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NUMBER 18 TRENTON, N. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1966 VOLUME xvra Dover Man Slain Last week Reid White, 55, brickmason of Dover, was one of five people killed when 25 yeer-oid Arthur Davis of New Haven, Connecticutt went ber serk. Whits was on vacation, visiting friends when Davis came into the housing project apartment and kiliad two wo men, a five year-old child and a 27 year-old man. Davis was caught in New Jersey after a high-speed chase on the turn pike and has been returned to New Haven to answer to the five murder Charges. Motel Employee Charged in" Death of Marine Friday from Pistol Wounds R. H. McLawhorn, an em ployee of the Cadillac Motel, faces an open charge of murder in the death last Friday of 20 year-old Harry Brown, a Camp Lejeune Marine. Brown died in the base hos pital early Friday morning after being shot at about 1 a.m. Thurs day in the yard of the motel just south of Kinston.' Officers from the sheriffs de partment who investigated said that Brown and several other Marines were at the place and got in an argument with a sailor who had his wife at the motel. 'George Jones' Ready for Mullet Supper Last weak Roger Jones, operator of a Bogue Sound seafood business and brother of Kinston Lawyer Lamar Jopes, adopt ed a new member of his family, and although there is little evidence to Support the name given the new "Jones", he is now affectionately called "George". That is "George" reaching for his supper in the picture here and handing it .to him is his "brother" Charles JonOs. Roger said he was standing on the pier one day last week talking to a friend when the friend asked, "What in the world have you got here?" When Roger looked around there stood "GeOrge", looking the pier over and clicking his huge bill for attention. He got it and has remained since to the de light of everybody around the fish, house except the local dogs and cats, who are chased off the pier if they get too close to "George". George opens that huge bill and flares out his four-foot wings and the dogs and cats take cover. "George" also chases sea gulls off his favorite fishing spots around the sound. Ho likes to have his head scratched and his throat — or is it his stomach? — stroked. V He sees no strangers as far as people are; concerned, but doesn't care for other birds, dogs and cats. He'll sit to have his head scratched by anybody who hap pens to be on the pier. Roger is proud of his newest addition to the family, but he feels that "George" just has to be somebody's pet that strayed off and found a new home at Broad Creek. If you know anybody who has lost an affectionate pelican he can be found at the Jones place ahy day, end easily. All you have to do is Wave a mullet at him. j : ^ McLawhorn and another work er at the motel told the Marines to leave and they remained in the yard. A few minutes later some of the Marines say McLaw horn came out and fired a single shot from a .22 caliber weapon. Brown was struck in the groin and the bullet penetrated his bladder, his intestines and lodg ed in his spine. He was taken to Lenoir Memorial Hospital where he was given emergency treat ment and transferred to Camp Lejeune. Loss of blood and complica tions from the numerous criti cal injuries led to his death at about 9 Friday morning. McLawhorn was picked out of a line up by three of the Ma rines with Brown but the other Marines were unable to positive ly identify McLawhorn as the pistol wielder. McLawhorn denies firing the shot, says he does not now have and never has had a .22 weapon of any kind. The death weapon has not been recovered. A preliminary hearing was scheduled for Tuesday but de layed until Friday since the at tending doctor at Camp Lejeune was not available Tuesday to testify to the specific cause of death. Marine's Death May Trigger Action Against Operation of Local Motel By Jack Rider There is speculation that the death last Friday of 20 year-old Camp Lejeune Marine Harry Brown may be the trigger need ed for official action against the continued operation of the place where he suffered the wound that led to his death. The Cadillac Motel is owned and operated by Mrs. Eunice Rhodes P i g o 11 McLawhorn, whose police record and general reputation is long established and highly revealing. For nearly 30 years Eunice has operated a house of prostitu tion except for those brief per iods When she was “on leave’’ in prison. Murder, mayhem, prostitu tion, dope and burglary are among the crimes that hang around the “Cadillac Motel” and the general public in this area knows this, has known it for a long time and has tolerated and patronized this local “business”. R. H. McLawhon, the man charged with doing the shooting that led to the death of the young Marine, is a former hus band of Eunice, and he has a record that is only slightly less rank than that of his former wife. In those infrequent occasions when Eunice has been “on leave” she has been able to muster unimaginably strong support to get out of prison. High city and county officials once put their signature to a petition for her parole. High court officials have been willing if not eager to condone such acts of forgiveness by either putting her on probation, urging her parole and letting Executors Fighting Widow's Effort To Share Tilghman Holloman Estate Branch Banking & Trust Com pany, which was named execu tor of the estate of Tilghman Holloman, is resisting the effort of Holloman’s widow to take her one-fourth share of his estate. Holloman, who committed sui cide on May 29, 1966, left his en tire estate in trust to his son, Joseph Thomas Holloman. Under North Carolina law a Jones Towns Get $10,786.14 From Powell Bill Funds The State Highway Commis sion Thursday announced the 1966-67 allocations of money to corporate communities in the state and Jones County’s three corporate communities get a to tal of $10,786.14. Maysville will get $6,200.04. Pollocksville will get $2,562 .57 Trenton will geb $2,023.53. In all 420 communities this year share $9,322,714.20, which is one-half cent of the state’s gasoline tax. Allocation to each town is based on its population and the street mileage it has of non highway streets. Divorce Sought Jones County Superior Court Clerk Walter Henderson re ports filing one civil action in the past week in which Judy Marlene Riggs Pridgen is seek ing a divorce from Robert Prid gen Jr. The suit alleges their and their septoatUm on July 31, 1 second wife may take what her husband leaves her in a will or one-fourth of the estate. Hollo man drew his will on April 13, 1966, cutting his second wife, Mrs. Layune Kennedy Hollo man, completely off. The executor of the Holloman estate in its answer to the claim filed by Mrs. Holloman, alleges that she is not entitled to share in the estate since she “aband oned” her husband on March 13, 1966 and was not living with him at the time of his death. The appraised value of Hollo man’s estate is $45,808. Final determination of the matter remains in the courts. Shot by Policeman James Oliver of La Grange route 1 balked at going to jail Saturday night in La Grange on charges of disorderly conduct and public drunkenness. He struck Policeman Ernest Thorne once and was swinging again when Thorne shot him in the chest with a .38 caliber revolver. Oliver is recuperating satisfac torily and is now additionally charged with assaulting an offi cer and resisting arrest. DOUBLE TROUBLE Robert Lee Phillips of 1007 West Washington Street was charged over the weekend with a 3rd drunken driving offense and driving while his license was revoked. SCHOOLS OPEN FRIDAY Lenoir County Schools will open on Friday, September 2, at 8:30 a.m. This will be registra tion day and will be only a half day session. The busses will pick up the students as on the regu lar school days. s her get away with gross viola tions of probation and parole. Eunice’s establishment has come to be accepted as a local landmark; a business that put considerable money into the lo cal economy. Police have not been able to close the place, or at-least to keep it closed for any great length of time. Operating as a “motel’’ it is impossible for officers to make out a case of prostitution or operating a house of prostitu tion, since the courts have made it next to impossible to get con victions on such charges. But it has grown increasing ly worse as the years passed. More muggings, heavier traffic in dope, more of a haven for all kinds of racketeers who may be plying their trade in this area. Eunice has grown old. She lacks the vitality to personally supervise all activities around her compound. She is sick. Mc Lawhon, her former husband, is sick. Rumor has it that they are both “hooked” on the “white stuff”. A fate that befalls a great percentage of those who labor in such vineyards. Dope ad diction is almost an occupation al disease among prostitutes and those who aid and abet them in their profession. Past efforts to obtain evidence against the establishment and its operator have proven ex tremely difficult. Undercover agents find themselves with no more evidence after a visit there than they would have against nearly any hotel or motel where a bell boy or clerk “sends them a woman”. The almost casual shooting in cident, by who ever did the shooting, is just one more tragic chapter in the long history of “Eunice’s place”. Whether sufficient pressure from the public will now be generated to force its closing is a matter for the public’s con science. Past Court Week Clears 12 Cases Twelve cases were processed in Jones County Recorder’s Court in the past week. The state took a nolle pross with leave in the case against Charles Bender charged with passing a worthless check. The case was dismissed against James Ray Moore also charged with a worthless check. Clarence Harrington of New Bern was found not guilty of driving drunk. Jessie Williams of Pollocks ville was found guilty of driv ing drunk, and was sentenced to six months work on the pub lic roads suspended on the con dition of a $100 fine and court costs. Four people were charged with failure to display an in spection card: Admiral Griffith Howell of Goldsboro, William Franklin Brimage of Trenton, and Douglas Hooks of Pollocks ville paid $13 fines. The state took a nol pros with leave in the charge against William Honaker af Goldsboro. Robert Osborne West of New Bern paid $13 for following too closely. John Cooper of Trenton paid i>16 for operating his car too fast For existing conditions. Fredrick Ronald Truffin of Jamp Lejeune paid $26 for • reckless driving. Leo Ray Wetherington of * Kinston paid $13 for driving on wrong side of the road.
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