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MURDER AT MEXIA
Police, shriff's deputies and the Texas Rangers are searching for a suspect in the shooting death last night of 57-year old Ciovis Hodge, manager of the Pecan Valley Ranch. man Hodge's wife Marie admitted a/to their home, located seven miles east of Mexia, when he came to the door with the story he'd struck a cow on the road and wrecked his car. Once inside the house the man demanded money and Hodge struck him several times, whereupon the man drew a pistol and fatally shot Hodge. The suspect is described as about 45 years of