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Vuiityat -TJnrtlrr*! rlt;n.L^n;JA. Tex.. July I I.—A Vo due?-. day the seventh day v.‘a consumed in lbo tidal of the Bernard murderer© { and the end was reached. The jury, after being out about twenty minutes.■ returned a verdict of guilty of murder in the firsi degree in 1-rank Holland's ; ease and affixed the death peuaity. j The prisoner did not item much affected, On his tv ay from the court house to the jail ho remarked, :iitar-. eutly in a. spirit of bravado. ■ \Ai any rate, they can't eat me. lie i'equflsted Deputy .-heriff Mediam m shoot him after their arrival at the j:uh Holland when put on the stand , made a foil confession. s:i\ing that lie | himseif shot me two (.Vavejs and old ; man Smith and that Jerome Baker ; was guilty only as an accessory. He claimed tha: lie and thu three dead men engaged in a quarrel and when one of them attempted to draw a knife he -hot them aii. three in quick ■ succession, but Tnat all o: them Wero ,attempting to draw weapons. When asked why they mutilated the bodies, fie said that Baker eat olT the head 01 Jim lt;Yvey and then they doomed it would be easier to plant him if rut up. The evidence adduced tends to contradict Holland's statement in part,oht.v.bjm9I*illor the mass of bedding and au«'eu fj.clothes taken from the possessionoit::e cnmuuhs are soaked with blood, which argues that inn men were :1] killed as they siept. The skull of sieve Cravcv was crushed as though with an ax. The attorneys fori he ue-fen-e have announced their in ten tie of muring for a now hearing,■*/Pimki:\ lt;de-OimianSi'rioiifi lauiuivay IcrlUrnt,Foist Woktii. T«x., Juiy !•]. - Vos-.erda.y evening a part\ ui yuung peo-de, consisting of Mail Bedl :inu= Ahr* L'ollie Cox. liariy Alexander and v! ULss Mary Hatiimcr, t-Uiic- out riding n a two-seated surrey mm with a erious aeriximu. A no tit- two m.ies rom the southeastern limits o: the ■hy the horses oceanic nn in a nag cubic aid ran away. In enaca\or:ng to top them the lines broke and the • .,j •ecu pan is of the carriage leaped -n ur. Miss Cux received a severe collusion on the right side of her head, ad the physicians say her conuilion i precarious- Miss Lattiinor is serins ly bruised. Yunucr B'T received everai suvc-rc bruises wnke Aiu.-.ms-er was knocked. hi-ensibic. .Sotne no picked him up on tim road and p,ri rought him into town. His parents n*i the police have thus far faded io '-j no him and the supposition is thai he • in a strange, place rli'i unconscious rul it u aim: lo make known his tpMi [entity. yIllsthlt; I: ii'.(10\I heA Fall In lien lit.Horsrox. Tex., July I'A Vosier-ty mu ruing about b o'clock a gun-omun tirinlt;r ni»vr. /inr»' 1*1 t bo I .Anr-lit!ml
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San Saba County News
San Saba, Texas, US
Fri, Jul 22, 1892
Page 2
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