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    1. [GEN-UNSOLVED-MYSTERIES] Murder In West Virginia-1920
    2. Charles Rockett
    3. Joseph Richard FOWLER of Ohio Co.,WVA was convicted of 1st degree murder on November 16th,1920 and sentenced to life imprisonment on Nov. 27,1920. He was pardoned on July 10, 1925. The WVA Dept. of Corrections at Moundsville states that all other pertinent records have been purged from their files. Surely there must be some newspaper account of this murder in Wheeling or other close by papers.Is someone willing to look at any extant paper archives in the time period involved to help me determine who the victim was and where the event took place. Chuck

    11/02/1999 03:49:09