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Spanked Boy, 16, ShootsWoman School TeacherGets Even with Teacher of Country School by ShootingHis Wife, Who Is Teacher In Another Nearby RuralSchool Near Arthur, III. Victim, Mrs. Nina Donahoois Former Mt. Vernon Resident.\By Associated PressARTHUR. III., April 26. — A country school teacher was shot and seriously wounded today by a 16-year-old boy outraged over| a spanking.i The victim is Mrs. Nina Dona-j hoo, 57. teacher at4 the White rural school west of Arthur.FELL GIANT OAKTO MAKE WAYFOR HOSPITAL1,Sheriff Glen W. Braden said j Pushed Over; Giant Mrs Donahoo was shot m re-1'i1venge by one of two boys whom her husband spanked yesterday. The husband, George W. Dona-, hoo. is a teacher at a nearby; school. He punished the boys af-I ter catching them passing notes, ■j The boys are Lloyd Titus, 16, and Glen Phillips, 11, who were captured under a bridge more than a mile from the school where the shooting occurred. They surrendered after a deputyBraden said both made a statement that Titus fired the shot.. Mrs. Donahoo, shot in the groin by a .32 calibre automatic pistol bullet, was taken to Jarman Hospital at Tuscola. She is suffering f I from shock and loss of blood. i The sheriff said the boys made a statement admitting the shooting. He said they and a girl wit-n j ness gave this account:■- r The two boys were caught n passing a note yesterday at the n Maple Grove school, about two o miles from the White school.Scoops Excavate for NewGood Samaritan.s1iVA giant oak—believed to be j the biggest tree in Mt. Vernon—was felled this morning to make way for the new $2,000,000 Good Samaritan Hospital.The huge tree tumbled like a match stick at 8:30 a. m. today under the 163-horsepower push of a large Allis-Chalmers HD 19 tractor which is advertised as “the world’s largest tractor.”It took a matter of seconds for the tractor, owned by the j ^ Moore Enginering Co, of Mt. Vernon, to fell the mammoth tree and within five minutes the tree was moved clear of the site.;Only a gaping hole in the i ground was left of a tree which had stood majestically for many(decades at the rear of the presentGood Samaritan Hospital.The tree measured over three I Donahoo spanked them and thejthrough the Irunk,j boys shouted, “We’ll get even c with you.”e About 9 a. m. (CDT) today, aei hits brought the boys to theyWhite school, which is a unit inj the same district with the Maple (• | Grove school. From there, the’ | pupils usually Jake another busbottom, and was approximately 1( feet l^i,The tree-felling was only incidental to the high-speed earth I moving w'ork going on at the new I 1 hospital site. lc!a I to the Maple Grove school.j The two boys approached Mrs. j I Donahoo on the White school ' I playground. They grabbed heritS. Idne-purse and demanded her automobile keys. When she resisted.young Titus drew the pistol andshot her. Mrs. Donahoo crawled to the school house and fainted. John Ozier, plowing in a nearby field, heard cries of the pupils and called an ambulance.No charges were placed against the boys pending further investigation.Mr. and Mrs. Donahoo reside at Lovington. Until three years ago. Donahoo was principal of agrade school at East St. Louis.1intThree big LeToumeau carry-11 alls were taking large ‘’bites’’ of earth at one time and carrying it speedily from the hospital site.During a four-hour period yesterday, 2,000 yards of dirt was moved.The powerful carry-aUs, of 13 yard capacity, were given pushes from tractors as they took their big “bites of earth, then sped under their own power to dump their loads and back for more earth.The thousands of yards of dirt will be moved from the site with, in a few days and actual construction of the hospital begun.The J. L. Simmons Company,| of Decatur. 111., is general contractor for the new hospital.tnitEditor’s Note—The wounded I teacher is a former resident of! ^Jefferson county. ^ imilt L IPTkShe is the former Nina Vaughnand is a sister of Mrs. Ed Rough, dmr\¥e%A Qri \nr\i- Mrs. Agnes Carpenter and Mrs. VjrUlueU JUIUiy; ; Lulu Holtsclaw of Mt. Vernon. g . r CAAnPinPbah
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Mount Vernon Register News
Mount Vernon, Illinois, US
Tue, Apr 26, 1949
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