Lamson Court Opens First Session under New District Jurisdiction
The Lamson Court opened its first session of the Twenty sixth District, with Judge Cooper Saheem presiding. Dr. M C Hutton offered a prayer, and Jy F Taulbee reviewed the court's history, noting the district now serves Williamson county alone after previously including Travis and Freeland counties.
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Jy. F. Taulbec
Williamson County
Hich
Sucre
Travis
Filligmgon
Taulbee
Dawes Home Town Terror: Fires and Robbery Strike
Evanston near Chicago buzzed with two fires damaging a shoe store and a small apartment, totaling thousands in losses. A hotel robbery followed, with two men looting the Evanshire Hotel cash drawer and stealing from the night clerk.
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Chicago
Jan. T
Evanston
Charles G. Dawes
Tobbers
Evanshire
Conscience Stricken Man Admits Holdups
William Russell 21 confessed to two Philadelphia holdups including a pistol fight that wounded a policeman. He described meeting a 17 year old girl in Philadelphia last February and robbing a shoe store then a chain store after funds ran out. Russell fled, was arrested in Birmingham, then notified Philadelphia police of the plan and his capture.
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New Orleans
William Russell
Philadelphia
Russell
Birmingham
Fort Worth Crash Victims Named and Updates
Fort Worth reports indicate Miss Arlie Lancaster, survivor of the inter urban crash at Stop Edgewood, will recover. Mrs W W Garrison, killed, to be buried. Allen McCormick, another fatal crash victim, buried at Britton this morning.
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Fort Worth
Arlie Lancaster
Stop Edgewood
W. W. Garrison
Allen McCormick
Britton
Still Raid Captures Mash On Micklejohn Street
A raid by Detective Proudfoot and the prohibition squad on Micklejohn street captured an 80 gallon still and 50 gallons of peach mash. The still and mash were seized and destroyed except for a small amount kept as evidence. The operator, a Mexican identified in the report, escaped but is expected to be arrested soon.
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Proudfoot
Prohibition Flying Squadron
Micklejohn Street
Hess
Train hits speeders kill two workers at Ballard
Bloomington IL news reports a gasoline speeder carrying signal foreman Fred J. Erfft 84 Chicago Pontiac railroad and his assistant Marion Kroll 24 Gardner Ill. hurled 400 feet when struck by a train at Ballard.
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Bloomington
Jas
Fred J. Erfft
Chicago & Aston Railroad
Pontiac
Marion Kroll
Gardner, Ill
Ballard
Los Angeles Holds Oil Man for Texas Indictment
H. D. Ballinger was arrested by federal agents in Los Angeles on a Fort Worth indictment charging fraudulent use of the mails to promote an oil syndicate. A removal hearing is set today before U. S. Commissioner Raymond Turney.
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Los Angeles
H. D. Ballinger
Fort Worth
United States
Raymond Turney
Narcotic Suspect Sentenced to County Jail
George J. Quinn arrested on October 1924 for possession of morphine admitted buying the drug in federal court. He was sentenced to three months in Bexar county jail after being seized on West Houston street by narcotic inspectors. He had spent three months and fourteen days in jail awaiting trial.
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George J. Quinn
Bexar County
Quinn
West
Houston Street
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