Commercial Appeal, Crittenden Co, AR *********************************************************** Submitted by: Mary Nell Burnett Date: 20 Mar 2004 Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm *********************************************************** Commercial Appeal, Memphis, Tennessee, 25 December 1933, page 13, column 3. "Deaf Farmer is Shot by Two Highwaymen, Thugs Shoot When Earle Man Fails to Hear Commands. When his deafness prevented his hearing commands to hold up his hands, Nelson Burnett, 32, farmer, living near Earle, was shot through the stomach by highwaymen Saturday night at 11:00 o'clock. He was walking home from Earle at the time. He was found in the road about 45 minutes later by James Roe, farmer, who was passing in his car. Row returned him to Earle, where a Holt ambulance took him to Baptist Hospital in Memphis. His condition is critical. He has a family. Burnett said that two young men, dressed in overalls, approached him in the darkness and when he asked them what they wanted, one of them opened fire. One bullet penetrated the stomach. Then they robbed him of about $4 and fled. Officers at Earle today had found no trace of the assailants.” A few pages over we find the following article, page 20, column 5 "Blood is Needed, Wounded Man Asks but One Christmas Gift. As Christmas gifts were being exchanged the world over last night, Nelson Burnett, 32, Earle farmer, who was shot yesterday by highwaymen, was pleading for only one gift, that of blood. Burnett's life depends on someone who has a type 3 blood, volunteering for a transfusion. He is in extremely critical condition at Baptist Hospital.”