Two Drown At Arkansas

State Line

The Herald

Jan. 27 , 1955

Transcribed by : Tina Easley

KENNETT--Two Arkansas men drowned and a third was missing

after a car plunged through a St. Francis River bridge railing near

the Missouri-Arkansas state line late Thursday,Jan. 20.

The victims were identified by state police as Vercllio (Sonny)

Hagood , 28-year-old proprietor of a Paragould,Ark., recreation parlor,

and James Coleman Payne, 27 of Halliday,a small community near

Paragould.

Authorities said Hagood's younger brother. Thomas, 24. failed to

return home Wednesday night. They are investigating the possibility

he could have been in the car.

Officers said the car hit the side of the bridge and tore out 70 feet

of steel railing before plunging into the river about 10 feet below.

The older Hagood's body was recovered

about 200 feet down stream while Payne's body was found near

the car.

Tina Easley
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