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GRAND JURY AND JURY PANELSELECTED TODAY FOR ACTIONBANK ROBBERY CHARGESJudge Ben Boyd To Convene Grand Jury Saturday to Pass On Cases Of Raymond Hamilton And Companion, Brooks.A special grand jury panel was being summoned today, to convene here Saturday morning and pass on the charges which County Attorney Judge Gambill will present, naming Raymond Hamilton and Ted R. Brooks as robbers of the First Natioanl Bank of Lewisville Wednesday.A called session of District Court i was formally opened Thursday by Judge Ben IW. Boyd.Friday morning Boyd named J. C. Colt of Denton, J. E. Bradley cf Justin and G. B. Moffltt of Pilot Point to act as a ju.y commission and select a grand jury panel of 16 names and a jury panel of 150names.Trial Date UncertainJust when a trial for either or both of the two men arrested two hours after the robbery could be held here remained uncertain Friday.Boyd sakl his court, now in session at Gainesville, faced a fairly heavy civil docket setting at present,* and when the criminal docket is opened in two weeks will have three murder cases in addition to the other criminaltrials to £?posc of.When Dallas officials promised to have Hamilton’s trial begin there Monday, Denton County officials agreed that he be taken there for trial first. But with a later announcement from the Dallas district attorney’s office that they would wait at least 10 days before seeking trial, while they prepared the state's case, there was opened a new possibility—that DentonCounty might seek the trial Tierebefore that in Dallas.Hamilton had been taken to Dallas by Sheriff G. C. Cockrell inCockrell’s machine Wednesday night, after a brief halt here, after the two fugitives were arrested at Howe, Grayson County. Brooks, 21-year-old Wichita Falls youth-MCity Awaits RailBody Decision OnGas Hike RequestThe City of Denton marked timeFriday to sec what the State Railroad Commission would do with an appeal for higher domestic gas rates here .a request filed at Austin Thursday as the latest move in the local rate controversy. Previous steps had been:The city passed an ordinance lowering rates here from 75 cents per 1,000 cubic feet to 50 cents.The eas company alleged the Jcwer rate would amount to confiscation of its porperty and secured a restraining order while the matter of state-wide transportation lines was Investigated by the Railroad Commission engineers. The rail findings caused the body to order an eight-cent reduction in the gas rates at the city gate— this likewise is at present enjoined from taking effect until threshed out in the courts state and Fed-lt;ltU’ Hearing HeldMeanwhile Railroad Commission examiners came here and conducted a hearing, in which the city sought to show* the rates allowed in the new local ordinance would give the Denton gas system a fair(return on its investiment. The gascharged as Hamilton’s accomplice, | c°mpany heads and heads of itswas placed in the county Jail here. Brooks Questioned HereThursday afternoon Brooks was questioned by Gambill and Cockrell, in the county attomeyls office. He talked freely as to his movements the several day's preceding the Lewisville robbery, during which time he and Hamilton werq bumming around.’’ but would not discuss in detail the robbery itself nor. especially, Hamilton’s share in the job.He said he stayed outside in the car, with the engine running, while Hamilton went inside. When Hamilton came out. Brooks drove to the edge of town, he said, and from there Hamilton took the wheel.The youth wouldn’t answer dl-i rect questions as to whether he or i the notorious Dallas desperados,I fcrmer companion of Clyde Bar- row, had first planned the job.i but said it occurred to them aboutfive minutes” before it was executed.I don’t think I ought to sit 1 here and try to lay anything on t Raymond, he said, “and I don’t 1 think he’s trying to lay anything ; cn me down there (at Dallas).Declines to SignBrooks’ statement wrere typed out, but he declined to sign them^ I afterward.“No. I don’t want to sign any-* thing,” he said.The youth, clad in a dark shirtparent corporation, the Lone Star, claimed the Denton plant aemed less than one per cent on investment last year and unless rates were increased faced actual operation under cost in future.For that reason they appealed to the Citv Commission to be al- ‘ lowed a new* sliding rate scale, j $1.75 for the first 1.000 cubic feet of gas, reducing the per-1,000 rate as more gas was used. Seeking to avoid further entanglements in their legal war on the ordi- ! nance, the commission refused to consider it until the rail hearing was completed.Request Denied HereFollowing tliat hearing, theyheard the request and denied it.The gas company has now* appealed t to the railroad body and Thursday the status was at that stage. JJohn Speer, member of the legal firm of Speer and Minor, which the city retained as counsel In the fight on rates heard before the rail examiners, pointed out Friday that it might be the Railroad Commission would seek an agreement to consolidate the city’s appeal for lower rates and the company's request for higher rates, so that their decision would settle both matters at once. It is anticipated, however, that either side which loses its appeal will throw the question in court.j open at the collar and in trousersINCH OF SNOW FALLS AT DUMAS1 I*0™ ll?e of which metal + AMARILLO. April 27.—lt;/P— ♦. buckle had been renioved by offl- + An inche of snow fell at Du. +- ccrs after his capture, appeared 4, mas 45 mne5 north of Amaril- ♦? nervous but spoke readily in re- 4. lo, iast nIght. A report of the ♦p sponse to questions about his 4. snow was received by the Santa ♦1 movements the three days he was 4 pg dispatcher's office here. ♦. with Hamilton preceding the rob- 4. Scattered flakes fell in Am- +a bery. 4. arillo shortly before 9 a. m. ♦He said he went to Fort Worth from Dallas, riding the rods on f a train, and at the train-yards at i Fort Worth met Hamilton. They e stayed together, catching a train e that carried them to , Denison- (where they were run out of the 1, yards by a man) and later came- back to Fort Worth. From there they caught a train, bound fory Wichita Falls, Brooks said, but stopped at Henrietta and therewillsays-99SANTA MONICA, Cal. April 27,picked up the car in which they Japan, you got to admire ’em, theya drove back to Denton and to Lew-15 itville.n Asked if Hamilton revealed hii* l® identity, the youth said:“Yes, he told me when we were }’ riding a train he was Hamilton, but I didn't believe him at first. I thought Hamilton was an older fellow than that.it?eit?|are so ambitious, and they just got everything that all the other nations have, but a sense of humor. Their papers took great satisfaction and glee, and screamed it in headlines, “The American fleet can’t get through Panama Canal in 24 hours.” They never figure that the si*e of the fleet might have something to do with it.
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Denton Record Chronicle
Denton, Texas, US
Fri, Apr 27, 1934
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