Smyrna times., 1924-08-27
POULTRY RAISER MURDERED .
At HIS HOME NEAR HOUSTON
CHRISTIAN CHRISTENDEN SHOT
AND KILLED IN NIGHT MURDER
JuniOus Evans, Alias "Duke", a Negro
is Wanted For the Crime of
Which He is Accused

Which He is Accused
Under the direction of State De-
tective D. D. Wharton and Sheriff
John H. Bullock, police officers and
a posse of citizens are guarding and
searching a strip of woodland near
Houston for Junious Evans alias
Duke" who shot and killed Chris
tian Christensen, poultry raiser, at !
his home near Houston, on Tuesday |
night of last week.
The officers have been able to track |
Evans to the woodland but up until |
Thursday afternoon were unbale to
capture him. He was seen by Sher-.I
if John H. Bullock Wednesday
evening entering a portion of the
woodland. The Sheriff fired after him
but the man escaped into the dense
underground.
Fearing that the man may escape
his pursuers in the woodland and es-
cape, Deputy Attoney-General Earle
D. Wiley had fliers prepared on We'd
nesday evening and sent to every
town on the peninsula.
Christensong who was about 55
years of age, is a we'll known poultry
raiser and resides along the Harring-
tOn-Milford highway. He was mur-
dered while standing in the door of
his poultry house. The shooting oc-
Cured about nine o'clock. He was
shot three times, twice through the
arm and once in the heart. From the
nature of the wounds it was evident
that he was shot with a high-caibred
pistol or gun. Christenson's right
hand was closed upon his shotgun.
The crime occurred after the family
had retired. Christensen had had his
hen-house robbed several times and
in order to protect his flock, which
was a large one, he had had an annex
built to the poultry-hOuse, in the
form of a bedroom, in which he slept.
Crime Took Place Tuesday Night
Tuesday night after the family had
gone to bed they heard seven shots,
and the son, Jack, rushed from the
house to the yard and found his
father lying on his side with his head
in the yard and his feet in the poul-
try house, dead. He had his shot
gun clasped across his breast, with
= his fingers tightly grasping the trig-
= ger. 1t was stated, however, that nc
a shots had been discharged from the
n gun. DR.. William Marshall of Mil.
ford was notified, also Policeman R
T D. Davis, who called Corporal ingram
of the State Police and Detective OF
: to Donoway of Georgetown. Th
: three together went to the scene 0
n the murder. Detective DOnoway no
titled Deputy Attoney-General Earl
d D. Wiley, who sent State Detectiv
/ D. D. Wharton to the scene of tn
l. crime. Detective Wharton also com
IS municated with Sheriff Bullock. TIL
r State Police have also been workin
* on the case since the crime has bee
10 reported.
p Near the chicken-house was foun
TT a razor lying on the ground whicl
N according to the Christensen famil!
II did not belong to them. From tn
lg footprints the intruder evidentl
* wore a rubber-soled pair of TENN
o. shoes, and from one shoe there was
small square piece of the sole mis-!
p ing as seen from the imprints in til
o. dirt. By these prints he was tracke
)n as far as the farm of Frank Marve
m Republican county committeeman
lie Here the man evidently took off h
n shoes and proceeded for a short di
to tance in his bare feet, as the 70,
IL prints were plainly visable for Ii
ld tie way, after which all traces VIZ
lost.
ne Officers Have Been in Search of Cas-
en- 1t was also observed that a hor:
an and team had been hitched near Il
he chicken-house and from the hOlt
es made in the ground by the horse
1t hoofs, it is believed they left in
or hurry, and this theory was borne OF
le. by the fact that the family state
OF that they heard a wagon being dri
he en- rapidly from the yard right aft
as the sound of the shots reached ther
While working on the case on We
at nesday morning, the officers fOuI
ITS two men who were with Evans al
III. through them learned his identit
he The men were questioned and lat
he lodged in the Kent County Jail.
o. Christensen leaves a wife and Sc
rs en- children.
an The following is the description
o. Junious Evans or Evans Alias "Dukt
ot, wanted: Colored dark brown, abol
siv feat +a1 slender hair cIoselv cl1