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UPDATE: Grand Jury Will Decide Cairo Bank Robbery Charges

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A grand jury will decide whether a man suspected in a fatal bank robbery in Cairo should face other charges.

James Watts is being held without bond on a federal weapons charge.

Funeral services were held Tuesday for Anita Jo Grace, one of the two workers killed last week at the First National Bank branch.

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A convict suspected in the stabbing deaths of two southern Illinois bank employees during a botched holdup is expected to learn if he's eligible for bond on a related federal weapons count.

Twenty-nine-year-old James Watts of Cairo is scheduled for a detention hearing Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Benton. He's charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm.

Authorities arrested Watts last Thursday, hours after the holdup at the First National Bank branch in Cairo.

The branch's president, Anita Jo Grace of Olive Branch, and teller Nita Jo Smith, both died. A third worker also was stabbed but has been released from the hospital.

Watts isn't charged in the robbery or the deaths.

His public defender hasn't returned telephone messages seeking comment.

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