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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1926
Page
1
Police pursue a murder case after a nightwatchman reports hearing a pistol shot. The body of Mrs. Petty is found near a steep river embankment with clothes torn and a gunshot wound. A suspect faces charges with San Antonio linked as the possible escape route.
Comal County, with 1080 criminal cases in 62 years, boasts the fewest in the state since records began. Since 1910 there has been but one slaying by a county resident, while New Braunfels figures prominently in frontier days and a high-profile Petty killing case fuels county authorities' pursuit of justice.
Edgar B. Davis, 55, founder of the Luling oil fields, hosted a 10,000 guest barbecue costing between 49 000 and 50 000 on a 100 acre site near the San Marcos river. The event celebrated the sale of United North and South Oil holdings to Magnolia Petroleum for 12 100 000. A band, three grand opera artists, and separate entertainments accompanied the feast with provisions for both white and negro residents. Davis previously directed oil development in Luling during his seven early years there.
Sheriff Jim Steves says a policeman is a policeman even in baseball and vows to prove the claim next Saturday afternoon after Traffic Captain Gus Klockerkemper of the Jay-Walkers champions says they would like to play the deputies.
Fifty graduates of St Mary's academy will be honored by the St Marys College Alumni Association with a banquet at the Guatr nate ballroom at 7 45 Thursday. Mayor John W Tobin and four ex deans will attend. Tom J Newton will be toastmaster.
Detectives led by Captain Walter Harvey chase two bandits who robbed a local store of about 800 dollars. The suspects, described as “Freckles,” fled in a car after threatening a witness inside. Police connect the crime to a prior $750 Piggly-Wiggly robbery on South Presa Street over a month earlier.
Theft reported by Mrs. S S Hayes of 618 Water Street late Saturday. A woman’s suitcase was taken from a vehicle along with a watch belonging to M Viejo of 4 South Concho Street. Police noted the incidents as auto mobile thefts.
Evelyn Nesbit and Harry Thaw announce they will live together again in a suburb of Atlantic City after a short trip with Thaw and his lawyer. Nesbit says they plan to take a house and that her son Russell, 15, will live with them. Also reports the death of Fenchler, Juarez race track president, from intestinal illness.
Five members of the class graduating at West Point hail from Fort Sam Houston. The group includes sons of officers and enlisted men from the post. Named are P. Munson, J. A. Willis Jr, Richard W. Mayo, B. Carroll, and S. M. Wheeler, with affiliations to the Twentieth Infantry and related units.
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