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MURDER CHARGES STILL LL\1)I\(,Madison jury finds man guilty of jewelry robberyMADISON V, Va I PI Clifford(’audill hailed bv an old friend and classmate as one heck of a nice guy was convicted Monday of taking part in an armed stickup that ended in a double murder of a Blt;»one Countv jeweler and his wileCaudill. 38 a watch repairman from Barboursville still facesmurder charges with two othersuspect in Tennessee in the May 30 shooting deaths ol Aubrev and Alberta Maw kins found near a creek bed at Jelhco Term Me was sentenced to 186 vears in prison with a requirement that heserve one third of it or 62 years before becoming eligible for parole Caudill also must face a kidnapping charge in West Virginia Thirt\ witnesses and two contensions were used hv the prosec ution i n t he four da\ trial furors.Hrdeliberated only 25 minutes before agreeing on a verdictRarely will vou see a lt;ase as gruesome as inhumane as this one Proset utor Matt Bouldin told jurors in his summation This lt;ase takesits origin in human gi eedRouldm said the Hawkinses hadnever done Caudill anything but good but he in turn had treated them like animals.lack Hu klt; k the court appointed defense attorney earlier called threecharacter witnesses including aformer roommate and classmate of ('audill s m watlt; hmakcr slt; hool who described him a- t»ne heck of t me vguvHickok asked jurors about the in volvement of Hawkins in the robbery alluding to it suggestion tint tin \ ic tim had helped plan the robberv to defraud an insurant e company He also reminded them that not all themissing jew eh \ had been rec overed When Of t hi I * ' ’ ,f t ht* jeWeC he asked Were they gone before ( audill and William VS« xlev N or k got to the storeRut the assistant prosecutor I irn Conaway elt;intended that ( audill coneeived of the insur anlt; e story to deceive those two poor stupid guvs from Mingo lt;ountv into (tuning the robber \ plot( on aw av r eler i ed to \\ ilhamV\ eslrv N or k J \ uitj \V t - I iniev both of Iingess who already have been \t nlenced on robber \ charges following guiltv pie.is Roth men also (at e murder charges in rennessee In Monday's testimony a storeemployee told the court that Hawkinsonlv had 11 ikk) worth ot msutunre. while muii than lu* (H*» in rwlt; U r -w as r ernov ed : rum his M fisoltjewelery store(.old Production( H VRi OTTI \ lt;it PIBefore the great gold rush to ('alitornia North C arolina was the largest gold prodta mg state in Xmer it a tt cording to Rand Mlt; Nallv s new \ o a tion and Travel (dude In fact thestate was so productive as the nat ion s major source of this prec lous metal that a brant h of the I mted states \fint was put into oper at ion in (( ha riot te The Mint funt tionlt;xl in ( liar lotte from 18:17 through 191 \ Foday the building ser ves is the \1 inf ,Museum ot \r t which is open to fv isitoi sail \ ear round ,
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Morgantown Dominion Post
Morgantown, West Virginia, US
Wed, Nov 16, 1977
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