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WifeFound Slain in HomeLOS ANGELES — The nude body of a teen-age wife, a bent butcher knife in her chest, was found by her young husband whenhe returned from work yesterday.Officers said there was no sign of a struggle in the bedroom where the victim, Mrs. Barbara Jean Jepson. 18. an expectant mother, was discovered.“I can’t figure out who would do such a thing, the husband. Joseph Earl Jepson, 20. said repeatedly, He told investigators his wife had not been feeling well when he left for work as clerk at the California Air National Guard and he had not called home day.anOfficers confirmed that Jepsonha:d been a; the guard office,BARBARA JEAN JEPSONLEGAL NOTICESCITATIONStAie of New Hampshire Kocfeingham. ss.COURT OF PROBATETo all persons interested in the trusts vmder the will of Grace L. Hooper late of Rye, in said County, deceased,testate:WHEREAS The Exeter Banking Company trustee under the will nf said deceased has filed in the Probate Office for said County the fifth, sixth and seventh accounts of its trusteeship of certain estate held by it for the benefit of Maurice S. Hooper.You are hereby cited to appear at a Court of Probate to be holden at Exeter in said County, on the fourteenth day of February A.D., 1956 at 10 o'clock la the forenoon, to show cause, if any you have, why the same should not be . allowed. ISaid trustee Is ordered to serve this citation by causing the same to be published once each week for three'suc-cissive weeks In the Portsmouth Herald a newspaper printed at Portsmouth In yald County, the last publication to be at least seven days before said Court. | Witness. RICHARD E. SHUTE, Es-lb-minute drive from his borne. An all-points description of a young blonde youth was broadcast by police after neighbors reported having seen such a man loitering in an alley behind the Jepson’s San Fernando Valley apartment.Officers said the bed was not disarranged. The girl’s clothes were on the floor, except for one stocking which was knotted around her right wrist.Bloodstains in a closet of ‘.lie one-room apartment indicated the slayer pawed through clothing in search of something, police said.Van Nuys Police Lt. Ernest Johnson said Mrs. Jepson, who was to become a mother in July, may have been surprised Sy the killer as she changed clothing after a shopping trip,Neighbors said she went out in the early afternoon. They did net see her return but heard angry voices and a' radio blaring in the apartment at 3:30 p.m.The Jepson3 were married last July.346 YoungstersGet Salk ShotsAt Kittery ClinicKITTERY—A new series of Salk anti-polio vaccine inoculations be-an, at Frisbee School auditoriumquire. Judge of said Court, this six-twinth day of January A.D., 1956.FRANK B. NAY Register of Probate 35 J18.25.flyesterday with 34G children from junior primary through Grade 5 receiving their first shots.All shots were administered and children returned to their own schools and classrooms within one and a half' hours.Physicians giving the shots were Dr. Paul E. Taylor. Dr. Charles W. Kirtghorn, both of Kittery, and Lt. Donald Thomas, CMC) USN, of the Portsmouth Naval Base. Hospital Corpsman Rudolph Iovanetti, assisted Dr. Thomas.Nurses in attendance were Mrs. Cushman Phillips, Mrs. Jordan Orr, Mrs. Esther LinsQOtt, Mrs.' Harold Chase, Mrs. Myrtle Kankin, Mrs. Evelyn Haley, Mrs. Charles Prince, Mrs. Roger Raymond. Mrs. Curtis Ford, Mrs. Douglas Brown and Mrs. Thomas Bridges.Volunteers from the PTA assisting with the clerical work were Mrs. John Robinson, Mrs. Charles E. Perry, Mrs. Clifford Parker, Mrs. Fred Perry. Mrs. Warren Delar.o, Mrs. Perley W, Putnam, Mrs. Harold P. Grace Jr., Mrs. Carolyn Leavitt, Mrs. Thelma LaClair and Mrs. Wiliiam Lechner.
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Portsmouth Herald
Portsmouth, New Hampshire, US
Wed, Feb 01, 1956
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