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PREACHER HELD ON33-YEAR-OLD MURDERThink Louisiana Whites Want Possession of Land in Related Arrest.OWNS 968 ACRESSt. Louis Minister Denies He Slew Doctor in 1897.ST. LOUX8, Mo.—Ulterior motive* on the part of white people In Lxm-lilana la blamed here for the arrest ,f the Rev. Charles B. Gufenhlne, 63, on charges of murder said to have heen committed 33 years ago.A sheriff from Louisiana, accompanied by two »vhlte men who gave their names as Tyson, one a banker, motored to St. Louis to carry the aged man back. The sheriff gave as hLs excuse for falling to cause the arrestpreviously that he had promised the family of the murdered man. a white doctor, that he would bring the murderer to justice if it took a lifetime.Owner 968 Acre*Lawyers for the accused man point ot* than Gugenhlne was the owner of 068 acres of homestead land in the state and recently oil has been discovered in the vicinity and the white people seek to get control of this property. This, they claim, accounts for. the anxiety to press the belated charges.Gugenhlne declares that he has been in Louisiana since the criitne wan alleged to have been committed and no attempt was made to arrest1 him because the principal and all the witnesses are now dead.
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Baltimore Afro American
Baltimore, Maryland, US
Sat, Aug 02, 1930
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