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%{Cimth*tt*£Frb» Fage I) ■Blair j#to.edvMrs. -Jaimes C»lifwe' who-works at the'atmvi said' sh«- bad.gone' otoideioput a'bag of feed into., a car M Walters-drove up aad .parkecL .: ■ ’ .She saM;tie .spoke 'and went into, the- store.. Going, back. intoegrp;P:Km.'the '- A aisc Bed QPPiihe store, she saw him standing IIr----— — m ...there. She said; she hast no ideahatthat aajtisrag unusual was about toffee1 to fcappeft. •_I Mrs:- CaMwsE 'related- that; Mrs:. Gibbons was- st andimg i across the store. from.. Waiters, dmSdsg- a. soft - drink. Waiters, walked past her, Mrs. Caldwell said, anlt;$ she saw he had a pistol in his . hand-. She said he .fired bin one time, at Mrs. Gibhtms as: he got I cried,' “Tfcis has gone on kaagf jTone: -E bac sf«73in-riff31 snought| As . Mrs.'. Gibbons fell,. Mrs. CaKweH: sailt;f... she- grabbed!. her mother, Mrs. lyd-ia Larktev and pulled her .out of’fee store.Frank' Hall, the- third person who- witnessed the sheeting,. s®tt . . he left' as Walter* was. firtog -atia® Mrs. Woods. smmo ' I pdi' :fEOthey said Walters then walked; 11 out. of-the store, got. into Ms _ ear,5: and drove toward Chureh JSilL . - Mrs, Woods was Alta. Blair fee-fore-her •marriage', and Walters had told 'many people that the .Blahs, had bewitched fete.see. ifig; 1 :issWtifciJohn Evans, Church HIE, said cptiec0henbnthfeatto£1.Walters- feoM'him, that , fee hadspells because he had. beep bewitched,, and that fee {Walters) “had to do something. when one, I came on.”j-; Capt., Taylor,, who said that, patrofenaa Ererette Dykes hadtaken a' rifle from Waiters as- fee walked; into- th® police station, said Walters -told Men thsfc- he “got tkefi of being bewitched.' Evans- said Walters- had coa-1,^ salted a doctor in Knoxville.. He' ■added tat Walters had spent sorne time in-a Radford hospital, Walters, who; is reported to ■ have -been unemployed, told ■: Kingsport. ‘ police that he had J' [thrown. the pistol' used in the '• .shooting into, some honeysuckle..' Sheriff Blair said he expected to recover she gon. today,Mrs. Woods -was born and ■reared in Hawkins. County, where i she lived most of her Me- She was member of the Grange Hal-I Methodist Church.She-' is. survived by feet, bus* band, . WSSam! Woods,. Church- Bill;: two sons, Donald Woods; *imih the Uni-feed States Army at * 1 Guam. and James Woods;. Church 5 ]wM; her parents, Mr. and Mrs. 'h'. C. Blair, Sttrgotosvififir two-siters,. Mrs. Andrew Larkins,'; Kingsport, and Miss. Ruby SwgotosviHe;. and two- tof.otfeers.i^ Irvin Blair, Church Bffi- and Joe*1 _ IretinofmtoEnJiK•KBE-air,'. Shrgoinsville-Mrs, Gibbons was graduated from. Church Hill High School; where-she was a star basketball [phsyer, ’in' -1948. Besides her ■father and brothers, she is survived by her husband, Elmer- Le® Gibfeam, and a sort, Warrem..'■’ Funeral arrangements are. incomplete pending the. expected.arrival of Cpl Woods- from-* Guam. Haralett-Bobson- Funeral;Home is. In charge.G4h
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Kingsport Times
Kingsport, Tennessee, US
Wed, Aug 16, 1950
Page 16
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