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Hearing SlatedIn OklahomaFor DaleTULSA, Okla. CAP) — Tulsa authorities say no decision on wheth-' er captured Mississippi convict Dale (Cowboy) Morris will be extradited is likely to be reached before next week.! HELD ON BONDThe 37-year-oid escape artist, captured Friday without putting Jup a fight, was being held here | under $25,000 bond on a charge ofassault to intent to kill. A preliminary hearing is set for May 19.In Jackson, Mis s., Gov. Ross Barnett said- if Tulsa authorities would release Morris, he would 51 start extradition proceedings im-5; mediately.r\ If Morris is brought back to -1 Mississippi, he will still be in the “j state prison when Barnett’s term ends, the governor said.Barnett said he will not permit any more leaves for Morris and no more off-farm assignments. Morris, a trusty, bolted after he t went to Fort Smith, Ark., on a horse-buying trip.Two prison guards were with . him but Morris talked them into letting him stay on to get mar-.' rieci. He promised to return to t: prison by plane.■?{NO DECISION3i Tulsa County attorney Robert t D. Simms said he had discussed - the extradition matter with a ie-i gal aide to Barnett. But no decision was reached.Morrison was arraigned in Tul-riiSa on charges stemming from a -•shooting that occurred April 23 as d;he eluded Tulsa police. Moms’ n | woman companion was wounded •-'in the arm,r\ Three officers took Morris into5. • custody Friday in a downtown d, Tulsa bar. They said he had a 1- fully loaded pistol tucked in hist belt-hi Morris was serving a 12-year d | manslaughter sentence imposedjin 1958 in the slaying of a Ba St. Louis man. He pleaded guilt} to the reduced charge after juries s-j failed to agree in three trials, lei Before he was sentenced, hlt; in;broke jail, but was caught in Cal d-; ifornia. His home is listedle j Whiteh^, Mont.ti-is
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Biloxi Daily Herald
Biloxi, Mississippi, US
Sat, May 06, 1961
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