The Daily Tribune (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 113, Ed. 1 Friday, March 15, 1918 Page: 1 of 4
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What the War Savings
First National Bank
will buy
Stamps
FRIENDS IN BEAUMONT
al tin- close of 1111siiu'hs on the Ith day of March, IttlM
KLSVI HI EM:
for our soldiers
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Bomls
it font pole or five tent
Ingle Thrift
I buy
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»hoe Ih< es or Identification
pins, a waist belt
pair of woolen
t tench too) oi-
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tag.
ijy one
of canvas
Pour Thrift St impv will buy two pairs
gloves
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EXCH \NGE . . .
ks or three
1876 SOW 98
steel helmet,
f annimer under*' ea'
suits
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Hibbard for a bayonet two
w 111 pm cha e i v. o pair-
111 buy'a gas mask.
Three
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War Saving
three pairs of
alf will buy
a
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woolen balukt I . f"Ui
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washed a couple
What have YOI’ bought'
I'ke above •laUuiMt la eorreet.
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BAY BUY BANU TOST CO.
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We offer for ale:
interest compounded
War Savings Certifyate.-. Ill ' for January
Value of the Certificate then will be
quarterly, due in flvt years
(>5l)(B Five Dollars
If !5) Twenty five Ceuta.
Thrift Stamps each
Assist your Govern > ent in financing the war, whicB protects you
graves
f Happiness
In Life, Liberty and I'm -ults
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goods at popular prices. We invite inspection.
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Let tis show you.
ments is now complete.
D. P. Moore Dry Goods Emporium
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and
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some denial
Capital Stock:
Paid tn
Earned
Surplus (earned) ..
I ndivided Profits
li< - erved for Taxes
Circulation
deposits ......
.. >438 954 92
.. .. 108 888 51
.... 25 000 BQ
4 650 00
.... 50 000 00
.... 206 59
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.... I 750 00
.... 18 899 70
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fencing
mast time dick yyatts
WAS SEEN ALIVE BY HIS
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I . E. SAPP
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The bodv Is trim and handsome in do-
all the Joys of the open car in
a very warm, cozy ear in
Inclement weather. Let us show you
Hay city Auto and Sales Company.
__ with
com fort able high”back; ventilating windshield and
large doors ...
sign. There lire
pleiiHiillI weather and
wlntrv and
I he I’orii Coupe.
I Sapp <m train
. lookin'.', for I
i he saw a
i marked, ‘'there’s my man
Keep posted,
Dully Tribune
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Thompson, Preaidant; D. P. Hoorn. Vion-Praaldant, J
l^ala, Caahlar; K M. Matthewa. Aaalatant Caahler
N M Vognlaang, A. H Wadaworth
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Dodge Brothers Motor Cars
I \ \ I l> VI .IIIIIKSGA HOHL I BO OK IHIIIE oils
mm iitvmr iab i.oi sapp pkki oi the mu
WAS PHI M.Vh will A fill PVIIII WEA'I IO Illi: s\AT( I I l»l ■
POI TO TthE Till TKAIN 10 smiTOGl.
Our Hat Department represents a choice Be-
rn isses’
. ■ 1 ve will buy a
ml Nona about March 27. The secon I ,
car also went in the direction of
where the men were found On < ros-i
examination witness said he did not
recognize the men in the ear, but
heard one of his negroes suv, "there
goes the Sapp Bros.'’ Witness admit
led tlmt he saw E E Sapp pass there
in cur frequently. That Sapp hunted
up there and kept his dogs at the
home of .Mr Wright who lived near
there That it was not uncommon to
ee cars pa-s there. He did not know
whether or not either of the Snp >.-
v a in tin1 car on cither trip. lie
never saw either of the cars return
M<«slev .McDaniels, colored, testified
that he worked In a garage in Beau
mont ami that
lie washed Mr
Mr Sapp cnim-
one or two days
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19 662 45
3 863 21
25 000 00
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five p
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two will
It enhances values
preserves woods
and adds attrac-
tion
I’linnc No. 27
W rile P, O. Box 12
for Simples
BAY CITY, TEX \S
Painting and Paper Hunting;
kinds of Work
n
He said he |
when the spade wa-
in the trial at Lufkin
he thought ,
Mr. Sapp brought the spade back the
same day as he saw on of the Im mi
using it. He attempted to explain
ooh'u breeches or two flan-
an overcoat or two woolen
relative to the lust time
aliie in Beau
tlie stand Lilis
of E. E. Sapp
1 or seven
: want out
: February
seriice coats, three and
sliirt.s: twi and a
( II KIS H AN SI II.ACl SEHVK 'S
Chrlstiuu Science services
Sunday morning at II o’clock.
Suuday School eveiy -muiay morn-
ing at 9:45 o'clock.
Testimonial meeting cm ry
neuday evening at S o’clocK
The public i very cordially Itivlt ■ I
to attend all the •' i<’>
Corner Avenue C I F i’ll ’ o-'t
tridges or a > a rti I'ii’j- i alt or a
The I ' rd Coupe, have von examined it? It is a
plendid e.u losed motor car for two—will tuke
lime nicely for >565 f. o. b. Detroit. The Ford
< < upe is in a class by Itself by reason of its high
ialm and lov purchase price. Permunent top with
liding plale glans windows with removable win-
dow pillars large, deeply upholstered seat with
on January I. 1915,
Sapp’s car ami that
l>m-k for tlie car in
He said when Mr
Sapp came fpr the car he boiicht ten
gallons of gasoline and borrowed a
spade from him, telling him tlmt h<
wanted the spade to dig a drainage
ditch at his new home,
did not know
brought back,
this witness swore that
Loan-, and Discounts
Bills of Exchange
in Hod State* Bonds.
I lilted Slates Liberty
I iiilml States Certificates of IndehlednesH.
I tilled Stales War Stamps
I tiited States llevemte Stumps
Dm- from I niied States Treasurer
Stock in I'udoiul Reserve Bank...
Bunking House, Furniture and Fixtures
Other Houl Estate
CASH AND SIGHT
the variance in ids testimony then
and now by saving that when he tes-
tified at Liltkin ho was sick with a
high fever.
On re-direct examination y witness
could not tell about the space in the
rear under the seat but thought the
space across would lie about four
feet.
Wesley McDaniel was retallet) to
the stand tills morning in the E. E.>
Sapp murder case, to resume his
court adjourned last evening.
He was under cross examination.
Judge Howth for the defense had
him identify his handwlrltng to doc-
uments lie showed him, but which
he said he would offer later.
He remembered being In Judge
Howth’s office and signing a state-
ment, hut said that the writing above
was not there at the time
Witness did not remember selling
Alphouse, driver for Mr Rardash, any
gas on January 7. 1915. When he
sold gas or washed cars he would re-
port In the evening Would not al-
ways report a sale when it was made,
itimsnn and Seagress are owners of
the garage. Witness kept no liook*
himself, hut kept memorandum in the
rear of the garage. Asked If he re-
membered selling J- R Bordag’t
chauffeur when he got into a obg <s
hole on Long avenue, witness said he
took gas to hint on the morning at
January 7. 1915 Closed one wash
rack and could wash a car in 25 or 30
minutes if not too muddy: if In bad
shape It would take an hoar. Made
a memorandum In the rear of the
J (Continued on P«Mte O
leggius six it III buy
will buy one hundred car-
body
back, also in.
1 wo with throe or more men in it. two on
' and the front sent and one on the back
of sent. Tin- cur went in the direction
which tlie bodies were found
I Incidents
l >i< k Watt- was seen
mont were related on
mot tling in tlie i rial
elmiged with eomplii'ily in tlie intir
tier of .Mt - Sapp Watts remained m
the .leffersoti hot< I two or three day.'
prior to .fanuary <. anti was much
w it It Lou Sapp
who slept at the
nights
llit-y
ostensibly going Io Saratoga. Til'1
lath clerk at lite hotel and a friend ol
Watts told this fact.
Mm h of the morning was taken up found
the cross examination of Hie
helper at the garage where the
Sapp car was wasited a couple of ant objected to the cla
times.
Will Gerald of Kirbyville was th<
fir-t witness on tlie stand in tlie Sapp
trial yesterday afternoon He said he
went on the train from Beaumont to
A 1<1 ridge on January .>. 1915.
till- Sapps ami saw Lou Sapp
i train Heard him I* I! Mr.
head Ito was going to Lufkin
' Frank Havart. .At Colmesneil
Sapp said, "there’s my man
! will not ”.o any further.''
I Scott Whitehead of Kirby xilb- told •
'of coming out of Beaumont on the that in company with
train on January 5, 191.5, ami saw Leu Wright they
! Sapp on train Sapp told him he was I it which
that ;H.' said
re
He was
< xamined at length as to the eondi-
of lite body, wound found in
On cross exam-
was a public road
which the bodies were buried, was
a straight stretch of rotd. was
much traveled and men in an auHmto-
part of the body was covered The Idle coming to place where
hip-- were found would have to pass Nona
where men were at work ami in full
< a nd
ami Frank
at the hotel one or two
on the morning of tlie ith Mat" li 27.
tl-parli d on tlie Santa Fe train, buried in a
toiitg to Saratoga Tin locality and the two graves were only
llu to |ti steps apart. Tlie body was
taken up ami he examined it ami positively
a bullet hole in head back of Frank Havart
ear, going entirely through "gnized the hair as that of the drunk
Al this point counsel for the defend- man he le d seen in the car that paaa-
<>f testimony
being offered, bringing out long
harrowing details and said
would admit tlie two bodies
were the bodies of Di< k Watts and
Frank Havart and that both of them
Kno'Vieame to their death by violent moans,
on the 1 The objection was overruled, ami the
While- Slate wont exhaustively into
after cidents of the finding of the
Lou all the surroundings, condition of the
now. I bodies, articles found on them.
i wounds, etc.
John Roundtree of Kountz testified
a man nameil
found Hie second grave
Frank Havart was buried
Frank Havart ami that He said a short distance from the
man at Colmesneil and re I gmvc they found whore Hie weeds
now." were mashed down ; ml found Jtlood
li. E. Cunningham of Kountze was j there. They followed what looked
instice of the peace there in 1911 and I bke where something had been drag-
191.5. Wtts notified of Hie finding Of red and if led to the grave
| a dead body in Lite Big Thicket ix < xatnined at. length as
miles south of Kountz ami H' n
to investigate the ease on head, clothing, etc.
1. 1915. The grave when1 hiation he said it <
[the bodv was was in a thick, brushy by
■ place about 70 yards from the road in
| Tlie grave was very shallow and only
a ’ ’ ' - -- I
part covered
down. The vultures
i v lew of tiiem
i Dr. J B iUil'vris went out
Kountz mi both occasions with
justice of the peuce, and gave a pro
le-sional description of the bodies,
wounds, etc. He suld after the body
ol Dick Watts was found it
common talk in Hardin County
j anollier body would be dug up
i time. He understood Havtiri
missing sometiine after the
, ixidy was found. When Hie first body
! was found he removed tin* jaw
' carried it to Beaumont for the
i po. e of identification by
I work.
G \ Anderson of Nona was inlro-
| duced by tlie State to connect tiie
Sapps with the victtniH as they jour-
neyed towurd tlie place where they
met tragn deaths. He (<>slified that
he saw an automobile pass Nona line
ing the latter part of January,
The Taper Hanger
ll.i in Hit- iiewe-t and
I’jper Samples Books of Wall
I'aper lor Ibis. \|| el.isse'i of
I lecoratlons
(till
practically all tlie upper pan of the
body He examined (lie body ami
found bullet hole in tlie
Hie clothing at tlie same place,
bats were found near tlie gravi
lie examined both o: them, one
them had a bullet hole in (lie side. ' of
He was again officially notified of I i-ater. about March 27, lie saw another
llavart. the finding of another body in the ■ >’,u pass Nona witli two men on tlie
or two woods ami made a second trip on | iront oa' and one mi the rear seat
\liotlivr body was found The num on the back seat appeared
shallow grave in Hie same to be limber drunk and was rolling
around on Hie seat. The drunk man
lu-.d long hair and the witness swore
that when the body of
was exiuimed, he ree-
i iii<' War s'av ing.y
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Smith, Carey. The Daily Tribune (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 113, Ed. 1 Friday, March 15, 1918, newspaper, March 15, 1918; Bay City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1292767/m1/1/: accessed July 9, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Matagorda County Museum & Bay City Public Library.