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SLAIN Mi'Chuck Bums Quizzed After Neighbor Teils Potice of Seeing Fight.Presumably beaten to death during a weird moonlight battle for life, the bloody body ot Samuel W. Craigle, 69, a marine engineer, wa3 found early Saturday partly concealed by shrubbery in front of sn apartment house at 721 Lexington avenue. • *Police believe the death struggle occurred some hours earlier in the rear yard of a house el 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, 29. an ex-prlze ffghfer, and Miss Babe North. 28. Burn?, whose real name In VnnMou-ton wbs a widely known llght-reavy-welght a decade ago. Both he and Miss North.denied knowledge ot the murder.Police were unable to determine the exact cause ot dcnth, although bruises on tlie head indicated that Craigle had,Buffered a severe beot-fjitUCK. HURNa.Quizzed in slaying. 'Ing. It is believed he-was slain in the Euclid avenue yard and tho body carried to Lexington avenue and dumped-Into the shrubbery,J. G. McNab, 818 West Russell place, a brother-in-law, Identified Cralgie's body at the Riebe Funeral home.. He said Craigle arrived in San Antonio late Friday night from Mexico and telephoned him shortly before 2 a, m. Saturday, saying he desired to talk to him, McNab told police he advised Craigle to see him in the morning. He described the murdered man as an engineer residing in New Orleans.PASSERllV FINDS ROD IT An unidentified pedestrian saw the body concealed in the slmibljery In front of the apartment house and called District Fire Chief Ed Mech-ler at 3tation No. 4, Mecliler In turn notified police.- The murder victim's clothing was damp, indicating the body had been placed in the shrubbery piior to S a. m„ when a. light rain fed.Mrs. Campbell fixed the hour of the death struggle she witnessed at sometime after l a. m.” It presumably took place between 2 a. hi., the hour Craigle called his brother-in-law, and the shower at 5 a. m., police declared.The housewife told detectives thafc her bedroom window overlooks the rear yjird of the Burns koAie. She was awakened.several times by automobiles coming to the house around midnight, biit dropped off to sleep again.Sounds ot a struggle In the yard awakened her a third time, she informed police, and she arose and looked out of the window.WOMAN S.4W FIGTIT,Two wen were fighting, one of them apparently clad only In. . hi* underwear,.she.declared. Fiimrly on* of the combatants went down and failed to get up. Then she heard hij antagonist scream:. ‘•Get. up, O-ii d--n you. gel' up. 'Believing she. merely witnessed *.(ConUnutd, op Fag* i, Ml,'to _
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San Antonio Light
San Antonio, Texas, US
Sat, Aug 21, 1937
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