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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INYVESTIt..rION Mew Orleans, Louisiana 3 SUMMARY OF INVESTIGATION OF re ARYWIOPYON OF MASE CHARTERS BS 814s SYS PARKER FROM THE PEARL RIVER COUNTY JAIL Abarth ouees, 5 MISSISSIPPI, On February 24, 1959, MACK CHARLES PARKER colored male, lamberton, Rississippi, was arrested a ty city. Marshal HANOND R, duapite of Lsberore Mississippi, on oS. of rave and ki JUNE VIRGINIA WALTERS. a white of fenale of Petal, Rississippi, early that morning south of Se Lumberton and in Pearl River County. PARKER was lodged in i Hinds County Jeil, Jacksen, Mississippi, on February 24, ik, 1959, for polygraph tests and was removed to the Pearl River fe: County Jail, Poplarville, on aprik 13, 3953. ae Between 11:30 PH, Apri 24, 1959, and about . 12:15 AN, oer 25, 1959, a band of hooded or masked men, = eight to ten in number, entered the Pearl River County Jail, Be located in the Pearl River County Courthouse, this jail being a unattended by a jailer during the night hours. ‘These sen ‘2. foreibly removed PARKER from the jail and placed him in an * automobile parked on the south side of the courthouse, a BARKER‘s body was found fn the Pearl Biver on the Misafesinn! l side approxiaately two and one-half miles ef State High- fr way on May 4, 1959. His identi lished through {: fingerprints. An autopsy disclosed that death cocurred from @ penetrating wound in the ieft auricle of the heart, hi . 7 A “John Doe" warrant charging kidnaping of tS PARKER was issued by Justice of the Peace J, B, BOLCONB de Poplarville, on April 25, 1959. & ‘John bos” tarrant ant eharging de mirder of PARKER was issued on May 5. 1959. by Judge HOLCOMB. cal Both of thene warrants were based on affidavits sworn to hy RS Sheriff W. USEORNE MOODY, Pearl River County, talk aos wae a