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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1934
Page
5
Rehearsals are on at Princess theater for Decatur High School senior class play The Girl in the Pur Coat with a repeat performance at Riverside auditorium Thursday night. Eighty Lafayette street school students directed by senior cast members are preparing for overflow audiences.
Verna Hillie a film actress charges in a divorce complaint alleging her husband Frank J. Gill Jr and his family treated her as an unwelcome guest and cut her cash to a point where she begged for money to have shoes shined. Hillie, one of two panther-type girls brought to Hollywood, sues for divorce.
Nashville Tenn December reports one hundred soldiers and ten officers guard the trial of E K Harris a 22 year old black man charged with assaulting a 14 year old high school girl Governor McAllister ordered troops out after Bedford county officials said authorities might be unable to prevent violence The scene underscores tensions in a coda of civil unrest in the area
Decades ago Tommy Touhy, fugitive gang leader, was sought as a suspect in the $427000 Brooklyn armored car raid with ally Joseph Burns. Reports claimed Burns identified with Touhy in the Brooklyn job while Burns faced Indiana life term and possible further arrests.
Special prayer services will be held Wednesday at 7 p m in the First Methodist church led by pastor Dr. Wm Price.
Henry Meyer Louisiana official executioner lies dangerously ill at the prison where he presided over more than 50 hangings. He reports visions and delirium crying to keep them away. He once hanged six in a row and four in another span, including a woman. He collapsed recently while awaiting Kenneth Neu’s scheduled execution.
Auction in London fetched 75000 dollars for 318 letters from Napoleon to Marie Louise and later letters to Josephine. Buyers purchased the block by the French government, with the collection spanning courtship to Elba exile. The sale tested auctioneer predictions and highlighted contrasts between early and later letters and published content.
Washington recounts renewed debate over whether Jefferson Davis eloped with Sarah Knox Taylor daughter of Zachary Taylor. Biographers and Randall cite Fort Crawford Wisconsin 1832 as meeting place with marriage near Louisville Kentucky in 1835, while sources dispute Arkansas elopement tale and note Taylor's initial opposition then consent.
Deputy Prosecutor John J. Kelley called Mrs. Neoma Saunders a cold blooded murderess in closing for the Wa bash Ind case alleging she plotted with Theodore Mathers to kill Rev. Gaylord V. Saunders to collect $29 200 in policies and pursue a love affair. Defense contends she suffered from her husband’s abuse and temporary insanity with self defense as motive. The jury was to hear further arguments as physicians testified she is of sound mind now.
Dan R Hudson of the Brown Service Insurance Company is in Huntsville on business today.
Brown and white bird dog about three years old named Dan is missing. Answer any sightings to Bill Willoughby at the sheriff's office. a reward is offered.
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