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Living in Charlotte at the time of his mother's death.

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Note N1614 Index

1900 census gives birthdate as July 1894

West Virginia Trooper involved in a court case in which James Dunn was tried in December 1930 in Tyler county for murder of a 3-year old, Garland Bayless. Frank and three other officers were eventually discharged from the police force for their actions in the case.
Info from SS files. SSN 577-03-8662 was assigned in the District of Columbia before 1951. Last residence zip code was 20027. He was a veteran of WW1. 1940 Census occupation: Service Manager at a farm dairy. Mentioned in step-brother WH Leebrick's death notice.

FUNERAL RITES SET FOR STABBED BOY--Burial Follows Exoneration of Playmate, Jury Holding Death Was Accident. William Suddath, 15-year-old Gordon Junior High School student, who died Tuesday from a stab wound in the heart, accidentally inflicted by a neighboring playmate during a scuffle, was to be buried in Potomac, Md. today following services at 2 p.m. at the Potomac Methodist Church.
Rayburn Smallwood, 13, was exonerated yesterday of blame in the youth's death. A coroner's jury declared the fatal injury to be the result of an accident after hearing testimony by the Smallwood boy and two other neighborhood children, Frank and Virginia Leebrick, 1125 Thirty-sixth street.
Testimony showed Rayburn and Frank Leebrick had been teasing William by calling him "sissy" and "chew tobacco." When he caught young Smallwood on the rear steps of the Leebrick home, he sought vindication with his fists and the scuffle ensued. young Smallwood had a knife in one hand and a stick he had been whittling in the other. During the fight, the Suddath boy rushed against the knife, Rayburn told the coroner's jury. The jury freed the Smallwood youth after a short deliberation." --Evening Star (Washington DC) Saturday Nov 30, 1935.

"HOBOING"--THREE YOUNGSTERS TURNED OVER TO POLICE BY C.&O. CONDUCTOR.--Charged with "hoboing", or, in other words, with being on premises, four young men, ranging from 17 to 23 years of age, were turned over to the police Wednesday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock by the conductor of an east-bound freight train, who stopped his train in front of the police station and handed the young men over to Chief of Police Reagan and Sergeant James Stewart. Two of the boys, who are brothers, and a third, who is a half brother of the two, are from Lynchburg, Va., and said they were going back home after having been avg work in Indiana, while the fourth said he was from Frankfort and that he got on the train there intending to get off at Lexington. Their names and addresses are: J.T. Leebrick, 19 years old, of Lynchburg, Va.; Frank Leebrick, 17 years old, of Lynchburg, Va.; A. Bert Mayo, 23 years old, of Lynchburg, Va., and Corbet Childress, 20 years old, of Frankfort." Lexington (KY) Leader, June 1, 1911

Mentioned in mother's death notice in Richmond Times Dispatch.

"SERGEANT AND TROOPER FIRED BY BROOKS FOR KILLING DUCKS--H.L. Mattingly and F.L. Leebrick, Criticized by Brockus in House of Delegates Investigation, are Dismissed; Reported Connected with "Third Degree" Case--Sergeant H. L. Mattingly and Trooper F.L. Leebrick were discharged from the state police force Tuesday by Superintendent Harry L. Brooks on an official charge of shooting ducks out of season, according to a United Press report from New Martinsville. Word of the dismissals had not been received at state headquarters Tuesday afternoon.
Although the duck shooting charge was announced as the reason for dismissal, it was reported by the UPI that the two had been discharged because of purported participation in "third degree" methods administered last fall to suspects held as slayers of Garland Bayless, 3 years old, on Grandview island in the Ohio River.
Both of the men were criticized by Captain J.R. Brockus, their commanding officer, during the house of delegates investigation of the department. Captain Brockus said that the two men had not accounted for witness fees collected by them and that when he called the matter to their attention, that they took it up with Superintendent Brooks. Captain Brockus testified that although he recommended their dismissal at that time, the men were retained upon turning the fees over to Superintendent Brooks."--17 Mar 1931, The Charleston (WV) Daily Mail

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Info from SS files. SSN 228-42-0757 Card issued in Virginia.

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Continuation from general notes. 1900 Decatur County, KS census page 197A lists all the family except for William, who died earlier. Gives Frank's occupation as Hotel Keeper and Charles and Max's occupation as Farmer.

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Residence 139. Does not appear in Wayne County 1860 census.