SHAMBLEN, Charles

SHAMBLEN, PETERSON, GAILORD, DEMOSS

Posted By: Elaine Harrington (email)
Date: 10/23/2006 at 20:50:40

GLENWOOD OPINION-TRIBUNE
DATED MON., DECEMBER 21, 1936:

Funeral service for Charles Shamblen, 57, of Malvern were held in the Mansfield Funeral Home Thursday afternoon, with Rev. Calkins of the Methodist church in charge of service.

The lifeless body of Mr. Shamblen was found on Sunday morning, Dec. 13, just west of the Burlington depot at Malvern. The head had been severed from the body and annihilated by the wheels of passing trains.

Coroner Raynor was called from Glenwood and he summoned Sheriff DeMoss before the body was removed. Officers are working on the theory that Shamblen, who had the week previous disposed of his interests in a Malvern filling station expecting to leave within a few days for Oregon, had been murdered, robbed and his lifeless body placed on the railroad track in an attempt to make it appear that suicide was the motive of death.

Mrs. Shamblen is survived by the following brothers and sisters: Fred and George of Los Angeles, Cal., Earl of Henderson, Merrill of Tabor, and Lester of Strahan, and two sisters, Mrs. Ed Peterson of Hastings, and Mrs. Clyde Gailord of Prescott, survive.

The body was laid to rest in the Malvern cemetery.