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LINCOLN GRANDBehind the BarsFOUR MEETINGSPour Murder Charges Are Investigated By Jury Within 4 MonthsBelfeved to have set a precedent, the Lincoln Parish Grand Jury has convened lour times within four months to investigate four seperate charges of mUrder, It was revealed in information furnished at ttife clerk’s office here.The jury was summoned into special Session on three occasions by Judge S. D, Pearce of the Third District Court. One mUrder charge was examined at the regular session in September, 1929. £ln^fche course Of its work, the jury re-t^hed,fchree true bills. Defendants in Vo of the cases were convicted, neither drawing a sentence, of, more than three year’s confinement in the state penitentiary.v Occasions demanding the attention of jury were:6n September 6 in regular session the jury investigated murder charges filed against George Anderson, negro, who was alleged to have shoved his wife, Ruby Anderson, from a moving automobile, causing her death near Hico, northwest of here. Indicted for murder, the negro faced trial but was exonerated.in special session on October 1, the jury returned a bill of manslaughter against Gus Robinson, negro slayer of John Kavanaugh, prominent Olay, La. merchant, charge with the fatal shooting of Kavanaugh on the night of September 27 when the latter attempted to persuade the negro to return to an ungathered crop on the Kavanaugh farm near Clay, Robinson was tried and convicted. He was sentenced to serve three foonths in the state prison at BatonRouge.The negro confessed to the killing but pleOd for clemency on grounds of self-. .'defense.. Kavanaugh died from shotgun wounds in.the abdomen enroute to V* Ideal hospital.t • ;r,* lt;,■«»Oh November 7 the Grand Jury wassummoned to investigate the killing of Sh^p:-Forks, negro who was shot by Louis FTazier, another negro, because of reported illegal relations which Porks had: entered into with the latter’s sis-ter/; A, bill of manslaughter, with recommendations for mercy, was returned in the case. Following his conviction;. Frazier drew a sentence of from one to three years in the state prison.The fourth murder charge examined by title jury was filed against Sheriff A. J. Thigpen for the fatal shooting of Phillip Harris, 25, farmer residing three miles porth of Ruston, Christmas Eve,Harris was shot in the abdomen when, according to reports, he and his 55-year-old mother, Mrs, Plunkett Harris, ^protested the dry raid which the Sheriff and his two deputies, Guy Braswell and Clyde Frazier, attempted to make on the' Harris premises. The officers bore a warrant, legalizing the search.The, Grand jury returned a verdict of “no bill” after a lengthy hearing of the charges preferred by W. M. Sher-rard,' brother-in-law of the slain youth, thus absolving the officer. The verdict, apprerjtty of popular approval, attracted favorable editorial comment from several state papers. Sheriff Thigpen made repeated announcement of bis “regret” for having shot the youth, but explained that it resulted in the performance of “my duty as an off Jeer.”Shorn of ail their glamor, these bootleggers’ boats are behind the bars. They are being held “prisoners” by the the only “boat jail” in America.MO CHEVROLETv TTfc.T'rr 11771%.r mm rIS EXPECTED TOBREAK RECORDOfficials Highly Gratified Over Reception of New SixDETROIT, Mich., Jan. 11.—Following the announcement seven days ago of the improved 1930 Chevrolet Six at greatly reduced prices, the Chevrolet Motor Company last week launched manufaefcurtngand sales activities designed to meet the requirements of what promises to be another record year for the public acceptance of six cylinder automobiles.Factory officials expressed themselves as highly gratified over the reception of the new Uhervolet Six at the New York National Automobile Show last week. Thousands of orders and hundreds of congratulatory letters from the nationwide Chevrolet dealers organization told something of the success with which the new product is meeting across the United States.Meanwhile, so that the thousands of orders already on hand may be taken care of with a minimum of delay, the 16 giant Chevrolet plants are speeding toward capacity operation with all the haste consistent with Chevrolet's precision manufacturing methods. Employment at the Chevrolet factories is at the highest January level in the history of the Company with many of the plants maintaining , two shifts.At the same time the sales division under the direction of H. J. Klingler, vice-president and general sales manager, sounded the formal opening gun of the nationwide sales campaign, Wednesday, January 8, at a mammoth Chevrolet dealer meeting in New York City, Two thousand dealers from various parts of the Atlantic seaboard heard the Chevrolet sales chief outline the Com-W HAYOU(ByK. 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Ruston Daily Leader
Ruston, Louisiana, US
Sat, Jan 11, 1930
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