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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1928
Page
2
In Kansas City on December 18, a group of unnamed women volunteers joined plain clothes officers to raid saloons, buying liquor to gather evidence for injunctions. Five women are active with 15 more ready to join, while secrecy shields their identities.
Price pleaded unwritten law as a defense for killing Lynn. The fatal shooting occurred Sunday afternoon near the Rocky Chapel school house, about 10 miles south of Ada, amid drilling activity at Whitney No 3 and Whitney No 4 wells.
Curtis Black was convicted of robbing the First National Bank of Allen on August 11 and sentenced by Judge Orel Busby to life imprisonment. The case included warnings of delivery plots and prior robberies across several counties and states.
Reports detail deadly tornadoes and damaging winds across East Texas Sabine and De Soto parishes in Louisiana with multiple fatalities and injuries. Names include John Jones and C C Gridell among others as homes were destroyed and trees toppled. Additional damage reported near Pearland Noble Converse Benson and Shreveport with minor injuries and no major losses.
Slayton Phillips a Tenn merchant armed with two pistols worn at his belt resisted a warrant issued for attacking Charlotte high school principal W L Rochelle over a teacher's suspension of his son for refusing to name the cracker exploder. Phillips held Rochelle during a beating of the student while his store remained open and officers hesitated to intervene awaiting restraint or warrant withdrawal.
The preliminary hearing for W. T. Price on the charge of killing Frank Lynn ended with Justice Cullins holding him to a charge of manslaughter in the first degree and setting a bond of 5009 dollars on Tuesday afternoon.
S Moses 22 was critically wounded by a shotgun blast in a Blanco area shooting that left him with more than 100 pellets removed. Buck Smith 25, his mother in law, is jailed after admitting the incident claiming Moses had illicit relations with Smiths stepdaughter.
Oklahoma City December 17 The warden Dr J Q Newell asked Attorney General Edwin Dabney to advise when attorney prisoner contact should end Dabney replied that the warden must decide. If a prisoner asks privately for legal consultation the visit is allowed with prior search rights by the state. Newell warns several outlaws have received visits from prominent criminal lawyers and more are expected.
In Kansas City on December 13 a saloon owner and her daughter were targets of retaliation linked to Carry Nation. A brick shattered a restaurant window, taken salt shaker in the doorframe, after eight men asked for Mrs. Wilson and Iris, then left without paying. A man described as Joe the bootlegger was named by Miss Wilson.
In Houston the Mexican patient John Francis slipped from a hospital bed during surgery and vowed to return for his enemy. Thirty minutes later he was found bleeding in the same house with A. Seangent, also Mexican, who had just been stabbed in the heart with an ice pick. Both were hospitalized in serious condition.
Kedta farmer J D Greenwood convicted of first degree manslaughter in the deaths of Henry McCann and Sam McCann. He was sentenced to 25 years in the state penitentiary by Judge D C McCurtain after a jur y verdict found him guilty. The slayings occurred in Keota last July. Greenwood's son Orville faces trial for Sam McCann's death, and an appeal is planned.
Nation honors aviation pioneer Wilbur Wright as a Kentucky Derby weekend event unfolds with a Saturday May 18 race. The meeting is slated to run for one day, highlighting a historic tribute in sports and history.
Eufaula Oklahoma December jurors discharged after failing to reach a verdict in the murder case of 18 year old Reba Thompson charged with conspiring with Charles Edwards to kill her husband for life insurance. Edwards already serves a life sentence for Thompson’s death and the trial included a coroner verdict of accidental death.
Louisville Kentucky December 17 P Col M J Winn president of the American Turf association and Churchill Downs executive director says he will seek Kentucky racing commission approval for spring meeting dates at Churchill Downs. The meeting is planned to begin Saturday May 11 and features the 50000 added Ken.
A wooden stock barn at the Laffoon farm in Erlanger Kentucky burned to the concrete foundations crushing seven yearlings and one mare. Total loss estimated at 140000 dollars with oats and hay also destroyed. caretaker Andrew Williams survived after being overcome by smoke. Owners cannot yet name the horses lost.
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