Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1922-02-04

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dent of the section. Groves il held
in the Cameron county Jail on a
complaint charging murder as the
result Of the death at o'clock Fri
day morning of Udarte. According
to Sheriff w. T. Vann, there will
be no more arrests until after the
grand jury has completed its inveS-
tigation Of the occurrence.
Groves. the sheriff said, has made
no statement, and has rot been ask
ed to make one.
According TO information in the
hands of officers, Udarte OF Fri
day Of last week appeared in Haciin-
gen and told officers, among them
Justice Of the Peace ChaudOin, that
he had received a warning to leave
the neighborhood. The officer, told
him TO 20 on back TO his work and
get out his cabbage crop; that no
one would harm him. The killing
Of Udarte occurred the day after
his return to the KarneS place
The Karnes family had been l:v-
ing on the Wilson Tract ten years.
having come from Mississippi. Eight
years ago Udarte went to work for
the family, and five years ago Mrs.
Karnes' husband, who was blind,
died. Mrs. karnes told officers that
karnes, on his deathbei. had obtain
ed a pledge from Udarte to take
care of his family" She said that
Udarte had remained on the place
all the time, working for her and
looking after her crops. Udarte, il
was said. dressed well 1T all times
and was said to be Of unusual intel
ligence.
II could not drive an automobile,
so whenever | found it necessary to
20 TO Harlingen or other places, he
always drove for me-" t,irs. Karnes
told officers
The killing occurred about $50
o'clock Thursday morning. Udarte
had left the Karnes place on his
horse, and struck out down a lane
When about two hundred yards from
the house four men appeared from
the side of the road, where they had
been hiding, apparently, and opened
fire on him. One was armed with
a pistol, and the others appeared to
have rifles.
Nellie Karnes witnessed the shoot
ing from the house, and ran out and
toward the scene Of the shooting,
shouting "don't kill him"
After the first volley. according
TO the karnes girl, Udarte wheeled
his horse and started back up the
lane, when he saw an automobile
coming rapidly down the lane. Fre-
vented from escaping in that direc-
ton, he struck out across the field,
and fell from his horse after travel
ing a short distance. He had been
struck in the abdomen by bullet,
which afterwards was found to have
been from n rifle.
The girl ran after the four men
for some ways in an attempt, she
said, to learn who they were. She
said she recognized the face of one
Of them, but the others hid their
faces with their coats. She said she
knew them, however, from more or
less familiarity with their clothing,
having seen them at various times
In the neighborhood.
After these men got away, the
girl turned her attention to the rap
idly approaching automobile, which
swept on by She then saw another
automobile coming along the lane,
and stood in front of il, forcing the
driver to slow down. She told Of
ficers that she jumped on the run
ming board Of the car. She said she
could identify the men she saw in
this car. She rode for a ways on
the running board, dropping off aft
er some heated conversation with the
men, she said.
The girl, according TO officers,
was unusually bright. and gave a
very minute description of the events
that followed in quick succession the
firing of the first volley of shots.
She said that she did not believe the
four men who were in the road
knew at the time they ran from the
scene that Udarte had been hit, as
he kept his seat on his horse for
some distance. The bullet entered
from the front.