TRANSCRIBED BY : TINA EASLEY
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FROM THE WEEKLY SOLIPHONE
JAN. 8, 1915 - FRIDAY
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TRAGEDY REPORTED AT HOXIE
( FROM THURSDAY'S DAILY PRESS )
DEPUTY SHERIFF LEM WALDRUM WHO CAME TO PARAGOULD EARLY THIS MORNING WITH PHILIP BRUST , CHARGED WITH SHOOTING WILL DAVIS , NEAR LORADO YESTERDAY , SAID THE REPORT REACHED LORADO YESTERDAY THAT LOGAN MOBLEY , HAD SHOT AND KILLED HIS WIFE AND A MAN WHO WAS WITH THE WOMAN AT HOXIE YESTERDAY.
MOBLEY AND HIS WIFE , WHO WAS FORMERLY MISS LOU CARR , DAUGHTER OF JOHN CARR LIVED IN THE LORADO COMMUNITY. THEY LATER WENT TO JONESBORO AND SEPARATED . MOBLEY IS SAID TO HAVE LEFT THIS SECTION OF THE STATE , BUT RETURNED RECENTLY AND WAS INFORMED HIS WIFE WAS LIVING WITH ANOTHER MAN . IT IS SAID HE WENT IN SEARCH OF THE COUPLE AND FOUND THEM IN HOXIE KILLING BOTH OF THEM. MR. WALDRUM COULD NOT VOUCH FOR THE TRUTHFULNESS OF THIS REPORT , BUT SAID THIS WAS THE SUBSTANCE , OF THE MESSAGE THAT HAD BEEN RECEIVED AT LORADO.