Nansemond County-Portsmouth-Richmond City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Peace, Inez E. McBride, 1971 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ "Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 49, No. 123, Mon., May 24, 1971, pp. 1 & 8 Suffolk Man Is Charged Two Killed, Two Shot In County A Suffolk man was booked into the Nansemond County jail today on two counts of murder and three counts of attempted murder after a violent confrontation on State Route 125 near Kings Highway Bridge. Urban Koenie [sic; Koenig] (Scotty) Franken Jr., 35, of 231 1/2 Highland Avenue was arrested at his residence about 3 a.m. today. Nansemond County and Suffolk police units cooperated in the arrest. Nansemond County police charged Franken with murder in the slaying of Jack Harold McClean [sic; McLean], 43, of Portsmouth and Elizabeth Inez Peace, 65, of Chuckatuck. Police indicated the deaths were the result of a domestic quarrel between Charles Robert Peace, 25, of Chuckatuck, and Franken. Franken and his wife are reportedly separated. They said Franken pulled up in the driveway of the Peace residence off Route 125 about 10:30 p.m. Sunday. He knocked on the back door and asked for Peace, they quoted witnesses. When Peace walked into the room, he was shot in the left knee. He fled up the stairs and jumped out a second-story window. His 65-year-old mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Inez Peace, was next shot in the back left side, and then Peace's 20-year-old wife was shot twice in the stomach. All of the shots were fired from a .45 calibre automatic, police said. The elder Mrs. Peace staggered out of the house, near death, and waved down a passing motorist. A car stopped. It was driven by Mrs. Frances Louise Breen, 38, from the Peninsula. In the car with Mrs. Breen was Jack Harold McClean of Portsmouth. McClean assisted Mrs. Peace into the front seat of the car between Mrs. Breen and himself. Police said Franken followed the car and tried to force it off the road. Unsuccessful in that, he passed it and tried to block its path, police quoted Mrs. Breen. When Mrs. Breen tried to drive around Franken's car, police said, a point-blank shot was fired through a car window into McClean's head, killing him. A second shot, fired through the back window of Mrs. Breen's car, lodged in the headrest on the back of her seat - stopping just short of her head, police said. Mrs. Breen, with a dying woman at her side and a dead man beside the front seat, pulled into a driveway a short distance away and asked for help. County police and state police swung into action. Nansemond County Police Corporal F.A. McCartney, Patrolmen W.V. Dunning, O.D. Smith and Kenneth Snuffer handled the initial investigation. Police linked Franken with the slayings and discovered that he lived in Suffolk. They said he works for the Norfolk & Western Railway and for Be-Lo's. City Police were asked to assist in a search for Franken. As late as 2:20 a.m. Franken's residence was vacant, and his car was still not in the driveway, police said. But about 10 minutes later the car was seen in the driveway. Police notified the upstairs neighbors and the next-door neighbors of Franken's residence that trouble was brewing and they would be wise to vacate their homes for a short time. Seven county officers, seven city officers and a state trooper surrounded the house and called on a bull-horn for Franken to come out. No response. They then asked a telephone operator to dial Franken's unlisted telephone number. When it answered, police knew someone was awake in the house. They went on the bull-horn again and told Franken to come out within five minutes or they would use tear gas to force him out. Almost exactly five minutes later, police said, Franken's lights went on, and then a short time later he emerged with his hands over his head. He was scheduled for a preliminary hearing in Nansemond County Court today. Mrs. Joan Peace was in Obici Hospital in serious condition today. Mrs. Breen was treated and released, and so was Charles Peace. Officers who participated in the arrest at Franken's house were: For Nansemond County: Chief Henry Mundie, Lt. G.F. Jackson, Sgt. Raleigh Isaacs, Cpl. F.A. McCartney, Cpl. Sanford Chapman, Patrolmen George Cipra, L.A. Lang, T.W. Newsome and O.D. Smith. For Suffolk: Sgt. E.R. Raby, Sgt. G.E. Matroni, Detective H.H. Webb and Patrolmen G.T. Bangley, S.P. Ricks, J.R. King and K-9 Officer Francis I. Carter. State Trooper R.T. Murphy was also on hand. [photo, captioned:] Peace home on Kings Highway, a mile west of Kings Highway Bridge over the Nansemond River. [photo, captioned:] Franken being brought in ****************************************************************************** MRS. INEZ E. PEACE Mrs. Inez Elizabeth McBride Williams Peace, 63, of P.O. Box 97, Chuckatuck, died late Sunday night. She was the widow of William Ernest Peace and daughter of the late Henry McBride and Mrs. Anna Alley McBride. She was a native of Richmond and a Baptist. She is survived by one daughter, Mrs. R.M. Gathright of Richmond; and seven sons, H.F. Williams and Henry Lee Peace, both of Richmond, William L. Peace, Arthur Ray Peace, Joe C. Peace, and Charles Robert Peace, all of Suffolk, and Melvin E. Peace of Chuckatuck. The body will be taken from Sidney F. Harrell Funeral Home at 4 p.m. Tuesday to Bliley Funeral Home, Richmond, for a funeral service at 4 p.m. Wednesday. Burial will be in Oakwood Cemetery. ****************************************************************************** "Progress-Index" (Petersburg, VA), Mon., May 24, 1971, clipping posted with Find a Grave Memorials #137666559 & 27469811, by PhillyTR Suffolk Shooting Leaves Two Dead SUFFOLK, Va. (AP) - Two persons were shot to death and two others wounded in a shooting spree that began in a rural residence near Chuckatuck in Nansemond County late Sunday night. A 35-year-old Suffolk man was charged in the shootings. Police identified the dead as Mrs. Elizabeth Inez Peace, 65, of Chuckatuck, and Jack Harold McClean, 38, of Portsmouth. Hospitalized in Suffolk for treatment of wounds were Mrs. Joan Peace, 20, and her husband, Charles Peace, 25, of Chuckatuck. Charged with two counts of murder and three counts of attempted murder was Urban K. Franken Jr. of Suffolk. Franken surrendered to police early today after his home was surrounded by Nansemond County and Suffolk officers and state troopers. Nansemond County Police Chief H.L. Mundie and other investigators gave this account: Franken went to the Peace residence on Virginia 125 near Chuckatuck and knocked on the back door. Charles Peace opened the door and was shot in the left knee with a .45 caliber automatic pistol. Peace limped upstairs. The gunman entered the house and walked into the living room, where Mrs. Elizabeth Peace was shot in the back and Mrs. Joan Peace was shot twice in the stomach. Mrs. Elizabeth Peace left the house and staggered to the highway. McClean, riding in an automobile driven by Miss Frances Louise Breen, 38, of Gloucester, saw the injured woman. He and Miss Breen stopped, placed Mrs. Peace in the car and started for a hospital in Portsmouth. At this point, Franken got into his car and gave chase. Miss Breen said a car raced ahead of her and stopped, blockiin the highway. She said she tried to drive around the car, but ran off the raod. McClean then was killed by a single bullet in the head. Miss Breen maneuvered her car back on the road and sped off. A bullet pierced the rear window of her car and lodged in a headrest directly behind her. Miss Breen was cut on the head by flying glass. She drove on until she reached a house near Driver, where she stopped and asked the occupants to call police. A description of the car, which had stopped her, was broadcast on police radio. Mundie and Lt. Gilbert Jackson found the suspect's car at Franken's residence about 2:30 a.m. Police surrounded the house and residents in neighboring apartments were telephoned by police to leave their homes quietly, walk to the street and get into a state police car. Mundie and Franken's phone was dialed by a telephone operator and when it was answered, police spoke over a loudspeaker and ordered the suspect to walk out of the house with his hands raised. Franken surrendered at 3 a.m. He offered no resistance. ****************************************************************************** "Richmond (VA) Times-Dispatch," Tues., May 25, 1971; clipping posted with Find a Grave Memorial #137666559, by Dottie Meadows Suffolk Shooting Takes Lives of 2 ****************************************************************************** donated article, publication unknown, clipping posted with Find a Grave Memorial #137666559, by Dottie Meadows SUFFOLK (AP) - A 35-year-old railroad worker, Urban K. Franken, has been charged to with two counts of murder in the slaying of a Chuckatuck woman and a motorist who tried to rescue her. Police identified the dead as Mrs. Elizabeth Inez Peace, 65, of Chuckatuck, and Jack Harold McLean, 43, of Portsmouth. Two other persons were hospitalized with gunshot wounds - Charles R. Peace, 25, and his wife, Joan, 20, of Chuckatuck. Authorities did not reveal a reason for the outburst of gunfire which erupted late Saturday night at Chuckatuck. Franken was taken by police early Monday after they surrounded his home. He offered no resistance. Police said the incident began when Franken went to the rural home of the Peace family, knocked on the back door and shot Charles Peace in the knee when he answered the knock. Peace staggered upstairs and the gunman entered the house and confronted the two women in the living room where he shot Elizabeth Peace in the back and Mrs. Joan Peace twice in the stomach. Police said Mrs. Elizabeth Peace fled from the home and stumbled on to Virginia 125, where she was picked up by a car occupied by McLean and Mrs. Mrs. Frances Louise Breen, 38, of Gloucester. Mrs. Peace was placed in the car between the two occupants, who then left to take her to a hospital in Portsmouth. Police said Franken got into her [sic; his] car and chased the other vehicle driven by Mrs. Breen, finally forcing the car to stop. Mrs. Breen said then fired a single shot from his .45 caliber pistol into McLean's head, killing his instantly. She told police she then sped away and Franken fired at the back of her car. One bullet pierced the rear window and lodged in a headrest behind her. She suffered cuts on the head from flying glass. Mrs. Breen said she drove to a house near Driver, where she asked the occupants to call police. Police telephoned residents in neighboring apartments and told them to quietly leave their homes. When the apartments had been cleared, officers then telephoned Franken and when he answered, spoke over a loudspeaker, ordering him to surrender. Franken walked out peaceably. ****************************************************************************** "Danville (VA) Register," Fri., May 28, 1971, clipping posted with Find a Grave Memorial #137666559, by PhillyTR SUFFOLK, Va. (AP) - Urban K. Franken, 34, has been committed to Central State Hospital for psychiatric examination before facing a preliminary hearing on charges of murder. Franken, and employe [sic; an employee] of Norfolk & Southern Railway in Suffolk, was arrested about 3 a.m. Monday by city, county, and state police who surrounded his home. Franken is charged with murder in the slaying of Mrs. Elizabeth Inez Peace, 65, of Chuckatuck, and Jack Harold McClean, 43, of Portsmouth. He is charged also with attempted murder of Charles R. Peace, Peace's wife Joan, and Mrs. Frances Louise Breen of Gloucester. The charges grew out of a shooting spree that started about 10:30 p.m. Sunday at the Peace home on Virginia 125 about one mile from Chuckatuck. Franken alledgedly went to the Peace home, shot Peace in the left knee, shot Joan Peace twice in the stomach, and shot the elder Mrs. Peace in the back. The older woman managed to get to the highway, where a car driven by Mrs. Breen stopped to help her. McLean, a passenger in the car, was shot in the head when Franken alledgedly gave chase in his automobile. Mrs. Breen was cut by flying glass when the right front and rear windows of her car were shot out. Mrs. Breen and Peace were treated and released at a hospital. Joan Peace remains in fair condition. Franken's commitment to Central State for observation was ordered by B.L. Holladay, jail physician reported he thought Franken was disturbed. ****************************************************************************** "Danville (VA) Bee," Fri., Aug. 13, 1971, clipping posted with Find a Grave Memorial #137666559, by PhillyTR Bound Over In Double Murder SUFFOLK (AP) - U.K. Franken, 34-year-old railroad man, was bound over to the grand jury Thursday in connection with a shooting incident May 23 at Chuckatuck in which two people were killed and three wounded. After a preliminary hearing in which four policemen were stationed in the Nansemond County courtroom to prevent reported threats agaist the defendant, County Judge Thomas C. Andrews found probable cause for two counts of murder and three counts of attempted murder. At the request of Commonwalth's Atty. Robert E. Gillette, Andrews cleared the courtroom after completing the rest of the docket and asked those interested in the Franken case to come in singley [sic]. The hearing, which lasted an hour and a quarter, produced testimony by three witnesses identifying Franken as the man who fired a .45-caliber pistol during the events of May 23. Both Charles Robert Peace, 25, and his wife Joan, 20, testified that Franken wounded each of them and fired a shot that fatally wounded Peace's mother Mrs. Elizabeth Inez Peace, 65, at the Peace home a mile east of Chuckatuck, and Mrs. Frances Louise Breen, 38, of Gloucester, named Franken as the man who fatally shot Jack Harold McLean, 43, of Portsmouth, on V. 125 in front of the Peace residence. Franken did not go on the stand himself. ****************************************************************************** Inez Elizabeth (McBRIDE WILLIAMS; Mrs. William Leslie) PEACE, b. 22 Dec 1907*, Richmond, murdered 23 May 1971, Nansemond Co., interred in Oakwood Cemetery*, Richmond, 26 May 1971, *Additional information: Find a Grave Memorial #137666559 gives b. 22 Dec 1906. [no photo] Her parents & second husband William Leslie PEACE (1902 - 1968) are also buried there. D.Cert. 71-015840 gives b. 22 Dec 1907; widow of William Ernest PEACE. She 1m. Herman Gibson WILLIAMS 29 Aug 1925 in Richmond; they separated 25 Sep 1929, & div. 3 Jan 1941. ****************************************************************************** Jack Harold McLEAN, of Portsmouth, Doughtie Bar-be-cue salesman, veteran of Korea, b. 19 May 1928, Portsmouth, murdered 23 May 1971, Nansemond Co., interred in Olive Branch Cemetery*, Portsmouth, "Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 49, No. 123, Mon., May 24, 1971, pp. 1 & 8; "Progress-Index" (Petersburg, VA), Mon., May 24, 1971, clipping posted with Find a Grave Memorial #137666559, by PhillyTR (Contributor #49002914) *Additional information: A photo of his gravestone - added by Steve Poole - is posted with Find a Grave Memorial #27469811. Portsmouth Public Library, Olive Branch list: https://www.portsmouthpubliclibrary.org/DocumentCenter/View/157/M---O-PDF D.Cert. 71-015841 gives son of Harold M. & Manor (TURNER) McLEAN; divorced. However, Harold Mortimer McLEAN & Manor Carrington TURNER m. 18 Apr 1958 in Portsmouth, although they & Jack appear together in the 1940 Census in Portsmouth. Harold Mortimer McLEAN (1895 - 1965) was a Navy veteran of WW-I. ****************************************************************************** Urban Koenig "Scotty" FRANKEN, Jr. (1936 - 2004) was convicted and sentenced to 90 years. ("Suffolk News-Herald," Fri., June 30, 1972, pp. 1 & 6) However, apparently he was released early. His obit states he was a Vietnam-era veteran & retired from Norfolk-Southern R.R.; the text is posted with Find a Grave Memorial #94960464. Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by File Manager Matt Harris (zoobug64@aol.com). file at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/obits/p200i1ob.txt