The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1948-12-03
Soldiers
Held In
Turn 2 Over To
Army Officials
After Attack

Brawling soldiers who beat up
one of their own companions and
two of whom made an unpro-
voked and brutal attack on a
paper mill worker near Escataw-
pa when he stopped to help them
after an accident, were arrested
shortly after midnight Saturday
by Moss Point police and later
turned over to Army officials for
government action.
They were Cpl. Thomas D.. Can
non, 81 years old, and Pvt. Low
ell r. Kincaid, Is, both of Brook
ley Field, who were charged with
assault and battery, being drunk
and ~disorderly and using profane
language; Pfc. Stancel c. Hall
man, II, Brookley Field, charged
with being drunk and disorderly;
and S/Sgt. Thomas 'Herrin of
Keesler Field, charged with be-
ing drunk. They were arrested
by Officer Carl T. Wilson.
The first two were fined $100
and costs or 80 days in Jail on
each of the two counts and the
sentences were suspended by
Mayor F. w. Cirlot in order to
turn them over to Army officials
who came Wednesday to return
them to Brookley. Hallman and
Herrin yer each fined $40 and
costs.
The charges of assault and bat
terry grew out of an attack on AL
len E. Landrum of Escatawpa
who was driving some friends,
Mr., and Mrs. w. S. Andrews ind
their two small children home Co
Kreole after the Andrews fam
lily had spent the evening in the
Landrum home.
According to the story uncov-
cred by Mayor Cirlot, the three
Brookley Field soldiers had bor-
rowed a car and started driving
and drinking. They picked up
Herrin who was walking along
the highway and he joined in
their revelry. The Brookley Field
men allegedly sold government
property along the way in the
form of shoes, uniforms, jackets
and sheets, Mayor Cirlot said.
Flag Civilian
The soldiers told him they
made a wrong turn and when
they found themselves on the
other side of Moss Point on High
way 63 they attempted to turn
around in the road and drove into
the ditch. Mailman, Cannon and
kincaid got in the highway and
tagged Landrum to a stop and
asked him to pull their car from
the ditch.
81 told them that from the po-
sition of the car | knew | could
do nothing but to get in and !
would take them in town to get
a wrecker and the soldier | later
found out was Kincaid struck
me in the face" Landrum told
Mayor Cirlot.
Landrum jumped from the car,
and he and soldiers identified as
Kincaid and Cannon fought in
the roadway until the soldiers
knocked him down and Landrum
said pushed my face into the
mud and water" Fighting free,
he jumped up and started for his
pickup truck when Cannon
grabbed a 10-foot pine pole and
iabbed it at him, skinning his
legs. Cannon followed him to the
truck and jabbed the pole into
the window of the truck cab
where he narrowly missed the
two-year-old daughter of the
Andrews.
Landrum told Mayor Cirlot
they thought from the child's
screams that she was badly hurt
and he shot the gas" to the
truck and drove away although
the soldiers tried to pull him
from the seat and even ran be-
hind the truck for a short way.
Herrin told officers that the
Brookley Field soldiers had beaten
him severely during the ride and
Mayor Cirlot said his face was
badly mauled.
Herrin and Mailman were re-
leased the day after their arrest.