Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1922-02-27
MYSTERY IN DEATH OF
MISS WHITES BROTHER
John c. White, Jr, Is Found Shot
and Killed In Office Building
At Ashland

| Mystery surrounds the death
OF John c. White. Jr., Of Ash
land, brother Of Miss Paralee
White, of Richmond, deputy fed
eral court clerk. Miss White
hurried to Ashland Saturday OH
being informed OF his death. a
dispatch from there Sunday said:
| Ashland, KY. Feb. 26-Belief
that John g. White. Jr.. 20 years
old. whose body with a bullet
| wound in the head was found at
) o'clock Saturday morning n
the doorway Of q downtown Of
flee building, met death at tire
hand OF another, was expressed
by police authorities who have
been working on the case all day.
The young man was a nephew
OF Beverley White. Of Woodford
county. who was killed at Held
rick Station Knox county. bv
| John Bailey in April last year.
White was found stretched
out on his back with his feet
| protruding out ON tho sidewalk
| A pistol with one barrel dis
charged was clutched III his right
hand, which was folded across
his chest. The pistol was not
Whites property. In his left
hand he held an uuIighted Gig
arctic. The cigarette was not
crumplcd and indicated that
someone had placed it between
his fingers, police say.
The suicide theory advanced
earlier in the day was dispelled
when Whites own revolver was
found at his fathers home here.
| That robbery wa, not the mo-
tive Of the murder was ascer-
tanned when thirteen dollars was
found ON Whites body.
/ Captain John Bruner. OF the
| Salvation Army. declared that he
heard Il shot iircl at Ais o'clock
and when hc looked out the win
dow ne saw a closed automobile
! ,pccdiu. down the street from
the insurance Office.
That White was ON his way to
the station 10 catch the 4:50 c.
| & o. train has been established.
Members Of the family state
hat In, general bearing when
they last SAW him was such that
! they are positive he did not COM
nit suicide. Officers have been
unable tu discover any reason
| why White did not go directly
tu the station instead OF taking
the route through the center OF
town. which /, several blocks
out OF the way.
The bullet that killed the
young man entered under the
| chin and came out OF the top of
his head. Just behind the lore
head. Il continued out and To
ceiling over the doorway, made
small hole and Ill out into the
hallway.
John G. White, father of the
| slain youth and former post.
| master at Winchester, will arrive
tonight from lryton, Magotfin
county.
| Both father and son have been
| work NJ at Iryton "a oil opera
tors. The father is president OF
| the Boyd Oil x Gas Company,
with headquarters here.
! Deceased besides being survlv-
ed by his mother and father with
whom nc made his home, leaves
six sisters. Mrs. L. B. Tumbles-
ton. of Germantown, Pa; Mrs.
Mary Wells, Miss Alice White,
/ OF Lexington; Miss Paraiee
! White of Richmond; Misses Hol-
| lie and Laura White, OF Ashland;
three brothers. William Holt
| White. a broker in New York;
lT. X. White, OF Fairlow, w. Va,
and Garrett White, of Ashland
| Authorities are investigating a
report that y. > Alice White.
sister, emp!, = a Lexington
bank, sent wirr Friday night,
which said:
"Don't let John come to Lex
inpton. Letter follows.
| When asked concerning this
report Mrs. John G.. White, mo-
ther, replied:
elsie did not exactly say
that" Mrs. White refused to
make any further statement.