The Brownsville daily herald. [volume], November 30, 1909, Image 4

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THE BROWNSVILLE DAILY HERALD
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER, 30, lt&ft
: IJ, Xt i". Texas.
' i seen of the "shooting up," and then '
CHAS. M. ARMSTRONG & COMPANY
WANTED At once. Jfan took'
said that they (the officers) had I tor survey camp. Apply jyortham,
i ii i , . . i -.. ,-.1. : d ,mi. ' r
uuaru lue buuutiug anu Knew It was I "muiusiuu c; .umei, ier uiunus-
heing done by soldiers from the '. ville Grocery.
sound of the high power rifles, but
I that they were afraid at first to
I leave their families, to investigate
! as they thought it was a fiirht amnrm
WANTED at once boy with horse
to carry papers. Apply at Herald
office. f
LAND AND INVESTMENTS
BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS
LOST In West Brownsville, a
book "The Sorrows of Satan,"
hound in red. Please return to H.
M. L. Hurrellbrink, Miller Hotel.
SPECIALTIES
& i the soldiers, such scraps having oc
a I curred before and Major Penrose
and Greer finally went over to the
barracks.
An important piece of evidence
was nest given by John Moore, a i TTZZ : 7TTZ 7
nesrro. who formerly worked aK n LOST On the train Friday be-
tenmster in the nnst " H was Kin I tween San Benito and Brownsville,
A . ..U.WJ.
in his quarters at the corral on tie
night of Aug. 13 until being awak
ened by the discharge of a gun by
the sentry patrolling in frout of
the corral. lie then got up, dres
sed and went over to the ice plant
and while he was dressing an order
came by telephone for the ambu-
u.u u uuu uv I1I.U1U IUV tllCll UUt"
side hitching up the mules. He left
the corral before the ambulance
was ready and doesn't know when it
left or where it went.
Both the discharge of the gun by
BROWNSVILLE GRAIN CO.
'INCORPORATED)
FEED AND SEED Wholesale and Retail
Phone 66
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DISTRIBUTORS FOR
TEXAS SEED & FLORAL CO
lady's purse containing $55 in bills.
and some change. Finder return to
Brownsville Bank & Trust Co for
reward.
I WANTPJT) A first-class cook for
hotel in small town on the St. L.,
B. & 31. branch road. Married man
preferred. Apply at once by letter
to P. O. box 413 Herald.
The Nutting Season Now on Hand
the sentrv and thn nrrldrini of tlio
Irrigated farms and Colonization Tracts, in ah sizes, large and j I ambulance are new points of testi
small. Let us know what you want. We have it in any" lo
cality and can give the best prices. Write or call
rue next witness was J. K.
Pow-
.iCE FURNISHED room for
for rent. Apply to Mrs. T. P. Aus
tin or phone No. 15o.
We say so without blaif,
And any sort you wJsb to crack
We sure have jot the stuff ;
And fruits we sell we keep the best;
It is Lowney candy, too ;
I have said enough will say no more.
Bat leave the rest with you.
Phone 178
Negroes Iist Hope Destroyed.
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Gen. Daggett: Did they have
belts? A. Could not see them.
Gen. Dagget: Did they have belts
around their waist?
Recorder Howland objected to this
question, and the following was sub- i E. Moralles, who formerly kept a
stituted: Did the soldiers have i tailor shop in the administration
belts horozontally about them? A. building was then called. At 7-30
Did not see any.
Felix Valdez Calderon was then
ailed to testify.
Recorder: Where were you about
daylight on Aug. 14, 1006? A. Ij
was at the mouth of the Cowen al-i
iey at break of day with Chief of
Police Connor, and saw a man at the
head of the alley who I believed to
ie an officer.
Q. Describe what ou saw the of
ficer do. A. I saw him stoop down
and 'pick up something.
Q. How many times did he stoop
to pick things up. A. Four or five
times.
Q. Did you recognize the man?
A. I believed he was an officer. I
noticed that he wore leggins. J rec
ognized him as Captain Macklin.
Saw him stoop and pick up feme.
ers, a veteran, who lost his right arm
at Shiloh, and is now superintend
ent of the National cemetery, at San
Antonio. He occupied a similar po
sition at Fort Brown in 190G. His'
evidence showed that the night of
August 13 was very clear, as looking
from his window after the firing
had ceased he could see in the star.
the Ruby saloon, and was evidently i Ilt ,th? posts of a barbwire fenp?
.r ji . I ' n toot nwov
uue oi pose urea lrom the rear of " X- 7 . , , .... '
to Major Penrose's house to get a j
pass from him. The latter, who j
seemed very much exercised asked ,
Mr. Powers to step out of hearing
of his wife and talking of the i touble
said to him: "I would as srion have
lost my right arm as have my men
do this shooting."
He said his 'jatallion had always
been the crack one in the 25th
Infantry and that he would give a
year's salary to know who had done
the shooting.
On next day, the 15th, while driv
ing by D barracks with his -ife.
bound for town, a soldier stopped
him and giving him a n.issbook on
the Merchants' Bank asked him to
draw out his money for him as he
coul-l not get out. Mi Powers re
n'neii that h' unic-s!' oil that, and
it.e .-oldier then sud. "I want you
to understand that I was not one of
INJURIES MAY
PROVE FATAL
THE TEXAS CONFECTIONERY )
H. MAGILL, Proprietor
UKSl'LT OK WKKCK OX PKXXSL
VAXIA KOA!) TODAY.
njcti saioon. it was taken out in
pieces with an auguar, dulling the
point of that tool. The pieces were
wrapped in paper by the witness
and iaKen to nis home, where in put
ting on a new roof, the package was
lost.
a. m., Aug. 14, he was stopped at
the gete by an armed guard and told
to get a pass from Major Penrose.
He obtained the pass and opened
his shop. A number of soldiers
gathered there in a short time ask
ing what had happened in town, ne
detailed theevents of the previous
night, including the wounding of the
Mexican lieutenant of police, and the
I negroes expressed regret that a Mex-
isan had been injured as it was the
I Americans they had been after.
. ,,- : , , , i uiose wno went out and did trt
he w , r i Me shooting. 1 am a God-fearing man
he was sorry his companions ami flnn.t i,pijPVA in th-t ,. , ,
had acted in that way m town. The business "
i.ucoa tumu uui. iccaii tiie names
Over a Doen Persons Were Injured,
Some Seriously Entire Train, K- 1
cept Engine Ran Into the Ditch at '
.Minor.
By Associated Press. 1
Pittsburg, Nov. 30. More than a j
dozen persons were injured, a num- (
oer seriously, oy tne unioniown anu
Pittsburg express train, No. 101, on
the Pensylvania railroad leaving the
rails today at Minor, Pa., and run
ning into the ditch. One passenger,
the baggage master and mail ilerk
are probably fatally murt. The train
consited of a baggage car, mail car.
thre eday coaches and parlor car.
The engine remained on rails.
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J. H. KILGORE
of the soldiers, but said he had them
in a book. He was asked to get the
hook and return.
L,. Gutierrez, who had a tailor
thing small. He did this Uin? or snoD also m ue basement of the
four times. Saw !i:ni pick up some- j DOSt exchange at the time of the raid
thing and then go to theKvall 01 the j testified that he entered the post by
garrison and show what 'i" in 1 oh k-1 lne smau Sate at Elizabeth street
: Mr. Powers can not recall the name
1 of the soldier nor can it be found
j at the bank. The last witness in-
troduced this morning was Mrs. J.
' K. Powers, who testified that she
: was lying on her bed reading when
' the firing began. She listened
awhile, then called her husband, who
i had retired early, telling him that
Associated Press.
Bayreuth, Bavaria, Nov. 30.
Duke Karl Theodor of Bavaria died
today from kidney trouble. He had
never figured prominently in military
or political affairs, but studied med
icine and became famous as an eye
specialist. He maintained several pri
vate hospitals where the poor were
treated free and did much to intro
duce some sort of sanitation in the
homes of the mountaineers. He was
the head of he ducal line or" the Ba
varian house.
J. S. & M. H. GROSS LUMBER CO.
Wholesale and Retail Dealers in
LUMBER, SHINGLES, DOORS, BLINDS
BUILDERS' HARDWARE
Buyers of Hides, Wools, Skins and Produce.
Brownsville, Texas
Office Matamoros. Mex.. Cor. Manuel Gonzales &8thSts.
UP w soiaieis on me oilier M.e i " c lumra ; soMie rs v,.ero phootine rn Browns- .
ll"e Crnr ' B bar- ville. said this because of the i
, i o w lu Ilia biiuu. in u s
Noticed he
iO c-d
were asl'ed bv tie
of the wall
them shells.
No ntient ion-
: . .
Gen. Ynuvu asked th; ' '.--!'
if this testimony had not ; - r to
fore been y resented to the court.
Capt. Howiand said that it hod :.. i:.
but not in suiii detail, nor v. v i.
shown before that empty shells ".
pic ked up in diiferent pla es, o'i.t .
witnesses hau'ng U.-tified th..; '!
were found m one heap. Thin -rory
flatly iontrad:rts that giwn by Capt.
Macklin, regardine the picking up
of the shells.
Former Cliie'" of Police Conner
was the next witness. He testified
that he was in the Cowen alley about
daylight on Aug. 14, 1 306, and saw
an officer near the post wall talking
to; a private with a gun, standing
inside the Avail. He was too far
aW&y to hear what was being said.
Jese Garzo testified that in the
presence of Frank Rabb. Lt. Leckie
and some others, he extracted a bul
let frm a wood post that formally
stood in front of the Crixell saloon
on Elizabeth street. This bullet had
been traced across the street through
stopped by six or seven soldiers and
,'" .i jV 7l VJr," " '. ed to recognize it by constant hear
' sound of thn rifles, which was 3 f a- : . H: Jfc rli St rK t"A i'i iK r!t 5K rS is i'- x
i miliar one to her, she having leain-
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wounded were white.
The next witness was Teofilc
Crixell, who testified that from
August 9 or 10 to 13, he furnished 1
j the Allison-Hollman saloon, which
j was on the corner of 1 Cth and Mad- 1
I ison streets and ran only those few '
I days, with approximately 3000 bot
; ties cf beer and two or three cases ,
of whisky. When Alison and part- 1
ner retired from business, they re-1
turned a couple of hundred bottles 1
of beer and a few bottles of whisky. J
Here County Attorney Goodrich
was sworn and put in evidence a
copy of the license issued to Allison !
and Hollomau which, as Gen. Wil- j
son thought was for malt liquors
only, and not for whisky.
Capt. Howland next introduced i
Mrs. Kate Leahy who was asked ;
concerning conversations with offi- j
cers to which reference has been '
made in previous testimony but .
which have never been put in evi-'
dence and Mrs. Leahy said that the j
reference was to talks she had with ,
ing of the firing at rifle practice.
Mrs. Powers was very positive on '
this point, :
She corroborated her husbanu s :
testimony regarding the clearness of,
the night and the oomersation with,
the colored soldier; also with regard
to the Penrose conversation, which 1
she said, Mr. Powers related t j her I
the same day it occurred.
At rne o'clock the court took a ,
recess until 2:15.
The court concluded its hearings
at rownsville this afternoon at 4:35 I
o'clock and adjourned to meet at;
Washington at a future early date, t
The testimony taken this after-!
noon ill be reported in to wrow't
Herald.
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