The Lampasas Daily Leader (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 53, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 6, 1939 Page: 4 of 4
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Byron and Viron Higgins, 'who are
attending John Tarleton College in
Stephenville, are spending the week
end here in the home of their pa-
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LeRoy Rice who is attending the
University of Texas in Austin, is
spending the week end here in the
home of his aunt and uncle, Mr. and
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Entered at the postoffice at Lampasas
March 7, 1904, as second-class mail.
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James Spann, who is a student at
Texas A. & M. College, is spending
the week end here in the home of
his mother, Mrs. Ruth Spann. He has
as his guest, Dick Miller, who is at-
tending S, M. U. in Dallas.
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Pine Bluff, Ark., May 5.—Dark-
haired Irene Taylor was found slain
Friday and a few hours later Sheriff
Garland Brewster announced he had
jailed four negroes and two had ad-
mitted killing the 19 year old farm
girl “because she had a pretty box
of candy.”
Sheriff Brewster said the girl, miss-
ing since Tuesday, had been club-
bed, assaulted and strangled with
haywire. He did not disclose the pris-
oners' names but listed them as a wo-
man about 45 years old, one youth of
20, another 18, and^a 15 year old
girl. He would not say which ones
had acknewledged guilt but said first
degree murder charges would be filed
against all four.
Brewster said the negroes told him
they seized the girl when she walk-
ed through a negro cemetery Tuesday
afternoon “because she had a pretty
box of candy they wanted and they
thought she had some monejr.”
The sheriff quoted the negroes say
they hid the body in some bushes
and Tuesday night dragged it to
nearby Flat Bayou, bound it with
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sank it in water two and a half feet-
deep about 15 yards from the bank.
The body was found there by
searchers Friday morning.
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Phoenix, Ariz., May 5.—Two Phoe-
nix automobile salesmen were found
trussed and shot to death Friday in
a desert wash, 13 miles southeast of
here, and County Attorney Harless
charged Robert M. Burgunder Jr., 22
year old college student, with mur-
der.
The victims, Jack Peterson, 35, and
Ellis Koury, 24, disappeared last Sat-
urday from the Consolidated Motors
Company with a prospective auto-
mobile buyer who was identified from
pictures as Burgunder.
The Maricopa County sheriff’s of-
fice broadcast throughout the West
an order to arrest Burgunder, dis-
closed as a paroled robber from a
Washington State reformatory. He
is believed to have fled in the car
the salesmen were demonstrating to
him. The machine was a small 1939
black de luxe sedan. Officers said
it may be bearing either dealer plates
No. 2606 or regular plates A-1843.
‘ The bodies were found by Melvin
Oxnard, a rancher, who drove into the
desert to burg a hog.
! Peterson’s feet were strapped with
h&s belt, his hands were tied behind
his back with a necktie. Koury’s belt
Washington, May 5.—A bill under
which the government would conscript
money in time of war received the
unanimous approval of the senate mil-
itary affairs committee today.
The measure introduced by Sena-
tor Lee (D-Okla.) would provide that
upon the outbreak of a war involv-
ing the United States a “wealth cen-
sus” would be conducted. Thereafter,
a citizen with a net worjh of $1,000
to $10,000 would be required to de-
vote five per cent of his wealth to
the purchase of a 50-year govern-
ment bonds bearing one per cent in-
terest.
As the wealth of the individual in-
I creases, the percentage also advanc-
es, until it reaches a figure of 75 per
cent for all those worth $100,000,000
or more. If the treasury found it
did not need to borrow the full per-
centage of wealth it would be per-
mitted to ask less. However, if the
maximum percentages mentioned in
the measure were borrowed, the treas-
ury could proceed to borrow more-
- “This means that the government
would have money to finance a war
as long as there was any wealth,”
Lee explained to newspapermen.
While the committee was meeting,
the senate foreign relations commit-
tee received from Dr. L. D. Stilwell,
of Dartmouth college, a statement
that any changes in the neutrality
act to give broader discretion to the
president would result in “an alliance
with the British.”
“Every speech and act of 4he pres-
ident for. two years points in that
direction,” he said, “he feels intense-
ly than the British are all right, that
the Germans are all wrong and that
the United States must marry itself
to London now.”
Washington, May 5.—For the first
time since the World War the Navy
Department Friday night announced
cancellation of the scheduled itiner-
ary of the Naval Academy’s annual
cruise for midshipment who were to
have sailed June 2 for a tour of'five
European ports.
Secretary of the Navy Claude A.
Swanson announced the move, which
was believed inspired by President
Roosevelt. Although Swanson gave no
explanation, responsible officials be-
lieve that mounting administration
concern over European unrest caused
the order, which will keep the mid-
shipment in Atlantic waters near
home.
Naval authorities said the revised
cruise would be of usual length, last-
ing until the end of August, but that
at present there is little likelihood
that the three battleships bearing
the future officers would visit any
but United States ports. They denied
that a tour of South America ports
is being considered.
Original plans called for visits to
Antwerp, Rotterdam, Stockholm, Her-
singfors and Edinburg. Officials said
privately that in event! of war, Stock-
holm and Helsingfors, in the North
Sea, would be dangerous ports to call
for American battleships and might
increase the risk of involvement in
such a conflict.
Adding significance to the change
of plans is the fact that the three I
ships—the New York, Texas and Ark- !
ansas—are the original big three of
the Atlantic squadron under the com-
mand of Rear Admiral Alfred W.
Johnson. The cancellation also may
have been based on a desire to keep
the fleet intact and under Johnson’s
constant supervision, since he will
command the midshipmen’s cruise.
Four hundred and sixty-five first
class midshipment and 573 third class
members of the academy will be on
the cruise, the first since 1927 that
has not followed the European itin-
erary. At that time the midshipmen
transitted the Panama Canal and
visited Pacific ports.
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mirror,” Old related. “He seemed sur-
prised to see me. He picked up a
screw driver and said, “This is what
I’m after, and walked out. That’s
the last I saw of him.”
Burgunder was identified, said E. W.
Roach, chief criminal deputy, as hav-
ing purchased a 1929 Ford car Sat-
urday morning from another agency.
He told employes at Consolidated Mo-
tors he wanted to trade the old ma-
chine, which he said he had wreck-
ed, in on a new one.
a Roach expressed the belief the old
car was purchased merely to obtain
a bill of sale and license plates,
which perhaps were placed on the
car taken from Peterson and Koury.
The old car was found abandoned
hear a canal and its keys were re-
covered from the water.
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GIRL SLAIN FOR BOX OF
Howell Gaddy, student at South-
western University in Georgetown, is f
spending the week end here in the
home of his parents, Dr. and Mrs. |
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S. H. Gulledge was a business vis-
itor Friday in Austin.
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Melton Lee Briggs, student in the
University of Texas in Austin, is here
to spend the week end in the home of
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. T.
Briggs.
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Curtis Bozarth left Saturday morn-
ing for Ennis vflTiere he will attend
the funeral of his wife’s father, J. A.
Williams, who died Saturday morn-
ing about 6 o’clock. Mrs.
was with her father at the time of
his death. Funeral services will be
held Sunday.
FOR SALE: Nice fat Red Fryers.—
Tom J. Taylor, Taylor’s Feed
Store. (d53)
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Mr. and Mrs. Bill Yazell arrived
Friday evening from Arlington to
spend the week end here with rela-
tives and friends.
was around his feet, but his arms in a campus dormitory,
were free. Three empty shells from "H? was looking at himself in a
a small pistol were near by.
The bodies were about 100 feet
from the actual murder scene, ev-
ident by splotches of blood in the
s^hd. The victims had been dragged
into the wash. The marks left by
the bodies being pulled over the soft
ground attracted Oxnard an led him
to the grewsome find.
Peterson’s knuckles were split, in-
dicating, sheriff’s deputies said, that
he fought desperately with his as-
sailant. Peterson, a former state
highway patrolman, was a powerfully
built man of nearly six feet in height-
and weighing about-lZ5.pounds. Koury
formerly co-owner of a night club,
was short and stocky.
The salesmen’s employers said each
had about $45 Saturday. Peterson
was known to have paid some bills,
but Koury was thought to have kept
most of his money,. When their bodies
were found a $1 bill and some change
was in Koury’s pocket. Peterson’s
pockets were turned inside out. Wat-
ches were on the left arm of each
body.
Coroner McCaw said the bodies
were in such an advanced state of
decomposition that he believed the
men were slain Saturday night. He
empaneled a jufy from persons gath-
ered at the murder scene and set an
inquest for Saturday afternoon.
After reviewing the evidence, Coun-
ty Attorney Harless filed two com-
plaints charging Burgunder with each
slaying.
Burgunder, the son of a former
Seattle, Wash., prosecuting attorney,
entered the Teachers College at Tem-
pe last Fall after being paroled from
the Washington reformatory to which
he was committed in 1937 for a drug
store holdup.
He was known to his classmates as
a brilliant but moody student whose
chief interests were debating and
journalism. He wrote a gossip col-
umn for the campus newspaper.
A strange revelation in an already
bizarre case was that only a short
time before, his disappearance Bur-
gunder submitted to his public speak-
ing professor the outline of an ad-
dress entitled “Murder." The county
attorney said the paper indicated the
author had given considerable thought
to “the perfect crime ”
. Burgunder, a Jhandsome, brown-
haired youth six feet, two inches tall
and weighs 185 pounds. He is left-
handed.
Classmates recounted mysterious
cations by Burgunder before, he left
the campus Saturday. He moved early
in the week from a dormitory to a
hotel. Saturday morning he display-
ed a telegram which said, "Father
dying,” and told friends he was leav-
ing for Seattle.
He cashed three checks amounting
to $170. Two, drawn on a Pasadena,
Cal., bank, were returned for “bet-
ter address.” ,
Burgunder told other students he
was expecting a visit from a “pal"
who was in the Washington reform-
atory, but did not mention his own
confinement there. He received an
“important” telephone call Saturday
morning, the hotel proprietor told in-
vestigators.
Richard Old, his former roommate,
told officers Friday he saw Burgun-
der after 9 o’clock Saturday night
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The Lampasas Daily Leader (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 53, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 6, 1939, newspaper, May 6, 1939; Lampasas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1253627/m1/4/: accessed July 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Lampasas Public Library.