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Limestone NegroSentenced to JailOn Assault ChargesGROESBECK — (Spl) — Dallas Haywood, 24-year-old Negro man sentenced to five years in prison for assa'ult with intent to murder, was taken to the penitentiary at Huntsville this week to begin serving out his term, Haywood, who was sentenced, by District Judge Clarence Ferguson, was carried to Huntsville by Sheriff Harry Dunlap and Deputy Sheiiff Jack Boswell.Formerly of Bastrop, Haywood, who had lived on a farm in the Prairie Hill vicinity for the past year, pleaded guilty to a charge that he attacked Hubert Wiley, a Prairie Hill farmer, with a long-bladed pocket knife.Sheriff Dunlap says Wiley, who was cut on the shoulder, reported that Haywood attacked him because he had asked the Negi o to pay him some money that he owned.After the attack the Negro man fled m a car, Sheiiff Dunlap said, but apparently ran out of gas and abandoned the car. He caught a ride to Waco and then to BastropThe sheriff picked Haywood up in Bastrop about two days after the assault on Mr Wiley The Piairie Hill farmer, meanwhile, has recovered from the knife wound.n.
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Mexia Daily News
Mexia, Texas, US
Fri, Nov 20, 1953
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