Mamie’s Brother Gets Call; Others Now Coming Forward

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Logan Banner, Thursday, August 22, 1985

Special thanks to Mark Edward Jones for providing a clipping of this article.

By Dwight Williamson

Now, 53 years and seven updated stories later, George Morrison, Mamie Thurman’s brother, telephoned The Banner from Arizona to say he had received a letter from “someone” who will not disclose their name, but promised Morrison that he knows who killed his sister and that he has “absolute and positive proof” of who it was.

Morrison also said his search in Louisville, Ky. for Jack Thurman has proved fruitless. However, he intends to ask a friend of Morrisons and a former Mayor of Louisville to help him with research. Morrison added that Thurman did serve as a policeman in Louisville.

Also, The Banner has been contacted by three men, all of whom were alive at the time of Thurman’s death. None of the persons wish to be identified, but each had interesting stories.
Photo of Mrs. Mamie Thurman.
Today a well-known county figure said there is no proof, only speculation, that a doctor in Logan at the time actually killed Mamie Thurman by first putting her to sleep and then slashing her throat. And that later the doctor with the help of one of those in romantic liaison with Mrs. Thurman shot her and framed Stephenson.

The man’s theory was based upon the fact that the cut from Mrs. Thurman’s left ear to her right ear was surgically done with a razor-sharp instrument. Most of her blood was then drained in the doctor’s office located at the time in the White and Browning building.

Also, several telephone calls from women, some of whom would not give their names and others who do not want to be identified, gave directions to the Thurman grave at McConnell. However, another check there yesterday turned up only one fallen tombstone ironically with the name of Mayme K. Robinson, who died in 1938.

While at the cemetery yesterday, several children and three adults also were there. One of the men, who said his father assisted the former caretaker of the cemetery, once showed him the grave many years ago.

The man said Mrs. Thurman originally was to be buried at the lower part of the cemetery, but a committee of prominent women from Logan told the people digging the first grave they would not stand for a “nigger harlot” being buried with their relatives. He said the men then dug another grave at the end of the graveyard.

And, the saga goes on…the legend expands.

Dwight Williamson is a former writer for the Logan Banner and a retired magistrate for Logan County.

*Published with permission.

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