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LIAM LESTER CRAWFO
iftee of House Begins , TRAURACONE"APPVTASNA WARMER WEATHER Story of Eclipse Told By Camera
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LF INCH SNO W; RELIEF PROMISED
Witnesses in its
the Penitentiary System
LEADER DIES AT PEKING
N WITNESS STAND AT DALL
Defendant in Dallas Murder T
CALLED
5S FDR
MEANS AND FELDER
REFUSED PERMIT TO RELATE
DETAILS LEADING UP
TO INDICTMENT
DENIES DISCUSSING
GLASS CASKET CASE
HUNTSVILLE, Texas, Jan.
273(W)—The sub-committee of
the Texas house committee, in-
quiring into the prison system, i
arrived. here at noon and this
afternoon began holding hear- :
ings.
The first witness called was
Lon Martin, chief accountant
of the prison system. 1
This indicated that financial.
questions would be the first to
.a be considered by the commit-
Representative" Irwin, who
with Representative King and
Farrar, compose the sub-com-
mittee, said that early atten-
tion would be directed to cer-
tain land transactions.
EST TEXAS
TEMPERATURE DROPS TO 14
TUESDAY MORNING AT
- EIGHT O’CLOCK
HALF INCH SNOWFALL
HERE ON MONDAY NIGHT
Walsh’s Question On Meeting At
Waldorf Hotel is Overruled
By Court
F NEW ronx. Jan. 27 mn—Harry
M. Daugherty, former attorney gen-
1 " eral. called as a. witness for the de-
fense today in the Means-Felder
trial, was refused permission by .
Federal Judge Lindley to tell the
details of the "situation"’ existing
at Washington during the events
leading up to the indictment of the
defendants.2
Mr. Daugherty said that for some
"time the state of affairs in Wash.
. ington was such that there were
men in the capital who were “hell-
bound and spell-bound."
“I would like at this time to tell
the true story of that situation if
I am permitted to do so," said Mr.
Daugherty. Judge Lindley, however,
refused him permission. t
i Mr. Daugherty denied that Thom-
as B. Felder, one of the defendants,
ever talked to him about indict-
ments then pending’sgainst the Cras
ger System. A company manufses
V turing glass caskets. Felder and
his former client. Gaston B. Means,
are being tried on charges of con-
spiring to bribe high government
officials, including Mr. Daugherty,
in attempts to quash the glass eas-
ket indictments. 1
"Did Gaston Means ever talk to
you about it ? he. was asked by
Frank P. Walsh. defense attorney.
“He never did," replied Mr. Daugh-
erty. .
"Did Jarnecke (Means’ former at-
—torney) ever talk to you about it?"
“He never did,’’ answered the w it.
HOUSE CONSIDERS
ML AUTHORIZING
DR. SUN X AT SEN
-SHANGHAI Jan. 27. M.—Dr. Sun
Yat Ben, one of China’s, most noted
political leaders, is dead ut Peking,
according to a dispatch received
here this afternoon by the Japanese
semi-official news Apency. 0
AND FOR ATTORNEY
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Special to The Times,
* AUSTIN, Texas, Jan. 27.—Repre-
sentative Daniel’s bill authorizing
Wichita county to employ an as.
sistant district attorney and also a
special investigator at a salary of
$3,400 each year is on the calendar
forconsideration Tuesday after-
noon. y
.:---*--
at Wichita Falls, was here Tuesday
to appear before the house finance
committee to explain the appropria-
tions recommended for that institu-
tion by the state board of control.
BANK MESSENGER N
ILLINOIS ROBBED OF
PAYROLL OF $15,000
Resumes Testimony Tuesday M
Questioned More About Wi
HEAR ARGUMENTS
■ FORRES TRIAL
EMS
AKET
Thermometer Drops to Four. all
Texline and Five at For-
r gan and Woodward.
L . —
Gripped in the arms of a severe,
norther, Wichita Falls experienced| -
another siege of extreme cold:
weather Monday night and Tuesday
The thermometer at the Govern-t
ment Cooperative Weather Bureau,
operated by the Wichita Falls Elee-
tric Company, registered a minimum; ,
I of 1 degrees,at s o’clock Tuesday .
morning and approximately one half
inch snow fell in this etty Monday
night, according to instruments at
the bureau weather station.
At 1 o’clock Tuesday afternoon :
the mercury registered As degrees. ‘
having -mounted nine degrees’dur-
ing the morning hours.
. Tuesday morning the north wind
lessened and the barometer climbed
to 29:50, indicative of clear weather.
CHICAGO, Jan. 21. (—Attorney
Randolph Laughlin of St. Louis,
continuing today the closing arsu
ment for the defence in the veter-
ans bureau conspiracy trial, vig-
orously arraigned the prosecution
for its alliance of vengeance and
corruption” with Elias H. Mortimer,
the chief government witness.
Characterizing- Mortimer as “a
perjurer and a criminal striking at
the very roots of government,"
Laughlin asserted “the nation which
tolerates such alliances between the
law enforcing branch and paid and
protested criminals selects thereby
the path of decay, and destruction."
DALLAS Texas. Jan. 27.0P—Wil-
liam Lester Crawford on, the wit:
ness stand in his own trial charged
with killing Paul M. O’Day today
admitted shooting O’Day.
Crawford testified that he read a
brief written by O’Day in a case
contesting the will of his father.
Colonel W. L Crawford, leaving the
estate to the defendant’s mother,
that he believed certain parts of the
brief attacked the character of his
mother, and O’Day refused to re-
tract the arguments. The will ease
was filed by the defendant’s half
sister and brother.
Telling of reading the brief, how
he obtained a shot gun and waited
for O’Day to appear at the entrance |
of his office building. Crawford
said he called to O’Day and said:
“I told him, 1 have just read your
brief—do you question my moth-
er’s chastity ?" s
"Why did you ask him that WHI-
liam?’ Crawford’s attorney asked.
"I felt sure that he say that he
didn’t, 1 knew that I could show
him that he done my mother an aw-I
ful wrong, and felt that I could in-
duce him to withdraw the brief,"
“What answer did you expect O’
Day to make to your question?"
“I expected him to say “no,"
"And what did he say?
“Yes, and 1 can prove what 1
say."
“Were you expecting that sort of
EXHIBIT FOUR
AT INQUIRY[
SLAY NG IN
WITNESS TESTIFIES HE SA
ORA THOMAS FIRE THE
FIRST SHOT
EXAMINATION DISCLOSES
THOMAS GUN WAS EMPI
Press Representatives Warned
Use Every Care in Report-
ing the Hearing .
-ness.21,
, “I will ask you whether or not
A it is a fact that Colonel Felder
4 called on you on one occasion when
you were ill in Washington and
spoke to you about the glass casket
“He never did.” said the witness.
% “None of these men ever discussed
the glass casket case with me." %
Ar. Daugherty said he did not
6 know Means personally, and had
talked to him only once when Means
spoke to him in the department of
justice building.
... TMrr. Walsh asked the witness if
he ever “attended a conference at
the Waldorf hotel (in this city) in
the early part or middle of Oc-
tober. 1922. at which there were
present yourself, William J. Burns
Andrew Mellon and Gaston B.
Means.” Before the witness could
answer Prosecutor Todd objected
and Judge Lindley ruled out, the
* question. N . .
CHAS. P. SENTER WINS
BREACH OF PROMISE
ACTION FOR $200,000
ST. LOUTS, Jan, 27 (P)—An unan-
imous verdict in favor of Charles
P. Senter. wealthy bachelor and de-
fendant in the $200,000 breach of
promise suit filed by Mrs. Ella Mate
Campbell, beauty parlor proprietor,
was returned by a jury here to-
day. / 1
coLLIsvmLE, in., Jan. 27. m-
William Mathies, 64 years old, a
messenger, was held up here today
by several armed men who escaped: path or aecny,ano destruction,
with a mail pouch believed to con- 1P
tain $16,000 in cash. Mathles was Admoemmredeet Me *
en route from the railroad station to diaster * pule. informer of the
the Collinsville State Bank. The
money, It was, understood, was to
have been used to cash payroll
checks of the Lumaghi Coal Com-
pany. 5-1
Day at Austin
The house voted down a bin
requiring school teachers and,
all state employes to pay poll
tax.
A compromise amendment to
the bucket shop bill was adopt-
ed in the house to declaring
actual delivery of a commodity
contracted for should be con-g
templated or the contract would
be unlawful. The bill was made
a special order of business for
tomorrow afternoon.
The house passed a bill per-
mitting creation of navigation
districts to preserve inland and
coastal waterways of Texas.
3 The senate passed the judicial
appropriation bill appropriating
$3,360,219 for the state courts.
The senate adopted a concur-
rent resolution asking the fed-
eral government to pay $90,171
for quarantine stations on the
Gulf of Mexico, which have been
transferred to the government.
The revised civil code was
passed by the senate as pre-
pared by the codifying commis-
sion. , 755504.0.4,
“BIG BOY” KRAFT ANNOUNCES
RETIREMENT FROM BASEBALL
TO ENTER BUSINESS FIELD
WOUNDED GANGSTER
AND WIFE EXHONERATE
MAN UNDER ARREST
CHICAGO, Jan. 27.—John Torrio.
. underworld entertain shot down by
would-be assassins last. Saturday,
and his wife today exonerated
George Moran, friend of Dion
O’Banion, gangater-florist. who was
S assassinated in December. Moran
T had been taken into custody after
a youth living in the neighborhood
of Torrio’s home had identified *
photograph of Moran as one of the
men he saw on the scene when Tore
rio was shot.
. The police never have arrested
any one for the killing of O’Banion
and although Torrio is said to know
the identity of his assailants, the
police insist he has refused to talk.
It is believed, however, that Assist-
ant State’s Attorney Sbarbaro. who
has asked for a guard after visit-
fog Torrio, has been told by Terrio
at least some of the details of the
attack. Torrio still is in a serious
FORT WORTH, Texas, Jam.
27—Clazenee Kraft, star alt-,
ter of the Panthers and home-
zum king et the miners, an-
mouneed Tuesday he weeld en-
ter business and would suit
baseball. He said he would close
a deal Tuesday afternoon for a
Fort Worth automobile ageder.
that all the details had been
agreed upon and only the sign-
log of the L papers are now
necessary." Kraft has been with
the Panthers since the start et
the famous pennant winning
“late recoma o the: home
rans last year has never been
equalled in the Texas Lengue. .
Paul LaGrave, business mans-
s ser of the Panthers, said this
afternoon steps were being take
en already to till the first base-
man’s place. Final papers en
Kentr’s reticement
signed this, afterneen,
Thencon was last
he batted 34S and
1 runs. He joined
will be
Kraft’s,
rears, we
mepaeinct Tins */is
been the leading hitter ever
since. participating in four Dix-
le series. 5 *
government at $11.00 per day and
expenses and asked the jurors I
they would vindicate the policy of
“a little, lie for a little gold.”
"Let this case, silence forever the
paid voice of Washington hangers,
on, who stand ever ready to lynch
the reputation of any public officer
or any citizen.
Will-you by your verdict here
vindicate Mortimer and the principle
he personifies in this litigation?"
Former Senator James Hamilton
Lewis began his presentation of the
defense case.
G. E. AND WESTINGHOUSE
ANTI-TRUST SUIT BEGINS
CLEVELAND, Ohio, Jan. 27. (n-
The General Electric Company, the
Westinghouse Electric Manutactur-
ing Company and Westinghouse
Lamp Company, charged with vio-
lating the Sherman anti-trust law.
went on trial today before. Federal
Judge D. C. Westenhaver.
The three companies, the indict-
ments charge, engaged in a com-
bination and conspiracy, through an
elaborate system of ‘contracts,
whereby they controlled practically
90 per cent of the country’s output
and sale of electric light bulbs and
lamps in ‘restraint of trade and free
competition.
James R. Fowler and Stanley W.
Finch, assistants to the attorney
general. at Washington, are con-
dueting the prosecution. .
WEATHER FORECAST
OOK OUT FOR THE FELLOW
al WHO GETS. TOO BIG TO
EVER FEEL
SMALL
Government observers predicted
slightly warmer weather Tuesday
with a slowly rising temperature.
Swept by a 25-mile-an-hour gale
from the north, the snow storm of ,
husky proportions cut, through the
city shortly after dark Monday eve-
ning, while barometers remained at
low levels and thermometers tum-
bled.
Neart zero weather was experi-
enced at points north of Wichita
Falls. Officials of the Fort Worth
and Denver City railroad reported
snow at all points forth of Wichita
Falls with a minimum temperature
of four degrees above zero at Tex-
line, 10 degrees at Amarillo and 17
degrees at Childress,
The dispatcher of the Northwest-
ern division of the Missouri, Kansas
and Texas railroad reported a light
snow blanketing the ground at all
points with minimum temperatures
of five degrees above zero at For-
gan and Woodward, Okla. Officials
of both the Wichita Valley and the
Wichita Falls Southern railroads
reported low temperatures and snow
at all points on their lines.
The storm has decreased in fury
Tuesday morning at northern points
and railroad dispatchers, believed
that the worst had been experienced. |
but no relief was promised before
Wednesday. 1
annow zEno weATEn
*MISSOURI AND KANSAS
KANSAS Crry, Jan. at. vr—rem-
peratures in the southwest early to-
day ranged from below zero in Kan-
sas and Missouri to a few degrees
above in Oklahoma and the Texas
(Continued on Page $, Column 6)
—T—- *
CONTROVERSIAL SECTION
P. 0. RATE INCREASE BILL
IS DISCUSSED IN SENATE
WASHINGTON, Jan. 27. (P)—The
controversial section proposing re-
vision of second class zone rates
was before the senate today in con-
tinuing consideration of the postal
pay and rate increase bill.
While allowing by regrouping the
present eight sones into three, some
decrease from present rates in the
far zones, the bill proposes a one-
cent A pound increase in the present
first and second zone rates on ad-
vertising matter in publications.
The senate reached the zone re-
vision section after approving yes-
terday a uniform rate of 1k cents a
pound on reading matter in publi-
cations. This is a reduction of one-
quarter cent A pound in present
rates applicable to reading matter
in general publications and the
same rate now-nowed to religious,
educational and philanthropic pub-
lications.
The revised zone rates would ap-
ply a rate of three cents a pound on
the first, second and third zones;
six cents a pound on the fourth,
fifth and sixth zones, and eight
p 1 cents a pound on the seventh and
8 eighth sones. Although the pro-
posed rates are less than recom-
L mended by the postoffice depart-
ment, several i amendments were
pending today proposing to pare
down the bill rates, particularly the
increases in the first two sones.”
LITLe Jon
WICHITA FALLs and viemnity:
perature: Maximum en daieames -
4s at one p m. Tug
| za uonveem: minimum
one p m. Tuesday 23; ene-haif inch
— idy. North wind. average velec
en per hour. Barometer 20.45.
ed by the Government Coopers,
her Bureau, operated by the
WS.K rem 15172 comma 7.7
WEST TEXAS: Tonight fair, not so cpid.
north portion: Wednesday fair, sets -
OKLAHOMA: Tonicus cure not no cold
in west central portion: Wednesday partly
cloudy, rising temperature
EAST TEXAS: Tonight fair, colder in
southeast portion. freeing to the coast
with temperature 26 to 20 degrees: not so
old in extreme northw eat portion: Wednes-
lay fain not so cold.
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“-m-man Matses? $2-22-0%
19:amn!s mli ATBLIBL TEA
5 - ,ugea ************* YOlWPEh VONG:
tograph was taken just two seconds after total eclipse and is a most
unusual one in that it shows the flaring corona with an enormous “prom-
inence,” extending into space hundreds of thousands of miles. This
“prominence” is shown at the “five O’clock” point where it shaped into
a perfect image of a butterfly. The fifth and sixth pictures show the
sun as the eclipse declined. the crescent of light now being in opposite
position to that of the start of the eclipse.
ANADIAN WHEAT FAVORABLY REPORT
CLIMBS TO ABOVE.
POST-WAR PRICE
INASIAN WHEAT
BILL TO REGULATE
SALES OF WHISKEY
an answer?"
1 I was not."
Reached fer Gun
Crawford said that O’Day started
into the lobby, that as O’Day passed
him a brief case O’Day carried
struck him on the leg. Crawford
said he was “paralysed by his any
swer, and continued, "when I real-
ised what he had said. I reached
back and got my sun’ and ran in
,there and shot him." —
Asked "Why did you shoot him?
Crawford replied: i
“I couldn’t help it.”
t The witness denied that up, to
the moment O’Day had answered
his question (Crawford) did not ex-
pect to shoot him. He said he had
been under a tremendous nervous
and mental strain from the time
he read the brief the night before
until the shooting. He did notres
member seeing various persons
. whose names were mentioned “in
questions. 1
Crawford then was turned over
to the state for feroks-examination.
He was asked and reiterated de-
H EERIN, Ilo Jen. aT. W)—Tese
tiryles today at the inquest inte
the deaths of S. Glean Young
Ku Kiax Kian Niquer raiden
Deputy Sheriff Ors Themes.
Young’s arch enemy, and two
others, Mearr Peterson et Her.
rin told the coroner’s Jury he
saw Thomas tire the first shot
in the fatal affray Saturday
night. Anti
mmns. m. Jan. n. on—ve
guns, a cartridge belt and a hole
were the first grim exhibits to ta
WINNIPEG. Man., Jan. 27.M
--Prices on the Winnipeg grain
exchange continued their climb
today and the post-war wheat
record was again topped when
the May futures was carried to
$2.07%. a gain of 20 cents over,
yesterday’s close.
July wheat made.a provor-
tionate gain and rye maintained
its sensational spurt, the May
future being quoted at $1.83 to
$1.86 or 3 to € cents higher.
CHICAGO. Jan. 2700—with buy-
ing on an immense scale wheat rose
today to $1,999. within te of $2.00 a
bushel, for May delivery This price
of $1,999 virtually fulfilled predic-
tions which have been current for
months that the speculative mark-
et here would reach.$2.00 Today’s
high point was a new top record and
3 te above yesterday’s finish.
. ----------------
Negro Arrested
Connection With
Diamond Recovery
Joe Price, negro, commonly known
as “High Stepper," was arrested
Tuesday afternoon on a capias. is-
sued following his indictment on a
charge of receiving and concealing
stolen property by the grand jury
of the 30th- district court, which re-
turned its report Monday afternoon.
/ The negro’s indictment follows
the recovery of a large amount of
diamonds by Chief of Police George
"Hodgins three weeks a go, when a
negro woman was also arrested and
the gems taken into custody by the
police, department*
Two bills of indictment were
returned against the negro and the
bond in each case was set at $1,000.
1. R. Cloughley of 912 Burnett
Writes Winning Line, No:38
H. R. Cloughles, 912 Burnett street, wrote the winning line to
Limerick No. 38, anent the spring hat. It reads:
“Along in December, Miss Gwen
Picked out her spring bonnet again:
1. Twould have been a fine thing 1
Had it lasted‘till spring,-
* BUT SHE’D BOUGHT HERSELF THREE MORE BY THEN."
Mr. Cloughley is asked to drop by The Times and get his check:
AUSTIN, Jan: 27. W—Pur-
ther regulation of whiskey pre-
seriptions was favored today
when the house committee on
liquor traffic reported the Wal-
lace bill recommending that it
do pass.
The bill provides that a
signed application must be
filed the proposition before a
whiskey prescription can be Is-
sued: copies of the application
and prescription to be filed with
y the druggist filling the prescrip-
it tion, the district clerk and the
I state comptreller.
Permits for issuing prescrip-
tions and filling them must be
issued by the comptroller, the
bill recites.
nials that he knew what was con-
tained in the brief in the will case
, until the night before the trouble
‘or that he knew what were the
contents of a deposition by Willis
. Evans, a negro coachman employed
by the defendant’s father before
marriage to Mrs. Kate Lamar, the
defendant’s mother. He denied he
had any eurisoity about the con-
tents of the deposition. Crawford
declared hisl only purpose in going
to see O’Day was to “get these
briefs," saying ‘‘I thought 1 should
get those briefs to protect my
mother’s honor.”
“He said he had not reasoned out
MIDSHIPMEN REQUIRED
TO SERVE TWO YEARS
BEFORE LEAVING NAVY
ANNAPOLIS, Ad., Jan. 27. (A)—No
midshipman of the present first
class at the naval academy will be
permitted to resign from the service
what he would do with the shot
gun if O’Day refused to give him
the briefs, reiterating his state:
ment on direct examination, that he
thought “any man who would say
what he did about my mother, or
any other man’s mother, for that
matter, wouldn’t walk the streets
unarmed—and I thought more probe
ably he would give me the brief it
he saw the shot gun."
Questioning continued about the
brief in a case contesting the will
of the late Colonel W. L Crawford,
the defendant’s father. Statements |
in the brief which was prepared by
O’Day, and which related to a dep-
upon receipt of their diplomas next
June as was the case last year, it
was announced at the academy to-
day. In no case, it was added, will
resignations be considered by the
navy department until after the
graduates have given at least two
years to the service.
This action is necessary, Secre-
tary Vilbur pointed out in a letter,
a copy of which was received by
each senior class member, because
of the large number of, resignations
of officers accepted during the last ,
year, coupled with the large number
of midshipmen who resignated after
graduation last June4
osition by Willis Evans, a negro
coachman employed by Colonel
Crawford before his marriage to
Mrs. Kate Lamar, the defendant’s
mother, are alleged to have caused
young Crawford to lose control of
himself. The deposition was ex-
eluded as evidence in the will con-
test trials, but commented upon In
th* brief, with statements to the
effect that th* coachman’s exclud-
the coroner’s jury inquiring toda
into the deaths of Glenn Young I
Klux Klan raider. Deputy Sheris
Ora Thomas and two others Sater
day night. 1
Thomas’ gun, a black .5 callbe
automatic with a wooden handh
was the first weapon laid on
table by Coroner George Bell.
gun was empty. On the right als
of the handle two notches had bee
cut. Whether more notches belom
there is to be decided by the jury.
Young’s suns two sparkling
pearl handled .45 automatics, fo
lowed. One of these, which he"
said to have carried on his left
held a’full elip of cartridges. Or
or two bullets had been fired from
the other. The possibility ‘ the
Young did not have a full eligns
cartridges in this gun or that iniat
dition to the elip he carried one F
his chamber, made it impossible t
tell how many had been fired. FA
marks were apparent on either:;;
Young’s guns.
Ed Forles’ gun, a 31-20 spech
on a .38 frame, was the fourt
placed on the table. Hobart War
ren’s gun, if he had any, was
found.
The cartridge belt and holster”)
evidence apparently did not belon
to any of the guns as the 13 shall,
they contained were .38 caliber.
Before the inquest opened State
Attorney Arlie Boswell warned th
newspaper men they were admitte
only by suffrance and they woul
be excluded unless their report
were fair. l
“There have been reports
this was to be a one-sided invest
gation," he said. “We are exclud
ing the public because we believe’s
this case that it is wise. We ar
(Continued on Page 4. Column’s)
CONDITION OF WIGINTON
CHILD SERIOUS TUESDA!
L—9
The three-year-old daughter’s
Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Wiington. 231
Kemp Boulevard, was reported
be still in a critical condition Ther
day afternoon as the results
swallowing a quantity of lodin
Sunday afternoon. - The attendim
physician reported Tuesday that th
child’s condition had become grave
Tuesday and fear was held for he
recovery at that time.
The accident occurred Sundi
afternoon when the child manage
to get several bottles from the med
joined chest while the parents war
in another room, and before anyon
ed testimony showed Are. Lamar
married Colonel Crawford for money
and social position,— -------: +—
Young Crawford denied he was,---------------------. —.
present when the deposition was saw her she had swallowed
(Continued on rage 4. Column 2) ilodine. fed . %
FEDERAL COURT DECISION Al
NEW ORLEANS INVOLVES 148
ACRES YOUNG COUNTY LA
LABOR OF TEXAS
AUSTIN, Jan. $7 mP—E 3.
Crocker of Denison, a machining
for the Missouri Kansas-Texan 4
railroad was appointed, labor,
commissioner of Texas today by -
Governor Miriam A. Ferguson,
it was announced this afternoon. f
This is the first state office Mr.2
Crocker has ever held. He is
a graduate of Harvard Univer-.
sity
FORT WORTH, Texas. Jan. 21, ()
—Hyman J. Sloan of Rochester, N.
Y. administrator of the estate of
the late Isaac Sayles, en route to
Texas to take possession of a large
tract of Young county land, recent-
ly declared to be the property of
heirs of the estate by circuit court
of appeals at New Orleans, will
reach here tomorrow: -
The land includes 1.482 acres of
thei Margaret Edmunds survey ‘and
the 160-aere D. M. Russell survey,
which joins it on the east, situated
some 12 miles west of the South
Bend field and an equal distance
southwest of Newcastle.
Claim to the land was set up by
Rican. on behalf of the heirs. In
federal court at Wichita Falls sev.
erai years ago and the case later
transferred to Ford Worth, where”
was tried in March, 1923. The
was styled. Sloan against W. I
Penix and J. Lee Costly.
It was alleged thy the piaintifi
that deeds to the land had
forged, Penix being in the role of a
innocent purchaser. Being in
session of the land, however,
action was directed at him and o
March 18, 1928, a jury in federt
district court returned a verdict 1
favor of the heirs. The case wa
appealed to the circuit court
writ of error and A mandate affirm
ing the verdict of the trial cows
was issued at New Orleans on
ary 6.T
"Min ‘-. nr 5E
shara well some six miles north.
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Wichita Daily Times (Wichita Falls, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 259, Ed. 1 Tuesday, January 27, 1925, newspaper, January 27, 1925; Wichita Falls, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1653471/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Texas State Library and Archives Commission.