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ki: Postponed
At Request Of
Defense Attorney
A hearing before Justice of
the Peace J. L. Hall for John I
Worth Oambill, 18, of Winston
Salem, confessed slayer of Clarie
Li. Brown, 32, Wnlston-Salem,
was postponed at Elkin yester
lay until 2 p. m. Saturday at the
request of the youth's lawyer
W. M. Allen of Blkin.
Mr. All n, who seid he had
been employed by the youth's
father, Dewey Gambill, a~ked the
postponement of the hearing,
originally scheduled for. yester
day, to acquaint himself further
with the details of the fatal
shooting of the Winston-Salem
pie salesman last Friday.
The Elkin attorney had no
comment to make on the case
lasfe night and Police Chief Cor
bett Wall of Elkin said there
had been no new developments.
Brief Heari ; Expected
The hearing L.iiu. _c./ .3 rx
pected to be brief. The youth
probably will go on trial for mur
der at the January 9 term of
Surry County Superior Court at
Dobson. He already has confess
ed shooting Brown.
Gambill has given two differ
ent versions of the slaying '
which occurred between noon
and 2 p. m. Friday on thp west- |
ern outskirts of Elkin while the
truck in which Gambill and I
Brown were riding was stopped
on a shoulder of the road.
The youth first said he did
not know why he had shot the
pie salesman with the .32 cali
bre pistol he had taken from his
brother-in-law's house. Later, he
told reporters he killed Brown
1 following an argument between
the two.
He said he shot Brown after
the salesman "swung at me
once."
"I pulled the gun out of my
coat pocket and I just remem-1
ber shooting once," he said.
Robbery Not Intended
He did not explain why h
happened to have the gun with
him, saying only that he had
taken it from the home of J. B
Reece on Old Salisbury Road
without h i s brother-in-law's
knowledge. Gambill repeatedly
stated he did not intend to rob
""rown, al hough he admitted go
ing through the dead man's
sockets after the slaying.
Gambill's father, an employee
3f R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Com
pany here, said yesterday, "I
'ove my boy, but God's will r>?
done."
Referring to the shooting as
"a terrible thing," Mr. Gambill,
obviously shaken by the tragedy
said he was glad there hadn't
been any bitterness.
"Mrs. Brown (wife of the
slain man) has been very kind
to us since it happened," he
said. "My wife is just broken up
over all this and Mrs. Brown has
meant more to her than all the
doctors I've had.
Visited Three Times
"She's been out to the hous^
three times since it happened
and you know how much itV
meant to my wife."
Mrs. Gambill has been und?
doctor's care since being told c
the shooting.
Mr. Gambill said yesterday hr
was "grateful to all of the ol'fi
cers who've handled, the case.
They have been very, very fine.''
The youth's father, who wen'
back to work for the first time
vesterday, said ?e didn't want
to talk about the statements his
son had made concerning the
shooting.
He said he had talked to his
son Monday "and all he said
was for me to 'tell mother I'll
'?e coming home to see her in a
few days.'
"Haven't Hone Anything"
"I don't know exactly ivho
be meant by that. He just said.
I haven't done anything they
should punish me for.'
"I just know I can't live wi '
my God if I say anvthing that
will mislead the public. I love
my son . . . I'll do anything I
can to help, him but I won't try
o explain something he did
when I'm not sure."
Mr. Gambill added that the
week before the shooting he and
his wife had been talking about
trying to get their son into some
institution.
"I guess he's sick mentally."
he said. "He's never been in an;
trouble, but he's a rambler,
strange boy. The stranger the
people he's around, the better
he likes it.
"It Wouldn't Help"
"But we didn't know whether
putting him in some place like
that would help him or not. He's
just a rambler, I guess, and be
ing confined and all wouldn't
help him." ?
Mr. Gambill was reluctant to
talk about his previous plans to
put his son in a mental institu
*ion.
"I'm not making any alibi"
for the boy," he repeated. "And
II don't want the public to think
so. I couldn't get power from
my God if I said anything that
?vould mislead folks."
Mr. Brown was buried yester
day in Salem Cemetery follow
ing services at East Bend Bap
tist church and the Hawthorne
Road Baptist church.
The establishment of a new di
| vision for weed investigations in
the U. S. Department of Agri
culture's Bureau of Plant In
dustry, Soils, and Agricultural
Engineering has been announced
by Dr. Robert H. Salter, chief of
the bureau.
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