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MAN KILLS YOUTH FOR SMALL DEBT. .ont vrtjr and across WashingtonHtreet.Opposite the Tabone store Is the nucky section of land- which leads o the swamp along the Chadakoln liver. Dwellings are rather scarce here, A negro who seemed be-jddlecl by the excitement told lt;’hlef Levin. Lieutenant F. Bernard :'lark. Detective Sergeant Cha *les E. Wuertser and other police tffi-(er» who arrived that he thought Tabono had gone into one of three houses which are almost opposite i he llttls grocery. The policemen surrounded the houses and -••arched them from cellars to attics. That work gnve Tabone more time to get started on his getuway. From other persona In the j neighborhood it was learned that j Tabone had gone across the mucky land to a point in line with I*fay-ette Street and had then turned • south and gone up Lafayette Street. He was last seen on i iAfayetts Street at a point near Eleventh Street, walking faat then.While the police officers had undertaken their search for Tabone. young Harns had been loaded Into the city ambulance and started for Jamestown General Hospital, ft wa« a futile trip, however, for he i fell victim to the killer’s knife and ! died In the ambulance.Many volunteer civilians assisted the police In taking up the search.An autopsy on young llarns' body disclosed that he had been stabbed twice and undoubtedly with a Jack knife, for the wounds were small. One thrust had dHvcn the knife blade directly into his heart, causing a very quick death. The other had missed It* mark by only an Inch and was Just below the heart.Coroner ftenry A. Bowers wascalled In on the case as soon as It wallarns had died and it was ho who ordered the autopsy performed. Assistant District Attorney John S. Leonard was in Buffalo, but Chief Levin reached him by telephone and they discussed the case In that manner.Alleged To Have Made TTirealsMrs. Tabone was taken Into custody as a material witness as soon ss the pollro had been told that : rhe had made threats about young j Harns. According to the witnesses j who gave the police statements It | was on Hatur lay, March 1st. that i Mrs. Tabone told neighbors on West Fifteenth Htreet that she had been up to Hast Fifteenth Street looking for young Harns. She ! declared, according to the witnesses. that he had told her he was Jiving there and that she had found out he was living in Falconer, and he could not make a fool out of her.If she found him she was going to beat him up. she is alleged to ! have said, and if she didn’t do It ; her husband would ’’get hint.” The j witnesses said at that time the wo-] man was in great danger and was i swinging her clenched fists over i her hiad.| Tabone. In addition to running the atore, worked at the Empire I Case Goods Company, leaving ills I wife In charge of the place day*I Yesterday he worked at the furnl-I ture factory until noon and then ! went home because work was . i slack.Until darkness last night the police continued to tr.ttnp through tho swampland lying west of Waahington Street and scores of neighbors and others {insisted them. Police sent word of the crime to surrounding towns and cities. Hum* of the policemen got In water and muck nearly to their knees and Chief Levin, who has been suffering from a hard cold for several days, last night had developed a b-rd cough and was feeling very i 111.; Until some months ago young ! Ham* had lived with his parents i tn West Fifteenth Htreet and it j was while they were there that l Hsrna had gone into the Tabone store to make purchases. It Is then that he is alleged to have run up the small bill which his creditor chose to stamp '‘paid” with a dead body.Married In Januan.Frapk llarns, the victim of the murder was married on January 4th to Miss Istura M Becker of Falconer and ho was then only IS years old. He became 19 on January ISth of this year. The marriage ceremony was performed by Rev. It. W. Neathery. pastor of the First Baptist Church of Falconer, at the parsonage. Frank Hams, the father who saw hi* boy die yesterday, end Mrs, Albert Johnson, sunt of the bride, were the attendants at that quiet wedding.Young Harns is survived only by his parents, Frank and Lena Harns, and his wife.Tabone bought the Washington Htreet grocery store within the part year. It is a comparative,!' new building and was erected bv Nlcolo j j| Rlisn. who sold out to Tabono.Tabone is a man 0 feet, * inches in height and of stocky build. He has dark straight hair. Aside from that the police have been unable to get much of a description of him. In the flurry of mingled horror and excitement. none of the witnesses took enough notice of Tabone to say what he was wearing.P
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Jamestown Morning Post
Jamestown, New York, US
Tue, Mar 11, 1930
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