Hopped Up Youths Held in Chicago Slaying
Three unemployed high school dropouts confessed to the fatal slaying of 66 year old Fred Christians in Chicago after robbing him of under 15 dollars. The youths, ages 16 and 17, were found after mothers reported their missing. a .22 rifle tied to the crimes was recovered. Victim identification came from two witnesses. all three signed confessions. All had prior car theft records and probation or reform school histories.
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Chicago
UPI
Railway Express
Fred Christians
Michael Spiatto
Soviet Newsman Jailed in Congo Refuses Hunger Strike
In Leopoldville a Soviet reporter Nicolai Khokhlov began a hunger strike in the central police station to protest his arrest on suspicion of espionage. He was detained after filing a dispatch for Izvestia and is accused of contact with rebels opposing Premier Moise Tshombe’s government and of illegally obtaining entry visas.
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Leopoldville
The
Congo
UPD
Nicolai Khokhlov
Izvesetia
Khokhlov
Moise Tshombe
Three Deaths From UT Snowball Fight Storm
A deadly snowball incident at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville leaves three dead. A truck driver died after a snowball strike fractured his skull. An 18 year old freshman, Marnell Goodman, was killed by a shot fired by the truck driver. William Douglas Willett, 27, of Greeneville was attacked after firing into a crowd and charged with murder. A motorist also died of a heart attack after being pelted with snowballs.
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Knoxville, Tenn
Upd
University of Tennessee
William Douglas Willett
Greeneville
Tenn
Cumberland Avenue
Willett
Cincinnati
Ohio
Marnell J. Goodma
Swampscott
Mass
Ruby Case Dies After Snowball Incident Near Dorm Entrance
Ruby Case died after a car wreck by a university dormitory entrance. Physicians said the death was from a heart attack, while his widow claimed a seizure was triggered by students pelting his car with snowballs.
Tonahill Fired Refuses To Quit In Ruby Case
Attorney Joe Tonahill says he will argue Jack Ruby's appeal in the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals in Austin even after being fired again by Ruby's sister Eva Grant who holds power of attorney. Tonahill plans to seek the U S Supreme Court if needed. In a separate incident, Walter Lee Yow collapsed and died after a snowball incident near a UT campus area, with police pursuing the unknown student involved.
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Dallas
APD
Joe Tonahill
Jack Ruby
Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Austin
Ruby
Eva Grant
Tonahill
Lee Harvey Oswald
State Electric Chair
Grant
Yow
Willett
H. E. Christenberry Jr
Ira Pierce
Robert Lane
Cumberland Avenue
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B.A. Quinlan
Agnes Quinlan
North Street
Ismake
ILY
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Bennington
Coats
P.j.s and Nities
Iski
Campbell’s
Swift’s
Brookfield
EEF
Oneida
U.S
Stoney’s
U. of Tennessee
Roland F. Lawson
Knoxville
Jack
U.S. Supreme Court
Walter Lee Yow
Albemarle
N.C
Christenberry
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