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The Gift Box Murders of 'Opry' couple laid to burglary attempt Where the 4 The Morning News, Tuesday, November 13, 1973 Fla gang burns white husband of black woman difference is California quake BERKELEY, Calif. (UPI) A light earthquake was felt in the San Francisco Bay area yesterday, but there was no immediate reports of damage. Seismologists station said the temblor was centered in the South Bay area and was felt as far north as Marin County, across the Golden Gate bridge. in variety, in ideas. Millcreek Shopping Ctr.

4541 Kirkwood Hwy. 999-9320 Opn 7 6oyt wk. in browsing, I in services. cut down by three more shots as she sought to flee across a nearby field. Police speculate that there were three killers because they said the bullets that killed Stringbcan and his wife were of three different calibers, apparently fired from three separate guns.

They also said a bullet hole was found in the rear of the house and theorize that it may have been fired by Stringbean, who they said was known to carry a weapon in his car. But no weapon was found in his car, police said. Jones, who drove to the Akeman house to join Stringbeank on a hunting trip to Virginia, found Mrs. Akeman lying beside a driveway. He said he found Stringbean's body lying face down on the floor of his house.

Stringbean's trademark was an extra long shirt attached to trouser that just came up to his knees. He wore a small crushed felt hat with the brim tightly rolled on either side. "My wife and I design and make them together," he once explained about his stage outfits. "I figure my custome is the original jump suit." WEDDING RECEPTION? NASHVILLE, Tcnn. music star Dave "Stringbcan" Akeman may have been armed an exchanged shots with as many as three persons before he and his wife were murdered in what was believed a burglary attempt, police said yesterday.

The bodies of Stringbcan, 58, a banjo-playing Grand Ole Opry comedian, and his wife, Estelle, 59, were found Sunday morning at their country home by "Grandpa" Jones, a costar of Stringbean's on the syndicated television show "Hee Haw." Tolice theorize that the kill-e were burglars who searched the house for money and waited for Stringbcan, who had been known to carry large amounts of, cash, to come A funeral home employe found $5,700 that Stringbcan and his wife had hidden in their clothes but which the killers and investigators apparently had overlooked, police said. One bullet killed Stringbcan. police said, and his wife was When you're thinking of a wrddin; reception on Saturday afternoon, consider the special features of the COACH HOUSE FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) A gang of black men abducted a white man and his black wife, doused the husband with an inflammable fluid and set him afire, police said yesterday. Brian Barfield, 33, of Fort Lauderdale, was in intensive care at Holy Cross Hospital, suffering from third degree burns to his arm, right leg and back.

"It was obviously racially motivated," a police spokesman said. "The wife was not physically harmed although she was very shaken up." Police said Barfield andhis wife Jeraldine, 2S. were driving along a city street Sunday evening when a car carrying six black men pulled alongside and a man pointed a gun at them, forcing them to stop. Another car, with five blacks inside, pulled up behind the Barfields and the couple was Everybody looks at your rugs. Be Proud of Yours.

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She said she helped her husband out of the apartment and they found their car outside. She drove her husband to the hospital where he was admitted in serious condition. Officers said Mrs. Barfield was unable to pinpoint the location of the apartment where she and her 'husband were held. Last month, a young white woman died after being attacked and set afire by a gang of black youths in Boston, and a black derelict died in Miami after he was set on fire by three young blacks.

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