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y »*.*lt;* 'A*For AllDepartmentsOf The Record**lt;• f. w wm-s*Dial S-3131V *«GOX’VtC .0 taa#li'-F'i,;* •••'■:. .A- lt;HA NEWSPAPER REFLECTS ITS COMMUNITY”TheSOUTH CTartly clotnSaturday a noon and i*r«. Not mua hires.VOL. 69—NO. 153• • •JURY SAYS INSANEIIMAN ACCUSEDOF MURDER BEHOSPITALIZEDKarnes County Court JuryDecides Fate Thursday AfternoonAUGUST STYRAAugust Styra, 38 year old Kurnes and DeWitt county farm* er, accused tri tin* alleged murder of ail elderly Garfield couple In !l)50, Thursday was adjudged “criminally insane by a Karnes County Grand Jury and ordered placed In the state hospital for Hie criminally insane at KtisU, Texas.Whether or not August Styra, 38-year-old Karnes county farmer was guilty of bludgeoning Erwin Richter, 67, and his sister, Miss Emma Richter, 65, on the night of June 21st, 1956, and then set fire to their home in the little community of Garfield, may never be known . * not even in the mind of Styra himself*Accused of the crime but never indicted, and held in jails in De-Witt and Karnes County for almost a year, Styra once confessed to a Record representative that he committed the crime . • . and two weeks laterrepudiated it. jThursday he was adjudged criminally insane by a jury in District Court at Karnes City and ordered confined in the hospital for the criminal insane at Rusk, Texas.The case was one of the most puzzling in the annals of crimeCUERO, TEXAS, FRIDAY, JUNE 28. 1957. • V • • • ■» ' — ; i ■ • - -VTHEY'RE GREAT SHAKES FOR THIS HARVESTf*-a*. .»??■*[■%, ■.. . r’.. i \ 4-V ’ ;. v:jlv. ft*■^4 VO.• * ' - H';; •’ ;v to*b.Vrk'1hr.tK'•ft-/1iWt ..ihiftA-it:i.tv*vv-* *-» . iKVfHftjrt, • «.a.; ;) -*'lt; •4•-i'- iY ?* ^ ir / A-1-j 'i V'V;V- V rr? r.«1j IT.'-. *. »i 1 ■ ■ • . ‘ J ?.r'T; W; ■• . * i \ 1 . XI • vl■'.ft. iv?•».■' ’/i j-.' - -I lt;■i**%■', \i$ • ^* -Vp;' . . i'v-G-v-v'-I/eXl ■’ 4 ' • V-VR. O f . IH-J•*rlt;‘ 'k- t • 't' if' ' '' ■ ‘ -: ‘i-r. v-1 .*5 V ■ •V,’rfi%’SiV..« 'lt; i-■ , \. i ; •S?4.6 PAG100-Mile TraDeathLeft;87Lost In OneBULLETINWASHINGTON, June 28 (UP)-La., weather bureau official report) the weather bureau emergency cenl 200 to 300 persons were dead In the ^ and Creole, l.a., In the wake of llurLAKE CHARLES La , June 28 (I drey's deadly sweep through the d' of Louisiana left a 100-mlle trail o missing today. The full extent of t be known for days.Cnpl. iAUDREY ADDSTNOTE TOTEXAS LOSSESHurricane Tops Off Season Of WeatherDisastersHy LLOYD I.AHUAISKK United I'rcNfli Staff Corrn9(K)ndentAUSTIN, Tex., June 28. ^(UP)Hurricane Audrey added n footnote to n death-dealing disaster season In Texas which lias seen virtually every natural catastrophe .strike the state this year except vulcanic eruptions and earthquakes.Drought, floods, tornadoes, hailstorms, blizzards and now a hur-wns ng town thatthe Louissons wer missing t A l.nkt | bureau ot! in Washir dead arm [,n.The Rewhich isftron, rei ing, butactJy wh ered.Major TiIt was were kill jured In! fore repc began todrmvnedAs th through t along the it tore df power Ur ter the k? '
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Cuero Record
Cuero, Texas, US
Fri, Jun 28, 1957
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