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HARPER SLAYING
LIVE:HIX Police in Houston today arrested a Houston couple in connection with the slaying of Fort Worth meat-packing executive James H. Harper. I?4zY ear-old Harry Lee Gaines, and his 26-year-old wife -- Zella Barbara -- are charged with the murder of Harper, 52. Police said they took a statement from the couple. Gainest half-brother -- 18-year-old Kenneth Atkins, Jr., of Texas City -- has also been arrested and charged with the murder. The body of the Swift and Company official was found Tuesday in a creek bed in Wharton County, near Glen Flora. Authorities said he had been stabbed several times in the chest with a long-bladed knife, and beaten around the head and face.