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Elk Man Is Held In Friend’s DeathA 36-year-old Elk district man accused of slaying bis ‘‘best friend'’ because he was “chasing around” with his wife was held in the Kanawha county jail last night pending a formal charge of murder^State Trooper W. L. Pence said preliminary investigation showed! that Arnold L. Elswick of Little Sandy was waiting in the dark late Thursday night when Clarence E. Pauley, 27, drove up with Mrs. Elswick at the home of the woman’s sister about one mile from Elk-view.“I was told that Pauley and Mrs. Elswick were chasing around together and Elswick thought his; friend was breaking up his home,” i Trooper Pence related, !Dr. Max J. Goldman, Kanawha [ county coroner, said he had direct-! ed that a murder charge be placed against Elswick, and the trooper said this would be done today.Pence reported that Elswick, the father of three children, surrendered voluntarily at the county jail.Pauley was killed by a single blast fired at close range from a 12-gauge shotgun.The Els wicks and the Pauleys were neighbors at Little Sandy, and the two men rode to and from work together each day at the Libbey - Owens - Ford Glass Co. in Charleston.Dr. Goldman said he was told that the Elswicks had been separat*(Heise Turn to Page t Cot, 1)
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Charleston Gazette
Charleston, West Virginia, US
Sat, May 31, 1947
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