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ICITY MACHINEitesan-TALK UNTRUEJPk*omRUNYON SAYSI »re?leyCity Manager Denies‘••o ‘Jobs For Votes’ttlcme BROWNSVILLE — CityManager Robert Runyon,Par testifying in his $50,000 libel in* suit against two Valley pub-»eyigs.lishinjr companies, Saturdaydenied he had sent anybodyi\o\pd-to offer Prudencio Hinojosaa city job.iRunyon told a Jury in 103rd D»s-* trict Court that an affidavit signed by Hinojosa, former city watch*l,te man. was “untrue He testified hehad not sent Alex Champion, city policeman and poundrmster, to see Hinojosa, and that he had not sentanybody else.“I never promised anybody a job for a vote in my lif.V* Runyon saidnltfff«* Is CalledThe Brownsville city manager was still on the stand Saturday af-trrnoon when Judge James S. Graham called a recess at the end ofthe second dav of the trial. At thatriWr iiV'. • ■ .~T''V':TT\ ■ T ■ : : n'•: ; “ 33 J. g|t me he had been testifying for 1 an hour and 25 minutes on directta5 examination by one of his attor-1 1[r‘* neyi, R A. Hightower. Associated ‘n* with Hightower in Runyon's case 1 are Noble G. Cofer of Brownsvilleliliesis-and R. E. Cofer of Austin. !Runyon will take the stand again !Monday morning, when trial is re- :sumed. for cross-examination by 1Rufus Ransome and H. L. Yates, ' defense counsel. |1^ I The city manager was the 14th !r'~ witness to appear Saturday. His ,a* testimonv climaxed an eventful dav • in the suit, outgrowth of the April, 1938. schooiboard election. Fre- * quent clashes between opposing ‘5* counsel and a sudden stop in thetl* proceedings when a half dozen 'witnesses could not be immediately r f%r located, punctuated the otherwise r%' steady procession of plaintiffs evi- ' ^ dence and testimony, ian’ Damages Are Claimedn! Runyon contends he was damag- *(\ed by certain material published in the Brow ns\ ille Herald and the f be Sunday Star-Monitor-Herald, at * the height of the schoolboard elee-ax tton. The defense maintains thers matter published constituted fair T* and just comment. *The Hinojcsa affidavit was trac- c *1* ed from one person to another dur-°Y ing the day as witnesses revived s *y the exciting election campaigns of 1937 and 1938 A number of public ^ officials, former officials, and ex- { °Y candidates for public office were in t h- the courtroom. In addition to trac-sJOf^ ing the affidavit, the plaintiffs °Y counsel completed what was term- r ed “establishment of trtfc owner- aship*’ of the publishing companies ^ involved in the suit jManv Are Questionede Bes ides Runyon, the witnesses ^le who appeared Saturday were: n„r H. R. Hudson. Brownsville.^ J. M. Stein. Brownsville, editor of p . * the Brow nsville Herald pFrank Walker. Brownsville. nsecretary of the two publishing 5 companies in the suit, and employe j, of H. R Hudson. j %\I Antonio Tamayo Jr.. clerk in the p ts office of the Brownsville independ-lt ent School District. hJ. P. Maher, secretary of the a Brownsville Independent School pDistrict | iij Ramon Munoz. Brownsville, no- • 0tary public before whom the Hino- s josa affidavit was executed. IAlex Champion, Brownsville hcity p*! r'-man and poundmaster. o ? Roy Tait. Edmuch. defeated can- n 5- didatr m the 1938 school election. I h - George Mansur. Brownsville, p“d secretary of the Brownsville Hous- “i•« f*i» t. €•!. ?» tiera-t-idre*d■ r
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Valley Sunday Star-Monitor-Herald
Brownsville, Texas, US
Sun, Oct 15, 1939
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