A chair-shaped monument went missing last year from 200-year-old Live Oak Cemetery in Selma.
A judge has delayed the trial of a New Orleans man charged with stealing a chair-shaped Confederate monument from a Selma cemetery in a bizarre ransom scheme.
From the West Alabama Newsroom– Selma Mayor James Perkins, Jr. — steps into a controversy at a historic cemetery to try an diffuse the situation. “At the center of this matter is volunteerism,” he said. Perkins used the press conference Wednesday afternoon to clarify the city’s position concerning volunteerism at Old Live Oak Cemetery — and volunteering in general. “Are…
From the West Alabama Newsroom– The historic Confederate monument stolen from a Selma cemetery has been recovered more than 300 miles away in New Orleans. Thirty-two year old Stanley Warnick and 24 year old Kathryn Diionno have been arrested and police are searching for 34 year old Stanley Pate — in connection to the theft of the Jefferson Davis Memorial…
The theft of a Confederate monument stolen from a Selma cemetery is making headlines across the country. Now the leader of the group that owns the Jefferson Davis Memorial Chair is speaking out to Alabama News Network. “It’s irreplaceable. It’s just like any other art, it’s priceless. I mean what kind of a price do you put on the Mona…
A group claiming responsibility for stealing a Confederate monument from Old Live Oak Cemetery in Selma last month is now threatening to turn the ornate sculpture of a chair into a toilet. A representative of the United Daughters of the Confederacy on March 20 reported to police that the Jefferson Davis Memorial Chair had gone missing from the cemetery. Someone…
