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wTexas Sheriff in Group Found I Guilt v of Impress in jcLalxrerso.CORPUS CH HIST I, Ter., Feb,(AP)—Five men, including Sheriff! Raymond Teller of Willacy county, were found guilty of peowuge bj a jury in federal court here tonight,I ITie peonage charges were oust'd w chiefly on testimony of several young* men thut they had been artvted if,. Raymondvtlle, Tex., on vagrancy 1 charges, Jput that instead of beingtried, they I were taken to the cotton , fields nearby and forced to work under an armed guard. Their “fines ’ j I were deducted from their pay along s wdth 75 cents a day for meals, they II said, JII ; According to the story they told in e court .they were taken to the jail fur* , one night but after that they were y I compelled to sleep in a Darn. They* | were unable to get officials to inform* what they were being held for.The case was tried in the United States district court and attorneys for the government alleged that Willacy county hai been made into “aslave market dining the cotton ruck-*• •{ing season^11defense argued that the coun-1inty officers merely believed they were performing a duty in arresting transients who might commit acts of lawlessness. They contended that the county was overrun with a lawless element imported for cotton picking.In addition to Sheriff Raymond Teller, those found guilty were Jus-i tice of the Peace Floyd Dodd, former ' Deputy Sheriff Frank Brandt, former '* j Deputy Sheriff Carl Brandt, and I,.y j K. Stock well, a farmer.Will. .ww im
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Miami News Record
Miami, Oklahoma, US
Sun, Feb 06, 1927
Page 17
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