THE DEATH OF CARL JORDAN
STOCKWELL MAN SHOOTS TWO TO DEATH AND ENDS HIS LIFE
Triple Tragedy in Lauramie Where Carl F. Jordan, Facing Delinquency Trial,
Slays Floyd Rayburn and Charles Owensby, Witnesses,
Then Kills Himself in Shed as Posse Closes In
After Killing two men in altercation on the highway a mile and a half southwest of Concord in Lauramie township, Friday night, Carl F. Jordan, 52, of Stockwell, ended his own life early Saturday as Sheriff and police closed in on him in a coal shed on the Stockwell Lumber company property a block and a half from his home. Jordan, scheduled to go on trial in juvenile court in this county Monday on a charge of contributing to the delinquency of a girl, (at the time of the alleged offense Nov. 19, 1939, Mary was 17 years old) shot to death two persons who were to have been among the state's principal witnesses at his trial. One was the girl's father, Charles A. Owensby, 46; the other was Floyd Rayburn, 45, her husband.
The double murder was committed a short distance from the Rayburn home (the Ray Skinner place) about eight Friday evening. Mary Owensby Rayburn, 19, Rayburn's wife and accuser of Jordan, was in the house when the two were slain. Jordan, after the double killing, fled and fatally, shot himself as he was about to be captured by the pursuing authorities. Both of the men he murdered were world war veterans. It is believed that Jordan, worrying about the trial, became mentally deranged.
Carl was found lying unconscious on the ground, a bullet hole in his forehead and the deadly 32 caliber revolver that spelled death for three in a few hours still grasped in his nerveless hand. The gun contained two empty shells, four loaded ones. In his pockets he had 70 other cartridges. He had emptied the chambers in killing Owensby and Rayburn and had re-loaded the weapon. Rushed in the Dickerson ambulance to the Home hospital, he died at 5:15, nearly three hours after shooting himself.
He was born at Warsaw, Ind., Feb. 17, 1889, and had been a resident of Stockwell where he engaged in chicken and rabbit raising since his marriage to Nettie E. Stalnaker of that community April 25, 1936. Besides his wife he is survived by his mother, living at Warsaw, and brothers and sisters. The body was taken to the Soller-Baker funeral home. Friends were invited to call at the family home after 12 p.m. Sunday. Services at Stockwell Methodist church at 2 p.m. Monday. Rev. Charles V. Roush officiating; burial Johnson cemetery, Stockwell.
STOCKWELL MAN SHOOTS TWO TO DEATH AND ENDS HIS LIFE
Triple Tragedy in Lauramie Where Carl F. Jordan, Facing Delinquency Trial,
Slays Floyd Rayburn and Charles Owensby, Witnesses,
Then Kills Himself in Shed as Posse Closes In
After Killing two men in altercation on the highway a mile and a half southwest of Concord in Lauramie township, Friday night, Carl F. Jordan, 52, of Stockwell, ended his own life early Saturday as Sheriff and police closed in on him in a coal shed on the Stockwell Lumber company property a block and a half from his home. Jordan, scheduled to go on trial in juvenile court in this county Monday on a charge of contributing to the delinquency of a girl, (at the time of the alleged offense Nov. 19, 1939, Mary was 17 years old) shot to death two persons who were to have been among the state's principal witnesses at his trial. One was the girl's father, Charles A. Owensby, 46; the other was Floyd Rayburn, 45, her husband.
The double murder was committed a short distance from the Rayburn home (the Ray Skinner place) about eight Friday evening. Mary Owensby Rayburn, 19, Rayburn's wife and accuser of Jordan, was in the house when the two were slain. Jordan, after the double killing, fled and fatally, shot himself as he was about to be captured by the pursuing authorities. Both of the men he murdered were world war veterans. It is believed that Jordan, worrying about the trial, became mentally deranged.
Carl was found lying unconscious on the ground, a bullet hole in his forehead and the deadly 32 caliber revolver that spelled death for three in a few hours still grasped in his nerveless hand. The gun contained two empty shells, four loaded ones. In his pockets he had 70 other cartridges. He had emptied the chambers in killing Owensby and Rayburn and had re-loaded the weapon. Rushed in the Dickerson ambulance to the Home hospital, he died at 5:15, nearly three hours after shooting himself.
He was born at Warsaw, Ind., Feb. 17, 1889, and had been a resident of Stockwell where he engaged in chicken and rabbit raising since his marriage to Nettie E. Stalnaker of that community April 25, 1936. Besides his wife he is survived by his mother, living at Warsaw, and brothers and sisters. The body was taken to the Soller-Baker funeral home. Friends were invited to call at the family home after 12 p.m. Sunday. Services at Stockwell Methodist church at 2 p.m. Monday. Rev. Charles V. Roush officiating; burial Johnson cemetery, Stockwell.
THE DEATH OF CARL JORDAN
STOCKWELL MAN SHOOTS TWO TO DEATH AND ENDS HIS LIFE
Triple Tragedy in Lauramie Where Carl F. Jordan, Facing Delinquency Trial,
Slays Floyd Rayburn and Charles Owensby, Witnesses,
Then Kills Himself in Shed as Posse Closes In
After Killing two men in altercation on the highway a mile and a half southwest of Concord in Lauramie township, Friday night, Carl F. Jordan, 52, of Stockwell, ended his own life early Saturday as Sheriff and police closed in on him in a coal shed on the Stockwell Lumber company property a block and a half from his home. Jordan, scheduled to go on trial in juvenile court in this county Monday on a charge of contributing to the delinquency of a girl, (at the time of the alleged offense Nov. 19, 1939, Mary was 17 years old) shot to death two persons who were to have been among the state's principal witnesses at his trial. One was the girl's father, Charles A. Owensby, 46; the other was Floyd Rayburn, 45, her husband.
The double murder was committed a short distance from the Rayburn home (the Ray Skinner place) about eight Friday evening. Mary Owensby Rayburn, 19, Rayburn's wife and accuser of Jordan, was in the house when the two were slain. Jordan, after the double killing, fled and fatally, shot himself as he was about to be captured by the pursuing authorities. Both of the men he murdered were world war veterans. It is believed that Jordan, worrying about the trial, became mentally deranged.
Carl was found lying unconscious on the ground, a bullet hole in his forehead and the deadly 32 caliber revolver that spelled death for three in a few hours still grasped in his nerveless hand. The gun contained two empty shells, four loaded ones. In his pockets he had 70 other cartridges. He had emptied the chambers in killing Owensby and Rayburn and had re-loaded the weapon. Rushed in the Dickerson ambulance to the Home hospital, he died at 5:15, nearly three hours after shooting himself.
He was born at Warsaw, Ind., Feb. 17, 1889, and had been a resident of Stockwell where he engaged in chicken and rabbit raising since his marriage to Nettie E. Stalnaker of that community April 25, 1936. Besides his wife he is survived by his mother, living at Warsaw, and brothers and sisters. The body was taken to the Soller-Baker funeral home. Friends were invited to call at the family home after 12 p.m. Sunday. Services at Stockwell Methodist church at 2 p.m. Monday. Rev. Charles V. Roush officiating; burial Johnson cemetery, Stockwell.
STOCKWELL MAN SHOOTS TWO TO DEATH AND ENDS HIS LIFE
Triple Tragedy in Lauramie Where Carl F. Jordan, Facing Delinquency Trial,
Slays Floyd Rayburn and Charles Owensby, Witnesses,
Then Kills Himself in Shed as Posse Closes In
After Killing two men in altercation on the highway a mile and a half southwest of Concord in Lauramie township, Friday night, Carl F. Jordan, 52, of Stockwell, ended his own life early Saturday as Sheriff and police closed in on him in a coal shed on the Stockwell Lumber company property a block and a half from his home. Jordan, scheduled to go on trial in juvenile court in this county Monday on a charge of contributing to the delinquency of a girl, (at the time of the alleged offense Nov. 19, 1939, Mary was 17 years old) shot to death two persons who were to have been among the state's principal witnesses at his trial. One was the girl's father, Charles A. Owensby, 46; the other was Floyd Rayburn, 45, her husband.
The double murder was committed a short distance from the Rayburn home (the Ray Skinner place) about eight Friday evening. Mary Owensby Rayburn, 19, Rayburn's wife and accuser of Jordan, was in the house when the two were slain. Jordan, after the double killing, fled and fatally, shot himself as he was about to be captured by the pursuing authorities. Both of the men he murdered were world war veterans. It is believed that Jordan, worrying about the trial, became mentally deranged.
Carl was found lying unconscious on the ground, a bullet hole in his forehead and the deadly 32 caliber revolver that spelled death for three in a few hours still grasped in his nerveless hand. The gun contained two empty shells, four loaded ones. In his pockets he had 70 other cartridges. He had emptied the chambers in killing Owensby and Rayburn and had re-loaded the weapon. Rushed in the Dickerson ambulance to the Home hospital, he died at 5:15, nearly three hours after shooting himself.
He was born at Warsaw, Ind., Feb. 17, 1889, and had been a resident of Stockwell where he engaged in chicken and rabbit raising since his marriage to Nettie E. Stalnaker of that community April 25, 1936. Besides his wife he is survived by his mother, living at Warsaw, and brothers and sisters. The body was taken to the Soller-Baker funeral home. Friends were invited to call at the family home after 12 p.m. Sunday. Services at Stockwell Methodist church at 2 p.m. Monday. Rev. Charles V. Roush officiating; burial Johnson cemetery, Stockwell.
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