Golfer Back in Jail; Said He Was Ailing

A former Klansman was jailed a day after being photographed golfing despite claims he was too ill to be jailed in the 1966 firebombing death of an NAACP official. Last month, a judge in Hattiesburg freed Deavours Nix, 72, without bail after he showed up at a hearing in a wheelchair and using an oxygen canister. Circuit Judge Richard McKenzie ordered Nix back to court after The Jackson Clarion-Ledger published photos of him golfing. The judge revoked Nix’s earlier release and set bail at $50,000. Nix, who says he has lung cancer, and two other men are charged in connection with the Jan. 10, 1966, killing of civil rights activist Vernon Dahmer.