Mattox Given Life Term In 1960 Col. neighbor murder
Jon Mattox, 21, was again convicted of the 1960 coat hanger strangulation of 31 year old Gene Tate in Columbus Mississippi. A 12 man jury sentenced him to life in state penitentiary after a two week trial. Prosecutors argued Mattox planned the crime following Tate’s breakup of an affair. The defense sought a new trial claiming jury tampering but was denied.
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van Savell
Columbus
Miss
Jon Mattox
John Greene
Lowndes County
Mattox
State Penitentiary
Gene Cain Tate
Hugh Cunningham
Mississippi Supreme Court
Jackson
Sen
James Mattox Sr
Sarah Grayson
Mississippi State University
Fred
Dan Wilkerson
Lake
Miss Grayson
Meridian
Burgin
Athens Youth Drives Modified Golf Cart to School
Mike Lessor a 17 year old Athens High School sophomore who cannot use his legs drives a customized vehicle described as a remade golf cart. His father Orge Lessor and a local welder modified the cart with a wheelchair seat and a plywood ramp. Grandfather Lewis Lesser bought the cart and the family lives at 803 1st Ave in Athens while father works at Redstone Arsenal.
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Mike Lesser
Athens
Mike
Mike Lessor
Orge Lessor
Lewis Lesser
Kansas
Athens High School
Nebraska
Redstone Arsenal
1St Ave
Fireworks Seized In Birmingham Raid
Police and a deputy fire marshal seized $30,000 worth of fireworks in a Birmingham warehouse Friday night. J. B. Davis, about 45, would be charged with possession of fireworks after a history of 16 related convictions in the past 10 months.
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Birmingham
J. B. Davis
Youth Killed As Car Rolls Over On Him
Henry Allen Wharton aged 3, son of Mr and Mrs Frank Wharton, died Friday when a car rolled over him in a used car lot where his father was working. Authorities said the child was playing near the vehicle involved in the accident in Millport Alabama AP report.
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Millport
Ala
Henry Allen Wharton
Frank Wharton
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Breeders Foundation
Dixie King
Rex
Auburn
Empire
Funk
DeKalb
Pioneer
Stalls
U. S. 13
MecCurdy
Betle Mina
Roysters
Federal
Swift's
BABY
Paul C. Davis
Moulton St
Cunningham
Greene
Bill Burgin
Jewel
Bulova
Becator
Buschs
2Nd Avenue
S. E
Highway
Quality Model Laundry
W .T.grant
Second Ave
Grant St
Rex Rankin
Morley Denbo
Denbo Forest Products Co., Inc
M. R. Rankin
Johnston ST
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