Post by Brian on Aug 5, 2014 0:52:49 GMT -5
sissy
01/15/07 at 03:11AM
I read that they had a traveling exhibit of the guns and a few other things. Is that true? Also where is that stuff now? Why did they remove Charlie's brain and what happened to it?
sissy
01/15/07 at 09:15 AM
Maria
Yes Sissy that's true. Between 1930 and 35 at the county fair in Mt. Airy, N.C. Arthur Lawson and his uncle Marion Lawson were at the fair and had a booth with some of the Lawson paraphernalia on display. I'm not certain of what particular item were displayed. In the 1950's The Dixie Classic Fair in Winston-Salem also had a booth with some of those same items on display but Arthur and Marion were not present for that showing as Arthur died in 1945. Charlie's brain was removed during the initial autopsy and taken to Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland for examination. The last we've been able to trace it it was still at Johns Hopkins but whether it is still there we don't know.
Maria
01/15/07 at 02:55 PM
ecalhoun
As with a lot of areas of the case, there is a lot of conflicting reports over which items were displayed, and which weren't. But they all say the cake was there!
Seriously, looking at which items were auctioned by Marion Lawson after the tragedy, they kept all the furniture, and I think some of that certainly was displayed. Even though guns were shown, there is doubt if they were the real ones.
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ecalhoun
01/15/07 at 04:38 PM
Maria
I agree Eric. I have heard from 4 different people claiming that they have the original guns or that they know who do and each one of those 4 named a different person and they all turned out to be bogus. It's a 15 minutes of fame thing.
Maria
01/18/07 at 01:20 PM
lilred1984
wasn't all the furniture and guns shared between the winston salem and mt. airy museums?
Lil Red
01/18/07 at 01:25 PM
Maria
You're right about the items being shared Lilred but they were at the county fairs, not museums.
Maria
01/18/07 at 01:35 PM
lilred1984
does any body really know what happened to the furniture and guns?
Lil Red
01/19/07 at 09:42 AM
sissy
Did they auction off everything when Arthur lost his home?
sissy
01/21/08 at 09:36 AM
Maria
There was no auction of Arthur's belongings when he lost the house (the one he built, not the Lawson house where the murders took place). The bank foreclosed on it and Hillary and Sadie Hampton rented it for a while then bought it. There was nothing in the house when Hillary and Sadie moved in except for some trash that she cleaned and threw out. She said it took a week to clean it up and make it decent to move into. I assume Arthur moved whatever furniture, appliances, personal belongings, etc. to the Charlie Lawson house where he and Nina moved to for a short while after they lost the other house. Then those things probably moved with them to the other places they moved in. When Arthur died everything would have gone to Nina. What she did with everything is anybodies guess.
01/15/07 at 03:11AM
I read that they had a traveling exhibit of the guns and a few other things. Is that true? Also where is that stuff now? Why did they remove Charlie's brain and what happened to it?
sissy
01/15/07 at 09:15 AM
Maria
Yes Sissy that's true. Between 1930 and 35 at the county fair in Mt. Airy, N.C. Arthur Lawson and his uncle Marion Lawson were at the fair and had a booth with some of the Lawson paraphernalia on display. I'm not certain of what particular item were displayed. In the 1950's The Dixie Classic Fair in Winston-Salem also had a booth with some of those same items on display but Arthur and Marion were not present for that showing as Arthur died in 1945. Charlie's brain was removed during the initial autopsy and taken to Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland for examination. The last we've been able to trace it it was still at Johns Hopkins but whether it is still there we don't know.
Maria
01/15/07 at 02:55 PM
ecalhoun
As with a lot of areas of the case, there is a lot of conflicting reports over which items were displayed, and which weren't. But they all say the cake was there!
Seriously, looking at which items were auctioned by Marion Lawson after the tragedy, they kept all the furniture, and I think some of that certainly was displayed. Even though guns were shown, there is doubt if they were the real ones.
Break of Dawn Productions
"Bringing Light to the Darkest Night"
ecalhoun
01/15/07 at 04:38 PM
Maria
I agree Eric. I have heard from 4 different people claiming that they have the original guns or that they know who do and each one of those 4 named a different person and they all turned out to be bogus. It's a 15 minutes of fame thing.
Maria
01/18/07 at 01:20 PM
lilred1984
wasn't all the furniture and guns shared between the winston salem and mt. airy museums?
Lil Red
01/18/07 at 01:25 PM
Maria
You're right about the items being shared Lilred but they were at the county fairs, not museums.
Maria
01/18/07 at 01:35 PM
lilred1984
does any body really know what happened to the furniture and guns?
Lil Red
01/19/07 at 09:42 AM
sissy
Did they auction off everything when Arthur lost his home?
sissy
01/21/08 at 09:36 AM
Maria
There was no auction of Arthur's belongings when he lost the house (the one he built, not the Lawson house where the murders took place). The bank foreclosed on it and Hillary and Sadie Hampton rented it for a while then bought it. There was nothing in the house when Hillary and Sadie moved in except for some trash that she cleaned and threw out. She said it took a week to clean it up and make it decent to move into. I assume Arthur moved whatever furniture, appliances, personal belongings, etc. to the Charlie Lawson house where he and Nina moved to for a short while after they lost the other house. Then those things probably moved with them to the other places they moved in. When Arthur died everything would have gone to Nina. What she did with everything is anybodies guess.
