WILLARD RAY SELLERS
RAY SELLERS DIES; 8 HELD IN SHOOTING
With characteristic underworld bravado, Ray Sellers, 28, Dallas hoodlum and escaped convict from the Oklahoma State Penitentiary, died early Saturday in Parkland Hospital of a gunshot wound without having named his assailant.
As a result, four men and four women, his former associates, were being held for questioning by the sheriff's office in the hope of learning the identity of the slayer who shot the outlaw in the back with a .45 caliber pistol, [and] dumped him on the Northwest Highway to die.
One of the women is being held by the FBI on suspicion of harboring a criminal after officers surprised here in Sellers' home on Inwood Road late Saturday afternoon. She was gathering up Sellers' clothing when sheriff's deputies and G-men closed in.
The outlaw's address had not been known by law enforcement officers until late Saturday.
Deputy Sheriff Decker said at midnight the man responsible for the murder would be arrested in a few hours.
Conscious for more than two days, Sellers resisted all efforts of deputy sheriffs and FBI men to learn the identity of his assailant.
Sellers had been indicted Friday by a Tarrant County grand jury in connection with a $17,000 robbery there last October. Investigators were working on several theories, one of them being Sellers may have been shot and robbed of his share of the loot.
Some of the suspects, policy characters, surrendered voluntarily when they learned by telephone they were wanted. The jail roster was crowded with the names of penitentiary alumni and two ex-convicts waited for Deputy Sheriff Decker all afternoon on the steps of the Criminal Courts Building.
Dallas Morning News
Transcribed by Carol Moore
December 5, 1943
Dallas, Texas
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MAN AND WIFE PICKED UP IN SELLERS CASE
A Dallas police character recently released from the penitentiary, and his wife were being returned to Dallas from Beaumont Sunday for questioning by deputy sheriffs in connection with the fatal shooting of Ray Sellers, 28, Dallas hoodlum and escaped convict, who died Saturday at Parkland Hospital without naming his assailant.
Nine other persons,, mostly Dallas policy characters, already were being held and questioned here.
The couple being returned to Dallas were arrested in Beaumont Saturday night after their whereabouts was learned in questioning of others here in Dallas.
Motive for the fatal shooting, which occurred early Wednesday near Northwest Highway and O'Connor Road, was believed to be a quarrel over the division of spoils from robbery or burglary or jealousy over a woman.
Dallas Morning News
Transcribed by Carol Moore
December 6, 1943
Dallas, Texas
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Willard Ray Sellers, age 28, passed away at a local hospital Saturday. Survived by sister, Margie Fay Sellers of Chicago, Ill.; one brother, Earl C. Sellers of United States Army. Arrangements pending with McCommas Funeral Home, 4121 Gaston.
Dallas Morning News
Transcribed by Carol Moore
December 6, 1943
Dallas, Texas
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Ray Sellers. Services 10 a. m. Tuesday, Chapel of McCommas Funeral Home, 4121 Gaston. Interment Grove Hill Cemetery.
Dallas News
Transcribed by Carol Moore
12-07-1943
Dallas, Texas
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D. cert: Willard Ray Sellers; divorced; parents, D. C. Sellers and Nellie F. Henton.
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Willard Ray Sellers was a former husband of Marie Barrow, sister of the late outlaw Clyde Barrow.
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RAY SELLERS DIES; 8 HELD IN SHOOTING
With characteristic underworld bravado, Ray Sellers, 28, Dallas hoodlum and escaped convict from the Oklahoma State Penitentiary, died early Saturday in Parkland Hospital of a gunshot wound without having named his assailant.
As a result, four men and four women, his former associates, were being held for questioning by the sheriff's office in the hope of learning the identity of the slayer who shot the outlaw in the back with a .45 caliber pistol, [and] dumped him on the Northwest Highway to die.
One of the women is being held by the FBI on suspicion of harboring a criminal after officers surprised here in Sellers' home on Inwood Road late Saturday afternoon. She was gathering up Sellers' clothing when sheriff's deputies and G-men closed in.
The outlaw's address had not been known by law enforcement officers until late Saturday.
Deputy Sheriff Decker said at midnight the man responsible for the murder would be arrested in a few hours.
Conscious for more than two days, Sellers resisted all efforts of deputy sheriffs and FBI men to learn the identity of his assailant.
Sellers had been indicted Friday by a Tarrant County grand jury in connection with a $17,000 robbery there last October. Investigators were working on several theories, one of them being Sellers may have been shot and robbed of his share of the loot.
Some of the suspects, policy characters, surrendered voluntarily when they learned by telephone they were wanted. The jail roster was crowded with the names of penitentiary alumni and two ex-convicts waited for Deputy Sheriff Decker all afternoon on the steps of the Criminal Courts Building.
Dallas Morning News
Transcribed by Carol Moore
December 5, 1943
Dallas, Texas
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MAN AND WIFE PICKED UP IN SELLERS CASE
A Dallas police character recently released from the penitentiary, and his wife were being returned to Dallas from Beaumont Sunday for questioning by deputy sheriffs in connection with the fatal shooting of Ray Sellers, 28, Dallas hoodlum and escaped convict, who died Saturday at Parkland Hospital without naming his assailant.
Nine other persons,, mostly Dallas policy characters, already were being held and questioned here.
The couple being returned to Dallas were arrested in Beaumont Saturday night after their whereabouts was learned in questioning of others here in Dallas.
Motive for the fatal shooting, which occurred early Wednesday near Northwest Highway and O'Connor Road, was believed to be a quarrel over the division of spoils from robbery or burglary or jealousy over a woman.
Dallas Morning News
Transcribed by Carol Moore
December 6, 1943
Dallas, Texas
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Willard Ray Sellers, age 28, passed away at a local hospital Saturday. Survived by sister, Margie Fay Sellers of Chicago, Ill.; one brother, Earl C. Sellers of United States Army. Arrangements pending with McCommas Funeral Home, 4121 Gaston.
Dallas Morning News
Transcribed by Carol Moore
December 6, 1943
Dallas, Texas
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Ray Sellers. Services 10 a. m. Tuesday, Chapel of McCommas Funeral Home, 4121 Gaston. Interment Grove Hill Cemetery.
Dallas News
Transcribed by Carol Moore
12-07-1943
Dallas, Texas
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D. cert: Willard Ray Sellers; divorced; parents, D. C. Sellers and Nellie F. Henton.
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Willard Ray Sellers was a former husband of Marie Barrow, sister of the late outlaw Clyde Barrow.
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WILLARD RAY SELLERS
RAY SELLERS DIES; 8 HELD IN SHOOTING
With characteristic underworld bravado, Ray Sellers, 28, Dallas hoodlum and escaped convict from the Oklahoma State Penitentiary, died early Saturday in Parkland Hospital of a gunshot wound without having named his assailant.
As a result, four men and four women, his former associates, were being held for questioning by the sheriff's office in the hope of learning the identity of the slayer who shot the outlaw in the back with a .45 caliber pistol, [and] dumped him on the Northwest Highway to die.
One of the women is being held by the FBI on suspicion of harboring a criminal after officers surprised here in Sellers' home on Inwood Road late Saturday afternoon. She was gathering up Sellers' clothing when sheriff's deputies and G-men closed in.
The outlaw's address had not been known by law enforcement officers until late Saturday.
Deputy Sheriff Decker said at midnight the man responsible for the murder would be arrested in a few hours.
Conscious for more than two days, Sellers resisted all efforts of deputy sheriffs and FBI men to learn the identity of his assailant.
Sellers had been indicted Friday by a Tarrant County grand jury in connection with a $17,000 robbery there last October. Investigators were working on several theories, one of them being Sellers may have been shot and robbed of his share of the loot.
Some of the suspects, policy characters, surrendered voluntarily when they learned by telephone they were wanted. The jail roster was crowded with the names of penitentiary alumni and two ex-convicts waited for Deputy Sheriff Decker all afternoon on the steps of the Criminal Courts Building.
Dallas Morning News
Transcribed by Carol Moore
December 5, 1943
Dallas, Texas
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MAN AND WIFE PICKED UP IN SELLERS CASE
A Dallas police character recently released from the penitentiary, and his wife were being returned to Dallas from Beaumont Sunday for questioning by deputy sheriffs in connection with the fatal shooting of Ray Sellers, 28, Dallas hoodlum and escaped convict, who died Saturday at Parkland Hospital without naming his assailant.
Nine other persons,, mostly Dallas policy characters, already were being held and questioned here.
The couple being returned to Dallas were arrested in Beaumont Saturday night after their whereabouts was learned in questioning of others here in Dallas.
Motive for the fatal shooting, which occurred early Wednesday near Northwest Highway and O'Connor Road, was believed to be a quarrel over the division of spoils from robbery or burglary or jealousy over a woman.
Dallas Morning News
Transcribed by Carol Moore
December 6, 1943
Dallas, Texas
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Willard Ray Sellers, age 28, passed away at a local hospital Saturday. Survived by sister, Margie Fay Sellers of Chicago, Ill.; one brother, Earl C. Sellers of United States Army. Arrangements pending with McCommas Funeral Home, 4121 Gaston.
Dallas Morning News
Transcribed by Carol Moore
December 6, 1943
Dallas, Texas
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Ray Sellers. Services 10 a. m. Tuesday, Chapel of McCommas Funeral Home, 4121 Gaston. Interment Grove Hill Cemetery.
Dallas News
Transcribed by Carol Moore
12-07-1943
Dallas, Texas
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D. cert: Willard Ray Sellers; divorced; parents, D. C. Sellers and Nellie F. Henton.
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Willard Ray Sellers was a former husband of Marie Barrow, sister of the late outlaw Clyde Barrow.
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RAY SELLERS DIES; 8 HELD IN SHOOTING
With characteristic underworld bravado, Ray Sellers, 28, Dallas hoodlum and escaped convict from the Oklahoma State Penitentiary, died early Saturday in Parkland Hospital of a gunshot wound without having named his assailant.
As a result, four men and four women, his former associates, were being held for questioning by the sheriff's office in the hope of learning the identity of the slayer who shot the outlaw in the back with a .45 caliber pistol, [and] dumped him on the Northwest Highway to die.
One of the women is being held by the FBI on suspicion of harboring a criminal after officers surprised here in Sellers' home on Inwood Road late Saturday afternoon. She was gathering up Sellers' clothing when sheriff's deputies and G-men closed in.
The outlaw's address had not been known by law enforcement officers until late Saturday.
Deputy Sheriff Decker said at midnight the man responsible for the murder would be arrested in a few hours.
Conscious for more than two days, Sellers resisted all efforts of deputy sheriffs and FBI men to learn the identity of his assailant.
Sellers had been indicted Friday by a Tarrant County grand jury in connection with a $17,000 robbery there last October. Investigators were working on several theories, one of them being Sellers may have been shot and robbed of his share of the loot.
Some of the suspects, policy characters, surrendered voluntarily when they learned by telephone they were wanted. The jail roster was crowded with the names of penitentiary alumni and two ex-convicts waited for Deputy Sheriff Decker all afternoon on the steps of the Criminal Courts Building.
Dallas Morning News
Transcribed by Carol Moore
December 5, 1943
Dallas, Texas
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MAN AND WIFE PICKED UP IN SELLERS CASE
A Dallas police character recently released from the penitentiary, and his wife were being returned to Dallas from Beaumont Sunday for questioning by deputy sheriffs in connection with the fatal shooting of Ray Sellers, 28, Dallas hoodlum and escaped convict, who died Saturday at Parkland Hospital without naming his assailant.
Nine other persons,, mostly Dallas policy characters, already were being held and questioned here.
The couple being returned to Dallas were arrested in Beaumont Saturday night after their whereabouts was learned in questioning of others here in Dallas.
Motive for the fatal shooting, which occurred early Wednesday near Northwest Highway and O'Connor Road, was believed to be a quarrel over the division of spoils from robbery or burglary or jealousy over a woman.
Dallas Morning News
Transcribed by Carol Moore
December 6, 1943
Dallas, Texas
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Willard Ray Sellers, age 28, passed away at a local hospital Saturday. Survived by sister, Margie Fay Sellers of Chicago, Ill.; one brother, Earl C. Sellers of United States Army. Arrangements pending with McCommas Funeral Home, 4121 Gaston.
Dallas Morning News
Transcribed by Carol Moore
December 6, 1943
Dallas, Texas
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Ray Sellers. Services 10 a. m. Tuesday, Chapel of McCommas Funeral Home, 4121 Gaston. Interment Grove Hill Cemetery.
Dallas News
Transcribed by Carol Moore
12-07-1943
Dallas, Texas
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D. cert: Willard Ray Sellers; divorced; parents, D. C. Sellers and Nellie F. Henton.
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Willard Ray Sellers was a former husband of Marie Barrow, sister of the late outlaw Clyde Barrow.
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