Oklahoma Court Upholds Death Penalty for Fairris
Date: Thursday, September 8, 1955
Paper: Dallas Morning News (Dallas, TX)
Section: Part 1
Page: 11
killed Oklahoma City police officer Bennie Cravatt in a supermarket robbery in 1954. killed in gun battle July 16, 1954
two others charged, James Edward Skinner, 22 and Raymond Carroll Price, 24, given live sentences. Peggy Fry, 21, driver of the getaway car and sweetheart of Fairris. All lived in Dallas.
Herbie Fairris Dies at Age 48
Date: Monday, November 12, 1962
Paper: Dallas Morning News (Dallas, TX)
Section: 1
Page: 17
Herbie Fairris Dies at Age 48
A onetime police character, who "went straight" about four years ago after his son was executed in Oklahoma for killing a police officer, died Sunday of a heart attack.
He was Herbie Franklin Fairris, 48, of 6022 Junius.
He had served two terms in federal prisons and two in state prisons during his crime career, which began in the mid-thirties.
Fairris was in jail for burglary in Paris, Lamar county, at the time his son, Herbie Fairris, Jr was tried in Oklahoma for the robbery of a supermarket and for shooting a police officer. Two other Dallas men with young Fairris were given life sentences on pleas of guilty.
Young Herbie's mother, Mrs Margie Zeglen of Houston was in Texas prison at the time of the execution. She was a sister of the late Raymond Hamilton. She and Fairris had been long divorced.
When Fairris was released from Lamar county, he came to Dallas, got a job with a delivery service and told friends that he was through with crime. His record shows no further arrests.
Funeral arrangements are pending with Dudley Hughes Funeral Home.
Date: Thursday, September 8, 1955
Paper: Dallas Morning News (Dallas, TX)
Section: Part 1
Page: 11
killed Oklahoma City police officer Bennie Cravatt in a supermarket robbery in 1954. killed in gun battle July 16, 1954
two others charged, James Edward Skinner, 22 and Raymond Carroll Price, 24, given live sentences. Peggy Fry, 21, driver of the getaway car and sweetheart of Fairris. All lived in Dallas.
Herbie Fairris Dies at Age 48
Date: Monday, November 12, 1962
Paper: Dallas Morning News (Dallas, TX)
Section: 1
Page: 17
Herbie Fairris Dies at Age 48
A onetime police character, who "went straight" about four years ago after his son was executed in Oklahoma for killing a police officer, died Sunday of a heart attack.
He was Herbie Franklin Fairris, 48, of 6022 Junius.
He had served two terms in federal prisons and two in state prisons during his crime career, which began in the mid-thirties.
Fairris was in jail for burglary in Paris, Lamar county, at the time his son, Herbie Fairris, Jr was tried in Oklahoma for the robbery of a supermarket and for shooting a police officer. Two other Dallas men with young Fairris were given life sentences on pleas of guilty.
Young Herbie's mother, Mrs Margie Zeglen of Houston was in Texas prison at the time of the execution. She was a sister of the late Raymond Hamilton. She and Fairris had been long divorced.
When Fairris was released from Lamar county, he came to Dallas, got a job with a delivery service and told friends that he was through with crime. His record shows no further arrests.
Funeral arrangements are pending with Dudley Hughes Funeral Home.
Oklahoma Court Upholds Death Penalty for Fairris
Date: Thursday, September 8, 1955
Paper: Dallas Morning News (Dallas, TX)
Section: Part 1
Page: 11
killed Oklahoma City police officer Bennie Cravatt in a supermarket robbery in 1954. killed in gun battle July 16, 1954
two others charged, James Edward Skinner, 22 and Raymond Carroll Price, 24, given live sentences. Peggy Fry, 21, driver of the getaway car and sweetheart of Fairris. All lived in Dallas.
Herbie Fairris Dies at Age 48
Date: Monday, November 12, 1962
Paper: Dallas Morning News (Dallas, TX)
Section: 1
Page: 17
Herbie Fairris Dies at Age 48
A onetime police character, who "went straight" about four years ago after his son was executed in Oklahoma for killing a police officer, died Sunday of a heart attack.
He was Herbie Franklin Fairris, 48, of 6022 Junius.
He had served two terms in federal prisons and two in state prisons during his crime career, which began in the mid-thirties.
Fairris was in jail for burglary in Paris, Lamar county, at the time his son, Herbie Fairris, Jr was tried in Oklahoma for the robbery of a supermarket and for shooting a police officer. Two other Dallas men with young Fairris were given life sentences on pleas of guilty.
Young Herbie's mother, Mrs Margie Zeglen of Houston was in Texas prison at the time of the execution. She was a sister of the late Raymond Hamilton. She and Fairris had been long divorced.
When Fairris was released from Lamar county, he came to Dallas, got a job with a delivery service and told friends that he was through with crime. His record shows no further arrests.
Funeral arrangements are pending with Dudley Hughes Funeral Home.
Date: Thursday, September 8, 1955
Paper: Dallas Morning News (Dallas, TX)
Section: Part 1
Page: 11
killed Oklahoma City police officer Bennie Cravatt in a supermarket robbery in 1954. killed in gun battle July 16, 1954
two others charged, James Edward Skinner, 22 and Raymond Carroll Price, 24, given live sentences. Peggy Fry, 21, driver of the getaway car and sweetheart of Fairris. All lived in Dallas.
Herbie Fairris Dies at Age 48
Date: Monday, November 12, 1962
Paper: Dallas Morning News (Dallas, TX)
Section: 1
Page: 17
Herbie Fairris Dies at Age 48
A onetime police character, who "went straight" about four years ago after his son was executed in Oklahoma for killing a police officer, died Sunday of a heart attack.
He was Herbie Franklin Fairris, 48, of 6022 Junius.
He had served two terms in federal prisons and two in state prisons during his crime career, which began in the mid-thirties.
Fairris was in jail for burglary in Paris, Lamar county, at the time his son, Herbie Fairris, Jr was tried in Oklahoma for the robbery of a supermarket and for shooting a police officer. Two other Dallas men with young Fairris were given life sentences on pleas of guilty.
Young Herbie's mother, Mrs Margie Zeglen of Houston was in Texas prison at the time of the execution. She was a sister of the late Raymond Hamilton. She and Fairris had been long divorced.
When Fairris was released from Lamar county, he came to Dallas, got a job with a delivery service and told friends that he was through with crime. His record shows no further arrests.
Funeral arrangements are pending with Dudley Hughes Funeral Home.
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