The San Antonio Light (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 116, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 15, 1923 Page: 2 of 20
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MSN MURDER
TRIAL STARTS
HERE TUESDAY
Two Brothers Charged
With Killing San An-
tonio Boxer.
MANY IN ATTENDANCE
Martin Arredondo Will Be
Tried First Upon Motion
for Severance.
Taking of testimony in the trial of
Martin Arredondo charged jointly
with bis brother Joe with the murder
of Joe Moran. well known San Anto-
nio prize fighter was scheduled to
begin at 2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon
in the Thirty-seventh District Court.
The jury was completed at 11:50 after
n venire of 50 talesmen had been al-
most exhausted. The jury nnd wit-
nesses were sworn and the latter more
than 50 in number were excused by
Judge W. S. Anderson until 2 o'clock.
Although nine jurors bad been so
cured when the special venire of 150
men became exhausted Monday after-
noon it required the entire morning
Tuesday to secure the remaining three
men. A battle of words between E. B.
Simmons attorney for Arredondo and
H. G. Williams assistant district at-
torney. with the expenditure of numer-
ous challenges by both sides greatly
delayed the selection of the jury.
When the twelfth man had been seat-
ed. the state had exhausted eleven of
its fifteen challenges while the de-
fense had used ten. With but a few
men remaining among the 50 tales-
men summoned it began to look short-
ly before 12 o’clock that it would be
necessary to summon an additional
25.
Juror Is Recalled.
An interesting sidelight on the Ar-
redondo trial was the precedent set
Munday afternoon when a venireman
was excused after interrogation by
the state and then recalled and ac-
cepted. In answer to the question re
garding conscientious scruples with
reference to the infliction of the death
penalty as punishment for crime.
• Kingsley Poor a venireman replied
in the affirmative. He was challenged
for cause and ordered excused by
Judge Ar.derson. He reported to A. W.
Hariios clerk of the court however]
that he bad not understood the ques-
tion and Judge Anderson ordered that
he be interrogated further. He subse-
quently qualified and was chosen as
the ninth juror the last man secured
Monday afternoon.
With the large number of witnessej
summoned in the Arredondo trial it
was indicated Tuesday thnt the trial
will require the entire week. Many of
the witnesses speak only Spanish nnd
an interpreter will be required there-
by delaying the taking of testimony
somewhat.
Try Martin First.
Joe Arredondo who is charged with
the actual shooting of Moran will
• ome to trial Monday. May 21. provid-
ing the trial of his brother Martin is
concluded by that time. Although the
two were indicted jointly motion for
severance was filed and granted Mon-
day morning with the result that
Martin was the first to face trial.
The state in its testimony is ex-
pected to produce evidence in an ef-
fort to prove that a conspiracy exist-
ed between the Arredondo brother*
to kill Moran who was attending a
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The Light Is Giving Away Swimming Suits
Boys ami Girls Can Get Them Free
The Light is giving away swimming suits to boys and girls for
doing just a little work in their spare time soliciting subscriptions ameng
their friends and acquaintances^
Any hoy or girl in Son Antonio or nearby towns may now get .♦
swimming suit free of charge and in exchange for a little spare time
w ork.
The suits are in assorted colors and are made of a good durable
material that should last for several seasons. Baseball equipment is
also on the list of prizes to boys and girl. Balls bats gloves masks
and al sorts of basebail equipment is being given away.
Boys and girls Jiving in San Antonio ore asked to come to the office
of The Light and let the Swimming Suit Editor tell you how to get
these valuable prizes absolutely free of charge.
If you live outside of San Antonio write to the Swimming Suit
Editor and he will send you subscription form and full partculars as
to how you can take advantage of this offer.
Hurry boys and girls; come to the office of The Light right after
school tomorrow and find out about this offer.
January 15 last. The defense on the
other hand is expected to attempt to
prove that threats had been made
against the lives of the Arredondo
brothers.
YOUNGBLOOD DENIES
HE PAID MONEY
(Continued from page one.)
’rience hud taught us would be an
equitable and just fire escape specifi-
cation. When we bad finished this
work (which in fact toned down some
of the features of the old law whih
uur practical experience had indi-
cated to be unnecessary) we went to
our regular attorneys and got them to
lay out the whole thing so it would
meet the constitutional requirements
as brought out by the court stated
above and legalize fire escapes erect-
ed avoiding to the former law. When
these suggestions our outline were
finished we sent the whole thing to
the attorney general's office and we
understand that he or his assistants
completed it to his satisfaction and
sent it or. to the proper state authori-
ties interested nnd that they in turn
submitted it to the Legislature and
that after much consideration it final-
ly passed almost unanimously. During
the time the bill was before the Legis-
lative committee. I was asked to come
betpre it and explain my views on
some of the features of the specifica-
tions. and I was there by invitation
us stated in the sworn testimony of
one of the members of the investigat-
ing committee. I was glad to be
there I was glnd to take the neces-
sary time of our engineering depart-
ment to work out an equitable and
righteous fire escape specifications
equitable to the owners of buildings
and saf» for the women and children
whose lives they are supposed to pro-
tect and I was willing to incur such
reasonable expense as was within our
means in having our attorney get the
legal side of the matter worked out.
realizing that few people have expe-
rience or are in position to know
much about the technicalities of this
particular line of work. Beyond this I
did not go. Not one dollar was spent
by me or my company directly or in-
directly to influence the vote of any
legislator in this or any other matter
and I have no knowledge of any cor-
ruption anywhere. I have heretofore
mad- this statement under oath nnd it
is absolutely true. Before undertak-
ing the work referred to above. I
wrote every state in the Union for
copies of such fire escape laws as they
had. in an effort to work out specifi-
cations that would be just right and
sensible from all standpoints and in
the light of the experience of other
rtates. and I wish here to state un-
hesitatingly that in my humble judg-
ment the fire escape law just passed
is far and away ahead of anything on
the statute books of any other state.
An examination of this law by a way-
faring man. though a fool will reveal
the fact that it is aboshitely wide
onen to any manufacturer of any type
of construction and in every way fair
to the public fair to the owner and
fair to the builder. There is not one
word in the specifications that has
favored my company any more than
the humblest blacksmith in the state
of Texas.
Was Aid io t uMomers.
Now. to the heart of the whole ques-
tion. I • have been charged by some
small people with having interest in
this fire escape law solely from the
i standpoint of financial profit. la-t us
see. Up to the time of passage of the
present law. as fnr I know the Legis-
lature bnd passed three different fire
escape laws and in each instance
without an exception all existing fire
< scapes hail to come down and new
ones be built. Under the old law
passed in 1917. which was declared
unconstitutional we have built literal-
ly hundreds of rihe escapes. In one
city alone we have built over $lOO.-
000 worth in the last three years. If
I had acted in this matter from a
standpoint of financial interest to mv
company. I would have stayed in m.v
office and let the Legislature pass if
it would a new fire escape law as in
the past thnt would enable me to go
to the above mentioned city and take
down the $lOOOOO worth of fire es-
capes that my friends bad built in
good faith and sell them $lOOOOO
worth more. If profit to my company
was the sole consideration that cer-
tainly would have been the logical
thing to do. but our customers are our
friends the moat of them personal
friends and they hfve bought this
equipment from us in good fnith and I
could not afford to stand by nnd make
no effort to preserve tl»slr invest-
ments. Some may ask whv not let
the owner of the building who is ac-
tually interested attend to this. Mr
answer is that very few of them know
the technical details necessary to go
about it and I feel it is as much our
duty to protect them in this as it is
the duty of manufacturers of ma-
chinery to protect the investments of
their customers by furnishing new
parts. I do not mean to charge here
that the Legislature would have will-
ingly destroyed these investments I
am sure they would not have purposely
done so but I am speaking of what
has been done two or three times in
the past end what might be done
again. I wish here to direct particular
attention to the clauses in the new
law which standardize all adequate
fire escapes already erected under the
old law. Now. if anyone thinks that
my interest in this matter was based
solely upon the laudable motives men-
tioned above I would disabuse thir
minds. I am just a plain fellow an
ordinary business man reasonably ex-
pecting to receive just reward for ser-
vice rendered but I do say that if
there was no prospect of jyer maiyng.
another dollar out of the fire eSraprl
business my little efforts in this mat-
ter would stand unchanged.
“There is an honor in business that |
is the fine gold of it; and that final- i
ly reckens with every man Justly.”
HULL YOUNGBLOD. |
BANDITS THREATEN TO
EXECUTE PRISONERS
(Continued from preceding page)
prepared for the slaughter of bis cap-
tives unless his demands were accept-
ed within first he said three days
then two days. The .demands were
that troops be withdrawn with the
assurance given that there would be
no reprisals in any form and guar-
antees that the bandits be re-enlisted
in the military forces.
“Then I begged to see the captives.
First they brought in Leon Fried-
man. He looked well. He then
called Eddy Elias. Elias also was
well. Major Allen then was brought
in. He was calm self-possessed. Next
the younger Elias was carried in—car-
ried because his right foot was in-
fected and badly swollen the condi-
tion of it looking serious. When he
asked for medicine the bandits told
him a doctor was coming to sec Cheva-
lier Musso (an Italian attorney of
Shanghai) ; Elias said his foot pained
him.
“1 talke'. to the captives told them
all that was being done and explained
the demands of the bandits.
Serious About Threat.
“Then 1 resumed my conference
with the chieftain. After I bad beg-
ged him and pleaded with him he
agreed to lengthen the period of his
ultimatum fixipg three days (from
May 12). He absolutely refused to
modify his terms. Talking with an
unmoved expression in an unraised
voice he declared that if his demands
are not met in three days be would
kill all.
“I said to the chieftain: ‘You are
too smart too intelligent to shoot
these innocent persons for nothing.’
“He replied: 'Do not deceive your-
self or believe me soft. What 1
threaten I will carry out exactly as
I promise. You are a missionary and
you know that what I say is true.'
"The conference ended about noon.
I begged to b* allowed to take along
Major Allen since it had been prom-
ised the preceding night that we
would be allowed to take six of the
captives out. The bandit leader how-
ever told me that at 10 o'clock a
messenger bad arrived reporting a
movement of troops from Llnebeng
toward Tsaocbwang. Commander
Wang added:
“ 'lf you don't keep your prom-
ises we won't keep ours. You said
troops were withdrawing and there
arc train troops coming in.' ”
The priest added:
“I am unable to walk now. and
my hands are trembling so I can hard-
ly write.”
Father Lenfers of German nation-
ality. is a member of the Order of the
Divine Word. He left Linchcng alone
on his dangerous mission.
Ringworm.
One bottle Imperial Eenema TtrmedV
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THE SAN ANTONIO LIGHT.
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INCREASES DIE
TOREALGUSHER
Rapidly Gaining in Pro-
duction and Is Running
Into Dirt Storage.
MAY BE BIG ONE YET
Indications Are It Will
Blow Itself in and Scouts
Watching It Closely.
Luling. Tex.. May 15.—Flowing oil
and gns steadily since Friday morn-
ing. May 11 gf 11 o'clock the Cald-
well Oil and Gas Company's Harde-
man No. 1 is fast increasing its pro-
duction and a gauge measurement
Tuesday morning showed it was mak-
ing fully 1000 barrels of oil in addi-
tion to several million feet of gas.
according to reports made by three
experienced oil men. From all indi-
cations drillers say they are being
lead to believe that the Hardeman
will blow itself in for a big well
shortly.
Blowing in Friday morning of last
week the Hardeman No. 1 spouted oil
and gas 40 feet above the crown
block. This tremendous pressure of
gas was estimated at 15000000 cu-
bis feet by Drillers Bryant and
Dauchy. The gns was well saturated
with oil and the surrounding scen-
ery soon became oil soaked. On ac-
count of the strong wind the stream
of oil above the crown block was
sprayed over a wide territory and it
was difficult to estimate the exact
flush production. Many reports at
first were that the well was mak-
ing from 50(1 to l<»00 barrels of oil
and about 15.000000 feet of gas.
” Well Under Control.
The well was gotten under control
Sunday afternoon and a gauge meas-
urement showed it was making about
100 barrels of oil. The first repdrt on
the gas was correct according to tlw
gauge. But the flow of oil began
increasing according to drillers and
by Monday morning the well was re-
ported making more than 500 barrels
of oil daily.
Tuesday morning the well was flow-
ing 1000 barrels of oil through the
gate valve according to the reports
sent to headquarters by three oil
scouts of major companies who are
in the field. The oil is being al-
lowed to flow into earthen tanks the
first of which was soon filled up and
others are being constructed.
From all indications drillers say
the well is going to blow itself in a
big one. Soon after it was brought
Wednesday—the Last Day of the Advance Sale
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in Friday drillers planned to get it
under control preparatory to going
back into the bole and making from
ten to fifty more feet. They believed
then that they had only scratched
the sand. But with the increased pro-
duction which may be noticed every
hour drillers announce that in all
possibility the well will not be made
deeper but that it will be allowed to
flow from the sand encountered at the
depth of 2052 feet.
Drilling Robinet Deeper.
The Robinett well drilled by the
Luling Production Company which is
sharing the interest in the Luling
field baa finished taking a core and
is drilling deeper. The easing in this
well was set when the Georgetown
was reached the drillers mistaking it
for the Edwards limo. However this
well has made some good showings
and according to reports the sand is
expected to be found in the next 50
feet.
Great interest among oil scouts Is
centering around this w-ell for in all
probability it will be brought in dur-
ing the next two or three days. If
it does come in for a good producer
oil men say. several more miles of ter-
ritory in the Luling field will have
been proven.
Considerable interest is also cen-
tering around a new derrick which is
being constructed on the Lawler tract
by W. A. Thomson a brother of the
Doctor Tompson of the Grayburg Oil
Company.
After a little boiler trouble. M.
O. Rnyor. who is drilling the deep
test in the Luling field is going back
into the hole and preparing to drill
about 50 feet deeper.
The Rios No. 2 offsetting the dis-
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FLORIDA LASH BANNED
Senate Refuses To ReConsider Bar-
ring of Corporal Punishi_ent.
Tcllahassee. Fla.. May 15.—Final
passage of a bill to ban corporal pun-
ishment of convicts in this state was
efected today when the Senate by a
vote of 15 to 13 refused to reconsider
its action of yesterday in banning
the whip.
The action of the Senate meant
that a bill requiring the state offi-
cials to eliminate whipping from their
calendar of prescribed punishment
now goes to the governor.
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