Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1915-12-02
FORTE RTESTiFiES THAT
LOPEZ KILLED CORPORAL M'BEE
CONTINUED on Page A.

could not get il rs he was hurt. Tie said
The man turned him over and relieved him
Of $34.75 which was in his pockets. He
testified that after the first man had
robbed him the defendant Lopez camG up
10 him and asked him for more money and
iabbed him with his rifle. IIe stated that
when he told Lopez he had no more money
Lopez took a Masonic ring he was wearing
from his finger. Harvey stated that Ca
ballero and Lopez came through the front
end Of the car and that when Corporal
McBcc was killed he fell % that his head
was in that part Of the coach reserved FOL
negroes and his body i'll the smoking com-
partment. The witness testified he saw
Lopez take the shoes from the feet Of the
negro brakeman and from the body of Cor
poral McBee.
Harvey stated that the next time he saw
Lopez was when Captain Henry Ransom
boarded the train al KingSvillc with Lopez
rs q prisoner and that he had asked Cap
tam Ransom if he Ran-om) had arrested
Lopez, and had told the captain that Lopez
was one Of the train bandits. Under cross
examination the witness maintained that
he was positive that the men on trial wcre
the two ne had seen on the night of the
robbery. Harvey stated that he had seen
the defendant Caballcro a short time after
the wreck when he was under arrest at
Lvford and had since seen him in he Cam
cron county Jail.
The first witness examined yesterday
afternoon was Deputy Sheriff f.. :. Robin
son Of Kleberg county, who testified that
he had acted a. Interpreter in a convcr-a-
ton between Sheriff Scarborough NJ kle-
berg county and Lopez at the passenger
station III King-ville Oh the evening If De-
tobcr IL. and that the defendant seemed
very nervous
Sheriff Scarborough testified that the
defendant Lopez had not asked HIM for a
passport To Brownsville, that he had known
the defendant for some time previous e.
hi- leaving king~ville Just before the muir
der of DR.. Mccain and the wrcrking of Tho
train, but hat Lopez had never talked to
him until Tx met him III the ticket office M
the 81. Louis. Brownsville & Mexico rail
wuy company when he, the defendant. was
buving D ticket to Brownsville and that IVY
at the time the defendant had seemed very
nervous, when the news of the murder and
wreck reached him he became suspicious
and started To investigate. Scarborough
stated that at the time of hi- conversation
an e.. - HI L.,. .t H. ...Tl ,. 49,
Brownsville ~ ne had just gotten word
that hi~ mother was very iii and that hc
had told him that 'he had uo Strings or
him. and that a. far a- IT, wal concerned
~ could 20 To Mexico.
Mr. Scarborough stated that on two &C.
c%a-;ons he had visited the Santa Gertrudi-
ranch and that on his first visit ne had
talked to Caesar Kleherg. who had told HIM
that he knew very little about Lopcz. rs ne
had only spoken to him one or twice since
hc had been working on the ranch Aud
that Oh hi- second visit liz had talked to
R. II. Klchrrg who had advised him M wv
slow and take hi time and that Mr.. Klp-
borg had talked II the defendants father.
who ~ also \ ranch employee. the father
-tatirg that the defendants mother was
rot III and had not been i'll and that it was
then that he and Captain Ransom de
ridcd To arrest the defendant and bring
aim 10 Brownsville.
Mr.. Scarborough was the last witness
placed on the stand yesterday afternoon.
Lopez home l. i'll Brownsville. and ~ D.
ven known among the Mexicans IN this
-ty and also ~ many Americans. TN
fprmorlv wa an officer m the Mrvican
lrmv. during the ~Iluerta regime. and par
'icirafcd IN the battle M Nrtomoro- or
lane 3. 1913. On the day before The bat-
'le and while the city was he~ieecd by Cen
raj Luco Blanco ~ the rebel forces. Lone
lccame involved in a difficulty with Cop
pin IIcrmoeilio Of the FTurrta army. Her
,o-illo was shot and killed. Lnpez was
crested and placed in Jail. but was re-
oa-cd when the fighting started. IIe came
p Brownsville along with \ number MI 9TH
2 ITurrti~ta soldiers who quit Matnmoro-
turing the battle. ard haS since resided IN
HI .Itt-