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Heiress Sweetheart
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Cafe Owner Is Held
For Perjury in Case
Of Newton Yarberry
MRS. FANNIE F. GAIN
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HAVANA, Cuba, Aug. 14 (UP)
—President Gerardo Machado con-
tinued further efforts today to ar-
range a permanent peace and pre-
vent further bloodshed in the rev-
olution which theratens his regime.
The president spent the night at
Sant*' Clara conferring with re-
bel leaders.
The country remained calm un-
der martial law
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word in Advanced
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Gas-Filled Station
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Phone 119
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Asks Divorce After 27 Years
BEND, Ore. <UP)—After bring
separated from her husband for 2 1
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The Enna Jettick Aerocar shown | of his dealer in a luxuriously equtjt-
above, was in Henderson yesterday,
—creating considerable comment
because of its novel construction.
It is one of a fleet of cars now
to .ring the United States. it Is
capable of taking the road at au-
tomobile speed and bringing the
Enna Jottick salesman to the dopr
ped sample room. H. W. Mamtq
thus called on Beall Brothers hei
where orders for the Enna Jetticks
were placed.
The car was built by Glenn Cur-
tiss. Its lines are those of an air-
plane body, and it is mounted to
rido with utmost smoothness. It Is
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Range Venditions Good
AUSTIN, Aug. 14 (UP)—Texas
cattle and sheep and ranges upon
which they graze were In as good
condition Aug. 1 as they were Ju-
ly 1. The U. S. Department of
Agriculture’s division of crop and
livestock estimates so reported
here today, placing the condition
of ranges on Aug. 1 at 87 per cert
of normal; cattle at 87 per cent
and sheep at 88 per cent.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 14 (UP)—
Boxing bouts someday may be
successfully broadcast by sight as
well as by sound and Benny Leon-
ard may make a successful ring
comeback, But the initial radio-
televiaion broadcast of
held last night over
W2XAB offered little
either promise.
The broadcast, staged by the
Columbia Broadcasting System,
was declared a complete success
with television owners in New
York, Boston, Philadelphia and
Baltimore reporting that the pro-
gram was received perfectly, but
it also demonstrated that televis-
ion has not been developed to a
stage where major sporting events
can be broadcast.
Because of television limitations
the boxing bout, featuring Benny
Leonard, retired undefeated light-
weight champion, and Jimmy
Martin, New York golden gloves
champion, had to be held in a ring
no bigger than a large sized office
desk. Only the upper portions of
the bodies were visible to the re-
ceivers and the principals had to
stand in one place and wear heavy
theatrical make-up.
Leonard was declared victor in
the three-round bout, but specta-
tors who expected the broadcast to
be a test of Benny’s comeback
chances were disappointed. The
‘‘contest” in reality was nothing
out a spr-ring exhibition and pro-
vided no test of Leonard’s skill or
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SINTON, Tex., Aug. 14 (UP)—
J. S. Shelton, Aransas Pass cafe
operator, was at liberty today un-
der $1,000 bond facing charges of
perjury in connection with his tes-
timony for Newton Yarberry,
charged with murder in connec-
tion with the slaying of Dorothy
Symons, 18-year-old choir singer,
on the Aransas Pass beach.
Yarberry’s bond was set at >20,-
000 last night at a brief habeas
corpus session. He remained in
jail today and his attorneys said
there was little chance of his mak-
ing the bond.
The girl and Yarberry. a 22-
year-old barber, were sweethearts.
He was arrested when officers
found footprints on the beach re-
sembling those of his feet. He of-
fered an alibi but was indicted.
Dorothy, whose real name was
Dorothy Dorcas Johnson as she
was the child of Mrs. Symons by
a former marriage, was found
dead and nearly nude in the sand
after being missing for three days.
Her companions said that she
had a “date” to go swimming with
Yarberry after choir practice at
St. Mary’s church of the sea. She
was not seen alive again.
DALLAS, Aug. 14 ’(UP)—In-
creasing root rot, boll weevil in-
festation, and shedding retarded
progress of the Texas cotton crop
during the past week, the Dallas
News said today in its cotton re-
port.
The State's output of cotton Is
expected to fall far short of the
bumper crop estimate of the fed-
eral government.
Picking is general in South
Texas and is beginning in parts of
Central and East Texas. It is not
expected to be under way in the
upper third of the state until the
middle of September. The News
said.
How to Market
Fruits, Vegetables
Now Being Taught
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attached to an ingenious bird** beak
coupling to a coupe which furnishes
motive power. Modernistic wicker
and plush furniture, a radio, a tele-
phone, barometer and a ship’s clock
make up its furnishings. At the
rear is a room for carrying the sh->e
samples. The car weighs only 1200
pound*
COLON, Panama, (UP)—Two
sailors of the United States Navy,
who acted as stool pigeons for the
Panama police in providing evi-
dence leading to a raid on an al-
leged gambling establishment, may
be court martialed.
The men are John Ray and C. A.
Tenniesen, attached to the Coco
Solo naval base. Clad in civilian
clothes they entered a poker game
in a private house and informed
police captain of their activities.
A raid followed, Involving Pablo
Harris, former member of the Na-
tional Assembly, or Congress of
Panama.
The statements of the sailors
may Involve a chief petty officer
of the navy who was their superior
on shore patrol duty, and it is be-
lieved that they will avow that
they acted under his orders in
connection with obtaining evidence
'or t o raid.
silk
givenees from his two little daugh-
ters. The letter never came.
Instead a note of bitterness ar-
rived for Shield but a merciful
warden kept it in his office.
Warden W. W. Waid conducted
the doomed man to the execution
room. They paused Inside anl
Waid asked Shield if he had any-
thing to say.
•’Well, 1 don’t believe I have, ex-
cept, .Warden, I have too much re-
gard for you and I ask you not to
press the button that kills me.”
Shield turned to sit down in the
big golden oak death instrument.
He noticed newspaper reporters
standing with pencils poised.
“Boys, please don't forget to treat
me fair in your stories,” he askod.
'ex., Aug. 14 (UP) —
utobc * foreman, was in a
serious condition In a hospital
here today with burns suffered
last night when a blast and fire
partially destroyed the Gulf Pipe-
line station at Powderly.
An explosion rocked the plant
when Fagan opened a switch and
the spark ignited accumulated gas,
Fagan, his clothes flaming,
jumped into a nearby water tang.
Physicians said he would live.
FORT WORTH, Tex., Aug 14
(UP)—The prohibition lid was
clamped down today in Fort Worth
—on newspaper interviews.
The pro agents make an arrest
they will tell about it only in comr
plaints filed with the United
States Commissioner, Agent J. E.
Hamilton said. Anything else
will be reported to Claud Cooper,
deputy administrator at Dallas.
Orders to stop talking to news-
papermen came from superior of-
ficers after an account in news-
papers yesterday of a complaint
by Louis Lindquist, city water-
works bookkeeper for four years.
Linguist told district attorney
N. A. Dodge that after ordering
him to come to their auto as he
was leaving a station where he
had parked his car, two agents
got out and while one held him,
the other tore up a package of
lunch.
Lindquist said he had told the
men, who were in plain clothes,
who he was and what was in the
package. He was afraid of them,
he said, because they declined to
show credentials when he doubted
their statement about being pro
agents. Two other men waited in
their auto.
Hamilton did not answer when
asked if the agents had not tom
up Lindquist's lunch package. He
denied, however that they had
manhandled Lindquist.
Dodge was to question the pro-
agents today about the affair and
they also were to make a written
report to Cooper.
Shield I« Executed
For Killing Wife
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ESCONDIDO, Calif., (UP)—
Perched on the summit of a high
hill here, stands a concrete Indian
tepee 50 feet in height and 60
feet in diameter at the base. It
is the home of A. L. Houghtelin,
prominent cattleman, who believes
it will be a cool and comfortable
residence although it may be a
radical departure from the or-
The Antics of Bruno
And the Other Actors in
the Old Home Town
Cartoon by Stanley
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young fathers last breath,
was extinct at 12:12 a. m.
i The condemned man had peered
divorce to secure her legal free-| through the bars of death cell here
for weeks awaiting a letter of tar-
babies
thing,” he said.
"I'm praying God to forgive ev-
eryone who lias done anything
secret service refused to communi- aaginse me,” he said slowly and de-
cate with any but official sources, t Uberately.
It is thought they arrested Mu-
ncy in Lake Charles, La.
In the last several months Mu-
sey had been reported variously in
Houston, Galveston, New Orleans
and other Gulf ports.
Musey was convicted of liquor
conspiracy in May, 1929, after
officers seized >75,000 rum car-
goes from his boats.
He was given a 2-year prison
term, >5,000 fine and five-year
suspended sentence and an <
teen months’ suspended sentence
by Federal Judge J. C. Hutch son.
He promptly appealed, only to
forfeit his $10,000 appeal bond
when the sentence was upheld and
he failed to answer to nis name
in federal court here Feb. 22,
1930.
"I'm praying God almighty to
forgive me for anything that I have
over done against anybody.
He was placed in the electric
chair at 12:03 a. m. The dynamo
whined at 12:01 and Joe Shield
stiffened in the chair. His hands,
his arms,, his legs, his whole body
winced and then slumped down as
the current was turned off.
Thirty seconds after 12:08 Dr. M.
11. Judd declared the man dead.
I Shield was convicted of killing his
wife. He also faced charges
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NOME, Alaska, Aug. 14 (.UP)
—Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lind-
bergh today considered feasibility
of extending their aerial “vaca-
tion” jaunt around the globe.
Lindbergh indicated he had se-
rious plans for going to China
from Tokio. Then across India to
Europe, resting there awhile be-
fore returning over the Atlantic
to America by way of the Azores.
Hoping weather conditions
would permit them to continue
their vacation flight to Tokio to-
day, Col. and Mrs. Lindbergh were
up early, getting their things ready
for the trip. Storms have kept
them here since Tuesday morn-
ing.
NEW YORK, (UP)—The arriv-
al of a fer-de-lance, the most pois-
onous of all snakes of the west-
ern world, at the New York Zoo-
logical Garden, reveals a roman-
tic tale of the origin of this dead-
ly specimen of reptilian life in the
American jungle regions.
A distant relative of the rattle-
snake, the fer-de-lanee, according
to Dr. Raymond L. Ditmars, zoo
curator, was imported by wealthy
Porto Rico plantation owners in
the 17th Century to keep slaves
from escaping. The reptiles were
imported by shiploads and scat-
tered over the vast Porto Rican
estates.
But in view of the rapid pro-
duction of the deadly snake, which
breeds in litters of 60 or 70 at
a time, the island was soon over-
run and brought the planters the
problem of protecting other hu-
man life.
To curb the propagating of the
fer-delance, the plantation own-
ers omported the mongoose from
India. They performed the task,
and upon exterminating the dead-
ly reptiles, turned their attention
to bird life.
In a short time the mongoose,
which propagates at an alarming
rate, became a pest. Bird life
became practically extinct as the
result of their constant raids, and
in the end the slaves were given
the task of exterminating both the
snakes and the mongoose.
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Texas Cotton Crop
To Fall Far Short
Of U. S. Estimate
I Dry Law Agents in
Fort Worth Called
On Carpet Harshly
Blackstone hit him with a stone.
Then we bundled the bodies into
the car and drove away.”
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Lindberghs Think
Of Flying Around
World on Jaunt
A
boxing,
station
to prove
LONGVIEW, Tex. — Teaching
fruit and vegetable growers some
of the fundamentals of marketing
is the unusual activity in which
the East Texas Chamber ot
merce is about to engage.
Under the auspices of the m
gional chamber the first of a va-
ries of marketing conferences
will be heid at Navasota ihurs-
day, August 20. The State Extea.
sion Service and the Texas Da-
partment of Agriculture are co-
operating. Special attention will
be given to the proper grading
and packing of high quality pack-
ages of fruits and vegetable*
Commissioner J. E. McDonald
ot the State Department of Agri-
culture, Direct' r O. B. Martin of
the E^rtension Service, and C. L.
Davis, in charge of vocational ag-
riculture in Texas, will attend.
Specialists from U
College will make act
strations of prime
packing for the market.
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The most useful plant in the
world Is the palmyra palm, having
800 uses.
HOUSTON, Tex., Aug. 14 (UP)
—Failure of the Texas Legislature
to provide farmers of Texas with
an relief today led farmers and
business men of Grimes and Nava-
sota counties to endorse a new
. lution for cotton surplus prob-
lems.
Gov. Ross Sterling today had
under advisement a resolution
outlining a plan to ask farmers
and landowners to pledge a 50
per cent cotton acreage reduction
within the next two years.
“it seems to us,” read the res-
olution, "that when cotton is sell-
ing for six cents and seed selling
for $8 per ton, dnd some of our
business leaders predicting that
cotton will sell for three and reur
tents this fall, a remedy for the
existing situation should be work-
ed out immediately.”
The plan proposes proclama-
tions from the governors of all
cotton growing states asking farm-
ers to assemble at their banking
points for the purpose of signing
pledges under oath to reduce their
cotton acreage.
They would also be asked to
pledge not to sell any of their
1931 crop for les sthan 10 cents
per pound. Farmers would also
be asked to agree not to use a
higher percentage of fertilizer on
their cotton fields hext year than
used on the 1931 crop.
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GOBS MAY FACE COURT
MARTIAL FOR STOOLING
reflected the torture and misery of
bls soul.
Nearly three weeks ago the letter
catne.
There was no mistaking the en-
velope as it lay upon the warden's
desk.
Joe Shield—Death Row, Hunts-
ville, Texas.” It was scrawled up-
hill across the tiny envelope. '
One girl is 12, the other 7.
He slowly folded it up again and
replaced it in the envelope.
“I got the cards and the stamps
and the other things you sent me,”
the letter read. (There was no sal-
utation). “I don't even thank you.
I never want to hear from you
again and I never will be happy un-
it I can forget all about you.
“I am still my mother’s baby. ’
Warden Waid put that letter
away. If Joe Shield ever got th.it
letter, one of his relatives must take
it to him.
Thursday Joa Shield received a
letter, supposed to be from his chil-
dren. It was addressed in a ma-
ture hand. It waa not the childish
simplicity of-4he first letter.
Joe Shield read but he Was not
fooled.
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TOKIO, Aug. 14 (UP)—The
■rocarator today recommended a
fine be imposed upon Clyde E.
pangborn and Hugh Herndon, Jr.,
American aviators accused of hav-
ing photographed Japanese forti-
, *<lcatio ns from the air.
The recommendation was be-
lieved to have less: ned the pos-
eixility the fliers might be im-
prisoned.
A verdict hi the case will be
handed down by the court tomor-
row.
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AUSTIN, Aug. 14 (UP)—Pat
Dougherty, executive secretary to
Governor Ross Sterling, refused
to comment today on a United
Press dispatch from Huntsville
saying that Warden W. W. Waid
of the state prison three weeks
ago received a letter which Joe
Shield’s children wrote him, de-
nying forgiveness for killing their
mother.
Gov. Sterling granted Shield a
two-weeks reprieve July 30 on
Shield's sister’s request, to allow
him time to get an answer to his
request for forgiveness. Shield
was electrocuted last night.
“How the warden and officials
at the penitentiary handle the mail
is their own concern,” Dougherty
said. *T can not say anything
about this because I do not know
the circumstances.”
Governor Sterling is away from
Austin today.
HARD EFFORT TO END
REVOLUTION IN CUBA
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BROWNSVILLE, Tex., Aug. 14
(UP)—Eight border ports along
th® Rio Grande anticipated tonight
one great night of American thirst
quenching before a 9 o’clock cur-
few closing of the international
bridges will place * blight on night
life.
For on Saturday night, the Uni-
ted States treasury department or-
ders dosing international bridges
across the sluggish Rio Grande
from 9 p. m. to 8 a. m. daily be-
comes effective.
The Mexican border towns that
have been built and popularized
through Asserica thirst will be-
come places of quiet and their
streets deserted early each night
with the nev.’ elosing order. The
bridge at El Psoo will be the only
one across tue Rio Grande that
will be opened until midnight.
At Brownsville, Merced®* Ro-
ma, Hidalgo, Zapata, Laredo,
Eagle Pass and Dei Rio, the
bridges will close at 9 p. m. Amer-
icaas will have to scurry back to
the American side early in the ev-
ening hereafter.
Scloon keepers and cafe owners
placed in extra stocks of li-
fer the extra thousands of
pleasure seekers they expect will
| visit their favorite haunts to-
[ night.
I The fear that clicking roulette
I wheels and galloping dice would
I become prevalent along the border
| is laid to have prompted early
I closing of the bridges. The bridges
I were opened for longer periods
I last March after Mexican officials
assared American authorities no
gambling would be permitted along
I the border.
But Since then there have been
Tumors that gambling would open
in the border ports. Some casinos
were reported to be established at
some of th® places where Ameri-
cans hoped to gain a fortune thru
the twirl of a wheel or the shake
of the dice.
While ministers and others on
ths American side opposed the
| opening of gambling places, saloon
keepers on the Mexican side
foj£ht proposed casinos. The min
caw American tourists los-
I ir ■ their money nt gambling; the
r $0. keepers realized gambling
W-u’-d take money that th® Amer-
| ic 11 otherwise would spend for
! ' *1 cinsltlea” in th® catinas.
[ Ai a result the scene of the bat
th of bridges in Texas shifted
ffjm the Red Elver, where Gover-
Kr W. H. Murray, of Oklahoma,
fougftt for the principle of free
bridges, to the Rio Grande, where
gambling was an issue.
With the church people success-
ful la their fight to close the
bridges, saloon keepers on the
Mexican side started to have the
closing order rescinded.
Authorities in Nuevo Laredb
negotiated through diplomatic
Channels Alejandro Martinez,
Mexican consul in Laredo, was as-
sured by Governor Francisco Cas-
tellaaos, Jr., of Tamaulipas, that
under no circumstances would
j. gambling be permitted in Nuevo
Laredo
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Fine Recommended
For American Flyers
• LIVINGSTON, Tex., Aug. 14
(UP)—Joe B. Zimmerman pre-
wired today to continue his court
fight against a conviction of mur-
der in the dynamite killing that
he conceived from a detective mag-
azine story.
He was found guilty late Thurs-
day and sentenced to nine yean
in the penitentiary for the slay-
ing of M. H. Nettles, a neighbor
farmer, last December.
After being sentenced, attor-
neys for Zimmermna said they
will continue to fight the caje
and take it to higher court*
The same lack of emotion which
characterized his story of the dy-
namite murder was exhibited by
Zimmerman as the verdict was
read and he was sentenced.
His plea that Nettles “stole”
his wife is expected to be one of
the main points in his further
fight for freedom.
Margie Zimmerman, his 14-year
old daughter, testified that just
prior’ to the day on which two
sticks of dynamite blew up Net-
tles' home, she had read her fath-
er a story with exactly the same
surrounding circumstances i n
which a man was killed in that
way.
Zimmerman told, in a cold man-
ner, of how he first had intended
to kill Nettles with shotgun, but
rerr mbered two sticks of dyna-
mite he had.
“I slipped upon the roof and
dropped the sticks down the chim-
ney while Nettles was sleeping,”
he related. “I left and about an
hour later I heard an explosion.”
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Of Boxing Contests
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GEN. CHIANG KAI-SHEK
GENERAL UHIANG KAI-SHEK,
president of the Nationalist govern-
ment of China, is occupied al present
by uprisings against his administra-
tion in his own land.
He got his early military training
In Japan, studying at the Tokio Mili-
tary college. His high marks in
high school, as a student of infantry
movements, got him a scholarship to
the college.
Born the son of a wine merchant
in the village ot Chlko, Chekiang
province, in 1888.
Returned to China to take part in
the revolution of 1911.
In the second revolution (1913) be-
came secretary to Dr. Sun Yat Sen,
and remained in that position until
1920.
In 1922 Sun Yat Sen appointed him
nis chief ot staff, and Chiang went
to Russia to study the military sys-
tem.
Became co'mmander-ln-chlef of the
Nationalist northern expedition, in
1926, and was victorious.
Fell out with the Koumlritang
party, In 1927, and set up his own
Nationalist government in 1927.
Became president. In 1928, at 40.
His wife, MeHIng Sqong. is a Wel-
lesley graduate, and they were mar-
ried by a Methodist minister, in
Shanghai.
eigh- I
tence Wjfe. a]8U faced charges ot
slaying her mother and father, but
was not tried on these counts.
As the straps were adjusted to
Shield's ankles in th® death room
of the State penitentiary here io-
, day, he raised his bowed head to
. . ■ _ t ' murmur "Men, 1 am dying for the
Muscy also was under a two mv , .m
year sentence for operating a (
place for gambling purposes :n i
Galveston and faces an indictment 1 •„
as the lender in a giant smuggling "st word.
GALVESTON, Texas, Aug. 14
(UP)—George “Big Chief” Mu-
sey, general of Gulf Coast rum
runners and leader of Galveston’s
downtown gang, today was in the
hands of the law that has been
tracking him for many months.
Two secret service agents
brought him to Galveston about
1:30 a. m. today.
They took him to a local hotel.
They locked themselves into a
suite on the ninth floor and the
Thomas Blackstone, 33, the negro,
killed the young people, transport-
ed their bodies several miles in an
automobile and then set fire to
the ear and the bodies.
Life terms are the most severe
punishment possible under the
laws of the Stat** of Michigan.
They followed confession of a
crime whose brutality had horri-
fied the state, and aroused na-
tionwide interest.
Story of Crime.
Four youngsters, Thomas
Wheatley, Harry Lore, Vivian
Gold and Anna May Harrison, all
17 years old or younger, were
found slain in a parked car on a
lovers lane not far from Ann
Arbor.
The bodies had been mutilated
by blows, and by bullet* Gaso-
line had been poured over the au-
tomobile with three bodies piled
in the rear seat and one in the
front seat. A match was applied,
and the flaming torch that result-
ed attracted attention of a near-
by farmer.
Illiterate Brothert Accused.
Two intinerant, illiterate broth-
ers had been held in connection
with the crime, when tips from
two negroes, one of whom report-
ed he “had a vision” and the oth-
er attracted by rewards, led to
arrrests, confession formation of
the mobs, and speedy sentences.
Dream Leads to Solution.
Frank Johnson, Ypsilanti negro
glass worker, read about the mur-
ders Tuesday. He dreamed that
night, he said, that three men
did it
“Next night I saw Hot Tamale
(Blackstone) and his right hand
was cut across the middle. I says
to him ‘How come you cut your
hand, Hot Tamale?’ And he said
it was an accident,” Johnson said.
“Then I says ‘How about those
murders?’ and he begins to shake
from head to foot.
*1 got powerful suspicious, and
ran to the police station.’ ’
The second negro, George Nells,
was given the pistol used in the
murder* It came from Otis Og-
den, Blackstone’s landlord. Nells
turned the weapon over to police
after he saw notices of rewards.
Blackstone Confesses.
Blackstone told his story, a cold,
brutal recital of bare facts:
“Monday we thought we would
rob a gambling game at Milan.
We went but it didn’t look good
to us. So we said we would go
down Lovers Lane and knock off
some of these here petters. They
is always easy.
“We robbed them... Wheat-
ley recognized ua. The boys
said they would make no com-
plaint. Smith said ‘What
about the girls?’ Then we
dragged one of the girls out
of the car and the came out
clawing.
“We lined them up and start-
ed to frisk them. Smith jerked
out a pistol and fired three or
four times. Then we had to shoot
them all. We knocked them
down and put them in the back
of the car and Oliver drove back
to Ypsilanti with us. We got
some gasoline while Oliver waited
a little way off with Wheatley’s
car and the bodies. On the way
back one girl groaned so we hit
het with a wrench.
Victimi Art Silenced.
“We was scared they was not
dead so we took rocks and beat
them in the heads until we was
sure. Then we drove the car off
the road and set fire to it We
went right by the Lore home af-
ter we had killed those folks with
the bodies in the car.”
The Lores and Wheatleys were
neighbors. The girls had been
visiting in the community.
Oliver accused Blackstone of
attacking one girl.
One Girl Attacked.
“Blackstone attacked Anna May
Harrison while I stood guafd with
a gun. Then he ordered the Gold
girl out. She said she would rath-
er die first. 'Die then’ Black-
stone said, and shot her.
“Lore rushed Blackstone, fight-
ing furiously, and he shot him,
and Wheatley, and the other girl.
Lore got up after being shot, and
love of my two little girls,
ready.”
A switch snapped as he spoke the
*. Two more charges were
applied. Shield's secret reason for
slaying his wife, Opal Shield, as
she held bis child in her arms, and
his wife's parent* died with the
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