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/ FUNERAL DIRECTOR*
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Ambulancs.
Walkover Shoes Affords the Service
and Ease Whiclr Every Man
After County Attorney J. L. McCall print* all along on each side of the
had read to the Jury the grand Jury In- trail.
dictment, charging Cecil Jensen with or. Lasater of Aledo testified that
the murder of Jams McNeal, Attorney he found four wounds on McNeal’s
J. E. Carter, representign Jensen, en head. Witness was. given an iron
tered a plea of not guilty to th indict- wagon pin and testified that in his
ment. He also briefly outlined a few opinion the wounds on McNeal could
things that the defense proposed to hare been caused by a similar instru-
prove, including testimony showing ment. Defense questioned Dr. Lassa-
that the defendant’s mother is now ter regarding insanity being hreditary,
and iias bee nfor a long time in an In- to which the state objected upon the
sane asylum, and that Jnsen has never ground that witness had not qualified
had any opportunities In life such as as itn expert. The court overruled the
other boys. Mr. Carter further stated objection and the witness said that in-
that he proposed to show that defend- sanity could be and very often is of
ant was at times not altogether re- hereditary nature. He also stated
sponsible, and that he would contend | that he had knowledge of instances
that the defendant should have a sen- j where one of the parents was insane
tence not more serious than a term in and other members of the family were
the penitentiary. He stated that the sane and of sound mind. While the
defense would make no contentions i defense did not question Jurymen and
about the participation, to some extent veniremen upon the insanity phase, it
of the defendant in the act for whiph is now evident that the defense will
he was indicted, Ideal more or less with this question.
This statement was borne out Wed- Mrs. M. E. McNeal, mother of the
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We place on sale Friday morning
and continuing until ..Thanksgiv-
ing day every Boys’ Knee Pant
Suit... Many of them have two pair
of pants... All of these suits are
this season’s purchase, good style
all wool at a saving of 25 per cent
off. For just five days we make
this special offr. This will give
you plenty of time to buy your
boy a new suit.
$6.50, $7.50, $8.50 to $9.00
OTHER BRANDS, considered above the average low priced
shoe, at $3.75, $4.50......................................... ................$5.00
Men the Weather is Ideal for ttese
Boys $7.50 Suit now .
Boys $10.00 Suit now
Boys $12.50 guit now
Boys $13.50 Suit now
Boys $15.00 Suit now
—And here is the most
popular Union Suit made
by the “Alien A” Co.. A
fine., yarn.. Union.'. Suit,
medium weight and
“Stretchy” enough to give ,
to every move o* the body
$1.75' and.. $*.--■ .....$LW THgT * ^ "
HEAVIER WEIGHT GARMENTS are here in abundance.
Prices are moderate, so why hesitate to supply your coming
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at 25%
'its
Mens $10.00 Swaters now ....$7,50
Mens $12.50 Sweaters now ....$9.38
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—All of these sweaters are made
of real heavy Wool... Some are
Slip on, some are coat style.
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Store Opens
THANKSGIVING, NOVEMBER 24TH
Corner York Avenne and Bridge Streets
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WEATHERFORD, TEXAS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1921
VOL. XXII. NO. EM
ARMAMENT DELEGATES
GO INTO CONFERENCE
to allow examination of the Far East-
ern proposals submitted yesterday by
China.
Associated Press
Washington. Nov. 1«.—Sitting as a
special committee today on the Far
Eastern situation, the heads of the
nine attending delegations went into
conference to outline the respctlve pol-
icies by which each will be guided.
Secretary Hughes called a meeting
of the American delegates for 2:30
o’clock. The purpose was not announc-
ed.
STREET CARS COLLIDE
TWENTY-FIVE HURT
associated Press
Chicago, ill., Nov. 17.—Twenty-five
persons were injured, two probably
fatally, shortly before 9 o’clock this
morning when- two five-car elevated
train on Ihe loop bound from the west
The heads of the delegations of the j 8id° wrecked in a rear end collision
nine powers participating In discuss- at the Crawford avenue station of the
ing Far Eastern questions, decided to
proceed to proceed first with consid-
eration of the problems of China be-
fore entering the other Far Eastern
questions.
The other questions, it was decided,
will be taken up in the order listed
in the agenda suggested some time
ago by the American government
Admiral Baron Kato of Japan today
asked and received from the heads of
the delegations a delay of several days
Oak Park line. Three steel coaches
were demolished and several victims
were pinned beneath the wreckage.
Firemen with acetyline torches cut
through the twisted mass of metal to
reach them.
The first train leaving the Crawford'
station was speeding when the five
car llll&foel express dashed out t>f the
fog and crashed through the rear of
the car$ ahead. Two steel cars were
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Brpckenridge officers. ...— ..--------^
ed if Jenson was not surrounded by a and that Todd had come in to get
crowd of armed men and if there was' g0m« gasoline. They then told mo
not a rope in the crowd, McCall said about frying to hold up a man and that
that he did hot Bee a rope and that he Todd kept shaking his head and would
took the confession on his.typewriter not give the sign to hit him. Todd
while Jenson was sitting in an automo-' said they needed money and they
bile and he (McCall) was sitting on would rob some one and wanted me to
the running board with his typewriter. help, saying that we would go to some
He also stated that the officers were cut in the road and hold up a man.
not close to him when the statement we agreed that if we got a car that
was taken and that Jenson was not Dawson and I would sit in the rear seat
greatly excited and apparently was not and Todd in front, and Dawson was to
in great fear, and did not at that time,1 hit him and Todd would put on the
break down and weep. Each page of brake and we would stop the car. We
the confession was signed by Jenson,! got something to eat and went east
who, according to witness, signed on the highway late in the afternoon.
Dawson went into a house where he
knew a boy and secured an iron rod
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Blooie! Another Blow-Out
—Not in GOODYEAR TIRES, but in
PRICES. You can now buy Goodyear Tire*
and Tube* at the lowest price® they have ever
carried, price* FAR BELOW pre-war level*.
FOR COMPARISON
New Price.
30x3 Smooth Tre,ci j#..........................................* 9,85
30x3 All Weather TriW —......... ..........—-• 12 85
30x3 1-2 Non-*kld Treed .......-------------------—...... 10-06
30x3 1-2 All Weather Tread.............-v-4-.......... 14-7B
33x4 Cord, Rib or All Weather Tread...
33.40
Old Price
$12.50
14.50
15.7S
17.60
47.70
-Other sizes reduced proportionately.
iftuiek Service Garage
GOODYEAR SERVICE STATION
BttiworthSttMfeX- juTlMdM
across the writing.
Jenson Broke Down. |----- - --- (
Mr. McCall further testified that af- or pin. We went down the road and
ter securing the confession they drove found a piece of pipe that Dawson hal
toward Palo Pinto town and that upon thrown away. About six miles from
furthe'r questioning by him and when Weatherford a Cole 8 came along,
talking to defendant about the crime,! Dawson waived him down. Todd and
that he broke down and wept. He also I did not want to stop this car as it
testified that Jenson was the only one was not yet night and he was not a
of the three boys charged with the tourist. When the car stopped we got
murder of McNeal who had at any time in, Dawson and I in the rear seat, with
shown any emotion when being ques- Dawson on the left and me on the
tioned or discussing the matter. j right. Todd was in front. I believe
tfnlikb Todd,‘Jenson sits during the that McNeal saw the iron pin but said
trial looking witnesses full in the face, nothing. We said we were going to
and takes a lively interest nt the pro- Aledo and then decided to go on to
ceedings of the trial. Apparently he Fort Worth. At the creek when Mc-
wishes to be friendly with all and any Neal slowed down, Dawson hit him
who will pay him any attention. He tour or five times on the head and he
will reach out and touch the jailor or fell on the steering wheel. Todd stop-
a deputy sheriff, as though he desires Ped the car. McNeal was groaning
to make conversation, or he will occa ,and I believed he was trying to get a
slonally speak to his attorneys about Pistol and I hit him one time and Daw-
some trivial master. He seldom smiles 'son three or four times. Then we
but listens to the testimony and argu- dragged him away. I did not think he
look upon his was dead at this time. Todd took the
I car on up the hill to see if anyone was
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THE CAR THAT WILL STAND THE TEST OF TIME-
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—Gasoline and Oils. Free Air and water.
—We buy and sell Second Hand Cars.
Free Air and Water.
Oscar Jones, Dealer
ments with a serious
*aCe’ , .. „ .. * coming. We washed the blood off the
The state introduced practically the „
___ i car at a mudhole.
same witnesses Wednesday afternoon
Todd case A. C. The confession then described the
Lassater testified how he and Mart trip to Fort Worth and the final leav-
Reynolds were dove hunting when the | tog of the car near Forrest Park,
body was found and the calling of the | Witnesses were put the stand show-
justice of the peace from Aledo. He ing that McNeal, had purchased
also testified that there was a hole gasoline in Mineral Wells and also
dug out in the gravel under McNeal’s told how- he had left Fort Worth
Ift arm and aelso a larger hole under,with his passenger that day. 1
his feet. Deputy Sheriff Joe Gilbert o. Maples testified to finding a wagon
tstifled that McNeal was laying face king pin the next day near the scene
up and that he trailed back to the of the crimb.
road from where the body was found, I The state established by various wit-
If some- nesses that three boys were on the
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thing had
a plain trail as
been dragged, and
that highway east of Weatherford. Wit-
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