Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Griffin, Bryant July 17, 1932
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Norfolk Journal and Guide,Jul 23,1932
Placing of a formal charge of murder against Rufus Hall, 25, and of 
felonious shooting with intent to kill against Harry Nixon, 32, climaxed an 
extensive investigation by Norfolk County police into the death of Bryant 
Griffin of Northwest, Norfolk County, who was found dead from two shotgun 
wounds beside a road at Northwest Sunday morning about 7 o’clock.


Hall and Nixon were arrested the same day by County Officer J. M. Brickhouse 
and former County Officer Routten. The pair were at first being held on 
suspicion only and police were reluctant to reveal their names until Tuesday 
when their investigations resulted in sufficient evidence to file formal 
charges.


It was the opinion of Officer Brickhouse that Griffin, who was an employee 
of the Richmond Cedar Works, was waylaid on his way home early Sunday 
morning. He expressed the opinion that the death was a plain case of murder 
inasmuch as one of the shotgun discharges took effect over the heart and the 
other on one side of the body. Death was said to have been instantaneous.


The officers’ investigation revealed that Griffin had been in an argument 
with a group of men late Saturday night, and they believed that his death 
was the climax to that argument.


It is expected that the case will be presented to the Norfolk Count grand 
jury at the next criminal term of the Norfolk County Circuit Court.


This latest Northwest slaying recalls that of Cleveland Smith last October 
23. Smith was shot and fatally wounded by Bernard Sawyer, white, who was 
subsequently found guilty of voluntary manslaughter and sentenced to one 
year in State’s Prison.


The shooting of Smith was alleged to have culminated an argument over 
whiskey but this was not proved at the trial. Sawyer claimed self defense.

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Calvary Cemetery

GRIFFIN, BARRAUT I29230 GUS	0	07/20/1931

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