The Wellington Leader June 7, 1928
Sheriff Claude McKinney added to his laurels as a peace officer last week by materially aiding in unfathoming the mystery surrounding the disappearance on May 4 of James Preston Coleman, 43 years of age, and a longtime resident of Wellington and Collingsworth county, when the dead body of the man was discovered 106 feet below the surface of the earth in an abandoned coal mine 7 miles southwest of Bowie. Cliff Hinton, who was associated with Coleman as a worker for the Prairie Pipe line company at Bowie, was arrested at Throckmorton by Sheriff McKinney, and made a full and complete confession of the crime. However, his brother-in-law, Warner Bird, 28 years of age, was arrested as an accessory to the crime.
Hinton's confesstion: "On Friday night, May 4, 1928. I asked J. P. Coleman to walk over here a while. He said all right. We went over to the Sid Irvin coal mine, and we got up close to the air shaft, about seventy-five feet from the mouth of the mine. I was seven feet from the air shaft, and I shot him, twice from the front. He felt on his face and lay there about five minutes. Then I picked him up and dropped him down into the air shaft, I heard him fall. The reason I wanted to kill him was because I got mad at him because he wouldn't pay me S47.50 for labor. After I killed him I went into his pocket and found two ten dollar bills."
Mr. Coleman was born January 27, 1885 in Henderson county. He was married December 28, 1909, to Miss Mary Ellen Harrison of this county and farmed for a number of years in the Plymouth community before he and his family moved to Wellington. He is survived by his wife and three children, Jewel, James Noll and, Floyd Dempsey Coleman of Wellington, his mother, Mrs. Susan F. Coleman of Memphis; six brothers R.W. Coleman of McLean, M.C. Coleman of Sanitorium, A.R. Coleman of Waco, T.P. Coleman and R.L. Coleman of Memphis and C.E. Coleman of Wellington; three sisters, Mrs. J.T. Stanley of Allenreed, Mrs. C.M. Smith of Waco and Mrs. C.M. Blandford of Shamrock.
Sheriff Claude McKinney added to his laurels as a peace officer last week by materially aiding in unfathoming the mystery surrounding the disappearance on May 4 of James Preston Coleman, 43 years of age, and a longtime resident of Wellington and Collingsworth county, when the dead body of the man was discovered 106 feet below the surface of the earth in an abandoned coal mine 7 miles southwest of Bowie. Cliff Hinton, who was associated with Coleman as a worker for the Prairie Pipe line company at Bowie, was arrested at Throckmorton by Sheriff McKinney, and made a full and complete confession of the crime. However, his brother-in-law, Warner Bird, 28 years of age, was arrested as an accessory to the crime.
Hinton's confesstion: "On Friday night, May 4, 1928. I asked J. P. Coleman to walk over here a while. He said all right. We went over to the Sid Irvin coal mine, and we got up close to the air shaft, about seventy-five feet from the mouth of the mine. I was seven feet from the air shaft, and I shot him, twice from the front. He felt on his face and lay there about five minutes. Then I picked him up and dropped him down into the air shaft, I heard him fall. The reason I wanted to kill him was because I got mad at him because he wouldn't pay me S47.50 for labor. After I killed him I went into his pocket and found two ten dollar bills."
Mr. Coleman was born January 27, 1885 in Henderson county. He was married December 28, 1909, to Miss Mary Ellen Harrison of this county and farmed for a number of years in the Plymouth community before he and his family moved to Wellington. He is survived by his wife and three children, Jewel, James Noll and, Floyd Dempsey Coleman of Wellington, his mother, Mrs. Susan F. Coleman of Memphis; six brothers R.W. Coleman of McLean, M.C. Coleman of Sanitorium, A.R. Coleman of Waco, T.P. Coleman and R.L. Coleman of Memphis and C.E. Coleman of Wellington; three sisters, Mrs. J.T. Stanley of Allenreed, Mrs. C.M. Smith of Waco and Mrs. C.M. Blandford of Shamrock.
The Wellington Leader June 7, 1928
Sheriff Claude McKinney added to his laurels as a peace officer last week by materially aiding in unfathoming the mystery surrounding the disappearance on May 4 of James Preston Coleman, 43 years of age, and a longtime resident of Wellington and Collingsworth county, when the dead body of the man was discovered 106 feet below the surface of the earth in an abandoned coal mine 7 miles southwest of Bowie. Cliff Hinton, who was associated with Coleman as a worker for the Prairie Pipe line company at Bowie, was arrested at Throckmorton by Sheriff McKinney, and made a full and complete confession of the crime. However, his brother-in-law, Warner Bird, 28 years of age, was arrested as an accessory to the crime.
Hinton's confesstion: "On Friday night, May 4, 1928. I asked J. P. Coleman to walk over here a while. He said all right. We went over to the Sid Irvin coal mine, and we got up close to the air shaft, about seventy-five feet from the mouth of the mine. I was seven feet from the air shaft, and I shot him, twice from the front. He felt on his face and lay there about five minutes. Then I picked him up and dropped him down into the air shaft, I heard him fall. The reason I wanted to kill him was because I got mad at him because he wouldn't pay me S47.50 for labor. After I killed him I went into his pocket and found two ten dollar bills."
Mr. Coleman was born January 27, 1885 in Henderson county. He was married December 28, 1909, to Miss Mary Ellen Harrison of this county and farmed for a number of years in the Plymouth community before he and his family moved to Wellington. He is survived by his wife and three children, Jewel, James Noll and, Floyd Dempsey Coleman of Wellington, his mother, Mrs. Susan F. Coleman of Memphis; six brothers R.W. Coleman of McLean, M.C. Coleman of Sanitorium, A.R. Coleman of Waco, T.P. Coleman and R.L. Coleman of Memphis and C.E. Coleman of Wellington; three sisters, Mrs. J.T. Stanley of Allenreed, Mrs. C.M. Smith of Waco and Mrs. C.M. Blandford of Shamrock.
Sheriff Claude McKinney added to his laurels as a peace officer last week by materially aiding in unfathoming the mystery surrounding the disappearance on May 4 of James Preston Coleman, 43 years of age, and a longtime resident of Wellington and Collingsworth county, when the dead body of the man was discovered 106 feet below the surface of the earth in an abandoned coal mine 7 miles southwest of Bowie. Cliff Hinton, who was associated with Coleman as a worker for the Prairie Pipe line company at Bowie, was arrested at Throckmorton by Sheriff McKinney, and made a full and complete confession of the crime. However, his brother-in-law, Warner Bird, 28 years of age, was arrested as an accessory to the crime.
Hinton's confesstion: "On Friday night, May 4, 1928. I asked J. P. Coleman to walk over here a while. He said all right. We went over to the Sid Irvin coal mine, and we got up close to the air shaft, about seventy-five feet from the mouth of the mine. I was seven feet from the air shaft, and I shot him, twice from the front. He felt on his face and lay there about five minutes. Then I picked him up and dropped him down into the air shaft, I heard him fall. The reason I wanted to kill him was because I got mad at him because he wouldn't pay me S47.50 for labor. After I killed him I went into his pocket and found two ten dollar bills."
Mr. Coleman was born January 27, 1885 in Henderson county. He was married December 28, 1909, to Miss Mary Ellen Harrison of this county and farmed for a number of years in the Plymouth community before he and his family moved to Wellington. He is survived by his wife and three children, Jewel, James Noll and, Floyd Dempsey Coleman of Wellington, his mother, Mrs. Susan F. Coleman of Memphis; six brothers R.W. Coleman of McLean, M.C. Coleman of Sanitorium, A.R. Coleman of Waco, T.P. Coleman and R.L. Coleman of Memphis and C.E. Coleman of Wellington; three sisters, Mrs. J.T. Stanley of Allenreed, Mrs. C.M. Smith of Waco and Mrs. C.M. Blandford of Shamrock.
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