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Newspaper
Austin American
Location
Austin, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1949
Page
5
Mrs Crow recounts a party at the Pioneer Club on Burnet Road to celebrate Buck Roper's second marriage. She says Roper drank heavily and later pulled a pistol and rifle in a confrontation with Crow, who was shot as he fled. The defense rests after her testimony.
Harris County Sheriff Buster Kern vowed to arrest the two big shots in the gambling circuit by Friday. He planned to present the case to the grand jury and said the ringleaders had been identified after nine raids uncovered a race track wire servicing downtown gaming rooms and bookmakers. Bookies reportedly used long distance telephone to obtain race results for patrons.
Houston authorities questioned seven merchant seamen in the death of Arne Enholm a 40 year old Finnish sailor. Enholm was found dead after being shot in the abdomen and slashed on the scalp aboard the Lykes freighter Thomas Jefferson whose pay wallet reportedly containing about 500 dollars was missing.
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