Marshall County Tribune: Local News: Beating victim emerges from coma

Marshall County Tribune: Local News: Beating victim emerges from coma: "A Marshall County man has awakened from a coma suffered from a beating nearly three weeks earlier, according to his brother who says about $5,600 were stolen from a hiding place.

Lones Allen Butler, 56, a retired CSX railroad bridge repair gang member on disability whose wife died seven years ago, has been treated at Vanderbilt Medical Center and faces rehabilitation therapy, his brother, Sherman Butler of Nashville, said last weekend.

Michael Dean Marlin, 22, of 308 Bandiwood at Chapel Hill and an accomplice, Travis Lankford, who's awaiting extradition from Gulf Shores, Ala., allegedly entered Allen Butler's home where he's been living with Leigh Ann Taylor, 31, at about 11 p.m. on Dec. 13, according to a statement from Sheriff's Detective Keith Jolley."