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diet by her fc. iner husband.BOSWELL CALLSSHERIFF COLEMANA “MUSSOLINI ” i(By Associated Press)MARION, 111., Nov. 21—State’s Attorney Arlie Boswell this afternoon announced a list of w itnesses to be summonded for the trial of Art Newman, Riley Simmons and Freddie Wooten charged with the murders of State Highway Patrolman Lory Price and Mrs. Price. jBesides Leslie Simpson, a confess-J ed member of the gang that killed the Prices, there are seventy.four others, including Sheriff Oren Coleman of Wiliiamson county, Sheriff James Pritchard of Franklin county, John Stack of the Illinois Highway Police; John Rogers, a reporter for the St. Louis Post Dispatch, to whom Art Newman is alleged to have made a confession and Jack Crews, a mem- j ber of the Birger gang, recently released through want of prosecution for the Price murders.Sheriff Oren Coleman, who hasbeen at loggerheads with Boswell,1“ ■was shown an interview with the lat- j ter, in which the prosecutor compared him to Mussolini. The sheriff said he did not want to indulge in “personal opinions.” I
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Carbondale, Illinois, US

Thu, Nov 22, 1928

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