Policeman held for murder

JOPLIN -- A coroner's jury at Oronogo yesterday held Policeman John Vannoy responsible for the death of A.J. Powers, Vannoy is under arrest. Monday night Vannoy ordered a bystander to assist in taking Powers and a man named Sullivan to jail. Powers, according to the testimony given before the coroner's jury, insisted that he had done nothing to be arrested for where upon the officer stepped forward and dealt him a blow to the head with his club.

Powers was taken to jail and died five hours later.

75 years ago

Mother injured, son under arrest

Mrs. Mary A. Wilson was injured about 6 o'clock Saturday evening when the car in which she was riding with her son, Byron Wilson, struck an iron bridge east of highway No. 71, and about two miles north of Nevada. Mrs. Wilson was taken to the Amerman Sanitarium badly bruised and with a slight scalp wound.

Wilson was taken to the county jail and Sheriff W.E. Butner confiscated a half gallon of liquor found in the car.

50 years ago

Ewing and Weir to be on industrial program

Boyd Ewing, Nevada attorney, and Ben F. Weir, publisher of the Nevada Daily Mail and Herald, will be among the guest speakers at a Community Industrial Development Workshop to be held in Jefferson City on Dec. 6. The workshop will be co-sponsored by the Missouri Division of Resources and Development and the Missouri State Chamber of Commerce.

-- Compiled by Silissa Swink