicide Detectives
Johnny Thornton and E. D. Combs. The
homicide detectives took charge.

Mrs. Chiu, unconscious, had been
rushed to a hospital before the detec-
tives arrived. They began at once to
piece together a picture of what had
occurred in the grocery.

The four Chiu children could not
give them much information. The
Chiu family lived in large, spacious
quarters adjoining the store, with a
connecting entrance. The children had
been watching television, said James
Chiu, 16, when they heard a shot.

“I saw my father run past the door,
then I heard more shots,” said Mary
Chiu, 11. The three older children,
followed by the toddler, Rose, had run
into the store to find their mother on
the floor, bleeding profusely.

The man, questioned by the officers,
had nothing to add to the investiga-
tion. “I was at home when I heard
shooting. I ran out of my house, ran
inside the store—all the kids were
around their mother.

“It’s such a shame. Mr. Chiu was
such a good man. He was good to all
of us. He was (Continued on page 76)

It was not until April, 1962, that Dets. Gunn (L.), Lofland
(standing), Capt. Hickman and Lt. Porter (r.) finally tracked
down the mysterious gunman and got a full confession from him

Murder Was a
Chinese Puzzle

(Continued from page 37)

always doing something nice for his
customers,”

Ironically, it was Joseph Chiu’s kind-
ness that made it possible for the bandit
to enter the store. This the detectives
Jearned on questioning the 15-year-old
girl, who apparently had been the only
one besides Joseph Chiu and his wife
to see the gunman.

The Chius closed the store each night
promptly at 8 p.m. They were prepar-
ing to close when she entered the store
that night, the girl said. She had been
sent to the store by her aunt, with whom
she lived, to get some weiners.

“Mr. J. C. (as his customers called
Chiu) didn’t have the hot dogs, but
he said he’d stay open while I ran back
and asked my aunt if she wanted some-
thing else, instead. There’s no other
store near,” the girl said.

When she returned, Chiu was still
behind the meat counter in the rear,
waiting. Mrs. Chiu was standing by the
register, and there was a man in front
of the register. The girl said she paid
ho attention to the man, his back being
'o her, until he reached across the
counter, apparently trying to open the
cash drawer.

“Mrs. J. C. had turned to get some-
thing, but she turned back and grabbed
at the man,” said the girl. “I heard
her holler, ‘No! No! Don’t do that!’ And
then I heard a shot.

“Mr. J. C. came out from behind the
counter with a small blue box in his
hand, and he ran out the front door after
the man,

“Then I heard more shots. I realized
Mrs, J. C. was hurt, so I ran to the
phone and called police and asked for
an ambulance and help.”

The girl, a Ryan Junior High School
student, had gotten a good look at the
“unman, she said. She described the
bandit as a slender, dark-skinned man,
about 25, five feet seven inches, and
wearing a tan dress cap with. ear flaps,
i tan sport shirt, and khaki trousers.

Deputy Medical Examiner Walsh,
meanwhile, had ascertained that Joseph
Ying Chiu was dead, and had ordered
is body removed to the county morgue
for autopsy. When ambulance atten-
dants lifted the limp form of the valiant
irocer, Walsh noted a shining blue re-
volver, hidden until now beneath the
dead man,

Walsh, a former ace homicide inves-
‘gator himself, picked up the gun and
broke its cylinder out. He found three
live shells and three expended cartridges
in the cylinder of the .32 pistol.

“Brand new, never been fired before
now,” Walsh said softly, noting the fac-
‘ory grease on the weapon,

Obviously, Chiu had not felt he would
‘ver have need of the gun. He had
oaded it and replaced it in the box,
‘ertainly not the handiest place to have
' gun if a man expects to use one,

As the officers stood watching the
‘mbulance take Chiu’s body away, a
‘oung boy pedaled up on a bicycle and
topped wide-eyed. ‘Was that a man?”
© asked,

An officer nodded, and then suggested
he youngster move on.

“But I saw him killed!” the boy
‘lurted out.

“Who killed him, son?”

The boy shook his head. “I don’t know
him, but he was young, slender, about
25, I'd say, and 150 pounds, and wore a
tan hat with flaps, tan sports shirt, and
khaki trousers,” said the boy. “He was
about five feet six or seven, I guess.”

The boy then related that about 8:10
p.m., while making a delivery for a
drugstore where he worked, he had been
traveling east on Reeves when he heard
several sharp explosions. “I thought it
was a car backfiring,” he said. “Then
I saw this man running down Burkett.
He turned on Reeves.

“He was running sort of sideways and
calling to a big, black slick-haired dog,
saying, ‘Come here, Boy, come on.’ The
dog ran up to him and they went on
down Reeves out of sight.

“He passed right by me. I’d know
him again if I saw him. When I crossed
Burkett, I looked up toward Holman,
and I saw this big thing—it looked like a
bundle of clothes, on the street. I didn’t
know it was a man until I came back and
saw the ambulance.”

“A dog? Are you sure?” asked De-
tective Combs.

“Yes, sir,” replied the boy. ‘A big,
dark-colored dog.”

There was little doubt that the boy
had seen the killer.. His description was
almost identical to that given by the
young girl. And while as he had said,
he had not actually seen Chiu killed, he
was an important witness.

The detectives were still not sure
whether the bandit had gotten anything
in his bloody raid, for the cash register
contained considerable cash. But before
they left, they had that answer, too.

Miss Jean Jeu, a niece of the wounded
woman, who had been called by James
Chiu, arrived to take the children to
her home. At the suggestion of officers,
she ran a tape on the cash register, be-
ing an experienced grocery operator
herself. After checking the remaining
cash, she announced the bandit) had
escaped with $77.49,

Detectives Combs and Thornton drove
to the hospital where Mrs. Chiu had been
taken. She was not in condition to talk.
She was in surgery, where doctors were
working stubbornly to save her life. She
had been shot through the body, the
bullet entering her right side and exiting
through her left side, just above the
heart and below the armpit. She had
already received 11 pints of blood, said
a doctor.

“Anyway, you couldn't talk to her if
she was able,” the doctor said. “She
speaks only Chinese.”

The investigators returned to the sta-
tion, where a full-scale manhunt had
been launched by Homicide Captain
Weldon Waycott and Robbery Division
Captain H. B. Short. Since the crime
technically was within the jurisdiction
of both squads, both chiefs pooled their
resources to make the hunt a joint effort.

The presence of a dog with the ban-
dit suggested he lived in the neighbor-
hood served by Chiu’s grocery. Teams
of officers spread out through the district,
questioning residents as to their possible
knowledge of a slender young man who
owned a dark, slick-haired dog.

It was possible, too, that the bandit
had joined a companion in a waiting car,
since Detective Gray said the car that
sped away as he approached Chiu’s
body had come from the direction on
Reeves in which the delivery boy had
seen the gunman run.

This theory was strengthened when
motor vehicle bureau clerks, sifting au-
tomobile registration records for all cars
of that make and model bearing a
license with the numbers 2544, found
such a vehicle. A further check dis-

closed it had been stolen earlier that
day from the North Side.

An intensive search was begun for the
car and any occupants. Sheriff's patrol
units and state troopers were alerted to
be on the lookout for the car.

A thorough dusting of the store count-
er and the cash register failed to yield
a single fingerprint of the killer. in-
dicating he had been careful to avoid
touching anything and that he was an
experienced criminal,

Records of all known “till-tappers”
and holdup men were pulled, and those
answering the general description of the
bandit were culled from the pile. “Mug”
shots of these men—about 35 in all—
were printed, and the delivery boy and
the teenage girl were asked to study the
photographs.

They failed to pick out any one as
the killer, but their indecision over sev-
eral led Captain Short to recall some-
thing.

On Thursday night, shortly before
the shooting, Tom Richards, salesman
for the Townsend Company of Santa
Ana, California, had demonstrated for
Captain Short and his men the Identi-
Kit, a collection of 562 transparencies
of facial features—-eyes, noses, eyebrows,
hairlines, chins, mouths.

Richards had stressed the value of the
kit in creating a composite picture of
any criminal as described by witnesses.
Of course, composites had long been
used with spectacular success by the
Department of Public Safety, which
had two artist-specialists on its staff, but
those men were stationed in Austin.

Captain Short knew Richards was still
in Houston. He reached for the tele-
phone.

The Californian, anxious to aid police
in their search for the killer, came
at once to the station. There the two
teenagers began to describe the gunman
in detail, as they remembered him,

Richards worked diligently with the
witnesses for more than an hour; finally
he had produced a likeness of a young
man which the two youngsters agreed
looked like the man who had shot Chiu.

Captain Short ordered the composite
photographed and several dozen copies
made up. “I want a copy given to every
newspaper and television station in the
area,” he instructed his men.

Shortly after 2 a.m., February 2nd, a
patrol unit on the East Side of Houston
spotted the wanted car, occupied by two
young men. The uniformed officers
curbed the car, and took the two youths
into custody at gun point. Both were
slender, dark-skinned men, fitting the
general description of the gunman in
the Chiu case. The dragnet spread in
the neighborhood where the slaying
had occurred also netted four other
“likely suspects.”

But the six men, grilled relentlessly,
denied any knowledge of the murder
and robbery, The two arrested in the
stolen car admitted they had been in
the area, but claimed it was coinci-
dence. They said they had sped away
at high speed because they heard sirens
and became frightened.

At 8:30 a.m. that Friday, the six
suspects were placed in a line-up, and
the delivery boy and the schoolgirl]
viewed the men from every angle. Each
stated firmly that none was the killer.

The two arrested in the stolen car
were turned over to the auto theft
squad; the other four men were released.
The detectives assigned on the Chiu
case went back to work, with still no
solid lead to follow.

Friday afternoon, doctors at Jefferson
Davis Hospital notified the homicide
oMce that Mrs. Chiu had rallied, follow-

ing surgery an
22 pints of t
could talk wit}

Two detectiv
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pital, armed w
by Richards. (

restaurateur ar
station cafeteri.
as interpreter,
Nationalist Chi

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her own accoun!
exactly as the
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the witnesses.

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the girl left. M
over the registc
ceipts. The ma:
age of cigarette;
counter. Mrs. Ch
back with the
his hand in the

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‘No! No! Don't
his right hand f
his pocket, and s

Ballistics expe:
Slug taken from
slug recovered i:
pierced Mrs. Chi
weapon was a .2:
reled revolver.

She had been |.
as she talked: no
Chinese.

“She says the ;
right side of his
the nose,” Weilar

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taken, this might
he had a record,
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moles, and to pr
those who fell in t}
of the gunman.

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and the girl stud
men resembled th:

Mrs. Chiu also
and shook her hea

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had been released '
video outlets. It h
sult.

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resolutely into ho:
newspaper in his
the desk of the lie
look too much like
firmly. “I want to
because you're goin
on me when folks
this.”

Lieutenant B. P
man, and at the p
brows shot up. “Y
he agreed. A thoro
sion, in which the m
ly, a lie detector te
the man by the twc
Chiu, however, clea

But his action ai:

bs
rher that ing surgery and transfusion of a total of as he had predicted, calls came in nam-
22 pints of blood. The officers now ing him as a suspect, and his voluntary
un for the could talk with her for a few minutes. appearance made it unnecessary to take
(Y's patrol Two detectives, accompanied by Wally men off other areas of the case to check
alerted to Gee and Weilang Yin, went to the hos- him out.
m pital, armed with the composite created Both Captain Short and Captain Way-
‘ge count- by Richards. Gee, a prominent Houston rat pant seer bance’ aap oe on |
d to yield restaurateur and operator of the police 4-hour basis, but day followed day, an *
<iller, in- station cafeteria, had offered his services no lead to the killer was uncovered. Afflicted With Getting Up Nights,
to avoid as interpreter, as had Yin, Consul of A note left by Detectives J. E. “Peter” Pains in Back, Hips, Legs,
ico owas an Nationalist China in Houston. — Gunn and C. J. Lofland for their relief Nervousness, Tiredness.
The two men conversed with Mrs, team, Detectives Thornton and Combs,

P i. orth : ; If you area victim of the above symp-
l-tappers Chiu in her native language, for she illustrated the futility the officers some- | toms, the trouble may be due to Gland-
and those knew only a few words of English. She times felt. ular Inflammation. A constitutional Dis-
non of the studied the composite closely. “Dear John and Sonny (Combs): An- | ease for which it is futile for sufferers
ile. “Mug” “She anys that is a good likeness of the ae er? of check, check, check, and no | to try to treat themselves at home.

3. in all— man who shot her,” Gee translated, Mra. uck," the note read,
vy boy and Chiu, through the interpreters, also gave But not one officer was discouraged wine peti cn ght me
study the her own account of the shooting. It was enough to throw in the sponge. They | It is often accompanied by despond-
exactly as the detectives had recon- were certain the killer was still in Hous-'| ency, emotional upset and other mental
ny one as structed it, based on the statements of — ton, and they meant to find him. And as | and nervous reactions. Neglect of such
over sev- the witnesses. suspect after suspect was cleared, nar- | Inflammation causes men to lose their
call some- The gunman had entered shortly after rowing the field of probable gun-wield- | vigor, grow old prematurely and often
the girl left. Mrs. Chiu had just taken FS, they felt the odds were shifting in | leads to incurable conditions.
tly before over the register and was tallying re- their favor. Most men, if treatment is taken in
salesman ceipts. The man had asked for a pack- On February 9th, a Burglary and Theft | time, can be successfully NON-SURGI-
of Santa age of cigarettes, placing a coin on the detective, visiting the homicide office, | CALLY treated for Glandular Inflam-
trated for counter, Mrs. Chiu said when she turned looked at the composite and then picked | mation. If the condition is aggravated
he Identi- back with the cigarettes, the man had it up to study it closely. by lack of treatment, surgery may be
isparencies his hand in the till. ane looks like Pete Parker,” he re- the only chance.
eyebrows, “I grabbed both his hands, and said, marked.
‘No! No! Don't do that!’ But he pulled The name was a new one to the prob- NON-SURGICAL TREATMENTS
alue of the his right hand free, pulled a gun from ers. It developed that Parker was a
picture of his pocket, and shot me,” she said. youngster who had been handled only as The NON-SURGICAL New Type treat-
witnesses Ballistics experts, after examining the a juvenile, which explained why his | ments used at the Excelsior Medical
long been slug taken from Chiu's chest, and the — picture had not been combed from among Clinic are the result of discoveries in
‘ss by the slug recovered in the store-—-which had those of active offenders. ~He was now recent years of new techniques and
tty, which pierced Mrs. Chiu—had said the murder 20, a check disclosed. A picture taken drugs plus over 20 years research by
ts staff, but weapon was a .22, probably a short-bar- when he was only 16 was found, and De- scientific technologists and Doctors.
Austin. reled revolver. Mrs. Chiu verified this. tectives Combs and Thornton drove to Men from all walks of life and from
ds was still She had been looking at the composite the hospital with Gee. over 1,000 communities have been suc-
r the tele- as she talked; now she spoke rapidly in Mrs. Chiu looked at the photo. “That | cessfully treated here at Excelsior
Chinese. is the man who shot me,” she said. Springs. They found soothin and com-
» aid police “She says the man had a mole on the The detectives relayed the informa- forting relief and new health in Hfe.
ler, came right side of his face, near the side of tion to Captain Waycott, and then sped
re the two the nose,” Weilang Yin translated. to Pete's home. RECTAL-COLON
he gunman A mole! If Mrs. Chiu was not mis- The youth was not at home, but the EXAMINATION DISORDERS
ed him. taken, this might trip up the killer, if officers noted his house was in a resi- AT LOW COST Are often assocl-
y with the he had a record, for an electronic brain dential area not more than a mile from ated with ones
cour; finally recently acquired by police had been the scene of the shooting. Quietly, the When you arrive |l97 UMat these
of a young set up to kick out the names of all men contacted neighbors, and asked that | at the clinic, OUr |aisorders for you
ters agreed criminals with certain methods of oper- police be notified the moment anyone doctors —,who have jat the same time
shot Chiu. ation, certain physical marks. spotted Pete. years of experience (Rv he gi
» composite But the IBM machine did not allow He was taken into custody that same | in this field —— make UCIBLE
ozen copies just for moles on the right side of the night. a complete examina- REDUC!
en to every face, the officers learned. It was geared Pete Parker steadfastly denied the | tion. Your condition HERNIA
ition in the to identify all those with not only moles, murder, however, and the two witnesses is frankly explained Is alse amenable
. but also scars, pimples, warts, tattooes. failed to identify him. Confronted with and then you decide oe oe oakment
uary 2nd, a There were 75 such men among the the man she had fingered as the killer, if you will take the [that we have de-
of Houston criminals that had been handled by Mrs. Chiu, too, wavered, and_finally treatments needed. veloped. Full de-
pied by two Houston police. However, it was now said she had been mistaken. When a Our treatments are beso al gp Bis
ied officers an easy task to separate all those with lie detector test indicated beyond a so mild, hospitaliza- | gur Free Book.
two youths moles, and to prepare mug shots of doubt that Pete was telling the truth tion is not required.
Both were those who fell in the general age bracket when he said he knew nothing of the | write Today For Our §
fitting the of the gunman. hold-up murder, he was released.
gunman in It was a futile task. The delivery boy Disappointed, the detectives returned Prevoag ey lope gro
t spread in and the girl student said none of the to their tedious routine of “walking, | ree ree sinful —
the slaying men resembled the killer. talking, and checking.” sensive surgery. Tells
four other Mrs. Chiu also looked at the photos But Wally Gee, president of the Chi- | How and Explains
and shook her head in the negative. nese-American Citizens Alliance of | WHY NON-SURGICAL
relentlessly. The composite photograph, meanwhile, Houston, raised the hopes of the prob- | treatment methods are
the murder had been released to all newspapers and ers on February 15th, when he an- | successful today.
sted in the video outlets. It had one immediate re- nounced his group was posting a $1,000 | Write today. No obliga-
ad been in sult. reward for information leading to the thon. Re
was coinci- A slender, dark-skinned youth walked arrest and conviction of the killer. EXCELSIOR f)
sped away resolutely into homicide, a copy of a “That ought to get some kind of re- | \4EDICAL CLINIC H
neard sirens newspaper in his hand, and laid it on sults,” commented Thornton. Pay B4551 a
the desk of the lieutenant in charge. “y it did, As if in defiance, the killer of | § awn ior Spri M ;
ay, the six look too much like this fellow,” he Said Ying Chiu emerged from hiding the fol- ncelsior Springs, iO H
iine-up, and firmly. “I want to be checked out, now, lowing night to hold up a grocery store a Contes Kindly send me at once, your
: . : a New FREE Book, | am Interested In full
e schoolgirl because you're going to get a lot of calls less than a half-mile from where he | g information (Please Check Box) 4
angle. Each on me when folks who know me see had shot down Chiu. There was NO | 8 [) Hernls DRectal-Colon (1 Glandular 8
the killer. this.” doubt in the minds of the investigators, | 8 Inflammation ¢
» stolen car Lieutenant B. Porter looked at the for the victims described the gunman ; .
auto theft man, and at the picture, and his eye- almost exactly as the Chiu witnesses had | & NAME&__— H
ere released. brows shot up. “You sure do, friend,” pictured him. t ADDRESS. a
n the Chiu he agreed. A thorough questioning ses- The bandit had fired one shot into | ¢ mi ;
vith still no sion, in which the man participated free- the wall of the store to cow the victims. | s TOW 3
ly, a lie detector test, and a viewing of The slug, recovered, was too battered i STATE a
at Jefferson the man by the two witnesses and Mrs. _ for comparison purposes, but it was STATE ace een enennad
1€ homicide Chiu, however, cleared him. from a short-barreled .22, said the
lied, follow- But his action aided the officers. For victims and the ballistics experts, and

ced a. si

tions of fear or sorrow. I saw at a
glance that he wasn’t visibly affected
by the shocking deaths of his employ-
ers. He looked younger than his exact
age of eighteen years, and | wondered
if he actually realized the gravity of
the crime about which we were seeking
evidence.

“What do you know about these
murders, Sam?” Sheriff Doyle shot the
first question as the unperturbed house-
boy dropped into a chair.

“Nothing,” was the laconic reply.

“Where were you last night?’

“Home.”

Other questions that elicited prompt
answers but little information of spe-
cific value followed in rapid succession.
Sheriff ‘Doyle's method of interroga-
tion denoted unusual tact and ability
in the conduct of this line of investi-
gation, but our progress didn’t indicate
that we were getting any closer to an
ultimate solution of the mystery. Sam
expressed his willingness to tell all that
he knew. But, like everyone else, he
professed to be at a loss when it came
to supplying a key to the crimson
riddle.

CLOSE observation is a traditional

element of successful detective work.
Many a hard case has been solved as a
result of something being observed
which the criminal had overlooked. ‘It
may take weeks, sometimes months, to
find the thing that will point unerr-
ingly toward the guilty culprit. But
occasionally there is some shred-like
clue near the surface of a knotty puzzle
that can be picked up and followed out
with amazing quickness. I had m
eyes open for just such a rare possi-
bility while Sheriff Doyle was busy tak-
ing Sam over the hurdles. I was look-
ing for something — anything — that
might serve to contradict the boy’s
claim to total innocence.

For nearly an hour | had been sizing
Sam up, beginning at the top, and as
my scrutiny traveled downward some-
thing of a highly arresting nature
caught my eye. It was a barely discern-

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able stain on the sole of one of his
shoes—a reddish smudge that was
glimpsed when he carelessly moved his
foot!

I whispered a few words to Under
Sheriff Burt, and it was he who played
our trump card in the grim game.

“How did you get that blood on your
shoes?” Burt sternly demanded, point-
ing a steady finger at Sam’s roughly-
shod feet.

“Don’t know, suh, ’less’n I stepped in
it somewhere——” “

“Stick your feet out here!” Sheriff
Doyle quickly commanded the young
Negro.

The complacent expression on the
houseboy’s face didn’t even flicker at
the sudden revelation that his status had
rudely changed to that of a suspect in-
stead of a possible witness.

Closer examination revealed tiny par-
ticles of dull red color under Sam’s
neglected finger-nails. This discovery
put the nonchalant young Negro in a
hot spot, but it didn’t shake his com-
posure.

PRESENTLY, Captain Wattam and

Sheriff Nason returned and compared
the youthful suspect’s finger prints with
those left by the ruthless axe-wielder.
It was their expert opinion that the
trusted servant had been the one who
had groped with sticky, crimson hands
for the light which had been turned on
in the garage to illuminate the pathway
of the diabolical assassin when the
helpless woman was being bundled into
her auto for the final journey of death.
But the axe handle upon which we had
pinned our hope for a positive clue to
the identity of the killer who had
struck down the aged banker failed to
yield a latent print sufficiently clear for
classification.

We had to do some fast thinking. It
was almost a certainty that Sam was
our man. But how could we fasten the
charge of double-murder onto him in
the absence of something more definite
than a few specks of blood and finger-
prints that were partially detached

from the actual commission of the
fiendish deed? Our evidence was not
sufficient to convict him of murder in
court.

“Why did you kill them?” Sheriff
Doyle rasped again and again.

Sam had been silently pondering the
irrefutable facts with which we had
confronted him and he could see that
we were trapping him in a circumstan-
tial net from which he could find no
avenue of escape. The confident smile,
his taunting grin, was gone. The fin-
gerprinting ordeal had weighed heavily
upon his burdened conscience. It raay
have been some dormant fear or inher-
ent superstition that caused the scien-
tific process of identification to sway
his simple mind toward surrendering
the ghastly secret, or perhaps he
cooly reasoned that it would be futile
to keep up the battle of wits against
such overwhelming odds. Whatever
prompted his decision to answer truth-
fully, the words that fell from his
twitching lips with slow deliberation
came at a moment when none of us
thought he had reached the breaking
point.

“Mr. Wagner slapped me Monday
for stealing his gun. He told me that
he was going to whip me th’ next day.
I took his axe an’ went into th’ house
last night . . .”. Sam paused for an in-
stant, as if contemplating the extent to
which he should go, while the dozen or
so men in the sheriff’s office were so
quiet that no sound marred the still-
ness while we were held in breathless
expectancy.

“AND then what? Go on,” Sheriff
Doyle urged the faltering speaker.
“I found Mrs. Wagner in the dining
room,”’, Sam continued, “and | struck
her over the head! She fell across the
dining table. I heard someone coming
and ran to the back door, leaving Mrs.
Wagner on th’ floor in her room... .
“It was Mr. Wagner at th’ back
porch. | hit him on the head with th’
axe! He fell dead!
“Emmett Shaw was waiting for me

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in the yard. He helped me carry Mr.
Wagner out and we found a shovel in
the garage. We buried him in th’ back
yard in a shallow grave, cause We
didn’t have much time... .”

Emmett Shaw, whom Sam named as
his accomplice, was thus mentioned for
the first time in my presence. So far
as I was aware, no suspicion had
hitherto been attached to his name. But
no sooner had his probable guilt been
disclosed than two of the alert officers
slipped quietly from the room, their
mission was to bring a unique angle
into the case.

While the officers were out after Em-
mett Shaw, who turned out to be a
thirty-five-year-old Negro formerly
employed as a porter in Mr. Wagner's
department store, Sam Whitaker was
adding more details to his story of the
gruesome massacre.

“My sister, Adelle Whitaker, came up
while me an’ Emmett wuz burying Mr.
Wagner,” Sam explained, “an’ we made
her help us. I then went back into th’
room where Missus Mamie was groan-
in’ on th’ floor. We picked her up and
carried her out to th’ garage. I] turned
on th’ light so’s we could see how to
put her into her auto. . . ie

“Who drove the car?” I asked.

“I did,” he stated, “and when we got
to th’ cliff about three miles away an’
hurled her over it, I looked down an”
saw that she wasn’t dead. | could hea
her groaning, so I climbed. down to
where she was and slashed her throat
to put her out of misery! ...”

Sam’s abhorrent recital had served to
tentatively—and_ later conclusively—
eliminate the several. suspects whose
names had been even remotely con-
nected with our inquiry. And by the
time he had finished his callous account
of the murders, Emmett Shaw was
ushered in for questioning.

The .unique angle to Emmett’s im-
plication in the crime was the fact that
he had been serving on the county chain
gang for two weeks, and it was there
that. the arresting officers had found
him on the day following the crime of
which he was now accused. Unless he
were a modern “Mr. Raffles,” it seemed
to me before the explanation came out
that his alibi would be jron-clad.

[UNDER questioning, the Shaw Negro
denied the damning assertions of his
alleged accomplice. “T didn’t have a
thing to do with the killing of them
good people,” he tremblingly wailed.

“You've been a trusty in the chain
gang, and they didn’t keep you locked
up at night,” Under Sheriff Burt re-
minded him. “Can you prove where
you were last night?”

Emmett was stumped. Yet he stub-
bornly refused to admit that he had
taken any part in the brutal murders.
It remained for Adelle Whitaker, the
fifteen-year-old colored girl, to clinch
our case against Emmett.

Adelle was promptly arrested as an
accomplice after the fact, and her
statement corroborated what her re-
pentant brother had told to implicate
Emmett as an instigator of the death-
plot. And the colored girl, by her own
free admission, had involuntarily aided
and abetted the vengeful criminals

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when she inadvertently called at the
Wagner home for her brother.

Two trivial incidents in the busy
life of the prominent victim, we were
now convinced, had planted the deadly
germ of hatred that reached its climax
in the orgy of violent death. Sam
Whitaker’s chastisement for failure to
return the borrowed gun, along with
other pentup animosities that he hadn't
dared to voice, had rankled in the hid-
den recesses of the young Negro’s
vengeful mind. Emmett Shaw, Tike.
wise, had borne a secret grudge against
his former employer, because he had
been prosecuted for the petty-thefts.

Sam confided the bitterness that was
brewing in his heart to Emmett, and
the latter, free only for the night, after

another brooding day, his tenth, on the

chain gang, was eager to strike for a
fiendish reprisal. Together they hatched
the plot that would bring evil satisfac-
tion to relieve their mutual rancor.
With the wariness of a couple of cou-
gars, the two treacherous killers then
slipped through the shadows of night
and crept upon their unsuspecting vic-
tims. When at last their lust for blood
was satisfied, their heinous thirst for
vengeance doubly quenched, they did
not stop to reckon the inexorable con-
sequences so soon to follow.

THE sordid picture of all that had
happened now made the mystery
transparent to us, but there was no time
to be lost in touching up the few dark
spots that remained where the tales
told by the two principals crossed each
other. It was enough to know that Jus-
tice had surely and speedily triumphed
—that unmistakably, those who had
wantonly slaughtered the aged couple
were really in custody of the law. But
our problem now was to uphold the
law’s majesty.

The extremely brutal nature of the
murders had aroused public indignation
to a dangerous pitch. Sheriff Doyle was
too wise to the ways of mass psychol-
ogy to take chances on letting it be
known that the slayers were under ar-
rest. The three who were involved in

the crimes were secretly removed from:

the jail and hurried across country to
Greenwood. There, they were safely
lodged in a strong ‘jail, under protec-
tion of Sheriff Sam Coleman of Leflore
County.

On the way to Greenwood, Sam
Whitaker told us that when he deliv-
ered the first cruel blow, which knocked
Mrs. Wagner across the dining table,
the table cover had become stained
with blood and that he later removed
the linen s read and hid it in a clothes
hamper. This was a piece of valuable
corroborative evidence which our search
of the tragedy-house had failed to dis-
close. So when we arrived at the Le-
flore County jail, Sheriff Coleman and
Sheriff Doyle called in a police sten-
ographer to take written statements
from the prisoners, while I, with Burt
and Wattam hurried back to Water
Valley to retrieve the last gruesome
link in the chain of evidence that was
to bind the killers to their doom.

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Water Valley until after their indict-

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ments by the grand jury. Emmett
Shaw and Sam Whitaker were both
duly indicted for first degree murder.

Judge Greek Rice presided at the
trials which began on June 10th, 1931.
Angry citizens packed the heavily
guarded court room, but there was no
disorder to mar the solemn legal pro-
cedure. The jury found the evidence
against the accused ample to warrant
convictions.

The verdict was that the defendants
were guilty as charged and that the

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two men must die for their atrocious
crimes; and they did—at the end of a
rope in the little brick jail in Water
Valley, Friday, July 17th, 1931.

Adelle Whitaker was found guilty on
the charge of being an accessory-after-
the-fact. Her punishment for helping
to conceal the crimes was fixed at five
Sah in the Mississippi State Prison at

archman.

When | think of the two low mounds
in the Water Valley Cemetery, where a
kindly old man and his gentle com-

panion in life now sleep beneath the
sod, snatched from the joy that should
have belonged to their declining years

. all because of the vengeful spirit
of those who were willing to defy the
most sacred rules of God and man, I
feel no remorse for the part I played in
the grim drama which ended in the just
and legal execution of the two mis-
guided wretches who paid with their
lives on the gallows. It serves to point
out the truth of the statement, “Crime
does not pay.”

100 Murders—The World’s Darkest Mystery

was to learn later that these supersti-
tious peasants believed that Susi Olah
was still as powerful dead as alive,
They thought their leader had the
power to surmount death; they believed
she was directing their activities from
beyond the grave.

It may seem fastastic that such be-
liefs should hold sway among people in
any community today, but the reader
must remember that these villages were
cut off from the modern civilized world.
The beliefs of the peasant women were
those associated with medieval witch-
craft, they still held to the superstitions
that their ancestors had handed down
for centuries.

The activities of District Attorney
Kronberger and Dr. Kenyeres moved
in two directions this day. Dr. Ken-
yeres continued his analysis of the
bodies and poisons. More bodies were
brought down constantly from the
cemetery.

District Attorney Kronberger di-
rected the gendarmes in their rounding-
up of the accused women. Before the
day was over a van-load of the women
had been carried off to Szolnok.

Bartok and Frieska, because of their
greater familiarity with the villages,
led the way in arrests.

ONE of the women they were most
anxious to capture was the Widow
Balint Csordas, who lived at Tiszafold-
var, beyond the village of Tiszakurt.
Later information received had indi-
cated to the sleuths that this mysterious
widow had been close to Susi Olah. The
information also conveyed the idea that
the Widow Csordas was directly re-
sponsible for several murders.

This information had been given
Frieska by the girl, Maria Naldi, who
figured in earlier chapters of this story.
Close questioning of* Maria by Both
Bartok and Frieska convinced them
that the girl was innocent of any com-
plicity in Susi Olah’s far-flung murder
schemes. But Maria had known Susi
well and she knew a great deal about
the other women. When Maria’s re-
serve was finally .broken down by
Frieska’s clever and repeated ques-
tionings she told him about the mys-
terious Mrs. Balint Csordas.

Bartok and Frieska proceeded on
foot to the home of the Widow Csordas,
hoping to find her there and make an
arrest. But their problem was more
difficult there because her house was

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away from the other village homes and
had not been watched by the gen-
darmes. They found the doors unlocked
and when they entered the house was
poe’ But they had no_ sooner
i ed it than they heard voices out-
side.

Gazing from behind the curtains at
one of the windows Bartok saw two wo-
men coming up the path. He recognized
the Widow Csordas from the descrip-
tion given him and he also recognized
her companion as a woman named Mrs.
Stephen Koteles, from Nagyrev. Mrs.
Koteles was under suspicion, but had
not yet been arrested. Bartok turned,
whispered to Frieska,

“WELL hide,’ he said. “Let them
come into the house. We may hear
something interesting.”

He looked around the sitting’ room
where they stood, spied an open closet
door. The two sleuths crossed the room,
stepped into the closet, pulled the door
shut except for a tiny crack. Gazing
through the crack they saw the two
women enter, heard them close the out-
side door. They heard Mrs. Koteles

‘ speak,

“It’s terrible,” she said. “With Susi
dead can her spirit really protect us?”

The Widow Csordas did not answer
for a moment. Then she said, “They
do not know where my relatives are

-buried. Even if they find out what can

they do? I will simply say I know
nothing. I will say I did not know Susi
Olah. You say the same.”

It was enough. The door of the closet
slowly opened; Bartok and Frieska con-
fronted the amazed and terror-stricken
women.

“So you did not know Susi Olah,”
said Bartok grimly. “No, you won’t
be able to say that. You are both under
arrest.”

Before the day was over the bulk of
the work of District Attorney Kron-
berger’s gendarmes was finished, the
majority of the women under suspicion
had been arrested.

But the investigation continued for
days and weeks as new facts were un-
covered. Then still other women and
several men were taken into custody.

Finally thirty-five persons were ar-
rested and charged with murders at
Nagyrev and Tiszakurt. Of these all
but four were women. The four men
were accused of complicity, generally
in association with their wives.

Several gruesome tragedies hap-
pened during the progress of the ar-
rests. Two women in the villages poi-
soned themselves and died rather than
face the legal inquisition ahead. Two
others hanged themselves in the jail
at Szolnok.

Mrs. Michael Kardos, whom the
reader will recall as one of Susi’s lieu-
tenants, tried to hang herself in the
jail, but she was cut down‘in time to
save her life. This saving of her life
seemed ironic and futile in view of later
pee engi in her case.

So the hot summer days blended into
autumn and the women of Nagyrev
and Tiszakurt took their daily ex-
ercise in the yard of the Szolnok jail,
awaiting trial. Life went on as usual
back in the two stricken villages, the
peasants went about their tasks, whis-
pered among themselves, wondered
whether the spirit of Susi Olah could
protect her companions from beyond
the grave.

At length the first group of the al-
leged husband-murderers went on trial
before the Szolnok court. I shall never
forget that grim scene on a November
day in \929.

THE little city of Szolnok buzzed with

activity. The spacious courtroom
where the eminent Justice Dr. Fuchs
presided was crowded. Journalists had
come from all parts of Europe to wit-
ness this weird unveiling of the secret
lives of peasant women. There were
battalions of defense lawyers and medi-
cal experts and the highly efficient staff
of prosecuting officials under the direc-
tion of District Attorney Kronberger
and Dr. Kenyeres.

The women were led from their cells
in the white Szolnok jail; they marched
through the long corridors, a tight-
lipped, grim-visaged procession. They
took their places on backless benches
facing the high desks of the judges and
the attorneys. Uniformed gendarmes
sat behind the women, one policeman
to each prisoner.

I studied those peasant faces, each
swarthy countenance framed by a dark
shawl. There was the comparatively
youthful Mrs. Szabo, stolid and_ re-
signed, the thin face of Mrs. Michael
Kardos, with darting hysterical eyes,
Mrs. Kardos was fifty-three years old,
but frightful terror and remorse made
her look seventy.

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man to suffer the death penalty in' him out of the jail, he walked brisk—
Pike county during a period of more!ly across the intervening space, aad
‘than 30 years, although in that time,} mounted the steps of the scaffold un-
u palf dozen or more have had it in-| assisted. Sheriff Lee gave him per-
flieted upon them by Pike county! mission to speak to the crowd, amd’
juries, only to have their lives spar-| Coleman briefly expressed his regret
.ed by new trials or merciful gover-| for his crime, and his belief that he;
i nors. Te would in Heaven in a few-minutes.
|, Phe execution Friday. also was the. The vanerable Jadge T. E. Tate wae
‘first to “occur in this county in 18 among . the onlookers, and wher
years, ', 2. Coleman:had finished, he asked hime
(00 Thursday, March 28, .1907,;“Did ‘you kill Iddo Dillon?” Cole-
| Chas. Coleman, a young negro about .man ‘said,“No, but I was there whela -
25, years old, “was publicly. executed : WalterSmith : did it.” Sheriff Lee *
| by Sheriff Frank Lee;:on'a scaffold: pulled the lever and the drop fell at |
erected between ‘the courthouse and :10:19.:and-at. 10:35.°the man war
| jail:. Coleman was ‘convicted .at the “dead. Rae SP. Sh a,
| October term, 1906, of the’ murder of [> From; the ¢xeeution’ of Chas.:Cole-
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heurred in’“the eastern part . of the 'Pike‘county ‘through a period of 25 —
‘county’ the preceding summer...’ He “years, to’ the date ‘of’ the next /
| was, - jointly © indicted’ - with’ Walter: ceding’ legal “hanging—that of: Leor
; Smith, ;another negro,, for the mur- 'Kstelle:Ford, a°ayhite man = of Me—>
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firmed. the case-and set the ‘day of :the-most/ sensational murder cases ix -
execution, it departed from ‘the usual | Pike eéunty ‘was ‘terminated. ‘After-
_Practice of naming Friday, which! an altercation over his‘payment of a
‘e~stom has been decreed “Hangman's privilége*license;.Ford shot and killed!
Day,” and ordered the mandate. of Richard -M:'Cloy,, at that time’ Mxr—
, the law be. carried out on Thursday. . shal.of. MeComb, on July 8, 1921. At

The October 1906 term at which | the ensuing ‘September term of Cir- -

‘Coleman (waz convicted was. notable} euit Coprt here, he was convicted and
jin that three other® negroes were giv-, sentenced by Judge W.:P. Cassedy ta
en the death penalty for murder. A- be -hanged on Dec. 1, 1891, following. ~
Tony these was Percy Ross, a young: Sometime during the night of Nov. 8,
. Magnolia negro, whose case was’ af-' Ford affected his escape from the .
;firmed'on the same day. as Coleman’s : eounty jail with tools which haaf
j and March 28 fixedl as the date of his | been furnished him by friends on the -
: execution, Hewever, two weeks before outside. He boarded’ a train at the
that time , Governor Vardaman gave; depot here and went to McComip
rina 60 day reprieve, and later com-: where he remained several days see
jmuted his sentence to Jife imprison-} cluded in his home. Afterwards, he

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‘the Board of Supervisors was vested Tennessee officers arrested him ein
‘With-authority to order. executions the City. of Chattanooga. He was:
;RUblic. Murder had become a favorite! returned to Mississippi and placed im
ppestime in ‘Pike county, particularly} the State penitentiary for safe keep-
)@mong negroes, and in response to a\ing. During the September term of~
; feneral public demand, the Board of court: following, Judge Cassedy agaim.

(Supervisors at its March meeting In-| sentenced Ford to be hanged, anaf |

j structed Sheriff Lee to erect the gal-| his execution took place in the coun—
{tuws on the’ courthouse premises and. ty jail here on March 8, 1893.

hang Coleman thereon. Henry Sheridan, a'negro man bee
(‘On the day of execution, nothing tween 65 and 70 years old, was puab-
like the erfrmous crowil of spectat-jlicly hanged in the courthouse yard
lors which. had been expected was; here_in.the spring of 1889. Sheridar
here. Although the execution was assassinated Mr. Felix Varnado,

The young negro had nerved himself hanged by Sheriff Boyd on a scaf—
wonderfully ‘for the terrible ordeal.. fold in the courthouse yard. :

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informed that a team of de.
1ad found, in the Meadow-
ction, a newspaper in a tele.

oth; the paper had been open-

> Classified ad columns, and
ag situation-wanted ad-
it | the wrong telephone
iu veen checked with a pen-

en state alarm was broadcast
kson police headquarters,
local police were instructed
2 all suspicious cars, espe-
colored Chevrolets.
he night more than a hun-
vere halted and searched in
- Mississippi. None of them
Y significant information,
a detective bureau and the
Ounty sheriffs’ office were
Ss to work around the clock
vage, wanton murderer of
derfield should be brought
or his insane crime.

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Ck that morning a prelim-
‘al report was issued by
} coroner; it only com-

mystery. The girl had not
she had been brutally beat-
1, her legs, and arm and
>n broken. However, she
' sexually molested in any

ck on Monday morning,
Police Officers H. E. Clan-
\. Baughn had been rou-
Ng various automobiles
d *--1 on duty, an hour
] ‘d at the corner of
11 _lorth West Streets,
a 1959 Chevrolet, bear-
ense plates,
tr of the sedan seemed
‘hen, Baughn noted two
s across the outside of

| Baughn to his partner,
' dried blood.”

ded. “I’m going to crawl
” said Baughn. “There

more stains there.”

appeared beneath the
Oment later he emerged,
ing silken and wispy in

qeld it up. “All Tight,” ~

ten, “what do you make

a tuft of human blonde
‘air.” :

I think,” said Baughn.
rters. Ask them to send
ves, and give them this
Tell them to check the

S later, Sergeant Suth-
: F. C. Hammond and
‘oering drove up. They
pected Chevrolet, then
d drove it to the po-
nspection by. the lab-

n he Jackson offi-

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regarding the im-

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tolen in Wichita some
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police. According to the hospital offi-
cial, the patient, 26 year old Kenneth
M. Slyter, had been brought in by a

away from the spot where the blood-
Stained Chevrolet had been found.

A call to the firm answered three
important questions. First, Slyter was,
indeed, employed there. Second, he
was the possessor of a 1959, light col-
ored Chevrolet, and third, he had in-
explicably disappeared from his job
about 10 o’clock that morning. This
information was Promptly relayed to
Sergeants Sutherland, Fred Freeman
and S. M. Magee.

“It all seems to fit,” remarked. Suth-
erland as the trio headed for the hos-
pital. “Slyter probably saw us Casing
his car from the Place where he was
working. He Panicked, swallowed poi-
son and ran away.”

When the officers Teached Slyter’s
bedside, he was out of danger; a stom-
ach pump had been employed to rid
him of the poison. He looked pale and
weak as he lay on the bed. Sutherland
came directly to the point.

“We've found blood and blonde hair
On your car,” he said. “The lab’s look-
ing it over to see if it matches with
that of Sandra Holderfield. Now, tell
us where you were on Saturday night
after 7 o’clock.”

Kenneth Slyter was in no position
to argue and he knew it. “All right,”
he said, “I killed her. I don’t know
why I did it.” He Paused and added
righteously, “But I didn’t rape her.”

He went on to say that he had orig-
inally called in answer to the adver-
tisement in order to obtain a sitter for
his young daughter while he took his
wife out. After being connected with
the wrong number, he had changed his
plans and decided to trick the young
girl. who answered into gOing out with
him.
Slyter admitted hitting Sandra Hol-

derfield over the head and body with
‘a tire tool, ed pens boremane. Bon, He
' her as y unconscious.
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Detective Sergeant Sutherland called
the Slyter home and questioned the
murderer's wife. Mrs. Slyter, an at-
tractive young woman clad in a mater-
nity gown, held her one year old daugh-
ter on her knee and spoke in a low
voice.

She had known that there was some-

thing peculiar about Slyter’s activities
on that tragic Saturday night. He had
left the house about 7 o'clock, osten-
sibly to buy milk for the child.

He had been gone for more than
two hours. When he returned he had
changed from his ordinary clothing
into the blue demin work overalls he
kept in the car.

“My other clothes are covered with
blood,” he told his wife. “I ran over a
dog. I held it in my arms until it died.
It was such a pretty dog.”

At that point he had broken into
tears.

Slyter took his bloody clothing and
soaked them overnight, refusing his
wife’s offer to wash them on the fol-
lowing day. “

He had gone to work on Monday
morning. Shortly, after ten o'clock,
he had telephoned and instructed his
wife to pack a bag.

“I’ve got to go away,” he said, “in
a hurry.”

But, according to Mrs. Slyter, her
husband never returned to the house
to pick up the bag which she had
packed.

The telephone call concerning the
stolen car which had been put through
to Kansas set the Wichita officials to

looking into the records. On Tuesday
morning, Sheriff Noble received a re-
port from Detective Sergeant Doyle
C. Terry of the Wichita force.

Twelve years ago, when Slyter was
barely 15 years old, he had tricked an
18 year old girl from her home by tell-
ing her that his parents needed a baby-
sitter. He had clubbed her unconscious
with a hammer, then raped her.

As a result of this attack, Slyter had
been sent to a mental hospital in To-
peka. He had escaped, was captured
and returned to custody. Later, he was
discharged as cured.

Sergeant Terry went on to say that
Slyter had been questioned on many
occasions in connection with numerous
telephoned attempts to lure Wichita
girls from their homes on the pretext
that a baby sitter was needed. None
of these various attempts had been suc-

— cessful.

Terry had last seen Slyter when the

killer had brazenly called at police
headquarters in 1961 to introduce his
bride, a pretty, young girl from Missis-
sippi. ;
In addition to his sexual crimes,
Slyter had been convicted in Kansas
on two charges of auto theft and one,
of burglary.

In spite of all this, Slyter’s fellow
workers at the exterminating firm said
that he ‘semed like a nice guy.’ His
employer stated that he had hired Sly-
ter through an employment agency less
than a month before.

“He seemed desperate for a jo,”
the proprietor said. “He was a ‘hats,

GET THE COP KILLER!
(Continued from page 35)

before. The shock of being arrested by
J. Edgar Hoover’s efficient G-Men was
visible on their faces and in their man-
ner. They offered no resistance. One
readily admitted that he was the “Thom-
as Malley” who had purchased the re-
volver in Baltimore.

The other, though shaken, was not
talkative. He said he had done time in
Great Meadows and finally, after brisk
questioning by a young agent whose
crisp, rapid queries caught him off bal-
ance, he admitted he had met Apple-
gate in prison. “But I don’t know any-
thing about him,” he insisted, “and |
had nothing to do with Katonah.”

But as soon as the clerk in the hard-
ware store in Bridgeport saw this sus-
pect’s photograph, he recognized him.
“That’s the man who bought the shot-
gun and shells from me!”

One of the FBI techniques of inves- ’

tigation is persistent questioning of pris-
oners. The agents, all law school gradu-
ates, are masters of cross examination.
They ask and ask and ask, and make the
suspect repeat and repeat his story.
Working in relays, with infinite patience,
56

worker and seemed to get along with
everybody.” Vee

Mrs. Slyter said that she had met her
husband while both worked at the
Whitfield State Hospital in Mississippi,/
Later, they moved to Kansas. i

“He had several jobs there,” she said.
“Some of them paid well. I don’t know ~
what we'll do now. He loved his daugh- 7
ter and always treated me good. He ~
was a hard worker.” Be

On Tuesday afternoon, services were.
held for Sandra Holderfield at Wright
and Ferguson Chapel; her school mates
acted as pall bearers.

Kenneth Slyter still has not made
his motive for the brutal and wanton
murder clear. It is quite likely that his
twisted mind can not understand what ~
terrible compulsion impelled him to |
mutilate and break the body ofa young
girl. Perhaps the psychiatrists may *
come up with an answer. Perhaps they ~
may not. It is worth noting that once .
he was discharged from a mental hos- “4
pital as sane. a

It was not only Kenneth Slyter who 7%
slew Sandra Holderfield. It was also a 7#
series of utterly incredible coincidences:
If the medical aide had not written an
ad, if a printer had not transposed the
telephone numbers, if a girl had not
been visiting friends when the call
came. a
Any insurance actuary or, if you
like, any bookmaker will tell you that
the odds against all these things hap-
pening are astronomical to the point ‘|
of being almost impossible. =

But, obviously, not quite. ath, ce

their method of interrogation has writ-
ten a brilliant chapter into the history
of law enforcement in the United States.
The criss-cross attack was too swift
and confusing for the suspect. He be-
came troubled, and desperate, and fin-
ally broke under the barrage of ques-
tions. “All right, all right!” he shouted.
“T’'ll tell you who planned the whole
thing. It was Suhay—Bob Suhay!” -

EW YORK Police Department rec-

ords showed that Robert Suhay,
alias Robert Sauti, had been arrested
on March 3rd, 1932, by Detective
Michael Foley on a charge of armed
robbery of a store on Madison Avenue.
On April 11th, he was sentenced to
serve from six to twelve years in Sing
Sing, and later was transferred to Great
Meadows. The prison officials there ad-
vised that Suhay was extremely friendly
with Glenn Applegate, who was an in-
mate at that time. They produced his
record which showed that his few cor-
respondents while in jail included a
friend who lived on Bedford Avenue,
Brooklyn.
- The New York Parole Office said
Suhay had reported on March 31st, less
than three weeks after the Katonah
bank robbery, for his monthly check-
in, giving his father’s address as his

residence. But the gray-haired man
questioned by special agents declared his
son had left town an hour after he clear-
ed himself with the parole officers. “He 3
said he was going to Chicago to see his .*
mother, who left me several years ago.”
A flash to the FBI in Chicago sent &|
agents there on:the trail of Suhay, but
he could not be found at his mother’s
home. Meanwhile, agents visited the
friend’s shop in Brooklyn. ' ie
From the attractive blonde book-
keeper at the shop the agents learned
that Suhay had stopped in toward the
end of March. Shown a photograph ot — 4
the suspect, she immediately identified ~~
him as Suhay. ; a)
Federal agents sped to United States #
Commissioner Garrett W. Cotter and
obtained warrants for Applegate and
Suhay, charging them with conspiracy ~~
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aw. Se
Investigation by Agent Rhea Whit- |
ley, in New York, turned up the infor- ~
mation that mail’ had been sent to
Applegate, under .the Gerald Lewis
name in care of General Delivery,
Topeka, Kansas. The warrants were *93
forwarded from New York to Dwight °*
Brantley, agent in charge of the Kansas
City Division of the FBI. Brantley, in ~
turn, handed them over to Special ©

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et a monster

aster Sunday, a perfect
Easter morning. Along
Miss., golden sunlight
older houses and lent a
spicebush and newly-
oles of her flats, the girl
is she stepped from the
1 to a friend’s home.
led through the screened

urlers in their cigar box
aer hair damp, hugged a
as she opened the door.
.e table,” she said. “They
at them and see.”
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g. While the visitor took
iracle, her friend settled
ibed out her hair. “Just

whose lust turned to savage rage when she resisted him

don’t let it rain,” she breathed. Her voice held the fervence
that only a young woman in her earliest 20s can command.
“Tt just CAYent rain.”

‘It won't,” her visitor said. “rf S.B.’s weather report says
fair and warm for the lower Mississippi Valley, then it
just won’t rain.”

S.B. was the Southern Bell Telephone Company, where
the two girls and the two roommates of the one who'd just
washed her hair were employed. The other two girls were
still at the office and had promised to phone home should
there happen to be any change in the official weather pro-
jection for Easter Sunday. The visitor opened the cigar box
and took out a curler. Working deftly, she rolled up a coil
of her friend’s damp hair and secured it with a rubber band.
She was about to place the second curler when the tele-
phone rang in the hall.

Her friend sighed. “I knew it,” she said. “I just knew it.”
She propelled herself from the chair and raced to the phone.

“Yes?” she asked.

Suspect who ate priest he nes mixed himself a lethal cocktail looked pained when the police questioned him.

A. man’s. voice was on the other end of the wire. It was
deliberate and precise. The accent was foreign to Jackson.

“Hello,” he said. “I saw your ad in the paper. I know it’s
not your regular line of work, but do you think you could
do a job of baby-sitting for my wife and me?”

The girl held the phone away from her face and stared
at it wryly.

“Ad in the paper?” she echoed, “We don’t have no ad
in the paper, mister. This is an unlisted number. It wouldn’t
be in the paper. You must have dialed it wrong.”

There was a. split second’s pause. The man’s voice re-
peated the number, then glossed over the ad, “ “Young
colored woman seeks employment as nurse’s aide. Experi-
enced and willing,’ Isn’t that your ad, ma’am?”

“J do declare that it’s not,” she said. “They must have
printed the wrong number. We certainly don’t have anyone

. like that here.”

A new note crept into the man’s voice. “Please, ma’am,”
he said. ““We’re new here in town. From New York. I came

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Answering a stranger’s plea for help, she met a monster

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JACKSON, MISS., APRIL 27, 1962

@ It was the afternoon before Easter Sunday, a perfect
afternoon that augured a perfect Easter morning. Along
North Jefferson Street in Jackson, Miss., golden sunlight
lay in pools on the piazzas of the older houses and lent a
metallic ‘sheer’ to rows of stately spicebush and newly-
leafed clematis. Through the thin soles of her flats, the girl
felt the warmth of the concrete as she stepped from the
adjoining lawn to the walk that led to a friend’s home.

“You bring them?” the friend called through the screened
front door.

The girl rattled the plastic hair curlers in their cigar box
container in response. Her friend, her hair damp, hugged a
bath towel around her shoulders as she opened the door.
“The shoes are in the kitchen on the table,” she said. “They
go just perfect with the bag. Look at them and see.”

It was true. The taupe linen shoes were exactly the same
shade as the friend’s Easter handbag. While the visitor took
appropriate notice of this minor miracle, her friend settled
herself in a kitchen chair and combed out her hair. “Just

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Death was no stranger to the profes-
sional policemen who stood over the bat-
tered, smashed remains of Sandra Holder-
field. But no officer present had ever
before witnessed such savage, wanton,
sadistic slaughter. The girl had been mer-
cilessly beaten and mutilated. Further-
more, in the opinion of the coroner, an
added bit of horror had been perpetrated
by the murderer: with his car, he’d run

_ over his victim!

The miracle in reverse had come to
pass. The thing which had but one chance
in a googol of happening had happened!
If any single link in the incredible chain
of events had been missed, Sandra Hold-
erfield would still be alive.

If Agnes Monnand had not decided to
place an ad in the newspaper; if the
daydreaming typesetter had not made an
error in listing the phone number; if the
incorrect telephone number appearing in
the paper had not belonged to friends of
Charlotte Holderfield; if Charlotte had not
been visiting in the apartment of Martha
Gamble and Virginia Beck that day; if
Sandra had had a date for that fatal Sat-
urday night—murder would not have been
done to her. If any single one of these
links in the chain of circumstance had
not fallen precisely into place, the back-
wards miracle could not have occurred!

But it had indeed occurred, as the shat-
tered, broken young body, lying stiil be-
neath the pine tree, mutely and bloodily
attested.

At the direction of the coroner, the
corpse was removed to a funeral home,
where the legally required autopsy would
be performed.

As this was being done, the lawmen
conducted an intensive search of the area.
Sheriff Billy Noble stooped over and
picked up something from the sedgegrass.

He showed his find to Detective Sergeant

Sutherland.

“I guess,” the sheriff remarked, “this
purse must have belonged to Sandra.”

The other officer nodded. “What’s in
it?” he asked.

Sheriff Noble spread out the contents.
“A bout 40 cents in silver,” he stated, “and
a compact. That’s all. There’s nothing to
tell us who her killer is.”

The search continued, but the investiga-
tor found nothing except the bloodstained
clothing which Dorothy Morlow had first
spotted at the side of the road. The blue
shorts which the girl had worn when
she left her home were still missing.

Also not found was the slightest clue to
the identity of the mysterious caller who
had responded to Agnes Monnand’s ad-
vertisement and had followed his chance
contact with Sandra Holderfield by mur-
der! However, there was one solid fact
in the possession of the lawmen. Two
members of the slain baby-sitter’s family
had observed the car which had carried
the pretty teen-ager to her death. Through
the living room window they had seen
Sandra drive off in a tan-colored 1959
Chevrolet.

Thus the automobile became the prin-
cipal object of the search for a killer. The
police teletypes in the capital city clat-
tered a description of the car into eight

surrounding states. All Mississippi officers .

were instructed to examine every vehicle
which answered the description of the
one in which Sandra Holderfield had been
driven to her savage death.

During Easter Sunday night, more than
50 Chevrolets were stopped throughout
the Magnolia State. The drivers were
questioned; the cars were examined for
bloodstains. But by Monday morning,
April 23, 1962, the killer was still at large.

Early that same morning, a preliminary
post-mortem report was issued. The cor-

oner announced that both of the girl’s legs
had been broken, along with her arm and
several of her ribs. Her cheekbone, too,
had been smashed.

In addition to bruises and lacerations
on the girl’s face, the medical examiner
found marks upon her. abdomen and
lower body which indicated that an auto-
mobile had been run over her.

Building their theory as to what had
happened to the blonde baby-sitter, the
police figured that the slayer, pretending
he was driving Sandra to his home, had

taken her to the lonely road. There, he .

had made advances which the youngster
had resisted strenuously. At one point, the
plucky girl had managed to free herself
from the clutches of the fiend. She’d got
out of the car and had started running

’ down the road. Frantic at the thought of

his prey escaping him, the monster had
felled her with his car! This would ac-
count for the broken legs and arm and
for her fractured ribs.

With his victim battered and bleeding,
the savage sadist had dragged her remains
across the ground to the pine tree, where
he had dumped her. Whatever lust had
been in his heart had vanished. Thus,
Sandra Holderfield had saved her virtue
at the price of life.

Where peace and tranquility had filled
the air over Jackson, now there was a
hue ahd cry for vengeance against the
beast man who had wrought such havoc
upon an innocent girl. Every available
lawman was ordered into the search for
the fiend. There would be no rest until
justice triumphed.

By 9 o’clock that eventful morning, Cap-
tain J. B. Hines of the Jackson Police De-
partment announced that more than 1,000
cars had been stopped and examined
throughout the city. Among the officers
assigned to this particular detail were
Patrolmen H. E. Clanton and B. A.
Baughn.

These two alert lawmen were patrolling
an area on Fortification Street near North
West Avenue when Officer Baughn gave
a muffled exclamation.

“Look!” he said to his partner, “There’s
a light tan 1959 Chevvy parked in front
of that exterminating and termite control
office. Let’s check it.”

As the pair examined the automobile,
they observed that it was unoccupied and
that the window on the driver’s side was
cracked. Furthermore, the lawmen saw
two suspicious smears on the glass. One
narrow, brownish stain crossed the crack,
and a second broader, shorter but sim-

ilarly colored smudge ran parallel to the

break in the window.

Patrolman Baughn glanced at his part-
ner. “What do you think?” he asked.
“That could be blood.”

Officer Clanton agreed. “Let’s give this
Chevvy a good going over,” he suggested.

The two patrolmen carefully examined
the interior of the car, going over every
inch of the upholstery. It was spotlessly
clean.

“Maybe too clean,” commented Officer
Clanton significantly.

Patrolman Baughn nodded. “Remem-
ber what the autopsy report said?” he
asked. “That the girl had been run over
by a car? Well, I’m going to crawl under-
neath and take a look at the frame.”

Patrolman Baughn dropped to his knees
and disappeared beneath the car. He
emerged a few moments later. In his hand
he held something that looked like new
straw in the bright spring sunshine.

“Took at this,” he said to his partner.

Officer Clanton stared long and hard.
Then he spoke slowly and_ gravely.
“Human hair,” he murmured. “A blonde
girl’s hair. Where did you find it?”

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science that way!”.
his STARTLING DETECTIVE reporter had

‘e a colloqu i i
cs en y with one of the ranking
ce officer said he didn’t see
an
2>rence between Hummel and White.
4 ‘so far as guilt or innocence is con-
1€ d, for that matter, so far as
‘ “age concerned.
2e,” this author stated. “
umel is quite different from Whites
oa Hummel has a conscience. He
t rest until he had laid his own
on the line by confessing. He can’t be
iven for what he did, but he is suffer-
more than: Whitehorn. He sees him-
de perp! light. He knows the
1. He told the truth. He’
a) em ri conscience.” oo
e official gazed at the reporter with
oe ae look chittackariatic of
work. “Tim i ? i
fare e will tell,” he said
‘o days later, on May 3, 1962, thi
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Tr came back from Malibu Fontes
oP where the defendants had their
ay hearing. Norman Whitehorn
" a wearing a flowered sport shirt
3 s hanging out. He kept his face
rom cameras, even after being
arles Henry Hummel entered
ig A gg of him as if in shock. ae
d0lice official known to this writ
2d him. “Did you know,” he baked

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lenummmel has changed his story

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s,” the officer murmured. “We’

$ it out to reporters now. Charlee
, Hummel says he strangled Angela
: Gums, after the assault. Hummel
t was Whitehorn who held her while

ael used Whitehorn’s tie to do the

3 ie allegedly told the officers
: = ee Angela. He’d next
set ht .
get ehorn and asked, “What
purported that Whitehorn took off
» and handed it to Hummel. The
used it to throttle the blonde, but
ne asserted, Whitehorn took over.
story was out, and the newspaper
ers who came to wrap things up
eir next edition jumped to their
id headed for telephones. A tele-
man approached Charles Henry
ge a microphone to his lips.
y did you change your story?”
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n't believe—” the young man
x , A stut-
I don’t think you— You've got to
tand— My religion . . . now I’ve
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my consci i :
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y, the TV commentator k
_ you had absolution?” =
manacled youth wet his lips. A
perspiration appeared on his fore-
Yes,” he whispered. -
it made you do that?” the news-
lemanded, pleading for wunder-

1’t know, sir! If I actually knew .. .”
t can you do for absolution, to
iven?”

u gergiven! I am forgiven!” Hum-
re forgiven by whom?” the re-
snapped. “By Mrs. Gums? By
u * mily?”

3} on’t know the family.”

L ven by whom?”

iven by God! By God! Forgiven

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at the wall, the back of his head
slevision cameras.

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television set. I have a pair of Boxer pups
she can play with, and if she wants to go
swimming, I have a magnificent pool on
my property.” He went on to say that his
home was situated in the fashionable
Meadowbrook area of Jackson. In giving
his name, the caller spoke in a mumbling
tone so that Martha Gamble, who had
taken the third call, could not under-
stand it.

At this point, Charlotte Holderfield, a
kindly young woman who had been
touched by the caller’s statement that his
wife was in need of medical attention,
asked Martha Gamble to let her talk to
the man.

“Maybe I have a sitter who can help
you out,” she offered. “My sister, Sandra,
takes an occasional job of that type. If
she’s not doing anything tonight, she
might be willing to work for your wife.
Give me your telephone number; I'll get
in touch with Sandra and call you back
to let you know.”

The man was grateful and apologetic.
“’m terribly sorry,” he replied. “But I
haven’t as yet been able to get a telephone
installed at my home. I'll call you back
in half an hour.”

But the man in the telephone booth,
who was following up the error made by
the typesetter in listing the wrong num-
ber in the ad, was impatient; he didn’t
wait for a half hour. He telephoned again
in 15 minutes.

“Eyverything’s O.K.,” Charlotte Holder-
field assured him. “My sister is willing to
take the job. And you can trust her to
take good care of your children. Sandra
is reliable and responsible.”

Young Sandra Holderfield was, indeed,
possessed of both those qualities, and
others. The 15-year-old blonde was a
quiet and lovely girl who liked to stay
at home and help her mother. Her grades
as a sophomore were above average at
Central High School, and she had not
missed a day of attendance for two years.

In addition, the teen-ager was a steady
churchgoer. She had won a boxful of
medals at the Sunday School of the First
Presbyterian Church of Jackson. She
hadn’t missed a Sunday service in four
years. And she didn’t intend to miss to-
morrow, either. That would be Easter
Sunday. Sandra’s aunt had presented her
with a bright new yellow dress for the
joyous occasion.

But Sandra Holderfield would miss
church that next day. She would wear her
yellow dress for the first and last time—
at her own funeral!

No one thought of anything so macabre
as death that evening in the Holderfield
house on North Jefferson Street in the
bustling capital city. Exciting prepara-
tions for the holiday were everywhere
present, and the family of Mr. and Mrs.
James Holderfield were in a happy mood.

Perhaps Sandra, thinking of her crisp
new dress, was the happiest of all. To-
night she looked astonishingly young and
pretty. She was wearing a pair of blue
shorts, a white blouse and tennis sneakers.
She sat by the living room window wait-
ing for her prospective employer to call
for her.

Charlotte Holderfield was in the living
room with her younger sister. She glanced
at her watch and remarked, “He should
be here any minute. When I gave him our
address, the man said that his wife might

pick you up in their Lincoln sedan, or
that he, himself, might drive over in a
1959 Chevrolet.”

The older sister had barely finished ut-
tering these words when a light-colored
chevvy sedan pulled up in front of the
house, its horn honking imperatively.

“Be careful and take care of yourself,”
Charlotte counseled the youngster as
Sandra hurried to the front door and into
the street.

Seconds later, the teen-ager got into the
car and casually greeted the young man
at the wheel. .

“Hi,” the driver responded, looking at
the girl keenly. “You're the prettiest
baby-sitter I’ve ever hired,” he stated.

The lovely young blonde in the blue
shorts and white blouse ignored the flat-
tering remark as she and her employer
headed north on North Jefferson Avenue.
They were bound, although no one but
the murderer knew it at the time, for
the final tragic link in the chain of events
which could not possibly happen—but did!

At 1 o’clock on Easter morning, Mr. and
Mrs. Holderfield were seriously concerned
that something sinister had happened.
Their daughter Sandra, always so relia-
ble, had neither returned home nor tele-
phoned to explain her delay in doing so.

Charlotte had thought that the mysteri-
ous, persistent caller who had driven off
with her sister had given his address to
Martha Gamble during his conversation
with her. However, upon checking with
her co-worker, Charlotte learned to her
dismay that the stranger had only mum-
bled this information. The only distinct
word he’d uttered in that direction was

the name of the steel company in Jack- -

son for which he’d said he was employed
as an executive.

- Without delay, the missing teen-ager’s
seriously worried father called police
headquarters.

In response to the alarm, Detective
Sergeants A. L. Sutherland and Fred
Freeman were immediately dispatched to
the Holderfield residence. The two officers
questioned Sandra’s sister, Charlotte, in
detail about the four misdirected tele-
phone calls made to the apartment of her
two girl friends.

And, before leaving the house, Detec-
tive Sergeant Freeman obtained from the
anxious mother a recent photograph of
her missing teen-aged daughter.

While the lawman took Sandra’s picture
to the police photo lab at headquarters
to have a number of copies made for
distribution in the search for the girl,
his partner, Detective Sergeant Suther-
land, checked the city directory and ob-
tained the name and address of the per-
sonnel director of the steel company for
which the mysterious stranger had stated
he was working.

Twenty minutes later, Detective Ser-
geant Sutherland rang the bell at the
home of George Burnett, the man in
charge of the steel firm’s employment
records. The company executive, clad in
a dressing gown, opened the door and
with sleepy eyes looked at the detective.
The officer identified himself and stated
his business. ;

“Well,” commented the personnel direc-
tor, “offhand I don’t recall any new em-~-
ploye having recently been transferred
from New York. But if you'll wait until
I get dressed, we can go to the office and
make sure.”

Shortly afterward, in the company of-
fice, George Burnett went through his
personnel files. He shook his head and
told the sergeant, “There have been no
out-of-state transfers here for the past
six months. Whoever you are looking for
does not work here.”

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The lawman thanked the personnel

manager for his trouble, returned to his

office at headquarters. There he found
that Sergeant Freeman had gone through
the procedure of registering Sandra
Holderfield as a missing person. More-
over, he had arranged for the local papers
to publish her picture, and for the radio
and television stations in the area to
broadcast the young girl’s description and
the news of her disappearance. It was
hoped that a lead would come from this
effort.

The alarming news was being constantly
flashed across the state on Easter morn-
ing as the church bells pealed, as the
citizens of Mississippi’s capital paraded
their new finery, as they strolled past the
old state capitol where Jefferson Davis
had made his last speech almost 80 years
ago.

A light breeze blew across the nearby
Pearl River. The sky was blue, the sun
bright. This, the happiest holiday of the
Christian faith, was, however, a day of
extreme anxiety to the Holderfield family.

So efficient had been the radio and tele-
vision broadcasts concerning the missing
baby-sitter that almost everyone in Jack-
son and in neighbor Madison County was
aware of her mysterious disappearance.
Mr. and Mrs. John Morlow, for instance,
heard the news over their automobile
radio at 4 o’clock that Easter Sunday aft-
ernoon.

At that hour—21 hours after Sandra had
vanished—the Morlows, who lived in
Jackson, were driving to their farm, situ-
ated half a mile north of the historic
Natchez Trace in Madison County. In tak-
ing a short cut, John Morlow turned the
car into a secluded, shady dirt road which,
on summer nights, was a spot where lovers
kept their rendezvous.

Suddenly Dorothy Morlow clutched her
husband’s arm. “Look, John!” she ex-
claimed, and pointed to the edge of the
road. There, lying in thick sedgegrass, was
a single tennis sneaker, a pair of panties
and a brassiere, all of which were stained
an ominous red.

“Good Lord!” John Morlow exclaimed.
“Do you think this might have something
to do with the poor missing girl we just
heard about on the radio?”

Before his wife could reply, the farmer
stopped the car. “You stay here,” he told
Dorothy Morlow sharply. “I'll look
around.” He stepped out onto the road
and followed a thin trail of gore through
the sedgegrass. He walked about 10 feet
and came to the base of a bent pine tree.

And there the startled man found what '.

the entire Jackson police force had been
searching for all day. He found Sandra
Holderfield.

John Morlow was horrified at his dis-
covery. The blonde lay on her back, al-
most naked. She was wearing a single
tennis sneaker and a torn and blood-
stained blouse which failed to cover- her
nudity. Her body was battered and muti-
lated. Her legs had been broken, along
with one arm, and some bones of her
face had been shattered. Part of the teen-
ager’s upper lip had been torn away, as
had part of one of her ears.

That the teen-ager had put up a ter-
rific struggle for her life was evident. Her
fingernails were broken and_ blood
smeared.

With this ghastly picture to haunt him,
John Morlow raced back to his automo-
bile, drove at top speed to his farmhouse,
where he called Madison County Sheriff
Billy Noble and the Jackson Police De-
partment. Within a matter of minutes,
a score of officials, including the Madison
County coroner, had congregated at the
murder scene.

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attested.

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corpse was removed t
where the legally requ
be performed.

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conducted an intensive
Sheriff Billy Noble
picked up something fr
-He showed his find to
Sutherland. a

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purse must have belong

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tell us who her killer is

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she left her home were

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the identity of the mys
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Sandra drive off in a
Chevrolet.

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April 23, 1962, the killer

Early that same morn
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“Under the front bumper guard. I'll
stand by here. You call headquarters. Tell
them what we’ve got aud have them check
the license plates. Ask them to find out
in whose name this car is registered.”

The Chevrolet carried Kansas plates.
Officer Clanton jotted down the digits and
got in touch with his superiors. Within 15
minutes, a contingent from the police
laboratory had arrived to scrape samples
of the stain from the sedan’s window and
to take possession of the tuft of hair found
beneath the bumper guard.

In addition to the technicians, Detective
Sergeants A. L. Sutherland and S. M.
Magee, along with Detective F. C. Ham-
mond and Patrolman Bob Bowering,
pulled up to the scene in two squad cars.

Detective Sergeant Sutherland as-
signed Patrolman Bowering to stand
guard over the suspicious Chevrolet.

“The rest of us,” he suggested, “will try
to find the owner. Check every building
around here. I'll try that exterminating
plant. The car may belong to one of its
employes.”

The lawmen deployed along the block.
Sergeant Sutherland entered the termite
' control plant and presented himself to the
manager. The detective asked if any of
the establishment’s workers drove a
1959 Chevrolet, bearing Kansas plates.

“Yes,” replied the executive. “That
sedan belongs to Ken Slyter.” A frown
crossed the man’s face. “Strange thing
happened a little while ago,” he added
finally. “Slyter ran out of here saying he
was sick. He sure looked ill, so I didn’t
ask any questions.”

Sergeant Sutherland took out his note-
book. “Let me have his home address,”
he requested, “and his description.”

Kenneth Marlon Slyter, it appeared,
was 26 years old; of average height and
build, with brown hair and eyes. He had
been employed as a salesman by the ex-
terminating company for some _ twa
months. The manager considered the
young man a good worker. Slyter lived
with his wife and infant daughter on
West Fortification Street.

Thanking the executive for his as-
sistance, the detective sergeant left the
termite control offices and called head-
quarters. The lawman reported these fur-
ther developments to Detective Chief M.
B. Pierce, and announced that he was
going to Slyter’s home to pick up the
suspect.

Before he hung up, Sergeant Suther-
land learned from Chief Pierce that the
license number of the Chevrolet had been
checked with the Kansas’ authorities. It
developed that the tan sedan had been
stolen in Wichita five months previously.

After concluding the call, Detective
Sergeant Sutherland turned to Sergeant
Magee, who had joined him. “If Slyter
was sick,” the former opined, “he prob-
ably went home. Let’s go to his house and
see if he’s there.”

The lawmen were halfway to their des-
tination, when the voice of the police
headquarters dispatcher came over their
patrol car radio.

“Kenneth Slyter,” came the message,
“has just been admitted to the Baptist
Hospital as an attempted suicide. Proceed
and place him under arrest.”

Sergeant Sutherland at the wheel spun
the car around and headed for the hos-
pital. Arrived there, the pair of officers
conferred with the doctor in charge.

“The patient,” the medical man in-
formed the sleuths, “was brought here by
a priest. The young man had tried to kill
himself by drinking DDT mixed with
kerosene. Since this was an attempted
suicide, I notified the police as the law
requires.”

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“Will he be all right?” asked Sergeant

Magee. “Are we going to,be able to ques- |

tion him?”

“We've used a stomach pump,” the
physician explained. “He is still a little
shaky, but he will recover. We are still
working on him. You ought to be able
to talk to him in a few minutes.”

The police officers were sitting in the
hospital waiting room when Madison
County Sheriff Billy Noble, who had been
notified by Jackson headquarters of the
recent developments. in the case, arrived
with two of his deputies. Inasmuch as
Sandra Holderfield had been murdered
in Madison County, final jurisdiction was
in the hands of Sheriff Noble.

It was shortly before noon when the

sheriff, his deputies and the Jackson offi- .

cers were ushered into Kenneth Slyter’s
room. The bug exterminator lay on his
back, his face ashen and fear reflected in
his dark eyes.

“T tried to kill myself,” he whispered.
“From the door of my shop I saw the
police standing around my car. I guess I
panicked. I drank a mixture of DDT and
kerosene. Then I ran out of the shop to a
nearby church. I wanted to confess to a
priest before I died.” |

The clergyman had acted swiftly. He
had bundled Kenneth Slyter into a car
and had rushed him to the hospital.

“What about the girl?” asked Sheriff
Noble. “What about Sandra Holderfield?”

The young man closed his eyes. “She
resisted my advances,” it is alleged that

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he mumbled. “I beat her with a tire iron.
Then I beat her with my fists. When she
tried to get away, I ran the car over her
body twice.”

The suspect is purported to have gone
on talking in a monotone. “I made that
first phone call last Saturday,” he as-
sertedly said, “after seeing the advertise-
ment in the paper about a nurse’s aide
looking for work. I thought I could lure
the woman who had inserted the ad into
meeting me. Then, when it turned out to
be a wrong number, I pretended I wanted
a baby-sitter, and I kept calling back.”

At this point, Sergeant Sutherland in-
terrupted. “What about the blue shorts
Sandra was wearing?” he asked.

It is alleged that Kenneth Slyter made
the following reply: “I ripped the shorts
from her while she was still in the car. I
threw them out on my way back to town,
somewhere near the Natchez Trace. I
don’t remember exactly where.”

The officers, after receiving permission
from the doctors, decided to remove the
suspect to the Jackson jail for further
questioning before handing him over to

' Sheriff Noble for transfer to Madison

County.

However, Kenneth Slyter was unable
to walk by himself. When the lawmen
picked him up from the bed, he slumped
to the floor. Finally he was half dragged,
half carried, to a car downstairs and
driven to the city jail.

' While other detectives interrogated the
accused in his cell, Sergeants Sutherland
and Magee drove to the apartment on
West Fortification Street to interview
Mrs. Slyter. The wife of the prisoner was
a young and pretty. matron: She wore
maternity garments, and talked to the
lawmen with her one-year-old daughter
on her knee.

Mrs. Slyter, it is reported, stated that
she knew “something was wrong” regard-
ing her husband’s Saturday night activi-
ties. The accused salesman had left the
house shortly before 7 o’clock, ostensibly
to buy milk for his child. However, the
26-year-old exterminator had not re-
turned for more than two hours.

When he did come back, he was not
wearing the suit in which he had left
the house. He had changed to blue denims,
which he kept in his car.

To explain this sartorial switch, Ken-
neth Slyter had told his wife that he had
met with an accident; that he had run
over a dog.

“T held it in my arms until it died,” said
Slyter, “and got blood all over my
clothes.”

Then, according to Mrs. Slyter, her
husband had buried his face in his hands
and had cried like a baby, repeatedly sob-
bing, “It was such a pretty dog.”

The young matron went on to say that
her husband had placed his bloodstained
clothing in the washing machine to soak
overnight and had rejected her offer to
wash them on Sunday.

On Easter, Kenneth Slyter had spent a
great deal of time in the garage, cleaning
his car.

According to the police, the attractive
young mother told them that her husband
had telephoned her shortly after he had
gone to work on Monday morning.

“Pack me a bag, quick,” he’d said. “I’ve
got to get out of town.”

But the exterminator of insects had
never come home to pick up the suit-
case.

As the officers thanked Mrs. Slyter for
her information and were about to leave,
the pregnant matron sighed heavily and
said, “I don’t know what we’re going to
do now.”

In their squad car, Sergeants Suther-
land and Magee returned to headquarters.
They arrived in time to see Sheriff Noble
and his deputies escorting the prisoner to
a car which would take him to Canton,
the seat of Madison County, where he
would be held for grand jury action.

It developed, a few hours later, that
Mississippi’s lawmen were not the only
officials interested in the career of Ken-
neth Marlon Slyter. When the Wichita,
Kansas, police heard of the arrest of the
young salesman, they delved into the
records.

Kenneth Slyter, the criminal archives
allegedly revealed, was no amateur at
molesting women. It was purported that

he was an old hand in engaging baby- .-

sitters for his own ominous purposes.

In 1950, when Slyter was barely 15
years old, he had assertedly tricked a girl
in Wichita into accepting a baby-sitting
assignment. The youth had picked up the
unsuspecting brunette in his car and had
driven her to a desolate spot.

There, he had stripped the 18-year-old ses

baby-sitter, clubbed her into uncon-
sciousness with a hammer and rape

her. ?
These charges were allegedly reported
to the Jackson police officials by Detective
Sergeant Doyle C. Terry of the Wichita

force. Sergeant Terry informed his c%- .

leagues that, after the attack and rape

Kenneth Slyter had spent some years re

a mental hospital at Topeka. However, a

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patched to the scene to question officials:

~ of the firm which owned the parking lot.

Arriving at the pest control plant,
Detective Sergeants A. L. Sutherland and.
Fred Freeman interrogated the manager.
Answering their first question, he said:

“The car is owned by Kenneth M.
Slyter. He’s twenty-six years old. He’s a

native Mississippian, but he’s been out of *
the state a few years. He recently return- -

ed here from Kansas and took’a job with
us.

Pressed for an address for Kenneth
Slyter, the manager consulted his records
and reported: “He lives at 502 West For-
tification Street.” The man shook his head
negatively when asked by the detectives
if they could talk to Slyter. :

“He’s supposed to be on the job this
morning,” the manager said, “but we
received a call about a half-hour ago in-
forming us he had failed to keep an ap-
pointment to do some work assigned to
him on the outskirts of the city.”

During questioning of other employes
of the plant, the two detectives were told
that Slyter had arrived for work as usual
at eight o'clock that morning, but he left
shortly afterward without saying where
he was going. They described Slyter as a
good worker. Somesaid he had told them
that he had formerly lived in Clinton,
Mississippi, a small town not far from
Jackson. They also said he had been
desperate for a job when he arrived back
in Jackson early in March.

The. detectives were particularly im-
pressed by the remark offered by one of
Slyter’s co-workers in’ particular. This
witness said: “When he showed up for
work this morning, I couldn't help think-
ing he resembled the description given of
the man the cops were looking for in con-

_ nection with the murder of that schoolgirl

up in Madison County.

“I knew he drove a tan Chevy. I men-
tioned the coincidence to him, half-
kidding. He didn’t think it was funny. He
didn’t say anything, but the next thing I
knew he was gone.”

While the two detective sergeants con-
tinued their interrogation of the suspect's.
fellow employes, Detective Chief Pierce
received information from the Kansas
Bureau of Motor Vehicles that the tan.
Chevrolet had been stolen in November
in Wichita, Kansas. Upon leaming that
Kenneth Slyter had lived in Kansas before

. returning to his native Mississippi the

previous month, Chief Pierce at once put .
through a call to police in Wichita.

While the chief waited for his call to be
completed, Sergeants Sutherland and
Freeman went to the West Fortification
Street address. They were told that
Kenneth Slyter was not at home, but in
the interrogation that followed, the two
detectives picked up various bits of infor-
mation that proved to be highly signifi-
cant.

They learned, for example, that Ken
Slyter appeared to be highly excited
when he returned home late on Saturday
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ad Wit fog ee

afternoon. This excitement bordered on. ”-
extreme nervousness, as if the man was on *:

2 edge. *s

At about seven o'clock Saturday even-
ing, he left the house, saying he was going .:

out to buy some milk. He was expected to

least two hours.
When he returned home he was wear-
ing a blue denim suit that he always

carried in his car. He had changed, he -

said, because his other trousers were
stained with blood. ~ ;

Fee how this had happened,

Slyter had told astory about running over

a dog while returning from the store

where he had gone to purchase the milk.

~ He was very upset about this, and was
crying as he told about it.

He kept repeating, “It was sucha pretty

dog.” Then he went to bed, after first put-

_ ting his bloodstained trousers in a bucket

- to soak. The following day, he insisted

on washing the trousers himself. Henever =

did explain what happened to the shirt he

had been wearing. :
After washing the trousers, Slyter went

outside to wash the blood from his car.

This morning he had left for work athis ~

usual time, 7:45, give or take a couple of

minutes. A bout an hour later he telephon- |

ed home and request to have his suit-

- case packed. He declined to offer any...

explanation for this save for the cryptic
comment: “Because I’ve got to go away.”

The packed suitcase was still standing ~

in a corner of the room when the detec-
tive sergeants arrived at Ken Slyter’s
home. He had not called to pick up the
bag, after all. ‘
Returning to headquarters after radio-
ing a request for astakeout to be set up on
the Slyter home, Sergeants Sutherland
and Freeman found Chief Pierce picking
up his ringing telephone. It was the call he
had been awaiting from Wichita police.
_. Speaking with Wichita Detective.
Sergeant Doyle C. Terry, Chief Pierce in-
quired if he had anything on a man nam-

ed Kenneth Slyter who had lived there in .

recent years. :

“Yes, we know him well,” the Kansas

officer replied. According to Sergeant
Terry, Ken Slyter had stopped in to visit
-them only a few weeks ago and said he
was planning to move to Jackson. Terry
said that Slyter had been arrested in
Wichita two years before for automobile
theft. After serving a short prison term he

was paroled. He was still under the >

jurisdiction of Kansas parole authorities,
in fact.

“Is he in trouble?” the Kansas. officer ’

asked. .
“A lot of trouble, I’m afraid,” Chief

Pierce told him. He explained that Slyter

had arrived in Jackson in acar reportedly
stolen in Wichita back in November. And
they suspected he might know something
about a girl who was assaulted and
murdered after being lured from her

1 NR TOMES OM RR He

,August 13, 1950, when Kenneth Slyter

. ,where the boy said his father would he:

' ‘to keep the appointment at dusk, she —

head.

home by a telephone caller‘whd} :
ed her a babysitting job.) \.gys__

“It doesn’t surprise me,” Serger a
Terry said. The Wichita officer they
revealed that 12 years ago, onthe night

was only 14 years of age, a pretty Wichity
schoolgirl had received a telephone cal
from an anonymous youth who claimed
his parents had asked him to inquire if she
could babysit for them. ce a
Suspecting nothing because ‘of the
boyish voice, the 18-year-old girl agreed
to take a bus to the outskirts of the city.

waiting to drive her on to their home,
Sergeant Terry related. When she arrived ‘
found a husky, dark-haired youth waiting ;
for her, on foot. (ee
Continuing this narrative, the sergeant :
said the youth told the girl his father had
been unable to come in the car to pick up i
the babysitter, but that he would walk het
back to his home, which was nearby,
They started walking to the home, the
boy walking a few steps behind the older
girl. The street was dark and emptyal 7
traffic. They had walked only a few yards
when, without warning, the youth pulled
a hammer from inside his waistband and >
clubbed ‘the girl over the back of the —

His victim stumbled into a hole in the
street. The hammer flew from the young
fellow’s hand when the girl fell. The ham |
dle broke off when it hit the sidewalk, but
the boy retrieved it and continued club.
bing his victim over the head until she lost
consciousness. :
The Wichita girl was found by a passer
by an hour later, still unconscious
near death. She had been savagely beates
and raped. ie
Two hours after she was taken to4@
hospital, her assailant was in custody, H€

had gone to little trouble to cover his trai

A resident of the neighborhood wh
heard the girl's screams saw him walking
in a leisurely manner back toward his a
home, his shirt splashed with his victiin’s |
blood, and called the police. e ‘f
Identified as Kenneth Slyter, the youth
was turned over to juvenile authoritie, »
following his confession to the crime —
Later he was sent to a mental hospital i
Topeka. He was released as cured before
he reached his 17th birthday. His victim,
meanwhile, had recovered. a.
Slyter returned to Mississippi after hit”
release from the mental hospital

back in Wichita, where he was arrested —
two yéars later for auto theft. Since hist® ~
cent release from a_ state institution
Wichita police had kept an eye on hit —
‘There were rumors that he attempted
to lure other girls from their homes, Tert¥
said, on the pretext that they were wan
as babysitters, but none of these attempt
was successful, and police were unable
prove that the offender was actu
Kenneth Slyter. Bee

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“The search for Slyter was intensified
ger Jackson police heard that he had
heen confined to a mental hospital for
twutally beating and raping the teenage
in Wichita 12 years before.

Meanwhile, police laboratory technicians *-

wulyzed samples of blood scraped from
he undercarriage of his stolen car. Their
mulysis showed the samples to be of the
amne type as that of Sandra Holderfield.

Hair taken from the slain schoolgirl’s
wed was compared to the strands en-
taagied in blood on the car’s bumper. Ac-
garding to Chief Pierce, it proved to be
sandar in texture and color to that found
aa the stolen car. ’

The following morning, with every law
edorcement officer in the region on the
dect for the wanted man, police received
acall from the Baptist Hospital in
fuckson. A_youth had just been brought
ito the emergency ward by a local priest,
wifering from poisoning. Hospital

ysicians Were preparing to pump out

stomach. He reportedly had swallow-
#J a quantity of a pesticide.

Hurrying to the hospital, Sergeant S. M.

McGree and Detective Hammond found ..
_ the priest waiting for them outside the

@eergency ward. He told the officers.
tat the young man had appeared at his
thurch early that morning and said he had
taken poison in a suicide attempt.

Barely able to speak, the youth had ad- ,

@ited to the priest that he had just
#allowed sevemil ounces of DDT mixed

“mental. tests requested by his court-

with kerosene. More specific information -.

hen tothe priest could not be revealed,
bet their informant told the officers that
be had finally persuaded the youth to ac-
fempany him to the hospital and wait
Sere for the police to arrive.

A, hour later, after the poison was

~ pemped from his stomach and physicians

Ponounced him in satisfactory condi-
ton, Kenneth Slyter was taken to a police
ta. Although hardly able to stand, he
Wied to shake off. officers’ attempts to
help him into the car. Arriving at head-

Gestioners:

“L saw those two cops pull up to the

ing lot outside the factory where I

work. They got out and started over-—

foward my car. While they were examin-
img the car, I slipped-out the back way.”
He said he then got to a phone, called

¢, ‘and asked. to have’ his: suitcase

Z Packed for-him. 5
Sergeant Terry said, but in 1958 he wat 7

“But when I got home,” he continued,
‘aw two other men, in plain clothes,

3 aout to enter the house. That’s when I
ided to take my life. But I couldn't get

*P the nerve to swallow the poison until a.

fouple of hours later.”

‘ander further interrogation, Slyter -

feportedly told the authorities he looked
ugh hel» wanted ads in the local
Sewspaper on the day before Easter, with
‘ntention of luring a-young girl from
he ae with the promise of a job. ° :

“ad in which the local telephone operator's
‘home was erroneously listed was pure

‘the pretty teenager without warning,

“man was sane within the legal definitions

. in Canton. Presiding.at the trial was Cir-

- September 26h the jury returned a verdict

“mercy. Judge Hendrick sentenced Slyter
; :to die and set November 9, 1962 as the
-..date for his execution.
qarters, | Slyter allegedly told police ::;
© with the executioner for nearly five

The fact that Kenneth Slyter picked an

coincidence, apparently. If he had not
succeeded with this call, he allegedly ad-
mitted, he would have tried to find some
means of luring one of the other girls who
had advertised to meet him.

Instead of taking the young girl to a
new. home in Meadowbrook, he had
driven directly out to the secluded Lovers
Lane north of the city. There he attacked

wielding a tire iron he had ready on the
seat of his stolen car, according to the
statement Slyter allegedly signed after he
was arrested and interrogated. :
During the fierce struggle with his vic-
tim that followed, the girl’s clothing was
torn from her body, but she managed to
slip out of the car. She fell, only half-
conscious, into the dusty roadway. Her
assailant, panicking suddenly, started the
car’s engine and ran it back and forth over
the helpless girl as she lay in the road.
~ Returned to Madison County to face a
charge of first degree murder, Kenneth
Slyter was lodged in the old county jail at
Canton, pending a review of the evidence
against him by. a grand jury. After
arraignment before a local justice of the
peace, he was committed to the state
hospital at Jackson for a six-week series of

appointed attorney.
. At the end of the six-week hospital
tests, psychiatrists declared the accused

of sanity, and that he was able to unders-
tand the charges against him. He was
returned to police custody, and on
September 24, 1962, Kenneth Slyter went
on trial’in Madison County Circuit Court

cuit Judge Leon Hendrick. ;
The trial was a brief one, and on

of guilty, with no recommendation for

- A series of appeals delayed his date

months, but on March 29, 1963, Kenneth
M. Slyter went to his death in the gas
chamber for the murder of an innocent

~ young girl whose life was snuffed out by a_

‘cruel twist of fate.

‘An error of one digit in a telephone
numiber had saved the life of one Jackson
woman but, coupled with a tragic chain
of ‘circumstances in which a_well-
intentioned kindess had played a fateful
part, it had cost the life of pretty Sandra
Holderfield. ooe

EDITOR'S NOTE:

Georgia Graham is not the real name
of the person so named in the forego-
ing story. A fictitious name has been
used because there is no reason for
public interest in the identity of this
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SLYTER, Kenneth M., white, executed Mississippi (Madison County) 3=29-1963

He promised them a TV

and a swimming pool but...

by GEORGE FLYNN

A typographical error in the classified advertising of a
newspaper is rarely more than an inconvenience for the
advertiser. But for a pretty 15-year-old babysitter in Jackson,
Mississippi, the mistake led to a series of incidents which

‘finally resulted in her death.

On Saturday afternoon, April 2Ist,
1962, a telephone rang in the apartment
of Adele Warrender and Peggy Qwen-
son. When Peggy answered, a mantasked
if she could babysit for his wife and him

that night. He said he had seen their adin |

the paper.

‘‘But we didn’t run an ad,” protested
Adele.

‘‘That’s what I told him,’’ Peggy re-

Adele told him that babysitters were a
dime a dozen and he shouldn’t have any
trouble getting one.

‘‘But I just moved here from the
north,”’ he said. ‘‘Idon’t know anyone.”

‘*O.K.,’’ Adele said. ‘‘Give me your
number and I’ll try to find a sitter for you.
Vl call you back.”’

There was a pause. ‘‘Well,”’ said the

‘stranger, ‘‘I don’t have a phone installed

Fiends Who Went To The Gas Chamber

plied. ‘‘But he said the number was listed
in the classified section.’’
The girls and a visiting friend, Miner-

va Wattson checked the advertising sec-:

tion — and there it was. A situation
wanted ad from a medical aide with their,
telephone number.

‘What a dumb thing to happen,”’ gig-
gled Peggy. ‘‘Now we'll get phone calls
all weekend.””- .

But the phone didn’t ring for another
hour. When it did. Adele answered. It
was the same caller.

“I’ve got to find a babysitter,’’ he
said. ‘‘I want to take my wife out to
dinner. It’]l only be from 7:30 to 11. I’ve
_- gota swimming pool and a color TV that
<\you can use.”

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yet. I'll call back in an hour.”’

The girls discussed the call and Miner-
va Wattson suggested that a young friend
of hers, Sandra Holderfield, might be
interested. They called Sandra and she
agreed to babysit.

When the caller phoned back, he was
informed that his troubles were over.

He murmured his name indistinctly
when asked and said that he lived in the
Meadowbrook section, an expensive
residential area. He worked for a pro-
minent steel company.

Detectives haul the killer from pat-
rolcar. He’d been molesting
babysitters since age fifteen.

ee es . HEADQUARTERS DETECTIVE, July, 1983.

Sandra Holderfieid was an ex-
ceeding!y pretty girl who, had it not been
for the fatal telephone call, would one
day have developed into a beautiful
woman. She attended Central High
Schoo! where her grades were well above
average and her attendance record per-
fect. Her Home Economics instructor
had once characterized Sandra as ‘‘the
kind of pupil a teacher appreciates having
in class.”’

At 7:10 on this Saturday night, Sandra
Holderfield sat in the living room of her
home on North Jefferson Street, eagerly
awaiting the car which would take her to
the color television set and the swimming
pool. Through the window she saw a

“white car drive up. It’s horn blew

sharply.

Sandra bounded down the steps and
climbed into the car which then headed
north on Jefferson Street. At its destina-
tion there was neither a television set nor
a swimming pool; there was only death,
cold, lonely and violent.

By | o’clock in the morning of Sun-
day, April 22nd, Sandra’s parents, Mr.
and Mrs. James Holderfield, were wor-
ried. Their daughter had not yet returned
home and since they did not know the
address to which she had gone, they were
unable to telephone her employer.

Three hours later, their concern had
blossomed into fearful anxiety. Mr. Hol-
derfield telephoned the Jackson police. A
few minutes later, a squad car pulled up
and Detective Sergeant A.L. Sutherland

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and Detective F.C. Hammond were
admitted to the house.

The officer gleaned little information.
Minerva Wattson reported the three tele-
phone calls which had been made to the
apartment of her friends. She had not
been able to make out the name which the
caller had mumbled over the wire. She
did, however, recall the steel company
for which he had stated he worked, and
he had said that he lived in the Meadow-
brook area.

Hammond asked the parents for a’

’ photograph of the missing girl as Suther-

land went to the telephone and com-
municated with the Detective Bureau,
‘asking someone to check with the steel
company.

‘‘We’re looking for a man, probably |

from the north, who was just transferred
here and lives in the Meadowbrook area.
Get the steel officials out of bed. There’s
a 15-year-old girl missing.”’

The officers then drove to the apart-
ment of Peg Owenson and Adele Waren-

der. Sergeant Sutherland apologized for

routing the girls out of bed. ‘‘But,’’ he

explained, ‘tyoung Sandra Holderfield is —

missing. We're trying to find her.”’
The girls could shed no more light on
the matter than Minerva. Wattson had

Death knell rang for pretty Sandra
Holderfield when a sex fiend called
her number by mistake.

Grassy spot where victim’s horri-
bly cut and bruised body was

carelessly dumped.

been able to. Neither of them had taken
the name of the mysterious caller. Peg
Owenson explained that the original call
had been made to a wrong number, prob-
ably a typographical error in the paper.

Sutherland and Hammond returned to
their headquarters. There they learned
that the personal director of the steel
company had been roused from his bed
and driven to his office where he con-
sulted his records. They contained no
information regarding a new employee
from out of the state.

Sutherland ordered prints made of
Sandra's photo and copies sent to various
papers throughout the state. He wrote out
a detailed description of Sandra Holder-
field, dispatched copies to all radio and
television stations, asking that news of
the disappearance be broadcast.

All day Sunday, the teletypes clattered
out the news and description of the miss-
ing girl. During each radio news broad-
cast the audience was requested to keep
an eye out for Sandra Holderfield. Back
on North Jefferson Street, the Holder- |
field family sat anxiously waiting for the
telephone to ring.

At 4 o’clock Sunday afternoon, Hol-

_ den Green, a Jackson businessman, and

his wife were driving from the city to
their farm in Madison County. The car
radio was on and the Greens had just
listened to the news, which concluded
with an appeal on behalf of Sandra Hol-
derfield. Less than a minute after Green
had turned off the radio, his wife seized
his arm and pointed to the side of the.
shady road.
‘*Holden,’’ she said. ‘‘What’s that?’’

(continued on page 40)

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derness—No AdGrese :

By the Associgted Press.

CigveLanD, June 2is—~The
of the convention’ for the
session was delayed until! almopt “noon
by the meetings of the officers f State
Leagues, the new executive beani, the
committee on league work and ¢ther or- will

mittee on resolutions

able to sugges
vent a minor
tating of a f
vention..

the committee insisted that f
made the best ‘possible choiog
evils and urged the delegates to Gai
the Patton substitute rather than
about a worse result than its ad@ption.
ivan silver Boxer Pag bog
eir sup re. qu
convention and let ‘thea tye!
fight it out aniong themselves
ver queation-was reopened
by an effort t¢ adopt any resolup

otherwise.

Van Buren, Ark., and

wr and has attended
of the convention, alwa
colors as the head of the

causes the cheerm

always as it enters 6 hall.
The Pennsylvania del
meeting today and decided, to
ported 8 the.
tee on resolutions last n
had ite affart on the New Yorkers

the platform as re

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Raking up a Reale That Was Leng
Sa) te Dioase, aa |

third day's |

the tressury department
on that ‘day $5,596,000 in-)
Khe fours and $1,938,705 inter-_
f the bonds issued in aid of the
bonds. .The. total dis-
terest and dividends on
city will, it is estimated

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ganizations ingaged in routine bmeix
|The old executive committee dus.
engaged daring the forenoon clgsit
its business. Meantime, while the b
was entertaining the waiting cio;
music hall, the ,leading anti~y

‘| were in conference on the Pat
tute for the usual set 0!
Many anti-silver leader
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Several Other Cagee Are Under Considera~
Le -then—They Vielated the Inter-
‘ State Laws.
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By the associated Preas.
Crarteston, 8. ©. June
.| Simonton thie morning nentenced three
dispensary constables to one and two
| months imprisonment in jail for seizing
to. this State for pri-
The seizures being

21.—Jd nudge

liquors imported in
vate consumption.
in contempt ot an inj
accordance with the interstate commerce
law. One constabl dismiased

the cases of several
sideration.

others are under con-

DAILY MAREET REPORTS.

Prices on .Cotton Unchanged From
Yesterday's Closing. ~
By the Associated Press.
New York, June 21.—The market for
cotton contracts opened at unchanged
‘prices to three points advance. At 11 &

} mw. the market was steady at 1@2 points

wmeras

HAGNMEN OF BOTH COLORS.

Killed His Wife in a Row That, Fol-
_ Jowed Exposure—The Girl May
be Hung Also. :

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Bpecial to the Clarion-Ledger:
Port Gresow, Miss., Jane 21—James

Sandere was hung last night about twelve

miles from here by en infuriated mab of
both white and biack.
He waa caught by nis eon in a com-
promising position with his own daugh-
ter.
The son reported the case to Sanders’
wile, who was the stepmother of the
git], whereupon a row occurred in whjth.
e wife of Sanders was killed either by
or by his daughter with whom
he had been guilty of incest.
The brother of the murdered woman,
with about 200 blacks and 50 whites,
went to Sanders’ house last night and

.| took him out and hung him.

- Tt is re that the daughter of San-

ders will be strung up today.

Sheriff Walker has gone to the scene of

trouble to prevenh e lynching of the
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woman if

A BIG LIBEL SUIT.

Gov. Hastings, of Penneylvania, Aske
Damages to That Amount.
By the Associated Press.

Epexesura, Pa., Jpne 21.—The $50,000
libel suit of Gov. Hastings against Frank
-J.O’Connor, of Johnstown, was ‘called
op in court today. This afternoon was
ooeupied with selecting a jury. It is
thought by many that the trial will not
be proceeded with owing to the claim

larly drawn and that counsel for defense
will interpose objections that will make
a continuagce necessery.

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A NEGRO HANGED.

He Was Jealous and Murdered His
SweetHeart.

By the Associated Press.
E:xton, Md., June 21.—Horace Cooper

‘decline from the opening. At 12 sales

was hanged here today. The drop fel
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Affirmed, memorandum, 11,8 SOUTHERN 361.
SANDIDGE, James, black, hanged at Hernando, Mississippi, on July 7, 1933.6

"Hernando, July 7 = James Sanders, negro slayer of two members of his family, was Heclared
dead here today eight minutes after the death trap had been sprung in the county jail.
The negro in a statement to officers several days ago, confessed to slaying his brother-
in-law and a small negro girl. He declined to make any further statement before dying on
the gallows, Sheriff W. M. Birmingham sprung the trap at 10:00 and at 10:13 the two
attending physicians said there was no signs of life and the body was cut down and turned
over to a local undertaker, Drs. Ce We Emerson and A. Le Wisinger were present for the
execution. Sanders committed the double murder while on parole from the Parchman prison
farm, The killing occurred at his home near Hernando, The double killing occurred early
this year and Sanders was convicted at the February term of DeSoto county circuit court,
The Seyear-old negro was described as having become resigned to his fate after Gov,
Connor refused a respite HB XMAXXXXKMXaKE or to halt the execution." DAILY NEWS, Jackson,

Mississippi, July 7, 1933 (1:7.)

"Hernando, July 6. - James Sanders, negro, convicted slayer of two negroes while on parole
from Parchman prison where he was a convict, will be hanged at Hernando EXXa@xX on Friday
by Sheriff W. M. Birmingham, The sheriff announced that all arrangements for the execu-
tion had been completed, Governor Conner has refused to grant a respite." DAILY NEWS,

Jackson, Mississippi, July &% 6, 1933 (10/2.)

40 The Master

Sheriff Doyle led me to a little frame garage in the yard
where the family auto was kept. It housed a car, a Chev-
rolet sedan, such as many persons possessing far less wealth
might have owned. Almost the first glance at the interior
of the automobile revealed something of a startling nature.
The inside of the sedan was streaked with blood.

This discovery greatly increased the apprehension con-
cerning Mrs. Wagner’s fate. And the cause for this fear
was augmented when we found a pair of ladies’ shoes in the
car. Obviously, Mr. Wagner’s death, as evidenced by the
signs of a terrific struggle in the house, didn’t connect with
the blood-spattered car in the garage. Everything indi-
cated that his body had been dragged from the’ rear door
of his home straight to the crude grave which his murderer
had hastily prepared in the garden. This line of reasoning
brought us to the conclusion that the car had been used by
the assassin to cart away the old lady, in all probability
after the man had been done to death with the axe.

HERE we found another potential clue of promising
value. The electric light bulb which dangled from the
ceiling of the small structure bore a plain imprint of human
fingers—the mark of a hand saturated with blood!

Those crimson stains in the automobile and the discovery
of that sinister red hand-print
dashed to earth our last faint hope
that Mrs. Wagner might have been
spared the horrible fate that had
befallen her husband. Though we
could not fathom the murderer's
reason for hauling the sixty-two-
year-old matron away in her auto,

(Right) The home of
Mr. and Mrs. W. B.
Wagner, socially prom-
inent residents of Water
Valley, Mississippi.
They met death here
at the hands of the
mad murderers on the
night of May 4th, 1931

Part of the huge crowd that gathered in front of the county jail for
the hanging of the mad murderers

if she had been killed along with her husband, the ghastly
evidence plainly indicated that she had not been abducted

without injury.

A frantic search of the countryside, conducted by officers
and citizens, was already in progress. Business in the town
was totally suspended, and the Bank of Water Valley had
not opened that day on account of the lamented loss of its

president.

Almost simultaneous with the finding of these last dis-
couraging clues in the garage, a messenger rushed in with
the breathless report that Mrs. Wagner had been found—

dead!

Two members of the volunteer searching party, Com
Hervey and Robert Pearce, located the elderly woman’s
body at the foot of a steep embankment by the roadside,
a distance of two miles from her home. In response to the

Detective

message they flashed to Sheriff
Doyle, we left the clues that were
being hopefully assembled under
guard and hastened to the desig-
nated spot on the highway.

| have encountered many
shocking scenes during my career
as a detective, but I hope it will
never again fall my lot to view a
scene similar to that which
awaited us at the foot of that
roadside cliff where our gaze fell I
upon the terrible spectacle of the
slain banker’s wife, the ghastly
victim of inhuman brutality. i

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APPARENTLY, the woman's

body had been lifeless when
hurled from the infrequently
traveled roadway and she had
fallen in a tumbling heap down
the steep embankment, sprawling
sidewise into a narrow gully at the base of the bluff. Depu-
ties were instructed to keep back the spectators while we
covered the ground.

Before closely approaching the body, we minutely in-
spected the rough terrain over a radius of twenty or thirty
yards in each direction. We were looking for the proverbial
scrap of paper,, garment tatter, cigarette butt, lost button,
or whatever insignificant article the killer might have left
behind, the things that are invariably an important element
in fictional mysteries, and more frequently than the average
person would suppose aid in the solution of detective mys-
teries. But in this instance nothing was found except some
footprints along the gully. }

These footprints, though, were to mean a great deal to |
us in a surprisingly short time, .

We made careful measurement of the tracks, preserving

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s that were
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hope it will
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that which
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the ghastly
rutality.

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lifeless when
infrequently
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g heap down
‘nt, sprawling
bluff. Depu-
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minutely in-
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the proverbial
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Trapping the Mad

them for futute comparison.
and then looked more closely
at the body. The dead woman
was fully clothed, indicating
that she, too, had been struck
down at an early hour of the
night, previous to retirement.
The time element is often a vi-
tal factor in cases of this kind,
and we were anxious to estab-
lish the hour in which the double
murder had occurred.

Sand had. been heaped upon
the dead woman’s face and when
this was removed the coroner's
physician found several bruises
and lacerations about the head,
but the fatal wound had been
inflicted by slashing her throat.
It was evident that only a burn-
ing hate could account for the
rain of blows upon the head of - ley
an age-worn woman and that her throat had been cut to
make her death doubly certain. These factors brought
revenge to the forefront as a motive—but what on earth
could have kindled that burning rage?

The killer had been extremely careless in leaving the
body where it was sure to be found and reveal the crime,
and’ he had not attempted to obliterate his footprints along
the gully. Had a confederate waited on the road while the
ferocious jackal climbed down the embankment with a knife

that would forever silence the already unconscious victim?

I surmised that our quarry was overly callous, maybe a
drug addict, or else a person of shallow mental caliber.
Our search for the knife with which the killer had de-
livered the final hideous stroke in the perpetratian of his
fiendish job proved futile.
We compared the measurements we had .taken of the

ees net atest

Murderers of Northern Mississippi 41

shoe prints in the Wagner home with those in the gully.
They were exactly the same

The absence of another set of tracks made it appear that
the double murder might have been the work of a lone
wolf, But Mrs. Wagner had weighed more than one hundred
and seventy pounds, making a dead weight. that would
have been too great a burden for any one except an un-
usually strong man to handle without assistance, in the
manner indicated by the evidence.

LEAVING other officials in charge pending removal of

the slain woman’s body, Sheriff Doyle and | returned
to town and started picking up the raveling threads of the
mystery. We gained definite assurance from the reports
that were in that no suspicious strangers had actually been
seen in town during the previous twenty-four hours, and it
began to look as though the bestial assassin had been some
person well known to the victims—a resident of Water
Valley or its vicinity.

Captain Wattam and Marshal Redwine had found no one
who could recall anything out of the ordinary in the quiet
neighborhood the night before, and the medical examiner
reported that in his opinion the murders occurred sometime
between eight o’clock and midnight.

As has been mentioned before, the couple had obviously
met their doom before bedtime, as both bodies had been
fully clothed when found, This fact, to some extent, offset
the theory that robbery of the home might have been the
primary object of the assassin. House prowlers, | thought,
wouldn’t have ordinarily attempted'a robbery until after
the occupant had retired. And: it isn’t often that a common
thief will kill even one person, much less two, while plying

NESS PPS ENE

More of the crowd that congregated in front of the Yalobusha County jail and
had to content themselves with listening for the ominous creaking of the gallows
as the mad murderers plunged to their doom f

his nefarious trade. I was inclined to think the murders
more or less premeditated. But why?

Bankers have been. known to incur bitter hatred by en-
forcing collections from customers in desperate financial
straits, Sometimes they make deadly enemies among their
clientele by refusing to extend credit to those unable to
furnish strong collateral. In this era of wide-spread depres-
sion Mr. Wagner, the bank executive, had doubtless met
problems of that sort.

Had a business transaction formed the underlying prin-
ciple that had secretly smoldered until it became the mo-
tivating factor. in this two-fold crimson atrocity? We didn’t
know but what some disgruntled debtor or loan-seeker, en-
raged over a real or fancied grievance, had resorted to the
extreme method of obtaining vengeance. But why would
such a person include the innocent (Continued on page 75)

January, 1933

The Master Detective

Trapping the Mad Murderers of
Northern Mississippi

(Continued from page 41)

old lady in a death-plot inspired by
that motive? ;

Was it probable that maurauding
bandits had pounced upon the couple
in their home, with the object of having
the president go down to his bank and
surrender its funds in the dead of the
night, butchering them without com-
punction when he refused to accede to
their stern demands? All these thoughts
and a hundred others presented them-
selves to my mind while we were grop-
ing for a direct lead on the case,

Sheriff Fred S. Nason, (now de-
ceased) arrived from Grenada, Missis-
sippi, to volunteer his services to
Sheriff Doyle. He was the leading fin-
gerprint expert in that section and we
were mighty glad to have him work
with Captain Wattam in making a mi-
croscopic study of the latent prints that
were to be our main dependence for
prima facie evidence.

NUMBERED among the group of

officers who collected in the sheriff’s
office upon our return from the scene of
the second tragedy were Under Sheriff,
A. K. Burt, a keen witted officer who
had been active on the case from, the
time the first alarm was spread, ‘and
Deputy Sheriff C. T. Doyle, Jr., son of
the Sheriff. There were several other
regular and special deputies on hand, all
eager for orders that would furnish an
outlet for the mutual desire that im-
pelled each officer to hope that he might
be the one to lay hands upon the wolf-

* like killer who might either be making

a clean getaway, or, perhaps, be lurk-
ing unrecognized in the midst of the ex-
cited throngs then clamoring for the
capture of the human cougar who had
shown the callous killing propensity of
the jungle beast. Their orders were
forthcoming: ;

“Bring in everybody against whom
there is the slightest grounds for sus-
picion!” ;

Sheriff. Doyle directed Under Sheriff
Burt and one of the deputies to round
up the known witnesses, including the
two servants employed by the. slain
couple, and bring them in immediately
for questioning. Captain Wattam and
Sheriff Nason hurried back to the house
of tragedy to photograph and classify
the murderer’s fingerprints on the axe
handle and elsewhere. ;

Knowing that the interrogation of
witnesses and suspects was likely to
prove a highly interesting phase of the
investigation, I waited for the grim
proceedings to begin, and in a few
minutes two deputies ushered in_ the
first suspect. Simultaneously Callie
Wiggins, the Negress who had been
Mrs. Wagner’s cook, arrived in the cus-
tody of Under Sheriff Burt.

Callie Wiggins related the story of
her tragic discovery in an impressively
candid manner. Under our questioning,
she recounted her every word and
movement on that fateful morning up
to the time when she ran for help at the

first sight of those red splotches on the
kitchen floor,

“Do you know of any one who might
have borne a grudge against your em-
ployers?” Callie was asked.

“No, suh, I sho’ don’t,” she answered.

We had already questioned the cook
at length and were almost convinced
that she could contribute no informa-
tion that would help to clear away the
mystery. There remained only one
point that was open to question in the
simple narrative to which we had lis-
tened—a point that was to greatly fa-
cilitate our work in the fast-moving
events destined to follow!

The colored woman had casually
mentioned the fact that Sam Green
Whitaker, an eighteen-year-old Negro
boy, who was Mr. Wagner’s house-boy
and chauffeur, was the only person
whom she had seen upon her arrival at
the deserted house of death. So before
excusing the cook Sheriff Doyle’s inquir-
ing mind took another tangent that
produced a surprising development.

_ “What was Sam doing there so early
in the morning?”

“Jay birds ’s been gettin’ Mistuh
Wagner’s cherries and Sam had ’im a
sling-shot an’ wus out aftah dem pests
in de orchard,” Callie explained.

_“Oh, I see,” the Sheriff said reflec-
tively. The spot where the slain bank-
er had been buried was in plain view of
the cherry trees to which the cook had
eas

“Did Sam say anything to you?”

“Yas-sah, | b'leve he tid.” she
thoughtfully replied.

“What did he say? Don’t forget any-
thing now,” the Sheriff persisted.

“He told me, ‘the white folks ain’t
here .. . an’ th’ ain’t no use fo’ you to
co th’ house, Callie,’ wuz what he
said.

I COULD tell by. the expression on

Sheriff Doyle’s face that he regarded
this information as highly significant.
How had the house-boy known that the
occupants of the house were not there?
Why had he sought to persuade the
cook not to enter? Unexpectedly, a new
angle to the case had cropped up to di-
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tion!

The ae squads, swooping like
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finished questioning the first witness
had landed five suspects in the net,
Some of them, of course, had been
picked.aip merely for interrogation. It
would serve no purpose to introduce
the names of those who were entirely
eliminated in the final analysis,

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Doyle ordered when Callie Wiggings
was released from the mild grilling.

A monkey-faced sort of colored
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Trapping the Mad Murderers of Northern Mississippi 39

they viewed the stark evidence of the appalling example of
inhuman brutality. Those present were too stunned to act
quickly. They could hardly realize that the man who had
stood as the leader in every phase of life in his community
‘had met such an awful doom. Why had he been struck
down in such a callous manner? And where was the woman
who had been the murdered man’s constant companion
during their many years. of peaceful married life?

These burning questions were the antidote that soon
counteracted the effects of that terrible shock and inspired
the men with a zest for the hunt that would bring to justice
the one who had perpetrated this foul deed. And the first
to experience this natural ‘reaction was stalwart Charles
Doyle, whose iron-nerved composure had lapsed but slightly
while the practical-minded Sheriff became acquainted with
the full significance of Water Valley’s crimson riddle. He
directed removal of the body, and then set about to launch
the most intensive manhunt ever instituted in Yalobusha
County.

Taking time by the forelock to thwart escape of the un-
known assassin in event of an attempted flight, peace officers
in surrounding towns were notified to be on the lookout for
hoboes, hitch-hikers and other nondescript characters. All
roads leading from Water Valley were put under guard
and: the official dragnet was carefully spread for miles
around. When this important feature of his work was
speedily accomplished, Sheriff Doyle returned to his’ me-
thodical examination of the murder scene ih search of clues
that would point the way to a definite conclusion as to the
fate of the slain banker’s missing wife.

Sheriff Doyle and Marshal Redwine had just reached this
stage ‘of their investigation, having discovered no additional
evidence of a tangible nature, when I arrived with Captain
Wattam and was apprised of the events preceding our ar-

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rival on the scene which have been set forth in this narrative.
A glance about the room caused me to think it doubt-
ful that we would find robbery at the bottom of this. affair.
Many valuables were left undisturbed by any maurauding
hands. I wondered if the local authorities could answer the
important first question that had me perplexed.
“Have you established a motive for the crime?” I asked.

‘“ AT first we thought it was robbery,” Chief Redwine re-
plied, “but the prosperous status of the victim is the
only thing so far to support that theory.”

“Nothing is missiig from the home so far as we can
tell,” Sheriff Doyle interposed, “and yet there is no other
angle to explain what has happened.” The Sheriff was
obviously puzzled.

Murder, and at that time we didn’t know what other out-
rageous acts, had been committed in the silent building in
that peaceful, quiet neighborhood. There were other homes
within a stone’s throw. Had anyone heard the old people’s
screams as Mr. Wagner fell under the cruel axe that snuffed
out his life? Captain Wattam and Marshal Redwine went
out to make inquiries on this point while Sheriff Doyle and

‘Il continued the meticulous hunt for other clues on the

premises of the slain bank official.

When our examination of the house was completed the
death-weapon and footprints on the discolored spots on
the floor were our only outstanding clues. We made careful
measurements of the tracks for future identification and
left the axe for later attention, expecting to go over
it at once when Captain Wattam returned with the finger-
print outfit which he had brought along from our Memphis
office. But other events were destined to take precedence
over this, events that were to alter our course in a surpris-
ing manner!

Spot in the orchard back of his home where the mad murderers hastily buried the body of Banker Wagner,
covering it with rubbish and loose earth

SINGLE TON, WAXK Hordge and SMITH, Horace,
frison, Mississippi, April 25, 1894,

Peery cc, PVR WThT aye’ iN
PAA CANVEETS GAG
PEYEU CAME i,
Ve nmry ping behagi nd bor i nt ih

Swing Lute Laery

LThey Walked (to the Gallows and
Met Death Bravely.

Baptived In the Catholic Faith at 0
O'clock This Mornine.

ede ee ae

‘Made no Statement Byam the Soaffold -
Mistory of the Ortide Wie W hich
Thoy Paidthe Monalty,

Theastern edict ofthe Taw vas been
executed and two black humon beings
have been ushered Into the presence of
their Maker,

Atl, o'clock this mornipy |ieney Sia-
gietaa and Hordee Smith, tho (w con-
vict smurnierere, were hung © (thin the
shadow of the penicoutlary weilo.,

The oficials, reporters, a nuaber of
gueste, and all neers who desirad
to see the execution, were permitted to
tho wo.

The penitentiary management deemod
It wieo to let the 17) prinoners now in
the walle look upon the revoltiag soene,
if they ao deelred, but there was no com-
pulsion about it. Most of them took
advantage of the opportunity, however,
and lined themselves along the west
alde of the acaffold where they had a

what they saw wil] stay thelr bands
should their hearta ever contemplate
deeds similar to those for which their
companions have today auffered an ig-
nominious death on the gallows, |

fair, equare view, anc it is to be boped’

KY | Caches pjmanaca tis rtobe war |

Lo pregicts hor tied VOTERS he great |

gsyore eatper? fer

ere th the w Tetras tet ' nig, Vere
foprperyas top Pheqass teot owe dad thie Were
L ments ey Te Prete nce ey, anky the
faoeclithons were revered, conplefor, oes
than toatenes roteunteruog f occonoet who

wae the mae fe tam ons wile. and Smith
killing »male companion, The particu-
lara ol those batcheries sre aa bload-
curdling aeany ever perpatrated by
savage banda, and will bear brief review
here,

2 RINGLRTON'H CHIMK

Henry Singleton killed Lalas Payne on
the tath of July, 2508. nia was from
Warren connty and war serving a two
yonr'n sentence for receiving atolen
xooda, having been brougiit to the poni-
tantiery April 1, 1892, She and Sloale-
ton Had been hired to the aame convict
leseoe in the delta, and while there be
came enamored of each othar, and found
such frequent opportunity for clandea-
tine meetings, that the woman, hecom-
ing encionte, was returned (o the walla,
Her duaky lover soon followed, and be
han told, aloce the killing, that they
continued ther iWicit relationship even
within the prinan yard.

Biogloton woe of 4 jealous and sna-
ploiows nature and watched the
womans every movemont, He Onally
hecame convinced that other convicts
wore sharing her affections and ha de-
cided to kill ber and ond bis own exis-
tence at the sametime. fie went about
putting hia thongbts inta crecutian In a
way that agndred everess, Providing
birmoael! with a Jong, rough "knife and a
raxor be Jullowed the woman to the well
onthe evening of July 1h, last, ahout
dusk, Several other women were around
the well, potting water preparatory to
retirement to thelr quartern for the
night, when Singleton appeared ju their
midet, Going straight to the Payne
woman he grabhied her by the shanider
ant ropeatetly drove the long knife to
the bHtin her body. With acreams of
pain and terror the woman sank to tho
floor, the blood spurting trom eight dif-
ferent wounds, while her companions
fled in horror. :

Gazing fora moment on the almost
Hfeleas body of bla ooncubine, the now

thoroughly crased brute drew a rasor

hanged Jackson state

co ee nae ram ae ame ane 8 ARO me ee

in the air snd bronght it siown op the
uneurpenting and nptarriliva’ cor viet’s
head, pplitting i? opeap ae il ti sesre an
apple, and proctnoing death chat was as
insinetanaone me iowas hore. ol FIN
rovrcerer remarked) “mow, + > hgh
rou will atop your foolin’”* a. walked
fwey on unconoetnAdly at nothing
more than crainarr bad occurred. Lia
trial, dafense and conviction were sim-
lar to that of Singletow. .

When the two negrow wore visited
last evening by the OraniowLapora
reporter, he fonnd a Bister of Mercy
standing at eact) wall door, / It was
learned they had been there every even-
ing fora weak or more, and the con-
domned mon had come to look forward
to their vielt with areat concern, They
had talked to the murderers of the bere-
altar and convinced them that there was
a chance of life everlasting for even such
asthey. ‘Dat sho’ le a good 'oman,”
declared Smith to the reporter, “and she
helps me wonderlnl,”

Smith was communicative aa omal
and aald be was ready te qo; thatyhe had
made his peace with God and expected |
to go Heaven. When asked jihad any
menrage to eend lie (mands, or any
advice to give, he sald “yee; tell them
allta let w risky and gawbiing alove;
thot ia what mies: me kill my wife and
got me into all this trouble.”

Singleton waa asked the same ques:
tlons but declined to talk, further than
to nay he was feeling well and that be
would pay all hehad to eay on the
morrow. When aaked if be was re
ae to hie fate ard ready to go he re
plied in his usnal snrly minoer that it
made no difference whether he was
ready ar not, be had to go,

THR WANGING,

The scaffold, which waa buallt by con-
vict labor, atands in the northeast oor-
ner of the prieon yard, and exactly over |
the spot whens a ‘lew months ago Hor |
ace Smith, ina fit of passion, drove bia
broad axe blade through the brain of
Inidore Sundley.

From the platform of the grim Instra-
mentot death Henry Ringleton could
gare across the flty feet of open court
to the well, beside which, in hia jealous
fary, he had eight enccessive times
plunged a huge xnite into the boeom
and Back of erring Lula Payne.

weve

Aw os pes
_ whee ae ay

The crimes for which then. two no:

Kroes have today pald the extrame pon-

Binyleton and Smith After the Drop.

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from his pocket. (be had) broken bis
kolfe inthe woman's body) and: belore
how who bid rushed wpon the reane

. oe ent

woo Knows but that as they looked
down throngh the chinks of the fatefal
trap-door the condemned men saw the

| vioody faces of thelr four victims jeer

ingand eneering in fiendish glee and
mockery as they contemplated the ter-

-| rible but oven justice that was abost to

be meted out to them.

The epirits of one man and three
women may have been hovering around
the solemn scene, and the murderous
wretches may have felt their presence
au the black capa were pulled over their
faces,

The condemned men ate a hearty last
breakfrat this ht their appetizing
bill af, fare helps beelsteak, ham, rice,
bisc and colfee.

About 9:30 Rev. Father Datto visited
them, and on thelr confession of faith
baptized and received them both Into
the Uatholle chureh,

At five minutes to oleven deputy
sheriff Ohiles entered the cell room, car
rying several feet of cotton rope. Walk.
ing up to the door of Singleton’s cell, in
which he aleo found Kmith, both being
at prayer with Father Dutto, he sald :

“Well, Henry, you and Smith ; time's
up,” and the Stwo prisoners care ont,
preceded by the priest.

They both greeted tho executioner

‘with o amile and a hearty shake of the
J band, Singleton remarking ‘it’s got: to

be done.”

Theirhands wore already cuffed to-

ether, Sogieee by the Jelt and Sinith
by the right, Their other hande were
then drawn behind their bagks and ae-
curely tled with the rope,

The big prison bell tapped one solemn
stroke avd the little proceselon started

Jdown. the hall, the prieet leading the

way. The poor wretches, realising that

[time for them wad really up, dropped

upon, thar kueca as if in prayer, and
Father Datto returned and adminiatered
hie bieesing. :

The jonmey {to the gallows was then
vontinued, As ot passed down the
hall Ningleton eaid “good-bye” tw a
friand and to the “death watch,” Mr,
Bowon,

They looked neither to the right nor
the left, but walked atoadily to the gal-
lows, and monated the stepe in advance
of the aheriffand priest.

There was no faltering, 20 tremor, nd
shaking or abivering. They had evi--
dently determined to moet death bravely
and they did it. Thelr usly cougter-
ances lopt something of the brutish ex>
sromion dn the smiles with which, al
the taut awful moweuts, they were illu
inlaad,

They took ther places benvath the

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Qeougyleton and Srailth After the Drop. and they did it, Their ugly cougten
. : ; % : Mere coe eae | NCO loat something of the brutish ex-
The érimon for which these two oe (from bia packet the had broken his pronsion in the amilea with which, at
2 -i re ‘
yroee have today paid the extreme pen- knife inthe woman's body) and before i awful moments, thay wore id
alty of tha Jaw wore helnous and very those who had raahed upon the reene ;

; could interfere he had drawa the steel Thay, Woe lear places beneath e
ater, The hanging wana double one, | geroas hin own throat, and fearing that haltore, facing the western sky. Their

and both of the victhna were doubly | hoe had not made a finishing atroke, be feat ware, then tied wechtely toxstier

murderers. Strangely enough bot! have placed tho fingers of hin left hand in the and the noove placed around their necks.

: gaping wound, throw hinfhead back and In anewer to the aherifl’s bir net 4 if the
biood of a woman on their hande. dropping on one knee, drew the theent mPa nore their neck, one of them re

Henry Hingleton was sent to the peni- | blade time and again acrogs tho bloody plied pleasantly, “it makes no ditference;

7. ’ fix itt it a?
tentiary for life from Jotforasay county, | inelsion, Thin was done in sess time "Pathan ites t nesled suithe tap ibe

arriving ot the walls May 31,1878. He eae ee tell _ eh the gsi igs ‘and murmured ailent prayers. In alow
had murdered “a woman in cold | thrsitie deed feats pureétless i PR aon only fatale Mg hel jeter
blood, bat he was yiven the benoft-of | hand of the bloodthirety fend until too ee coc aA bts a a, ob,
the doubt aod instead of hanging then | late. “Ty ihe wasibe of the’ sheriff the con-
be was sent to the State prison for the | , rhe pois aoe was in a few days Of} Geinned men made no statement or
term of his natural lile. ; recoming a mother, was ® Corpse IM A) goeech (rom the scaffold, having previ-

fow minutes, and though avery one sup- ‘ ’
Horace Smith arrived at the prison | posed Hingleton had inflicted a mortal roc ih ta bp ieiteal aa neny mt Shey

walle on the 18th of November, 1801, wound on himeelf, his chroat was sewed The black cap was edjusted over their

fromf Madison county. He ‘had killed | [2° and he was nursed back to life; and facee, the sherilf descended to the
his wife and wae also sbptenced to vee vr a ly ho ee anon ind, and at 11:01 pulled the lever
rison for Iiie. Hae told thé Cranion- |S 08 t an she tat conviction, | Wich held the trap door and Heory
2gpoar reporter that he loved his wile sy Cll SPppen ac bl dhs he Singleton and Horace Hmith were left .
bot that ebe chided bim and threatened | #04 re-ventence followed in rapid All’ | dangling between earth and heaven.
rn _—s B ec pee day while he was ee cnvea os itl’ ~ Aga 5 The ecaffold was sixteen feet high and
runk, and, grabbing up a piece of board, fie wha wea & oils: “I the platform was constracted so that
Ws) ppointed by the court q
be bad het fo death before he raced |('Galond him and mbo onde asd coo| ty, sar\"aus broken by ioe fal, ad
Henry Singleton escaped from cus- tended tor the point that his cllenty| ser a few convulsive shadders and
teas oe the 17th of March, 147, and ees sour apr pps ne apaamodic shivers he was in two minutes
pnt being ete esan Gn ibsctned ve not amenable to the law. Peni ve died Wy teettonlanion
the walls May 18, 18), WITH HLOODY BKEN, after eeveral minutce of jerking and
4 Horace Bealth ‘escaped December 15th, Horace Smith paid the death penalty | sjoiranng, being pronounced dead ia
ig bat igure canter ile, Yo nitnag murder of lridare Hundley ON nd ee picalidak teak
an O} “the walls on the 2ad.| fellow. convict.. Kandley was a bright} ‘At 11:15 County Physician Dro-
oer af tt blend dy 1893, mulatto sent up frem Verrison vounty | nounced them both dead, and at 11:25
Dicker gi Aapsiraes ae dpa fot aa er a grand reeny OG ae cs gave permission for them to be cat
@ (wo neg were in| 27th of Novembor, 1803, and when own.
poeple de pote mat a had been in the Bate prison only a few saat abs eee en ee we. rhe
? ’ 6 , and was} days ‘ ; i es into e@ plain 00
| by no meana trasted by the prieon offi. ‘On the morning of December 14, lest, | which hed been placed "ander the aeal-
s. Io fact, slace the commission of Khith ead Sundiey, along with = score }fold, and they were driven out to the
| take last crime it has dexesloped thet he | of other convicts, were pat to work ont- penitentiary graveyard, northweet ef
comtempiated « wholesale e.augh'er| ting wood In the northeast corner of the | fowo. The rope with which they were
J of thoes ln whose charge be had prison yard. Home were cutting while] hang wae cat up into threeioch stripe
dq, . Aga ee 7 others were loading and hauliag the | aud given oat ae soaveaird of the solema
Balth, os the othar han.) was of a] wood on wheelbarrows. They were | opcosion.
lively bat gomtemtivas nature, and | siqaing and whietling and otherwise Vory lew dare pty ne
ne ing themselves as moch as thelr wot od Dodd Oya 8 ut the trees oa
either bie gompanions im stripes ieee leated BE vgs and = opporualtios outalde of the walls were full of men
=| priscd officials, be did aot ceanse them) would admit, when some one threw s Dery oneer arvcelhy Ded ee them w
: ony arlene ee 4. ©} obip at Bath, As heretotore stated be | participate in the affair, rey
4. Bhaoe the of death was passed vee of « quartelaowse patnre and quick | ‘Tre execation waa neatly aad epeed.ly

10 reennt any evcreachmeat on: bis |dooe. In fect there was not a quibble
rights. Hie mrp papain “why | mora panes movement vseg Exige the f
‘\.did you 8 - Ip at me?" Sundloy.| day, and Bheriff Ohiles te to be congras-
leaped bu eno reply,” This. ta-4 visted ca the successfal and unostens
ae Amith, and, crossing over to} tions way in which be pottornred bef
a offelal daty, He agree

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“A Sunday School Inetitute for
Snpérintendents will be held at
Durant, Miss, on tho 12th, 18th
and 14th of May, under the aus-
pices of the North Missiesippi and
the Mississippi Conferenco ie

day Cool Boards of the M&
yi rch South. « .

The execution ‘of the negro
fiurderer, Lom Simpson, at De-
Kalb, last Friday, passed oft with-
out uoteworthy incident, save
that the drop tailed to break the
his death was
There was

man’s neck anc
duc to strangulation.
a large crowd preeent.

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July“1ith, and all commpihitics
desiring that an Institute be held
in their midst aro requested to
communicate at once with BE, RR.
Lloyd,. Director Farmers’ Tusti-
tutas, Agricultural College, Mis
nissippi, 80 that rontes and dates

thoroughly advertise ench meet
ing. It possible, there should oe
a number of these Institutes held
in Kemper County. ‘

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STARTLING
DETECTIVE
MAGAZINE
SEPTEMBER
1962

It was a kind of miracle in reverse. The extraordinary chain of events

* which led to the most savage, the most brutal murder in the records of the
police of Jackson, Mississippi, simply couldn’t happen. But it did. The
chances against 15-year-old Sandra Holderfield dying, mutilated and bat-
tered, as she did on Saturday, April 21, 1962, were several billion to one!
The most daring of gamblers wouldn’t have taken the odds.

It all started innocently enough when Agnes Monnand, a practical nurse,
found herself in need of a job. She wrote a “situation wanted” advertisement,
listing her qualifications as a medical aide. In the ad, she gave her telephone
number. The 35-year-old matron took the ad to a morning newspaper in
Jackson on Friday, April 20, asking that it be inserted the following day.

It so happened that the Jackson newspaper ran
well over a hundred advertisements in that par-
ticular edition. All of them followed the adver-
tiser’s copy properly; all of them were accurate.
That is, all of them but one, and that one was the
situation-wanted item submitted by Agnes Mon-
nand. There, the composing room slipped up.

Some typesetter was, perhaps, daydreaming of
faraway places, Marilyn Monroe or what he would
do with a million dollars. In any event, he made
an error. In setting up the telephone number of

TO KILL!

Palint eae Ty,
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Each link in the chain
of circumstances

was forged by Fate. It
became inevitable
that the victim and the

killer should meet

Poison which accused

drank led him to make a confession
to sin of attempted suicide;

he said nothing about slaying of
Sandra Holderfield, r.

Lawmen lift the suspect from

car, carry him to cell.

the practical nurse, he made a mistake on one digit.
The number which actually appeared in the
paper was one which had been issued to two em-
ployes of the Southern Bell Telephone Company,
Martha Gamble and Virginia Beck. The young
women shared an apartment at Jefferson and
Carlisle streets in Jackson. Obviously, because of
-the typesetter’s error, their telephone would ring
when someone in need of a medical aide tried to
reach Agnes Monnand.
Strangely enough, there seemed to be only one

BY JAMES HOUSTON

person in all of Mississippi’s capital city that day in need of
a medical aide. On Saturday afternoon, April 21, 1962, a
man entered a telephone booth, the morning paper in his

hand, and dropped a dime in the slot. The hand that dialed

the number listed in the newspaper was the hand of a mur-
derer! Moments later, the sinister caller heard the phone
ringing at the other end.

So, of course, did Martha Gamble and Virginia Beck, whose
number the killer had unwittingly dialed. The fourth person
to hear the jangle of the phone was Charlotte Holderfield;
she was a guest at the home of the two telephone company
employes and, like them, worked for the public utilities
company.

As it happened, Martha Gamble answered the summons.
After a few minutes’ conversation, she hung up. “That was
strange,” the brunette said to her friends. “The man on the
phone said our number was listed for that of a nurse’s aide
seeking a job. When I told him that no one by the name
of Agnes Monnand lived here, he asked if I would like to
work as a baby-sitter. I told him no.”

The three girls treated the call as a mild joke, Their
thoughts and their conversation were filled with the excite-
ment of the morrow—within 24 hours it would be Easter
Sunday, and the attractive young women had plans to show

off their new dresses and bonnets on their way to church.

The weather promised to be as bright as their spirits.

It was 20 minutes after the first call that the phone rang
again. Virginia Beck, who answered this time, was greeted
by the same man who had talked earlier with Martha
Gamble.

“I need the services of a baby-sitter,” the caller began.
There was a note of urgency in his voice, which bore a dis-
tinct Northern accent. “I’ve only been in town a few days
and I don’t know anyone I can turn to for help. I was trans-
ferred to Jackson from New York to take an executive job
with a local steel company. My wife isn’t feeling well and
I need someone to sit with my three-year-old twin sons
between 7:30 and 11 o’clock, while I take her to a doctor.”

Virginia was sympathetic to the caller’s plight but she
was forced to turn him down. “We're all working girls here,”
she explained, “and we aren’t interested in taking an outside
job.”

The blonde hung up the receiver. However, the fact that
he had been turned down twice didn’t seem to discourage
the mysterious caller. A half hour later he was on the phone
again.

“If you can get me a baby- sitter,” the man persisted, “she
can have the use of my new color [Continued on page 79]

Desolate road frequently used as lover’s lane. It

became a dead end for innocent baby-sitter. Her battered body was
discovered under pine tree, far left. Below, Detective ,

Hammond and Officer Bowering study bloodstains on suspect’s sedan. . i

until the savage, wanton murderer of
Sandra Holderfield should be brought
to account for his insane crime.

At 8 o’clock that morning a prelim-
inary medical report was issued by
the Madison coroner; it only com-
pounced the mystery. The girl had not

een raped. She had been brutally
beaten, mutilated, her legs, and arm
and ribs had been broken. However,
she had not been sexually molested
in any way at all.

AG 9 O’CLOCK on Monday morning,
Jackson Police Officers H. E. Clan-
ton and B. A. Baughn had been rou-
tinely checking various automobiles
since they.had been on duty, an hour
before. Now, parked at the corner of
Fortification and North West Streets,
they observed a 1959 Chevrolet, bear-
ing Kansas license plates.

The interior of the sedan seemed
quite clean. Then, Baughn noted two
narrow streaks across the outside of
the windshield.

‘“Look,”’ said Baughnto his partner,
“that could be dried blood.”’

Clanton nodded. ‘I’m going to crawl
under the car,” said Baughn. ‘'There
might be some more stains there.”

Baughn disappeared beneath the
Chevrolet. A moment later he emerg-
ed, holding something silken and wis-
py in his hand. He held it up. ‘All
right,”’ he said to Clanton, ‘‘what do
you make of this?”’ -

“Tt looks like atuft of human blonde
hair—a girl’s hair.”’

‘‘That’s what I think,” said Baughn.
“Radio headquarters. Ask them to
send out some detectives, and give
them this license number. Tell them
to check the owner.”’

A few minutes later, Sergeant Suth-
erland, Detective F. C. Hammond and
Patrolman Bob Boering drove up.
They examined the suspected Chev-
rolet, then impounded it and drove it
to the police garage for inspection by
the laboratory experts.

In the meantime, the Jackson offi-
cials had talked to the Kansas Motor
Vehicle Bureau regarding the im-
pounded Chevrolet; they learned that
the car had been stolen in Wichita
some five months before.

It seemed that once againthe police
were thoroughly frustrated. Apparent-

ly, they had found the murder car but '

there remained no clue to the mur-
derer himself. Then, at 10:30, a tele-

phone call came to the detective bur-.

eau from an executive at Jackson’s
Baptist Hospital.

The hospital had just admitted an
attempted suicide and the law required
that all such cases be reported to the
police. According to the hospital offi-

cial, the patient, 26-year-old Kenneth

M. Slyter, had been brought in by a
priest to whom the young man had
confessed that he had tried to kill him-
self by drinking a draft of DDT mixed

with kerosene. Slyter was employed
by an exterminating firm.

Headquarters checked the address
of the exterminating establishment
and discovered it was less thana block
away from the spot where the blood-
stained Chevrolet had been found.

A call to the firm answered three
important questions. First, Slyter was,
indeed, employed there. Second, he
was the possessor of a 1959, light col-
ored Chevrolet, and third, he had in-
explicably disappeared from his job -
about 10 o’clock that morning. This
information was promptly relayed to
Sergeants Sutherland, Fred Freeman
and S. M. Magee.

‘It all seems to fit,’ remarked Suth-
erland as the trio headed for the hos-
pital. “‘Slyter probably saw us casing
his car from the place where he was
working. He panicked, swallowed poi-
son and ran away.”’

When the officers reached Slyter’s
bedside, he was out of danger; astom-
ach pump had been employed to rid
him of the poison. He looked pale and
weak as he lay on the bed. Sutherland
came directly to the point.

‘“We’ve found blood and blonde hair
on your car,” he said. ‘t The lab’s look-
ing it over to see if it matches with
that of Sandra Holderfield. Now, tell
us where you were on Saturday night
after 7 o’clock.”’

Kenneth Slyter was in no position
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he said, ‘‘I killed her. I don’t know
why I did it.’”” He paused and added
righteously, ‘‘But I didn’t rape her.”

Slyter admitted hitting Sandra Hol-
derfield over the head and body with
a tire tool, and twice running his car
over her as she lay unconscious. He
announced for the second time that
he had not committed rape.

AX HOUR LATER, Slyter was re-
leased from the hospital, taken to
the Jackson jail by the three detec-
tives. There, he was transferred to
the custody of Madison County Sher-
iff Noble and two of his deputies. Sly-
ter still refused to elaborate on his
motive.
_ Detective Sergeant Sutherland call-
ed at the Slyter home and learned
there was something peculiar about
Slyter’s activities on that tragic Satur-
day night. He had left the house
about 7 o’clock, ostensibly to buy
milk.

He had been gone for more than
two hours. When he returned he had
changed from his ordinary clothing
into the blue denim work overalls he
kept in the car.

**My other clothes are covered with
blood,’”’ he told his wife. ‘‘I ran over
a dog. I held it in my arms until it
died. It was such a Pita d dog.”

At that point he had broken into
tears. -

He had gone to work on Monday
morning. Shortly after ten o’clock,

he had telephoned home and asked
to have a bag packed.

“ve got to go away,” he said,
“ina hurry.”

But he never returned to the house
to pick oy the bag.

The telephone call concerning the
stolen car which had been put through
to Kansas set the Wichita officials to
looking into the records. On Tuesday
morning, Sheriff Noble received a re-
port from Detective Sergeant Doyle
C. Terry of the Wichita force.

Twelve years ago, when Slyter was
barely 15 years old, he had tricked an
et ae ope girl from her home by
telling her that his parents needed a
baby sitter. He had clubbed her un-
conscious with a hammer, then raped
her.

Asa result of this attack, Slyter had
been sent to a mental hospital in To-
peka. He had escaped, was captured
and returned to custody. Later, he
was discharged as cured.

Sergeant Terry went on to say that
Slyter had been questioned on many
occasions in connection with numer-
ous telephoned attempts to lure Wi-
chita girls from their homes on the
pretext that a baby sitter was needed.
None of these various attempts had
been successful.

In addition to his sexual crimes,
Slyter had been convicted in Kansas

- on two charges of auto theft and one

of burglary.

In spite of all this, Slyter’s fellow
workers at the exterminating firm
said that he ‘‘seemed like anice guy.”’
His employer stated that he had hired
Slyter through anemployment agency
less than a month before.

**He seemed desperate for a job,”
the proprietor said. ‘‘He was a hard
worker and seemed to get along with
everybody.”

On Tuesday afternoon, services 3

were held for Sandra Holderfield at
Wright and Ferguson Chapel; her
school mates acted as pall bearers.

Kenneth Slyter still did not make
his motive for the brutal and wanton
murder clear. It was quite likely that
his twisted mind could not understand
what terrible compulsion impelled him
to mutilate and break the body of a
young girl. Perhaps the psychiatrists
may come up with an answer. Per-
haps they may not. It is worth noting

that once he was discharged from a_

mental hospital as sane.

It was not only Kenneth Slyter who
slew Sandra Holderfield. It was also a
series of utterly incredible coinciden-
ces: If the medical aide had not writ-
ten an ad, if a printer had not trans-
posed the telephone numbers, if a
girl had not been visiting friends when
the call came.

Any insurance actuary or, if you
like, any bookmaker will tell you that
the odds against all these things hap-
pening are astronomical to the point
of being almost impossible.

But, obviously, not quite.

On September 26th, 1962, a jury in
Madison County Circuit Court in Can-
ton, Mississippi, found Slyter guilty
of murder, and made no recommen-
dation for mercy. Judge Leon Hen-
drick, with no alternative, sentenced
him to die on November 9th, 1962,
but appeals delayed his execution.
On March 29th, 1963, the killer held
a rendezvous with death in the gas
chamber of the Mississippi State Peni-
tentiary at Parchman. *

Editor’s Note: The names Minerva
Wattson, Peggy Owenson, Adele War-
ender, and Mr. and Mrs. Holden
Green are fictitious to conceal the
identities of innocent persons.

RAPIST WITH THE FETISH
(Continued from page 31)

and other friends flocked to theranch
home to comfort the bereaved hus-
band. ‘Lucile Betten was one of the
finest women I’ve ever known,”’ said
the executive secretary of the Mu-
sicians Union. ‘She was a fine mu-
sican. She’ll be greatly missed.”

The sheriff and police were pressing
the murder probe on half a dozen
fronts that Wednesday evening, and
several routine sex suspects were be-
ing carefully checked out, when dep-
uties, expanding their canvass of the
East Speedway neighborhood, were
given a tip that sounded hot. At first
it was just one tip among many that
had been received from well-meaning
citizens, but this one, the sheriff
agreed, had a solid ring. It came from
a woman who lived a few blocks from
the Betten ranch home. The inform-

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ant, who L psd to remain anony-
mous, had just returned from a trip
and learned about the murder. .

About eleven o’clock that morning,
the excited housewife told the inter-
ested deputies, she had been leaving
her home to go shopping, whenaman
drove up in a dusty old sedan, block-
ing her driveway so that she couldn’t
back out. \

“TI got out of my car and walked
over to see what he wanted. He said
he had a gift for me. He held some
packages in his hand. I took him for
some kind of door-to-door salesman or
peddler.

‘TI didn’t like his looks. He was a
big, tall, husky young fellow. I told
him I wasn’t interested, and ordered
him to get out of my driveway or I’d
call the sheriff.

‘IT turned my back on him and got
into my car. He ran after me, shouting
that he wanted to sell me something.
I was scared. I rolled my windows up
and started backing down the drive.

He finally gave up and drove away.
‘tT was so suspicious of the man that
I followed him for acouple of blocks.”

One of the deputies asked the $64 .

million question. ‘‘Did you happen to
note his license number?”’

‘Yes, I did! Here—I’ll give it to
you—”’

- The deputies had to admit that
this housewife informant was a law
officer’s dream come true.

Sheriff Burr checked out the license
number with the state motor vehicle
authorities. The old sedan was regis-
tered to one Marvin Leslie Davis, an
airman first class, with an address on
the southeast side of Tucson. Rather
than alert the airman by going im-
mediately to his home, the sheriff
first checked with the Air Police at
the big Davis-Monthan Air Force Base,
just outside the southeast city limits.

Soon, they had considerable infor-'

mation about him. Twenty-seven-
year-old Airman 1/c Marvin Leslie
Davis was a member of the base se-

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switchboard operators in Jackson and surrounding commu ‘ Jackson from New Y ork City, and we have no friends down

i who had survived, thus far, the spreading automation of serve

HEN ALL the facts finally became known tothe _ provided by the Southern Bell Telephone Company.
Hopes J oe - pret a bitterest ——y These extraordinarily efficient girls and women were
in the violent death of the pretty teenager was the not only for their nati t i 0 go®
realization that her murder resulted from human error com- ; sells to tke tobecibes Seats eae re

remarkable lengths to help subscribers locate persons they hal
pounded by human kindness. And the presence of the latter fac- difficulty reaching. Helpfulness was the keystone of their on-the
j tor in the case was, as one Jackson businessman put it, “irony

squared.” ; eb ae and it was the company’s aim to make it an ines to homicide investigators, Georgia Graham said, “It never
That comment was prompted by the recollection that ae tee their operators’ relationship with the community tet opi to me that he might be lying. Lots of folks find it hard to
{ ee i ee ee wae : abysitters during a holiday weekend. And he s ded s
rake fos . or before og tragedy occurred, alocal minister Thus, it might be said, it was a sort of conditioned react ” Pointed. I si ee nye pao si — sca ae re
err e iee'g a sermon to his congregation which provoked —_ when Georgia Graham, an off-duty operator at the time, wet and his wife were celebrating e :
ote 4 oe Pee eengse we aay a? the state capital, but out of her way to help a stranger who dialed her home telephove e ' considerate telephone operator offered to see if she
: —— _ ee are area of id Ore paring: — eraly on April 21st, the Saturday > Weld find a babysitter for the man, and she told him she'd call
‘ é ‘ e clergyman’s message was a la- taster. Her caller was a man—a youngish man by the sou Rede hea ee eheRh, ed hi ° -
rans oor - nd. He ." — in the hurly-burly of this fast- his voice—and he was BF ie tae is q ville ee en eae
changing world. He called for a renewal of the traditional “I’m sure I dialed the righ “ hen Mis 2 :
‘or , ¢ > ; ‘ ight number,” he protested when Ihave to call you,” the calle ied. “We've jus ,
— spirit of kindness, courtesy and consideration for one’s Graham explained that he had gotten the wrong party. “I havet. our new sia pate Send wit the a
_ a He reminded his parishioners of the Golden Rule, right here in front of me.” "ae installed yet. I'm ollion now from a pay aes in th
a ich in the final analysis he said, was “The essence of all of He went on to explain that the number, which he repeated ® whood.” ~— 7“ :
od s commandments that Moses brought down from the moun- her, had appeared in a classified ad in the “Employmet = {
= ie er . : Wanted” columns of the morning newspaper. ‘
hws on tte: ; tris s phir segs ot may Then it must be a typographical error,” Georgia the name, she told police alter. But when her phone rang
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Miss Graham was sympathetic. “Have you tried anyone else,
Ww” she asked. “There are usually several babysitters listed, es-
wrally on the weekend.”

The caller wearily said he had tried nearly a dozen, but all of
had already made commitments for that Saturday night.

Later, when she was ve giving an account of the inci-

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* Rave Miss Graham his name before ringing off, but he
Gra ei Ma sort of husky, Northern accent” and the girl failed to

ment, she said, “It’s that same man, the one who's been trying to

find a babysitter.”

Miss Graham then regretfully told her caller that she had no
luck in trying to find anyone to help him, but she promised to
keep trying.

“Then can I call you again?” he asked hopefully. He added
that his home was a nice place for a girl to come to, with aswim-
ming pool, and a color television set she could watch after the
three-year-old twins were put to bed.

In a freak accident of timing, another local switchboard
operator entered the apartment only moments after Miss
Graham hung up. Georgia explained what had happened and
asked if the new arrival knew of anyone who might be willing to
sit with the stranger's children that evening.

As it happened, she did; a girl named Sandra Holderfield, the
15-year-old daughter of a neighbor of hers, occasionally took on
some babysitting jobs. ;

The man called back about a half-hour later, and Miss
Graham handed her visitor the telephone after telling her persis-
tent caller that her friend knew of someone who might be able to
help him out of his predicament.

Replying to the girl’s questions, the man repeated his name
and said he was employed as an executive by a local steel
manufacturing company. Like Miss Graham, however, the girl
was unable to clearly understand his name when she asked for it.
She told him she would check with Sandra and give him a
definite answer later.

Another half-hour had passed when the man called back for

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the fourth time. This time he was told that Sandra Holderfield
would babysit for him if his wife would pick her up at seven
o'clock at the address she supplied.

With obvious relief in his voice, the male caller promised that
his wife would be there “in her new Lincoln,” but that if his wife
couldn't make it, he himself would call for the girl in his cream-
colored Chevy. see

Precisely two hours later, at 10 mintues after seven on that
warm and cloudy evening of April 21st, an automobile horn
sounded outside the big frame house in the quiet residential dis-
trict of Jackson where Sandra Holderfield lived. Pretty, golden-
haired Sandra, a sophomore at Central High School, was in the
front room when the horn sounded. Dressed in a white blouse,
blue Bermuda shorts and white tennis shoes, she glanced out the
window and saw a cream-colored Chevrolet sedan stopped at
the curb in front of the house.

Hurrying to the door, the girl called back that she would be
homne about 11 o'clock. Then she tripped out the front door and
tan down the walk toward the waiting car.

A youthful-appeating, dark-haired man got out from behind
the wheel and came around the front of the car to hold the door
open for her when Sandra got into the front seat on the Passenger
side. He was wearing a white sports shirt and tan slacks and
presented a neat appearance.

That was the last time the girl was seen alive.

When Sandra didn’t return home at II o'clock, as she had
promised, no one thought too much about it, assuming the peo-
ple the girl was sit ting for had been delayed arriving home. But as
the time passed, mild annoyance grew into deepening concern.

Shortly after midnight a call was made to the telephone
operator neighbor who had contacted Sandra about the baby sit-
ting job. Unfortunately, there was not a great deal she could add
to what was already kriown.

“I didn’t catch the man’s name,” the girl said. “He said he was
an exccutive for that big steel company on the other side of town,
and that he had recen tly moved to Jackson with his wife and their
twin sons.

“He told Georgia Graham that they hadn’t got their phones in-
stalled yet, and I don’t know their address. But they live

somewhere out in Meadowbrook, and he said there’s a swim- .

ming pool on the grounds.”

Some thought was given to driving out through the exclusive
residential suburb to check on any place witha swimming pool,
but the idea was abandoned as too impractical. So as the night
Wore on, with still no word from the young girl, anxiety for San-
dra’s safety increased. With the first light of dawn, and still no in-
kling to her whereabouts, the police were notified.

It was Easter Sunday, and one thing was known about the mis-
sing girl: Sandra would not willingly miss Easter Sunday services
at the neighborhood Presbyterian church, where she had won

- body of a teenage girl.

attendance medals repeatedly for unbroken attendance r
since moving to Jackson some four years before. ;

A brand new lovely yellow dress, a gift given to Sandra far
Easter only the day before, hung in the closet of her bedroom.
Apprehension and outright alarm increased as the hour for
church services approached and the girl still did not return.

Jackson police, meanwhile, had gone to considerable lengths
to locate and check with officials of the steel company where the
man who had called for a babysitter claimed he was employed.
The officers were informed that the firm had hired no new ev
ecutive in recent months.

Moments after receiving this ominous information, officials at
Jackson police headquarters issued an alert for the missing young |
girl. A detailed description of Sandra Holderfield was incor
porated in the bulletin, and she was described as wearing blue
Bermuda shorts, a white blouse and white tennis shoes.

And within 10 minutes of the issuance of the official police
alert, a similar bulletin was broadcast over all local radio statiom
and television channels. It was repeated every 15 minutes forthe
next couple of hours.

After that, the entire complexion of the growing mystery
changed dramatically, and tragically.

At half-past 10 on that sunny Easter morning, a Jacksoa
businessman and his wife were returning to their farm home,

which lay about a half mile from the Natchez Trace Highway @, ~

southern Madison County, just north of Hinds County, in which

FExcept for a ripped white blouse and one white tennis shoe,
p the was nude. And even to the layman’s eyes, it was quite obvious
ote girl was dead.

~ Returning to his car, he drove to his nearby home, rushed to the

é ieephone and called the office of Madison County Sheriff Billy

Noble. The sheriff himself took the report from the still shaken
~gratleman farmer, who described the circumstances under
which he had made his shocking discovery.

Sheriff Noble paused only long enough to relay the report to
Jackson city police. Then he called a coroner's physician whose
kame was near his office and told the doctor he would come by
aad pick him up ina couple of minutes. Together they sped to the
ot where the girl’s body had been found.

While the physician examined the corpse, Hinds County Con-
table Fred Thomas, one of the first uniformed officers to arrive
a the death scene, picked up a man’s bloodstained undershirt in
te tall grass between the lane and the scrub pine.

Amore detailed search by other officers later failed to tumup
Sandra's blue Bermuda shorts. The authorities concluded she had
been assaulted and stripped of her clothing elsewhere, after
which she was brought to the secluded Lovers’ Lane to be

sardered. :
~ Anexamination of the blood-spattered roadway indicated that
Sandra had been dragged from an automobile and the car had
been driven over her body. Both of her legs had been broken,
and one arm as well, the coroner's physician reported after con-
duding his o}-scene examination. Additionally, several ribs were

ied, as were the bones in the face. The girl’s upper lip had
been tom away. Her entire body was covered with cuts and

Examination of the young victim's broken fingemails clearly
- iadicated that she had fought desperately against her assailant
before she was overpowered and slain.

Asked by Sheriff Noble if the girl had been sexually assaulted,
the doctor shrugged and said that he could find no outward
j tvidence that rape had been accomplished, but that the nude
tondition of the body seemed to indicate beyond any question

sex had been large in the mind of the murderer.

When investigators had conclided their work at the crime
*ne, permission was given to remove the young girl’s body.

tafternoon a post morten examination of the corpse was per-

Jackson is ‘situated, when they heard the first news about thecast j
on their car radio.

med at a Jackson funeral parlor. When this was completed,
autopsy surgeon confirmed the initial police theory that the

The announcer was requesting all citizens of the area to beot : prelty teenager had died between eight o'clock and midnight on

the lookout for the missing Sandra Holderfield. j

Scant moments later, the husband braked his car to a sudden
halt. His action was prompted by the sight of a white tennis shoe,

irday.
Reconstructing the crime from what little evidence was
*ailable, the police investigators theorized that the driver of the

small in size, such as might be worn by a girl, lying in the middle a ram-colored Chevrolet sedan had taken his victim directly

of the Old Johnson Ferry Road. This was wellknown asa Loven

Stepping out of his car, the motorist glanced toward the sided
the shady lane. A white brassiere and a pair of lace-edged nylon
panties lay near the edge of the dusty roadway.

Pausing uncertainly, not quite sure what he should do next, the
motorist glanced around him. That was when he noticed a trail
blood. Following this crimson trail with his eyes, he saw thatll
led from the lingerie items in the roadway to a scrub pine on the
four-foot bluff overlooking the road. He couldn't see what wat
up there from his vantage point, so he called to his wife to remaia
in the car, promising to be right back. :

Then he followed the bloody traces on foot, taking care not
trample on the track itself. In the deep sedgegrass behind

her home to the isolated farm area north of the Hinds-
adison County line. There, they believed, he had attempted to
ssuult the girl sexually.
' was quite likely, the probers believed, that the assailant
*ver expected the girl to resist him so fiercely, and to subdue
» he had to knock her unconscious. When she was rendered
bess and unable to defend herself any longer, he stripped her
Most of her clothing and dragged her from his car into the
“upty roadway.

Continuing their theoretical reconstruction of the crime, the in-
igators believed that at this point something happened to
Panic the man and he decided to kill the girl by running over her
*ith his car, According to the reasoning of Jackson Detective
hie M. B. Pierce after he had studied the autopsy report, the

pine he suddenly came upon the mutilated, blood-splattered

then dragged the body back — (Continued on page 78)

MD DOUBLE-LENGTH FEATURE NO. 2

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Stomach pump saved Slyter’s
cide, but he still needed help

life after he swallowed pesti-
getting out of police cruiser

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