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her de-sisters: . Nancy Victoria •1 Green abel, N. host oi North juntains she had ill wholife on age of lys.lit View Pleasant :ie min-[OCRATVAGEKho had ve until amaze-itnessed iet that e. They gh here no road a Wash-to the , South-• Demo-;h Cun. live iniy*. but pital by ;velt in-roEATRE, widely ltertain-program Monday late an-iby. The Spark I others the old usic lov-3me the favorite a com-millionscompany with Mr. Blair.on tor at least thirty dollars.’Death of Man Wanted in Boone Bares Strange Tale of GanglandT. S. J. Williams, West Virginia peace officer, died Thursday in a Blue, field hospital from the effects of a self-inflicted bullet wound, occurring a few hours after he had been bonded to appear before Magistrate E. N. Hahn, Boone, to answer a charge of criminally assaulting a married wOman d of this city, the alleged crime having been committed during the early days of November. The officer contended the charge was a frame-up.The body was taken to Hickory, N. C.. Saturday for burial. His mother resides in that city. The officer is survived by a widow and three sons.Odd Story Published The suicide of Williams and the arrest which is alleged to have precipitated self-destruction, brought out a remarkable story of the underworld, and provides connection between thi. city and the shady side of metropolitan centers. The story of the case as published in The Princeton Observer, follows:The story, if true, presented one of the most fantastic bits of criminal history in the country.Williams was arrested some few days ago by Trooper SpruiLin of the State police upon request of Sheriff Bowling and North Carolina authorities. He was charged with a criminal assault upon a Mrs. Eleanor Crane, wife of Gentry Crane, of Boone Township, North Carolina, on No\ember 1. A half-sister of this woman. Mrs. Crane. is Goldie May Adkins, of Maple Springs, N. C.This Adkins woman has given a statement to officers outlining her criminal history during the last eight years or since she left North Carolina. She has given intimate details of her life at Bishop where she met Officer Williams.About 1924. she loft North Caiolina for Detroit, went into the cabaret business. purchasing a place for $:54.000 which gangsters gave her. She says she was forced tlt;* become the mistress of one Frank Becker, gangster.• gunman and big shot of the Detroitu niir wo rid.Ske goes on to say that she visited a fliend. Mrs. Mayford Robinson, at Bislop last March, and there became acquainted with Officer Williams, who waj peace officer for Pocahontas Fuel Company, at Bishop, Va.There it was planned for her to ge: in 'ight with Williams for the pur-poa of finding out information re.a-tiv^ to coal mine payrolls, to get a line on when the company payroll wojld be at the Bank of Berwind.Plan McDowell Holdupslacker believed that the payroll wojld he about $5,000 at this time, thejmen dropped off to two days a we4c. and that the payroll would be but $1,900 which they believed was not enough to figure on unless they couR get several coal company payroll} to work on at the Bank of Ber-winl at the same time.'Hey also were estimating the worth of biding up the Bank of War. The Ad Una woman cultivated Williams and it \as planned that when he was car-ryiig the payroll she would induce hint to take a drink, and that would conain knockout drops.Fnally as things drifted along. Better returned to Detroit, and ac-cusfl the Adkins woman of falling in kve with Williams. He said that sheshouldn’t make a fool of herself that way.He holdups never did occur due to he lady's kindly feeling for Mr. Wiliams. About November, he went to forth Carolina, and the warrant issiid for his arrest resulted.He woman told of holdups at the W«aern Union Telegraph office in Debit, of the Detroit News, of dope pecding from the Pacific coast, of coiiicrfeiting. of holdups at Tampa, Fla.,of all kinds of deviltry involving airoints running into thousands of do'lab.T. L,. Felts, of the Bald win-Felts Agenir, has made two trips to Detroit in connection with this case.A bpy of the confession of the womai is in the office of Sheriff Bowling. the also put the officers wise to whch officials of Detroit were friendi- to gangsters.Gapstatestamthergers,portficerI)R.Dr lege V. Alt; last \ of tt Histo the F ner i tion a nee Mrs. accor Chap days1 IIHCLBa Heat i order This board fluen; Over eral and n the iIn ill w hospi cases.Sto:BUnson.choinfersorover . afterr vocal of ap and ( carrie Thom report
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Watauga Democrat
Boone, North Carolina, US
Thu, Dec 08, 1932
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