Contributed by: Sandy Daniel
16 January 2009
Copyright: Sandy Daniel 2008
Source: Found in the Hickman Co., TN paper dated 1-24-1924
Perry Prisoner here for safe keeping Roby Daniel recaptured in Ohio by Perry deputy; charged with murder of Cecil Burns in 1922. Roby 21 yrs and the son of Gid Daniel was brought here yesterday from Akron, Ohio, in charge of John Bates, deputy sheriff of Perry Co and placed in Hickman County jail to await the next term of circuit court in Perry Co on a charge of murder. Defendant is charged with waylaying the public hwy and killing Cecil Burns, 18 yr old son of John Burns, during the summer of 1922. It is reported that defendant later made bond for his appearance and that the bondsmen gave him up to the authorities who held defendant at the Perry Co jail until he effected an escape more than a year ago. Since that time he has been a fugitive from justice until apprehended in Akron, where he was arrested and later returned here by the officer mentioned above. According to reports, Doss Spencer, a companion of Daniel, is serving a sentence of from 1 to 5 yrs on a charge of complicity in the murder and is the principal witness for the prosecution. It is alleged that Daniel and the Burns youth became involved in an altercation during the progress of a baseball game near Lobelville and that Daniel threatened the life of Burns, later carrying out the threat by shooting from ambush. Two shots from one of two pistols alleged to have been in the possession of defendant, are said to have taken effect in the body of young Burns, who died instantly. The tragedy occurred on Red Bank Creek, 4 miles northeast of Lobelville.
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