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IOPS’UALFIGHT’araguyAllowedTWO MEN ARE JGOSLAIN; ARRESTDRIVER OF CABranco i»essorDYALI, the ww)ay* Feb. IB.veterans ofoday set up ent of Far-ddent Euse-. from Ws lost a hardTaxi Drixer Says That He Shot in Defense; Two Men Attacked Him With BlackjackiESC/.X*DAZED BY BLOW(TAZEWELL, Tenn., 1S- UW—Self-defense waa claimed today by Joe Jennings, young: Tazewell taxi driver, who 19 under $5,000 bond on murder charges in connection with the fatal shooting: of two men in Knox county last night.The slain youths were Leeraslost a hara | Whittaker. 19, of Knoxville, and day yester- Frank Hipshlre, 21, son of a widow of tho cap* living near New Tazewell, gnation by! Their bodies were found lesst Paraguay. than 200 feet apart on the cresti refuge- I of Black Oak Ridge near Knox-addressed vllle. Whittaker lay face down leader of with a bullet hole in hia head. ^ lO, with his Coroner John H. Scott of Knox , ie war vet- county said his lifeless hand was | icl Franco, gripping a blackjack with the j r Paraguay, strap around his wrist. Hipsnire 5 ^ im * body lay against a clay bank, the.2d Ayala to jugular vein severed by a bullet, | and return Quote* Jenningsu\\ guaran- Sheriff Frank Riley of Claiborne ;* county quoted Jennings as saying: ; o war hero -The boys hired my taxi ana ti the army iaid they wanted to go to a CLL tous civilian *amp near GatUoburg. They gou on with al- out of my two-door car near the ivities. was i($SQ top. One turned on me and Buenos Air- ;uddenly struck me in the headexpected to w|th something- The first lick daz-I ed me. I began shooting in self defense. *** Sheriff Riley said Jennings was j confined in bed with a badly bruis-ed head. ^ -Sheriff J. Wesley Brewer ofLITER k«ox county*swore out ■?,! !'!!'ILIEjK rant charging Jennings with murder. Sheriff Riley said Jemimas | HI lid would be delivered to Knox countyrLAW for trial.A':ms■ut at 7 a :eral regi-i and Rc-eight)BecauiO., Mr antomc down *tiling In Delay {emberVFree Under Bond !TAZEWELL. Feb. 18. lt;^P)—'Free ; under #5,000 bond. Joe Tazewell taxi driver, today faced a - murder in connectionTR: Thin i* irrfe* of dts-ntr and |)k-or -----with the fatal shooting of-two men in Knox county laat Sheriff Frank Riley of Claiborne (Continued on page eight)Factc son a INORRIS IS PLEASEDM ir a nmrVAU(Ed Hecom tore, 1 the fwign
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Kingsport Times
Kingsport, Tennessee, US
Tue, Feb 18, 1936
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