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tuTiiuf mi tlu? hast Kiver. I *__ It iSoldier Dies Of| ene} wel ’ st ridrcROCKDALE. Oct. 24. (Spl.)— Twenty-six-year-old twins gave themselves up here Sunday afternoon after they had been charged with murder in connection with the knife slaying Saturday midnight of Private C.N Knight Jr., 18-year-old soldier who was here on leave.Bill and Crump Morrison gave up to Sheriff Carl Black late Sunday afternoon, thus ending a manhunt which spread over Central Texas.Knight was cut down about midnigh! Saturday near a nightclub at Milano, about seven miles east of here. Another man, Wayne Lawrence. 30. was reported late Sunday to be in a critical condition in a hospital here.Central Texas officers had been alerted to be on the lookout for the pair. The search centered a r o u n cl Lockhart, where the pair formerly worked.Sunday at 5 p. m. the two boys called the sheriff and told him to come and get them, Black related They were at the home of an uncle. Buck Morris, in the Watson Branch commun- rm lty 15 miles south of Rockdale.They told the sheriff that they were not trying to run away. They admitted being on the streets of Rockdale early Sunday morning.Murder charges were filed against the Morrison’s Sunday, Constable Ed Sexton said.Knight was cut as he went to the aid of Lawrence, who was in a fight Lawrence is in the Richard Hopper Clinic-Hospital here in a critical condition from cuts under the breast bone near the heart, on his upper left arm, and the left hip. He is the son ol O. 11 Lawrence of Tracy.
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Taylor Daily Press
Taylor, Texas, US
Mon, Oct 24, 1949
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