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Mississippi Fugitive and Five Others Taken Into Custody Wednesday Eve Near Osceola, Arkansas. (By Associated Press) BLYTHEVILLE, Ark., March 8.— Rouey Eaton, Mississippi prison fugitive, and five other men were in the custody of Sheriff Clarence Wilson of Mississippi county, today as authorites of two states and fed eral operatives investigated a series of events in northeast Mississippi and northeast Arkansas. Eaton is wanted at the state pris on farm at Parchman, Miss., from where he escaped several months ago while serving time in connec tion with the slaying in Prentiss county, Miss., of Deputy U. 8S, Mar shal Clyde Rivers. Questioned here—the county seat of the northern division of Missis sippi county—today were Eaton and two men, booked as Frank Eaton, cousin of Rouey, and Guy Lancaster. Three men, booked as Roy Lan caster, Joe Baggett and Henry Crabb, were questioned at Osceola, county seat for the southern divi sion of the county. The six were taken into custody yesterday afternoon near Osceola. No charges have been placed against them. U. S. Interested. R. E. Peterson, of Memphis, and Lewis Denette of Birmingham, de partment of justice agents, aided Sheriff Wilson and deputies in tak ing the men into custody after it had been reported, according to Peterson, that Roney Eaton had transported a stolen automobile from Mississippi to Arkansas. The allegedly stolen car was found wrecked near Osceola. Sher iff J. D. Childress of Tippah coun ‘tig fiss., said the vehicle belonged to Vernice McElwain of the C.C.C. camp at Blue Mountain, Miss. Sheriff Childress had blamed Roney Eaton and three others for staging “a reign of terror” in Tip pah and Prentiss counties in Mis sissippi ,Tuesday. Their activities, the sheriff said, included a series of car thefts, climaxed by the routing of 20 school children from a school bus, which the quartet later wreck ed. Sheriff A. S. Green of Prentiss county, announced last night the finding of the wrecked car of A. A. Rittenburg, department of jus tice agent from Birmingham. Sher iff Green said he had been inform ed that Rouey, Faton and three men had taken it. J. H. Manson, chief of the Birm ingham bureau of the department of justice, is here aiding in the ques tioning of Rouey Eaton and the five others.
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Leader Call
Laurel, Mississippi, US
Thu, Mar 08, 1934
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