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PUCE MURDER COUNT AGAINST GIRL’S SLAYERTrusty Guard Had Killed Helen Spence Eaton, Escaped ConvictCROWDS SEE BODYlt;*iKd Funeral Will lit* ProvidedFor Riverman's Daughter If Body Not Claimed TodayLittle Rock, Ark., July Coroner L. C. Aday today placeda find dej)(|e murder charge against Frank Martin, trusty guard, for the killing yesterday of Helen Spence Galon, notorious woman convict, as she was attempting to make good her escape from the’state farm for woman.It was reported that totally protests had come to the prosecuting attorney’s office on the Katon killing.“This being a woman who was shot to death by a convict,” A clay sai l, “I feel the responsibility is too great for me to act upon it as one man, and I am therefore placing a charge of first degree murder against Frank Martin, and am having him placed in jail to await action of the grand jury.”fiThe circumstances under which the restless girl convict was shot to death nine miles from the state farm for women were such, Aday said, that he wanted the whole public to be let in on everything that is to be known about it..**Helen was shot behind the ear, and it was this circumstance, he said, that caused many commentson the killing.
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Fayetteville Daily Democrat
Fayetteville, Arkansas, US
Thu, Jul 12, 1934
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