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Woman ReportedlyStabbed 75 Times;Companion HeldHINTON(B—Five persons reportedly saw the estranged wife of a Huntington mart, who was the motherof three children, killed north of Hinton yesterday in what was described as a jack-hammer stabbing,A funeral home spokesman in this Summers County seat said Mrs. Thelma Lucille McNeill, 28, wasslabbed about 75 times. |Summer* County Sheriff Emmett L, Fox arrested James F McCaleb, thought to be 53. andlodged him in jail.Prosecuting Attorney Thomas L. Read was expected to confer with McCaleb today and charge him with murder.John Bert McNeill, a candy truck driver in Huntington, was quoted last night that the victim wat his wrfe for 10 years before thov were separated m January, She left him at that time and bad not returned to visit the three1 children he related,McNeiM was quoted that Mrs Bertha Morrison of Huntington is the mother of the dead woman The McNeill children are Carv.I and six-year-old twin* Jimmy and John JrThelma McNeill had spent aome time m recent month* m Rusaell, K\, less than 20 miles from Hun tington, McNeill related jSheriff Fox had to fill in the sequence of events leading up to the stabbing from others near thekilling alongside W Va. 3* The •put was two miles east of Sand •tone and about eight miles north of Hinton.The sheriff could find out little! from McCaleb last night at thlt; jail. The jailed man was quoted by ! Fox that the victim** mother s name was Morrison and the dead woman was from Hui tington. Fox related that McCalbe said He was (Continued on Page 2, Column Ij,
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Morgantown Post
Morgantown, West Virginia, US
Fri, Jun 19, 1959
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