Violence Snuffs Out 10 Lives Over the Weekend

Wrecks, Slayings Are Listed

Violence claimed at least 10 lives in South Carolina during the weekend.

Jane Mae Smith, 28-year-old Negro woman of Walterboro, killed with a blast from a shotgun. Police questioned Grant Fraser, 59-year-old Negro.

At Columbia, police held a Negro woman for questioning in the fatal stabbing of George Culler, 38-year-old Negro.

Columbia officers also questioned a man in the bludgeon death of a 47-year-old Negro woman, Eva Mae Moore, whose body was found on a street.

Eleven-year-old Isaac Galloway of the Hickory Grove section of Horry County accidentally hanged himself when he fell from a fence while playing with a rope that was attached to a tree and encircled his neck.

Mrs. Fannie Pace Henderson, 43, of Gaffney was killed accidentally when she was thrown from her car and dragged when the vehicle went in reverse as she started to drive away from her house.

Miller Smith, 74, of near Little Fock in Dillon County, died in a two car collision 12 miles west of Dillon.

Irene Nelson, 40-year-old Negro woman of Blaney, was hit and killed by a car as she crossed a Columbia street.

Asphyxiated in a motel room at Johnsons Crossroads in Aiken County were Marine Pvt. Donald B. Davis of New Ellenton and Mrs. Katherine Herron of Augusta.

Calvin Keith Pickens, 32, of New Ellenton, was killed when his car wrecked in his home town.


March 13, 1961  State (published as The State)  Columbia, South Carolina
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