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amr. Rail-stop-andmuchidentsroughsssary“toot-it and t why e two(r our • stop couldr run with-igers. outes,; railed lo-FUNERAL RITES OFCROOK POSTPONED;HELD ON SATURDAYFuneral rites for Zue E. Crook, 59, formerly of Camden, who was murdered and buried in a shallow grave near his cabin in the Ozark foothills of Arkansas, had to be changed to Saturday afternoon at 2 o’clock at the Carter Funeral Home instead of Friday as originally planned. Burial was made in the Moss cemetery. The body failed to arrive Thursday afternoon when expected, necessitating a change in the time of services. The local Masonic lodge conducted the rites, with Rev. Mark Malles, of the Grace Brethren church, officiating. An AWOL soldier, Kenneth Speegle,of Yellville, Ark., four miles from the. •Crook home, is being sought as Crook’s suspected murderer. A woman who resides near the Crook farm cars, i a week ago last Saturday called the 3 pro- sheriff’s office to report that she ell as hadn’t seen anything of him for a time couple of days. Since the sheriff was would not available Arkansas State Troop-e, the er S. V. Pavatt was sent to investi-What I gate. Pavatt was accompanied bythree neighbors who were curious about the case. As he knocked on the__ _ cabin door, it was opened and Pavatt [\| was shot and killed with a rifle. The ■it three unarmed men with him fled.' 111 Other troopers went to the cabin, but {ITT t*ie culprit was gone, and bloodhounds “ * soon lost the trail. Pavatt reportedly arroll was the third Arkansas state troop-s A-l er killed on duty in thirty days. In-weral vestigation revealed that Crook was . Du- last seen on Thursday, September 23, ’hite- in Yellville. On the following Sunday, oug- a posse was formed to search for him truce, and the shallow grave containing his Ellis, body was found 300 yards down the inlap, slope from his cabin. In the mean-Wat- time, officers went to the home of ames Speegle’s father in Yellville when ar F. identity of the youth was known, ee E. There, they said, they found Speegle’s rank- father wearing spectacles identified as rison, the property of Crook. The father pson, I promptly was jailed as an accessory, [doth, Crook had only recently bought 20 Rob- acres of ground near Yellville and Earl later bought 80 more. He was pros-San- pec ting for lead.3noe-i L.r FARMER HAS NAR-
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Flora Hoosier Democrat
Flora, Indiana, US
Sat, Oct 09, 1948
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