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Charles Brogdon, 19, Captured By Ri,es For Mr- JwdRanger Purvis And Edwards SheriffHoffman, 67, MondayDor Brown Early Monday In HotelIn Center PointThe grim game of hide-and-seek for gangly Charles Sanderson Brogdon, 19-year-old self-styled “See More Kid,” which had led Texas Rangers, State Patrol and Hill Country Peace officers on a concerted man-hunt for the past two weeks and promised to blossom into more serious patterns of other Southwestern desperados, came to a peaceful end when Texas Ranger L. H. Purvis and Edwards County Sheriff Dor Brown sui prised the youngster as he slept in a Rocksprjngs Hotel shortly after midnight Sunday.The officers captured the young fugitive on the tip of 12-year-old Rodney Balentine, grandson of hotel owner A. L. Balentine, who identified Brogdon from a photograph displayed by Sheriff Brown as the man he had checked into the hotel about 11 o’clock Saturday night.The arrest was made without violence as the officers entered the room with a pass key while Brogdon was asleep. A pistol was on a nearby table.The young bandit which had authored an uneasy trail of terror through Gillespie, Kendall, Bandera and Kerr Counties and who had left his trademark of dirty dishes, disheveled homes and smashed windows and doors in summer homes and camps of the area, appeared relieved that his latest escapade had ended. He was brought to the Kerr County jail early Monday morning, and after a few hours rest and a goodbreakfast stated that he was glad that it was over.He told a Times’ representativethat he had been treated very kindly by the Kerr County officers and by all the officers with whom he had come in contact.When asked if he had killed the three State Prison bloodhounds from Harlem Farm during a close brush with pursuing officers in the rough country near Hunt in the darkness of Easter Sunday morning, he mumbled, “I guess I did,” and became non-committal on further details of his phantomlike activities.Like a great many such cases, Brogdon’s clashes with the lawstems from a deplorable background of a broken home. He doesn’t know where his father is, and his mother died when he wasFuneral services for Mrs. Fred G. Hoffman, 67, beloved Center Point woman who died at herBrogdon’s latest escapade be- | home- Saturday, were held from ran about six weeks ago near | the Center Point Christian ChurchStonewall in Gillespie County where he took a rifle and a pistol from the O. J. Duderstadt ranch, where he was employed. Moving“SEE MORE KID”•a .nr • •.*.*.*mmMonday afternoon at 3 o’clock with the Rev. R. C. Tolbert, Jr., rector of St. Helena’s Episcopal Church of Borne, officiating. Interment was in the Center Point Cemetery under direction of the Smith Funeral Home. Graveside rites were in charge of Center Point Eastern Star Lodge.Mrs. Mary W. Hoffman was born in Fredericktown. Missouri, August 10, 1885. She had assisted her husband in the operation of a grocery store in Center Point for 24 years.Palbeafers were Guy James, C. E. Shakleford, Rogers McCoy, Henry Wellborn, Earl Wellborn and Edward Malochleb.Survivors include her husband, Fred G. Hoffman of Center Point; a brother, Gus T. Stichnothe of Jonesboro, Ark.; two sisters, Miss Annie Stichnothe of Jonesboro. Ark., and Miss Sophye Stichnothe of Center Point.Mrs. P. G. MaerckySuccumbs In HoustonThe many Hill Country friends of Mrs. P. G. Maercky will regret to learn of her death Sunday afternoon in a Houston Hospital. Funeral services were held this morning in Houston from the George A. Lewis Funeral Home and interment was in Houston.Mrs. Maerky of Houston and Kerrville had returned to Houston from her Kerrville homewith Mr. Maercky soon after the first of the year following complications from an illness of several years’ duration. When in Kerrville they resided at 316 West Main Street. The couple had divided their time between Houston and Kerrville for the past twelve years.Besides her husband the deceased is survived by three children: Mrs. John Belton and Mrs. Al Tyler of Houston and Wayne Maercky, and nine grandchildren.CHARLES S. BROGDONHenry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote “There was a little girl and she had a little curl right in the middle of her forehead.”i \a u „f;*uiinto Kendall county, he is saidonly five years old. He 1vid with (() have (aken a horse an(J muved^.6.ra._dT,|;!rJ I mto Bandera county, liv.n, onthe fruits of his foraging excursions in homes of absentee own-ers. One time on the north prongfew years and then struck out on his own. He became familiar with the Hill Country during twoyears he lived on a ranch near medina R he wag gur_Bandera several years ago. That M.ini, n hvwas before he orushtri ^ -• thorities the first time and was r. u.usent to the correctional institution at Gatesville. He displayed some signs of his cunning by breaking out of the Gatesville school.Mr. and Mrs. Zurkle. He held the couple at bay with his pistol and bolted into the underbrush.Constable Lee Smith of Bandera County got the boy a roomThe’likeable, easy going six- in Medina one night, and alsofoot-plus lad led officers yesterday on a collecting tour to recover several guns he had cached away whvh belonged to owners of the home he is suspected to have burglarized.helped secure a job for the fugitive on a ranch, but he left posthaste when* he feared discovery of his identity, and that was when he headed into Kerr County.The H. E. B. Lodges on TurtleAlseenTeacsaidwas by c at KLcKeried 1speelady‘fairshipTiChakno’byantsSjandvillceditCreek was among the first places he visited and damaged and then others followed in rapid fire order. After the bloodhound-killing incident during which time officers were within a few yards of the boy, he broke into the Hall Camp on the Tom Moore place and took a gun.He told Ranger Purvis how he watched the officers in the Easter morning darkness from a deep cedar thicket, and when asked what he would have done if he had been discovered, indicated that he would have gone all the way.useeplyKer ucai B abo tern law of 1 to ;L“vaTS1TerMr. and Mrs. Gus Sproul of Mountain Home were Kerrville shoppers Monday.sca$
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Kerrville Daily Times
Kerrville, Texas, US
Tue, Apr 14, 1953
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