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Is Charged With The Murder of Arthur Warner, of WycoBy Register Staff WriterWYCO—Willie Mae Moore. Negro, of Mullens, is being held in i the county jail on a charge of murder in connection with the fatal V- . . *1 1 uVl ^ f -1**' Am3c3f L‘* , * JS.Xj W.Ishooting of George Arthur Warner\ jr., 25-year-old Negro, of Wyco, early Wednesday morning, state police reported here. The shooting occurred in front of the poolroomat Wyco.The police said that she shot him three or four times m th* abdomen with a 32-20 revolver and then beat him in the head with the butt of the pistol, and then threw the gun in the creek.She told police that they had been sweethearts for about two years and had broken up on Octo-! her 18 of last year but that she had gone to his boarding house to get him to take her to the j doctor, according to the police, who said the pair went over to the poolroom and sat on the porch when they became involved in an argument.When they started to leave she said, ‘He started on with me and I .told him not to come no farthei and he kept coming and 1 just sho‘ him,” according ft) a statement made before State Police and! Prosecuting Attorney R. D BaileyWhen the shots were fired the girl was standing on the poolroom porch and Warner wasstanding on the ground, state police reported,Funeral services for Warnet will be held Sunday at Roderfreld and burial will be made in ’hr laegei Memorial cemetery af laeeer. The Reverend R C. Brown, of Firecn. will be in charge of the servicesHe is survived by his pa;ent-Mr. and Mrs Gelt;v ce Warner eight brothers, Jame- who is with the United State* army in Africa. Bill, who is in the army stationed in Georgia, Frederick Lee, F rgene. Eddie Will, Harold Lee, Bobbie and Josh ail of whom are at home four sisters, Mrs. Glendora Hr of New York, Carolyn Lee Mar Elizabe’h and Julhe May, ad otwhom are at home.
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Beckley Sunday Register
Beckley, West Virginia, US
Sun, Jan 10, 1943
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