Five Escapees Spook Lockhart Jail. Manhunt Expands
Five convicted inmates sawn through an iron bar wall on the second floor of Caldwell county jail in Lockhart and escaped Friday night. Sheriff Ellison says the group, including Paul A Herring and Ray McMillan, likely headed toward Oklahoma as a nationwide search widens.
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Lockhart
Liberty
Caldwell County
Texas
Southwest
Ellison
Oklahoma
Clay Whittel
Jimmie W. Travis
G. A. Benton
Paul A. Herring
Ray McMillan
McMillan
Paul Herring
Sunday School Leader Guilty of Forgery in Mexia
Mexia April 19. Joseph H. Byers a Mexia attorney and Sunday school teacher was found guilty and sentenced to five years in the penitentiary on forgery charges. He and three others were accused of forging a deed to 4000 acres of land in Houston county near Crockett. E. F. Owens has been convicted and given a similar term. G. T. Gardner got three years.
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Mexia
Joseph H. Byers
Houston County
Crockett
Texas
E. F. Owens
G. T. Gardner
Religious Leader Held On Statutory Charge
Maj. Edward Scott, 50, head of the Christian Army in Hammond Indiana, arrested on a Brownwood Texas warrant charging a statutory offense. Scott was taken in Brantwood after a year on bail following a young woman’s complaint.
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Hammond
Ind
Edward Scott
Christian Army
Brownwood
Texas
Scott
Brantwood
Complex Interactions in a Village Scene and a Savvy Trick
A traveling man returns after 20 years to a village encounter with a clever girl who filches carrots from a wagon. A huckster teases about his horse and a baby on the road prompts a wry exchange. An advertisement touts Lady Margaret creams from Central Drug Adv. Co.
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Lady Margaret
Central Drug Adv
Result, Company
Farm waste bill aims to tap 168 million tons of byproducts
Sen Daniel Steck cites an estimate that 168 million tons of farm wastes are produced yearly but unused, including cornstalks, cotton stalks, straws, sugar cane pulp and tobacco stems. He foresees a future market within five years with $8 per ton paid now, and new synthetic lumber and cork products from these wastes.
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Washington
Daniel T. Steck
O. F. Sweeney
Agricultural College
Ames
Iowa
Spain
Sen. Steck
Former Kaiser weighs attending funeral of Prince Henry
Stemmelmark Germany April 99 Former Kaiser Wilhelm may seek German government permission to attend the funeral of his brother Prince Henry of Prussia who died on Saturday He has not decided his course of action as he remains in exile at Doorn A Berlin Foreign Office spokesman said he would not apply to reenter Germany The Prince Henry household marshal said the late prince had suffered larynx disease for a year but this had been denied until now
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Kaiser
Henry
Stemmelmark
Germany
Kaiser Wilhelm
Prince Henry of
Prussia
Princess Irene
Doorn
Foreign Office
Berlin
Associated Press
Prince Henry
I Can Be a Telephone Operator Says Young Elsie
A mother chastises Elsie for ignoring her calls and Elsie replies she could become a telephone operator. The brief exchange highlights a child’s ambition and the mother's concern.
Conviction of Texas Day Violator Stands
The Supreme Court refused to review William Woodman of Galveston Texas on conspiracy to violate prohibition laws. On his second trial he was fined 1000 dollars and sentenced to one year in the penitentiary for his role in the Watermelon Garden operation. The court held the conspiracy charge as a separate offense and allowed the second trial to stand.
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Washington
Supreme Court of the United States
William Woodman
Galveston
Tex
Woodman
Classroom Banter and Sleepy Student Exchange Arrests Attention
A teacher questions whale flesh and plate bones while a student replies with a wry joke. Another pupil admits sleepless nights keeping them awake, provoking a terse response to bring the issue to the office. The exchanges capture a tense classroom moment with humor and discipline.
Slayer of Garage Man Sentenced to Die May 31
Coleman Texas O C Wells who spent a year on death row at Huntsville State penitentiary was sentenced to die in the electric chair on May 31 by Judge E J Miller here. Wells was convicted of shooting to death J A Mitchell at his filling station and grocery here February 27 1927 and given the death penalty by a jury October 21 1927.
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Coleman, Tex
O. C. Wells
State Penitentiary
Huntsville
E. J. Miller
Wells
J. A. Mitchell
ManWrites For Car Finish Stalled At Rail Crossing
A quote records a humorous exchange between an assistant editor and a motor department editor about advising a man to stall his car at a railroad crossing to seek a better finish, reflecting printroom banter and period tone.
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Our Motor Department
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