Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-12-30 | Page 1 | 700 on Trail of Slayer

I ON TRAIL TRA-F TRA OF SLA SLAYER YER 6 I POSSE P fOllOWS BLOODHOUNDS lO S ON N TRAIL fRAil Of NEGRO Dogs Strike Fresh Scent in Swamp Along Mississippi TROOPS JOIN HUNT Girl Tells of Fathers Father's Murder CLARKSDALE Miss Dec 29 AP AP-A AP A call for fop additional men was received here late tonight from posses seeking Charles Shepperd escaped negro conVict Officers here were informed that a a negro believed to be Shepperd Sheppard had been surrounded near Parchman prison farm where the negro was alleged to have killed a guard and his daughter PARCHMAN Miss Dec 29 29 United Press Press Bloodhounds Bloodhounds late I today picked up what was believed to be the trail of Charles Shepperd Sheppard escaped cape f negro convict who mUrdered murdered murdered mur mur- dered J. J D. D Duvall prison guard and and and assaulted his daughter daughter- Ruth 18 11 The dogs truck a fresh scent twelve miles south of Qt her ere In tn n th tM li swamps An t armed ff f followed ll wed t tOn On appeal fr froni r ni prison farm om dais thirty special officers from Coahoma Quitman and Bolivar Boll c counties arrived this afternoon to Join in the hunt At Clarksdale police legionnaires and citizens were organized under K it T. T Dickey legion post command command- I er The Tho river bottom near here was searched by a of ot to armed men commanded ed by the prison pris- pris on farm superintendent J J. T T. Fox STATE TROOPS JOIN troops were reported on their way to the tho scene to participate participate pate in the man hunt They were headed by Major l T. T B. B BIrdsOng state Infantry Few crimes s shave have so shocked the sensibilities of residents of this delta elta land mo mot most t tI I of ot them farmers 5 As told by b the girl today tho tIm story of her fathers father's murder and her abduction was one possibly without parallel Duvall Duvahl the guard was slain when the negro first entered the house hous police believed III head was hammered hammered ham ham- in his head then Jammed jammel into his chest and finally his throat cut The negro apparently then made for the room of the girl I 1 was wad awakened early In the tho mornIng by a noise and then Shepperd entered entered entered en- en I 1 my room she said screamed but bu he grabbed me with Continued on page B 5 POSSE FOLLOWS ON TRAIL OF NEGRO Continued from l page age 1 his bloody hands bands and d dragged me in my night clothes from tho the house OTHERS SLEPT SOUND In other rooms of the h house use were three other ther children and the mother who because she is deaf heard none of 01 the commotion The children slept through without awakening police said The convict dragged the gi girl into nearby woods and forced her to put on shoes and an overcoat Miss Duvall said she was beaten and as assaulted assaulted assaulted as- as several times by her bel captor All yesterday posses were evaded and last night she was left at the hut of negroes near the farm where she was found early today today and brought to the home bome of 01 N. N It R. Parker Parker Parker Par Par- ker a guard guardS Doctors who were called found her her- bruised and vacant eyed For several years Shepperd Sheppard had load been a handy man mart about the Duvall house He was serving a year twenty sentence sentence sen son tence for manslaughter He had been considered a a. model prisoner until j re recently