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• International ;NeWs^y.and Uni-.’ versa!; Serf ice ; Dispatches Appear ■’Exclusively iri. 'Tho Light--THEIGHTMO ME...Member of the Associated Press A Constructive Force In the Community;SATURDAY, AUGUST 21, 1937.. FOURTEENPAGES. -muRUP P'R’.'NPTQ Per copy-in the city and-viniclly.L-rUIN 1 £i Fiy* centa on. trains and elsewhere.SHELLED IU\ . COMBATBEliEN 10 DE1IH K S1Attacked and Slain in Hospital' ........ ~ SLAIN M’SChiiok Burns Quizzed After Neighbor Tells Police of Seeing Fight,Presumably beaten to death dur-ig a weird moonlight bailie for life, the bloody body ot Samuel W. Craigle, 69, a marine engineer, wa3 found early Saturday partly concealed by shrubbery in front of an apartment house at 721 Lexington avenue. • -Police believe the death struggle occurred some hours earlier In the rear yard of n house at 114 East Euclid avenue, as Mrs. Mary Campbell, 11Q East Euclid avenue, Informed them she saw two men fighting tliere at that time. Detectives also found several pools of blood in the yard. ’TWO QUESTIONED Two occupants of the 114 Euclid avenue home were taken Into custody by police for questioning. They are Chuck Burns, 20. an ex-prize fighter, and Miss Babe North. US. Burns, whose real name la VonHou-ton was a widely known llghL-ieavy-welght a decade ago. Both he and Miss North.denied knowledge of the murder.Police were unable to determine the exact cause ot death, althoughQuizzed fn slaying. • lng. It Is believed he- was slair the Euclid avenue yard and the! carried to Lexington avenue dumped-into the shrubbery,J- O. McNab, 816 West Hu: place, a brother-in-law, ldenti Craigie’s body at the Rlebe Pun home,. He said Craigle arrived Sah Antonio late Friday night 1 Mexico and telephoned him slit before 2 a, m. Saturday, saying desired to talk to him. McNab police he advised Craigle to see in the morning. He described murdered man ns an engineer siding in New Orleans.PASSERBY FINDS BODY Ah unidentified pedestrian saw body concealed in the shrubl’er front of the apartment house called District Fire Chief Ed Mr ler at 3tntion No. 4, Mecliler la t notified police.- The murder victim's clothing damp, indicating (be body had I placed in the shrubbery juior I a. m„ when a. light rain fed.Mrs. Campbell fixed the horn the death struggle she wUnesset sometime after i a. m.” It presi ably took place between 2 a. m., hour Craigle called his brother-law, olid the shower at 5 a. m., lice declared.The housewife told detectives 1 her bedroom window overlooks rear yjird ol the Burns lioAie. was Rwakened,several times by ai mobiles coming to the house aro midnight, biit dropped off to e; again.Sounds ot a struggle In the j awakened her a Hi ltd time, she formed police, and she arose looked out of the window.WOMAN SAW FIGHT.. -Two wen were fighting, one them apparently clad only In. underwear,. she. declfl red, Flnarly of tlie combatant.? went down . failed to get up. Then she heard antagonist scream:. ,-Get. up, Q-rt d--n yon. gel-1: \ Believing she. merely wilneaee(Continued op Mi }t OoLii _41
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San Antonio, Texas, US
Sat, Aug 21, 1937
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