Pathologists Testify on Bodies in Morehouse Parish Case
Bastrop January hearing reveals Dr. Charles W. Duval and Dr. John A. Lanford report that Watt Daniels and Fletcher Richards were struck by a specially constructed device. Autopsy details show symmetric long bone fractures and extensive soft tissue damage suggesting infliction intended as punishment.
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Associated Press
Bastrop
Charles W. Duval
John A. Lanford
Morehouse Parish
Watt Daniels
Fletcher Richards
Lake LaFourche
Mer Rouge
Daniels
Measures to Stop Disorder During Louisiana Kidnapping Hearing
Investigators enter a second day of testimony in Bastrop Louisiana over the Morehouse Parish masked band killings of Watt Daniels and Thomas Richards. Pathologists report results, guards search spectators, and witnesses identify clothing and a watch linked to the slain men.
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Associated Press
Jno. Sanford
New Orleans
John M. Parker
Sheriff's
J. L. Daniels
Watt Daniels
Daniels
LaFourche Lake
Injuries From Torture Device Cited in Morehouse Case
Bastrop January hearing sees pathologist Dr. Charles Duvall testify that autopsy injuries on Watt Daniels and Fletcher Richards indicate torture with arms forced into outstretched positions. He and Dr. John A. Sanford presented bone fractures and crushed skulls as evidence, arguing explosions were not the cause.
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Associated Press
Bastrop
Charles Duvall
Morehouse Parish
Watt Daniels
Fletcher Richards
Duvall
John A. Sanford
MEN UNDER ARREST GIVE STATEMENT AS TO THEIR IDENTITY
Five men detained in Baton Rouge claim they are American Marines from the U S S Tacoma and were absent without leave. The captors deny the accounts given by John Dantanio and the two girls Blanche Stewart and Florence Rasche. The DA will confer with New Orleans authorities on next steps.
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Associated Press
Baton Rouge
New Orleans
John Dantanio
Tacoma
Dantanio
Blanche Stewart
Florence Rasche
John Fred Odom
First British debt commission meeting announced by Mellon
Washington reports list of multiple items from Jan 6. Secretary Mellon announces the first formal meeting of the British debt commission with the American funding commission to be held Monday. Other notes include coal strike outlook, Ontario racing tax levy, a misreported engagement, and Gulf Oil–Standard Oil merger denial by Gulf Oil president George S. Davison.
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British Debt Commission
American Funding Commission
Mellon
Federal Coal Commission
Johnnys Hammond
Winsor
Ont
Ontario
Pittsburgh
Gulf Oil Corporation
Standard Oil Company
Iniana
George S. Davison
Tme
Mr. Davison
Standard Oil of
Indiana
Women Bowling Club Pipe Line For Real Beer Raided
Prohibition agents announced they found a real beer pipe line from a bar room to the Yorkville Women’s Bowling Club. They raided both venues as forty irate bowlers threatened them with pins and balls while the women enjoyed bowling and beer.
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New York
Prohibition
Yorkville
Germany Eyes Hearing on Reparations Proposal
The reparations commission approved Germany’s request for a hearing before acting on France’s move to declare Germany in default on coal deliveries. Berlin will send experts for discussion next Monday while Sir John Bradbury defended postwar ties with France and noted no merits discussion at the session. Meanwhile the Turkish delegation left the Near East conference in protest of an Armenian national home insistence.
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Ty Associated Press
Paris
Germany
Reparations Commission
Berlin
John Bradbury
Luis Barthou
France
Sir John Bradbury
England
Sir John
Lausanne
Move Toward Peace In Sinn Fein Convention Dublin
A peace convention with 150 delegates from Sinn Fein branches in Dublin and county Dublin will meet to plan a truce and a path to peace. The gathering is arranged by mixed committees and aims to summon the Ard Fheis for the Sinn Fein body with both republicans and Free Staters in attendance.
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Associated Press
Dublin
Sinn Fein
Five Men Face Murder Trial Alibi Defense in Herrin Riots
More than fifty eyewitnesses were summoned in Marion Illinois for the Herrin rioting case. Defense counsel opens a second day of alibi testimony while thirteen witnesses describe six prisoners marching toward the cemetery on June 22 but deny seeing any defendant in the crowd.
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Marion
Ills
Herrin
Bond secured for former mayor in murder case
Dr B M McKoin, ex mayor of Met Rouge, posted 5000 bond in Bastrop on state request to stay within jurisdiction while his murder case proceeds. He returned to Monroe with state representatives, later unsigned by officials, planning to rest at 101 Pine street or Bastrop as he awaits open hearing. Objections say alibi exists with support from Morehouse and Ouachita parish friends for August 24 kidnapping and deaths of Daniels and Richards.
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Louisiana
Fred L. Odom
McKain
Daniels
Richards
T. J. Burnett
Harold L. Teegerstrom
B. M. McKoin
Met Rouge
Monroe
Baltimore
Bastrop
A. V. Coco
B. E. Barham
Oak Ridge
Merehouse Parish
McKoin
Pine Street
Morehouse
Ouachita
B. M. McKain
A. Y. Coco
Rosewood Quiet After Race Clash In Florida
Rosewood and nearby areas lay quiet after a Thursday night race clash that left two white men and four Black residents dead during a manhunt for a suspected attacker of a young white woman. Posse efforts had dispersed and many Black residents were in hiding or gone, as funeral arrangements were set for white victims C. P. Wilkerson and Harry Andrews in Sumner.
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Associated Press
Rosewood
Fla
Jesse Hunter
Sumner
C. P. Wilkerson
Harry Andrews
Bill Aims to Penalize Liquor Buyers in Bootlegging Case
Representative Upshaw of Georgia introduced a bill to make buyers of illicit liquor as guilty as sellers in bootlegging cases. He spoke in Washington on January 6, criticizing some public officers for not practicing prohibition as preached.
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Assciated Press
Washington
Representative Upshaw
Georgia
Train Derailed Near Orlando Oklahoma No Injuries Reported
A southbound Santa Fe passenger train from Kansas City to Galveston derailed four miles north of Orlando Oklahoma this morning. No serious injuries were reported.
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Associated Press
River Pool at Lock 4 to fall three feet Monday
The Ouachita river pool at Lock Number 4 will drop three feet on Monday and then begin to rise. U.S. engineers say the change is caused by flood waters passing downstream.
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Ouachita River
United States
Doctor challenges dynamite cause of lake bodies finding
Dr Duvall states fractures and injuries could not be from dynamite explosion that revealed bodies on the surface of Lake Lafourche in Morenouce parish two weeks after two men were kidnapped by masked men. He argues the explosion’s effects do not match the injuries.
Gas Consumers Notice Pay by 10th to save ten percent
Gas consumers are urged to pay bills on or before the 10th of the month to receive a ten percent discount. Bills not paid by the 20th will result in service being discontinued without further notice.
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West Monroe
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