Glimpses of Hohenwald's Past

April 29, 1954

Betty Dorris Miller, who had been accused of kidnapping a baby in Kentucky and subsequently giving the infant to a childless couple from Hohenwald, was still at large. The FBI believed she would be apprehended any day. The child in question had been safely retrieved by her mother and FBI and taken home.

The Herald reported that it had received “a somewhat odd request” from Mrs. E.C. Langmire of Willow Green, CA, who asked if she could be sent two covers from book matches bearing the name of a business here in Hohenwald. She added that she collected matchbook covers.

The followin...