Air Force Hero Dies (1952)

Stars & Stripes Newspaper (Pacific Edition)
27 July 1952
(Viewed online at Ancestry)

Air Force Hero Dies
LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) -- Brig. Gen. Arthur Edmond Easterbrook, 58, retired Air Force hero injured in a fall from an avocado tree, died of a heart attack Friday night at the veterans administration hospital here.

He had been a paraplegic patient since Jan. 20, 1950, following a fall from the tree while he was picking avocados at the home of friends in Samoalana, Calif., where he lived.

Gen. Easterbrook shot down five enemy planes in World War I, receiving the Distinguished Service Cross, with oak leaf cluster. He was on the staff of the late Gen. H. H. Arnold when Arnold was chief of staff of the Army Air Force.

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Mexican Attorney Dies (1937)

San Antonio Light, Texas
20 August 1937
(Viewed online at Ancestry)

MEXICAN ATTORNEY DIES
LAREDO, Aug 20 -- David Gonzales Trevino, 75, prominent attorney of Nuevo Leon, Mexico, who came here two years ago for his health, died last night of bronchial pneumonia.

Florida Posse Avenges Death of Town Marshal (1909)

Macon Weekly Telegraph, Georgia
27 September 1909
(Viewed online at GenealogyBank.)

FLORIDA POSSE AVENGES DEATH [of] TOWN MARSHAL

Slayer of Officer Hawkins, of Perry, Lynched Saturday Night.

BODY SWUNG HOURS

Officer Approached Negro to Arrest Him on Some Trivial Charge.

SHOT DEAD ON SPOT

Escapes But Is Captured -- Strung Up in Front of His Shop.

LIVE OAK, Fla., Sept. 26 -- Swinging from a limb in front of his shoe repairing shop at Perry, Taylor county, the dead body of Charley Anderson, colored, was found early this morning, a mob having imposed death as a penalty for the bullet he sent into the heart of Marshal Hawkins, of Perry last night.

The place of the lynching was almost at the spot where Marshal Hawkins was slain, the officer having been in the act of placing the negro under arrest when he met his death at the hands of the man he meant to make a prisoner. The negro's body was allowed to hang until late in the day when it was taken down and shipped to this place.

Slays Officer in Cold Blood.
The killing of the Perry officer occurred at 8 o'clock last night. Anderson was wanted for a minor offense, it is said, and was in his shoe shop when the officer went to arrest him. Hawkins was at the door of the shop when the negro appeared, armed with a pistol, and before the officer could defend himself shot him to death.

Anderson escaped for a time, but was caught several hours later and at 2 o'clock was in the hands of the men who pursued him. He was returned to his shoe shop and in front of it a rope was placed about his neck and he was swung into the air. Bullets were fired into his body and he was left swinging.

The excitement incident to the murder and lynching has disappeared and Perry is quiet tonight.

In Case You Missed It -- January 2010

These were the most viewed obituaries / posts over the last thirty days. I'm highlighting them here in case someone interested missed them the first time around.

- In Case You Missed It -- December 2009

- Boise's Fourth Soldier Dead is Returning Home (1921)

- Fell to Death Under Train in View of Crowd (1902)

- Deaths & Funerals: ROSS (1912)

- Deaths & Funerals: SEWELL (1912)

- Deaths & Funerals: BELL (1912)

- Deaths & Funerals: CHEVES (1912)

- Deaths & Funerals: FINDLATER (1912)

- Jordan Duron Solomon (2006)

- Deaths & Funerals: Mrs. Lillie Reddy (1919)