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/ M \ v THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Thursday, November 24, 1960 T»f SAM OWENS, ’52 LHB Sll VS CAMPBELL. Playing QB m t* ' m fu RI DOl PH HAMRICK, 52 . RUB Clinton-Laurens Alumni Battle To 6-6 Tie Saturday Ti.imi. representing alumni of Clinton and Laurens High Schools fought to a tut tie here Saturday nigh; in the second annual game Players were former athletes of tht two schools, some being grad uates of the earlj 1950s. Held here on the high school's Samples Gets... (Continued from page one» 1959 She worked in the weave room and he in the spinning room, she said Sho further testified that she saw him at different place\ Solicitor lones asked if she saw him in pub lic places She answered. “Not ev- M VRVIN M ANLEY. ’51 Tackle Wilder Field, the game was played under regulation high school rules. Attendance was freui 800 to 1.000, m i the net proc«**us were applied to the indebtedness of the new high school field. Spectators saw a surprisingly good brand of football, with hard tackling, some good parses, and excellent running. Each team had about 30 players in uniform Jimmie Braswell. Clinton’s quar terback. scored on a one-yard Crain, another employee, and O'Shields Griffin said Mason pushed through a crowd that had gathered, (grabbed O'Shields by the hair, twisted his head to one side and fired a shot. The witness said that after firing the shot, Mason said. “By GodTThat stopped them.’’ Mason, who took the stand in his erwn defense, testified that he went outside to break up a fight.” The defendant told of seeing O'Shields on the ground w ith Andy Crain, another tavern employee, onj top of him Mason said he stooped d o \v n and started to ‘tap, him 1 (O'ShieWsl with the side of the, gun.'' “Just about the time I started to ! tap him I heard a gun fire,” the ! defendant testified. *1 did not shoot | ( him My gun never fired " Mason testified that he never kept the pistol loaded Another de-; fenso witness. Coy Brewer, had tes- j :ifiod earlier that he had fired the| gun twice the afternoon before the, fatal shooting. J T just presumed he (Brewer) unloaded it.'' Mason testified He explained that he usually kept sev-1 on shells in the clip and that he nor mally kep: the clip outside the gun Apparently alluding to Brewer’s test; ni 1 rJi that he had fired the gun twice. Mason said. “There were still five shell' when we unloaded it] after the boy was killed.'’ The pistol, identified as a Czecho-j sLvakian 32 calibre semi-automat ' ic. has a‘capacity of nine rounds, but Mason said he kept only seven in the clip because the pistol fired better if the full nine rounds were not loaded Mason stoutly denied making any statement before or after the boy was sho\ State witnesses earlier had testified that Mason had said. I'll stop them." when he came out of the building and “By God, that stopped them.' after the youth was shot. Mason testified that on the night of the shooting Ik* had considerable “trouble'' with some of the 75 cus-i tomers at the tavern. All of them were drinking, he said, and many were drunk He said that at least one fight broke out inside the place before 1 he went outside to ‘break up a fight." Under cross examination, how ever. Mason admitted that there was no actual fight in progress out side. He said Cradn was holding O Shields on the ground and several sneak, and Gene Lemmons. Laur-, ens fullback, scored on a 50-yard persons were standing reverse. Shown above are four of the Clin ton player> as they appeared in their high school days en time ,11 Mrs. Attaway. mother of a 10- year-old son, in answer to questions put by the solicitor, testified that she and Samples left Clinton “on a trip on M’ac 27 of this year She said they had no specific destination but ended up in Iowa She testified that Samples told her that he liad discussed the mat ter with his wife and told her that he was lea\ing Mrs. Attawav said she eft a note for her husbalM after leaving the children with her moth er Tiie attractive brown-haired wid ow testified that when she ami Sam ples arrived in Iowa that she began worrying about her children and that Samples agreed to place a tele phone call to her husband Both she uik) Samples talked to Attaway and the latter agreed to meet them at Newport, Tenn The three met at Newport on July 8, ^j rs OFFICE SUPPLIES CHRONICLE PUB. CO. Help Fight TB nfhristnMsT Girrlings rr.u XVkw, < v v-'fe.- J u ? jlV > «*•; •> i~y ■ ■ a ■ i%o -. 5 v 1000; Use Christmas Seals according to her testimony and "discussed it fully ” She said that 'he agreed to come back to Fred die.' and that Samples left Newport and that she and her husband re- ‘urned to Clinton tlx* next day and it was agreed that theV would make an effort “to make a go" of their marriage Also in answer to defense coun sel's questioning she testified that Attaway hail a pistol at the meeting in Newport She testified that after Samples left them at Newport she had seen him only once before the morning of the fatal stabbing and that was a casual meeting on the street COURT ROOM CLEARED In the Heaton case. Judge Lewis cleared the court room of all spec- around over them.” Other defense witnesses heard Wednesday included Joanne Camp bell, who testified that she was “standing in tront of the door” at i the time of the incident, but heard : no shot Later she testified that “it sounded like firecracker from a distance ’’ Mrs. Mason, wife of the defend-, ant, testified that she went out the door with Mason and heard the shot but “it didn't sound loud ” Whenj Mason raised up after stooping over O'Shields he said to her. “Lord have mercy; go back in the building; you might get killed." according to Mason s testimony. Brewer told of firing the gun twice during the afternoon behind I the building He said he knew that firing had also been done in front \ of the building on other, occasions, ] but did not know whether the same gun had been u->ed He te-tified that he handed the gun back to Mason after firing it and that it was cock l'd at the time. State witnesses heard during Wednesday's session mcluded Iden tification Officer M N. Cate of the State Law Enforcement Division, who testified that his tests showed that the bullet found buried in the ground at the front of the building w as fired by the pistol identified as the death weapon However, tests to determine whether an empty cart-| ridge found at the site had been fired in the gun were inconclusive. WE HAVE WHAT IT TAKES FOR EXPERIENCED PLUMBING AND HEATING CALL BENJAMIN PHONE 117 or 596 tutors after the first state witness, Dr George K Blalock of Clinton, j he said, had testified All other witnesses Mr. Cate testified that clearly were heard behind closed doors. , identifiable powder burns might be Before passing sentence. Judge' absent from a bulled wound if the Lewis told the defendant. “You muzzle of the gun had been placed have been convicted of a repulsive against the skin He said in such a crime.” lease the full charge, including gas- The prosecution witness testified| eg and powder, would enter the that she was forced to have rela-| flesh and the resulting marking tions with the defendant out of fear might be mistaken as residue from for her life The defendant adamant- i the bullet. ly denied ever having relations with the girl or threatening her life. In reciting events leading up to the alleged attack on the night of July 27 the prosecuting witness tes tified that “I was afraid of him . . I finally gave up 1 just couldn’t take anv more.” Earlier in the case a Laurens physician had testified that he ob served no powder bums around the fatal wound when he examined the victim shortly before he died. FORGES DOCTORS NAMES Harold E. Lawson, 40 was charg- j ed with taking out insurance poli- Do Your W ^Christmas Shopping Here —-ZJM We're Sanfa Claus * Approved Something for every mem ber of the family... selected gift items from the world’s M foremost manufacturers. I NOW is the time to buy. ! .Another state witness testified to'cies under fictitious names and hearing Heaton tell the girl, “I’ll forging doctors’ names to death blow your brains out,” and hearing certificates to collect the death her reply, *'l wish you would kilL claims. me." on the night of the alleged at- Solicitor W. T. Jones told the tack v court that Lawson had pursued the Heaton took the stand in his own scheme over a period of two years defease and was the only witness while he was an agent for Durham presented by the defense He admit- \ Life Insurance Co., and had netted ted striking the girl, but said it was' $27,750 in life insurance benefits, only after she had struck him. He An investigation began when su- Cox Home & Auto Supply < U'lomer SatiiriactMa Guaranteed m V Itmadl St. CUaton denied any sex relations with her. As the trial got underway a de fense* motion to quash the indict ment on the grounds it was improp erly drawn was denied A motion for a new trial also was denied. Judge Lewis complimented Hea ton's court-ar pdinted counsel, At torneys Justin Bridges and.T Da vid Slion. Jr., for the manner in which they conducted the defense GRIFFIN TESTIFIES Connie Odeil Griffin, a compan ion of O’ShiekL on the night that O’Shields was slain, April 11, 1959, test filed that Mason, an employee of the former Armstrong place, a periors in the company prompted a follow-up letter* to a beneficiary. It was returned to the company with an “address unknown" stamp. Defense Attorney O. L Long call ed it “one of the mos-t fantastic schemes I have ever heard of.” He said 150 policies were involved. An other 100 had been cancelled by the company, the attorney said. 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