CROWN POINT MOTHER ADMITS POISONING FIVE KIDS
Crown Point Ind April 18 A mother Anna Cas ingham 49 confessed to poisoning five of her children during six years driving to hospital. She claimed she acted to join their father and said she feared dying and wanted to take them with her. Exhumed bodies and arson investigators linked to arsenic in earlier husband and two sons. She denied poisoning husband and one son who survived. Authorities pressed her case as she recovered from a coma and spoke to reporters.
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Crown Point
Ind
Anna Casingham
Isabelle
Charles
P. Walter
David
Chicago
Harry
Mae
Brent
Walter
Deremie
A‘ Néy
Robert BE
Crowe Snd
John 8
Tharp
Nathan Leopold
Richard Loeb
Snebert Franks
Aeriff Benjamin H. Strong
Missaureen McKernan
Chicago Newspo Rt
Kam
Peligerent Inhiber Subdued After Court Fine
A Brin town youth faced a $25 fine for intoxication in a local corporation court. Policeman Bill Hobbs described the altercation as the defendant reached toward the officer and threatened action against the force. The defendant was remanded to jail in lieu of payment.
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Dudge John F. Onion’s Corporation
Brin
Bill Hobbs
Deaths Held By Woman In Five Poisoned Children
A Chicago widow, Mrs. Cunningham, confessed to poisoning five of her children between 1920 and 1923 with arsenic in bread and butter sandwiches. She described motive tied to joining her husband in Heaven and claimed insurance funds were spent on medical and funeral bills. Her daughter Mae was kept away during questioning.
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Sandwich
Walter
Barrys
Isabelle
Harry
Charles
A. A. Watts
Gars
Ind
David Sr
David Jr
Bob Murray
Tom
Cunningham
Murray
Mae
San Antonio Good Will Junket Reaches 23 Towns
A San Antonio good will trade trip concluded its last day visiting 23 towns from Beeville to Eagle Lake and Palacios. Drought spared crops, cotton tall, corn two feet high, grass and small grains green. Supper at Wharton by Chamber of Commerce, El Campo band show, A H O Clad parades with orange and blue umbrellas. Visitors viewed Gulf Texas sulphur mining and rice fields, with tractors plowing flooded fields and steam‑driven sulphur processing demonstrated.
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Palacios
Tes
San Antonio
South Texas
Beeville
Eagle Uake
Wharton
Hungerley
Rosenberg
Richmond
Girl Allowed Bail On Liquor Charge
Josephine, the first woman to appear in district court on a charge of operating an automobile while intoxicated, was released on $10 bail Thursday by Judge William Anderson after habeas corpus proceedings. She testified she rode with two drunken men who could not drive, and she was compelled to drive to avoid wrecking the car. She pleaded, I meant no wrong, and I have little children who need me.
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Josephine
Ann
William §. Anderson
Canroja
St Hom
Mystery of Dollie Hickox Case Probed by Police Board Bill Baby Involved
The case ties Dollie Hickox to a missing child amid a confusing chain. A man named Gibson took a baby girl for adoption while a separate board bill baby vanished from a Negro woman's house on South San Saba. Investigators seek the mother in St. Louis and the missing father in hopes the adopted child is Dollie Hickox.
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Pelled
Dollie Hickox
Gibson
Bill Baby
Houston
St. Louis
San Saba Street
Lottie Starch
Poverty Stricken Wife Pleads. Judge Frees Husband
In Thirty-seventh district court Judge William B. Anderson heard the plea of Mrs. Duran, a poverty-stricken mother of five, for her husband Elias Duran who faced burglary theft and assault charges. Moved by the scene, the judge released Duran on his own recognizance to support the family as his trial neared.
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William 8. Anderson
Duran
Tudee Anderson
Officials elected to Exposition board in drive for site
The International Exposition organization elected Mrs. Beretta and Jack Burke to its directorate to lead the permanent staff machinery for financing and site work. The drive to raise funds continues with more donors sought, aimed at surpassing half the 300000 goal to secure the exposition site and begin constructing a race track and grandstand.
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Ke Berétta
Ghear
Waite
J. A. Wurzbach
Vocational Expert Praises San Antonio Schools
J C Wright of the Federal Board of Vocational Education praised San Antonio schools for strong vocational education while traveling to Port Arthur. He noted limited site visits but said education should blend with labor and stressed public school vocational focus during talks with refinery groups and in other cities.
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San Antonio
J. C. Wright
Federal Board of Vocational Education
Port Arthur
Sidney Lanier
Wright
Cleveland
Little Rock
Austin
Fiesta Week to Blossom in San Antonio at Dawn
San Antonians will see a city aglow with bunting flags and decor as Fiesta week begins with decorations planned and ready. Skilled decorators start work Sunday night, and a Fiesta Association board meeting at the Gunter Hotel will finalize preparations at 7 30 Thursday evening.
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San Antonians
San Antonio
The
Fiesta Association
Gunter Hotel
Hold Four In Dallas Auto License Plot
Dallas April 16 charges of conspiracy to duplicate automobile highway tax license receipts purportedly signed by the Dallas county tax collector were filed in a peace court against Joe Jenkins Liz Earp Alec Earp and Burnie Earp. The four men were arrested after a printing establishment was ordered to print 500 similar receipts.
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Dallas
Joe Jenkins
Liz Earp
Alec Earp
Burnie Earp
Bengis to Speak on Wandering Jews at Mainavened Synagogue
Rabbi Abraham Bengis will discuss The Wandering Jews at the Mainavened Synagogue Friday night. Rabbi B Wade of Fort Worth will address Saturday morning on Strange Fire. Louis A Freed, president of the Texas Zionist Association, cannot attend from Houston.
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Bengis
Abraham
B. Wade
Fort Worth
Louis A. Freed
Texas Zionist Association
Houston
Judge Sets Bond for Youth at Fifteen Hundred Dollars
Harvey Philips, 17, held on a statutory charge connected with the alleged abuse of a 15 year old girl. Bond set at 1500 dollars by Judge W. W. McCrory in Ninety-fourth district court. arraigned before Justice Ban Fink and remanded to district court for trial.
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Harvey Philips
Aday
W.w. McCrory
Young Philling
Justice of the Peace
Fink
District Court
Three Alex Jailed After Singing Lay
Brown Alex Dick and Aky Stephens, known as the three singing Alecs, practiced downtown and were fined by Judge John F. Onion in municipal court after carolers drew police attention. Police officer Mike Live detained them, and they were brought to the station for questioning.
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Alees
Alex
Brown
Alex Dick
Aky Stephens
Mike
Friends Bond Out Two Women Prisoners
Two young women, Mabel Brown and Mary De la Garza, were released from the county jail on Thursday after friends posted bonds. Brown secured a $1000 bond following arraignment on a charge of violating the Harrison Narcotic Act, while De la Garza was freed on a $500 bond for violation of the Havolats count.
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Mabel Brown
United States
R. L- Edwards
Mary de la Garza
Boy Bitten by Vicious Dog Attack Shocks City
Alvidas Ramos aged 14 of 442 South Frio Street was bitten on the left leg by a dog owned by Isidor Morales of 623 Durango Street on Thursday morning. The dog reportedly bit several others recently. Police told Morales to keep the animal tied up until a rabies check can be made.
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Alvidas Ramos
Frio
Isidor Morales
Durango
Morales
Cut Rate Bus Fare From San Antonio to Kerrville
Union Bus Line advertises round trip fares of 2.50 and one way 1.50 for a daily service of nine cars. The ad touts comfort and asks riders why not choose their line, with contact at 210 BL Travis St Cr. 4634.
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San Antonio-Kerrville
Union Bus Line
Travis St
Seguin Puzzle Slays I and the Sequin Tragedy
Sheriff William Neubauer and Deputy Andy Springs report a confession related to a shooting near Salt Creek Farm 14 miles east of Sequin. Turner, who lived alone on his Salt Creek farm, was shot and died near his home between 8 and 9 o clock on the night of June 28th.
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William
Neubauer
Andy Springs
Guadalupe County
Turner
Salt” Creek
Sewas
Continued drought drives garden hose thief into action
The ongoing drought pushed a hose thief to trespass on Mrs. C. W. Rogers property at 825 Dakota and steal 25 feet of garden hose. The suspect has repeatedly stolen hose strands since a month ago, totaling over 900 feet across 50, 30, 25, and 100-foot lengths, prompting renewed action by authorities.
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Drouth
C. W. Rogers
Dakota
Two held in stabbing fail to make bond
Live Ink Tex April 16 Tommie and Rufus Jordan charged with stabbing. Dad Sanders Sunday had failed to give bond early today, officers said. A report said they had arranged bonds after Justice of the Peace Atkinson set Tommie Jordan’s at 3000 dollars and Rufus Jordan’s at 32000 dollars.
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Live Ink
Tex
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Gulf
Tesas
Alamo City
Gacy
J. K. Beretta
Jack “Burke
Fair Staff
Prases
S.A. Schols
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Pembroke” Bath
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Standard Sanitary Wig. Co
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