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Death and murder trials across Texas and Houston
State news covers a fatal crash near Commerce Texas when W W Sparks was killed by a southbound motor car at a crossing. Sparks was 25, son of J I Sparks of Saltillo and a former East Texas Teachers College student who taught west of town. In Houston a jury convicts George Vexanat of murder in the death of Louise Floquet and sentences him to life in prison, while the prosecutor sought the death penalty and described him as a "greatest four flusher."
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Commerce
Texas
W. W. Sparks
Texas Didland
J. I. Sparks
Saltillo
East Texas Teachers’ College
Houston
Tex
George Vexanat
Louise Floquet
Andrew Simmmons
Russell Wolters
Earle Adams Jr
Vexenat
Vexnat