Ghost of Chepita Rodriguez Haunts Texas Legend Debated Executed Woman
Historian note Chepita Rodriguez is cited as Texas's only legally executed woman, hanged in 1863. The legend places her ghost walking the Nueces River mesquite, while recent cases show Carolyn Ann Lima and Douglas Ashley sentenced to die for a 1961 murder in Houston.
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San Patricio
Tex
Chepita Rodriguez
Nueces
Chepita
Texas
John Savage
Fred Tones
Houston
Carolyn Ann
Cheptia
Emma Oliver
San Antonio
Coon Rescued From Dormitory Construction Site
On the Texas Tech campus a starving raccoon found shelter in a nearly finished girls dormitory. Larry Easter and workers spotted its eyes in an elevator shaft and captured the animal, now cared for by the crew as it fattened on daily provisions and became a campus curiosity.
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Texas Tech
Larry Easter
Austin
H. A. Lott, Inc
Houston
Easter
Central
East Texas
LCC Plans First Homecoming Weekend Activities
Lubbock Christian College prepares for its first homecoming this weekend with ex-students arriving for a conference basketball game against Frank Phillips Junior College. Saturday features reunions, chapel services, a homecoming luncheon, chorus reunion, a bonfire, pep rally, and the coronation of the first homecoming queen at halftime. A victory reception and chorus performance follow the game, then a devotional to close the events.
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Lubbock Christian College
LCC Pioneers
Frank Phillips
LCC
New Mexico Military Institute
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Maggie Morgan
Huntsville
Joseph Selby
Aransas River
U.S. 77
John Gilpin
American Iron and Metal
Weber Ave
Draughon's Business College
Texas Ave
Chub City
ON Tech
Coon
General Electric
Waring
Winston Blender
Orion
Cole
Westinghouse
Ng Wy
Gale
Diamond Sale
Stan
Ng Wa Ae
Frontier
34Th St
Quaker Ave
Khartoum
Sudan
Velvet
St. Valentine
Furr
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