Edna Mae (Minge) Adkins (1914-1947)
FRANKLIN VICTIMS CONTINUE SERIOUS
Mrs. Edna Adkins of Franklin and her 10 year-old son, Paul, were still in serious condition today at Middletown Hospital, as police throughout southwestern Ohio and Kentucky continued a search for a paroled Negro slayer who started a "one-man crime wave" in this vicinity over the weekend.
Middletown Hospital Attendants said this morning that Mrs. Adkins and her son are in critical condition as a result of brutal beatings administered by the parolee on Sunday night after he kidnapped them on the River Rd., north of Middletown.
Mrs. Adkins, her clothes torn from her body, and her son were thrown from the car on Oxford State Rd.
Source: "Franklin Victims Continue Serious," Middletown (Ohio) Journal, Wednesday, September 3, 1947
FRANKLIN - Funeral services for Mrs. Edna Adkins, 34, who died Monday at Middletown Hospital will be conducted at 2:30 p. m. Thursday at the Church of the Nazarene in Franklin.
Mother of four children, Mrs. Adkins and her son, Paul age 10, were accosted on Trenton-Franklin Rd. over Labor Day weekend, brutally beaten and thrown out of a car south of Middletown allegedly by Clifford Gayles, Ohio Penitentiary parolee, still sought in a series of assaults.
Among the survivors are: her children, parents, a sister, and a brother, EArl Minge of Middletown. Burial will be in Woodhill Cemetery. Friends may call at the Eaton Funeral Home afternoon on Wednesday.
Source: "Mrs. Edna Adkins," obituary, Middletown (Ohio) Journal, Wednesday, September 17, 1947
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15 June 2013