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...reporters on the job in Gordonsville, Va. the other night when Cora Walles and her brother William were finally killed and the house burned around their bodies, I cannot help resenting the reflections cast in your last paragraph on members of the posse slicing up the bodies of the dead negroes and taking them home for souvenirs (TIME, May 25). That part of the account is absolutely false, as the bodies were turned over to a licensed undertaker, who buried both bodies in the family burying ground on the place where the unfortunate battle between the members of the finest...
...Cora Walles bobbed up at a blazing window, crumpled in a hail of machine-gun bullets. Moment later the roof collapsed and William Walles ran squealing to the porch. A burst of bullets toppled him back into the fire...
...afternoon last week. The answer was a rifle crack. A bullet plowed through the door straight into the sheriff's heart. Leaving his body crumpled on the porch, his two companions turned and fled, sure now that the old Negro cemetery caretaker, William Walles, and his old sister Cora, had gone completely...
...CORA OLDER...
Chosen from among New Orleans debutantes to be Queen of the Mardi Gras Carnival was slim, brown-eyed Cora Stanton ("Coco") Jahncke, daughter of Hoover's Assistant Secretary of the Navy Ernest Lee Jahncke, great-granddaughter of Lincoln's Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton. A daughter and sister of Carnival Royalty, "Coco" Jahncke was born in 1915 on Twelfth Night (Jan. 6), official opening of the New Orleans Carnival season. That year her father was Rex, Lord of Misrule, King of Carnival. Small "Coco" received a scroll designating her Princess Royal. In 1929 her mother, Cora...