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COMMISSIONERS ' V
In Dallas, the county commissioners vote to reimburse
Deputy sheriff Ben Lancaster for amazed suit,
broken glasses, an{ severely bent pride. Lancaster
suffered the injuries and indignities in line of
duty, says County Judge Sterret. He was sent to a
Dallas home to arrest a woman on a swindling warrant
from Childress. the woman refused to be arrested.
the
She bashed Deputy Lancaster over head with a
chair, breaking his glasses, then sicced her dog
on him. The dog gnawed on the deputies ankles, and
ruined his suit. T h, woman wound up in jail,
Deputy Lancaster in the hospital with three broken
Bretw IprceJ4-
ribs. 'he county commissioners
and pay him for his ruined suit and glasses. A
clear case of citizen brutality.-30-
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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: Commissioners], script, May 16, 1968; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc991754/m1/1/?rotate=180: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.