Phillips Quizzed in Avant Murder Case by Alabama Officials
Special investigator from the Attorney General's office questions Lee Phillips a Geneva county convict at Atmore prison about the murder of Slocomb high school principal Claude Avant. Phillips claims knowledge to clear the mystery, with reports and names withheld pending the AG’s report.
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Montgomery
Ala
Attorney General’s Department
Atmore
Lee Phillips
Geneva County
Claude Avant
Slocomb
Charlie C. McCall
G. K. Fountain
Hamp Draper
State Convict Department
Attorney General’s Office
Invisible Actor Disrupts Confederate Play and Forces Exit
A mysterious unseen performer interrupts a three day Confederate Veterans stage production. He touches Brigadier General C. W. Mitchell on the shoulder and causes the curtain to fall, then kills the dancing grey uniformed actor during the Virginia Reel, shocking 3000 spectators.
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C. W. Mitchell
Birmingham
Cpon
Impeachment Recommendation for Barbour Sheriff
A Barbour County grand jury submitted a report to the circuit court recommending the impeachment of Sheriff Oscar Teal. It lists six counts including incompetency, failure to enforce alcohol and traffic laws, jail mismanagement allowing smuggling, permitting prisoner visits by women, and permitting escapes. Teal called it the work of political enemies.
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Clayton
Ala
Barbour County
Grand Jury
Oscar Teal
Comity
Reunion ends with dance on Foster Street in Alabama
The 29th annual reunion of the Confederate Veterans of Alabama closed with a Foster Street street dance cut short by the death of General CG. M. Mitchell around 9 30. A large crowd then attended a mammoth barbecue at Porter's Fairyland described as the county's largest and best.
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Confederate Veterans of Alabama
Foster Street
CG. M. Mitchell
Porter's Fairyland
Houston County
City
Venerable Confederate Veteran Dies While Dancing at Reunion
Brigadier General CG Mitchell, 83, died of apoplexy during a grand march at the Alabama Confederate Veterans Reunion in Houston Hotel. He had expressed a wish to die among comrades and was remembered for his lively dancing. Body to be moved to Birmingham for burial. he had made many friends in Dothan.
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CG. O. Mitchell
Fiest
Houston
Alabama
Homey Spiva
Lobhby
Mitchell
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EE Phillips
AVANT
McCall
Geneva
Phillips
Teal
Italy
Gauees
Haly
Humbert
Marien Jose
Belgium
Judge Martin
Dothan
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