The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 79, No. 218, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 21, 1960 Page: 4 of 30
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Stickney's Death Sentence Upheld
Quadruplets Born
In Matamoros, Max. riguez
are Mr. and Mn. Francisco Rod-
who reside here.
JI A THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS
4-A Abilene, Texas, Thursday Morning, January 21, 1M
AUSTIN (AP) — Howard B Barnes worked found her beaten, he held her head under water in The panel split 2-1 ta affirming
Stickney of Houston, object of a ravished body lying nude on a bed the Gulf of Mexico.
continent-wide manhunt after the in her apartment three days after
Galveston beach slayings of a the slaying
Houston couple in 1958, had his Barnes' decomposed body was
murder conviction upheld Wednes- discovered in underbrush a month
day.
later near Sugarland, Tex.
Dr. Porfirio Guterrez, who at- So scarce was ammunition in Carolina had ta pay a tonnage
—tended the births said he believed colonial North Carolina that duty on gunpowder, gunshot and
. ...... What is believed to be the first tended the births, said he believed every vessel not owned in North flints.
— .the 7-year sentence *'*" a Hous- quadruplets born in this Mexican set is the first in Matamoros his- __________==========
The statement said Stickney 100 man convicted of unwittingly border city’s history was recorded tory.
drove to the Barnes apartment trying to hire a plainclothes po- Tuesday night at civil hospital. The parents have seven other
where he took Mrs Barnes’ body liceman to help kill a South Texas Parents of the quads, all boys, children.
inside and stripped it Later, man for insurance money -
MATAMOROS, Hex (AP)
A SERVICE RECORD
Stickney said, he threw Barnes
body into bushes near Sugarland.
The court also upheld the death
sentence given Eusebio Regalado
The Court of Criminal Appeals A Royal Mounted Police consta-
affirmed the death sentence given ble arrested Stickney two days
Stickney for the heating and after the discovery of Barnes’
strangulation slaying of Shirley body as Stickney changed a lire Martinez of Midland for the 1957
Barnes, on his auto near Muniack, New sex slaying of a 9-month-old girl.
Howard Barnes, husband of the Brunswick, Canada.
Martinez sought reversal be-
dead woman and a fellow employe Stickney, in a statement to offi- cause the trial court refused to
of Stickney at the Texas Highway cers after be returned to Houston, let him plead insanity on the basis
Department in Houston, also died said he beat Barnes with a tire of a 1945 judgment that he is
under blows from a tire iron after iron after Barnes went to sleep on feeble-minded,
the trio went to Galveston the the beach, then hit Mrs Barnes Judge W A. Morrison said in
night of May 24, 1958. with the iron when she tried to the opinion the law does not re-
Two other employes of the in- stop him from hitting her hus- gard feeble-mindedness as equal
surance company where Mrs band. After striking her, he said, to insanity.
Siess Westbrook was charged
with conspiring with Mrs. Maudell
Berger of Angleton, Tex, to kill
her husband, Walter Berger, and
make it appear death was caused
by an auto wreck.
The star state witness, Walter
Sands of the Alexandria, La., po-
lice department, said Westbrock
offered him $500 t. help in the
scheme after approaching him
while he (Sands) posed as an un-
derworld figure in a narcotics in-
vestigation.
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The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 79, No. 218, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 21, 1960, newspaper, January 21, 1960; Abilene, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1671469/m1/4/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Abilene Public Library.