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| mike |
 Posted: Sun Oct 29, 2006 3:53 pm |
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The drawing (below) by Steve Nelson with the Florida Times Union depicts the murder location, shows where the body lay and the direction of the man leaving the scene that was described by Locke McCormick.
By Webnesday, February 6, 1974, the Jacksonville newspapers were running out of story and the Sheriff is hanging on to hopes of a break. The Florida Time Union (below) ran an article written by Nancy Powell; half of which is devoted to describing the sites and historic places located in the Marine Street neighborhood where Athalia was murdered. The other half offers no new information.
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| justice4apl |
| Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 2:23 pm |
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| Very happy you are enlarging the newspaper articles so that they can be read here! |
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| mike |
| Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 2:38 pm |
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You're welcome  I'm just trying to conserve disk storage, if we put up 75% scans, I figure we'll need about a gazillion (technical term) terabytes and I don't even want to estimate the bandwidth for the downloads!
We still need to type all the articles, though, just so the "Search" function works. |
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| justice4apl |
| Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 3:50 pm |
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I hear ya!
If you ever need help key-entering... |
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| mike |
| Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 4:37 pm |
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Well, since you asked ....
You would be my hero if you would start by just replying to this topic and typing the article for us.
Thanks a ton! |
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| triptaker01 |
| Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 12:53 pm |
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Sheriff May Have "Something Today" In Murder Probe
By Nancy Powell
Times Union Staff Writer
ST. AUGUSTINE --- St. Johns County Sheriff Dudley Garrett says he is hoping for some kind of breakthrough Wednesday in the two-week probe into the Jan. 23 brutal slaying of Athalia Ponsell Lindsley.
In conversation with the Times-Union Tuesday, Garrett said, "I may have something for you tomorrow," but dropped no hints as to which direction the case is taking or if the heat is being concentrated on any particular person.
Garrett reportedly pursued several new leads over the weekend and was questioning indivisuals Monday and Tuesday but said he had no comment to make on the results as yet.
MEANWHILE, the big, white, two-story house on Marine Street where the 56-year-old wife of former St. Augustine Mayor James Lindsley met her death, has been stripped of all of its antique furnishings and a "for sale" sign will go up soon.
Mrs. Lindsley was nearly decapitated in daylight by someone swinging a long, sharp instrument such as a machete on the doorsteps of the house, which is only about 50 feet away from a busy street in an old established residential neighborhood that serves as one of the arteries to Flagler Hospital.
Neighboring houses (occupied by County Manager Alan Stanford on the right and C.M. McCormick on the left) are only 30 feet away.
POLICE ARE puzzled that no one traveling the street or any of the neighbors saw the attack.
So far, only one individual has come forward with any kind of description of the possible murderer.
Locke McCormick, 20-year-old son of the neighbors to the left of Mrs. Lindsley’s home, reported spotting a middle-aged man in a white shirt and black trousers walking around the right side of the Lindsley house after screams sent McCormick running out of his house.
WHILE NOT actually a part of the area where the state-supported restoration program is in progress, the house where Mrs. Lindsley was slain is in a section replete with history, according to historians.
Only two doors to the north of the death scene is the National Cemetery, a military busying grounds, particularly notable as the resting place of more than 1,400 men who fell in the Indian War (1833-42) including those of Dade’s command, massacred by the Seminoles near Tampa in 1836. The vaults containing their remains are marked by three coquina pyramids.
A block down from the cemetery in St. Francis Barracks, which now houses the state arsenal and the Florida National Guard, Franciscans built their first monestary on this site about 1576. Their buildings were burned and rebuilt several times.
THE HOSE WHERE the former Broadway actress was hacked to death on the doorstep is within walking distance of a number of historic landmarks including the oldest house at 14 St. Francis St. and the real estate office of former Mayor Lindsley at 214 St. George St., also listed on the National Register as one of the oldest houses.
The old Spanish military hospital, which is included on the Historic St. Augustine Preservation Board’s tour of restored buildings, is two streets over on Aviles Street near the art gallery and a rare 175-year-old structure known as Ximinez-Fatio house and maintained by the National Society of Colonial Dames in the State of Florida.
The Fatio House also is on the National Register as a rare and original crossbreed of Spanish, British, and American architecture.
The victim’s elegantly furnished residence and her husband’s home on Lew Boulevard are separated by historic Matanzas Bay which is spanned by the Bridge of Lions.
The former mayor’s residence is a more modern, one-story masonry home looking across Conch Island to the Atlantic Ocean. |
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| mike |
| Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 3:21 pm |
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A big "Thank You" to triptaker01 for helping us out by transcribing this article. This is an essential part of our project. By typing the content of the image files, news articles, statements and testimony, you are able to utilize the "Search" function in the top toolbar. This is a tremendous help when you want to find quickly an item you know you read somewhere but forget where it was filed.
I was at the courthouse again today, scanning away on some remaining "missing pieces" and I am committed to continuing to publish as many as I can within my schedule and time permitting. The value of the continued contribution of our volunteers can not be understated.
You are a great group! |
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| triptaker01 |
| Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 3:30 pm |
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| You are welcome. I will help anywhere I can and am needed. Just let me know. I like to contribute by typing, since I really can't contribute any other way. I will type any article you need me to, as long as my time permits. Thank you for this project! |
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