Center Daily News (Center, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 138, Ed. 1 Saturday, November 2, 1929 Page: 2 of 4
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Cruz was “in the hall.”
At both trials, Vargas was
represented by attorneys se-
cured on the eve of trial with-
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the case. Among the things
investigation later showed, ac-
cording to Judge McCrory,
was the fact that the men who
attacked the Garcias were
known to have been riding
horses; while it was establish-
ed that there were only mules
on the ranch where Vargas
worked.
Center High School’s gray tide was at lew ebb yester-
day and the championship barge of Rusk lifted anchor to
sail through to a 12 to 6 victory thus halting the homelings
in their pennant march.
In a sea of mud the locals found old man Jinx calling
the figures and bitterly they learned that he had cast them
for the role of runner-up.
Rusk scored a touchdown in the first quarter on the
kick-off when the oval sped swift and true across the
Roughrider goal line to be fallen upon by a Rusk player as
Strickland pulled an Alphonse-Gaston stunt.
But don’t blame Strickland, and above all, don’t alibi.
Center j ust simply lost. If a team is going to play football,
it must make allowances for the fact that football is the
most uncertain of all competitive sports.
Time and again when major colleges are playing, weak,
unheralded teams upset the dope and march to triumph over
highly touted and crestfallen champions. Only last week
Centenary College of Shreveport won a miraculous decision
over Baylor; Tulane bordered on the impossible in downing
Georgia Tech and countless other teams figured in spoiling
the pennant aspirations of many confident contenders.
Center still has a chance, it is believed, and the logical
course for the Roughriders to pursue is to stay off the
street corners with their alibis and show the local fans
something against Timpson on Monday, November 11, when
they meet here.
Power to the team or to the man or the institution that
can take a slap in the face like a sport—poor losers are poor
winners.
Give all you’ve got, fellows! A good example can be
found right here in Center.
A, few days ago Zach Brittain was selling a cow to a
faimer and in the course of his sales talk Zach elaborated
on the magnificent curve of the bovine’s horns, the proud
angle at which the head looked upon the world and various
other advantages that this particular animal had over other
animlas.
The farmer listened respectfully and then asked:
“But, Zach, how much milk will she give!”
“Well,” Zach replied, “she’ll give ail she’s got!”
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sentenced to death when word
was sent to Judge McCrary
Vargas until ten days after
that Garcia had not identified
the attack and had previously out opportunity to investigate
said he did not know who the
men were.
Another Mexican resemb-
ling Vargas, b"ut with only one
eye, was exhibited to Garcia
and identified as Vargas.
“It is either a case of mis-
taken identity on the part of
Garcia or he is wearing to
something he believes to be
a fact or to impressions he has
received froml hearsay,” Mc-
Crory wrote the pardon board.
Vargas also had an alibi
but Francisco Cruz, with
whom he slept ten miles away
from the secene of the mur-
der, was not in court to testi-
fy at the time of the trial.
Vargas’ lawyers said they had
gone ahead with the trial with
the understanding form the
district attorney’s office that
Vargas formerly had work-
ed for Gabriel and Louisa
Garcia on a ranch. Men rode
up to the Garcia home on Aug.
21, 1925, killed Mrs. Garcia,
knocked her husband uncon-
scious and robbed the house.
Ten days later in a hospi-
tal, Garcia, who was still
blinded from his injuries,
identified Vargas by his voice.
Vargas already had been
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nels Ford, Ed. S. Runnels and
Jack Runnels, all of Texar-
kana, Tex. . ,
Services in the State Sen-
ate Chamber will be at 4 p. m.
Attorney General Robert Lee
Bobbitt will deliver the ad-
dress. A choir from the Dau-
ghters of the Republic of Tex-
as will sing. Ceremonies at
the cemetery will be conduct-
ed by the Masonic Lodge.
L. W. Kemp of Houston,
who succeeded in interesting
the Texas Legislature in the replied,
plan to create a state “Arling-
ton” at the state cemetery
here, has compiled a short
history of the Runnels family
from their participation in
the American Revolutionary
war to later times.
San Antonio, Tex., Nov. 2
(UP)—“They will not elec-
trocute me. I am innocent,”
Anastacio Vargas told Texas
prison attendants when they
came to prepare him for the
electric chair on Dec. 14, 1927
as convicted slayer of Louisa
Garcia. A stay of execution
bore out his faith.
Each time a day was set
for his death a stay saved him
until March 16, 1928, when
his sentence was commuted to
life imprisonment. Last week
he received a full pardon and
saw his conviction written
down as one of the law’s “re-
grettable mistakes.”
Reunited to the wife and
children from whom he was
taken four years ago he is
picking up the threads of life
again as a ranch hand in Me-
dina County.
How Vargas came so near
paying the debt of another in
the electric chair is still hard
to understand. District judge
W. W. McCrory, before whom
he was twice tried, led the
fight to save his life and win
his freedom.
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Austin, Tex., Nov. 3 (UP)
—A number of relatives of
former governor Hardin R.
Runnels are expected to at-
tend the funeral services to
be held here November 3rd,
preceding reinterment of the
former governor in the state
cemetery here.
Relatives living in Texas
are: Mrs. Fannie Runnels
Faust of Mercedes; Mrs. Mat-
tie D. Trimble, New Boston;
Mrs. Mary R. Helms, Brown-
wood; Willie W. Runnels,
Peace; and Mrs. Pauline Run-
nels Willis, Mrs. Georgia Run-
nels Turquette, Miss Patsy D.
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“Vargas never varied his
story. He never told a lie.
No clue that was run down
ever connected him' with the
crime. Footprints about the
scene of the crime were of a
much smaller foot.” Judge
McCrory attested these facts
in written form. Yet Vargas
was twice convicted and
phew of Hiram G. Runnels, a
former governor of Missis-
sippi. He represented Bowie Judge McCrory sentenced him
County in the state legisla-
ture, became speaker and in
1855 was re-elected to the leg-
islature and also elected lieu-
aenant-governor.
He was nominated for gov-
ernor in 1857 and defeated
Gen. Sam Houston. It was
the first political defeat met
by Houston. Houston had
been U. S. Senator and had
lost popularity in Texas be-
cause of his support of the
Kansas-Nebraska bill which
left slavery to be decided by
the people of territories wish-
ing to enter the United' a
States.
In the succeeding campaign
Houston staged a comeback,
defeating Runnels. Runnels
later became a delegate to the
-raisy 17. Succession Convention held in
Runnels, Mrs. Octavia Run-jAustin and was a de]e.
gate to the convention which
formed a state constitution
after the Civil War.
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Houston, Texas, Nov. 2—
(UP)—A man and woman
were held up by a lone bandit
on a residential street here.
The victims reported the rob-
bery to police.
‘‘What are your names,
please?” the desk sergeant
asked the robbed pair.
“The man hesitated, then
“iWe’d rather not
say—you see we’re married,
but not to each other.”
they left the station.
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Hardin Runnels was a ne-1 ticulars at News Office-
“I have not the slightest
doubt of his innocence,” Mc-
Crory wrote the state pardon
board. Never able to get Gov-
ernor Dan Moody to go far-
ther than to commute the
death sentence, Judge Mc-
Crory came to Austin last
week while Moody was in
Mexico on a hunting trip. He
renewed his plea to Acting
Governor Barry Miller and a
pardon was granted.
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THE CENTER DAILY NEWS, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1929
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Lynch, John W. Center Daily News (Center, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 138, Ed. 1 Saturday, November 2, 1929, newspaper, November 2, 1929; Center, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1354006/m1/2/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Fannie Brown Booth Memorial Library.