Jones trial delayed amid scattered courtroom motions
The Jones case faces a delay as defense and prosecution file motions. Court officials report no new dates set, with legal teams citing procedural matters and anticipated evidence presentations.
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Newspaper
Bonham Daily Favorite
Location
Bonham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1930
Page
5
The Jones case faces a delay as defense and prosecution file motions. Court officials report no new dates set, with legal teams citing procedural matters and anticipated evidence presentations.
The senate appropriations committee approved the second deficiency bill passed by the house. It includes 10,660,000 dollars to start work on the Boulder dam. Chairman Jones says he will seek passage of the bill in the senate Tuesday.
Peiping report says northern troops captured 6,000 Nanking Government soldiers after a three day battle. Rebels pursue the federals southeastward, signaling ongoing internal clashes in China.
Pete Magna, 65, was fatally shot after being called to his Dickinson home door by men who then fled in a car. A neighbor heard Magna called. police say the incident is a case of mistaken identity.
W F Sellers found three splendid cotton stalks left at the Favorite office between Saturday sundown and Sunday morning. The stalks bore heavy boll weevil laden dooms and a legend on the back of a First National Bank check stated the cotton came from M L Witchey farm six miles northwest of Honey Grove. The note hints at a larger field and a fortune to be filled in before snow.
Justice Lyndh Cox of Snyders Lake confronts two Troy youths Thomas Campbell and William McDonald looting his larder on June 2. The judge chased them after being awakened by noises on his back porch, stepped on barbed wire and cut his toe, and later arraigned them before another justice who fined each $16.
General J M Carter retired major general and World War I militia leader from Wharton died today following an appendicitis operation. He headed the militia bureau and led the Laylay ette division in the war. Survivors include brother Edwin president of the American Telephone Co of New York.
Three employees of the Oklahoma Publishing Company printing department were killed and three others injured early Sunday when their roadster rear ended a truck loaded with oil drilling machinery five miles east of Oklahoma City. The dead are Robert Muallin Sybil Barnard and A S Davis. Injured: ROW Black and wife and R L Carleton. Barnard formerly of Dallas lived in Dallas and worked for The News and the Sails Times Herald.
The trial of fourteen alleged Sherman rioters charged with burning the courthouse and killing George Hughes was continued to the September term. Judge Pippen refused to reduce the $5,000 bail for each prisoner, with vacation sessions and jury dismissals cited as the reason for the adjournment.
GALVESTON June 23 Eugene Barcus Robey 41 a hotel operator leaped from a six story building the coroner said despondency over financial reverses caused the rash act.
Heinie Manush Sam West and Davis Harris Washington outfielders say shots were fired during Sunday’s game and deny firecracker reports. They describe hearing bullets whine and dirt flying with holes found in the right field wall. Police doubt the story.
Wisconsin committee of inquiry arrived in Harlingen for a two day inspection of Rio Grande Valley land sales. Governor Moody, W G Kinsolving of the Chamber of Commerce and several Texas committee members accompanied the visitors during the visit.
Army CMTC activities at Camp Bullis Texas are aired weekly on KTSA 1200 kHz. Brig Gen Halstead Dorey commands the 2nd Division Fort San Houston with Col Austin Parker as executive officer. The 14th Infantry provides instruction while Lt Herbert A Heagney leads the radio features.
A 31 year old Black man was electrocuted at Rockview penitentiary for the December murder of a policeman in Clester Pennsylvania during a disturbance. The event is reported from Bellefonte Pennsylvania dated June 23.
New York June 28 Dr Henry S Pritchett will retire Aug 1 as president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. He will be succeeded by Dr Henry Cuzzallo former president of the University of Washington. Pritchett has led the foundation for 25 years and has asked to be relieved from active duty.
A mad dog on Wilson Street in Rosenbaum Addition was shot by Deputy Sheriff Tom Moore after the animal convulsed from heat and posed danger. The shooting ending the threat drew remarks about preserving human life over animal life.
A Bronx apartment Sunday chaos as a mistaken wife crashes a seven handed poker game, demanding her husband. Two players flee, one injures a leg and is treated at a hospital, while the supposed wife is not the spouse. Reporters nearby later filed the first U.S. report from the Des Moines Tribune Capital.
Saturday night in Bonham, Jake Myers, a store owner, stopped to help a stranded man with a flat tire when a passing driver struck his horse, throwing the animal and injuring Myers’ shoulder. He was treated at home after the hospital reset his dislocated shoulder and reported ongoing pain.
Melville Davidson, 59, famed for crime mystery tales, died after a two weeks illness in Clarksburg W Va. The report also notes multiple regional developments including a Santa Fe rail line grading from Amarillo to Los Animas, a proposed 2 million highway bond in Gray County Greener 1 2 3, and a 3.5 million bond election pending county wide.
The card reports temperatures around 76 degrees with a mix of partly cloudy skies. Conditions are largely unchanged from the previous day with minor variations and a brief period of rain possible tonight and Tuesday.
The three Hunter brothers reached 280 hours in endurance flight by 8:40 this morning over Chicago. They reported all well in notes dropped to the ground as the latest update on the feat.
NEW HAVEN June 23 Six members of the Raymond Spang family slain when the father threw them over a cliff will be buried together on Tuesday. Neils I Poulson Legion commander condemned veterans hospital officials for laxity after reporting that Spang a former inmate had escaped the day before the killings.
Sunday field checks show corn in good shape with recent rains aiding growth. Farmers urge more rain to fill corn and improve cotton. oats and wheat look promising. Many note the challenge of growing corn oats wheat and cotton in one year and stress the need for funds.
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