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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1928
Page
3
Police investigate murder of 63 year old widow Mrs Samuel Jones in Towanda Pennsylvania. Fingerprints on a lamp shade and car indicate robbery as motive. Notes found and autopsy show multiple injuries and a fatal gunshot. Relatives say she kept large sums secret. husband died last June.
W H Banister the city jailer has started daily prisoner fingerprinting at the city jail following a state bureau recommendation. Prints are clear and vivid, with two copies made for each inmate sent to Washington D C and the state bureau in Shreveport. Each card records all fingerprints and distinguishing marks.
Frank Carby, previously jailed in the parish facility, was turned over to Alexandria authorities to complete an unfinished sentence. He pleaded guilty in district court to being an accessory after the fact in the Ouachita Baking robbery case and had served six months, ending last Monday. Reports indicate he escaped from the Alexandria sentence for whiskey violation and carrying a concealed weapon.
Chung Yi Miao a Chinese law student from New York was executed at Strangeways jail for the murder of his bride Wai Sheung Miao. The woman was found strangled in a wood near Keswick England last June after their honeymoon arrival.
C L Ginn a 62 year old Wilmot carpenter died at a local sanitarium from injuries suffered when a porch collapsed over him more than a month ago. The roof struck his back and an X ray showed a fractured first lumbar vertebra with paralysis from the waist down. The body was moved by train to Wilmot for funeral services this afternoon.
Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin, a liquid vegetable laxative, has been sold since 1892 and is now the largest selling liquid laxative in the world. The remedy, praised for mild stimulation, is used by millions for headaches, biliousness, indigestion, and sleep issues, with mothers especially buying it for themselves and their children.
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