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THE JONES COUNTY » TRENTON, N. C THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1955 VOLUME 6 This to the chaired remains of the house at 6M Oak Street in Southeast Kinston where 45 year old Mrs. Isadora Rhodes and two otf her grandchildren, seven year old Yvonne, and three-year old Rudolph, were burned to ' death early last Saturday morn ing. The Rre was first discovered shortly after 4:30 a. nr. but by the time firemen armed the hoase was ablase ail oyer, and it was felt by Investigating fire men and police that the woman Sod her grandchildren had very likely been overcome by fames before the fire reached the* beds where they slept. (Polaroid pho to-in-a-minute by Jack lUder) Annual Father-Son Banquet for Caswell District Scouts to be Held 6:30 Tuesday Night in Kinston tHJBKTO, m, oi Trenton rame two. John Nichols Wright, 68, of PoUocksville to Hazel Williams Leary, 42, of New Hem. m RENEW YOUR SUBSCRIPTION TO THE JOURNAL Dr. J. D. Messiok, both presi dent of East Carolina College and the East Carolina Council of the Boy Scouts of Amerfea, will preside over the annual Father-Son Banquet of the dis trict which Is to Ibe held Tues day night at 6:30 in the Fair field Community Center In Kin ston. Dr. Bob Gilbert, chairman of Qaawell District will open the meeting and Dr. 3.3. Mayer 'will WTO '“WMpW A$thef Expats of A Son”. Arthur Shackelford will lead a songfest after which Dr. Mes sick will make the President’s Award. The program, will close with a specialty by Cub Scouts. Tickets are now on sale and those who would like to attend this annual session are urged to contact members of the banquet committee at the earliest possi ble moment. . The emotional peak of a dra matic weds of Leooir Comity’s Superior Court was caught above, seconds after Judge Joseph Par ker of Windsor had suspended a four-to-seven year prison term on Mas. Bonnie BeB» Daugherty for the shotgun slay of her/ husband, Henry No A tew minutes before Oils pic ture a Jury after one hour and eight minutes of deliberation found Mrs., Daugherty guilty of manslaughter. It could have found her guilty of second de gree murder or not guilty. Judge 'Parker who admitted that he would probably be criti cized for suspending the sen tence and placing Mrs. Daugher argument would when he returned, said that she was afraid of her husband who had beaten her severely on several occasions and once had been indicted by his own mother for beating her. ty on probation for five years It. was the only thing he in the face of the evi had been presented This was admitted by the pro secution which also had some difficulty explaining the fact that Daugherty’s mother had signed the $2,500 bond for the defendant’s release on the day after the shooting. There was mo evidence ten dered to the court as to Mrs. Daugherty’s past .or present Under the rules of defendant may ten the as be could not offer anything to support its hard fought contention that Mrs. Daugherty was “guilty of second degree murder with some elements of first degree murder.”’ Defense Counsel Frank Owens, who was appointed at the last minute to represent Mrs. Daugh erty along with Fitzhugh Wal lace Jr., said that the court’s judgment “Gives Mrs. Daugher (Continued on page 10) Cares For 85- Year Old Father in Tent Standing before the tent in which she and her 85-year old father live is Miss Ada Potter. In the other picture she is shown making her blind, partially deaf and bedridden father a little more comfortable in the sob freezing temperatures that pre vailed when these pictures were taken Monday morning. These pictures, and words are not reproduced here as any tear jerking effort to. dig up unm* sudden, superficial charity for this aging but devoted.daughter and her more aged father. Per haps surprising to most who may notice this, Miss Potter is most content. Her father is too near departure froom this veil of tears to khow, or much care. Saturday night Miss Delia Hyatt caUed this writer-photo grapher to express her concern over the welfare of this couple. Their possible lack of comfort had the bare necessities had un derstandably excited Mbs Hyatt, a woman, whose interest in those people that society and its often forget* has help many to gHM Hyatt eps promlaed that
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