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from" a series of major operations. Mr. Hornbeck has placed a sigrt on the hospital door. warning no one but nurses and doctors to enter. Newspapers have been kept away from her, “If she knew of this, she would die,” said Mr, Hornbeck.

Vera Made Average Grades

Here is the story of Vera Jean, whose books are still in her school desk. She was born March 8, 1931, ‘at Anderson. She has three older sisters, all married. One is 17, one 20, the other 21. Two brothers, 5 and 12, are at home. Vera Jean made above average grades in grade school. She was a Junior at high school, where she was “average.” She liked English, cooking, sewing and athletics. She loved to go to church. The girls enjoyed getting together at Sunday school in the morning, church at night and Wednesday prayer meetings. Only the boys didn’t want to go, she said. : Vera Jean's father didn’t like

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Billy Price. He ? honght there was something wrong with him. “But I liked Bill,” said Vera Jean. “I thought, he was all right. I didn’t know he had been in Boys School for stealing automobiles. Then Dad and I started to argue about him,

“About a month later somebody told me about Bill. I still thought he was all right. ‘I was very fond of him, He was a lot of fun,” A month ago.the argument between Vera Jean and her father reached a climax. Vera Jean, headstrong, threatened to leave home, She packed her clothes and went over to see Mrs. Ruth Johnson, chief probation officer of Madison county juvenile court at Anderson. Billy Was Still Around “TI told her I wanted to go to a girls’ school near Anderson for a few days. She told me if I couldn't get along with my father to go ahead, so she took me out there,” Vera Jean said. Later Mrs: Johnson called Mr. Hornbeck, told him what had happened. Mr. Hornbeck thought it would do the girl good. The plan worked. Vera Jean became homesick in three days. So she walked out, went home and told her mother she wanted to stay. Her mother and Mrs. Johnson agreed that perhaps Vera Jean had learned a lesson. But Billy Price still was around. He called her on the telephone

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Yet she keeps the children, 11 and 9, clean and spurns any offer of ‘charity.’ “Though barely existing, she keeps together the home and keeps family fed through fierce heroism. Dares the world to take her chil-

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regularly. Mr. Hornbeck told him to quit calling. Price saw her at noon, in the évening. Mr. Hornbeck became more firm, Vera Jean more headstrong. ‘Let's Have Double Wedding’ .

At 8:30 the night of Déc, 2, Vera Jean finished supper and did the dishes, She stepped outside to the garbage can, heard a low whistle. There was Billy Price in an automobile. “Let's get married,” whispered Billy. He told her about his pal Johnson and said he was going to get married to Mary Ruth Ward, a girl from Evansville, “Let's make it a double wedding,” said Billy. “I said ‘yes’ right away. think about saying ‘no,’ said.

I didn’t " Vera Jean

Away—In a Stolen Car 80, in the stolen automobile, with the toughened automobile thief Price, with Johnson, with the loaded gun that Johnson had stolen in Evansville a. few nights before, Vera Jean drove to Evansville to pick up Mary Ruth: Ward. They were to return to Anderson later in the week for money, then planned to go to Kentucky to get married. On the way, they ran into a state trooper, Herb Smith, Now Herb Smith is dead. “Do you still love Price?” I asked Vera Jean in the Shelbyville jail. There was no answer. - Tears streamed down her face. She was sorrowful, penitent, No More ‘Pistol Packin’ Mama’ When they first brought her in, she had sung “Pistol Packin’ Mama”

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the. officer was killed. I told Jesus to try to help us.out of this’ some way. “Now I know I should have paid attention to my father, I shouldn't have dated until I was older, My father and mother knew best. They are good parents.” ‘Bill Shouldn't Get Out’,

“What do you think should happen to Bill?” she was asked. The tears streamed down her cheeks again, She hesitated and said: “Bill shouldn't get out. I know I'll get years or life. I'd like to go

back into society and return to high school. But I know I won't,” Industrious, sober Everett Horn-

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TOMORROW: The story of 14-year-old Mary Ruth Ward.

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