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VOL. XLIII—NO. 22.
HOLD SUSPECT HERE IN BORDER MURDER
Four Kelly Flyers Crash and Are Burned to Death During War Maneuvers
DEATH RIDES WITH PILOTS
IN WAR MANEUVERS. TAKING
TOLL OF FOUR IN TWO DAYS
Two Aviators Fall at Kelly Saturday
Morning and Their Bodies Are Hor
ribly Burned—Two Others Fall Fri
day at Laredo and Suffer a Similar
Fate—Crashes Witnessed by Assist
ant Chief of Air Service.
Four fliers and two planes in two days is the toll that
the battle maneuvers being conducted this week has taken
of the air force at Kelly Field.
The second crash was at Kelly Field at 11 o’clock Sat
urday morning, the first at 1:30 o’clock Friday afternoon at
Laredo. Lieut. Frank Honsinger and Sgt. Joe Kelly were the
victims of the Laredo crash and Lieut. Harry J. Martin and
Sgt. John Grodeki were victims of the crash af Kelly.
Pinned in their ships as the flames that followed each
.rash burned their bodies to a crisp, the four fliers had their
ives snuffed out in a moment in a horrible manner.
The crash at Kelly Fibld Saturday morning came in full
iew of a crowd of spectators and a large number of high
ranking army officers, among whom were Maj. Gen. E. M.
Lewis, commander of the Eighth Corps Area, who had come
to the field to witness the battle maneuver; Brig. Gen. Wil
liam Mitchell, assistant chief of the Air Service, under whose
Tirection the maneuver was being made, Col. Thomas H.
Slavens, chief of staff of the Eighth Corps Area, and a num
ber of other officers on General Lewis’ staff.
Lieutenant Martin was flying in the
rear of a formation of De Havilands,
all of which were heavily loaded with
bombs and machine guns and ammuni
tion preparatory to attacking the
■•enemy.” He was only about 100 feet
above the ground when his ship sud
denly dove into the ground at a 45
degree angle, striking the ground in
the north end of the field near the
Air Intermediate Depot.
There was a big blase as the ship
crashed. The field fire wagon and
ambulance, followed by a score of
automobiles started toward the burning
plane. Spectators from the Air In
termediate Depot were the first to
reach the scene of the wreck, and said
that as they rsn up, the flier in the
back seat, which was Sergeant
Grodecki. was calling for help.
Body I nder Motor.
Water and chemicals were turned bn
the flames as the fire truck arrived,
but it was several minutes before the
flames could be extinguished so that
soldiers could tear the burnt fragments
away and pull out the charred bodies.
The body of Sergeant Grodecki could
be seen sitting upright in his seat.
Lieutenant Martin was pinned under
the motor.
Before the body of Sergeant Grodecki
could be taken out it was necessary
to cut several wire supports that
pinned him in. When the flames were
sufficiently extinguished a rope waa
tied to the burnt motor which had to
be pulled off before the body of Lieu
tenant Martin could be released. The
bodies were placed in the field ambul
ance and taken to the field hospital.
Cause Net Determined.
General Lewis and General Mitchell
“nd practically all the officers who
were then on the field came to the
scene of the wreck and watched the
soldiers as they worked to put out the
fire and extricate the dead bodies from
the wreckage.
The exact cause of the crash Sat
urday morning could not be stated
definitely. •
Pilots on the ground who saw the
ship go down srag eMi. it appeared as
f the plane was hl fee Moeller wash,
neaning one wi~ might by the wind
•aused by one of the ships just ahead,
•ther explanations by high ranking of
icera were that the probable cause was
ack of sufficient practice in flying ships
icavily loaded and ready for action,
til the DeHavilands Saturday morn
ng were heavily loaded with bombs,
machine guns and ammunition.
GAX Had Been in Air.
Had the wash occurred high in the
ir nothing would have resulted, but
a going into ground attack only 100
pet above the ground, it was impossible
» bring the ship out of its dive. Ground
ttack, however, was Saturday's prob
■m and the type of ship used is de
gned especially for that kind of work.
Lieutenant Martin is survived by his
idow who lives at Kelly Field. Ser
-ant Grodecki is survived by his father,
ho lives in Perry. N. Y. Both men
■longed to the Eighth Squadron, and
ieutenant Martin to the Third Group
ttack.
Five ships were in the formation in
hich Lieutenant Martin was flying,
ivo had already passed over the tar
ts, which represented a wagon train,
others were only a short way
oni it when Lieutenant Martin's ship
put down. The other two ships flew
THE SAN ANTONIO LIGHT
Over the target dropping bombs and
firing machine guns, not knowing what
had happened to the last ship in the for
mation. Before the squadron of De
Havilands took the air. the three GAX
battle planes had circled three times
over the targets and fired machine
guns and dropped bombs on them.
Two Killed st laredo
Lieutenant Honsinger's and Sergeant
Kelly's deaths came in a similar man
ner as the two fliers who crashed Sat
urday morning, but it is believed from
a different cause. The crash during
the attack at Laredo came after the
ship had banked and stalled after it
had flown over the targets and fired
its guns and dropped bombs. It was
said to be about 300 feet in th* air.
and after stalling momentarily, went
into a nose dive without sufficient
room left for the pilot to straighten
it out. The ship burst into flames
upon crashing, and both its passengers
were burned to a crisp before they
could be extricated. Their bodies were
sent from Laredo to San Antonio Fri
day night.*
Lieutenant Rich, who was taking
part in the maneuvers at Laredo Fri
day, encountered motor trouble, and
after flying Out of the attacking group
and making for the landing field hooked
the left wing of his plane on an oil
derrick. The wing was crushed and
the plane sent gliding to the ground
about 100 yards away. The plane was
completely wrecked but Lieutenant Rich
and Private Dryden, his observer, es
caped with minor injuries.
LEFT $lOOO TO DOG
Hound Will Get "Three Meals Dally
and a Bed in the House.”
Frankfort, Ky„ Feb. 10.—A life of
comfort with “three meals daily and a
bed in the house by the fire” was ordered
for Dick, a Bourbon county dog. by a
decision of the Court of Appeals Fri
day, affirming in part and reversing in
Sart judgment of the Bourbon Circuit
burt in an action against the adminis
trator of the estate of Mrs. Bessie
White Burgess, former owner of the
dog.
Under the decision Dick may spend
the proceeds from a trust fund of $lOOO
and in addition use as much of the prin
cipal as the needs of his appetite and
comfort demand.
HANGED BY OWN MEN
Anti-Soviet Turk Executed as Result of
Dissension.
Moscow, Feb. 10.—Ishan Sultan. En
ver Pasha's chief lieutenant in the Bok
hara anti-Soviet campaign, has been
hanged by his own men at a castle in
Bokhara, built by Peter the Great, to
herald the wbte man's invasion of the
Near East, according to a Bokhara
dispatch.
Ishan was the original leader of the
anti-Soviet armies and is said to have
been forced by Enver Pasha to hand
over command to him. When Enver
was slain dissension developed between
Ishan and Sekin Pasha. A struggle en
sued with the outcome, according to the
Soviet press at Bokhara, tha "Khiva
now is clean.”
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1923. —TEN PAGES
WOMAN RUN DOWN AND
KILLED BY CAR ON
NORTH FLORES STREET
Was Attempting to Board
Street Car When Hit
by Automobile.
Run down by an automobile, Mrs.
Allie May Cunningham, 43, residing in
a tent near the Good Shepherd's Home,
was almost instantly killed at 7:15 Fri
day night, her skull having been frac
tured.
Frank, aged 14, witnessed the killing
of his mother.
8. G. Bechtel. 58. 118 East Waco
avenue, manager of the White Star
Laundry, said by the police to have
been driving the automobile wMch ran
down Mrs. Cunningham, was arrested
on a charge of negligent homicide. Upon
instruction from Judge W. S. Ander
son, of the Thirty-seventh District
Court, the defendant was released from
custody on $lOOO bail.
The accident occurred at the inter
section of North Flores and Poplar
streets. Mrs. Cunningham, acomianied
by her eon, was crossing North Flores
street when the automobile, it is said,
struck her. The boy escaped uninjured,
the automobile passing within a few
feet of him. Mr. Bechtel immediately
obtained the aid of a passing autoist
and sent Mrs. Cunningham to the hos
pital.
Examination, it is said, showed she
had received a number of body bruises
and her skull was badly fractured. She
was knocked unconscious and died with
in a few minutes.
Mr. Bechtel, police say. stated he did
not see the pedestrian until Mrs. Cun
ningham was directly in front of his
car.
Mrs. Cunningham was employed at
the home of Mrs. D. W. Randolph. 907
Poplar street, and had left the place
shortly before the accident, to return to
her home. She was accomuanied by her
-on. 'the latter told the police the, -
had started to walk a<roM North Flores
Street to board a eiu-bnuml street car,
whs B bis inotlmr wgs flown by toe
aup'inobflf.
Mrs. Cunningham, besides her son.
Frank, is Survived b.v hfr husband.
Janies CunniOfehatu. for many'yetro a
member of thj state ranger force. Two
other children, Lillie, aged ’ll and
Rachel, aged 8 years, also survive.
Mrs. Cunningham worked at various
places, it is said, to assist in providing
for the family.
FORD ENTERS COAL
BUSINESS—MAY SELL
TO GENERAL PUBLIC
Henry Centralizes Coal Prop
erties Into Single
Unit.
Detroit, Midi, Feb. 10.—Incorpora
tion of the Fordson Coal Company, an
nounced at Dover. Del., Friday, was a
step by the Ford Motor Company to cen
tralize its coal properties into a sin
gle unit, officials of the motor com
pany were quoted as saying here last
night. The new corporation with n
capitalization of $15,000, ,000. is to
operate coal properties purchased by
Henry Ford in Kentucky and West Vir
ginia.
Organization of the coal company
may result, it was said, in Mr. Ford
selling coal to the public. This depends
upon the amount of fuel produced and
the requirements of the various Ford
industrial plants.
THE WEATHER
TEMPKHATCBBS.
FEB. 4—
2 p. m 73 2 a. m 81
3 p. m 73 3 a. m 81
4 p m 74 k 4 a. 80
5 p. m 75 5 a. m SO
6 p. 66 4 a. tn.••••••. 60
7 p. in 64 7 a. m........ 50
9 p. m........ 59 9 a. tn... 49
9 p. m 95 9 a. tn 4$
10 p. tn 56 10 a. m 50
11 p. m o< 11 a. 51
12 midnight... .52 12 noon 53
FEB. 14— 1 p. 66
1 a. m 52 2 p. m 58
FORECAST.
San Antonio twd vicinity: Saturday nifht
cloudy; colder; Sunday, partly cloudy:
minimum temperature. 38 to 44; moder
ate southerly to westerly winds.
Ea«t Texas: Rain in eaat portion: cloudy
and colder in west portion: Sunday, part
ly cloudy and colder in the interior.
West Texas: Probably fair; colder; cold
wave in the Panhandle with temperature
of from 8 to 14; Sunday, fair; colder in
southeast portion.
HOME WEATHER FOR TOURISTS.
St. Louis: Temperature. 32: partly
cloudy; six-mile .wind from the northeast:
lowest temperature in last 24 hours. 22;
highest. 24.
Chicago: Temperature. 24; clear; eight
mile wind from the west; lowest temper
ature In last 24 hours. 18: highest. 24.
KanNM City: Temperature. 22; partly
cloudy; four-mile wind from the eaat: low
est temperature in laat 24 houra. 22; high
est. 34.
New York: Temperature. 28; snowing:
35-mile wind from the norfi; lowest tem
perature in last 24 hours. 24; highest. 44.
Washington: Temperature. 34; raining;
six-mile wind from the north; lowest tem
perature in last 24 hoursh, 35; highest. 44.
■ DECIDES
IT DDES NOT
NEED DINEERS
Request of Troop $ Counter
manded—Mob no Long
er Feared.
SITUATION IS QUIET
Skipworth’s Father Visits
Negro—Won’t For
give Him.
Waco. Tex, Feb. 10.—Although there
was no demonstration last night indicat
ing possible mob action against Roy
Mitchell, negro, who. county authorities
say. has signed written confessions to
five murders in this county during the
past year, the county jail continued un
der guard today.
Texas rangers ordered here by Gov
ernor Neff will not come, according to
Sheriff Leslie Stegall, who said he bad
countermanded his request for state of
ficers owing to the continued quiet situa
tion.
No court action is expected against
Mitchell until March 5, when the regu
lar grand jury convenes. He spent a
quiet night in bis cell.
Two Negroes Convicted.
Meanwhile County Attorney C, S.
Farmer will continue hia iaxestigatiou
into the slaving at Concord, near here,
in February. 1V22, of Mr. and Mrs. W.
H. B*rb-r end a 12 soar-old boy.
Honied Turk. ' ' *
Mitchell says he committed this
crime, according to Mr. Farmer, but
this alleged admission was not put in
writing because the prosecutor said he
gave it little credence, owing to the
fact that it was made after a trying or
deal in which the negro detailed the
five murders to which he signed separ
ate confessions.
Two other negroes, whose conviction
for the Concord murders are now on ap
peal, confessed the crimes after their
arrest, but repudiated the confessions
at their trials, saying they sighed the
statements under threats of violence.
Skipworth Sr. Will Not Forgive.
L. A. Skipworth, father of Grady,
called at the county jail Friday to
see Mitchell, charged with having shot
bis son to death and then disposing
of his body by casting it over the cliff.
Mitchell begged Skipworth to forgive
him.
Bkipworth. according to those with
him. looked the negro over closely and
shook his bead.
The appearance of Skipworth at the
negro's cell was perhaps the tensest one
of countless tense moments filled with
high interest following the night-long
admission of crime made b.v the pris
oner to Sheriff Leslie Stegall and Coun
ty Attorney Farmer.
FIND SKIPWORTH'S WATCH.
Booker T. Washington. Mitchell's Half
brother. Alleged Possessor.
Belton, Tex, Feb. 10.—Officers yes
terday said they found in possession
of Booker T. Washington, a negro, a
watch which has been identified as that
worn by Grady Skipworth of Waco on
the night he was killed at Lovers’
Washington is a half-brother of
Roy Mitchell. Information given offi
cers by Mitchell is said to hare traced
the timepiece to the Belton negro, who
told officers he won it in a bet on the
Temple-Waeo high school football gnme.
played December 8. Officer* say they
believe Washington's story. No changes
have been filed against him.
Starting in The Sunday Light
O. O. Mclntyre, the man who knows New York inside ard
out, and who puts that knowledge into words most entertainingly,
is the newest addition to the list of clever feature writers whose
work appears in The Light each Sunday. “Some Theatrical This
and That” is the title of Mr. Mclntyre’s article.
In one of his Fables in Slang in The Sunday Light, George
Ade shows how lucky the laboring classes are and why they don’t
have to envy the rich.
Ring Lardner has gone south to save coal and has an inter
esting account of the trouble caused by “The Woman in Upper 9”
on the trip to Florida.
Kathleen Norris will have another of her interesting articles
for women which the men also read “just to see.”
An extra treat for the short story lovers will be in The
Sunday Light. It is a dramatic little tale of the after war days
by that wonderfully able writer, Edna Ferber. You will get a
thrill out of it.
An article that tells all about the famous swindling schemes
that annually take half a billion dollars from the gullible public
in the United States is contributed for The Sunday Light by
Edward A. Schwab who spent six years in the postal service as an
inspector working on fraud cases.
These and many other features and all of the news in The
Sunday Light.
You will want a copy. Order it now.
A Red Feminist
Mrs. Lucy Tayiah Ends, shown here,
is a red—not politically but racially,
since she's a Kaw Indian. She's been
made chief of the Kaw Indians at
Ponca City, Okla, possibly the first
woman chief. Her principal official
function will be pressing the Kaws’ $15,-
000,000 claim against the government.
BIBLE BILL IS DEAD
Sought To Force Teaching of Scripture
In Texas Schools.
Austin. Tex, Feb. 10.—The Senate
bill by Clark and others, which sought
to require the teaching of the Bible
in the public, private and parochial
schools of the state, was probably
finally disposed of in the Senate when
the measure was indefintely postponed.
This ia tantamount to killing the bill.
CRUDE UP AGAIN
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Prairie Adv*i>M». bfd-Onlinew hv
FfftfjFriAt. T.ris Year. .
Tulsa. Okla, Feb. 10.—The Prairie
Oil and Gas Company today advanced
the price of Mid-Continent crude oil 10
cents a barrel. The new prices now
range from $1.40 for oil of 28 gravity
and below, to $2.50 for 41 gravity and
above. It is' the fifth W-cent increase
this year.
COLDER ON SUNDAY
Saturday Night will Be Cloudy and
Sunday Partly Clear.
Weather here Saturday night and
Sunday will be colder, with a mini
mum temperature of 38 to 44 degrees.
The night will he cloudy, while Sunday
will be partly cloudy. Winds will be
moderate and southerly to westerly in
direction.
The weather map Saturday was a
checkerboard of small areas of high and
low pressure, each providing its terri
tory with a special brand of weather,
and all combining to make the life of
the forecaster one of woe. In nil, there
were eight centers over the map.
Texas was dominated by a small
“low” which caused early fog and cloud*
in San Antonio Saturday aml will bring
rain to- East Texas in all probability
Saturday night.
A "high" to the west, with eight de
grees below zero at its center in South
ern Utah, will be the chilling influence
during the night and Sunday. A cold
wave is forecasted in the Panhandle as
this “high" progresses eastward.
Heavy rains were reported early Sat
urday through the southeastern states,
especially in Georgia and Alabama.
Rain also fell along the Atlantic, with
snow in Pennsylvania and New York.
The north central states had cold
weather. St. Paul reported two below.
Washington issued the following
weather outlook for the West Gulf
States next week:
Rains over east, portion Monday and
almost general about Wednesday or
Thursday: otherwise generally fair.
Temperatures about normal.
LIGHTS ED DUT
ONTDBINHILL
FRIDAY NIGHT
“I’m-for-ever-blow-ing-out,”
Song of Transformer,
Say Residents.
DID BIRD PECK POLE?
Thunder Rumble in South
San Antonio Sometimes
Cause of Darkness.
This is not a news story. There is
no chance that it can be. It relates
to the service given to the Tobin Hill
section of San Antonio by the San
Antonio Public Service company ami
there is no news in that. The service
has not. so the residents of Tobin Hill
say, changed in many years. There is
no news in the continuance of old
stuff. '
Friday night Tobin Hill was with
out lights. Just at dinner time they
went out and when the electric lights
on Tobin Hill go out they are like
some men in ftic good old days—they
remain out for a long, long time.
It is said that all over Tobin Hill
the housekeepers have for years bwn
working yarn mottoes something like
this: “Our Electric Service —Live the
Giver” and they lore it. Yes, they
do.
It is no new thing for the lights on
Tobin Hill to go out just when they
are most needed. According to old resi
dents of that part of the «-ity. they go
out every time » tiiundertlorm daykens
<Se air *or whetf-wer a henry “rain
comes spattering down. There is a
store curent in that port of the eity
to the effect that once the lights went
out because a sparrow peeked a pole.
This, however, has never been proton
—or disprove!! either. It is the truth,
however, that whenever the people of
Tobin Hill hear it thunder over in
South San Antonio they rush for
candles. They know what is coming.
They expect gloom and they got it—
just like the man who put his money
iftto a North Texas oil woP.
Some Archair Models.
Friday night the lights went out be
cause “a transformer blew out." This
is the regular thing when thunder
storms and rains and sparrows are
not functioning. The people of Tobin
Hill do not know what is a transformer
except that it is something that is
forever “blowing out" and that it trans
forms their homes into Egyptian dark
ness, and that it is a hard nnd constant
worker.
The remarkable service that is given
this section of' the city because of
transformers and things is not confined
to electric juice alone. For the last
twelve years Tobin Hill can truth
fully claim, so the residents say. to
have had the poorest street car service
in the world. For many years the
cars were just large enough to seat
sixteen Mexican employes of the street
enr company. Furthermore they were
of the model that is said to have been
discovered in the tomb of the late King
Tootandcomeon over in Egypt. Those
cars had a regular schedule of fifteen
minutes from which to deviate and
they did more deviating than anything
else. It should be said in explanation
that they deviated more toward thirty
minutes than they did toward ten
minutes.
Chase Cars To Suburbs.
Moreover, when a street car route is
to be changed the favorite pastime of
the Public Service company, in the
opinion of residents of Tobin Hill is
to chase the Tobin Hill cars into the
suburbs. All other lines run on Hoiis
tnn street but there is never room for
lobm Hill cars on that street If
anybody desires to got a Tobin Hill car
he must get an automobile and go out
into the suburbs to find it. Every
other line of cars can find room on
Houston street but Tobin Hill—not
eV mi. l f ast. so the residents snv.
may be lights „ n Tobin HiU
H'* l ” » nil ffc *‘ r '' ®«v not. It
depend* upon the transformer. In the
meantime the residents of that section
nreb uying candles and wondering why
not work n ’™ns
former into its policy of dealing out
eleetne juice. Right there in their
” wh '‘ rc ■ transformer could
work to great advantage.
ITALY STANDS FIRM
Mussolini Informs Turkey Her De
mand Violates Armistice.
London. Feb. 10.—The dispatch to the
limes from Rome says remier Mussolini
on receqrt o f Turkey’s ultimatum re
garding the warships at Smyrna, in
structed the Italian representative at
< onatantinople to associate himself with
the Allied representatives in informing
lurzey that her demand was imcompati
me with the term* of the armistice.
Mexico Prepares to Greet Author.
Mexico City, Feb. 10.—Great prepar
a ns are being made here for the re
ception of Jacinto Benavente. the Span
ish author who won the Nobel 1922
prize for literatur . A committee has
gone to 5 era Cruz to meet him and es
cort him to the capital where he ia to be
accorded the freedom of the city.
ARREST MAN HERE ON CLAIM
HE SLEW VETERAN CUSTOMS
GUARD ON MEXICAN BORDER
Suspect Indicted by Webb County Grand
Jury in Connection With Sensational
Killing of Bob Rumsey in Battle Be
tween Officers and Liquor Runners.
Net of Evidence Has Been Months in
Preparation.
A ruse employed by Chief Deputy Sheriff Alphonse New
ton. aided by Supervisor of Mounted Inspectors Charles
Stevens resulted early Saturday in the arrest of Joe Casanova,
who officers believe, is one of the men who killed “Bob’*
Rumsey near the Mexican border on August 19 last. Casanova
was given a preliminary hearing before Judge W. S. Ander
son in the Thirty-seventh District court Saturday morning on
a charge of murder contained in an indictment returned in
। Bexar county and his bond fixed at $lOOO. He was imme
diately arrested, however, on telegraphic instructions front
Sheriff Joe Condrens at Laredo, where an indictment has
been returned against him in connection with the Rumsey
kiling.
The arrest of Casanova Saturday was the result of a
search inaugurated by Chief Deputy Newton and Charles
Stevens, lasting over several months and extending into Mex
ico. Mr. Stevens said Saturday that a complete case has been
worked up which indicates Casanova was one of the men
implicated in the killing of the customs inspector.
LEAGUE TO ASK U. S.
ATTITUDE CONCERNING
ARMS SALES CONTROL
International Plan to Reg
ulate Traffic in
Munitions.
By the AsAociateA Tre**.
Geneva. Feb. 10.—Under a decision
taken today by the disarmament con
feronce of the Ix*ague of Nations, the
council of the League will be asked to
invite the United States government to
present concrete propositions concern
ing the general line* of collaboration it
is nble to give other governments with
regard to international control of traf
fic in arms and also the private manu
facture of arms.
WILLIAM ROENTGEN,
X-RAY DISCOVERER,
DIES IN GERMANY
Medical Profession Owes
Great Debt to Famous
Scientist.
By the Anaocinted Preu*.
Barlin. Feb. 10. —I’rof. William Con
rad Roentgen, discoverer of the Roent
gen rays, popularly known as X-Rays,
is dead at Munich.
William Conrad Roentgen was born
in Lennep. Prussia, on March 27, 1845.
received his early education in Holland
and then studied at Zurich. Swiezer
land, where he took his doctor's degree
in 1569. After service as professor of
physics at various German universities,
he went in 1855 to Wurzburg, where,
in 1895. he made the discovery for which
his name was chiefly Itoown, that of
the Roentgen or X-Rays.
It was while experimenting with a
highly exhausted vacuum tube on the
conduction of electricity through gases,
that he first produced the rays, which
because of their great penetration and
their power of passing through various
substances which are opaque to ordin
ary light, have become of the greatest
value in science, especially to the medi
cal profession.
For bis discovery, he received the
Rumford medal of the Royal Society in
1896, jointly with Philip Lenard, who
was honored because of his previous
researches with cathode rays.
UNFILLED STEEL ORDERS
Sfecrtaj*' Total-- «.#IO.TT< Tana, an In
crease of 1*5,073 Tons.
New York. Feb. I*.—Unfilled orders
of the United States Steel Corporation
on January 13. 1923, made public today,
totaled 6,910.776 ton*, sn increase of
165,073 tons over those at the end of
the preceding month, which totaled 6,-
745,803 tons.
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Casanova left San Antonio several
months ago after complaint had been
filed against him in connection with
the killing of Carlos Fernandez at a
baseball game on September 24 last.
Two indictments later were returned
against Casanova in connection with
the killing of Fernandez, one charging
murder with a kife and the other vith
a baseball bat. Fernandez was killed
during a squabble over a decision in a
Sunday afternoon baseball game on ’he
west side.
Following hia disappearance from
San Antonio. Chief Deputy Newton
secured certain information which I’d
him to believe that Casanova may bav«
been connected with the Rumsey kill
ing. He and Mr. Stevens began in
vestigating and later a Webb county
grand’ jury returned an indictment
against him. It was then that the
state and federal officers inaugurated
theij search for the missing man.
Casanova, it was learned, had left
San Antonio and it was believed he
had gone to Mexico. A close wateii
was kept on the border and it was re
ported at one time that he was prepar
ing to cross to the American side. He
did not do so. however. But Deputy
Newton and Inspector Stevens main
tained their vigil.
About New Year Mr. Stevens and
Chief Itennty Newton had a report
that Casanova was again in San An-
I”*! * thorough search of the
city failed to disclose bis whereabouts.
Later it was reported that he had re
turned to Mexico.
Wanted To Clear Charges Here
A week or so ago. according to Chief
deputy Newton and Mr. Stevens, it
was learned that Casanova had gotten
into some kind of troubl# in Mexico
near the American border and had re
turns! to San Antonio. Chief Deputy
Newton took up the investigation and
ot maneuvering
learned that the man was actually in
S,n Antonio - He then' set
about to capture him.
trfKing into touch with close friends
,hB t. ‘ h «’y were desirous of
bm ?“T char ns against him
here m order that he might remain st
rothr?? 88 he dld "O' ”
Ton %1 • chief I>*pntv Nev -
gested th« th *' r J >l,n ’ •"d ’<•
hL * iA ' ? e .I naD delivered to
nati«nt^ C n Dd r ' Stevens waited
patiently all morning Friday for the
«m.l of Caaano bu t hi did To*
dtnnr UP ’ howeT * 1 '. the chief
that 'Th-* 5 lnforrn *d o»er the telephone
£“t!X * “
Laredo Officers Coating Stuxlii
fi-d* 1 Con,ir *™ 8t Laredo wa* noti
fied and requested to be ready to have
the man taken back to Laredo to an
swer to the charge of murder in
tion with the Rumsey killing. He wired
Chief Deputy Sheriff Newton Sator io
morning to hold the man.
■ ( r CaM o.°' B I* 88 bro “rtt into the sher
iffs office Saturday, according to lbs
promise made the chief deputy and st
once applied through his attorur>< for
a writ of habeas corpus. Judge Ander
son fixed tail at $lOOO which be re.d-
Ily gave. He was at onge re-arrvemj.
however, on the laredo indictment. Ap.
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