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Newspaper
Mexico Ledger
Location
Mexico, Missouri, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1972
Page
12
James Earl Ray, the confessed killer of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., had his bid for post conviction relief denied by the Tennessee Supreme Court. The ruling upholds a 1969 Shelby County guilty plea and a 99 year sentence. He is imprisoned at Brushy Mountain State Prison in Petros and has made two escape attempts.
An early morning blast leveled a vacant two story house in Madison across the Mississippi from St Louis. Twenty were injured, five hospitalized later. Firemen from Madison and Venice fought the blaze, heard five miles away. cause under investigation.
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