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9,st6,SOStWashburnIcaVaTrial WillLkcResumedgsiCDALLAS (^Testimony was re- hsumed todav in the murder trial:oof Harry Washburn, 41, charged g with planting a car bomb that “ killed his former mother-in-lawi(2^ years ago.Washburn, convicted once by a “ Waco jury and sentenced to life, is being retried because the Court of Criminal Appeals set aside theconviction.Harry Weaver, 70, husband of the vict:m, Mrs Helen Harris Weaver, has told of threats he said Washburn made against the couple in 1951, o The state has called the death 4] of Mrs. Weaver a mistake mur-: der,” saying the bomb actually was meant for her husband.ise-Weaver testified Saturday that Washburn burst into the couple’s ^’i bedroom April 22, 1951, while he and Mrs. Weaver were sleeping.Don’t either of you move or I'll kill you both. You’re goingto write me a check for $20,000.”r-ree-e-siririsl-Weaver quoted his former son-in-law as saying.Weaver said he thought the defendant was angry because Mrs. Weaver had stopped her sendinghim $250 a month.
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Abilene Reporter News
Abilene, Texas, US
Mon, Jun 24, 1957
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