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Spadeful by spadeful, diggers flung earth up from the grave of Henry Marshall, the Texas-based U.S. Department of Agriculture official who first started investigating the Billie Sol Estes scandal. Marshall had been declared a suicide, despite evidence that made suicide all but incredible. Now, with the Estes case bursting all over the horizon, he was being exhumed for an autopsy by a five-expert team headed by Houston Pathologist Joseph A. Jachimczyk. The team's finding: "From the reasonable medical probabilities, it was homicide." This was perhaps the understatement of the year. Marshall, 51, was the Agriculture official...
...Billie Sol's 16th District Congressman, Democrat J. T. Rutherford, admitted getting money from Estes. He had searched his records, he said, and was so surprised that "I could have dropped my teeth" to find that Billie Sol had given him a $1,500 "campaign contribution" last...
...months. Thus, some of the $4,000,000 in annual storage payments would continue for a while. At his press conference, President Kennedy gave only a generalized reason for the Government's action: "I think that it's appropriate . . . because of all the circumstances surrounding the case." Sol Smiles. In El Paso, Billie Sol himself, who has been sticking close to his own 52-ft. Pecos living room these weeks, walked into a federal court to face representatives of his 500 creditors. The hearing was to determine what assets Billie has left. But Estes took the Fifth Amendment...
...looked down at Estes' creditors, found a bit of wry humor in their predicament. "About all you'd have left is the newspaper,'' observed the judge. "But I'm sure you won't need that, with all the publicity you are getting." Billie Sol smiled for the first time at the hearing-he knew what was happening to the newspaper...
...hardly was it gone when another hunk of Estes debris fell on Holleman: evidence that he had accepted a check for $1,000 from Billie Sol. Holleman admitted that he took the money-and his explanation was a telling commentary on life in official Washington. Holleman said that he needed the $1,000 to help meet his "living expenses." His $20,000-a-year salary, he said, was inadequate to meet the social demands that his position placed upon him. Holleman said the $1,000 gift was "personal," and had "no connection with any of Mr. Estes' interests...