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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1929
Page
2
Testimony describes Captain Stevens and deputy Lott confronting Chandler family after a raid on a stock farm. Officials recount a shooting on the porch, a man killed instantly, and a woman fleeing the scene. Witnesses discuss warrants, bond figures, and chain of events leading to arrests.
Carson and W C Chandler, teen brothers, appear before U.S. commissioner after their father Tom Chandler is shot by Federal Prohibition Officer Charles Stevens. With stock at their Poteet farm and bonds set at $200, the brothers recount the night, describe the shooting, and await Monday’s hearing as they plead innocence and hope to return home to feed the stock. Their stories reveal their lack of legal knowledge and the strain of care for the farm.
Charles Fein and Carson Chandler, 17, are detained after a dry agents raid at Poteet in which farmer Tom Chandler was killed. W. E. Chandler, another son of the dead man, says their father did not resist the prohibition agents and was shot.
Observers in Poteet avoided the tumbledown farm where Tom Chandler was killed during a feud led by Capt Charlie Stevens of San Antonio late Friday. Residents cited fear of ambush and bushwhacking, while a few stray dogs and a white hen roamed nearby. The house, about eight to nine miles from Poteet near Palo Alto Road, showed primitive furnishings and evidence of a distillery raid, with bottles, a windmill, and a broken yard.
Washington August 3 Emile Berliner world famous inventor and philanthropist died at his home in the capital after a long illness. He was 78 years old.
Senator George H. Moses of New Hampshire was named chairman of the Republican senatorial campaign committee by Republican leader Senator Otis? of Indiana. The appointment was announced today as part of party efforts to coordinate campaigns nationwide.
In Austin officials report Texas topped wool production in 1920 per H H Schultz federal statistician. Montana ranked second and California third. Texas sheep yielded an average of 55 peanuts per animal.
In Atlanta Ga an estranged husband killed his wife, the mother of seven, and then fatally shot himself. The incident occurred inAugust with little detail on motive or location.
A 1922 inquest found Capt Charles Stevens of the prohibition force fired a rifle shot that killed Frank Payton, a 22‑year‑old farmer, on April 27 near the city. Stevens and four other prohibition officers were later no-billed by a grand jury after testimony that a supposed undercover whiskey deal led to the fatal encounter on the Ellmanton road.
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