Big Spring Daily Herald 
Dec. 27, 1954

MAN HELD IN JAIL IN WOMAN'S DEATH

Fort Worth - A painter, 55, was held in jail today as police checked the death of Mrs. Exa Freeman, 53, who died yesterday apparently of a beating.
 
Peace Justice Dick Calloway ruled the woman had died from internal hemorrhaging.  An autopsy disclosed a ruptured spleen and a fractured bone 
in the right ear.
 
Mrs. Freeman was found dead in bed yesterday at the home of a sister, Mrs. J. B. Johnson. She was taken to the Johnson home Saturday night after 
relatives, delivering Christmas presents, found her ill.
 
Before her death she told a physician she had been "slapped around."  Mrs. Freeman had lived in Longview most of her life before coming to Fort 
Worth two years ago.  Services will be held Tuesday at Longview.