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It was at this spot late last Monday night that D. B. Allen, 38-year-old refinery worker, was mortally wounded by two blasts from a shotgun after he had been ordered out of a parked automobile in which he and Mrs. Myrtle Bates Byrd were sitting. In the photograph, Chief Port Arthur Deputy Sheriff T. G. Pool is pointing to the place where two discharged shells from the killer’s gun were found in a clump of coffee-bean bushes. Poole’s car is parked in the approximate location of Allen’s at the time of the shooting. In Beaumont Saturday, J. S. Jernigan, 52, signed a formal statement detailing the homicide. On information given by Jernigan that the death weapon was thrown in the canal at the foot of Woodworth boulevard, a diver Sunday or Monday will descend into the water to search for the gun. This photograph is by J. C. Watkins, along with another on Page 3, showing Jernigan, Sheriff Bill Richardson, who led the investi gation of the slaying, and other officers who assisted.
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Port Arthur News
Port Arthur, Texas, US
Sun, Jun 25, 1944
Page 1
Full Page
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