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WICHITA DAILY TIMES, FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 1925
TEXAS
NEXT!
1 rhUlUl UTILIT
BLLBFPARNELL
BANTANTONTO, “Tan. so:—an
• Kettles in Texas with a population of
$2100,000 or more. Are lodging pro-
tests against, the passage of the
lOParnell bill, which Would be a
-death-blow” th municipally-owned
E public utilities.
JThe fight against the bull to being
e led by: Joseph Bran, city attorney
S for San ‘Antonio, who made a special
E trip tv Austin Thursday for the pur-
pose of filing a protest against the
W proposed legislation.
■ "Through the efforts of the vari-
S ous cities ed the state, the Parnell
■ bill, directed against municipal
d ownership of public utilities, will be
K referred to the senate committee on
B town and city corporations for an-'
■ other hearing on February 5," Ryan
■ declared.
B The committee held a hearing on
A the bill on January 23, and reported
"favorably on It, but innumerable
■ protests caused the committee 10
B set a date for a rehearing with the
E consent of Senator Parnell, who in
■ trodueed the bill. . Juet what acn
■ tion will be taken at the new bear
E ing has not been indicated for a eer;
■ tainty. but opponents to the bull
S declare that the committee will
" probably report untavorabl y.
I SAN ANTONIO WOMAN
10 I ATTACKED BY DOG
1; SAN ANTONIO, Jan.30.—Attacked
A by an infurlated dog to the rear
I yard of her home, a Ban Antonio
K housewife was taken to a local hos-
a pital to the police ambulance, suf-
I fering from severe lacerations on
, the right hand. . + 7.
4 Timely arrival of the night
watchman at a nearby vocational
school to credited with saving the
woman’s life. The man struggled
with the animal, made it loosen its
hold on the woman’s hand and shot
to death. 1 4 I
[ The wound was cauterised at the
hospital and the woman returned to
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DIRECTORS OF KATY
TO MEET IN DALLAS
14 -
L WACO, Jan. 30.—A special meet-
IBs of the directors of the Ksty
railroad will be held to Dallas next
Monday, it was learned here today.
President C. 1. Behalf of St. Louie
a expected to preside.’ Nothing has
been made pul lie as to the purpose
of the special meeting.
Again Dame Rumor has picked a
bride for the Prince of, Wales. This
time It is Lady Diana King, daugh-
ter of the Earl of Lovelace, and one
of the few peeresses to their own
right to England. The atory la that
the engagement will be announced
.when the prince returns from hie
trip to South Africa.
in
CTICA
PRISONS OF STATE
(Continued from Page One.) ,
have been erroneously expended by
the Texas prison system, were
authorized by the house of repre-
sentatives when ths first partial re-
port of the recently appointed prison
investigating committee wae adept-
ed 113 to 0. ,
BY DO JUDGE
alaaw cold fact to decide-—did William
8291 Lester Crawford murder PaufODay,"
B end if he did, was he justified.
“They told, you all about-the de-
tendant’s illustrious family! this
aneweNxvene been 110 24 10 a % u
about Paul O’Dayu family. Hut
don’t you forget that blue blood and
a great fortune doesn't entitle any
man to more consideration than the
humblest man
.■. Mr. Johnson denounced what he
said was effort on the part of the
defense to arouse racial prejudice
2ed " and to cloud the real issues to the
> trial. He also argued, that the de-
►i < tense had been more eager “to try
the wiu ease” than to dwell on the
cad ? case being tried.
V Paul O'Day, as a member of a law
firm, -representing contestants of a
will im the Crawford family, sim-
ply waa doing what any other law-
5 yer would have done under the cire
• bumstances, Mr. Johnson said. S.
J Crawford to a lawyer," Johnson
said to another part of his argu-
ment. “And yet he said he never
read the petition fora new trial
to the will case. He said his moth-
er was represented by good lawyers
and he would leave it to them.
Then I ask you why ell this sudden
interest in the brief?"
Referring to the defense testi-
many that Crawford met O'Day, at
the entrance to the office building
Johnson declared, “they had, to put
that in, in order to get manslaugh-
tor into the case.
“Mr. Adams said he would go to
the electric chair to protect his
mother.” Johnson continued, “and
I would have done the same thing
Crawford could have done this.
He could have gone to the electric
chair or the penitentiary with eeeled
lips to protect his mother. Then all
these people would not have been
here. But he didn't. He laid the
whole facts bare to the public.”,
pressed.-
The report states:
“We feel It imperative that we re-
port to yea our findings in refer-
ence to a $10,000 item, ' being a
part of check No. 258 of the state
of Texas prison system at Hunts,
rille, and drawn on the Houston
National Bank in the sum of $75,800.
From evidence now on file with ear
committee, we are of the opinion
that this honorable body should re-
ment.
Court of Women
Hear Arguments
Case of W.O.W.
ARGUMENTS BEGIN IN
THRASHER SUIT FOR |
$50,000 HEART B^
LOSS IN. WAREHOUSE
FIRE AT SAM ANTONIO
FIGURED AT $55,000
san ANTONIO, resus, Jan. 40. -
Fire believed caused (by an explo-
sion wrecked a large warehouse and
destroyed 16 earloads of hay at the
Blue Star Elevator Company. *
With two dull explosions the
building seemed to spring into
flames. Filled with baled bay if
burned like tinder, the flames
spreading to nearby sidings, en-
tailing a loss approximating $55,000
The main plant of the elevator
company situated a abort distance
from the warehouse, was saved
Hose lines were laid for a distance
of nearly 3,000 feet in order to
reset the * 1:
pmenen susreromo von
DRIVING TRUCE NEAR NIVEN
BAN ANTONIO, Jan. so.—two fire-
men were suspended from the city
fire deportment for a period of 30
days as the result of an accident
while answering an alarm St the
Blue Star Elevator Company. T
Approaching the scene of the
fire, in a truck from a local engine
house, the driver came near drive
ing the heavy piece of apparatus
into the San Antonio river. The
truck woe lowed to firm ground by
a switch engine after trucks failed
to budge the imperiled machine
SCHOONER IS DRIVEN
ASHORE IM BLIZZARD
ON COAST OF MAINE
sournwesr Hinson, Maine.
Jan. 30. IT — The three masted
schooner Alice Parsons of Parrs-
boro. N. S., was driven ashore on
King's Point here in a blizzard
early today. J The vessel lies to a
dangerous position and coast
guardssmen are standing by. , "
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peteaenic?" SUES;, njK
packed the seats snd aisles, of the
grimy court room. Society girls
Bhd aristocratic matrons rubbed el-
bows with men of the fields and
industrial laborers. A gloomy at.
mosphere permeated the chamber,
broken only by a few shafts of sun-
shine from a cold January sun, which
shone through dingy windows.
As the first barrage of oratory
want fired by. District Attorney
Shelby Cex. the tension heightened.
The eager audience, attorneys, court
attaches and principals were stirred
to s feverish point, when they
realized that the first engagement
of the final battle for a man’s In-
nocence and guilt was underway.
They maintained absolute silence as
the barrister' launched into heavier
attacks for the conviction of the de-,___________----------
fendant and called for the convie- Deputy Ora Thomas and two oth-
tion of Crawford, “for cold blooded ere Saturday---4
murder." R 1 Meanwhile
in the chancel near the state’s at- Toner’s tury -
torney sat Mrs Paul M O’Day. 1 nessr.
pretty young widow of the mat
slain to the American National
Bank building September 11. CL4
was to heavy mourning. Beside her
sat Eugene a, Locke, former part-
ner of her date husband. On his lap
sat little Molly O Day, six-year-old
daughter of Mrs. O’Day. She was
pathetic, with one of her little legs
in splints, and to her pitiful at-
tempts to console her robbing moth-
er. by wiping away her tears, 1
"In front of the window the shot
gun that was used In the killing of
her husband, lay on the table.
Nearby, surrounded by members Of
the defenae counsel, sat William
Lester Crawford, his face somewhat
drawn, eyes intently watching the---------------------
effect of the words of state and de- at police headquarters and Internes
fence attorneys on the jury. . 1 L. _ __- -___ ------- —
District Attorney Cox recounted have saved the life of a young W2
the evidence in effort to show that-man prisoner who swallowed agpin
the murder wee premeditated and ghita eanfinad m the women’s
was done “In cold blood, because
Paul O’Day stood between him and
his mother’s property." He scored
Crawford’s testimony relative to the
will suits snd Willis Evans’ hearing.
He pointed out that Crawford was
the sole heir of Mrs. Kate Lamar
Crawford, his mother, widow of the
late Colonel W. L. Crawford. He
declared that O Day was only per-
forming his duty as an attorney in
drawlag up the brief over which he
was killed and concluded by asking
the death penalty for Crawford.
GUNT
HERRIN, III., Jan. 30. (P)—Herrin
today had resumed a quiet aspect
and Williamson county, the scene
of traile fractional strife, was pre-
paring for another era of cor
tive peace, perhaps for permanent
peace, following the departure of
the troops which had been on guard
since the killing of 5. Glenn Young.
Measure in Substitute for Mankin
Bill Introduced In
House
nparae
. -------night.
Meanwhile members of the core
. Jury were trying to find wit-
— _____esses to the shooting in a final ef-
et the man fort to clear up the affair.
I Unless more information to ob-
She tained there appeared to be little
was chance thst the jury can make any
definite findings except that Young
was killed by Thomas
with the recess of the jury ar
soon yesterday interest centered
upon the funeral of Young, who was
buried aa a Ku Klux Klansman.
QUICK ACTION SAVES
LIFE OF PRISONER IN
JAIL AT SAN ANTONIO
BAN ANTONIO, Jan. 30. ()-
Quick action on the part of attaches
at a local hospital la believed to
while, confined to the woman’s
ward at the city jail. 1
Police explained that women
prisoners now have popularized the
practice of tatooing themselves, us-
ing a pin. It was while figuring
out an appropriate design that the
woman placed the MI in her mouth.
AUSTIN, Jan. «•. (—The Farrar-
Kittrell substitute bill for the Man-
kin anti-masking bin has been re-
ported favorably by the house crim-
inal jurisprudence committee.
This bill, unlike the Mankin bill,
exempts church " festivals, mardi
gras and Hallowe'en celebrations
and expressly prohibits parades by
masked organisations. In other fea-
tures it to similar to the Mankin '
bill, though it eliminates the death
penalty for assault while masked. 1
which was contained to the original
measure. GU
The measure makes appearance to
a public place while masked a mis-
demeanor, and provides the follow-
tog felony offenses: entrance into •
a private dwelling or church, and
assault -
The bill is expected to come be-
fore the house for engrossment bee
fore the wooB to out.
roar wonri, Jan. tolargu-,
meats were begun this mo ning be-
fere the jury in the cast of Mrs.
Cora Thrasher, M . Fort Wot
against C. 1L Tyrrell, oil man K
San Antonio and Fort Worth. #
is wins-him for $50,000 heart
balm. The case will go to the jury
tonight ”"_____12
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DALLAS, Jan. 20, (.Following
the charge to the jury to the mur-
der trial of William Lester Craw-
ford for the slaying of Paul M.
O’Day by Judge Charles A. Pippen
to criminal district court No. 1. Dis-
triet Attorney Shelby Coi, for the
alate, and Jed Adams, for the de-
fence, consumed the remainder of
the Thursday afternoon session with
their interpretations of theevi-
dence.
All the olementa that arouse hu-
man emotions were resorted to by
the state’s attorney, who naked for
the death penalty for the defendant,
and by the defense attorney, who
pleaded for the freedom of a man,
who, he doctored, had nought to pro-
tect hie mother’s good name.
The flrat scene in the closing act
was appropriately laid. The jury
had been instructed aa to the law,
especially N murder, manslaughter _ .
and the suspended sentence by the author’s of the brief.
Jed Adams opened the argument
for the defense. He stated that
O’Day, smarting under the sting of
defeat, in a will cult, had made
derogatory remarks about Mrs.
Crawford, coincident with state-
menta made in the brief, which he
claimed, justified Crawford in com- I
mitting homicide. He said the '
language of the brief waa a studied 1
insult; that Crawford, aa the judge )
had said in his charge, was within
his righto in carrying the chot gun
slander1 against his
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PRESENTS MONEY SAVING OPPORTUNITIES AGAIN TOMORROW
to stop the winauer, uaunues r ■-
mother. He concluded by stating
thst it was the duty of s southern
gentlemen to protect the name and
character of his women relatives
and denounced the use of a negro’s
testimony against s white woman’s
saying that the negro did not state
the woman was Immoral, but that
the perversion was made by the
quest the attorney general's departs
ment to institute proper proceed:
toga against the proper parilea and
to recover the sum mentioned, to-
wit:$10,000, and interest thereon for
more than four years, if possible,"
The check was made payable to
Bassett Blakeley of Houston, as part
of the purchase price of the Blue
Nidge prison farm. Representative
T. K. Irwin of Dallas declared tes-
timony in the hands of the commit-
toe shows. The report was signed by
Representatives Chitwood, chair-
man: Stevenson, Irwin and King.
The latter two, with Representative
Farrar, were on the sub-committee
that started the investigation that
started the investigation this week
at Huntsville.X
The action came soon after the
house had adopted the senate tree-
ommendation onthe “resolution,
authorizing a committee 2 *—
senators and five Bep
conduct thet inventia
under way by the ho
The vote was 118 to
IxusurN, Jan. 10. vn—Before the
first special elate supreme court in
the United States composed entire-
ly of women was submitted here
day for oral argument the case of
V . T. Johnson against J. M. Darr,
representing the Woodmen of the
world from El Paso county. The
r gular court was disqualified be-
cause of memberships in the order,
and Governor Pst M. Neft, before
retired appointed the special
court. It includes Mrs. Hortense
1 Ward, Houston, special chief jus-
tieer Miss’ Hattie Henobers. Dalllas,
a id Miss Ruth, Brassill, Galveston, senate appointees. 1.
sy BMPI associate justices. The new rexoluei
5 The special court granted a writ
o ' error January s, giving permis-
sion to sullinit the case on argu-
ment. The suit involves a lien Ton
t wo parcels of ‘land in Kl Paso
e unty valued at $10,000, deeded in
trust to F. P. Jones by the Wood-
men of the World, which was later
a tached by Johnson. It places in
ii sue, the question of whether a
declaration of trust not placed on
record to effective against an at-
tacliment tor debt.This involves
the entire registration law, caunsel
>
i. w. Morrow, represented John-
mn.l while Volney Brown repre-
nted the defendant. Argument is
(pected to be concluded today, but
decision is not expected for some
me yet.
0% Enre
moMas
■ committee
Speaker Satterwi
that he would appo-us w
house committee to join
announced
“
The new resolution provides for.
the payment of all traveling ex-’
penses of the committee members,
empowers them to issue processes
to force attendance ofsubpoenaed
witnesses and assures immunity
from punishment of any convict
who testifies.
The resolution directs the com-
mittee to pay “spection attention" to
reported crueltiesto prisoners.
The same resolution which was
voted down Wednesday is the sen-
+ ate was reconsidered this morning,
on motion of Senator Jesse It.
Smith of Breckenridge. The vote
was 15 to 12 for participation in the
investigation. ’ t ...» .
LARGE INCREASE ASKED
BRITISH NAVAL ESTIMATE
(LONDON. Jan. so. An Increase
nearly 30,000,000 pounds sterling
n the British naval estimates for
he coming fiscal year is said to
have been demanded by the admi-
Try and to be meeting with re-
distance from the treasury.
Earl Beatty, who as first sea lord,
mually figures to political gossip
is champion of generous expendi-
urea tor the navy, has, according to
sports, submitted estimates of, 65,-
00,000 pounds, maintaining that
bis to the lowest figure compatible
with the safety of the nation. S
The estimates for the current
rear were 55,800,000 pounds and the
proposed increase le said to be ne-
essitated by continuance of thr
rulser building program and the
ontemplated construction of more
lestroyers and submarines.
The chancellor of the exchequer,
Inston Churchill, whose business
to scrutinize the estimates of
t departments before submitting
em to parliament to the budget
poses the admiralty claim. it is
elared, on the ground of economy.
I feels himself well qualified to
itcixe the naval proposals, it is
ded. having been first lord of ths
miraity from 2911 to 1915. 7
Mendachen From slight Cold. "
Laxative BROMO QUININE Tab-
to relieve the Headaches by eur.
g the Cold. A Safe end Proves
remedy. — The box bears the signa-
dire of E. W. Grove. 10c.—Adv.
Nearly 60,000 Japanese files have
eon imported by the department of
agriculture to battle the Japanese
eetle which has played havoc
rith orchards along part of the
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B. Ward of Cleburne asserted pent,
tentlary affaire are la ‘‘a deplorable
condition” and cited an instance in
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