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Crothvd Passes Bier LITTLE ROCK —-(/P)— .Curiousv^ crowds filed .through a North ;Ktfle-;'‘v.V: Rock ' mortuary Thursday ■. :to glimpse - ofHelen Spence EatSh, 2l-year-old-lay.^:|;^' •err of -.two' mc-b, .pho-boast she ,4wovdh\'ney£r.,.be live” after her fifth escape*'They gazed at the pretty face whil^;# bore no mark . of the. violent 'dearth „ which overtook her on a• lonely couh-try road Wednesday when she «t-:c}: tempted to draw a,pistol as a trustyx guard accosted her.'The charge from the guard’s gun i ^- j struck her behind one ear, death be- : 1' ing instantaneous. . : . 1Helen will be buried in a little eem- V ctery near here by the undertaker unless her family claims the body. ‘;• She will be attired in a pretty dress contrasting with the deipin • .Work • clothing she wore when she made her ' desperate dash for liberty.Beaten to the Draw LITTLE ROCK — Helen Spence Eaton, Arkansas’ restless bad girl, was shot to death late- Wednesday by a : trusty convict 24 hours after her fifth escape from the State Farm for Women at Jacksonville.She made good her boast in in defiant note found in her cell *,TU r*ev-er be taken alive ”She died with a .44 calibre revolver stuck in the belt of her blue overalls a short time after she had tried to hold up a farm woman and compel her to drive her away.The killing occured on a lonely I country road about eight miles from the prison farm and four miles southwest of Cabot.After an extensive investigation of all the circumstances, Dr. Lawson C.Ij Aday, county coroner, exonerated the , trusty guard, Frank Martin, age 33, who killed her, and returned a verdict of justifiable homicide,Spectacular Flight The fifth escape of the 22-year-old shanty boat girl from the White river ! eouaitry was the most spectacular and \ determined of all her flights since i she went to prison for her second murder.She got away about 3:30 p .m. Tuesday after obtaining permission from the farm matron, Mrs. Corinne Ban*, to go to the house from the strawberry patch, where she was hoeing, to take some medicine.
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Hope Star
Hope, Arkansas, US
Thu, Jul 12, 1934
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