The Matagorda County Tribune. (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 67, No. 33, Ed. 1 Friday, July 18, 1913 Page: 1 of 8
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TO OUR PRIDE IN ITS PAST AND OUR HOPE FOR ITS FUTURE, ADD VIGOROUS WORK IN THE LIVING PRESENT.
BAY CITY, TEXAS, FRIDAY, JULY 18, 1913.
FIVE CENTS PER COPY
E. C. NEUMANN
KILLS G. S. STAPP
VICTIM ONLY THIRTY YEARS OLD.
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WILL BE BURIED IN LAGRANGE.
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Ladies’ Pumps
LAND FOR SALE.
COME LOOK AT THEM
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Ju£t Received in all the Latest
Creations and Leathers
Her Hat, Shoes and Hand Bag Are all
Missing—Husband Who Had Just
Arrived in Town Unable to
Trow Light on Tragic
Affair.
Body Discovered in Alley With Four
Stab Wounds in Chest After
AH Night Search.
Killing Occurred at Neumann’s Home.
Family Troubles Cause.
‘‘The
Big Store
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WOMAN IN ANGLE-
TON IS FOUND CUT
TO DEATH IN ALLEY
THE RICE GROWERS
HELD MEETING
hundred
feasibility
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MOSE ROBINS, A NEGRO, CONVICT-
ED OF KILLING I. T. BLAKE.
DEATH PENALTY FIXED
ON CHARGE OF MURDER.
Case transferred to this County From
Fort Bend County, Where Homi-
cide Occured.
USES SHOTGUNT AT CLOSE RANGE,
THREE CHARGES TAKING
EFFECT.
killing of Ephram Bass.—Galves-
News.
(THE FIRST OPEN
COTTON SEEN
IN BAY CITY
Appropriations, Elections of U. S. Sena-
tors by People and Prison Affairs
Only Subjects Named.
Operated On for Appendcitis and Died
In Temple Hospital.
and
City
THE SUNDAY
SCHOOL INSTITUTE
HAS STARTED
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A five-room frame house and one lot;
in good condition; close in; for sale at
a bargain if sold soon,
for good automobile.
813.
Would trade
Address Box
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NOTICE.
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A telegram was received here yester-
day to the effect that C. A. Ericksor
who left here with his wife for a visit
to his home in Michigan, had been suc-
cessfully operated on for appendicitis.
This was a surprise to Mr. Erickson’s
many friends here as none thought he
was so afflicted.
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MATAGORDA NEWS.
it is said, over the expected coming of
her husband, who had wjred her en
route.
The1 Sykes are declared to be well
to do and prominent in Garza County,
their home.
bins is said to have followed and shot
her, the same bullet killing Blake.
Robbins’ counsel has two days in
which to file a motion for a new trial.
If the motion be overruled, Judge Rob-
ert G. Street wil Iset a day for the ex-
ecution of Robbins. If an appeal be
taken it will operate to suspend the
sentence during its pendency.
This is the first death penalty im-
posed by a Galveston County jury
since Edmund Shelton, a negro, was
convicted and hanged in May, 1909, for
the
ton
.Freeport, Texas, July 12.—Word
was received in this city today by
George C. Moris, cashier of the Free-
port National Bank, from T. P. Kane,
deputy comptroller of the Treasury
Department in Washington, that the
charter of this new Federal banking
institution here had been approved
and issued. The bank was authorized
to commence1 business at once.
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Judge J. R. Masterson was struck
by an automobile driven by A. J.
Guillotte, city salesman for the Peden
Iron and Steel Company ,at 8 o’clock
Saturday morning and died from his
injuries three hours later. The acci-
dent occurred at the1 intersection of
Capitol avenue and San Jacinto street.
Judge Masterson had been to the post-
office and started west across the
street. When about six feet from the
curbing he was seen to stop suddenly
as two motor cars whirled into the
street from Capitol avenue.
Witnesses to the accident state
that Mr. Guillotte was moving his car
slowly along the east side of the
street, going north, and tooted his
horn sharply as he saw Judge Master-
son hesitate for a moment. The latter
apparently became confused and step-
ped directly in the path of the car.
He was thrown to the pavement and
one wheel of the machine passed over
his body.
Unconscious and bleeding from sev-
eral contusions, the injured man was
carried to his rooms at 1116 Capitol
avenue, where, upon examination, by
Dr. S. C. Red, it was found that he
was suffering from a slight concussion
of the brain. There was a deep cut
on his head and his body was badly
bruised where the car passed over
him. He died at 11 o’clock without
regaining consciousness.—Chronicle.
Judge Mastetson has a host of ac-
quaintances and friends in Bay City
who are shocked over the news of his
death.
Town Is Aroused.
The whole town is aroused and en-
gaged in an effort to unravel the
mysterq, and feeling is running high.
The allayway in which the body was
found is within one block of her
boarding house, grown up with tri-
foliata hedge, and not in the pathway
it is said she would have1 naturally
taken on returning from her visit to
the business section.
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TO OUR COUNTY, OUR WHOLE COUNTY AND EVERY SECTION OF OUR COUNTY.
From the Opening Sentence Till the
Close He Held the Breathless At-
tention of His Audience, and
All Agreed No Evangelist
Surpasses Him in
Arousing Enthu-
siasm.
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Bay City, Texas, July. 14—The sad
news of the death of Mr. Mat Holman,
of LaGrange reached Bay City this
morning by wire from his son, Judge
W. S. Holman of this city wrho was at
his bedside when death occured.
Decedent was taken to Temple seve-
ral days ago to be operated upon for
appendicitis, the operation being per-
formed several days ago. It
was successful and was thought for
a time that the patient would recover,
but on account of his age, 71 years,
the strain was too great and death en-
sued this morning at Temple at 7
o’clcek.
The funeral will take plac6 in La-
LaGrange tomorrow afternoon ot. 4
o’clock.
Those leavng here for the funeral
were Mrs. W. S. Holman and child-
ren, Miss Kaulbach of LaGrange, Miss
Mattie Washburn of Houston,
Rev. L. E. Selfridge of the Bay
Presbyterian Church.
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CALL IS OUT FOR STATE SOLONS
JULY 21.
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A jury in the sixty-fifth district court
here Saturday returned a verdict asses-
ing on Mose Robbins, a negro, the death
penalty for the killing of I. T. Blake,
a white man, near Richmond, Ft. Bend
County, in June, 1911. Last May Rob-
bins was acquitted of the murder of his
wife in the same court. The two cases
were recently transferred to this court
from Fort Bend County, where Robbins
had been tried and the jury reported
mistrial.
The case went to trial Friday morn-
ng and at midnight Friday all testi-
mony had been taken. ' Closing argu-
ments began Saturday, Distrct Attor-
ney W. M. Holland of Bay City assist-
County Attorney Theobald and assstant
Assistant Wilson in their summing up..
Blake, a man about 54 years old,
said to have a family in Bay City,
was a contractor who had contracted
with Ft. Bend county for road work.
Robbins was working for him. Rob-
bins previously had been charged with
attempting to murder his wife and it
it was tesitfied she had sought refuge
from her huband with Blake. Rob-
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Badotih Brothers,
Austin, Texas, July 11—Governor
Colquitt today issued the following pro-
clamation:—
“Whereas, the Thirty-third Legisla-
ture adjourned the regular session
thereof without making appropriations
for the support of the state government
as provided by the constitution shall be
done;
“Now, therefore, the failure of the
legislature to pass such appropriation
bill creates an extraordinary occasion,
justifying the governor to convene the
legislature in extra session, and and I
do hereby call the same to convene in
the capitol in the city of Austin, begin-'
ning at 10 o’clock a. m., Monday, July
21, 1913, for the following purposes,
to-wit:
“1. To make appropriations for the
support of the state government and its
institutions, and the repair restoration
and erection of necessary public build-
ings; for the fiscal years beginning Sep
tember 1, 1913, and ending August 31,
1915.
“2. To pass a law for and regulating
the' election of United States senators
from Texas by the people thereof, as
provided shall be done thereafter by an
amendment to section 3 of articlel of
the constitution of the United States,
recently declared ratified and adopted
by three-fourths of the states in the
union.
“3. To revise or amend the provis-
ions of the law now governing the
management and control of the peni-
tentiary system as embraced in chap-
ter 10, acts of the fourth called session
of the Thirty-third legislature.
“4. To consider and act upon such
other matters as may be presented by
the governor, pursuant to section 40 of
article' 3 of the constitution of Texas.
(Signed) “O. B. COLQUITT,
“Governor of Texas.
FOR Sale,
Angleton, Texas, July 10.—The mur-
dered body of Mrs. John Sykes of
Post, Texas, ’was found in an alleyway,
this morning after an all-night search
for her. There were four stab wounds
in her chest, any of which, it is said,
would have proven fatal.
Her hat, shoes and hanbag were
missing.
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Soft French Kid, Vici, Patent Leather, English Dull Calf and
in White Buck and Canvas, with high, medium and low heel.
Largest assortment of the very be£ styles in the city.
HON. W. E. HAWKINS, STATE SUN-
DAY SCHOOL ASSOCIATION EX-
PERT, DELIVERED THE
OPENING LECTURE
LAST NIGHT.
the trunk. Neuman told him that he
would not do it and told him that he
would give him (Stapp) 24 hours to
get but of the country or he would
prefer charges against him, where-
upon Stapp drew his knife and
Neumann that 24 minutes would be
enough for him to get him out of the
way.
As he made a rush for Neumann,
Neumann ran from him and finally got
his gun and rushed on the gallery.
He turned as Stapp was coming to-
ward him through the room and shot,
the first charge tearing away the
right am. Stapp, 'still advancing,
was shot twice in the left side, the
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a rice
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Judge James R. Masterson Is Run
Over by Car Near the Postoffice
and Dies Three Hours
Later.
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If you want a farm home in Mata-
gorda or Brazoria Counties, on 10
years’ time!, no cash payment requir-
ed on the land, see Magill Bros, at
once. tfd-w
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E. C. Neumann, a young farmer about
35 years of age, a tenant on the Hueb-
ner plantation, yesterday shot to death
G. S. Stapp at his (Neumann’s) home
between the hours of 11 and 12 o’clock.
Neumann used a shot gun loaded with
No. 6 shot and emptied three charges j abdomen being completely open, while
into Stapp’s body at close range, at no inext shot entered the body in the re-
time being over five or six steps dis-
tant.
Family troubles are given as the
cause of the killing. It seems from
the light that has shed upon the af-
fair that Stapp has for sometime been
paying attention to Mrs. Neumann.
Several days ago she came to
City and took a room at the Stockton
house. Stapp had formerly been in
the employ of Neumann and had left
some of his clothes at the Neumann
home.
Yesterday he returned there and told
Neumann that he wanted his clothes
and was told to get them. Then he de-
The Southern Rice Growers Associa-
tion held a meeting in the court house
Saturday, at which there were about
one hundred members
The feasibility of
warehouse of their own and selling
sacks and twine and other supplies to
the members of the association was
freely discussed.
Mr. Frank Randolph, of Beaumont,
publicity man for the association, was
present and delivered quite an inter-
esting address on the necessity of the
farmers exporting a portion of their
crop to relieve the situation which
will naturally arise' from an over-
production of rice, which seems em-
minent this season.
The following committee was ap-
pointed to meet with the directors of
the association in Beaumont next
Thursday, July 17, during their annual
convention, namely: John H. Ottis,
Wadsworth; A. A. Moore and V. L.
LeTulle, Bay City, and O. W. Erick-
son, Citrus Grove.
A special car and reduced rates has
been arranged for to carry all mem-
bers of the association to Beaumont
Tuesday.
After a general discussion of the
benefits and necessity of an associa-
tion, the meeting was adjourned and
will be called together again to de-
cide what will be done in the matter
of operating a ware house and hand-
ling supplies for the farmers on Mon-
day, July 21, at which time a large
attendance is expected.
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BAY CITY NEEDS
PUBLIC DRAY STAND.
I will not be responsible for any
debt that may be made by my wife
after this day. E. C. Neumann.
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Matagorda, Texas, July 12.—Rev.
D. S. Burke is assisting with a Meth-
odist meeting at Jacksonville this
week, consequently there will be no
services here tomorrow.
Since night before last Matagor-
dians are enjoying a delightful balmy
breeze from the south, the three days
preceding that time being exceed-
ingly warm.
Quarterly conference will convene
at this place next Sunday, July 19, at
the Methodist Church followed by a
sermon by the presiding elder the
next morning.
VOLUME SIXTY-SEVEN—NO. 33
Husband Arrives.
Her husband arrived by train at 10
o’clock last night, some hours after
she had disappeared, and joined in
the search.
Physicians announce this morning
that evidence exists showing she had
also been assaulted.
Mrs. Sykes was about 30 years of
age, a lady of refinement, retiring in
disposition and had but few vistors.
She was unusually cheerful yesterday,
gion of the heart and took effect
in the heart.
Stapp’s body was brought to the
city and prepared for burial. Rela-
ties were notified and will come for
the corpse. Stapp’s home is in Nor-
mangee, Leon County, Texas. It is
said that he has a wife living. On the
person of Stapp was found a pawn
ticket for a watch which he had put
up for $10.00 at a Houston pawn shop.
Investigation showed that this watch
belonged to J. P. Keller who lost it
sometime ago in the court house in
this city.
Mr. Neumann was released today on
manded of Neumann to1 also put Mrs. $1000.00 bond which was signed
Neumann’s and her babies clothes in Huebner Bros., his landlord.
Body Taken There.
Unmistakable evidence points to the
commision of the murder elsewhere
and the depositiong of the body where
found.
Mrs. Sykes arrived here one month
ago for her health and secured board
with a Mrs. Turner.
Yesterday afternoon at 5 o’clock she
left her boarding place to go for the
mail, and later she was seen about the
-Streets doing; some shopping. Failing
to return','shortly ‘ aftex’ dark search
was begun without avail until this
morning.
From Tuesday’s Daily.
Pursuant to announcement, Hon. W.
E. Hawkins of Waco, a cousin of the
supreme court judge of the same name,
commenced in the Methodist Church
at 8:15 last night a three days’ Sunday
School Institute.
Representatives were present from
the Christian, Baptist^ Presblterian
and eMthodist Churches; for the work
being done by Mr. Hawkins is interde-
nominational.
The gifted speaker got right down to
basic principles and gave his hearers
meat that was convenient for them.
They were made to see and to appre-
ciate as never before the high calling
of the Sunday school worker and the
beauty of the work when done accord-
ing to the laws of mental, moral, spir-
itual and physical development of the
child.
For fully an hour the audience was
held as in a spell, and at the close of
the meeting every one crowded around
the speaker to express their apprecia-
tion of the lecture.
There are to be two sessions of the
institute each day—at 10 o’clock a. m.
and 8:30 p. m.
This is an opportunity such as comes
to us but once in three or four years,
and no man, woman or child more than
fourteen years old can afford to miss it.
Every Sunday School teacher should
use the phone to urge all members of
their class to attend and. bring their
parents. Many portions of last night’s
lecture were golden thoughts for pa-
rents.
Let everybody come out tonight!
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AGED JURIST LOSES
LIFE UNDER AUTO.
Husband rPostrated.
Mr. Sykes is prostrated and he is
utterly unable to throw any light upon
the tragic fate of his wife.
Up to noon today no trace had been
discovered of her hat, shoes and the
handbag she carried when last seen,
about dusk yesterday.
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Body Is Bruised.
Physicians also1 announce finding
many bruises on her body, in addition
to the fatal stabs which they say were
made apparently with a dirk or stil-
letto. Her clothing was also badly
torn, giving evidence of a struggle.
• I have' for sale several im- •
Mb proved and unimproved farms, •
k -5 any size from five acres up to •
• three hundred acres. This is •
• all good cotton, corn, truck or •
• fruit land and adjoins the town •
• of Blessing, in Matagorda ©
• County, Texas. For price and •
• terms apply to Jno. R. Rowles, •
• Box 77, Blessing, Texas. •
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To the. credit of A.G. Hilliard, a color-
ed school teacher-farmer, goes the re-
cord for the first open cotton for the
season in this vicinity. Hilliard is one
of his race who believes in working-
both in the field and in the school
house. Many of his brethren see in
a school job the sublimity of honor,
dignity and a chance for idleness,
which they improve upon at every op-
portunity.
Not so with Hilliard—he is a farmer.
He has in cultivation on the D. P.
Moore farm, just out of the city limits,
65 acres in cotton. On 12 acres of
this the cotton is opening and he will
be picking within a few days.
Hillard says he is good for from
three-fourths to a bale to the acre.
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JUDGE HOLMAN’S FATHER IS DEAD
Every day and, we suppose, every
minute in the day, a dray is wanted
by some one. This is all right, but
just when you want it the most you
never get it and oftentimes spend an
hour or more looking for one. This
should not be. It would pay the dray-
men well to select a plan of mobiliza-
tion, some place where they could
make their headquarters, put in a(
phone and attend to business in a
business-like way.
This idea is, by no means, a new
one. Other places, many other places,
have them and are getting along splen-
didly. It helps the draymen and the
business element. When one wants
a dray their phone tells them so. If
no one is there you have the satisfac-
tion of knowing that as soon as a
wagon returns it will be sent to you.
If there are wagons on the place you
know it will be sent you without the
necessity of running all over town
after it. It is system and the dray-
men should get together on it.
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FREEPORT’S NEW BANK.
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Smith, Carey. The Matagorda County Tribune. (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 67, No. 33, Ed. 1 Friday, July 18, 1913, newspaper, July 18, 1913; Bay City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1299636/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Matagorda County Museum & Bay City Public Library.