Jacksonville – While his wife and daughter looked on horror stricken, W.P. “Billy” Parker, 56, editor of the Blue Shirt, labor publication, was shot to death as he sat in his office here late today.
W.H. Jackson, 40, city employee was landed in the city jail on a technical charge of murder, after he admitted he had killed the editor because of alleged derogatory editorials which had appeared in the paper about him. Jackson walked into the office where Parker, his wife and daughter were conversing, pulled a revolver and fired five times, two of the bullets taking affect, police said.
The Bradford County Telegraph Starke, Florida
Friday October 4, 1929 page 3
W.H. Jackson, 40, city employee was landed in the city jail on a technical charge of murder, after he admitted he had killed the editor because of alleged derogatory editorials which had appeared in the paper about him. Jackson walked into the office where Parker, his wife and daughter were conversing, pulled a revolver and fired five times, two of the bullets taking affect, police said.
The Bradford County Telegraph Starke, Florida
Friday October 4, 1929 page 3
Jacksonville – While his wife and daughter looked on horror stricken, W.P. “Billy” Parker, 56, editor of the Blue Shirt, labor publication, was shot to death as he sat in his office here late today.
W.H. Jackson, 40, city employee was landed in the city jail on a technical charge of murder, after he admitted he had killed the editor because of alleged derogatory editorials which had appeared in the paper about him. Jackson walked into the office where Parker, his wife and daughter were conversing, pulled a revolver and fired five times, two of the bullets taking affect, police said.
The Bradford County Telegraph Starke, Florida
Friday October 4, 1929 page 3
W.H. Jackson, 40, city employee was landed in the city jail on a technical charge of murder, after he admitted he had killed the editor because of alleged derogatory editorials which had appeared in the paper about him. Jackson walked into the office where Parker, his wife and daughter were conversing, pulled a revolver and fired five times, two of the bullets taking affect, police said.
The Bradford County Telegraph Starke, Florida
Friday October 4, 1929 page 3
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