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Waco Man Jailed In Miss., Faces Charges of MurderCLEVELAND, Miss. (AP) -Texas authorities say jailed Robert E. White, 36, of Waco, Tex., will face murder charges in at least two of four killings in North Centeral Texas last weekend.Bolivar County, Miss., Sheriff H. B. Williams said White surrendered at this Mississippi delta town Tuesday night, handing over a number of stolen guns and a knife.Collin County, Tex., Dist. Atty. fom O’Connell filed murder charges Wednesday afternoon before Peace Justice Jack Cope in the killing of Preston Broyles, 73, a McKinney store operator shot to death in an apparent robbery.White will be questioned about the slayings of Gary Coker and Billy St. John, both 18, killed at the same time as Broyies.Earlier, Waco officials charged White in the death of Hoy Perryman, 51, stabbed to death at his home from which 28 guns were taken.Justice of the Peace Joe Johnson of Waco set bond at $100,000 on murder and theft ■ charges in the Perryman death.No bond had been set late Wednesday in the Broyles * death.' Perryman died Friday night.! Broyles, Coker and St. JohnI were gunned down about dawnSaturday, all with a .30-caliber 1 carbine apparently after beingE forced to lie on the floor, inves-J tigators said.! A witness to the McKinneykillings said two men entered the, store, one of them armed.. However, there has been noI further mention of a secondf man being sought.s Collin County Sheriff Georgen Smith said White waived extra-» dition, clearing the way for hisreturn to Texas from Mis-e sissippi.r Investigators said White toidi, them he would show where heo threw away a rifle used in ther McKinney slayings during hisflight to Mississippi.
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Corsicana Daily Sun
Corsicana, Texas, US
Thu, May 16, 1974
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