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(Continued from page one) man and brakeman Anderson said he recalled a Negro passenger on the train fitting the description. The John Doe warrant issued by District Attorney Weinrich was for a man of “about 30, five feet nine or ten inches tall, between 170 and 180 pounds, with short black curly hair and shiny black skin on his face.” Police Theory Investigators have theorized that the killer might have jumped off the train and boarded another, northbound. The marine sergeant, Harold R. Wilson, of San Diego, Calif., was one of two material witnesses held. The other was John Funches, 30, of Oakland, Calif. Negro dining car waiter who admitted he had been drinking the night before the slaying but denied any knowledge of the killing. No Suspects—Yet At Albany, Weinrich stressed “we have no Suspects yet, only material witnesses.” Eugene Norton, of Daly City, Calif, one of the passengers in the sleeper where the slaying oc curred, said after he heard the scream he looked out in time to see a marine in an undershirt and trousers lifting the limp form of Mrs. James and placing a pillow under the head. Norton said blood was spurting from a neck wound and “it looked to me the wound was made by a gouge.” Norton thought he “saw a man running down the aisle but it was dark and I couldn't be sure; it might have been a curtain flutter ng.” Search Fruitless Wilson, after relating that he toade a fruitless dash through cars for a dark man he saw fleeing, said he later paused in the diner, immediately behind the death car, and asked a Negro cook if he had seen a man run through the car. When the cook appeared per plexed, Wilson said he told him of the murder and the man asked: “You ain't been drinking has you?” The cook was questioned and re leased,
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Gallup Daily Independent
Gallup, New Mexico, US
Mon, Jan 25, 1943
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