San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-25
|GUNMAN
BATTLES
OFFICERS
| Wounds Two in Desperate
Gun Fight in the
Dark.
lis LATER TAKEN
Surrenders When Muzzle
of Pistol Is Pressed
to Body.
HAD TWO REVOLVERS
Accused Man Admits He
Is Addict of Mari
huana.
IS LATER TAKEN
HAD TWO REVOLVERS

City Detective NJ. Harry Morton
and A. T. Fuller, special agent of the
f-G. ". were shot in gun battle
Tith a Northumberland Mexican at
an early hour Thursday morning in
| She lower yards of the I.-G. y.
Lorenzo Nasquez. IS, of Laredo,
Tex. who is charged with the shoot.
ing. was taken into custody by Chief
Of Police Van Ripper. Detective Cap
|taip Street and Emergency Chauffeur
Sfiistea,i, the latter surprising vas.
uueZ bt pressing the muzzle of his
gun against him and forcing him to
surrender nye hours after the gun
fight.
cusly injured.
Fuller. a special agent for the l..
| q. y. railway company. is in the
Robert l.. Green Memorial hospital,
his right arm shattered at the elbow
by a bullet received when his own
gun was shot out of his hands in
duel with the gunman. y bullet also
p;erced his left arm near the wrist.
Detective Norton is in the santa
Rosa hospital with bullet wound IN
his left leg above the knee. The bone
was not broken.
In the two gun fights % shots were
fired. 60. A..
Vasouez was seen sitting in the
waiting room at the /. q. y. railway
passenger depot Thursday midnight'
lie was questioned by Agent Fuller
and Patrolman Alez Vidal. Ihey
found him in sullen mood. The OIL
ficers were preparing to Ject MN IRON
the waiting room, when they Learner
he was waiting for a southbound tram
He arose and walked out OF the place
as the officers walked away from
him.
The first gun fig occurred three
hours later when EULER CONFRONTED
him in the lower yards, after Johnny
Harris. night yardmaster, reported two
nistol shots had been flied into the
air. H.,
In the left arm almost at the tirst
flash of the guns. The next moment
his gun fell from his hand as n bullet
from the Mexican's gun broke h's
right arm. 1t was approximately
tbree-ouarters of an hour later that
defective Norton, Station Officer Fred
Scharfenberg and Patroman vidal
cnraged the Mexican in the second
hattie. The latter opened fire upon
Them when they found him in the
wards near the Carr Coal and Wood
Company's plant.
In This fight Detective Norton was
shot During the confusion the Mex
After an all night patrol Nasquez
tfxys taken into custody. Chief van
Nyper and Captain Street were exam
Wing the suit case and bunnle'
checked at the depot by the man when
Vasouez approached the station at ; :oV
n. m. He was recognized by Offlcer
Mjlstead from the description FUR
nished by Vidal and Fuller.
With a cooked pistol thrust against
his body, Vasquez hal. d at the com
mand Of Milstead and quickly was
VISA Had 100 Cartridges.
Officers found in his suit case an
othe, nistol, a 45-caliber single actloh
gum. 100 rounds of ammunlatlon'
hound of "loco weed and TOBACCO
sack filled with a dozen rattlers q
big rattlesnakes: g
'IrletO. the MtAlCd4 AStAA ~
Marihuana weed. the prisoner re-
NAMED snllen. sulky and for nearly
an hour refused TO talk.
His narrow escape from death az
the hands of the officers was re-
vcaled in a long. narrow slit IN MS
hat. where it had been ripped by a
bullet. l., nod
heen nicking cotton and in that way
accumulated the 500 he had on his
pprson. He said he had reached san
Antonio Wednesday morning over t92
Katy and bad intended taking a SOUND
bound train 10 Laredo early Thursday
morning. lie refused TO comment on
the shooting.
Chief Van Ripper directed that ne
be booked on four charges OF aSSau';
To- murder. those being based on the
shooting ARRAYS with Detective Nor
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