Evening Star Newspaper, November 17, 1928, Page 4

4 “THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 17. 1928.° DYING MEXICAN LYNCHED BY TRIO Man Accused of Attack on: Rancher’s Wife Taken i From Hospital. | By the Associated Press. FARMINGTON, N. Mex., November 17.—Lynch law, formerly an effective deterrent of thievery in Western States, yesterday was practiced by three, masked men on Rafael Benavides. & Mexican sheep herder, who was kid- naped from a local hospital, where he lay critically wounded i His body was found a few hours later awinging from a locust tree two miles outside town | Physicians_ said gunshot wounds in| Ben: bdomen, received when he | resisted arrest by A sherifi’s posse Thursday, would have caused his death | within 24 hours H The Mexican was believed by police to have been the man who early Wed: | nesday attacked and seriously injured | Mrs. Charles Lewis. wife of a prominent | sheep man of Aztec. N. Mex.,, then left her unclothed in a canyon near her| home. | Upon regaining consciousness Mrs. | Lewis staggered back .0 her husband’s ranch notified authorities. A sherifi's posse was organized and| Thursday came upon Benavides, who | resisted arrest and was shot down. | He was brought to a hospital here. | About_noon vesterday an unknown man_called the hospital and asked if | the Mexican was guarded. A nurse re- | plied in the negative, and shortly afte ward the three men appeared, ha éragged Benavides to a truck and dis appeared. Reports reached Sheriff Blancett that a large body of men joined the orig- inal trio under the locust tree on an abandoned ranch. The body was found by & prospective purchaser of the ranch who was making an inspection | tour of the property. | ESCAPING GAS FUMES | FATAL TO WOMAN, 71/ Mrs. Sallie E. Talks Victim of Ac- cidental Death While Asleep cn Couch. Made drowsy by the fumes of escap- ing gas in the kitchen of her home at 82 U street, yesterday, Mrs. Sallie E. ‘Talks, 71 years old, went into the din- ing room, lay down on a couch and went to sleep. When her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Dowling, jr., with whom she lived, re- turned home from work in the evening she had been dead about four hours. She had been ironing in the after- noon with a flat iron heated by gas and in some way the flame from the gas burner of the stove became-extinguished. She apparently finished her ironing, | however, and put away the iron before ! lying down. Mr. Dowling summoned the Emerg- ency Hospital ambulance and the fire department rescue squad. Dr. I Rut- koski of the hospital staff and the fire- men _attempted unsuccessfully to re vive her. Coroner J. Ramsey Nevitt i sued a certificate of accidental death. Mrs. Talks was a native of Leesburg, Va., but had been a resident of Wash- ington for many years. She was the widow of Arthur T. Talks. The oniy near relative surviving her is Mrs. Dowling. The funeral is to be held at 2 o'clock Monday afternoon at the U street ad- dress. Rev. R. Y. Nicholson will offi- ciate and the burial is to be in Glen- wood cemetery. WRECK ENDS CHASE; TWO MEN ARRESTED Reckless Driving and Possession and Transportation of Liguor Charged by Police. Two men in a car gave police a chase at a 50-mile-an-hour clip early this morning, cracked up against the| curb at First and Q stréets and were | arrested there, and their car, alleged 1o have contained 432 quarts of corn | whisky, seized. 1 The men. who police say jumped | from the damaged machine and a'_-} tempted to flee, were Frank Dswryi Feeney, 28 vears old, and Joseph F.| Speck, 25 vears old, both of the 2700 block Fourteenth street, Charges of | reckless drivinz and illegal possession | 2nd transportation of liquor were placed | against Feeney and the possession and transportation charges were placed against Speck. | Sergt. George M. Little and his liquor squad started the chase at Beventh and Monroe streets at about 2:30 o'clock. Neither of the pursued men was hurt in the crash. COURT SHOWS LENIENCY TO CRIPPLED VETERAN Vincent Parr, Accused of Thx"‘at-i ening Wife, Placed Under Bond. Advised to Keep Sober. Takin: s recor e World War. during v leg, Judg> Ralph Given yesterdey or- | ed Vincent Parr, years old, to | give $100 bond to keep th» peace, fol- | lowing a Police Court trial, :n which his | wife, Mrs. Ada V. Parr, complained of threats. K The wife claimed that Parr threat- ened to cut her throat sevetal times and | mistreated her so that she lcft him last Tuesday after seven years of marriage. 8he blamed intoxication fui his actions. After William Shea, attorney for the | defendont, had brought out that Parr | was gassed and wounded &everal times | in the war, Judge Given expressed sym- | pathy, but advised him to 1efrain from drink. i HOUSEBREAKING CHARGE IS DENIED BY COLTON Ouly One of Six Boys Involved in Grand Larceny Arraigned in Police Court. i Mark Francis Colton, 17 years old, of | the 500 block of Thirtenth street southeast, one of the six boys whom police of the #fth precinct say are in- volved in 92 grand larceny cases, plead- breaking when | airaigned before Judze Ralph Given in Police Court yesterday. No bond was fixed and tne court ordered a contin- uance uni!l next Tuesday for hearing. The specific charge placed against Colton was that he broke into the premis 9 Sixteenth street south- | each, end stole three watches end other jewelry having 2 total value of $205. Thz other hoys, arrested by Detective | F. L. Arringion_and Policeman C. 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