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COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA,
COUNTY OF PAGE,
An inquisition takel at I. R. Dovel8s , Commonwealth Attorney's Office, in Luray, Page County, Virginia, on the 8th. day of September, 1943, between the hours of 11:00 O'clock A.M. and 1 P.M., before Dr.George H. Long, Coroner of Page Countyand I.R. Dovel, Commonwealth Attorney of said County.
PRESENT: Dr. George H. Long, Corner; I.R. Dovel, Commonweath Attorney, J. William Ruffner, Sheriff,
WITNESSES: Russel Grim, Stanley, Virginia. Rev. James R. Glenn, " " Mary Frances Long, " " George H Cullison, " " and Maryland. Furl Leake, " " Harry Hillirad, " " Harry Grim, " " Mrs. Henry Hilliard, " " Rosa Higgs, " " All of the above witnesses, being duly sworn, stated as follows: That they saw Marvin Jones on East Main Street, Stanley, Virginia in the afternoon, about 3:30 or 4 o'clock, near Harry Grim's House on September 6th, 1943. Al of the above persons except Rosa Higgs and Furl Leake depose as follows: That they all saw Pliceman Lawrence Good of Stanley, Va. strike Marvin Jones two or more times with a night-stick on his head, at the above place, on East Main Street, Stanley, Virginia, also, on the above date. Drs. F. T. Amiss of Luray, Virginia and J. H. Deyerle of Harrisonburg, Virginia. Stated as follows: That they attended a certain Marvin Jones of Stanley, Virginia after 3:30 or 4 o'clock in the afternoon of September 6th, 1943 and that Marvin Jones had a fracture of the right side of his skull witha a concussion (or brain injury) that caused the death of the above Marvin Jones on the morning of September 7th, 1943.
I, the undersigned, Coroner, of Page County Virginia, after taking statements from the above named witnesses, which areherewith enclosed, and after viewing with J. William Riffner, Sherriff of Page County, the body of one Marvin Jones in the Funeral Parlors of I. C. Bradley, on West Main Street, in the Town of Luray and in the State of Virginia, the above body there lying dead, I am of the opinion that the dead Marvin Jones came to his death at 1 A. M. in the Rockingham Memorial Hospital, Harrisonburg, Virginia on September 7th, 1943, as a result of injuries recieved, when struck on the right side of head, by a night-stick in the hands of Policeman Lawrence Good of Stanley, Virginia in the afternoon, on September 6th, 1943, in East Main Street, Stanley, Virginia.
Signed. George H. Long
George H. Long, M. D. Coroner, of Page County in the State of Virginia
September 8th, 1943.
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Commonwealth of Virginia v.s Coroner's Inquest. Lawerence Good. Coroner's Inquest into the death of Marvin Jones, at Luray, Page County, Virginia, September 8, 1943. Present: Dr. George H. Long, Coroner for Page County, Virginia; I. R. Dovell, Esq., Attorney for the Commonwealth.
Russell Grimm, a witness, being first and duly sworn, says:
By Mr. Duvell:
Q. State your name, please? A. Russell Kenneth Grimm. Q. What is your age? A. Thirty-two. Q. And where do you live? A. Stanley, Virginia. Q. Russell, directing your attention to Monday afternoon, about three-thirty or four o'clock, did you see Lawrence Good and Marvin Jones in the Town of Stanley? A. Yes, Sir.
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Q. Where were they when you first saw the two of them? A. In front of Mr. Harry Grimm's house. Q. You go ahead and give us a statement of everything that occured from the very first time that your attention was directed to this, until Lawrence Good Left Stanley in car to bring Marvin Jones to Luray? A. Mr. Grimms and myself and son were sitting on the porch, were talking, and we heard some talk. This boy was right in front of the house at the time. We could not see them for the trees. This boy rand down the Street, and stumbled and fell. Lawrence was chasing him. He fell on the side-walk. Lawrence told him to get up and come on and get in his car, he was going to take him to Luray, and this boy told him to let him go on home. He said, "No, I have asked you two or three times to go home already", and told him he had been over town for three days drunk, and he was not going to give him any more chance. He would not go when he asked him to, and he said, "Now, I have made up my mind to take you", and he said, "There is no use to beg now, because I have given you all the chance I am going to". He continued to beg him to not to take him; as Lawrence would take him by the arm, he would pull back from him. I guess he got tired of begging him, and struck him on the arm a couple of times, and then a couple of times - when
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he struck him on the head three of four times. Q. What did he strike him with, Russell? A. His night-stick. Q. Had he put the hand-cuffs on him before he struck him with the stick? A. Yes, when he had him down after he had struck him. After he struck him the first time. Q. Had them on both hands or one? A. Had it on one, and he wrestled with him before he got it on the other one. Q. What else occurred? A. They came down from the car then, I guess possibly thirty or forty feet below where Lawrence had parked his car. He had parked his car in front of Ed. Long's: and he managed to get him back to the car after he got the hand-cuffs on him. When he got up there he did not want to get in the car, so Lawrence tried to put him in, so he jerked away from him, and Lawrence struck him two or three times. Q. Where did he strike him? A. On the head. Q. Use the same club? A. Yes, didn't have but one. Q. Did Jones fall down when he struck him at the car? A. No.
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Q. Did you help to put him in the car? A. No. Q. Good put him in the car by himself? What did he do after he put him in the car? A. He asked me to get him his rope; that he was going to tie his feet. He said he had taken him down there before, because he had kicked his glass out. Q. How far were you from this place where it occurred? A. As close as I am to you. Q. Did you see anyone else close by other than the folks at your home? A. A gentleman came, a gentleman that was standing there. People said he was a Preacher. Q. Preacher Glenn? A. I had never seen him before. Q. Did Jones strike Policeman Glenn from the time he attempted to arrest him until he put him in the car? A. I never seen him. Q. Do no more than pull his arm away from him? A. No. Q. Did he curse the officer? A. No. If he did I did not hear it. Q. When you noticed Jones, was he running or walking at any time?
