===================================================================== Match: Boles Source: [email protected] From: [email protected] Subject: Re: [TNFENTRE] Crabtrees Exerts from the Upper Cumberland Times, Jamestown, TN November 30, 1950. Shelby Wendell Crabtree is dead by a self inflicted gun shot, Harold Roark is in the Sloan-Pinckley Clinic suffering from a gun shot wound and Violet Hatfield is in the Lady Ann Hospital with her throat cut. All of this happened about 6 P. M. Monday night (Nov 26) when Crabtree went berserk at his home south of Jamesown, shooting Roark, knifing Miss Hatfield and then shooting himself, Pauline Brown Crabtree, wife of Shelby Wendell escaped without injury. (clipped) Sheriff Clay Stephens said he got a call to come out there about 6:30 P.M. , he started by himself but on the way saw Police Chief Boles and picked him up. The sheriff said he didn't know there had been any serious trouble. He said there had been trouble out there before and he thought it was just another case of somebody being drunk. He found Crabtree lying on the floor in a pool of blood. (clipped) The sheriff says he then came and got the coroner, Clarence Qualls, and they went back, Crabtree was lying on the .22 rifle. He had a shot in the center of the forehead and was dead before the sheriff got there. In his pocket was bloody Barlow knife. (clipped) An inquest jury pronounded his death due to a self-inflicted gunshot. Funeral services for Crabtree were held at Dry Creek yesterday afternoon,(Nov 29) with Looper and Qualls in charge. He was a grandson of Muncie Crabtree, His mother, who did not come lives somewhere out west. Carabtree was a veteran of WWII. At last report, Violet Hatfield was improving a Lady Ann Hospital, Crabtree's wife was put under arrest Monday night but released Tuesday morning after questioning. UPPER CUMBERLAND TIMES 30 Nov. 1950 p.1 I found nothing else, just this one article. Wilma