I'll Do My Own Damn Killin' by Gary Sleeper

Author:Gary Sleeper
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781569804193
Publisher: Barricade Books

ALTHOUGH MILDRED NOBLE’S murder had occurred in Dallas County, a Tarrant County grand jury invited Herbert to testify at a hearing on December 12, 1949. His grand jury testimony is, of course, secret, but he repeated most of it in statements to reporters. The gist of Herbert’s testimony was that an unnamed “kill-crazy man” who lived fifteen hundred miles west of Dallas was behind Mildred’s murder as well as several attempts on Herbert’s own life. He repeated his assertions that this man owned and continued to operate a large numbers racket in Dallas. Noble went on to tell reporters that the man who wanted to kill him hated him because he wouldn’t “bow down to him.”

Once again, Noble refused to speak the name, but he left little doubt in the minds of either the reporters or grand jurors that he referred to Benny Binion. When Dallas and Fort Worth reporters called Binion for his reaction to Noble’s charges, the Las Vegas gambler said he had never met Mildred Noble, but he had heard that she was a fine woman. He was, he said, “sorry as hell to see her killed like that . . . terrible thing.” Binion said that he knew Herbert Noble well and had done business with him in Dallas during the war, but he wasn’t trying to have him killed and didn’t have any idea who was. Binion admitted that he was acquainted with Lois Green, but said he’d never hired Green to kill Noble or anyone else.

With Noble’s charges and Binion’s denials, the murder of Mildred Noble faded quietly out of the headlines. The two Dallas police officers in charge of the investigation, Will Fritz of the homicide squad and George Butler of the vice squad, continued to pound the pavement, squeezing informants for information and hoping to find evidence that would support prosecution. Butler eventually summarized the investigation by saying that “information was received to the effect that Lois Green, R.D. Matthews and Jettie Bass had planted the bomb. One arrest was made, but there was insufficient evidence, and no charges were filed.” Once again, the old police axiom held true: knowing something and proving it are two different things.

Officially, the murder of Mildred Noble remains unsolved.

Footnote

* FBI reports refer to Matthews as a “hired killer” but there is no record that Matthews was ever arrested for, or charged with, murder.

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