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                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, April 14, 1993                   TAG: 9304140269
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C3   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
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DATELINE: BUCKINGHAM                                LENGTH: Short

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MAN INDICTED IN 1992 TRIPLE SLAYING

Mays W. Tate Jr. was indicted Tuesday in the May 1992 murders of three people in Buckingham County.

A Buckingham County grand jury indicted Tate, 20, of Culpeper, on three counts of capital murder, use of a firearm in the commission of a felony, grand larceny and breaking and entering.

Clarence Stinson, 66; his sister, Eva R. Stinson, 62; and her daughter, Gloria Stinson, 40, were found dead on their farm off Virginia 606 ont May 31. Each had been killed by a shotgun blast to the head, authorities said.

Tate, who is in the Central Virginia Regional Jail in Orange County, is the stepgrandson of Clarence Stinson.

In December, a Culpeper County jury convicted Tate of assault and battery for a stabbing there in May 1992. Last month, a Greene County jury convicted him of malicious wounding for stabbing a man several times and leaving him for dead, also in May 1992.

- Associated Press

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