Dr. Charles Stockham

New Date Set For Hearing In Death Case

Article taken from The Elyria Chronicle Telegram, December 16, 1958

PORTSMOUTH, O. (UPI) - Hearing on the first degree murder charge against Dr. Charles A. Stockham, 35, a chiropractor, charged with strangling his mother, was scheduled for Wednesday in municipal court here.

Stockham won continuance of the hearing Monday so he could get a lawyer.

Police said Stockham strangled his mother, Mrs. James Stockham, 65, Saturday night at the family home near Slocum Station, eight miles northeast of here.  The slaying followed an argument between the two over Mrs. Stockham having her husband committed to the Portsmouth Recieving Hospital as a mental patient.

 

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Repudiates Confession

Article taken from The Marion Star, December 29, 1958

PORTSMOUTH, Ohio (AP) - Charles A. Stockman, 35-year-old New Boston chiropractor, has repudiated his statement admitting the strangulation of his mother, Sheriff C. Russell Burns reports.  Mrs. Lucy Stockham, 66, was choked to death in her home at nearby Slocum Station Dec. 13.  The sheriff said Stockham claimed that some of the statements made by him were suggested by officers who questioned him.

 

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Indicted in Death

Article taken from The Marion Star, January 14, 1959

Portsmouth, Ohio (AP)

Charles A. Stockham, 35-year-old chiropractor, has been indicted for first-degree murder in the strangulation of his mother, Mrs. Lucy Stockham, 66.  Authorities said he choked her at her home at nearby Slocum Station Dec. 13 upon learning that she had his father committed to a mental institution.