Iron-Ozark-St. Louis County MO Archives News.....Murder of Truman (Nay) Stevenson July 21, 1935 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/mo/mofiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Sharron Stevenson sharronstevenson@yahoo.com January 10, 2014, 2:52 am Iron County, Missouri Newspaper July 21, 1935 On July 20, 1935, Truman Stevenson (born September 30, 1906) was stabbed to death by Orville Lucy (Lacey), 24 years, in Sabula, Iron County, Missouri. Lucy's brother, Paul, 22 years, was with him. Lucy was arrested for the murder. He escaped from Iron County jail on August 23, 1935. During the escape he stabbed a jail Sheriff. Truman (Nay) Stevenson left behind a 2 year old son who became orphaned. The son's mother, Lucille Stevenson (Fissel) died in 1994. The orphaned boy is my father, who knows nothing about the circumstances of his father's murder or his mother's death. Does anyone have any information, police reports, newspaper articles or recollections of the murder of Truman Stevenson and/or the death of Lucille Stevenson? File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mo/iron/newspapers/murderof268gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/mofiles/ File size: 1.4 Kb