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Hi^h Wind Sweeps Flames Over
Church and Three Houses Here
Five Rescuers Killed
on Way to Wr.ak.
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Mrs. Marrs Tells PTA
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James McDonald,
Shortly before Mr. Cannon's death
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Austin temperatures (from 8 a. m.
Tuesday to 1 a. m. Wednesday):
Maximum. 71: minimum, 41; mean.
10; precipitation, none.
When the royal party left, Mil.
lard hastened to the box office and
collected hie half of the profits—
l»00—paid hl, incidental bills, re-
turned ths dinner suit, and cams
back to California.
Mrs. Gibaon was improv:
rats of her Improvemeat
rapid enough to permit h
brought here to testify
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EAsmoeiated Frems Dispate: ta Statesmam.]
NEW ORLEANS, J >v. 17—Judge
Lewis H. Burns in feueral court to-
day signed a warrant for contempt
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Will Leave Hospital
to Tell of Pastor’s
Murder.
Puryear Fined $1000
by Jury.
Make Austin
Streets Safe
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West Texas: Tonight fair, colder,
frost in south, freezing in north;
stretcher, as the prosecution plans.
The defense has announced she
will be cross-examined severely.
A. W. Bonds, former sheriff of
Bell county, who is charged with
the slaying of Wiley Fisher, city
marshal of Temple, several months
ago, may stand trial in the crimi-
nal district court of Travis county,
it was learned here Wednesday.
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fenced from Dallas county to five
years for manslaughter in connec-
tion with the killing of Paul O’Day.
Wednesday withdrew his motion
for rehearing in the court of Crim-
inal Appeals here.
The withdrawal was made by Bob
Allen of Dallas, Crawford’s attor-
ney.
The court some time ago affirm-
ed the sentence, and his motion for
rehearing was pending.
With the withdrawal of Craw-
ford’s motion, his sentence of five
years becomes automatically effec-
tive, as the court Wednesday is-
sued the mandate.
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Inches long for comfort and style,
says the U. S.-bureau of standards,
after a long and delightful investi-
gation. So Mies Olive Botaw of
Baltimore gets a lucky young man
to see if hers are right. They are.
The fact that your neigh-
bor has ah automobile,
while your family is forced
to be without the advantages
of a car.
I Uncle Joe Cannon, once so power-
rul in congress, is now a name in
the list of practical American poli-
ticians.
Mr. Cannon was witty and in-
'tensely practical. Those that had
what they needed interested him
more than those that needed what
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HINDS may face trial HERE
Trappers in Battle Hose Brings Liquor
Straight From Still
ommended by sheriff and
‘PIG WOMAN’
ing in north; Thursday fair.
Oklahoma: Tonight fair, colder
except. In extreme west, freezing;
Thursday fair.
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young attorneys of Dallas. A suit
charge from his own gun in his face
and neck. and will lose one, and
probably both eyes if he recovers.
The ancidcnt occurred when he was
leaning his shotgun against a tree.
He was taken to Kerrville by am-
bulance. and then brought on to
San Antonio In tho same con-
veyance.
vould be their best. Luigi Conaro
vho said, "I had to live to be 90
o know that the world is beautiful.”
new how to eat little. Not one
American in a thousand knows that.
Austin and Central Texas
(forecast for tonight and Thurs-
day): Tonight, fair and colder.
Probably frost. Thursday, fair.
Train Derailed.
The train knocked the automobile
against a switch handle, opening
the frog, wheih immediately re-
sulted in derailing the train. The
Pan-American, a Louisville and
Nashville train, was 40 minutes late
and was running fast to make up
lost time. It was bound from Cin-
cinnati for New Orleans.
Dallas Cop Trails Coon
' Bootlegger By
. Smell.
Tuesday.
Colonel Hawkins took
Have you a little fairy in your
ome, anyth ing like the one that
Ir. Florenz Ziegfeld has discovered
1 Hollywood? He is transplanting
er to his New York theater with
lie following description: “Hair
radiant red, eyelashes ebony black,
yes a decided lavender tinge, skin
aultlessly clear, teeth regular and
rhite, physical proportions perfect
arriage aristocratic, and manner
ngaging."
Some Duke will take her away
rom Mr. Ziegfeld, of course. Such
eombination is “not in nature.”
Man Gets Sentence 18
Years After His
Crime.
ford and O’Day were prominent
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BENTON HARBOR, Mich., Nov.
17.—“King’’ Benjamin Purnell, fug-
itive leader of the Israelite House of
David, sought for almost five years
throughout the world, was captured
early today by state police in a
building of the colony here.
Missing since 1922 when warrants
were issued charging him with as-
sault on girl inmates of the pictu-
resque colony. Purnell, bewhiskered
leader of a cult which defied for
years investigation by state au-
thorities, fell captive to a surprise
attack by troopers.
From all sections of this country
and often from foreign lands have
come reports, varied and always er-
roneous, of the arrest of this figure.
Only last night did the authorities
learn that he was living quietly,
monarch in fact of his subjects.
He had been hidden there five years
Swooping down through the night
APPEALS |100 FINE
The case of an Austin man fined
•100 and costs in the corporation
court on Nov. 1 on a charge of
using profane language over the
telephone to an Austin woman,
was filed on appeal in the county
court Wednesday. The man en-
tered a plea of not guilty in the
corporation court, according to the
transcript of the record, but was
found guilty and assessed fane and
costs totaling 9120.20.
Strike Guard.
Pearce was doing guard duty at
Tyler, where Oct. "7. 1922. he killed
Clayton Hudson, a railway striker.
The venu was changed trom Smith
county to Wood, and from Wood
to Hopkins.
The court in reversing and re-
manding Pearce’s sentence pointed
out a number of other errors.
One of appellant's bills of excep-
tion stated he had been informed
the klan was aiding the strikers,
and that his cae had been discuss-
ed in the klan lodge ropm. The
trial court, however, informed ve-
niremen they didn’t have to answer
regarding their klan membership,
unless they wanted to, and one
Sheppard refused to answer.
“This ruling was clearly erron-
eous and the appellant was entitle
to this Information in order to ex-
ercise properly his peremptory chal-
lenges,” the opinion by Judge Baker
said.
A question that perhaps interests
e Vanderbilt family is “now that
e Duke of Marlborough, announc-
g his intention to become a Ro-
an Catholic, has had his marriage
nnulled, will he return to his wife
e seven million good American
ollars extracted from the W. K.
anderbilt fortune previous to his
carriage, by the intelligent solici-
r that the duke brought with him
om London? The answer prob-
bly is: “NO. Findings, keepings.”
President Coolidge realises that
is county doesn’t want to be tied
P in any world court. Some of
Is best friends have been kicked
at of the senate because they tried
» push the United States into that
purt. Intelligent men in office
ave taken warning, viewing the
olitically dead bodies of world
urt agitators. THAT'S GOOD.
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Yale Oarsmen Will
Train in Amsterdam
WASHINGTON, Nov. 17.—The
Yale Athletic association has decid-
ed to train its 1928 varsity crew for
the Olympic games at Amsterdam
that year. General Charles H. Sher-
ill, American member of the Olym-
pic committee, told the meeting of
tho American Olympla association.
Mrs. Gibson collapsed in
courtroom on the first day of
tral. •
Fugitive King Makes
Bond for Attacks
on Women.
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LAssociated Presa Dispatch to Statesman.1
BENTON HARBOR, Mich., Nov.
17.—Benjamin Purnell, founder and
leader of the House of David, ar-
rested early Wednesday inside the
colony after a world wide search,
was released on $50,000 bail when
arraigned in justice court on seri-
ous statutory charges brought by
two former members of the sect.
The bond was signed by Edith
Meldrum and Frank Rosetta, House
of David members. It was secured
by the colony’s $160,000 hotel build-
ing in Benton Harbor, which dur-
ing the night was deeded by colony
officials to Miss Meldrum and Ro-
setta.
Four men members and three
women, arrested in ti e state police
raid on the colony 1 st night and
charged with obstructing justice
were also released under bond. Pur-
nell’s examinatin was set for
December 22.
“King Ben,” who built the col-
ony from a scattered membership
to a community of nearly 1000 men
and women, was carried into the
court of justice Elisabeth Forhan
by four bearded members of the
sect. A cane in his hand shook
visibly. He remained silent during
The Catholic church refused a
Ivorce demanded by Henry the
ghth of England, although he had
e power, and used it, to take away
11 the property of the Catholic
urch in Great Britain. Henry the
ghth’s annoyance over that ind-
ent saved Martin Luther. Charles
e fifth, to oblige his friend Henry
t England would not allow the
atholic authorities to seise Lu-
er when he appeared at Worms,
efying,Rome. But for that divorce
ciden there wouldn’t have been
ny Lutheran church.
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issued against Manuel Malero
former president of the St. Bern-
ard's Trappers association and 100
others. Th® warrant was Issued
as a result of th® battle between
trappers and guards of trapping
landfl yesterday at De la Croix
islands.
The order issued by Judge Bums
commanded the 101 trappers to ap-
pear in federal court on Nov. 29
to show cause why they should not
be punished for contempt.
Governor Simpson spent the
morning and early afternoon . in
conference with Sheriff ‘Mereaux of
St. Bernard parish and other state
officers.
Ft Worth Rotarians
Charter San Angelo
tAmeelated Pum Own t statrmamJ
TRT WORTH. Not. 17.—BIX
Pullman cars In a special train bora
out of Fort Worth at 11:M o'clock
a. m. today with 115 members of
the Fort Worth Rotary club, bound
for Han Angelo to present the
nedgiing elub there with a charter
la oeremonies tontght.
Mayor H. C. Meacham, City Man-
acar O. E. Carr and Mra. Carr, and
Councilman W. E. Austin accom-
panied the party.
Stop, will be made an rout, at
Abllene aad Sweetwater. Will C.
Edwards, Denton, district Rotary
governor, who will present the
charter, did not go on the apodal
train, but will Join the party at
Ban Angelo,
Rail Commission
Faces Injunction
Judge Duval West of the federal
court has notified counsel for plain-
tiff and, defense that he is to is-
sue a decree granting‘the Texas and
Pacific railroad a ‘temporayy In-
junction restraining the Texs rail-
road commission and the attorney
general’s epartment from compell-
ing the line to operate the Midland
and Northwestern railroad from
Midland to Seminole.
The decree is expected to be en-
tered this week. Assistant Attor-
ney General Ernest May announced.
Both Well Knwn
A reward of $1000 for the cap-
ture of Fisher's assailant was raised
by the people of Temple.
The shooting was the culmina-
tion of political differences of
long standing between the two
men, both having been peace offi-
cers in Bell county for many years
and both having many admirers
for their courage and efficiency as
law enforcement officers. In 1924
Bonds was defeated for sheriff, and
this defeat was repeated in 1926.
and each time Fisher is said to
have opposed Bonds' candidacy.
able rubber
give tote .f
y in places
e. subject to
AUSTIN, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1926.
Claims Threats.
The state contended Pearce kiMed
Hudson without cause or provoca-
tion, but Pearce testified Hudson
had made threatening statements,
and that his attitude was threaten-
ing when he (Pearce) fired.
The state submitted a motion tor
rehearing in five misdemeanor
cases, which the court last week
ordered dismissed, because the Port
Arthur corporation court which as-
sessed punishment is invalid. the
court held.
The court affirmed the five year
murder sentence from Young coun-
ty of J. A. Sharp, in connection
with the killing of Marvin Wall,
June 8, 1925, and overruled the mo-
tion for rehearing of Frank Calla-
brizzi’s 50-year murder sentence
from Palo Pinto.
;ed a “fifty-fifty” agree-
Wind Wrecks Signs
On Dallas Streets
DALLAS, Nov. 17.—Signs were
blown down, several persons in-
jured, a score of plate glass win-
dows shattered, trash cans blown
into the street by the gale which
swept Dallas during the night.
R. O. Pinkerton, a policeman,
narrowly escaped injury when a
huge electric sign crashed to the
pavement a few inches from the
officer. A pedestrian on one of the
main business streets was knocked
down when a trash can was hurled
into him.
One building at Main and Elm.
in the heart of the downtown dis-
trict had more than 15 window
panes blown out
A defendant has the right to re-
quire of veniremen to say whether
they belong to the Knights of the
Ku Klux Klan, the Court of Crim-
inal Appeals here dedlared Wednes-
day in reversing and remanding the
five year manslaughter sentence
from Hopkins county of L. W,
Pearce, former Texas ranger..
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county ofticlals and nearly all ot
jury.
Bond forfettures of 51000 each
were remitted to Lee Batea and
Dolph Bates from Falla county, both
charged with Xolonteo.
Joekel to Speak
At Lions’ Lunch
Dr. s..L Joekel, head of the
Theological seminary of the Uni-
versity of Texas, will be the prin-
cipal speaker at the regular meet-
ing of the Lions club at the Driskill
hotel Thursday noon. Albert Moore
and Edwin Kreisle are in charge of
the program in which will appear
some of the girls of the Bcottish
Rite dormitory as well as a num-
ber of other interecting features.
gheny county workhouse, today
pondered over the oft-repeated
statement that the law does not
forget, even after 18 years. Re-
turning to his boyhood home in
the belief that a shooting, for
which he was convicted almost a
score of years ago, had been for-
gotten. McDonald was arrested
and taken to prison to serve a
two year sentence.
By Associated Press
DALLAS, Nov. 17.—Here’s a
policeman whose nose knows.
W. R. Hale, of the motoreycle
squad, today entered a street car.
A heavy odor of whisky met him.
He looked about and a negro
started for the front end of the
car carrying a bundle. Hale col-
lared him and found a gallon jug
full of whisky in the bundle.
Both were taken to the station.
Colonel Loses Eye
As Shotgun Fires
SAN ANTONIO, Nov. 17.—Col
C. EL Hawkins, quartermaster corps.
Fort Sam Houston, was in a erit-
cal comlitfon at the post hospital
Wednasday as th® result of a hunt-
ing accident west of Kerrville
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River at Austin: Flood stage, 18
feet. Present height. .6 foot. Change
since last report, .1 foot lower.
Two Pardons Issued
By Gov. Ferguson
Governor Mariam A. Ferguson
Wednesday granted two full par-
dons and remitted to bond for-
feitures.
Full pardons were granted:
F. M Osborn, Wilbargep county;
liquor, one year. Has been con-
fined In Tarrant county jail for 11
months while attempting to j erfect
appeal and “is afflicted with tuber-
culosis.”
Pablo Olivares, Galveston; mur-
W ill lam Lester Crawford, sen-
Special Program
On KUT Tonight
Special organ music by Paul
Buner in a test program will b® the
feature of KUT. university broad-
casting station, at 11 o’clock to-
night. it was announced. Last
year on a test program of this kind,
14 states were heard from as lis-
tening in; a number of improve-
ments have been made since that
time, and it is believed the num-
ber of states this year will exceed
that of last year.
Prof. S. Leroy Brown of the
physics department is in charge of
the station, and stated that every
effort was being made to extend the
poppularity of KUT among the
f,ns of the radio world.
While human intelligence stands
itill, science goes ahead amazingly.
German engineers at Friedricksha-
ren wNl use for power in the world's
argest dirigible, now building, what
s called “marsh gas,” chemical for-
nula CH4, or carbureted hydrogen.
This gas weights less than gaso-
In®, per horse power developed, and
gxploding in th® cylinders. th® hy-
lrog i takes up oxygen, producing
rater vapor, which can be used for
booling and stored as ballast. The
fas adding oxygen to th® hydrogen
koras up a weight in water great-
f than th® weight lost in burning,
his maintaining a uniform load for
he gas bag, regardless of fuel con-
umption.
Club Discusses
City Beautification
Beautifying Austin was the main
topic in a round table discussion at
the Exchange club luncheon held
at the Driskill hotel Wednesday
noon. “This city should be a model
for Texas,” declared President J. H,
Gardner, “in every way, as is Wash-
ington for th* country.”
Talks were made by various
members bringing up a number of
matters in the improvement of Aus-
tin, including a new court house,
and the proposed tubercular camp.
Committees were appointed to se-
cure authentic information on these
projects to present before the club.
[Associated Press Dispatch to Statesman.]
PORTLAND, Tenn., Nov. 17.-
Two rescue crews of 20 men each
hurrying to a wreck near Hender-
sonville .Tenn., met disaster them-
selves last night. Rall motors were
carrying them collided here killing
five and injury >19, six probably
fatally.
Two men had been killed and six
persons injured when a crack train,
the Pan-American struck an auto-
mobile and was derailed. Calsl for
aid brought two train crews from
Mitchellville and Fountain Head.
Tenn., toward Hendersonville.
[Associated Press Dispateh ts Statesman.]
SOMERVILLE, N. J.. Nov. 17.-
The prosecution in the Hall-Mills
murder trial expects to call Mrs.
Jane Gibson, its star witness, to-
morrow, but her physician, Dr.
Charles Kelly, beleves she will not
be able to testify. Court was ad-
journed over today on the assur-
ance of Special Prosecutor Alex-
ander Simpson that Mrs. Gibson
would be able to appear tomorrow.
It is through the testimony of
Mrs. Gibson, regarded as the only
witness of the slaying of .the Rev.
Dr. Edward W. Hall and Mrs.
Eleanor R. Mills, that the prose-
cution hopes to lay a solid foun-
dation for the mass of testimony
already heard. The rial of Mra
Francis Stevens Hall and her
brothers. Willie and Henry Stevens,
for th® murder of Mrs. Mills, will
reach its 12th day of actual hearing
tomorrow.
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March ccidents .,••••>«••••••• 40
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May Accidents .............. SB
June Accidente i 8?
July Accidents ..... 87
August Accidente ..,
September Aecidents
Bargains in god use
care are waiting for your
inspection now in the Clasai-
fled advertising colunns of
thia newspaper.
You’n find a great array
of makes and models, with
low prices and easy terms,
under "Automoblles for
[Associated Press Dispatch to Statesman.]
NEW YORK, Nov. 17. — Two
apartments, one above the other,
raided early today in an uptown
building, were found to be connect-
ed by a rubber hose through which
Nquor was siphoned from a distil-
ldry on the upper floor to be dis-
pensed in the lower apartment.
Joseph Bell, tenant of both apart-
ments. and Thomas Cotton, negro
assistant, were arrested and
charged with violating the Folstead
act.
A homemade bellows to blow
fumes from a 100 gallon still out
of the upper apartment was unsuc-
cessful, prohibition agents said, and
tenants complained of the odor.
[Asoclated Prens Dispateh to Statesman.]
BAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 17—
Queen Marl® of Rumania, was the
unwitting guest of a paroled con-
vict who posed as a Rumanian at
a benefit theatrical performance In
Beattie recently and the erstwhile
prisoner made 1900 through the
venture after having borrowed 845
to finance th® show and rent a din.
ner suit, the Chronicle says today.
The enterprising one, Bint B. Mil-
lard, who recently was released
from San Quentin prison after
serving a term for embezzlement
from a show troupe, obtained a
permit to leave California in order
to stage the event.
He canvassed Seattle and found
48 Rumanians. Then he persuaded
the manager of a theater there to
turn over his playhouse for the
occasion on the promise that the
queen would be brought there. He
BY ARTHUR BRISBANE
Copyright, 1926, by the Star company.
Bishop Manning of New York's
^otestant Episcopal church is an-
oyed because the Roman Catholic
■urch has annulled the marriage
B the Duke of Marlborough to Con-
uelo Vanderbilt.
^Thirty-one years ago they were
harried in St. Thomas’s Episcopal
burch in New York. Both had
een baptized in the Episcopal
kith in infancy. The American
uchess divorced her British duke
ix years ago, both have married
gain. Before that they had two
hildren, one of whom will be the
xt Duke of Marlborough.
Monsignor Lavelle, speaking for
atholicism says the Catholic
burch “does not annul a marriage
vithout good reason, for a duk® any
qore than it would for a tramp.”
[“There might have been a sinful
greement between them before th®
carriage, that would nullify th®
barriage, such as agreeing not to
Lave more than one or more chil-
Iren, or to divorce and remarry if
bey grew tired of eath other.”
Comrades Labor
To Rescue Miners
HAZLETON, Pa., Nov. 17.—Th®
fate of six miners entombed behind
a tremendous rush of water 1200
feet under ground in the Tomnhicken
colliery of the Lehigh Valley Coal
company, near here, remained a
mystery today.
Th® men wer® trapped yesterday
afternoon when a nearby creek
through its banks as a result of
heavy rains and flooded the mine.
Moro than 100 other miners in the
shaft heard the roar of the waters
and scrambled to th® surface in
time to escape imprisonment.
Rescue crews worked throughouf
the night to extricate the entombed
men, but today they had not suc-
ceeded in stopping the flow of wa-
ter. Until this is done there is lit-
tle chance of reaching the victims.
Whole sections of the under-
ground tubes collapsed from the
sweep of the waters and blocked
most of the passages. Whether the
men were trapped behind a cave-in
among isolated tubes or whether
they were drowned had not been as-
certained toa
FORT WORTH, Nov. 17.— Chaperonage is bad psychology for
the average high school or college student,,in the opinion of Mrs.
A. M. N. Marrs, educational secretary of the Texas congress of
mothers and parent-teacher associations, in eon vent km here.
She said when she was youhg, chaperones were resented and that
the young people of today will not have thef.
4 Chaperonage to those affected simply implies, Mra, Marra said,
that an older person is sent along to spy on them. “That is the
wrong effect,” she tola a section meeting of college mothers.
AMONG DISCIPLES.
[Asnociated Press Dispatch to Sthtesman.]
Dallas Girl Beaten
By Night Attackers
DALLAS, Nov. 17.—Miss Bertie
Thompson, 25, was attacked by a
man who entered her home Tuesday
night and left her jaw broken from
a blow in the face with his fist.
After being treated at the emer-
gency hospital she gave the police
the name of the man whom she
claimed struck her She said the
man struck her and kicked her in
the chest Doctors say she probably
has internal Injuries. No arrest
has been made as yet.
Poincare Given
Confidence Vote
PARIS, Nov. 17.—Premier Poin-
care received another vote of confi-
dence today when the chamber of
deputies, at his request, defeated an
amendment to the budget, offered
by the radicals, 330 to 136.
I You may not know it, but this
dountry celebrated “canned food
F It is fortunate that the art of
annin vegetables, fruits and other
bods has been so highly perfected.
Preservation of vegetables means a
12 months’ supply of vita mines nec-
ssary to life, and constant supply
>f well mad® soups used too little
n American households.
l If whaling vessels, explorers, ships
md others had included canned to-
natoes in their stores, scurvy that
Wiled so many would never have
een known.
Motion for a new trial in the
case of Grady Puryear, Austin
youth, charged with negligent hom-
icide, was filed in the county court
Tuesday night following the youth’s
conviction by a jury and the as-
sessment of a fin© of 11000.
The motion was filed in Puryear’s
behalf by his attorneys, Warren
W. Moore and John E. Shelton, fol-
lowing the verdict of- the jury
which was returned at 7 o'clock
Tuesday night after the jury had
deliberated for two hours. No date
has been set by Judge George S.
Matthews for hearing the motion.
Th© negligent homicide charge
against Puryear grew out of the
death of Miss Isabelle Crozier of
Dallas in an automobile accident on
the night of June 18, 1926, at 23rd
and Guadalupe streets. Puryear
was the driver of awe of the cars
figuring in the triple collision, tn
which Miss Crozier and Miss Louise
Speer of Mission met death and
Ed Tagel and Henry Seekatz were
injured.
On® house was destroyed and a
church and two other buildings
damaged in a fir Wednesday
morning that threatened for a time
to give serious trouble to the Aus-
tin fir® department.
The home of M. M. Bryant, negro,
at 817 East 11th street, was des-
troyed. the Third Baptist church,
Negro, on East 10th street, was
damaged end a beauty parlor and
an upoccupied building were dam-
ageu in the blaze which jumped
from building to building in the
high wind. Loss was estimated at
approximately 16000. ’
The fir© originated shortly after
9 o’clock in the Bryant house,
jumped to th® beauty parlor at th®
sam® address, then a block away to
th® church, a brick building. An
unoccupied building across the
street from the church also caught
fire. Quick work by the Austin
fire department halted the spread
of the flames, and finally brought
the fire under control
Two other small houses were
fired on the roofs by sparks carried
by the high wind. The fir® depart-
ment quickly extinguished the small
blazes before much damage was
don©. The principal damage re-
sulted from water and not the fire.
The original fire is thought to
hav® been caused by a defective
flue in the house of Bryant. The
fir® department saved many other
house's In th® neighborhood by play-
ing streams of water over them.
Seven firn companies fought the
fire.
Surrendered Here
According to a report circulated
at the court house, a change of
venue will likely be sought in the
case, since it will be difficult to
empanel a jury in the district court
at Belton due to th® wide ac-
quaintance of both Bonds and the
late city marshal.
An official of Bell county was
in Austin Tuesday, and, according
to an unconfirmed report, is quoted
as having said that there will be
an effort to bring th® cas® to Aus-
tin on a change of venue. Should
the case come her© it will be heard
before Judge James R. Hamilton.
Bonds surrendered to State Ran-
ger Frank Hamer Saturday night,
and Sunday morning appeal d be-
fore Judge Lewis Jones in 1 3 dis-
trict court at Belton, where he
made bond of $10,000.
The shooting which took the life
of the veteran city marshal, Wiley
Fisher of Temple, occurred on Cen-
tral avenue in Belton, on Aug. 20,
1926, while Fisher was attending
th: funeral of a friend. Bonds dis-
appeared immediately afterward*
leaving a note on his car near
Jarrel addressed to his wife. “I
can’t give up here and be mur-
dered.’” the note said. Bonds had
not been located prior to his sur-
render her© Saturday night.
Texas Turkeys Sent
To Chicago Market
Over 200 cars of Thanksgiving
turkeys have been shipped from
Texas to Chicago, according to a
report received by R. F. Howard
here, and th® statement followed
that mor® Texas turkeys would be
consumed in that city than from
all th© other states of the unin
put together. Carload after car-
load have been shipped from t e
main dreading centers of the state,
including Lampaaas, La Grange,
Austin, Cuero, Brady, Ballinger
and Brownwood. Reports from
Chicago set the Thanksgiving tur-
keys at 48 cents a pound there,
already dressed, but it is thought
that Texas prices will hardly reach
that sum.
Th© Pan-American train killed
both occupants of th© automobile
which it struck, Luther Payne and
Walter Frakes of Sandersville,
Tenn. The crash caused seven cars
of the train to overturn. Four negro
dining car employee were injured
and two men were hurt vrhen the
diner was ditched.
The passengers hurt t re Mrs.
J.’W. Ingrum, Chilicothe, hihio, and
Mrs. J. B. Stubbins, Birmingham,
Ala., neither seriously.
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ted Porcelain,
ern in delicate
be" thinking of
ressing up the .
Former Bell Sheriff
May Return ■ )
Austin for Trit
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