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Murder Charge F;led In Shooting at WestWACO, Texas, Dec. 27. UP) —Joe Thibodeaux of Hillsboro was icharged with murder in the fatal jshooting of Staadan Sawyer, 30,, at West, Texas, last night.Thibodeaux was arrested 30 minutes after Sawyer, also a res- | ident of Hillsboro, was shot in 1 front of a tavern. He was held in ; the county jail here.Sawyer, who worked at the Waco Air Force Bare, was sitting | at a bar in the Night Owl Cafe | ! when George F. Raymer, a taxi I driver of Hillsboro, came in and j j told him, “one of your friends is ! | out front and wants to see you/’ j! Sawyer went out, and several ( I shots were heard. Sawyer stum- i [ bled back into the tavern and jI cried, “I’m shot.” He collapsedand died before he reached thei hospital.| Raymer told officers a man i hired his cab at HilLsboro to take ; him to West. He said that whenthey were several miles out of Hillsboro, the man produced a pistol and threatened him. At the j tavern, Raymer was instructed to | send Sawyer “out to see a friend.” j i Sawyer is survived by his par-| ents, Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Sawyer j of Hillsboro; a son, Jimmie, and ! a brother, Ted Sawyer, St. Louis, i Mo,_A______
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Wichita Daily Times
Wichita Falls, Texas, US
Mon, Dec 27, 1948
Page 2
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