El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-07-29

> settle over me audience with one
| accord the many friends and acquaint-
/ ances Of the Spauuells rose silently AID
| left the theater- They gathered about
! the nearby Holland hotel. not from
| curiosity, but IS if hypnotized by hOr-
| or a few blocks away kind hands
| were washing the blood from the cold
| face Of the slain woman. wrinGi1S
] blood from her once Spotless clothes.
! They paid less attention TO the dead
colonel lie was stranger here, AMI
! in the Big Bend II is not very serious
! thing to kill man who you believe
has offended YOU
SPANIEL Bels 20 he Killed.
At the courthouse Harry SPANIEL
moaning and Sobbiug with remorse.
was begging Anja Nilsson. deputy
sheriff. who had grown up with Crystal
Holland. to kill him.
"Oh, my sweet wife" he moaaed
with sickening iteration. Then Kill
me Anja, kill me"
All night long. while shocked friends
broke the terrible news to Mrs. Hol-
land. Mrs SpannellS mother and to
Mrs. Butler while unskilled but tender
hands were getting the mutilated
bodies ready for burial, SPANIEL
noaned in cell until his jailers could
scarcely endure Witnessing his agony.
RemOrse Seized SPANIEL.
If remOrse can kill, those who have
seen Harry SPANIEL since his moment
of madness are confident that he will
soon eXpiate his crime by death.
Romantic COurtshiP Recalled.
Everyone IN Alpine knew of the re-
mantle courtship ana marriage of
Crystal Holland and Harry SPANIEL
Miss Holland attended the MulhOlianG
school in San Antonio during her girl
hood, and when she was IS went -
Baylor university at Waco There she
took lessons in music from Harry
SPANIEL, a laughing, hearty fellow.
looking more like a successful stock
broker than the usual long haired.
velvet coated musician. Soon 1t was
rumOred that their lesson hours were
not entirely devoted to the study Of
music.
John Holland. of Alpine. a cattle
man of the wild days Of Texas. Vas
furious at the idea of his only dauEh-
ter marrying music master, the au-
thorities of Baylor couldn't stand for
class room courtship. Mr.. Holland set
for his daughter
Leaves Place for Love.
The trustees Of Baylor told Span
nell ne could choose between his posi-
ton and his pupil He promptly re-
signed and opened studio in Waco
All his former pupils flocked to him
Miss Holland got ner own way with
her parents as they say she did from
the time she first opened her brown
eyes on the world, and master and
Baylor invited Mr.. SPANIEL to return
- head OF the music department. and
the young couple went TO live in Waco.
Happy Days in Waco.
They made many friends there and
Mrs. SPANIEL loved the gayety of the
larger town Yet every summer she
came back 10 Alpine 10 stay with her
parents. and Nj SPANIEL spent his
months vacation here with her. HOl-
land SPANIEL. their daughter. was
born in 1910. and was the apple Of her
grandfather's eye. Her birth com
pleted his reconciliation with his SON
inlaw-
Father Gives Them Hotel.
In 1919 Mr.. Holland offered TO give l
his daughter the title deeds Of tho /
Holland hotel Il she would come to /
Alpine to live. and Mr.. SPANIEL would /
the hotel, Mr. SPANIEL left /
the decision entirely 10 his wife She j
told her friends here that as she knew !
her husbands voice needed a rest, AID 4
IS he wanted to study a year in New !
York and Europe. she thought il best 7
tc accept the offer. hoping that the !
money to be made out of II would I
her for the gayeties and (