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» *%Negro CIwincgi1.......-t30arC(erNew Orleans Man' BAY ST: LOUIS, Miss. (/P) —r A M-year-old Negro soldier* who calmly told police he shot a New Qrleans real estate broker five ^mes, faced a charge of murder were today, Hancock county sherifftfohn Egloff said.A coroner’s jury returned a verdict last night which said KennethL. Mason, 31, of New Orleans,on . April _2 by shotgun wdunds inflicted by PFC Mack C. Lewis.Egloff said Lewis, who was arrested in Petersburg, Va., while driving the dead man’s late model convertible, sat calmly in his cell In the Hancock county jail here reading the Bible. The body of Mason, who hasbeen the object of a search by theFBI and state police of Louisiana and Mississippi, was found late Thursday night near Pearlington, Miss*, on the Mississippi-Louisiana ajate. line. The body was found in a wooded area about a mile north of the U. S. Highway 90 which runs along the Gulf of Mexico:Lewis led detectives, who were returning hom to New Orleans, to the body of the real estate agent. v*He told police and newsmen thatbe shot Mason, who had picked Mm up in New Orleans; after robbing Mason of $35 he said after f^ingTive bullets from a .25 caliber zitomati^turning hUrt to Orleans to the|clt; dead manfs body. Previously, he denied any knowledge of Masph and said the car in. which he was arrested in Virginia had been4:tifarBiif \f •r *■ *fled in the dpad man’s convertible, ewis was arrested in Peters-rg_ last Sunday after an 80 to mile an hour automobile chase through Virginia’s Prince George County. He~had been charged withSpeeding, and reckless driving '-inPetersburg. He was being returneMASONloaned to him by three Negroes in New Orleans.Scheuering said Lewis told thistd New Orleans on charges of pos*1 He hitchhiked a ride with Mason a|ssing a stolen automobile. on the outskirts of New Orleans.Lewis, who said he was on a As they drove past Pearlington he 18-day furlough from Ft. Bliss, drew a gun and forced Mason tox., told police he was on his y to Buffalo, N. Y., to visit his fe and their new-born baby.stop and walk down the lonely side road.Lewis said he shot Mason fourew Orleans Police Supt. Joseph Scheuering, who headed the search for the missing man said Lewis volunteered to lead detectives reor five times, took his wallet containing about $35 and drove off in the convertible; He said be disposed of the gun in Savannah, Ga.TT
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Hattiesburg American
Hattiesburg, Mississippi, US
Sat, Apr 11, 1953
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