The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1906-11-12
DETAILS OF
WEIGHS MURDER
Told by District Attorney John
|. KIeiber.
Event, Prior to Election POrtended
Trouble and Judge WEIGH Remain
ed at Rio Grande to See that a
Legal Election was Assured.

District Attorney John 1. Kleir-
Der, who was here yesterday, hav-
ing just returned from Austin,
gave some details of the assassina-
ltion of Judge WEIGH at Rio Grande
City and also information relating
to events prior to the election and
leading up to that event which not
yet been reported in THE HERALD.
District court opened at Rio
Grande Oct. p. There was
very light civil docket and no
criminal cases to be investigated,
and the business before the cour
was terminated the first week.
Judge WEIGH would have adjourned
court then, Nh. Kleiber says, but
for an event which indicated that
there was likely to be trouble in
the county at the coming election.
This occurred in connection with
a democratic meeting held on Oct.
rs at the Salineno ranch about
twenty-five miles from Rio Grande,
which was disturbed by band of
armed republican partisans. The
Sheriff reported this incident to the
judge and said that, on account of
the conduct of this armed band
and also of some other reports in
dicating that trouble was likely to
occur on election day he felt that
its was necessary to have more as
sistance than the nine deputies
allowed by law, and requested that
the court increase the force of
local peace officers in order to
prevent trouble. This request,
Mr.. Kleiber says, was granted by
Judge Weleh,- twenty four special
constables being appointed for the
several precints of the county, who
were to serve from Nov. 4 to Nov.
u, to preserce order and see that
legal election was held.
The judge also decided TO re-
main at Rio Grande and keep
court open until after the election,
as there was every indication that
trouble was likely to occur and
assistance likely to be needed to
insure a fair election. Mr.. Klei-
Der also determined to stay with
the judge.
AS reported in THE HERALD
previously, Judge Welch and Mr..
K1eiber were occupying small
detached house of two rooms
The events of the night of the
murder are related by Mr.. K1eiber
as follows:
"On Monday night Judge WEIGH
retired to his room and I to mine,
which was adjoining. The door
between the two rooms was closed.
About midnight 1 noticed that
Judge WEIGH 5 light went out. l
continued reading until about $50
a. III. and then extinguised my
light and went to sleep and upon
awakening next morning found
Judge Welth dead.
Saturday night at about $50 F.
Cueto, who owns store i'll the
northern part of town, found it
necessary to go to his ware house
which adioins the store in search
for some article required by a |
customer On entering the ware
house he was suddenly attacked by
some person and becoming involved
in struggle with his assailant.
The light he carried was overturned
and extinguished and after few
moments his assailant, making no
progress in the contest, suddenly
turned loose and fed, leaving,
however, his hat as a souvenir.
On the outside of the ware house
were found two sacks of coffee
which the burglar had set out.
Chief of Police Geo. Conner, was
at once notified of the affair and
went Immediately TO work with
the result that at a. m. in the
morning ne succeeded in rounding
up and taking in a Mexican an