ORANGE (AP)-A witness at the trial of Dr. Charles Rahm testified Wednesday that the president of the Brownsboro School Board asked him to arrest Thurman Jackson for disturbances shortly before Jackson was shot to death in the meeting that ended in a free-for-all fight. Henderson County Deputy Sheriff Charles Majors, 36, said board president, Ivan Long, requested him to arrest Jackson because he kept interrupting the meeting and was creating a disturbance. Rahm, a Brownsboro osteopath is accused of killing Jackson, 42 a lumber company operator. Majors said he attended the June 16 school board meeting as a law officer. “When I came into the school I heard loud talking from the board meeting room, but couldn't tell what matters they were considering," he said. The deputy said he heard someone call for adjournment and the room began filling with people. He said Rahm passed him on the way out of the room. Majors said Bill Barton then struck Long with his fist and the row began. "As soon as Barton hit Long, I grabbed Barton and got between them. The next thing I heard were two shots and when I looked around I saw Dr. Rahm, Thurman Jackson and Clarence Jackson lying on the floor," Majors said. The deputy said he picked up Jackson and took him to a Tyler hospital when he saw he had been shot. He said Rahm had "blood on his head, shirt and a large gash on the "side of his head." Dr. Mullowhey, a Tyler physician who performed an autopsy showed a bullet lodging in the spinal column. Dr . A. Duphorne of Athens testified he had treated Rahm and that the patient had been "struck over the head by a blunt instrument which Dr. Rahm thought was a chair." He said he also treated Long and J. P. Parker for injuries resulting from the melee.Trustee Wayne Smith also testified. Dr. Duphorne also said he treated Bill Melton who had been in a gun a fight with Long and added, "Barton was the same man who attacked Long at the June 16 meeting."
Abiline Reporter article - December 15, 1960
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