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PRICE TWO CENTS
VOL. 9, NO. 12
TWENTY PAGES
SCRIPPS - HOW A R D
LAMAR BANDIT MUST HANG
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BY JOHN SORRELLS
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Fleagle’s case
Bound for a touahdown was Harold Rose, Grinnell fullback (top picture), who
district attorney's office at pres-
Judge Frank P. Culver Jr., chair-
man of the Juvenile Board.
appeared.
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Oniony Arc Filed
AT HOME WITH AX
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Titus,. 75, was held on the charge
Rose, a fellow soldier. District At-
enrsas"hosteptom-the ftoorm
thicket
NAVY TEAM DEC. 6
today expressed confidence
that
tempt the
by
SENTENCE AFFIRMED.
STORY TELLERS MEET
Motion for new trial for H. J. Wednesday and sentenced to two
Parker.
R.
Jury in Criminal District Court ney, said.
by police.
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adhne
Army and Navy Academy football
teams would play again at Soldier
Field, Chicago, Dec. 6. this year.
Next morning. Lane brought a
pistol to work with him, Runnels
18 Collegians
Scalped Trying
Whitmore, wealthy Kansas City
woman, to testify at the fraud
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of
"high
eleven"
today.
Mrs.
Murder of Bank
President.
Omaha Youth Escapes from
Hospital, Then Operates.
OMAHA. Neb., Oct. 16.— Ches-
The | ter Holz, 25, lies near death in,
casualties
it was ap-
4,
Before Judge Mercer
During Morning.
Officials and workmen at the
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PANTAGES WITNESS
ARRESTED IN COURT
Charges of Giving Perjured Tea*
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Mrs. Whitmore Will
Howard Royston Jury Out
Less Than Two Hours
on Verdict.
SECOND GANG
MEMBER MUST
no particular style, he told
—experience that would do him
some .good in the profession—he
was standing siill.
All the things tht were to be
Marshal Boys Seriously Injured
v By Black
make, but mostly, he hss noth-
ing that requires any tremendous
amount of effort from 2 o'clock
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FORT WORTH, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1929 i
( army met the K. U. scouts
at the entrance of the.town.
bank robbers, yet is to be tried
. for his part in the murders of
President Parrish and his son.
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following his arrest in the court-
rodhr’yester'day’ on charges of gi:
cpnferring with President Hoover
WITNESS SAYS
LANE DID NOT
MAKE TROUBLE 1
self and Lane “flunkies” at the
A. Brandt Upholstering Company
' e
me.
Things just got put together
any old way.
There was no high standard of
' No physical
| have resulted.
The Fort Worth Press
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will be filed,
Kelley’s attor-
went for help, he said.
Jury Picked Rapidly.
Runnels was not in the glue
, room when the shooting occurred,
to ask the death
As
UNHEWN!
Committee .after
nafdE-
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p.o0
KELLEY CONVICTED,
Blackburn,
the “great
announced
of course time is fleeting. In a
scant 26 ‘years, he will be fifty
and a man must hustle • set
ahead and be somewhere when
murdeter’s death
Alvin Runnels Repeatedly
Refers to Defendant
as “Toughie.”,
shots were fired Into his head
before he finally stretched stiff
between the two trees to which
he had been tied.
River in an extortion plot
“eastern' gangsters."
trial of May- Otis
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Aggie |
Charge in
Kelley. found guilty of the mur- years in prison,
der of J. Reynolds Gunn by a Will R. Parker,
By Unitea Prezs • '.
KENEDY, Oct. 16
Polson failed to
rogue’s palate and
also was a member of the cult
and received an imposing title,
according; to officers, who said
1 Jack was in college in Massa-
' chusetts and that he did not In-
tend to call the youth as a wit-
i ness.
5/
in a
! parent those kidnaped en-
joyed the experience. with
j the exception of today's ec-
, centric barbering. No
FINAL
ing perjured testimony. He had
been the first wltne. in Pantages’
"million dollar" defense.
Biffle told of a conversation he
claimed he overheard In the lob-
by of the Pantages Theater the
day he stopped there while on his
! way to a train.. 4, .
Few if any townspeople wit-,
nessed the death of the huge
beast who had killed six persons,
his-latest victim. Mrs. Eva Dono-
hue at Corsicana last Saturday.
“We all expected that “the | | however,
1 Sixth Seal,’ the book that was J_______;
trial in 17th District Court before Chalmers, end, for a 10-yard pain, failed to help New York I'nivcrsity in her contest
Iuden Erank p Culver .ir r air- wih Fordham. The latter tecm won,. 26 to 0, in a great upset.
T ASKED him If he ever went
1 over to the courthouse and
dug around in the,records . - .
Just tn see what he could see.
He had not.
I asked him if he ever pound-
ed the pavement from one end of
town to the other . . and return-
ed tn write down his impression
of the things he saw.
Re had not.
I asked him if he had ever
wandered around and observed
the razing of old houses , with
the view of digging up a good
historical yarn. " ’ .
He had not, , ...
AIhe-hnd been doing in the
afternoon was just fiddling
around . covering a couple of
runs that could be covered for
.routine news in 20 minutes, and
then loafing thru the afternoon.
because by his
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to control the city administration!
for two mese year*.
He extoned his own record. ridi-
culed charges of graft which his I
opponents have hurled against his
administration for the past sev-
eral weeks and expressed indigna-
tion against the "mudslinging, po-
litical slander and false propa-
ganda” of his opponents.
priestess” of
cult, it was
A. Brandt Upholstering
John. The state has agreed not
was the first intimation that I
had that the organization was
anything but one whose purpose
was the study of the Bible.
"After the discovery of the
body of Willa Rhoades and a
casket containing the bodies of
seven puppies under the floor of
the home of her foster .parents
In Los Angeles recently, I heard
reports that I had received the ।
body of a dog through the mail.
"This report is utterly absurd: :
I knew nothing’ of the weird
Forewarned, the
was transferred on account
crowded docket.
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up, .2 s-Ae-, .-"gaa
Colwell was Shot fatally after
a series of disputes between him
and Lane. Lane claimed that Col-
well had been "picking” on hira.
had cursed and slapped him the
afternoon before the shooting, and
had smeared glue on him. ■
He said that the man had",
ti.reatened him again- Friday
morning, and that he fired when
Colwell attempted to strike him.
In the event of conviction, the
maximum sentence that ran be
given Lane would be sending him
to the reform school until he is
21 years old. Lane lacked seven
rites attached to the organization
by newspaper accounts and I
think all that is just newspaper
talk.
declared Mrs. Vhitmore.
for the first time.
After several weeks of silence,
.Mayor James J. Walker, who is
seeking re-election, officially open-
ed the Democratic party’s fight
testified. He told of Lane’s point-
ling the gun at him and later
turned home at night and found'tie in which three candidates unit-
his wife with Rose. he was seized ed against the incumbent, as-
w+th an insane desire to kill. He sumed the aspect of a fight today
7 WOMAN ADMITS
BEING MEMBER
WILLIAMS OPPOSED
WASHINGTON, Oct. 16— Sena-
tors Sheppard and Connally today
joined opposition to Carl Wil-
liams. cotton member of Presi-
dent Hoover’s Farm Board, name
of whom is before Senate for con-
firmation today. ' Connally was
planning a speech against Wil-
liams during the afternoon. Wil-
liams is from Oklahoma StH
penalty in
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achievement. A man could write
a story anv wav he pleased, and
nut any kind of-a head rfver It^ iDiatriet Court Wednesday after-
and it was alrght.------------- nonn that Arthur t-ane, Id, wee
Instead of getting experience not » trouble maker.
• l.ane 18 on. trial for the fatal
i r College football games lifted
■ Wife of Hotel Operator Quit, i Frn! I
When Things She Was vealed 18 "scalped and
- । branded” K. U. captives. ;
| ■ The captives were taken ;
AUSTIN. Oct. 16.—A five-year
sentence against Deputy Sheriff
R. S. McDonald for killing John
Jones in aWrd County was af-
firmed today by the Court of
Criminal Appeals although the
court had. previously ordered a
new trial of the case. A etate
motion for rehearing was grant-
ed. the former reversal set aside
and the distrOt court decisiou
rendered at Midland affirmed.
trouble between Lane and Col-
well.. . " . •
He called Lane continually by
the nickname of "Toughie.”
Conviction Is
Shawnee Man Maintains He Was
An Unwilling Partner
By United Pregs,
TECUMSEH. Okla., Oct. IS.—
Arthur L. Fauble, Shawnee mer-
chant whom prosecutors claim In-
stigated a blackmail plot against
trisneighrbors, today conttmed to
deny from his cell in the Jail
here that'* he was anything else
than an unwilling partner in the
scheme.
Meanwhile, County Attorney
Randall -Pittman pushed investi-
gatton into the extortion plot
and prepared to file charges of
blackmail against Fauble. Pitt-
man ordered Fauble held for in-
vestigation when officers return-
ed him from Wichita where he
had told police of being threat-
ened with death and thrown into
the dry bed of the Arkansas
.torney Stewart Bershire.said.___Yorks myoralty campaign, tor a
T Waftt testified that -when he re- whfle an apparently one-sided bat-
in Sixty-seventh
Whitmore's son. Jack.
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r---a-
Ememm -
___ iury in the Supreme Court here.
ASKS FOR RETRIALS
remembered uothingr he shtet,until
he saw that.he had slain them
' both. .......................
THAW ATTORNEY SAYS
ATTACK CHARGE FAKE
Professional Hostess Show* Scars
tri Supreme Court Jury
By Unted Prens . 5
- NEW -YORK, Oct. 16. Marcia
Estardus.. professional hostess,'
who is suing Harry K. Thaw for
$100,000, showed scars .on her
head and arm she says she re-
celled from Thaw at a gay New
Year’s party two years:ago. to a
being written b/ Mrs. Blackburn !
would reveal a great deal of
| scientific knowledge of tbe, Bible.
. It was when publication' 8 this |
[ book was delayed indefinitely '
| that I and several other mem- '
bers mithdrew from the organi-
■ zation '
IXTELL. there was the real time
W being lasted ... not his-
time spent on the small paper,
but the time he spent on this
small paper fiddNng around.
He expected the newspaper
business to be a continuation of
the school of journalism . a
sort of post graduate course.
He apectcadtrmeone to take
him bvW'? eaFnd pour experi-
ence down his throat. .
And of course it-can't be done
that way. ‘ .
Experience Is something each
man must acquire 'for himselr.
Other men can teach him—by
prebept and example; but ex-
perience. he must get.himselr:
He is standing still, not be-
cause he is on a small paper,
which has no high standard of
performance, but -because he,
himself, is standing still.
He Is sitting aroud nre -office,
expecting to get experience . . .
when he should be out pounding
the pavement, observing and see-
ing. cataloging, weighing, meas-
tiring . .. storing up impressions.
• * * -
rrHE truth about it is this young
1 man is in a very fortunate
- spot.
He has an opportunity to get
real experience.
He has a chance to learn a
very valuable lesson: that is,
men and not machines make the
newspaper business . . . that one
good human interest story, writ-
ten about some man in his home
town whom everyone knows, I*
worth more than a dozen syn-
dicated features.
He has a chance to develop
his ingenuity and his resource.
It la no smart trick to publish
a newspaper with a composing
room filled with the finest equip-
ment, with a large competent
stiff — with every facility and
every bit of mechanism that
money can buy.
But it is a difficult trick—and '
a smart trick—to get out a bang
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confession Fleagle enabled offi-
cers to capture Royston and Ab-
shier.
“Little Jake” Fleagle, broth-
er of Ralph and said by off hers
to be the most brutal member
of the band, still is at large.
The defense made a desperate
attempt to keep Royston from
hanging. Counsel for Royston
charged the state had withheld
important evidence and had been
unfair. Royston’s lawyers also
appealed tn the consciences or
the jurors, citing Biblical pass-
ages like “Thou shalt not kill," .
In an effort to save Royston’s
life '
Royston, previously had plead-
ed guilty and the duty of the
jurors was to determine whether ’ ,
he should hang or spend the
rest of his life in prison.
was not the victim of. an attack
In Thaw’s apartment, but that
she repeatedly returned there
until ejected from the apartment
The Fort Worth branch of the
National Story Tellers’ League
will meet at 10 a. m. Thursday
at the Board of Education Bujld-
ing to make plans for the State
convention of the League to be
held in Dallas in November. Mrs.
C, L Sargent L in charge of ar
rangements; K
NEGRO HELD AFTER
’ ATTACK ON YOUTHS
an Omaha hospital today all be-
cause 'he attempted to operate
upon himself.
A two-inch incision in his
abdomen was made after he had
escaped from a hospital in
Council Bluffs, Iowa, last night
and before searching parties
could find him.
Holz is suffering from peritoni-
tis caused by the operation.' He
had been taken to the Council
Bluffs Hospital for an operation,
but shortly after his arrival disr
ByUnitePress
WASHINGTON, Oct. 16. —
Chairman Britten of the House
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By United Press,
MARSHALL, Oct.' 16.—A ne-
gro was under arrest here today
on charges of assault to murder 1
and aggravated assgult in con* > .
nection with an attack on two
boys. The Injured youths, David
Fisher and Reginald Harris, were
taken to a hosr'tal where their
condition was reported not to
be critical Fisher had been
stabbed in the right lung and
Harria received a broken rib
when he was hit with a brjek
shooting of Howard Colwell last
week. 1
A. Brandt, president, Arnold
done' he had done before ...in. Miller, foreman. and Jerry Mer-
the school of journalism, lik and Elsworth Edgeman, em-
He didn’t mind working for a ployes, were the witnesses.
small salary so much as he ob- . Alvin Runnels, who termed him-
jected to wasting .bis time.
And being only 21 years old.
A YOUNG man who is em-
I • ployed on a daily newspaper
[ In i small town came in to see
I me about a job a few days ago.
He hasn’t very well satisfied
I with the job' he had. It didn’t
I pay enough for one thing, but
I the main trouble was he wasn’t-
| getting anywhere. — .. ---------
“He was but three months out
I of a school of journalism, and ex-
| actly where he expected to be in
! three months I don't know . . .
1 and neither did he, for sure.
I But, as he explained the sit-
| nation, he wasn't learning any-
| thing In particular about the
I business .... wasn’t getting as
■ much real experience. In fact, as
I he got on his college paper.
And what he wanted was a job
on a larger paper, in ahlarger
I ‘
Animal Tied Between Trees
lor Execution. 16—1 ,
2 i James-Titus, -781 was found dead of homicide. •F‛olice said she con-
—The Black on the kitchen floor of his home fessed she slew her husband of 50
1. Diamond,, elephant killgredied a here today, .his head crushed. A I •
- - ■ ■■ ■ .... .2 bloody ax lay beside his body. Ji-— — — —*- ■ — —-----—
. , „ . . Titus' aged wife, Mrs. Laura M.a drunken stupor.
between five and six miles from__.___„ _______________ ._________—
txpehencere he. Sanddot°cour, THREAT IS REPORTED
mor® money. --,
■ AC PflACT PHI T MApA"Smoke"o •'
UF-UUA>I UULlvnicranpuatkaneadesana
1 " ’ - Kansas State Agricultural
' he said.
Taking of testimony began Wed-
nesday afternoon, after selection
of the jury during The morning.
Beginning of the aria! five days
atterahe killing set a modern rec-
ord. If not one for all time, in _ ___________ ____________________. ...
Tarrant County, tor early court bouled over four Marquette tacklers (o dash across the pool line. .Grinnell won, 9 to 7. Be Called as Witness.
AgonbroreudgenSnes E. Mer In thf Cl "trr dark Rider, bTotre Dame's sprinting halfback, cauphfa forward pass from U/Ls ANCELES, Oct. 16.
cer ; ( andco, quarter, do give the Irish a touchdown against the Ravy at Baltimore. Notre
The ease originally was set for Dame vast the ric top,, 14 to 7. Below, a-forward pass from Beryl- Follett, halfback, to
ent intends to call Mrs. S. J.
By. lnii»s Presa.
LAMAR, Colo., Oct. 16.—The
noose was decreed for a second
member of the Lamar bandit
gang today. -----------
A jury in district court here
found Howard L. (Heavy) Roys-
ton of San Andreas, Calif., guil-
'ty of first degree murder for
killing A. N. Parrish, president
of the First National Bank and
presribed hanging.
Royston was the second mem-
ber of the robber band to be
condemned to death.
Last week George J. Abshier
of Grand Junction, Colo., was
ordered hanged for his part in
the murder of the bank presi-
dent whtch occurred May 23.
1928, as Parrish, grabbing his
own gun when bandits entered
his bank; fought it out with
them and died in defense of the
bank's funds.
The bandits took four lives be-
fore they finally “holed in” at
the “horseless ranch" of the
gang near Garden City, Kan.
The victims were A. N. Parrish,
hia.son. John Parrisha cashier at
the bank; E. A. Kessinger, a i
kidnaped teller, and Dr. W. W. J
Wineinger, Dighton, Kan., physi-
cian.
The .jury was out less than
two hours, taking more than an
hour—of fh«r- tme.fer—luncheon.—
Ralph Fleagle, leader of the
e paper he worked for han Jury in Slaying Completed
hearing Colwell tell him to put
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onhgncqursat probably meansew Maxor Scores Tacites oharEonwttpunssnyuttinF
the dismissal of another Indict- of His Opponents, odsunicerrngte,, .n
ment for tie murder or qordon _ sewwaGaxlanberttnu $ho,00 bo.3:
escorted the enemy to
breakfast and then adminis-
tered justice by clipping
their heads, painting their,
foreheads with Aggie in-
signia and forcing them to
entertain the entire school
-at-a-pep-ally,-----------—
The university youths
then were sent home to
Lawrence, seat of the uni-
versity, where Monday
nightman Aggie frosh was
taken, dressed In women's
apparel and paraded before
that school.
Included in the K. U.
party today were several
young women who were
sent home with one of their ,
fellow male. students as ,
chauffeur and chaperone.
The campus raids begin
more than a week ago when
K. U. students attempted to
kidnap the Aggie mascot, a
wildcat known as "Touch-
I down.”
The annual football clash
' between the schools will be
played at Lawrence Satur-
1 day. ..
hernistodkcution was A An ETC MAV MEET
with all the secrecy that attends | J IJ aL ■ w3 5VA ■ 1VA Sm La I
an execution'in the state prison " ■■■■ ■ ■ """
at Huntsville.
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WILL BE SUMMONED brushes, intending to paint . FOUR PERSONS KILLED
.__ up the Aggie campus.
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Investigation Is Under Way i
by Los Angeles
Authorities.
SALISBURY, N. H . Oct. 16.
—Mrs. S. J. Whitmore, vrife of
a wealthy Kansas City hotel
man, admitted today that she
had been a member ot ”Tke-Dt- -
vine Order of the Royal Arms of
the Great Seal,” a religious cult
under investigation in California,
but with several other members
resigned last summer because of
dissatisfaction. *-“
“Things we had been taught to
believe were not coming true.”
she said, “so we got out."
“The recent so-called’ expose of
-the organization cam? like a
thunderclap out of a clear sky."
months c. being 17 years old, in ..
which case be would have been — ,
60 SHOTS FIRED AGED MAN IS SLAIN
MERCHANEKENLESHE INTO HUGE BODY
Brought Gun to Work.
I tifFI I I talked with him Smearing of glue on Lane last
W awhile Thursday, the day before the kill-
! asked him among other lag, was described by Runnels,
’nin-* about his hour*—what This followed a dispute between
rime he went to work, and what Colwell and Lane, in which Col-
time he quit, and what be did .well slapped the boy after being
during working hours. cursed.
He is employed on a morning Lane threatened to kill both
paper and he goes to work at Colwell and Runmels as he left
; Relocks that evening. Runnel* said.
He has on* or two runs to
— Kndtcevetoped that he spent the gum down and-he-tRunnels} H
this period gossiping, reading the I
exchange*, and seeing about his ।
run* . - mostly just fiddling ।
around.
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IA)Aa+ A+ Konav SLAYING OF MATE Wnenvarminrnanomas"nai
I V A* (Aj U 1 1 A \ U A -L 1. V > y second Murder Indictment Likely [stand them, he told police, he
‘ • " to Bo Dismissed. made the incision. He intended
8 ELTPASO, Tex., Oct. .16.—Har- washing the wound out with soap
rison F. Waitt, Fort Bliss soldier, and water. After his capture. I By i nitM rrrs. -
who pleaded temporary Insanity his mother, Mrs. M. A. Holz.-had; 1oS ANGELES, Oct. 16. — A
when he killed his wife, Irene, him brought here. ' • i pudgy, slightly bald and vather
• Sept. 3, at-the Army Post with an i “----*——:--timid, law book slesmar today
the’jury deliberated an hour and*MAYOR WALKER OPENS found himseiravery’conspfcuous
36 minutes. TRe entire trial, fa nr ri EAfinN nRIVE figure in the trial of Alexan .
eluding selection of the jury, took nEE—E-IIVN UniE Vantages, millionaire theater, man ■
some 64 Naval Affairs
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