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Pontiac, Mich., April 1 ()— Police seeking a 20-year-old ex convict in the slayings of two elderly Oakland county farmers and the sisappearance of a third man were confronted tonight with a third mysterious killing in a nearby county 90 miles distant. Victim of the latest outburst of gunfire was Carl McKenzie, 43- year-old Jackson county farmer, who was found dying late this aft ernoon of an abdominal rifle wound a half-mile from his farm home. Similarities between the slay ings of McKenzie and the two Oakland county farmers, Cassius FE, Barber, 71, and Romaine C. Potter, 75, led police to intensify the search for Dominick Piccone, who was released from prison only two weeks ago on parole. Piccone was named tonight in a warrant charging him with the murder of Barber, who, like Pot ter, was shot to death in the kitchen of his home, two miles southwest of Oxford. The youth, police said, once worked as a parolee from the Wayne county (Detroit) juveenile court for eight months in 1937 and 1938 on Barber's farm. In each of the three slayings a .22 caliber special bullet was used. McKenzie, on his way to keep a dental appointment in Concord, Jackson county, apparently was met by a hail of gunfire, Sheriff Capron said, when he went to in vestigate an automobile parked beside a shack in a woods near his home. One bullet struck McKenzie, another shattered the windshield of his car, and a third hit a fend er. Two more struck a bank across the road. Shortly after the shooting McKenzie’s wife said an automobile sped past their home. McKenzie was found on a road about 250 yards from the scene of the shooting by Roy Steebey, Al bion truck driver.
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Escanaba Daily Press
Escanaba, Michigan, US
Thu, Apr 02, 1942
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