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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1927
Page
5
A resident, Elmer Livington of 1 752 East Myrtle Street, reported a crime Wednesday. The burglar stole cuff links, a pin, and a gold necklace from the home, prompting police to investigate.
In Terre Haute on December 28 the contest among coeds at the Indians and Normal School crowned Louise Setzar of Graysville as the Sweetest Smile.
Francisco Gonzales a special peace officer was severely beaten and rammed by a crowd of about 20 youths after police had left a San Fernando street dance. He reported to Station Officer Charles Steed and said his gun was taken as he was felled with a blackjack. The first five youths were jailed around midnight.
Two armed men stopped soldiers John J. Brestaros and Tim Vargo of Company I Ninth Infantry on North Alamo near East Come Terce street. The bandits, described as polite, demanded money but were refused and walked away mumbling after the soldiers declined.
In Birmingham, 114 witnesses were summoned by both state and defense in the cases of Dent, Albright, Worthington, Glasto, and Doss, charged with kidnapping and flogging landowner Arthur Hireland and pressuring him to sell land to Worthington. The hearings begin soon.
The obituary notes the funeral for Reding to be held Monday afternoon in Stockdale. Survived by widow, two daughters Mrs. St A Vonn of Nise and Mrs Ia E Vomeau of Toe Angeles, Ca, and other relatives.
A boy claims his father killed his mother causing a tense family scene. Neighbors report fear and confusion as authorities investigate the alleged shooting and the family’s fractured home. Details are unclear from fragmented text but indicate a homicide claim involving a father and his wife.
Police operator Charles Muth, 79, of 405 Town Short, was seriously injured Friday when knocked down by a motor vehicle on Markt Street as he went off duty Tuesday night. His left hand suffered a broken bone and other injuries were reported.
June, Dec. 28. Joey Kermolds sought a wife and pressed constant elopement pleas. He displayed a revolver claiming to have killed a brother-in-law of Paulion Thompson, forcing her to join a drive to Canada. Thompson’s defiant “shoot me but I won’t marry you” led the girl to flee to Des Moines with her parents. Reynolds is jailed in Northwood awaiting Unionville action.
Two youths were arrested downtown early Wednesday for an out of season Halloween celebration. Patrolman N. Ackerman nabbed them at Houston and Jefferson streets after they began tearing down awnings in front of several buildings. The son of a prominent family was identified among those detained.
In Laredo on December 28, Jesus Gonzales was tried in district court for assault to murder stemming from gunfire from the Mexican side of the Rio Grande. Jeremy Rodrigues was wounded on the American side. Gonzales received a five-year term.
TOKIO records report an effort to rescue forty two aboard the steamship Tayomarn stranded near Shimoni shima Island straits Korea. Rescue attempts were hampered as four of the in department requested to send a cruiser to assist health and safety crews.
An official report by Dr. Charles Nor Us, New York chief medical examiner, states twenty four people have died of alcoholism in New York since last Friday. The update, issued today, highlights ongoing public health concerns in the city.
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