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Description
4 images. Ponder murder (Lennox), 26 May 1958. Mrs. Margaret Evans -- 34 years (suspect in fatal shooting of her foster mother Mrs. Minnie Bell Ponder) Body of Mrs. Minnie Bell Ponder -- 67 years R.T. Parsonson (Inspector) Myra Adcock (sheriff's matron) Detective Sergeant Jack Kawton Detective Sergeant Dick Carroll Harold H. Turner (crime lab expert). Caption slip reads: "Photographer: Rustan. Date: 1958-05-26. Reporter: Donoghue. Assignment: Ponder murder. Special Instructions: Daily. 52: L/R Sheriff's Matron Myra Adcock and murder suspect Margaret Evans at Lennox Sheriff's sub-station. 51: Detectives at murder scene. l to r Sgt. Jack Kawton, Sgt. Dick Carroll, and crime lab expert Harold H. Turner, all of Lennox Sheriff's sub-station. 83/84: Sheriff's Inspector R.T. Parsonson points to 10 inch butcher knife beside body of Mrs. Minnie Bell Ponder, 67, in home at 1356 West 11th Str., Lennox. 27/28: Mrs. Margaret Evans, 34, suspect in fatal shooting of her foster mother, Mrs. Minnie Bell Ponder".
Type
image
Format
4 photographs : negatives, b&w 10 x 13 cm. negatives (photographic) photographs
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