The Daily Tribune (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 111, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 13, 1918 Page: 1 of 4
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$.’>jm stamps selling for *1.11 this month
First National Bank
AND HELP TIII-1 (VISE Ob’ FREEDOM
What the War Savings
BY DICK WATTS IS TOLD
Stamps will buy
for our soldiers
A : ingle Thrift stump will buy a tent pole or five tent
pins, n waist belt or hat coni, shoe laces or identification
tags; two will buy one trench tool or a pair of woolen
Four Thrift Stamps will buy two pairs of canvas
glov es
leggins.
suits of summer underwear, twelve will buy
Stamp will buy one hundred car-
One War Savings
(ridges or a cartridge belt or a scabbard tor a bayonet two
will purclm •' two pair-: of woolen breeches or two flan-
nel thirls; two and a half will buy a gas mask.
Three
War Savings Stamps will buy an oven oat or two woolen
service coats, three and a half will buy three pairs of
woolen balnkets; four will buy a rifle
What have YOU bought?
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BAY CITY BANK & TRUST CO.
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GUARANTY FUND BANK
Patriotic and Profitable
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Investment
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Wo offer for sale:
Mrs.
War Savings Certificate*, $4 12 for January, interest compounded
Value of the Certificate then will be
quarterly, due In five years.
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(|5 00) Five Dollars
Thrift Stamps each ($25) Twenty-five Cents.
Assist your Government in financing the war, which protects you
in Life. LlbeYty and Pursuits of Happiness.
FIRST STATE BANK
GUARANTY FIND HANK
Dodge Brothers Motor Cars
Free to the l'»e of our ('ristcmers
Our Large Fire-Proof Vault
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Now in Stock
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line of Ready-to-Wear in all depart-
ments is now complete.
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terday afternoon anil when con it ad-
journed for the day some fifte- n had
Judge Morcheto
during
he was
drag
BY WITNESS TO TRAGEDY
not
with Havert
who told him the best shot in the
country was down there, Dick Watt*.
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six will buy five pairs of woolen socks or three
a steel helmet.
Keep posted,
Daily Tribune
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Our Hat Department represents
lection of the best styles of ladies’,
and children’s
W ithlll
was
twice i
w.-re
Dick Witts
in
The Paper Hanger
Has in the newest, and best
Paper Samples Hooks of Wall
Paper for 1918. All classes of
Decorations
('all l‘lmne No. 1’7
Write P. O. Box PJ
for Samples
BAY CITY, TEXAS
Painting and Paper Hanging;
Kinds of Work
did not use the same ianguu.m ei-.-li
time, although he meant to reveal t!m
incidents in the same way.
The witnesses in (he E.
murder case were shot on
stand and off in rapid fire c
fire department. Romero
miles up the Santa Fe from
mont.
there with E. I
trit) at Romero.
purchase price,
windows witli
deeply upholstered sent
ventilating windshield and
'I lie body Is trim and handsome in de-
iire all the joys of tlie open cor in
I wejlher and a. very warm, com car in
ami inclement weather. Let us show you
tlie Ford Coupe Buy City Auto and Sales Company.
been examined. Judge Morehem re-
marked in conversation during t
hort intermission that he was not
going to lei the rase drag along
through a month, but that he was go-
’.ei it '.'nt S;ipp neglected ids wife and
him was a
ity bottom
Mrs. Moye testified to overhearing j
a conversation between Sapp and a!
young woman in the younr lady < i
room in her hoarding Imu.-e. Several ,
witnesses testified Sapp often calle I
upon this young lady, ami at tlie time '
of the alleged eonver alion, Mrs i
Moye was ittim- on Hie porch jm-t
outside the young lady's room near
a wtii ov- Tlo .ymtiir, I ily wan it
ing and npbritiding Sapp tor gi’tiin" ,
married. Sipp said to her "’’Don’t
worry about that, little girl; that old
lady is ns rich as hell and when we
get rid of her we v. -11 have ;l gopii j
tim«'.” The defense brought out the
fact from the witness that thia war ■
the first time she had testified jn I
the case and that she never told n
soul about the al-vi cott vers it Ion fori
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% KILLING OF MRS. SAPP
' ineidentallv looking over ’he
pects for some ash timber, as
■ testified. His camp was pitched a
(Couple of days before the Sapp party
arrived and these located
1 <>r ltd) yards of where he
I visited tlie Sapp camp
some members of the party
He told how
was handling the Supp shotgun
tlie presence of Mrs. Sapp, how it wa
di.-charged and <iow on several
he ej.presed the bell.-f that it
prosecution ue detailed
wit -1
on
- :
at Hie opening of court this morning.
Ha ; lised previously nt Beaumont 21
years where he was four years in
the tlmrifl s office. Has known K.
E Snt>p 12 or 15 years. Knew Mrs.
Elb n Bapp by sight. Saw Sapp, Jeff
La r,on and other parties on the
train. He wa going to Frequa. Sapp
aid his wife was on the train. They
wetH going to Romero in Liberty
t oiinty Relating the conversation,
Sapp, lie said, told him that his wife
had been urging him to take her on
a trip and he hud decided to take
bur up and walk the-----of her.
On cross examination witness said
he was not sure of the Impression
the remark made on him. but it Is
customary in (hat section to speak
roughly to each other, “but not with
reference to our wives.”
Jeff Larson, of Beaumont, has lived
there fifteen years, and Is with the
department. Romero Is fifty
Beau-
In November. 1914, he was up
E. Sapp on a hunting
Left on election day,
Tuesday, November 3. Left Beau-
mont between I and 5 o’clock and got
to Romero after dark. Frank Havert
met the crowd, took some of the
grips to Mrs. Taylor’s boarding house.
Some other penpie were at the train,
but Dick Watts was not there. They
went possum hunting that night. Mr.
Sapp and Mr. Garrett not going.
Talked about hunting
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nil LO(D till LING III It IN I 111 BAI h
f t I it hl I) 1H Till 01 I I nm:.
Bryap Eagle.
For the fir.-t time in the trial of E.
IE. Sapp, charged with complicity tn
H.e murder of his wife. Hie State re
! ictiled In the Jury the details of the
Sapp on Nil-
while on a . huntin'
near llomero.
detailed this
a bmg, spare,
a
Tim l' id l oupe have vou examined It? It is a
splendid e.u louod motor ear for two will lake
tlinm nicely for f o b Delioit. The Ford
t'onpe I In a cltis by Itself by reason of its high
value ami Io purchase price, Permanent top with
hdlm plate la windows will) removable win-
dow pillar- large, deeply unholstered eat with
comlortalde high hack;
large doors
sign There
pleasant
v. in try i
I NO HE H \S I kl.h-
> HAS DIM IIXItGI l>
I HI DI I (HILITA HI
out late at night That Mrs Sappi
told her that imfore tjieir marriage ;
Sapp told her he loved her, but she!
was beginning to doubt it. I’liat i
Sapp talked to her about nothing but
her property, and that Mrs Sapp
ssked witness’ advlro ns to whether
Ol not she could make the properly !
oxer to hint, Siie aid she did not
Want to do it. but later she did make
it over to him. eitlo'i Ity will or deed.
1 That Sapp sadly neglected hl i wife
. and tliat she had ofivn < en him rui
lug in Hm ear with other women, but
never with ids wife Mrs. Sapp told
witness her hiisbttnd wanted her to !
make the property over to him so he
could handle it for her Later Mrs
Sapp told the whites alunit making i
the property over to her huebpnd.!
blit that if ho did not live with Imr i
as he had promised to do. she would
divorce him and revoke the will She
aid Mrs. Sapp told her Imr husband
bought a l-iilf jnicrest tn the Van I
\ucken iewmliA Imslness In B.-aumoqt
for $11,000. The last conversation
‘ ' i t w th 'ire Sapti wtif m< r th"!
phone and that .Mrs Sapp told Imr
she was going on a hunting trip with ;
her husband and they had Jmit come
back from one.
H i testified as to Sapp
telling in, imoHier not Io say anv !
thing iimut an automobile neeident |
Hmt happened while they were riding i
with some ladies; that it wa--. getHni', |
to his wife.
\n 'the; witness t
of Hm conversation lie had
relative tn the matter of k
auto incident quiet, but. he attached
little important e to it Tim dd'ciis.-i
also brought, out by this witness that
Sapp was a great hunter, that hc|
was gone hunting a large part of the i
Hum anil dial the first time Im met :
hunting trip in the Trin I
was to show mottos, i.oti.
why Sapp married his . eomi
and wily site was killed X
f tho witnesses were ladies
were put tin. agh some
aviimi killiii)1 of Mr-, Sapp on X" v. i v trying ordeals as to Uij nature
vember 7, 1914, while on a huntite ol the questions asked an; th.- at; '
triii in Trinity bottom iimr llnrnuro. ''r- they had to make
Tiie witn< sses who detailed this Mr Brown testified t' > bhe hud
story is named Sowell, a long, spare. .Hkcd to Mrs Sapp abo-.t lie- prop
r si he.ided .ail of middle a ■.<■ i erty and that lier folks did not want
ti: 'c in.m ii d q’im-i muter who imr to marry Sapp or an. one elm as
was on a hnntin ■ trip tit tlia.i time tm i they wanted tii get the property them-
looking; over rhe pros- seiye-t. Sim said .Mrs. Soup spoke in
for tiiiiiii a -h timlmr, ris he (Im highest, terms of her husband,
His camp was pitched that he was well behaved* etc.
.Mrs. Scott said she hoarded at the
.me place with Hie Sapps, .Mrs.
lie Sapp |c|j her that, when they (Sapps)
and built tlt.'ir new home she wanted to
• at 1'i.iy Him furniture, lint her husband
objected and said get cheap furni-
ture .Mr Sapp also told her Hint
her hu hand told Imr be was gone a
i great deal at night and that she
would have to lie alone. Tim wit-
an accident. The prosecution im detailed iiow Sapp got pos.ses-
a sevore attack on this wit- sion of some of his wife's diamonds,
quoting from his testimony an the facts i
previous tl'ialR and comparing it wit i i Sapp. Th
what lie had -aid on this, intimalim.,
that as time went on lie liad added
to am! magnified Hie incident. H"
admitted most of his previous state
ments. but. offered the explanation
tiling to tier through Mrs.
witness also said Sapp
Used the < ir all the time so Mrs.
Sip; -mid not take her friends out
riiliti Mr Sapp appeared often to
lie til and she had seen Imr crying
and that she frequently told witness
for Hm apparent discrepancy that I e how Sapp neglected Imr. Witness
-aid at fii t .Mrs Sapp was devoted
Imr husband, but toward the last
did not appear to be so much so. She
said at once time Mrs. Sapp, was
er 'im and said she had been advised
not to go on a hiintlng trip with her
husband and that she would bo nntr-
di r< d if she did This statement wa.s
overruled by Hm court.
Mrs. Abbott, also boarded at the
a me place with •the Sapps, blit said
he wa- seldom there to take his
meals with his wife She told how [
ing to try It in a week and ".et it out Sapp neglected his wife and would J over two years,
of the way. not 'o to church with Imr. That he. J. F. To vn end of Sour Lake was ;
The bulk of the fcstimoni in the u-"<1 the ear all the time and stayed the first witness placed on the - land
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Christian Science sec»icea
Sunday morning at 11 o'clock.
Sunday School every Sunday morn-
ing at 9 15 o’clock.
Testimonial meeting every
neailsy evening at 8 o’clock
The public is very cordially invited
to attend all the services.
Corner Avqnuc C and Fifth Street.
BARBED WIRE
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Smith, Carey. The Daily Tribune (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 111, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 13, 1918, newspaper, March 13, 1918; Bay City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1292765/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Matagorda County Museum & Bay City Public Library.