The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-11
VENIRE CHOSEN
in MURDER CASE
Continued From Page One)

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He said that one bullet took eff
feet in Henderson's right side. DR..
A. H. Elliott. city-county health
officer, said his examination Of
the body revealed that the bullet
broke five of Henderson's ribs,
nicked the left lung and punctured
his heart.
Porter Davis, 2 deputy sheriff,
who was called to the scene Of
the shooting, said that when he
arrived at Ganey's service station
he found the cody of Henderson
slumped in the front seat Of a
l941 Ford coach.
Davis said that Ganey and his
wife were in the service station.
Davis testified that Ganey told
him he had shot Henderson and
showed the officer where he had
placed the .25-calibre automatic
pistol which he had used IN the
shooting.
Ganey gave him the pistol,
Davis said, which had been placed
under the counter in the filling
station.
Davis said that "Ganey had
been drinking and was very
angry. Ganey told me that he had
shot Henderson because he hat
S h o Henderson because he hao
taken my daughter off Saturday
and he had not seen her since"
Westbrook said that he and
Henderson had left Jacksonville
"about dark" and had driven tt
Wilmington. He said that Hender'
son had come to him and tolc
him that Earl Morton, from whom
he had purchased the car, hac
phoned him and wanted to see
him at nee.
He said that when they arrived
at the filling station, Henderson
'made a ~" turn and drove un
der the shed of the station.
>. Henderson blew the cars horn
Westbrook said, and Ganey rar
out to the cal. Westbrook testified
!, that he was seated on the RICH
hand side of the front seat. A.
. Ganey approached, Westbrool
said, he said to Henderson
Frank, you stole my girl, didn'
you?" Westbrook said that a
) that time Ganey began to fire thu
pistol.
Earl Morton, who lived on rout'
three, Wilmington, testified tina
he and his wife were in the bu'
station that day when Ganey
came in and forced he and hi
wife to accompany him to hi
} filling station.
He said that Ganey had forced
him to telephone Henderson il
. Jacksonville and tell him to conn
. to Wilmington at once. Mortol
said that he and his wife wer'
; held prisoner until Henderson ar
rived and the shooting took place
Morton said that during his lonl
wait, they played a piccolo for en-
|tertainment. Shortly before Hen
: derson arrived, he said, Cane.
turned off the lights in the fillinI
station. But when a custome.
came up Ganey turned the light
on again.
L. C. Willis, of Seagate, sal
that he heard two pistol shots, al
r ter seeing a mar cone out of tn
filling station and walk towar'
Henderson's car. Immediately a.
t ter the shooting, he said, he say
a man jump out Of the car an
i run. Willis said that after the ma
0 in the car had run, the man win
0 fired the shots came back fror
e the filling station and looked j
: the car.
Westbroo}. earlier had told tn
Jury that when Ganey starte
shooting be jumped out Of the ca
and ran.
Eugene johnson, Negro, char&
ed with hit and run driving. wa
acquitted in Superior court We;
terday. He was charged wit
striking William McCray on tn
Seagate highway last Septembe:
McCray suffered a broken arr
= and leg.
A. Testimony was being hear
when court adjourned for the da
d in the case Of Troy Brown, chari
ed with embezzling $119.35 frol
h NJ i t C h l. Saleby, Wilmingto
IS wholesale fruit and produce dea
"a err