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22-Year Old Farmer Killed By Man, 47 Pohhantas, Miss., May 26 — A 47-year-old Negro man, identified as Albert Fields, who shot and killed another Negro man here Saturday night and escaped the scene of the killing is the subject of a continuing search by Hinds County law enforcement officers. Hinds County Sheriff Carroll Robinson said the killer whose identity was not immediately es tablished has been positively iden tified as Fields, who is described as being ginger colored, about five feet nine inches tall, weighing a bout 180. The sheriff also stated that Fields was heavily armed, with two other pistols other than the one with which he did the killing. The victim of the killing was Eddie Bolton, a 22-year-old Negro farmer of Pocahontas. The shooting took place in the Nattie Kinnebrew store about ten o'clock Saturday night where wit nesses could give no motive for the killing but testified that Bol ton grabbed for Field just before he was shot.
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Jackson Advocate
Jackson, Mississippi, US
Sat, May 31, 1952
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