I love finding photos of my family in old newspapers. This article appeared in the Greensboro Record on February 22, 1938 (Greensboro, NC). A distant cousin had actually sent me a scan of the original photograph a few months ago, but this is neat (even though the photo isn’t as good as the one the cousin emailed to me) because it has the story with it.
HELD FOR PART IN MURDER PLOT
Jailed without bail on a first degree murder charge, James O. Martin (right), filling station operator of Memphis, Tenn., is shown in custody of Police Inspector Clegg Richards after officers quoted him as confessing he plotted the slaying of Oliver James George, one of his station attendants, to collect a $12,500 insurance policy in which the youth had named him beneficiary. Two negroes also were arrested for the slaying.
