The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1951-04-12
81 Indictments Made By Grand Jury;
Il Involve Liquor And Gambling
Violations Resulting From March Raid
Other Indictments
Included Monslouqter,

lnlTty-one indictments were
made by the Holmes County
Grand Jury in session Monday
Tuesday and Friday of last week
Twenty-one of the 81 indict-
ments returned were for posses
sion of liquor (l4) and gambling
CD, arising out of a raid made
March 3lst by Mississippi Ma
tional Guardsmen on orders OF
Governor Fielding L. Wright on
request of Sheriff Ellis E. Wynn
and County Attorney Pat M. Bar
rett. In the IA indictments charg-
ing possession of liquor there
were % persons named while is
persons were named in the seven
gambling indictments.
Other indictments included at
tempted rape, enticing a child
grand larceny, burglary, man
slaughter and resisting arrest.
The complete list of indict.
ments follows: Herbert Downer
possession of whiskey; Judson
Lee Drane, possession Of liquor
]. G. Lane and M. M. Powell,
possession of liquor; M. M. Pow
ell and ]. G. Lane, possession of
gambling device; H. d. Powell,
Mrs. H. D. Powell, possession Of
gambling device; H. D. Powell
and Mrs. H. d. Powell, possession
Of liquor; Freddie Mcbride and
James Mcbride, gambling device:
H L. Malone, Jr., possession u
liquor; Jimmy McNair, garnbl-
ing device: Jimmy McNair, Mrs.
Jimmy McNair, liquor possession,
r. e. Holder, possession of liquor;
John Pettus, same; A. L. Nc.
Nair, same; John Mcbride, John
Mcbride, ~Jr.. same; Dennis Will
liams (colored), Orlando Powell,
same; Mrs. H. S. Powell. H. S
Powell, Orlando Powell, same:
M. M. Powell, j. G.. Lane, same:
l.. C. Mcbride, same.
Possession of gambling ode
vices was also charged to Till
man Branch, d. w. Broyles and
Il. &C. Mcbride; to M. M. Powell
and j. G.. Lane; to L. C.. Nc
Bride, d. w. Broyles and Till
man Branch.
A number of persons involved
were named as defendants in two
Or more cases on either or both
charges.
Dkhe1 Indictments
Other indictments include
George Mccoy, colored. for at
tempted rape ON a colored wnman
Hlossie iRimnser Burt, colored,
enticing a l4-year-old child, Ca
'therine Burt, from Johnnie Lee
Burt, who had lawful charge of
the child; Seymour Dorsey and
Green Davis, both colored, grand
larceny in connection with the
THEFT of;aCow. valAed at 500 fram
Johp Quinn; Do&sey and Davis,
same parties, grand larceny for
theft of "a COW valued at $iHo
from Elsie MCGEE.
Argas 'Wanssley, tea'ored, grand
larceny, cattle theft. one heife,
Salued at $l0e from Fannie Sam
9le; Fred Smith, colored, bur
slary in connection with theft of
cotton fHom ,uahn r. Nillebrew
arm near Goodman; Jack Holt,
Robert Coan and Eugene Wigley,
white, chasged with grand lar
,eny in connection with theft of
$500 from w. Il. Cross; Newell
Ward, colored, charged with
nanslaughter In connection with ,
Heath Of Charlie .Fnssum, alias |
lester Russum, at Goodman; |
Walter Cremeene. white, chars-
ID with manslaughtsy in coz
,ection with the death of Bar
'ara Anne Drew of DSrant, who
vas killed in an accaAAnt near
)urant. The child's father also
Jed ~ the accident and her mo-
her IS reported in a critical con-
lition N a Memphis hospital;
sunyan Morgan, white, charged
With resisting arrest of Durant
Night Marshal Tom Ashley in Du-
ant.