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MP g. THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION, Friday, Nov. 8, 1974 MILLEDGEVILLE SHOCKED 41 0 led Mandy, Father- Kil I ufk Carr had taken a medical retirement from the Georgia Department of Labor, fok-. lowing a heart attack about a year ago, and as one friend said, "Just enjoyed working around the house and the yard. As a matter of fact, he had just repapered Mandy 's bed- room." Mandy was scheduled to undergo surgery in the near future for a slight facial deformity, but friends at Baldwin High said she never let the problem bother her.

"She wasn't a beautiful person in one maybe," explained Tina Baucom, a member along with Mandy in the Pi Epsilon Alpha religious organization, "but she had a real quality you don't find in most people. A radiance. Some people used to make fun of Up, but she just smiled back at them. She was so sweet Everybody that knew her, "loved her." "She was really a neat person," said Wendy Mish, another saddened friend. "People used to tease her, but she was always herself.

She didn't put on for anybody." Choking back tears, an aunt, Mrs. Naomi Lucas, called Mandy "the nicest child anyone could ever have. She was such a tiny little A bad habits, no bad friends. There was no reason in the world for anyone to do this to either one of them." By JOHN HUEY CeintHoUe Staff Writer MILLEDGEVILLE Petite 15-year-old Mandy Carr was to have led the devotional at her Baldwin High School Christian Youth Club Thursday morning. Instead, services were held in her memory.

The bodies of Mandy and her father, 45-year-old Carswell Hall Carr, both victims of one of the most brutal murders in recent middle Georgia history, were discovered Wednesday at the family home in an affluent North Milledgeville suburb. Police say they have few clues to the identity of the killer or killers, but Milledgeville Police Chief Eugene Ellis theorizes that there were more than one and that they were "maniacs." He indicated his department is working with the Baldwin County Sheriff's office, the GBI, and the police at nearby Central State Hospital. "You've always got a suspect when you've got something like this and 5,000 mental patients nearby," Ellis commented. "But we have no concrete leads in that direction." Carr, he said, was stabbed in the front and back of his body 15 or 20 times. The house, he said, had not been broken into, a fact he was at a loss to explain.

Tuesday evening, when Mrs. Ellen Carr left the white split-level home, her daughter was studying and her husband was watching election returns on television. When she returned from working a double-shift, as a nurse around 3:20 Wednes-day afternoon, she found her husband's mutilated body, trussed with curtain cord and stabbed 15 or 20 times, lying amid the rubble of their ransacked bedroom. Police later found the body of Amanda Beth "Mandy" Carr strangled with a silk stocking, in another part of the house. "It's one the roughest, most brutal, slayings I've ever seen," said b.

C. Gorm-ley, head of the Milledgeville office of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI), "and in 20 years I've seen a lot of them." Mandy, who stood 4 feet 11 inches and weighed a slight 80 pounds, was described by friends as having become "deeply religious" in the last year or so, spending much of her spare time singing in the youth choir at the First Methodist Church. Children on the block near the Carr home at 1686 Pine Vally Valley Road, spoke of Car- as one of the nicest adults they had known, "the kind of man who would even give you money if you needed." Standing among a number of shocked relatives and friends offering the family comfort at a relative's home next door, the Rev. Dewey Norton of the First Baptist Church summed up the group's feelings, commenting: "You might expect something like this in Atlanta, but not in Milledgeville. The whole thing has been a shock to everyone.1' Mandy's brother, Chris, a 21-year-old Emory student, and her sister Ruthie, a 20-yearald Georgia Southern student were both away at school at the time of the slaying.

Neighbors of the Carrs said fear and apprehension have spread throughout the Carrington Woods subdivision, a rolling, tree lined neighborhood surrounding a lake. "I haven't slept just thinking about it," said Mrs. W. K. Holt, who lives across the street.

"I told my husband to change the locks on all the doors." The GBI has put every agent in the Milledgeville district office on the case, and a Crime Scene Search Crew from Atlanta made an exhaustive search of the house. "We're working on every possibility," Ellis said, "but right now, we just don't have much to go on. Staff Photo Dwight Bon Jr. 'ALWAYS SUSPECT (WITH) MENTAL PATIENTS NEARBY Chief Ellis Theorizes Killings Done by 'Maniacs' MOST YOUNG Son 10 Policemen Dead in Tivo Years wwm Mill P. Bentley, came rushing to a neighbor, S.

the door. By FAYS. JOYCE Most were young, so young that the children they brought into this world will never remember their fathers. Officers in DeKalb were somber Thursday, thinking back pendiaps to 1972, when two of their fellow patrolmen were killed. The parents of Donald Lee Mitchell were In bed listening to their police radio on July 2 that year when they heard their 22-year-old son say he was tailing a speeding car.

The speeder was a routine problem, until the driver refused to slow down. Soon both cars were racing across streets and around comers. Mitchell's parents strained to listen as his police car crashed ino a bridge abutment. Then there was nothing left to hear. Earlier that year a bullet apparently fired by a burglar ended William David Corn's life.

The DeKalb policeman had been moonlighting as a security guard at Kopenhaven Apartments in Tucker on Feb. 1, the last day of his Little more than a year later Larry Eugene Quinn was trying to set up a roadblock in DeKalb to stop a fleeing motorist when the car roared into him. The driver survived to face murder charges. Then fate seemed to turn against Atlanta's force. First James M.

Cannon, a rookie on the motorcycle squad, was killed by a car that hit his cycle head-on. He left behind a wife and six-month old baby. Two days later, June 19, 1973, Larry Barkwell was killed with his own gun in a downtown street battle with Black Muslims. Detective E. Harris was next.

He, too, was mortally wounded by his own gun. The shots came on Oct. 2L, 1973 from patrons in a downtown movie theater, where the 26-year-old policeman was working an extra job. Then Henry Lee Jones was slain. It was just two weeks before last Christmas, and his closet was stuffed with presents for his 5-year-old son.

Perhaps Jones was planning to buy more with the money he made from his security guard job at the Pace Setter Apartments near Bankhead Highway. It was at those apartments that a burglary suspect's bullets ended Jones' life. The grim story continues. In spring another plaque was added to the row at Atlanta police headquarters. It reads, "Officer R.

M. Dale. Accidental Killing." Shot with his own weapon while serving a fugitive warrant, he died April 4, 1974. He was 25. On July 14 Mrs.

Gregory Ray White sat on her porch and told her husband or 10 months that it was getting late; they'd pick vegetables tomorrow. But for the former Mormon missionary there was no tomorrow. A policeman assigned to guard Mayor Maynard Jackson, White was taking a break when he walked into a 7-11 store in southwest Atlanta and into an armed robbery. One of the teen-aged holdup men fired point-blank, and White never saw his wife, new-born baby or anyone else Grocer Shot Critically An Atlanta grocer was criti-' cally wounded Thursday afternoon when he was shot for no apparent reason by a lone gunman while standing behind the checkout counter of his store. Police said Woodrow Kel-ley, 63, owner of Woody's Market at the intersection of Lake Avenue and Elizabeth Street, was shot in the upper chest with a pistol.

He was reported in critical condition at Grady Memorial Hospital. Police said the shooting occurred at about 3:30 p.m. when a man entered the store and asked Kelley, "Do you believe I'll shoot you?" Kelley told the man that he did believe he would shoot, police said, and the man drew a pistol and fired, wounding Kelley in the chest. According to witnesses, the assailant then walked out of the store and strolled a short distance down Elizabeth Street, where he stopped and struck up a conversation with several other persons. Then he calmly walked away shortly before police arrived.

ing, 'Gene, take me for a and he would take them out in the woods or down to the Dog River," Peek said. Ned Peek, another one of Mrs. Barge's brothers, said, "I heard the shotgun blast and thought it was someone shooting deer." Seven of Mrs. Barge's brothers and sisters live within a quarter of a mile of her house, along the 150-acre tract that originally belonged to her parents. Mrs.

Barge's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Peek, still live in the white frame farm house built by the elder Peek's great uncle in 1855, just 100 yards from the Barge home. Mrs. Barge has been a secretary at Word school for five years.

Her principal, Mrs. Helen Selman, said she started to work soon after Tony began school, first doing supply teaching before become school secretary. "She is the quietest, nicest, hardest worker you could ever hope for," Mrs. Selman said. "They were a very devoted couple.

He called every morning to see if she got to school all right," she said. The entire family attends Sardis Baptist Church, a small church near their home. "Every time the church doors open, the Peek family is there," Mrs. Selman said. And the entire family will be there again Saturday at 11 a.m.

when funeral services are held for the police officer. Bentley was on his way to work in Hapeville when he found Barge's body lying along the wooded stretch of Rico Road only a quarter of a mile from his home and rushed to the nearest house. "He didn't want to stop here," said a relative outside the Barge home, "but this was the only place with a light on." Throughout the day Thursday, members of the close-knit family gathered at the well-kept white house to console Mrs! Barge. "Folks that know him can't believe it," said one member of the family Thursday morning as relatives gathered outside the Barge home. "He.

loved his job," another said and told how Barge would leave each morning at 5:45 to get to College Park by 6:30. Barge's brother-in-law, Robert Peek, chief of police in East Point, said Barge got his start in the Palmetto police force, before moving to College Park nine years ago. Another brother-in-law, Bill Peek, said Barge would come in after work and take neighborhood children riding on his motorcycle. "They were always coming to him say LAY -A-WAY cm mm'i BS Every year our customers say we have the most beautiful trees in town come by and see for yourself, we have Atlanta's largest selection of trees, lights, tree trim, and wreaths. And nib Caiadiaii I FULLSIZE jL II HWWUUI4IIII iff our trees are at low Lay-A-Way prices.

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