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Birth date: abt 1921 Birth place: Illinois Residence date: 1930 Residence place: Tamms, Alexander, Illinois
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Deborah Massey, 72, 1530 Meadowbrook Drive, died at 9:07 pm Thursday, May 13,1993, at Saint Joseph Hospital and Health Center.
She was born Aug 9, 1920, in Tamms IL, a daughter of Richard E and Minnie J (Batty) Harrell. Nov 24, 1956, in Kokomo, she married Robert H Massey, who survives.
She was a homemaker, who had worked approximately 15 years at Union Carbide at Haynes Stellite and as a manager at Massey Carpet Serging. She was a member of the Stellar Club and Maha Shrine Guild. Also surviving are a brother, Woodrow Harrell of Hanaford CA; a sister-in-law, Ellen Harrell of Hanaford; a sister, Dickie James of Auburndale FL; a brother-in-law, Charles James of Auburndale; and several nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by three sisters, Opal Martin, Gussie Tomlinson and Mildred Bennett; and a twin brother, Alfred Harrell.
Services will be at 10 am Monday at Ellers Mortuary Webster Street Chapel. The Rev Harold Williams will officiate. Friends may call from 2 to 4 pm and from 6 to 8 pm Sunday at the funeral home. Burial will follow at Sunset Memory Gardens Cemetery.
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- [S2547] Trial of Frankie Miller (Tears) - Tipton Daily Tribune - 26 May 1950, (Name: Tipton Daily News; Location: Tipton, Indiana; Date: 26 May 1950;), Tears Halt Miller Trial.
The "Frankie and Johnnie" story was to continue today in Clinton county circuit court after being interrupted Thursday by the tears of Mrs. Frankie Miller. Mrs. Miller is on trial, for first degree murder. She allegedly shot Lee Holliday, 39, when she saw him out with another woman. Frankie sobbed so brokenly yesterday when Holliday's clothing was introduced as evidence that recess was ordered. She also wept at the testimony of Miss Mabel McGilton. • Miss McGilton testified that she had a date with Holliday shortly before he was slain. She said Mrs. Miller saw them 'and that Holliday and Mrs. Miller began scuffling. Purse introduced . A purse belonging to Mrs. Miller, which the defense had demanded, was introduced by the prosecution as evidence. .The purse contained two fishing licenses issued in Michigan to Holliday and "Mrs. Frankie Holliday." The defense is expected to contend that Frankie and Holliday lived together as man and wife
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/90822730/the-tipton-daily-tribune/?xid=637
- [S2548] Trial of Frankie Miller (Sentenced) - Terre Haute Star - 6 Jun 1950, (Name: Terre Haute Star; Location: Terre Haute, Indiana; Date: 6 Jun 1950;), SENTENCED FOR SLAYING.
Mrs Frankie Miller, 29- year-old divorcee convicted of slaying "her man" in his apartment last March, today was sentenced to 2 to 21 years for manslaughter. The buxom brunette was convicted last Thursday of the shotgun slaying of Leland Holliday, 39, Frankfort plant foreman.
• The Terre Haute Star • Terre Haute, Indiana • 06 Jun 1950, Tue • Page 1
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/90823933/the-terre-haute-star/?xid=637
- [S2549] Trial of Frankie Miller (Denies Recall) - Terre Haute Star - 1 Jun 1950, (Name: Terre Haute Star; Location: Terre Haute, Indiana; Date: 1 Jun 1950;), WOMAN DENIES SHE RECALLS SHOOTING - Complete Evidence in Frankfort Trial.
Mrs. Frankie Miller told a jury today that she couldn't remember pulling the trigger of the gun that killed her boy friend, Leland Holliday, 39 years old. In the closing day of testimony in her murder trial, the 29-year-old divorcee admitted she had discussed marriage with Randall Evans of Frankfort while she was dating Holliday. Later she said she frequently went to Marion to see Evans while he was under treatment in a Veterans Administration Hospital. Evans, appearing as the final rebuttal witness for the state, confirmed those dates. But Circuit Judge Fred Campbell refused to let Evans comment on Frankie's statement that they had been intimate.
• MRS. NELLIE ROBISON of Lebanon, wife of the Boone County sheriff, said Frankie was disheveled, indifferent and seemed to be in a daze when she was taken to the jail there. Leroy Mincemoyer, Frankfort undertaker, testified he saw no scratches on Holliday's face. The body of the factory foreman was found sprawled among blood-splattered love letters in his own apartment March 19 after Mrs. Miller surrendered to police. Both sides are to give their final statements to the jury tomorrow and Judge Campbell announced he expects the iury to get the case by tomorrow evening. She is charged with laying in wait for Holliday to return to the apartment after she quarreled with him and another woman on a street the previous night.
• The Terre Haute Star • Terre Haute, Indiana • 01 Jun 1950, Thu • Page 1
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/90824590/the-terre-haute-star/?xid=637
- [S2550] Trial of Frankie Miller (Evidence) - Tipton Daily News - 1 Jun 1950, (Name: Tipton Daily News; Location: Tipton, Indiana; Date: 1 Jun 1950;), INTIMATE EVIDENCE PRESENTED IN MURDER CASE AT FRANKFORT.
The fate of shapely Frankie Miller, charged with murdering the man who done her wrong, goes today to the all-male jury before which she bared her bosom to show how she was branded by her lover. The raven-haired, 29-year-old divorcee yesterday gave the Clinton county circuit court jury intimate 'details of her stormy 12-year affair with Leland Holliday, 31, the man she allegedly shot to death last March 19 after she found him with another woman.
• BRANDED HER - She testified that only a night before the fatal shoooting, Holliday branded her breasts with a cigaret to remind me that, I belonged to him. Frankie added that the scars from the burns were still visible. Circuit Judge Fred Campbell then recessed court to allow Frankie to enter a side room with the jurors for inspection of the scars. In two hours of testimony, Frankie said Holliday met and her when she was a 17 year-old hired girl on a farm and he persuaded her to break up her marriage to a war veteran in Cairo IL and come back to Indiana in 1948.
• GOOD TIME - She said Holliday's Frankfort apartment was like home to her, although she lived in a room just across the street. Frankie added: We always had a good time together. She testified that she and Holliday picked out the furniture for the apartment and she took care of it as if it were my own. They even had a private marriage ceremony last July, in which they exchanged rings and swore that we loved each other and would never love anyone else.
• LOVE COOLED - Frankie testified that Holliday's love cooled in December, and in March she found him outside his apartment with another woman. She waited for him with a loaded shotgun but can't remember pulling the trigger. Frankie confessed the shooting in a police station a few hours after Holliday died. Judge Campbell said each side will be allowed three hours for final arguments today before the case is given to the jury.
• The Tipton Daily Tribune • Tipton, Indiana • 01 Jun 1950, Thu • Page 1
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/90825554/the-tipton-daily-tribune/?xid=637
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Miss Frankie Miller Tells of Killing in Apartment; Fails in Suicide Attempt
• Linton Daily Citizen • Linton, Indiana • 20 Mar 1950, Mon • Page 1
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- [S2551] Trial of Frankie Miller (Convicted) - Kokomo Tribune - 2 Jun 1950, (Name: Kokomo Tribune; Location: Kokomo, Indiana; Date: 2 Jun 1950;), FRANKIE MILLER CONVICTED OF MANSLAUGHTER.
A Clinton circuit court jury Thursday night convicted Mrs Frankie Miller, 29-year-old divorcee, of manslaughter in the shotgun death of Leland Holliday, 39, the she said loved her and left her. Frankie sobbed as the verdict was read and continued to sob as ahe was led from the courtroom. The conviction carried a sentence of two to 21 years in prison. Sentencing was set for Monday at 1:30 pm by Judge Fred Campbell. She had been charged with first degree murder in the shooting of Holliday In his apartment last March 19. The trial started May 23. The jury received the case at 4:05 pm and announced its verdict was ready at 7:10 pm. It had spent half the intervening time out to dinner. The verdict was read at 8:50 pm.
• The Kokomo Tribune • Kokomo, Indiana • 02 Jun 1950, Fri • Page 26
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- [S2552] Trial of Frankie Miller (Told Affair) - Terre Haute Star - 26 May 1950, (Name: Terre Haute Star; Location: Terre Haute, Indiana; Date: 26 May 1950;), TOLD LOVE AFFAIR AFTER SHOOTING - Woman's Defense Stresses Romance.
Attorneys for Mrs Frankie Miller, on trial for first-degree murder, tried today to show that she had a 12-year love affair with the man she is accused of shooting. They cross-examined Arthur Maish, a state witness who had testified of talking with the 29-year-old divorcee when she was in police headquarters the night Leland Holliday, 39-year-old plant foreman, was found shot to death in his apartment.
• "SHE TOLD me about her past life, of coming to Clinton County to work for Lee Baker (a farmer west of Frankfort), and of falling in love with Leland Holliday when she was 17." Maish testified. "She also told of later marrying, separating from her husband and returning to Holliday. She stated she loved Lee Holliday and said she was glad she had killed him." Police Lt. Glen Nichols, another state witness, identified a signed statement, introduced as evidence yesterday, as the one he took from Mrs Miller.
• HE QUOTED her as saying during questioning: "I killed Lee. I'm glad I killed him ... I have given him everything I have and now I feel empty." Lieutenant Nichols also identified a pack of 15 love letters which he said were found on the floor of Holllday's apartment strewn around his body. They were splotched with blood and beer. Previous witnesses have testified that Mrs Miller came to police headquarters on the night of March 19 and told officers she had shot Holliday.
• The Terre Haute Star • Terre Haute, Indiana • 26 May 1950, Fri • Page 27
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The Kokomo Tribune • Kokomo, Indiana • 26 Jul 1952, Sat • Page 12
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- [S2417] Death of Leland Holliday - Waukesha Daily Freeman - 20 Mar 1950, (Name: Waukesha Daily Freeman; Location: Waukesha, Wisconsin; Date: 20 Mar 1950;), FRANKIE, LELAND WERE LOVERS; HE DONE HER WRONG, IS SHOT.
A torrid blond named Frankie admitted today that she killed her man in a jealous rage when she caught him doing her wrong with another woman. Frankie Miller, 29, blasted the life out of Leland Holliday, 35, after he drove off with the other woman, Mabel McGilton, Saturday night. Then she leaned over his body and sobbed: "I love you, I love you." Holliday died on the floor of his apartment amidst a heap of love letters from Miss Miller which she had scattered on the floor while awaiting his return. Miss Miller also tried to kill herself but the gun jammed.
• LELAND JILTERD FRANKIE - The fracas started Saturday night when Holliday stood Miss Miller up on a date. She traced him to a tavern where he was drinking with Miss McGilton, and waited outside until they emerged. "They got into his car and I got into it too," she said. "I told the other girl to get out. We quarreled for a while and then I left." Miss Miller went to Holliday's apartment and wrecked it. She smashed furniture, poured beer and soft drinks over the upholstery and clothing, and scattered her love letters to Holliday over the floor. Then she got his shotgun from a closet and sat down to wait for him. As she waited, she drank couple of cans of beer. "I made up my mind to kill regardless of whether he came home in a few hours or in weeks," she said. "I held the gun behind me he showed up, and I told him was going to kill him. When turned around and walked to kitchen table, I shot him." The charge struck Holliday in the neck, severing his jugular He fell to, the floor, face down, with his head against the kitchen wall.
• TURNED GUN ON HERSELF - Miss Miller said she "remembers" leaning over him and sobbing "I love you." But "I knew was dead because he wasn't saying anything." She said she reloaded the gun and turned it on hersalf but it failed to fire. The pretty blond, who stands loot three inches and weighs pounds, ran to police headquarters and confronted her friend, Desk Sgt. Gilbert Clidence. "Gib, I've killed Lee," she "Go back to the apartment with me." Later, after Holliday's body been taken to a morgue, she Lt. Glenn Nickols how she met Holliday 2Vfc years ago when she was working in a five and 10 store. Recently, she had been a telephone operator.
• Waukesha Daily Freeman • Waukesha, Wisconsin • 20 Mar 1950, Mon • Page 10
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/90847032/waukesha-daily-freeman/?xid=637
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