The Brownsville Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 218, Ed. 2 Thursday, February 7, 1929 Page: 4 of 22
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Artist’s Conception of Co-ed’s Flight ★ i
I rnme Lee meets Jeek Freitb "the Human Fish" a swimming in-
structor at Deep Eddy and becomes bis star pupil.
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k- ir How ‘Human Fish’ Charged With Her Abduction Was Introduced to Austin
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Miss Minter an "Am student leaves borne The girl is alleged to have been kidnaped
Tuesday morning supposedly to take an at 34th and Guadalupe streets where
examination at Texas university. Freitb’s rented car was found
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A- ★ ★ Mother’s Plea Stirs Governoj
rararffiion
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Mrs. Iff inter mother of the girl appeals
reward for the kidnaper.
SEARCH FOR j
AUSTIN GIRL
IS CONTINUED
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Rewards Offered For
Actor-Swimmer Al-
leged To Have Kid-
naped Miss Minter
(Special to The Herald)
AUSTIN. Feb. 6.—By hundreds of
letters telephone telegraph and ra-
dio. Austin city and Travis county
officers still are hunting desperate-
ly for a clue to whereabouts of Fan-
nie Lee Minter. 18. University of
Texas student and Jack Freith alias
Jack Griffith vaudeville actor and
swimming instructor missing aince
January 29 when both left their re-
spective homes in Austin.
Since the pretty brunettp eo-ed
waved goodbye to her mother on the
morning of January S9 saying she
wee on her way to attend a class
and the missing swimmer told his
wife goodbye on the night before
saying he was going to San Antonio
**n a business trip nothing has been
*een or hoard of either of thorn.
$750 Rewards Offered
On the basis of complaints that
they tad been friendly however.
Justice of the Peace K. R. Tannehill
of Austin has accented a charge of
kidnaping against Freith signed by
the missing girl’s mother. Mrs. T. 1.
Minter. Austin social service work-
ar and rewards totaling $"f»0 have
been offered for Freith’* arrest and
conviction $2r>0 of which was of-
fered by Gov. Dsn Moody.
The missing girl was known to
hundreds of Austin persons. She
was well known and popular as a
high school girl liked to swim and
became an expert under F'roith's
tutelage. She was a member of the
Deep Fddy swimming teem of Aus-
tin. captained hy Freith. which last
year competed in a big aquatic event
in Pallas.
Freith An Actor
The girl and her blur Whippet
roadster in whieh sbe was last aeon
were familiar en Austin streets.
Hare she was known as a brilliant
studious girl more intent on knowl-
edge she could gain from bookj
than her dssirs for a good tim*.
Among other girls. It was said she
often slipped away from conversa-
tion and was found poring over a
book.
FrcitV* rest is being Investigated
by officers as the result of his
mysterious disappearance. He has
played In orchestras and ha« been
an actor on the Pantere* and Or-
pheum circuits. He carried a rec-
ommendation from a prominent ath-
letic club in Los Angeles and Is be
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lieved to have lived in *e\cral sec-
tions of the country.
Despite a physical Infirmity—a
shrivelled leg which caused him t©(
limp when he walked Freith was an 1
expert swimmer. Engaged as a
swimming instructor here last year
he became known as tha “Human
Fish."
Whan tha swimming season dosed
he took a position as a salesman
of band instruments in an Austin
music store. He was discharged on
January 1 however and since that
time is ljot known to have been em-
ployed.
Four days before he lost his posi-
tion he was married to another Aus-
tin girl employed in an Austin eof-
fee shop and she gave up her job.
Swindling Charge Made
The Minter girl had visited the
Freiths in their home since their
marriage. Mrs. Freith and she were
good friends and she never suspect-
ed her husband would run tssj as
she realises now he has done.
Soon after his disappearance toe.
a charge of swindling was filed
against him by an Austin man who
claimed he represented himself as a
radio salesman for the firm which
discharged him accepted his check
for $110 for a radio on the day be-
fore he disappeared and never did
deliver the radio.
Before It was known that Freith
had disappaarad simultaneously the
parents of the missing girl figured
that the girl had left because of dis-
couragement over her studies. They
thought she disappeared because she
was afraid she would “flunk" a
pending examination.
An gssay she had written and
handed in to an instructor shortly
j before in fact had indicated she
regarded her university career with
“discouragement" according to her
mother.
Freith was the etage name of the
missing man. He revealed that to
his wife whom he had married only
a month hefore. but sha didn’t know
roueh about hl» past. They had
only a abort acquaintance before
they wer« married.
rfe took her to the heme of a
friend on the night before saying
bo would be back in a few days.
But when the girl-wife returned
home the next night he had taken
all of his belongings.
The deserted wife is broken-
hearted over the d.sappearance and
1 confesses her disillusionment.
“I don't care what they do with
him when they find him.” she said.
1 “But 1 think «he is partly to blame.
1 too. She ought to be ashamed of
her«elf.**
Miss Minter’s disappearance has
not only caustd utidescnhable anxie-
ty to her parent* but to her many
friend* in the university. Several
of her boy friends have offered to
join in the search if it will do any
good.
It is also said that Freith had
suggested to the grl that she could
get a job as a swimming instructor
! at $C.>0 per month and he is said to
| have planned previously with other
' girls to organise a team for a swim-
ming act in vaudeville.
Vaudeville booking agencies the
PLACE ORDERS
FOR MACHINES
Mercedes Button Fac-
tory To Open
April 1
MERCEDES Tex. Feb. 7.—Nego-
tiations have been completed here by
E. H. Healy and Frank Healy of
Museatine Iowa for the opening of
a button factory in Mercedes which
will represent an investment of ap-
proximately $50000. The business
will be located in the building on
Illinois Avenue between Fourth and
Fifth streets owned by \V. D. Cha*
dick and according to present plans
will be in operation by the first of
April. Between sixty and seventy
local men will be employed in addi-
tion to necessary superintendents
and foremen.
Mr. Healy and his brother who
spent several months here last fall
prospecting for raw materials of
which they found an unusual sup-
ply returned to their home in Mua-
ratine. Iowa whic his the center of
tho button manufacturing industry
of the United States where they
marked out the bleaching process.
Mr. Healy stated that the new com-
pany had signed production leases
for several large bodies of water ad-
jacent to Mercedes as well as all of
thr canals of the American Rio
Grande Land and Irrigation company
of this place. Only muscle shell will
be used in production here.
Forty-eight button making mi-
country over have been sent pictures
and descriptions of both of them
as have police and sheriffs’ depart-
ments and detective bureaus.
The fa mily has made up $.r>00 for
the arrest and conviction of the man
who kidnaped their daughter and
sitter.
Freith is 42 years old 25 years
older than the girl protege it la
charged he kidnaped. He had made
claims it is said to have been in
the world war and suffered an in-
jury.
The girl is pretty talks in a low
distinct voice and has pretty dark
j brown eyes and hair. She. too. is
an expert swimmer and is known to
I have had theatrical ambitions.
STATE RECOVERS OIL LAND
AUSTIN. Feb. 7.—<7P'-- Judgment
| for the state involving ft'25 acres of
i land on v hieh arc fifty oil wells and
shout $900000 worth of oil already
. .Ken from the wells against tht
Phillips Petroleum company and oth-
cr>. was entered by Judge George
t'alhoun in district court today. The
: defendants’ motion for a new trial
1 »v* o errultd and th*y gave notice of
appeal.
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Advertisement 9ppeering in The Austin American showing thei
Fteith wss quite ea expert in aquatic ubieties.
chines of the latest type designed
especially to make buttons from the
raw materials indigenous to this
country have been ordered. The
factory will have a 7000 jrosa week-
ly capacity which will he increased
I from time to time by the addition
of new machinery.
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3 Hurt When Car
Goes Off Bridge
MERCEDES Feb. 7.—Three women
were seriously injured when a tour-
ing ear plunged ever the concrete
bridge here the driver being blinded
by the heavy foy. There were seven
occupants in the automobile at the
time.
The Injured women. Medina Con-
cepcion. Uraselia Dobledo her daugh-
ter and a small girl Dominga Ra-
the. were taken to the Mercedes hos-
pital for treatment.
According to occupants of the car
the party was on its way from Mc-
Allen to Brownsville and were
crossing the bridge when the dri* |
unable to ?cc on account of the f«I
crashed into tho railinir. The cf
fell aborit eijrht feet into the rear
below which however contained l
water at the time.
PI VER CHORES TCMriEATH
BORDEAUX France.—Raoul G<i
tine a naval diver wa» m'focat
when his airline got tangled. v
“So many people have made a fuss over me because A
in rowing back to the‘America9 after we had picked up m
the ‘Florida’ survivors I was smoking a Lucky Strike. I
1 can’t see why there should be any excitement about I
this—it was the natural thing for me to do. Before V
we started out from the ‘America’ I made sure that my i
pack of Luckies was with me—I wanted the comfort
and pleasure of Luckies no matter what happened.
I sure was right. I’ll have to admit that after we
picked up the ‘Florida’ crew and started back my
nerves were completely let down. So I did the thing
I always do at such times—I lit a Lucky. As long as
I live 1’U never get another kick as I did from the
sweet old toasted flavor of that Lucky as we were
tossing about on the old Atlantic! Fm a hundred
percenter when it comes to ‘reach for a Lucky instead
of a sweet.’ 1 lay off the things that would make me
flabby and light up a Lucky instead. There’s too much
action going on in my life to have me moving around
with a lot of excess weight which I don’t need.
There’s another thing about Luckies. The toasting
process in removing the impurities is a blessing to
us who follow the sea. It prevents throat irritation
which is a constant nuisance to those who are regu-
larly exposed to salt air.”
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