Brownsville herald. [volume], November 07, 1929, Page TWELVE, Image 12

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JURY RETURNS
FREE VERDICT
FOR ATTORNEY
Deliberation Lasts
Less Than 2 Hours;
Accused Man Says
Conscience Clear.
WEATHERFORD, Tex., Nov. 7.
WP)—Judge R. H. Hamilton, former
member of the state supreme court
commission of appeals, was free to
day. a jury having decided he act
ed in self defense when his son-in
law, Tom Walton, Jr., the bride
groom in a secret marriage, was
shot and killed in Hamilton’s Ama
rillo law office last May.
The jury, after listening to seven
days of testimony and eight hour.-;
of argument, required only one hour
and 46 minutes and three ballot
to acquit the jurist and lawyer
Four jurors voted for conviction on
the first and one on the second
ballots.
The defendant was asleep in hr,
hotel room when the verdict was
read, according to his brother, Dex
ter Hamilton, who with the judge's
son, Robert H. Hamilton, Jr.. Uni
versity of Minnesota student, thank
ed the Jury.
Meets Friends
He dressed quickly, however,
when his son and brother rusheu
to the hotel and came to the lob
by to meet his friends. Theresa,
nls 18-year-old daughter, whose se
cret marriage to Walton while the
two attended the University of Tex
as was indirectly responsible for
the shooting, threw her arms
around his neck.
"Oh Daddy,” was all she could
say, and she fell back to watch
others congratulate him.
"My conscience was clear,” Hamil
ton said to the only newspaper man
who broke through the cordon of
friends whicn surrounded him and
said, “That gives you a clear con
science?”
“Certainly It does. Certainly it
does.” Hamilton replied. “My con
science was clear.” He added the
information, “I’m going home to
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morrow,” before friends closed about
j him and shut off further inter
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Kindly Father
The state in the trial sought to
show that Hamilton, knowing or
suspecting his daughter had mar
ried Walton, whose home was in
Amarillo, deliberately shot the young
man when Walton came to his of- 1
fice to make a clean breast of the
affair.
The defense pictured Hamilton
as a kindly father, aware of Wal
tons intentions toward his daugh
ter and willing to bless the couple,
once he was satisfied of Walton'a
desirability as a husband.
Defense testimony painted the
young man in a sinister light, how
ever, a number of witnesses testi
fying Walton had uttered dark
threats against Hamilton, who. he
felt, disapproved of him and hin- j
dered him in his efforts to see
Theresa. One witness testified
Walton had boasted a past as a
Capone gangster and said he was
more deadly than a rattlesnake.
Several witnesses testified they had
heard Walton threaten to kill
Hamilton.
Hamilton himself, from the stand,
testified these threats had come to 1
him through others and he had
prepared to defend himself. When
Walton entered his office on the
fatal da*, lie said, the young man
made a motion as if to draw a
gun and he grabbed for his own
weapon. The defendant did not
admit sheeting Walton, but said
they had engaged in a mortal com
bat for the gun. Walton was shot
four times and died on the floor of
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Hamilton's office a moment later.
Mrs. Walton, Judge Hamilton's
wife, mother of the secret bride and
Helen Hamilton, her sister, took
the stand during the trial. The
resa. widow of the slain man, did
not testify.
73 Valley School
Heads At Meeting
HARLINGEN, N .. 7— Seventy
three members of the Superintend
ents and Principals association ol
ihe Lower Rio Grande Valley were
present at Harlingen with oup't. E.
C. Chamness of Weslaco, president
of the organization acting as chair
man.
The high school principals, both
junior and senior, held their meet
ing at the high school building with
W. N. Gay of Mercedes as chair
man. The committee, consisting of
Principal Barbee of Weslaco and
Charles Dlvenoey oi Mission, >iade
a report on the rules and rela
tions governing the junior high
school athletics. It was decided aiso
to ask the athletic association,
made up of the girls’ coaches of
the junior ar.d senior high schools
of the Valley, t3 decide just what
athletic events they should engage
in this year and to arrange a ten
tative schedule of events for the
year.
Professor Onstott of Donna was
the principal speaker for the oc
casion at which time he addressed
the body on “Tests and Measure
ments lor Junior and Senior High
Schools.'’
Professor Barbee of Weslaco will
be the principal speaker for the
meeting in December at Mission
at which time he will speak on
the “National Honor Society.”
Poll Tax Roll Shows
Women In Politics
Cameron county women are tak
ing an active part In politics, if the
poll tax rolls mean anything.
The first vote’- to pay a poll tax
in the county was Mrs. W. M.
Hunter and she was followed four
days later by llulon Sterling, city
tax collector. Maude H. Sterling.
Mrs. Florence Cunningham and
Geo. A. Covacerich followed In
order. Some 23 licenses have been
issued.
Exemptions have been Issued to
R. L. Campbell, Judge A. W. Cun
ningham. Capt. A. Sterling. Mrs.
E. A. Sterling and Mrs. R. A. King
in order.
HOOD HIDALGO
FAIR SPEAKER
Big Parade Through Mission
to Be Featured on Open*
ing Day
(Special to The Herald)
MISSION. Nov. 7—Past State
Commander Walton Hood, who is
also a Past Vice National Comman
der. will make the principal address
at the Fair grounds on Armistice
Day. according to Bill Morris. Com
mander of the local American Le
gion.
A big parade is to be staged, in
which practically all other Valley
cities have agreed to take part, the
parade to leave the high school
building at exactly 10 o’clock, going
through the principal business
streets, and upon arrival at tho Fair
grounds a program will be given.
Arrangements have practically all
been completed at this time, many
concessions will bt> on the grounds,
booths are being arranged in a con
venient and businesslike manner,
with many new ones erected for
special work and demonstration.
The local women are doing a big
work, in which they are aided by
the Sharyland Home Demonstration
club, under the direction of Miss
i Etta Ringgold, county demonstration
agent.
Fails to Make Bond
In Assault Charge
Francisco Garza, 34, San Benito,
was bound over to the grand jury
in bond of $25C0 o~ charges of as
sault with Intent to commit a
statutory offense against a six-year
old girl, following a preliminary
hearing before Justice of the Peace
Fred Kowalski Wednesday.
A physician who has been treat
ing the little girl, the girl’s mother
and the little girl herself testified
at the preliminary hearing. Garza
did not have an attorney and fail
ed to make the bond. *
The mother say., the man won
the confidence of her family, say
ing that he was very fond of
children. He frequently gave the
girl candies and fruits and s>.e
visited his home frequently, the
mother testified.
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Age of Slayer Is
Chief Trial Issue
EASTLAND. Tex., Nov, 7—(/}»>—
The age of Clyde Thompson, accused
slayer of Lucian and Leon Shook,
oil field worker, appeared to be the
paramount issue in his murder trial
here today.
Yesterday afternoon’s session was
mainly occupied with a wrangle
over the date of his birth. After
the court had excluded a purported
copy of a birth certificate showing
Thompson was bom in Guymon,
Oklahoma, October 5, 1910, the state
was successful in getting into -the
records a statement by Thompson's
father that the youth was born in
1910, exact date unspecified. The
latter statement was taken from
school records.
Coast Highway Is
Praised By Dancy
SAN BENITO. Nov. 7 —The Hug
the-Coast highway from Houston
to Brownsville will mean more to
the Lower Rio Grande Valley than
two more railroads would mean.
County Judge O. C. Dancy declared
in addressing the Kiwanis club here
Wednesday.
Judge Dancy talked on the road
program of the county, and on roads
leading to the Valley, and said that
the coast highway is almost financ
ed throughout.
Its importance is increased by the
prospects of securing extension of
the intracoastal canal from Corpus
Christi to the Valley, Judge Dancy
said.
KILLED BY GANGSTERS
TOLEDO. Ohio. Nov. 7—i/py—
Ralph Zahnle, 38. deputy marshal
of Toledo, died in a hospital here
today of bullet wounds received
when fired upon by a gang of rum
runners.
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BARRED MAN LIVES IN WOODSHED
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Arthur Plante has moved from his house near Malone, N. Y., across
the Canadian border line into his woodshed, which is in Canada, all
because U. S. immigration authorities believed he might become a
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AGAINST POPE
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Turbulent Fashion
By JAMES A. MILLS
Associated Press Correspondent
MOSCOW. U. S. S. R., Nov. 7—(A*)
—Communist Russia today observ
ed in traditional revolutionary
fashion the twelfth anniversary of
the 1917 upheaval which ushered
Bolshevism Into the world and de
stroyed the ancient Russian govern
ment.
To bring the event closer to the
hearts, if not to the stomachs, of
the people, the government gave
bread and meat at cost price to
every member of the population
holding bread cards.
With the aid of millions of yards
of red bunting, huge flaming pla
cards. symbolical wooden floats, nu
merous speakers’ stands and large
portraits of Lenin, Marx and Stalin,
historic Red square was transform- i
ed Into a mighty theatrical stage
for the passing of a twelve-mile
long military and civilian parade
led by the commander of the Mos
cow garrison.
Favored by perfect weather, this
singing, shouting mass of humanity,
carrying banners, flaming flags and
chanting the intemationale march
ed through the Gate of Resurrection
where formerly stood the famous
Chapel of the Siberian Virgin. Over
the portals of the gates today ap
peared a gigantic red anti-religious
placard reading: “Down with the
deceit of Popes* Give us books in
stead of religion!"
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G. O. P. HEAD DIES
ENID. Okla., Nov. 6—(JP)— Prank
A. Parkinson. 60, of Enid, former
republican State chairman, died
last night in a hospital in Long;
Beach, Calif., where he went last
Thursday to spend the winter.
TWO PRISONERS ESCAPE
NACOGDOCHES. Tex.. Nov. 7—
(A*)—Two prisoners escaped from the
Nacogdoches county Jail here last
night, but on© was later recaptured
by Ranger Carl Butler.
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