Waymore's On Texas Country Reporter

+Darla K. Jennings' museum and liquor store, Waymore's, was featured on the Texas Country Reporter show during the week of October 5, 2013 in episode #1362. Clovis Road I and II are on sale exclusively in Littlefield at Waymore's for $30 plus tax, or you can order a copy from Highgate Publishing LLC, 6257 Highgate Lane, Dallas, Texas for $36.81 check or money order. Waymore's is located at Hall and Waylon Jennings Boulevard and was formerly the family filling station.

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Sleuthing Clovis Road - 2

    +David A. (Sammy) Samuelson and I stayed in Littlefield at the Crescent Park Motel, 2021 Hall Avenue, after driving from Dallas on March 23, 2003. On the morning of the 24th, after visiting the Clovis Road site a little over two miles east on old highway 7, we went to the Lamb County Courthouse and copied probate, real estate, and court records relating to the Hunt case. About 10 A.M. we visited the mysterious Hunt home at 606 East 7th and roamed the alleys to the north and south of the house. From there we drove to the Duggan Museum and  copied  the history records of +Mardema Ogletree and exhibits there relating to the Littlefield Hospital on 1938. At Waymore’s, 901 Hall Avenue, Sammy met owner +Darla K. Jennings and we looked at the memorabilia there that her parents had collected in the Waylon Jennings museum. We had lunch at the Sonic at 1015 Hall and spent the early aftenoon at the Lamb County Leader News office, 313 W. 4th Street,  copying newspapers in their morgue aided by +Ms. Grata Reber. About three we drove to Plainview to visit the LaFont Justice Center and review court records relating to the Hunt case. We returned to Littlefield and had dinner at the Rodriguez Restaurant at 426 Phelps  Avenue in downtown Littlefield. The next morning, after breakfast and a visit to the Littlefield Cemetery, we returned to the Duggan Museum to copy

Hunt Home 606 East 7th - March 24, 2003

Sammy Samuelson at Lamb County Court House County Clerk Office March 24, 2003

Mr. Jake Moreland Interview, Littlefield, Texas March 24, 2003

Hunt Home Nursery Windows from South alley

David A. (Sammy) March 24, 2003 Successful Trip

more records, and then went to the +Jake Moreland home for an interview with him about his role in the Hunt case. After checking out at the Crescent Park Motel we drove to Lubbock to visit the Southwest Collection at the library at Texas Tech to review Judge LaFont’s files there and returned to Dallas that evening. Outline of events March 23 - 25, 2009 in the Littlefield area by Robert J. Samuelson, M.D.

Lamb County Leader News Oct 1943

Sleuthing the Clovis Road Story 2009

+David A. (Sammy) Samuelson with Darla K Jennings at +Waymore's, Littlefield, Texas 2009

Dana Middlebrooks Samuelson with Mr. King in Milam Co. Jail Museum, Cameron, Texas 2009

Dr. Robert Samuelson at Justice Center, Plainview, Texas 2009

Dana M. Samuelson at Student Nurses Dorm at Jefferson Davis Hospital, Houston, Texas 2009

Investigative research, interviews, and travel brought the clues in the mosaic mystery of the +Dr. Roy Hunt murder together in the spring and summer of 2009. Trips to Cameron, Plainview, Denton, Houston, Galveston, and Littlefield came in rapid order for the Samuelsons. The detective work was assisted by +Ms. Darla K. Jennings in Littlefield, Mr. King in Cameron, +Mr. Bill LaFont and his secretary, +Ms. Jean Stovall, in Plainview, +Ms. Grata Reber of Littlefield and many others. Read about the results of their efforts by writing Highgate Publishing, LLC, 6257 Highgate Lane, Dallas, Texas 75214 and order Clovis Road II to read the story about a doctor who shoots another doctor in front of the woman they both loved on the Clovis Road.

Clovis Road Second Suspect in Hunt Murder

Leader News October 1943

Early on in the investigation of the Dr. Roy Hunt murder articles appeared with large print about a second suspect besides James C. Thomas.  Red Craig, who drove Jim to Childress on the evening of the murders, was eventually questioned. In previous jobs Jim Thomas had a driver or accomplice, in the Keeton case in 1941, in the murder of Lon Holley in 1948, in the Baxter Honey case in 1942, and probably in the Hunt case in 1943. Mrs. Stokes saw two strange men in the Hunt neighborhood just before the murders. Probably Hubert A. Deere or Red Craig was with Thomas that night and probably the next. Read about the fate of Jim Thomas in the Second Edition of Clovis Road available from Highgate Publishing, 6257 Highgate Lane, Dallas, Texas 75214.

Dr. Roy Hunt Home Rear View 2009

Knot Evidence Not Used Why Not?

Galveston News, Nov. 3, 1943 page 2

Early on in the +Dr. Roy Hunt murder investigation was the claim that the Texas Rangers early on linked Jim Thomas to the case because of the type knots used on the cords and ropes on the bodies compared with the knots used on the Lenro Keaton couple in nearby Lubbock a couple of years before the Hunt murder. These observations did not come into to trial evidence by the prosecution. The knot theories are another interesting aspect of the circumstantial case against +James C. Thomas. Read all about the cases, the evidence, and the trials in Clovis Road.

Clovis Road Questions or Comments

We have studied and thought about the story of the Dr. Roy Hunt murders for five years and the facts never cease to ask as many questions as they answer. We would like the readers to comment or ask those questions here about this story and we will try to answer them. For instance, they tried Jim C. Thomas for the Hunt murders successfully multiple times in the Littlefield area without ever really addressing the motive for him to do the killings. Why? Why were the Smith and Wenig detectives that went out across Texas always asking the people they interviewed about drugs if drugs was not on the mind of the prosecutors and family. Why didn't Mrs Stokes, the druggist's wife,  with the lost pony, ever view a line up?
We are aware that there is a remnant that cannot accept the guilt of Dr. Newton and we ask that those of that number who make comments or ask questions not use it as an anonymous forum to promote his innocence.
Soon we begin another Texas true crime writing project but have time now for readers.
The Samuelsons

Dr. William R. Newton, Jr. A Dilemma of 100 Evil Deeds

Dr. William Rowland Newton, Jr.

Some wonder how many crimes Dr. Billy Newton committed. Some would think if you are apprehended  in a few that you can multiply by some factor to see how many you got by with. Ecclesiastes Chapter 8 Verses 10 through 12 says: “And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done: this is also vanity. Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set to do evil. Though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and his days be prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God.”
    In this section of Old Testament Scripture the wisdom writer of Ecclesiastes (Solomon) wonders at the enigma of the failure of God to quickly punish wickedness. The wicked go to church (the holy place), die, and are buried and may even be praised in the city where they committed crime. Failure to punish a crime quickly may lead to more crime and wrongdoing. The enigma bothers the author, but is later answered in a parabolic teaching,  Matthew 13:36-43.
    Dr. Newton lived more than 70 years. He ratted on his friends. He dragged the people of Cameron to west Texas many times to testify for an unjust cause. He arranged a murder. He attempted murder. He forged documents. He got kickbacks. He bribed public officials. He cheated his siblings out of their inheritance. He ran his mother out of her house and probably burned her up. He manipulated the futures market. He sued everyone.  He cheated on his wife. He was a drug dealer. He is not remembered for these things in his home city, but he did join the church. Read the Website: “He established the 1st hospital in Cameron, was well-known, revered physician in this entire area. Dr. Billy built the Newton Memorial Hospital in Cameron in memory of his father.”
    While the parable of the tares may have only referred to the members of the church and not to all people,  it can help answer the dilemma of the unpunished civil and criminal matters for the writer of Ecclesiastes. When the harvest comes, the probationary time of forbearance for the tares is over, but not until His time is fulfilled. It is part of the process of understanding all that +Dr. William Rowland Newton, Jr. did, and was allowed to do. And, it allows us to reflect on what we ourselves have done.
(Ref: Walvoord and Zuck, Bible Knowledge Commentary, Old Testament, p. 997, 1985)