The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1943-07-23
Drinking, Gambling Arguments Take
Three Lives In Sixteen Hour Period
churIie Goydner Held in Knife Deoth OF
Alubomo ShipYdrd Worker; One Negro
Shot To Death: Other Hacked With Axe

Thfes nen were killed Ia 4
Is su uua6 n thsa ecflon q
3aek on coanfy Sunday Two
az ths fatalities both neErce&
rea Efem arguments gu
ms out u gambling games ana
fhe sh4r3 mnn wus killed n .
drunken quarrel near . rusa
house a. fhe edge of fhe eouniy
The aa are joe BurueS IS
uared Aashama Drx5gck wcvk
msn e Grand Bay JeAn : Ter
ueu negro worker az Ingalls, Ship
building Cooperation vara here
and Charlie Henry Mar#h O. Gra
son IS r. wss known q negro
mnu - . section gang un the
Mississippi Export Railroad As
a resnli Ct these stayinEs. rive
nwn were arressed On charges II
murder and q third Was being
sought hy law n~fflcefk
Following the cutting q
Burnes throsi with = small pock.
RI knife Charlie Gardner. slse
% Grand BAY. Was arrested -
a l. Cawhlev constable n Moss
Pei mt and placed ln tae jaEI The
killing occurred near the Mzs-Ala
club IN the Mobile highway De
Witt Moore waS arrested faT the
shooting - Terrell n a eaDc-
Ing session A. 697 Skin street.
psseaEoula and William Watkins
8 member ~ the same section
gang as Marsh. was the object of
E sesrch winch has extended 20
Laurel Miss rs former hone
following MS brutal attack On
Marsh with an az
coadsd Says Gardner
4 day - drinking and e round
~ road houses vas climaxed
aboat : Pm. Sunday. with TIE
ssahbinF II Burnes in the uaFoat
hy Gardner. Whc declared he was
g0aaed into committing the
murder The story tod By Card
n@ and sabsfantiate6 hv two
black eyes and cats ard bruises
ahcat THE head wm that the
dead man had continually pickles.
en- him and struck hin during
the dat Witnesses corrcborafed
the statement Burnes Nas iarR
eF Tran fhe small spare. forty
sh Gardner and Gardner said he
ssf couldn't take any more.
Both ~ TIE ulen had been drink
nG although Gardner denied mat
he wss drunk snd ther had
stopped - the Mnss-Als club.
The killing however. occurred
Just outside ne road house
! didn't want 20 XII hln.
Gardner said I never had any
thing against hm Bat he vas
beating me and ] pulled cut fhe
Knife Intending = cat him sbouf
the hands and make hIn stop
Gardner who IS employed At
tae AiabsHla prsdock4 as is MS
@Efe. has fwo sens Ia the T s
Navy he SAID and faro other
children TIE youngest being five
ears old
I'd known Earnes for : lone
tine. of course he sad
@e HADN'T started out together
s1naay He Just kept f0llowina
me around from place 10 place
and rlcklng on re He wanteA
nae . buy some more whiskeg but
tod h4u - G. honae and that
~ hHe ha8 enaaah
Earn@s 3 natIvs ~ New York.
nnd HRe1 II Gfsus BaY for abolFf
- ears He vas the son q an
Irlse Isiw ard - Ea aaath
r. bHf sppEentN Re had No Hg
ng k1n - Ae tne q ais deafh
Hs body Wa SER - Grand Bay
Fails FunersI Horse Tor burial
slaYtnss Start Earlv
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q @Hfh re aessa % Marsh about
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n te living The ar - on
8 M Exgo1 Railroad
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f Marsh anz Watkins grew
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