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Show DEATH DECREE REVEALS LOST SON TO FAMILY FOLSOM PRISON, Cal. U.i: A Tennessee farm boy who succumbed suc-cumbed to wanderlust and disappeared disap-peared for 10 years is sentenced to be hanged here July 10 because he killed a 74-year-old turkey raiser for $30. John B. Berryman, who was known as . a "mother's boy" during dur-ing his youth,' never got into any serious trouble during his wandering wander-ing until last" July, when he was arrested and convicted of slaying John G. Grant, whose body was found on a lonely road near here. Notification of his arrest was the first word his family had received of him in 10 years. Berryman expressed the wish to see his father or one of his brothers before he is hanged. Brother Sent to Investigate His "kid brother," Dalton Berryman, Ber-ryman, with whom he fought in the World War, left a cotton farm in Tennessee and, financed by the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Dyersberg, Tenn., came here to find out whetoer such a thing could be true. "We just can't understand it," Berryman, bewildered in strange surroundings, said. "None of us four boys ever .has been in trouble. The only thing I can do is to tell John that his family siill thinks he's all right. "I guess it's just another one of thexse things that comes along, like the water washing out toe cotton crop we were depending upon. Letter Asks Visit "John went away about 10 years ago, and we never heard of him until just the otfher day. Then the chief of police in Dyersberg found us and asked about our brother. A few days later a letter came from John saying he was going to be hanged and that he sure would like to see oue of us before it happened. "We thought for a time that John, who got gassed and was wounded in the war, still was in j the army in the Islands. We tried to find him a couple of years ago when mother died, but it was no use." |