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DYNAMITE BOOBY TRAP IN CAR KILLS EX-SHERIFF

(Rec. 11.40 a.m.) NEW YORK, Oct. 3.

A former sheriff and political leader, Mr T. B. Ivins, was killed today at Etowah, Tennessee, by a dynamite explosion when he started his car. Ivins’s body was mangled and the car blown to pieces, but his six-year-old grandson escaped without serious injury. The police believe that the dynamite was attached to the starter in gangland style. Ivins was clerk of the McMinn County circuit court at Athens in 1946, when an ex-soldiers’ faction joined with other anti-administra-tion forces to eject the long'entrenched political machine headed by Paul Cantrell. At this time, a gun battle occurred, but political leaders in Athens quickly declared that today’s explosion had no connection with the ex-servicemen’s uprising in 1946. Ivins was indicted in April for murder in connection with the shooting of Charles Dunn, but the case ended in a mis-trial. The police said that Ivins had been in office a long time and had made many enemies? He had killed eight men while performing the sheriff s duties. _____

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Greymouth Evening Star, 4 October 1947, Page 5

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DYNAMITE BOOBY TRAP IN CAR KILLS EX-SHERIFF Greymouth Evening Star, 4 October 1947, Page 5

DYNAMITE BOOBY TRAP IN CAR KILLS EX-SHERIFF Greymouth Evening Star, 4 October 1947, Page 5

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