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On July 16, 1955, Vines found Tim Scott, a bookkeeper, drinking on his doorstep in
Orlando, Florida and claimed to have accidentally shot and killed him intending to bluff him believing that his .32 revolver was empty. He pleaded innocent to charges of first-degree murder and had a civil suit filed
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Cornelia Carrie Stephens. On October 12, 1898, he married Anges Loftus and following her death he would remarry three more times during which he had seven children. In 1900, he successfully applied for a teaching certificate in Jefferson County along with
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October 13, the Orange County Circuit Court Grand Jury chose to not indict Vines.
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163:Cornelia Carrie Stephens (mother)
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562:. July 17, 1955. p. 24.
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458:. April 7, 1905. p. 2.
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