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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1920
Page
12
A mob murder of Bennett and the 1900s Ohio political arc are recounted. The article notes Bennett’s suspected premeditated murder of his wife, the mob’s lack of clues, and the sheriff’s handling. It also surveys Ohio politics from McKinley to Cox and Harding, detailing constitutional reforms, party dynamics, and the 1912 to 1916 campaigns and the League movement.
The residence once owned by E. B. Hawkins in Fayetteville, bought by Dr. J. E. Coleman for a hospital site and later sold to a local company, has again changed hands and is now owned by Victor L. Veasey of Mt. Hope, a coal operator who plans it as his home.
Eight month old Stella May Burdiss died at her parents home in Helen on July 26 from tuberculosis of the bowels. She was the only child of Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Burdiss. The body was prepared by H. T. Caffee and brought to Beckley for burial in Wildwood cemetery on Wednesday afternoon July 28.
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