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28 year-old ex-convict from Houston was charged with two counts of murder in connection with the abduction-slaying of an Atacosa 7Cunty Deputy Sheriff and his wife. Leonard Wilson Freeman was restedd z aziixafiirx by highway patrolmen near the Medina County ;own of Natlia, shortly after the bullett-riddled bodied of Louis 2arza, and his wife Elida were found in an abandoned farmhouse. .r ey reportedly were abducted on a road near Natalia, and shot ix shortly afterwards. Garza died in a San Antonio hospital of a chest =ound, his wife was. dead when the bodies were discovered. Two other ,en were arrested by the F-B-I in San Antonio in connection with the incident. Bureau of icials say they had xmmxpinx allegedly conspired with Freeman to bob a bank. Bond for Freeman was set at 750 th-usandldollars on each count.