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VOL. 40. NO. 21
DeWITT COUNTY, TEXAS, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 26,1914
CUER
Capital Stock $100,000. Total Resources Over $500,000.00
A Guaranty Fund Bank
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Jury Returns Verdict Saturday Night
After Twenty-four Hoars of De-
liberation. History of Case.
Jack Campbell, Negro Auto Driver,
Dead. Henry Holm, Young White
« Maa, Surrenders to Officers.
, RESOURCES
Loans and Discounts..........I
0. a Bonds (Par)..............
Other Bonds and stocks
Furniture and* Fixtures...
Cash and due from other
Dne from U. S. Tfeas..^
Hepry Hohn, a young white man of
Yorktown, and a member of one of
the oldest and most influential fami-
lies of that section of DeWitl coun-
ty, came to this city Saturday night
and surrendered to the officers, noti-
fying them that he had shot and kill-
ed Jack Campbell, colored, a member
of the Campbell Bros, auto transfer
line. ■ i - .
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Particulars of the trouble as gather
ed by the Record, ars .so contacting
that wo shall not attempt to
them in detail. The principles
the trouble were members of
,The jury in the Buddie Smith mur-
der case, after deliberating from ten
o.clock Friday night, finally reached
a verdict Saturday at about the same
hour, and so notified Judge Green
and the opposing counsel. Judge
Grech re-couvened the court and re-
ceived the report of Foreman Chas.
’Fischer of the jury, returning a ver-
dict'of guitly and fixing tho punish-
ment of the defendant at ninety-nine
years In the penitentiary.
Attorney Bagby for the defense, de
manded a poll of the jury'. At his re-
quest Judfce Green called the names
of the members of the jury and each
man said this was his verdict Judge
Green then made the verdict of the
jury the verdict of the court with the
sentence included. Attorney Bagby
of pie Bank
LEE JOSEPH, President , F. W. JAEGGLI, Ca.hier.
GROCERS
com-
petitive businesses .in Yorktown, and
in soliciting passengers and baggage
at the train, altercations had occur-
red in the past which had led to bad
feeling, on one occasion the negro
having attacked yonng Hohn who 1b
If it Is YOU, we have t
quality and price; if
goods and service. Giv
prove to you that'your
said to~ be but a hoy and choked him,
the 6 o'clock
east bound train was passing York-
town, further trouble occurred be-
tweeft the men, in soliciting a ’passen
ger,. which led to harsh words and
abusive language. Later the killing
occurred down town in Yorktown.
The weapon used was a shot gun and
our information is that the victim
was shot in the side, though another
report has it that he was shot in the
neck.
•Young Hohn this morning gave a
$5,000 appearance bond and hla ex-
amining trial was set for February
18th. It .will be heard, before Judge
Evans in Cuero. J. L. Boai of York-
On Saturday night, as
G. C. Woolsey a young white mhn
■hear Yoakum on Sunday morning,
{November 16th, by members of a
jiarty of five negroes,1 whom he found
trespassing upon his premises with
fire arms and ordered from the
place. When Mr. Woolsey first came
upon the negroes, hunting in the pas
ture, he was in^ bis shirt sleeves and
bare headed and was 'planning to go
to church with his wife.
* The second time he came upon the
twgroes after they had failed to leave
ms premises as ordered, he carried
a six shooter. Each of the negroes
was armed with a shot gun, and in
the pasture a battle occurred be-
tween the white man on ewe side
the 5 negroes On the other, according
to the testimony offered Ijl the case.
With four shots from bis pistol,
Mr. Woolsey killed two of the party,
David Kuykendall and John Roach,
and Wounded a third Marshal Bever-
ly, and he received wounds from
which he died in the hospital here
the next day.
The,remaining negroes of the party
surrendered to the officers at Yoa-
Cuero
MUTI
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LAUNDRY
CUERO
“The Gtrl of the Underworld,**
which plays at the Cuero Opera
House on January 26th, is perhaps
one of the few plays that presents to
the public a vivid story of the much
discussed question qf the underworld
life, in a manner that not only clear
ly shows all the repl life but goes in-
to the subject from every angle, so
that the auditor, after witnessing the
performance, leaves the theatre with
a better ^understanding in truth of
life than has yet been attempted in
other dramas. Different in structure
from most plays of this type, the au-
thor, Jack Gorman, ‘ has happily dis-
missed all that could possibly offend
and in its stead has built a plot that
is clean and free from all or aaY
Saturday Evening late,.
York and Milligan took Intel
two negroeft who were ridii
buggy, and showing signs of
less disorderly conduct. A
started walking towa^4||i|
with Mr. York and his man
lead, Mr. Milligan’s man brol
and ran. The marshal gavi
but findings that he would not
to overtake the man, he fl
couple of shots into the sir.
either, frightened the Negro <
duced him to recall that disci
the better part of valor, for h
the ground and lay there1 *
kum and were brought to
and lodged# in jail. An examining
trial was hfcld before Judge E. P.
Evans of the No. 1 Preeint and the
defendants Marshal Beverly, Sam
Lawson and Buddie Smith were
bound over to the. grmid jury with
bail denied them.
The recent grand convened for this
term of court on Monday, January
5th, returned indictments of murder
against these defendants the first day
of its session.
The cases were set for trial Mon-
day, January 19th, two weeks after
the bills had been returned. Mar-
shal Beverly and Buddie Smith em-
ployed W. T. Bagby of HalletsviUe
District court entered upon its 4th
week.and upon the second week of
the criminal docket this morning,
with a large a tendance on hand, in-
cluding attorneys, witnesses, the reg-
ular jury and special venftes of fifty
men each in the Marshal Beverly
Sam Lawson and John Pro vine mur-
ine case or Manual Beverly was
called for trial. W. T.i Bagby of
Hallet8ville. is representing the ' de-
fendant in this case and A. D. David-
son of the fifrm of Davidson ft Bailey
is assisting District Atorney Guy
Mitchell with the prosecution.
After calling over the names of its
witnesses, the State announced ready
for trial.
Attorney for the defense, Bagby,
presented the matter to the court
that the similarity of cases »n4 the
fact that his client waa depending
upon | evidence to be established in
the Sam Lawson trial, should. give
that ease precedence before, his case
The point was uncontested' by the
state counsel,
Milligan came up.
negro was uninjured.
at & race horse clip down
street, around the corner and i
the track, in front of the ice ft
and oft out by the race track, i
to be the hone and jumper of
Meyers. The animal got loo
some way and showed how ft
could do a mile, without act
rounding up at thb home of its <
with nb damage done.
and the Sam .Lawson
'case was called. ft'
District Attorney Mitchell then an-
nounced that for reasons filed
the Sam Lawson case harf been dis-
missed. %
This resalted in the calling for, the
second time of the Marshal Beverly
base. Attorney Bagby then submit-
ted a claim that R. J. Poth. a mem-
ber of the DeWitt county grand jury,
which returned the indictment
against Beverly, being, a resident of
the county of Lavaca, the indictment
was illegal and the case should be
dismissed against Beverly.
Attorneys for the state contested
tjiis claim and teacinfony andf evi-
dence were introduced to show that
while Mr. Poth’s family has been liv-
ing in Yoakum since fall and their
residence is 'on the Lavaca side of
that city
The DeWiWtt County Poultry a
Pet Stock Association will hetd
special session at the city ball
night to complete plans for the lib
ing of the poultry show on the A.
Dietse corner next Friday and H
urday,
reperesent the 81st district. t Mr.
Hartmann is an aggressive and am-
bitious young attorney of this city,
a member of the law firm of Cr&in
ft Hartmann.' He is a member of a
representative family of the county,
and has perhaps as large a following
of friends as any young man in the
county. He is a man of unquestion-
ed Ability an dhis election will give
this county an active voice in the
counsels of the state. Mr. Hartmann
will appreciate the vote of his
friends at the democratic primary
January SO and 31. Tftmakp
success of this show it is neoeaaary
at a full attendance of the mem-
Tship be present. L W. Colt.
, After being out for twenty-four
hours without reaching a verdict the
jury agreed on a sentence of ninety-
nine years in the penitentiary. ;It is
reported that from the early part of
the deliberations of the jury seven
iraen favored the death'penalty and
five were for a penitentiary sen-
tence. During the deliberations it is
further reported four of the minority
expressed themselves as willing to
come over with the majority.
Smith received the verdict with ap-
parent unconcern, and never lost the
« grin on his countenance.
Fbc > those who seek relief ; from
kidney backache, weak kidneys, blad-
der ills, Doan’s Bidney Pills; offer
* hope of relief and the proof is here
in Cuero the name as everywhere.
Cuero people have used Doan's and
Cuero people recommend Doan’s, the
kidney remedy used in America for
fifty years. Why suffer? Why run
tab risk of dangerous kidney ills—
fatal Bright’s disease. Here’s. Cuero
[ prpof. Investigate it
Mrs. Jessie Weir, Cuero^ Texas,
. says: “One of the family suffered
from kidney weakness and backache.
After using Doan’s Kidney Fills, the
pains left and the kidneys became
Nearly an Accident,
Mr. Poth still maintains
his lands and home In DeWitt coun-
ty. Judge Green sustained the State
in its contention* and the^aita pro-
ceeded. i
At 2 o’clock the work of~ selecting
the twelve jurors from the special
venire of fifty men began, and was
still in progress at our press boor.
This morning while the street gro> wmif
sprinkler was making its usual *0 Wedm
rounds on the Main street, the coupl. of T^®puty
ing pole of the wagon popped into haV*ng bis 1
and the tongue flew up in the air, before Judge
taking the team of horses up into the There are i
air with it „ by their har- be examined,
ness fastenings. Quick work was Brantley w
done in freeing the horses, and ths kilied M. D.
broken coupling pole was the cmly Simonton an
Marriage Licenses.
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The Cuero Daily Record (Cuero, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 21, Ed. 1 Monday, January 26, 1914, newspaper, January 26, 1914; Cuero, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1130295/m1/1/: accessed July 10, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Cuero Public Library.