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Source: Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA) Page: 2
Dated: Feb. 7, 1930
Tramp Murderer Is Found to Be Escape Lunatic
Finger Prints Definitely Identify Man - Jackson Police Say He Is 'Dangerous.'
By Associated Press
     Paducah, Ky., Feb. 6 - Police authorities of Jackson, Miss., informed Fulton county officers today that the identity of Roy Springer, a trump, who killed Frank Barrett, Fulton merchant, and seriously wounded Bulley Huddleston, chief of police of Fulton, had been established through finger prints as that of a man whom Jackson officers had taken to a Mississippi insane asylum last week.
     In a telephone conversation with Sheriff Goalder Johnson, Fulton county, the Jackson chief of police said that two of his men last week took a man by the name of Roy Springler, who answered the description furnished by the Kentucky officers, to the asylum but that the institution refused to receive him and that they left him standing in the corridor. That was the last they saw of him.
     The Mississippi official told Sheriff Johnson that they were dealing with a highly dangerous man. He said that Springer had been picked up on the streets of Jackson and had been taken to the asylum from which institution he was alleged to have escaped. He had been in the asylum on several previous occasions, the Jackson chief said, having been sent up from Tupelo, Miss.
     The condition of Chief Huddleston, whose throat was cut by the tramp at Fulton, Tuesday, showed improvement this afternoon.

Source: CNN News -
Dated: March 9, 2014
MENTIONS: A massive graveyard was discovered on the grounds of the University of Mississippi.

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