Painter says he slew clan leader for sixty
An itinerant painter confessed to killing Earl Gentry, a Ku Klux Klan leader, for sixty dollars and “a million dollars worth of satisfaction.” Sheriff reports George King, 35, admitted the shooting and said he would do it again. Carrie Gill, 58, confessed planning the murder and paying King, while her brother Ferd Probst, 63, aided in removing the body. The car and body were found near Rock River.
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N. Wis
Earl Gentry
Indiana
Sharon Pa. Scene of Noted Kidnapping Case Recalled
A 4-year-old girl Leah Minerva Dilley vanished on June 3 in Sharon Pennsylvania. Police suspected kidnapping after searches failed. Gentry, acquitted seven years earlier of another murder, had lived with Mrs Gill since then. The case echoes a historic Indiana kidnapping linked to D C Stephenson.
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Billy Whitin
Sharon
Leah Minerva Dilley
Gentry
Mrs. Gill
Madge Oberholtzer
Indianapolis
D. C. Stephenson
Public School Honor Rolls Second Semester Listings
The Seaborn and Summit schools announce second semester honor rolls with multiple students earning A grades and honorable mentions. Notable lists include Delbert Ballenges Norma Jean Walker Arthur Anderson John Andrews and many others. awards of honor are given to several students across both schools. A separate Denver incident describes Alexander the ostrich at the city park water trough enduring a scorched head after a firecracker was tossed into the pen.
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Seaborn
Delbert Ballenges
Norma Jean Walker
George Weaver
Jim Billie Armstrong
J. D. Hoyd
Lavonna Dawson
Loure Forson
Mabel Lindsey
Mildred Mathis
Stanley Mouldin
Maxie Miller
Jack Palmer
Margaret Ann Ray
Roger Roger
Oscar Ray Stidger
Ruby Lote Warren
Bill Andrews
Georgie Ann Burleean
Claude Doty
Annalee Jackson
Lillian Jwkeon
Wanda King
Louise Lacofield
Denver
Alexander
City Park
Smuggling Tale Ends with Lost Trousers at Border
A Donegal man attempting to smuggle clothes across the Northern Ireland Free State border met misfortune when he shed his trousers mid journey. He wore the old suit only up top and two coats with a newspaper shielding his legs, as a customs officer and station master lent him a pair of trousers. Fiji priest dies of leprosy in Maskogal.
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County Donegal
Northern Ireland
Free State
Londonderry
Gallagh Road
France
Oceania
Maskogal
Father Marcel
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Killer
Summit School
Nancy Mae Case
Charien Poster
Grace
T. Gordon Wilson
Penney’s
Just
Clearaway
And
Sport Oxfords
Bell Isle
Tranks
Penney
R Ore
Bac Na
Boalea
Chifton Sheers
Aoe
Eas
Nhl
Grey
Bandeau
Ce Ee Ig
Bae
ER Dri T
Gores A
Fu and
Superior Milk
Magnesia
Tre-fur
Woodbury Honey
Dasco
Dr. West
Wordbury
Lady Esther
Woodbury Facial Soap
Amarillo, Texas
J.C. Penney Co. Inc
Woodbury
Castile
Polk ST
7Th Ave
EA of America, Inc
Retaul Dept
STH
Fiji
Great Smoky Mountains
Deen Drugless Sanatorium
Eleventh Street
Wichita Falls
Texas
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