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SATURDAY, MARCH 24, 1928 THE PITTSBURGH COURIER FIRST SECTION PAGE FIVE 3 YOUTH SLAYS STEPFATHER THURMAN HOST He TO T.S.STRIBLING WALLACE THURMAN, well is young writer, who author of the play now in rehearsal called "Black was host, together, with Countee Cullen and Harold Jackman, last week to T. S. Stribling, noted Southern white author of and "Teeftallow." Mr. Stribling is in from his Tennessee to witness Grampiate the "Rope," Biltmore lynching theater, which is based on a and adapted Taurmalls is novel, "reader" for "Teeftallow." the book publishing firm of Boni Liveright, which published Jessie Fauset's "There Is Confusion" some years ago. Thurman lives at 267 W.

136th street, New York. stepfather had been to the Columbia Lodge Elks' Home at Third and Rhode Island avenue northwest. When they got home, about 2:15 a. his mother accused Kettler of having been out with other women. Thomas came to the a defense of stepfather, telling his mother where they had been.

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Feenane, a white policeman attached to the Fifth district police station, 20th and Fitzwater streets. On the morning of the fatal accident that took the life of the little boy lice Feenane was suspended from the poforce for insubordination, for being drunk and refusing to take orders from the sergeant and was ordered to appear before the Police Trial Court. He left the station house in a rage and witnesses testified that he went to a saloon and got filled with liquor and got into his Ford automobile and was driving at a reckless rate of speed, going north on 17th street, bucking traffic, and ran up on the navement, striking the child near 17th and Wharton streets. Several witnesses appeared against him and the defendant in the midst of the trial before the Hon. William C.

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