Marion County, Tennessee News Articles Husband Released From Inman Convict Camp Wife Preferred Death to Living With Husband Again Jasper, Tenn., Nov. 4- Mrs. Davis, the wife of a convict who was released from the convict camp at Inman, suicided last night by shooting, preferring death to living with her husband again. The Clarion-Ledger, Jackson, Mississippi, November 5, 1891, contributed by, Pam Rathbone 5 Police Officers Die in Tennessee South Pittsburg, Tenn., Dec. 25 – Five police officers were killed and one probably fatally wounded and three others less seriously wounded during a gun battle on the main street here Sunday night. The battle was declared to have been the culmination of bad feeling between county officers of Marion County and police officers of South Pittsburg. The actual shooting lasted less than five minutes, witnesses declared. The dead are Wash Coppinger, Sheriff of Marion County, Tennessee; L. A. Hennessey, a Deputy Sherriff; Ben Parker, former Sheriff and Marshal of South Pittsburg; Ewing Smith, City Marshal of South Pittsburg, and O. H. Larrowe, a special policeman. James Conner, a Deputy City Marshal here, was believed fatally wounded. Three other officers, John Holden, a Deputy City Marshal here; Fayette Nelson, a Deputy Sheriff, and Charles Pittman, a special policeman, were also wounded. Dallas Morning News, Dallas, Texas, December 26, 1927 – transcribed by Amanda Jowers Man Is Indicted In Woman's Death Jasper, Tenn. - Jay Gray, Alabama ex-soldier, was indicted Wednesday by the Marion County grand jury for murder in connection with the fatal bludgeoning of Mrs. Louise Holmes, former Atlanta housewife, in famed Nickajack Cave near Shellmound, Tenn., last Sept. 2. Circuit Judge Alan S. Kelly set the trial for Nov. 4 and ordered Gray sent to the Central State Hospital at Nashville for examination by state alienists. The order provided that the defense, if it so desires, should have access to Gray for examination by its experts. Kingsport News, October 8, 1942 Man And Woman Face Murder Trial Jasper, Tenn. - A second member of a Suck Creek Mountain family, Walter Parsons, 15, has been indicted for murder in connection with the crossroads slaying last July of Silas Redmond, Sheriff Homer Dawson said Tuesday. The youth was indicted by the Marion County Grand Jury last week, arrested on a capia warrant and then released on $2,500 bond pending trial set for next Monday, Oct. 19, the sheriff added. Previously, the grand jury had indicted Mrs. Gladys Pickett, 17, Walter's sister, on a charge of murder in connection with the slaying. Parsons' 15-year-old wife, Lillian, his mother, Mrs. Ellen Parsons, and Gladys' husband, Ben Pickett, were indicted on charges of being accessories to the slaying, blamed by officers on "bad blood" between the Redmond and the Parsons families. Kingsport News, October 14, 1942