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‘‘Then I hi! him with my flat. J (McKee sbId thaf Carpenter hadjr a bruise* about an Inch Innjf below Ig his IcCl rye. i. ivYoung Cline, a naval veteran of| World War (I and former employe kof the Chicago Transformer plant here, then took up the threads of the story.I grabbed an iron pipe from tho hands of one of the girls who was going to hit Dad. The Carpenters then started back to their car. _ Carpenter turned around and' cursed me and threatened lo kill1 r me too. He started at my darl f with the hammer. I stepped bc*jj |tween them and Carpenter hit mejj, on ihe head/' Francis Clinv re-',, ! luted.lie showed Ihe sheriff a rut nn:r I his upper forehead before eon I in-uing. The blood slarted running down my face so t got in the car and went lo Baicsvillo do rail tho sheriff.The older Cline then resumed his account of the incident. Can-Ipooler stepped behind Ihe car and | throw two rocks at me. missing, i I had to throw up my hand lo stop the third rork from hitting me ini ! the* head.Cline rubbed tho legs of the', faded khaki trousers he was wear-; ing. Carpenter then started walk-, inn up the driveway and about) 100 yards away he suddenly fell j 'to the ground. His children help-i od him in the car and I went hack to the house. jCline’s wife. Mary, who was alt-, •ting on the front porch of the house aboul 75 fret away, confirmed hrr husband s aoeount of ithe incident. Other witnesses included Cline's daughter. Myron. 18. and his elderty mother. Mrs Marlha J. Cline. |They told authorities that Cline was riding a tractor hooked lo a mowing machine when the Car-(, pontons arrived.i Rack in the neat while frame, house ot the victim, the family; lull) reporters that they e.xporirrl. lo file charges in Ihe death nl the father of four rhildren who has horn farming in Ihe community' .for ’2} years.The stocky farmer was born in | Monroe county on Feb. 16, 3908, a I son of Wilbert and Maude Morris Carpenter. He attended Vernon 1 grade school but did not enter high school• Carpenter attended Ihe Beaver Baptist church| Surviving are his parents of near Calais: his widow. Beulah; two sons, Donald of Summerfield ,and Bernard of Ihe home and two* ' daughters. Velma and Anil a.• both of the home.• The body was taken to the, Kherle funrrnl home in Quaker1 City.I Funeral services will he held at Ihe reaidencr at 1 o'clock Sunil a} afternoon. RtiriM will he in Friends eemetery.Cline told reporters He worked, at Mosaic Tile company plant for three years during the late l$40’s and roomed on Putnam avenue.; He returned to the farm where lie i I was born four years ago. McKee j pointed out that neither Cline nor; i his son were under formal arrest :but were being held only for questioning.
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Zanesville Times Recorder
Zanesville, Ohio, US
Fri, Jul 18, 1952
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