Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-04-18
STATEMENT BY
CITY MARSHAL CRIXELL
In Explanation of His Connection
With the Shooting of Andres
Uresti on Last Friday Night.

n ONdNtLittt SlSuCu ~. - II. Via
ell, city marshal Of Brownsville, re-
garding his connection with the
shooting Of Andres Uresti has been
handed The Herald with a request
for it's publication. The Herald is
entirely willing to grant space to
the city marshal or to any one else
for any explanation regarding this
event or any other happening re-
ported in these columns which may
affect such persons. 1t is only fair
to do so. There are, however, a few
points in Mr.. CrixelTs statement re-
garding other persons which ThG
Herald does not believe that it would
be warranted in publishing, in JUS
tice both to the persons referred to
and itself. With the exception OF
those parts Of Mr.. CriXells state
ment referring to these persons, the
substance Of the statement is pub
lished herewith:
The City Marshal's Statement.
Mr.. Crixell says, in effect that, on
Friday night about 1890 o'clock,
Juan Garcia, the policeman on duty
in the 4th ward came to him at the
market square and reported that
three officers, together with other
parties, were creating a disturbance
at the Paroles saloon in the 4th
ward, and had attempted to pick
a quarrel with him. That he at once
summoned Officers Crafts and lg-
nacio Trevino and drove in a hack
to the saloon, Juan Garcia, who was
on horseback having arrived first.
That Garcia was e~ndeavoring to
search a man who he said he be-
lieved had a pistol, and hal Deputy
Sheriff Lightburn was preventing
him from doing so. That he asked
Lightburn to desist, but the latter
refused, and he had officer Crafts
and Trevino to Arrest Lightburn for
interfering with an officer in the dis
charge of his duty and take him
jail That after their departure, he
invited Andres Uresti to have a bot
tie Of beer. That they walked into
the saloon and Juan Garcia and
Uresti had some words about the diff
ficulty which occurred earlier in the
evening. That he stopped the dis
cussion, saying that he would not
permit two of his officers to quarrel.
In about ten or fifteen minutes,
the statement continues, Officers
Crafts and Ignacio Trevino returned
and the marshal returned to town
in a hack with them, dismissing the
hack in front of the Herald Office.
That the marshal remained there
talking with two friends, the other
officers going to the market square.
That Charles Combe, Jas. A. Browne
and Deputy Sheriff McAIister came
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let Lightburn out Of Jail. That in
a short time the three gentlemen
named left him going toward Dit
mann's theatre. That just about
this time the pound master ran to
him and told him there had been
some shooting at the Paroles saloon,
and he at once went there in a hack
with the pound master and Florencio
Briseno, who happened to be near
That, on arriving they met another
hack in which was Pat Haley, Buster
Jones and Uresti., That he stopped
their hack and was told that Uresti
had been shot. That he at once took
the lieutenant Of police, Joaquin
Trevino, who told him that Uresti
had started the trouble, and drove
to the Jail, where he was informed
Uresti had beer carried, in order to
find out the wounded mans condi-
ton. That he and his companions
were admitted to the Jail and he saw
Uresti, who shook hands with him.
That he asked Ures,i what had hap
pened and The latter replied that
three of them had shot him" That
Uresti named Joaquin Trevino, Juan
Garcia and Mateo Gomez as the ones
who shot him and also said that he
(Uresti) had fired two shots from
an automatic pistol, and that Urcs
said he had two pistols.
In conclusion the statement reads
as follows:
o starting to leave the Jail |
was surrounded, disarmed and placed
in a cell; this without warran
explanation. | was kept incommuni-
cado and not permitted to see an at
torney, a physician or anyon else.
neither was | permitted TO send homo
for food, or 10 communicate with nj,
family or friends. The accusation
against myself and all Of the other
members Of the police force, of being
involved in a cOnSpiracy 10 murder