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FRAZIER, BADMAN, ON TRIALTHIRD TIME ON DEATH CHARGEBATON ROUGE. La, Jan. 19.—OPTht tri*li itfi ^hiirlir* F l ] (}lv VIU1 1 1 iV: 3E3 aziei and Wal-ter Henucison, c nargc;lt;1 With the 1933sL,i\ ,agof CaptainTnhnv * y i. i iSingletondur mg-i hi eak fromlt; h Ostate peni-tontiary, entered itsfifthv1 * S. tL M -m-day today.hi 1 t H rvf t i f iC t lil »v/U lt;►. ji the day isK**.* t Aff’.Gen.Robert E jLee's birthday and a legal holiday inLo y is i an a.Three state witnesses who were in-mates of the penitentiary on September 10. 1933. when Singleton waskilled, testified yesterday that Frazhfired a revolve* into Singleton’s bodv.The wit no sen were L J Hardy.GroveThe tSo othei• /Vi o % lt;V Iee nowdietnd Riley Stiother, out of the peni-Inanlt;n s thud trial m eei with Singletcrtifa drat in .....Henrier .-on s second T e other trials ended in mistrials alter the jurors failed to agree on a verdict.tRAZIEK IN THIRD I RIAL K K Ml KDI ICBATON ROUGE, La . Jan. 19Chai is* badmi uI 4Frazier*Jh 4b-veat -oldescape*. is facing aU m - T(hargef rvbird tone1 ■—Te x a spr’ Lso r imurder%ojnn pc **a dozen des-thjee guatds1 Angola state prison by porate convicts, when were shot and killed.At Frazier s two previous trials, in lS?/ and 1943. mistrials were declared after the jurors failed to agree on a verdict. The present trial of Frazier and a fellow convict, Walter Henderson, similarly charged, was moved to :e froni West Fe 1 i cianaParish, where the prison is located, under change of venue.The defendants are charged with the murd-T of John A Singleton, a prison captain of long service who was shot and fatally wounded as he i ei ••trd at temp/s of dm convict gang to take him away as a hostage.Henderson and Frazier are two of the four surviving participants in the bloody pn on break.A jury verdict this time would either send Henderson back to prison or free him. He faces no additional chai ge. Frazier, however* already owes Louisiana, Texas and Arkansas an aggregate of 190 years for crime.Fraziei s story, as told at previous trials and reading like a dime novel,i Uon with the famous 1333 break from
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Monroe News Star
Monroe, Louisiana, US
Fri, Jan 19, 1945
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