Marshall acquitted on Ferris bank robbery charge
Marshall Jr. longtime Dallas County sheriff was acquitted on one charge tied to the Ferris bank robbery attempt. A separate Ellis County robbery charge remains. other perjury and contempt warrants arose during the trial. Several witnesses and co-defendants faced related actions as the case moved through court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waxahachie
Texas
Schuyler Marshall Jr
Dallas County
Merchants and Farmers Bank of Ferris
Tom Ball
Marshall
Ellis County
Ferris
Archie Gray
H. W. McBride
Dallas
McBride
Bud Mace
Bob Kelly
Ball
Tom Zachary
Kelly
Roy Thornton
Hebert Scales
Dulles
Tarrant County
Mansfield
SEEKING CLOTHING AND HELP FOR FAMILY ON ROAD
A letter from Mrs. M. A. Phillips requests clothing and gear for a 41 year old mother of eleven including coat size 42 shoes size 5 dresses size 40, gowns, undergarments, hats and a large head size to travel. She asks readers to donate usable items to aid her family and notes her husband works one day weekly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tack
M. A. Phillips
East Third Avenue
Contrasting types in war money to the banks
A letter from a small depositor urged banks to abolish monthly fees for tiny balances and warned that 50 million such depositors hold about 2 billion dollars in cash. The writer, from Lakeview Texas, argues the public will resist bank charges until balances grow.
Purse Lost Between Blocks Near Taylor and Fillmore Streets
A loss report notes a purse left last Monday at 5 pm between Twenty-Ninth Avenue and Taylor Street and Fifteenth Avenue and Fillmore Street. The owner asks for the finder to return receipts and loan book and offers $3.50 for returning the purse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Twenty-Ninth Avenue
Taylor Street
Fifteenth Avenue
Fillmore Street
Readers protest on married women in jobs and politics
A reader argues against using married women in public roles as political bribes, urging plain facts over rhetoric and recalling dire need among families. The letter claims job distribution favors married women for political ends, while urging women to return home and set their houses in order. Tucumcari and Tallulah references frame the piece with regional voices. Three bank robbers in a raid near a city were captured by a posse, pleaded guilty, and headed to a 14 year state penitentiary sentence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. D
Tallulah
Big City
Posse
State Penitentiary
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J. H. Kesterson
Oriental Hotel
Globe
MRS. F. H
Bryant Street
News Globe
Hugh P. Simmons
Jefferson Street
Mike
Dial
Hoover
D. Erwin
Lakeview, Tex
Canyon
R. M. Barton
General Delivery
Telephone
Associated Press
Far East
Strikin
ELDY
J. H. Harris & Sons
N. Fillmore ST
East Tenth ST
Red Aus Mill
Clarion
Colo
Inerpps No
Portales, Ib
Nu Merchant
Supreme Graham
Pecars
Galion
Adc
Hamburger
Johnson
Taylor St
West 6Th Ave
Cudahy’s
C & C Fruit & Produce CO
Celer
Fancy
Tex
SPUD
Western Slope
Fancy Burbank
Michigan
Remier
Os Fom
Orey Txxonamelm
Mission Bell
Pinkney’s
Prunes
Pears Hic
Tite
Plains
Pickles Pricess
Crisco
Pinkney
Cudahy
Oleo
Wisconsin
Fowlkes
Pierce
W. 16Th
West 10Th
Tucumcari
N. M
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