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South Carolina Battles Hash Of Unusual CrimesBy The Associated PressBizarre and bloody crimes have kept South Carolina officers in Chester, Orangeburg and York counties bus Four persons died in violent incidents Monday at a Chester grocery and a York County convenience store, and an Orangeburg County deputy was arrested for a bank robbery.Orangeburg County Sheriff Vance Boone said he “got a hell of a shock when he learned one of his deputies had been arrested as the suspect in an Orangeburg bank holdup Monday morning.Boone said Laurie Williams, a 40-year-old deputy w ith five years on the force, was apprehended after a 10-mile car chase Williams was not formally charged Monday. An arraignment hearing was scheduled to be held todayThe case was turned over to the FBI. the sheriff said.Boone said officers also recovered some $20,000 in cash taken by a man armed with a 38-caliber pistol. The robbery occurred at a branch of the First National Bank just outside Orangeburg around 11 a m . he said.A patrol car near the bank gave chase when officers spotted a vehicle matching the description of the getaway car Boonesaid the monev was found in a wooded area' ■near the spot where the suspect was capturedChester County Sheriff Bobby Orr says he doesn't know why 41-year-old Joe H White walked into Darby s Grocery Store just outside Chester around 3 40 p.m. and allegedly stabbed John E Marquard. 60. and l^eonard A Ferrell. 46. to death with alarge butcher knife.“When officers arrived on the scene. White was threatening other people with the meat knife, Orr said. City police officers assisted by the sheriffs department disarmed White and took him to the Chester County Detention Center.Just before 5 p.m., less than an hour after his capture. White was found dead in his jail bunk, the sheriff said. Orr said he did not know w hat caused White's death.Orr said he was sending White's body, along with those of Ferrell and Marquard. to the Medical University in Charleston for autopsies. The sheriff has asked the State Law Enforcement Division to investigate the three deaths.A 19-year-old Vga Cay convenience store clerk was shot in the head with a shotgun during an apparent robbery. Three suspects were arrested in North Carolina and a fourth turned himself in to law enforcement authorities in YorkA man and two women were arrested in Mecklenburg County, N.C., about three hours after the shotgun slaying of 19-vear-old convenience store clerk Ted Graham of Hock Hill around 4 30 a m. Monday.Arrested on fugitive warrants charging them w ith murder and armed robbery were Wardell Patterson Jr.. 21. of Rock Hill, his sister. Jerleen Patterson Nelson. 25. and Michelle Patton. 17. also of Rock Hill.Freddie Dean Gordon. 19. of Rock Hill, turned himself in at 4 20 p.m. Monday in York and was charged with murder and armed robbery, according to Capt Gene Irvin of the York County Sheriffs Department
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Kannapolis Daily Independent
Kannapolis, North Carolina, US
Tue, Aug 19, 1980
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