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Angry Posse HuntsMan Who .Killed 4■ LUCEDALE, Miss. (UP) —An angry posse searched wooded areas near here today for Murdock Hinton 48-year-old farmer missing since his ex-wife, daughter, infant 'granddaughter and a county sheriff were slain by shotgun, blasts at the Hinton home last night. State troopers from Mississippi and Alabama brought bloodhounds and joined in the hunt. They .-believed Hinton, afoot and armed with a shotgun and a . : —---—■ t fresk supply of shells, was hiding55.500 Veterans NowPrograms In AlabamaMONTGOMERY (AP)— There are now 55,500 veterans taking training under,veteran benefit programs in Alabama, says C C. Horton, director, State Department of Veterans Affairs.Of this number. 28,708 veterans are in trade schools, teachers colleges or schools for higher education; 10,827 arc taking on-the-job training and 16,050 are getting farm training.Horton said the number of Alabama veterans taking educational training is five per cent higher than the U. S. average. He ai-tributed this to emphasis placed on the advantages of such trainin.The number of veterans seekingVionofJtc will remainin nearby woods.The dead were identified a s Mrs. Hinton, about 43; her daughter! Gloria Hinton; 18; G lor i a's two-month-old baby, Judy Hinton; and George County Sheriff J. E. Nelson, about 40.Justice of the Peace J. W. Ha-vard held an inquest last night soon after the bodies were found. The jury returned a verdict of death “by some unknown hand” in the slayings.tHavard immediately appointed Malcolm D. Gavin “temporary sheriff” to direct the search for the killer.The inquest brought out that Hinton and his wife were divorced recently. It also found that Hinton had fled in the sheriff’s car and wrecked it about 11 miles from here.State troopers said they learned that Hinton had stopped once t o buy a box of shotgun shells before leaving town.No motive for the killings Was definitely established. Havard Turn To No. 10 On Page t
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Dothan Eagle
Dothan, Alabama, US
Wed, Dec 22, 1948
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