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Note: Amarillo Daily News, Friday, August 8, 1947 from account on page 24 regarding various court issues:
....A 150 man special venire also was ordered yesterday for the trials Aug 25 of Bernard G. Faulkner and C. C. Shadel on charges of murder. Faulkner was indicted here in connection with the fatal stabbing of his wife, Mrs. Edith Norrid Honeycutt Faulkner, in a room at the Rainbow Hotel, 623 East Fourth, the morning of June 1. At that time, investigating officers said the defendant, a part time taxi driver, and his wife had been separated. The woman was found dead in the hotel room, with a pocket knife lying on the bed near the body. Cause of death was attributed to numerous stab wounds in her chest. The defendant pleaded not guilty when he was arraigned several weeks ago...
Amarillo Daily News, Friday, August 29, 1947
35 Year Term Given Faulkner is Heaviest in County History
Amarillo Globe, Tuesday, September 23, 1947
Bernard Gault Faulkner, former Amarillo taxicab driver, was en route from Amarillo to the Texas penitentiary today to begin serving 35 years for the murder of his wife...
Name: Edith Norrid Faulkner
Death date: 01 Jun 1947
Death place: Amarillo, Potter, Texas
Gender: Female
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Age at death: 31 years 8 months 1 day
Estimated birth year: 1916
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Father name: James S. Norrid
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Mother name: Emily Jane Dillin Norrid
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Film number: 2218601
Digital GS number: 4031395
Image number: 1024
Reference number: 1037
Collection: Texas Deaths, 1890-1976
(Informant: sister, Mrs. Barrington)
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