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i iiiliwinfriifiMiamTHE DAILYPAVtef M. LEWIS ....... - *’ • •«lt;* Publisher and Owner•A » n;f* U ■ -*■4‘iViiM.lnf.:.»• •*-I.!.-4:ititod 6t the Rfiston, Louisiana Postofflce as second class matter.Official Journal of Parish of Lincoln and Lincoln Parish School Board.*4*.V'Office of Publication, Leader Building, Miss. Ave,Telephone 120.•Y.Published every afternoon except Sunday.Formal obituaries, resolutions of respect and personal cards of thanks will be*■.irun high, For this reason it te believed the little Richland parish court room will be filled to overflowing when the trial gets under way thismorning —Monroe'Morfting World, lOth.=M#-Hard Boiled JuristLos Angeles.—Justice Miller, dean of the law school, advocates drastic sentences, the whipping post and the “hardest labor imaginable during a short sentence.” •Local la Monday, v J. W. Eve Mrs. Fairlt; Miss Walk^ewtisosW' - ... *charged for at the regular advertising rates.SUBSCRIPTION RATESOne VearSix Months$9.00$3,00Trial Of WilsonNegro Held AtvRay ville TodayThe Negro Is Spirited FromLocal Jail By Richland Men.Fearing possible mob violence, Sheriff A. A. Abel and Chief of Deputies Roy Billion Sunday night appeared suddenly and unanounced at the Ouachita parish jail wherei Wilson had been hr ought for safekeeping the day following the alleged attack. They spirited {division of the property.Tough for PedestriansWashington,—The American Automobile Association predicts 35,000,000 motor Vehicles^ in the U, S. by 1940, or more than in the entire world today.Buried Treasure in TombBenton Harbor, Mich.—Alleging that more than one million dollars were buried in the vault of King Ben Purcell, of the House of David, his widow files suit for dissolution of the sect andMiss Op jji Moiiroe Taylor,High Scht Meeting TThe trial of Henry Wilson, negro, 21, charged with making a criminal assault upon a young Rayville white woman less . than two weeks ago, was opened in Rayville this morning at 9 o’clock at a special session of Richland districtcourt.Judge John R. McIntosh, of Oak Orove, will be on the bench, with District Attorney C. J. Ellis directing the’ prosecution, ' Tobin Hodge and T. M. McGregor have been appointed by the court to constitute defense counsel.The Richland parish grand jury In . special session at Rayville December 4. returned a true bill against the Wilson negro after having been closeted less than two hours and hearing the testimony of seven witnesses, one of whom was the alleged victim herself.their prisoner away. Last night Deputy Binlon told The World that neither he nor Sheriff Abel preferred to disclose the place where Wilson had been transferred but gave the assuring announcement the negro would be presented when court opens this morning.For the last day or so Wilson had been held more or less incommunicado at the parish jail here and when the prisoner was removed Richland and Ouachita authorities reached the decision to make no public announcement.A venire of thirty jurors have been summoned and the first order of business this morning will be the selection of twelve talesmen to sit in the trial. If fiiese thirty are exhausted without obtaining the required number of jurors —twelve good men and true—then it will be necessary, of course, to tow a second venire of thirty.The alleged outrage has created tremendous interest throughout Richland and neighboring parishes and feeling immediately following the alleged act attributed to Wilson was reported toBandit HuntCheyenne, Wyo.—An old time bandithunt was instituted when a robberwrecked a train by lossening twolengths of rail. He secured only $500. lt;•The Hig regular. nr 11, in the 3:3.The foil precedingChineseWest”) “IBoat)—Mi A. K Stii Christm Freese.If you a:come and the teacheCancels Diplomats' PayCuayaquii, Ecuador.—The government, seeking new economies, contemplates filling all embassy positions, save those at Washington and Peru, withnon-salaried appointees. ^ 1 —DifferentOne thing that keeps the sale of radios from slumping is the fact that one doesn’t have to take a set to the filling station so often.—The Des Moines Tribune-Capital. ,It is the mind that makes the man, and our vigour is our immortal soul. —Ovid.Sibley, : Pennell a Sunday.Born to little dau Betty Kat her arrivaMiss A; patient a Monroe, v afternoon Mr. ON Sunday ti given in 1 Mr. Rotprised on breakfast daughter, for them few minuren and g until the i With the Davis Bai
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Ruston Daily Leader
Ruston, Louisiana, US
Tue, Dec 10, 1929
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