Lizzie Kunde
N.J. Man Confesses Killing Blakely Girl
BLAKELY, Ga. (UPD)-An unemployed Negro from New Jersey confessed Sunday night to the brutal slaying of an 8-year-old Negro girl near her home Saturday night. Officers said the youngster had been criminally assaulted. Police Chief G. H. Owen said Jimmy Fair, 24, of Yvonne, N.J., admitted killing Evon Holmes with an iron pipe. The girl was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs Bunzie Holmes, both teachers at Washington High School here. Owen said Fair was picked up early Sunday morning, about eight miles from where the battered body was found about 3 a.m. Sunday. Owen said the Negro struck the girl with an 18-inch piece of cast iron pipe found "all spattered with blood". The parents of the girl became alarmed when she disappeared from the front lawn of their home where she had been playing Saturday afternoon.
A widespread search was launched by police and deputies from the Early County sheriff's office. Coroner L. B. Jones said the girl died about an hour before the searchers found her in a wooded area near her home. Jones said the girl was killed by several blows on the head by a blunt instrument. Owen said Superior Court was to convene today. He said Fair would "probably be tried next week."
Published May 16, 1960 in The Columbus Ledger Newspaper (Columbus, Georgia).
A widespread search was launched by police and deputies from the Early County sheriff's office. Coroner L. B. Jones said the girl died about an hour before the searchers found her in a wooded area near her home. Jones said the girl was killed by several blows on the head by a blunt instrument. Owen said Superior Court was to convene today. He said Fair would "probably be tried next week."
Published May 16, 1960 in The Columbus Ledger Newspaper (Columbus, Georgia).
