EXCITED !!!!!!!!! THE KINGSPORT NEWS 3 Saturday. September 23, 1948 ASSAULT From Page 1 In backing up to hunt for the keys, they said, Birdwcll ran off the road and they had to go get a and then they swapped positions. Later, she said Bacon hold her again while Birdwell assaulted her She was not conscious all of the time, she said, and could not rc- momben all the incidents, but be- lieved she was assaulted twice by tractor to pull the car out. and three times by Bacon fh After the incident, she related, they drovo up nnri clown the Jnhnnon City I-JlKhw.iy for n whlln nncl threntcnecl Unit sho would cet hurt if she told anyone what had happened, and that they would got other bnys to testify iiRnln.ic her. Shu mild t they tokl.. her they planned to do thtr same thing to one or her girl friends. She warned the girl of this plan, she said. he is Kicgsport. This picture was made in his younger clays. Who is he? His picture as hfe looks today and his name will appear the three went to a party near Sul- livHM Gardens but they testified Uiu clrl wouldnt Iftrivn tin: cur, I Ing that she was ill and uncom- fortable. Both youths testified they re- turned tho girl to her home about midnight.. They rupotiloclly donlud having intercourse with the girl, or that they wefe on the Qrooked of the alleged any time that night. They testified the girl mrulo tulvimcun In thorn both at different tlmoH during the night, and said she bragged of times with another youth, 1 then in the Army. Birdwell and Bacon-were repre- iscnted by John R. Todd, Jr., and Dodson and Dodson of Kingsport. .Prosecution of the case was di- rected by Lyle Burrow, appointed to fill the place of Attorney Gen-. jejral Walter R. Gray who is ill, and oth and jurist, jStacy Grayson, both of Bristol. is a long-time resident of Prosecutors case were thej girls father and Constable J. E. Clothing worn by f.he the in Mondays Kingsport Watch for it. News. DEMO CHAIRMAN Chattanooga Mrs. Joe (Monty) Upchurch. Although 63 witnesses were sum- moned in the case, only 28 were actually for the defense and 12 for the state. Witnesses heard included three physicians testifying as experts on injuries likely to be caused in such Sweetwater has been iand character witnesses on named Third District chairman for the womens division of- the State Democratic Campaign Committee. The announcement was made here Wednesday by Mrs. Tom Rag- a church land of Chattanooga, state womens ing his d cnairman. each side. .First witness for the State Friday morning was the girls father. He testified that on May 15 he went to h service about dark, leav- daughter at home. He did Death Notices George W. Gibson Imboden. Va. Funeral services for George Washington Gibson, who died Thursday at his home here, will be held at 2 p m (not see her he said, Sunday Church. at Imboden Methodist until about 1 a.m. the next morning. He isaid that when she came home, she- was nervous, trembling, and. when questioned, told him she had at- tended a party. The next day (Sun- day) he said he knew something was wrong, and had her taken to the hospital where she was ex- amined by H. Reed. On cross-examination, he denied that his daughter was in the habit The Rev. J. C. Clark will officiate Burial will be in Glencoe Cemetery at Big Stone Gap. Mr. Gibson is survived by widow. Mrs. Berda Gibson; his sons, Hubert, Big Stone Gap; Ho- bert. Herald, ilelvin. Billy and Jimmy Gibson, Tmboden; two daughters, Hiss Kathleen Gibson. Imboden. and Mrs. llildred Cec- cbtelli. Camp Kilmer. N. J.: his mother. Mrs. Xancy McClain, Kingsport: seven brothers, Logan and Tee Gibson, Big Stone Gap; Will Gibson. Mallory, W. Va., ex: Mack Gibson. Iowa: and two sis- of tlio
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