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THREE ARE TAKEN AS ACCESSORIESSheriff Ira Baird Makes Arrests in Connection With Murder of Green Pattillo, Claysburg Negro.EDWARD STEVENSON IS CHARGED WITH KILLINGAlleged Murderer Has Not Been Apprehended — Cutting Affray Culminates From Quarrel.Another murder )ms ■urn-d among! t h«* colored clement in ( la v-burgin j | tin* southern end of the county. I ho most recent killing, like other-* in 1 lt;layshut g. promises to givlt; HI *oun •' | ty authorities oomiderulde tronhle in 1 j its solution, i Green Patt illo, aged :;•» year-, *«*1 iored, died at the Nason lm-pitul in Roaring Spring at midnight lliur-uny of cut wounds of the ned;, which it i-ebarged were inflicted by lviwatd v •I enson, a negro, aged 2H year-, at Sit i enson’s home in ( layshurg at Hi. ' o’clock Wednesday night. Stevenson fled after the killing utid lias not heen apprehended.i The murder is the «ulininatioii lt;*t a quarrel in the Sevenson home, which is located near the General Uefru* lories company plant in (lay slung. Stevenson is alleged to have ii-cd a razor in cutting Pattillo utter lie hit ter had drawn a knife.The trouble which ended only with the cutting affray begun late in tin-evening. Pattillo w a \ isitlng in the Stevenson home during Wednesday eve riirig and had s|ent liis time in ,-oii I vernation with Stevenson and the hit i ter’s w ife.Three Arrests Are Made.i Going In ('layshurg at - o'clock ye terdav afternoon niter they had re 'iecivei’l word of the killitig only through ^ a ijie t v' frotn t he Altoona Mirror otlice, ’Shei i|) Ira Rail'd and Deputy SherilF i Jlariv Baird took in eu-tody Mr-.: t I’hristine Stevenson, aged wife of ,!the alleged murderer, and Sanders Smith, aged Is, and lt;•- ir Moore, aged It), rill colored, who nr* hemg h*hl in tlie eounty jail for aiding and aiietting i , the criminal before and alter the ta*i. 1 At tin* install e of Pi-triel Attorney , i Marion D. Patterson, Ren Pattillo, aUo- j of ( lavsburg, n brother ■ • i the murder- 1 victim, appeared liefore .lustin' of the f ’ Peace « . Irwin I/.vis yeslt;ei*iuy afterI noon and preferred charges of murder . against Reward Stevenson, i The three prisoners, including Mrs.1 , Stevenson and Smith and Moore, were i ! taken before the district attorney late yesterday afternoon and all gave then versions of the cutting affray, after which Smith and Moore were lodged j in the county jail while the slim ill' and [his deput v returned to (layshurg, ire-; compaiiieil by Mrs. Stevenson, to secure the razor, w ith which Steven-on i- said to have done the. cutting* and also to I get a revolver, which Stevenson is r-aid to have fired twice at Pattillo.Both the razor and tin* gun were found iti tin: Stevenson home. l ive j blood soaked sheets and spot* of blood Jon a mattress and ott the floor of the(Continued on Page 13)
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Altoona Mirror
Altoona, Pennsylvania, US
Sat, Feb 06, 1926
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