San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-16
.bANKER,PR|EsT
Ex-Governor,
ARE SENTENCED
Banker Gets Term for
Killing Three With
Automobile.
PRIEST GIVEN LIFE
ex-governor Goes to Jail
for Contempt of
Court.

Three professional men well-known
in their own communities were SEN
fenced TO Jail or prison i'll the United
States Monday.
Rev. Father Charles Dillon, OF
Kalamazoo. Mich, who pleaded guilty
to the staying OF HIS superior, Rev.
Father Henry 0'Neill, was sentenced
today to life imprisonment at hard
labor. Rev. Father Dillon. confessed
the Staying, saying that his superior
had "acted like a car" and had
treated him like little boy He
fired six shots when told by his super
Tor to pack his grip and leave, he
testified. He pleaded guilty.
Theodore G. Bilbo, former governor
Of Mississippi, went to Jail today to
serve so days for contempt of fed
eral court. He was cited after he
failed to appear when called as a wit
ness for Miss Frances Birkhead. in
her unsuccessful suit against Gov
ernor Lee NJ. Russell. in which she
alleged seduction. He also pleaded
guilty.
A banker, Henry G. Brock, receiv-
ed six TO ten years in the penitentiary
tomobile. Brock, Philadelphia club
man. with big banking interests. was
found with a bloodstaincd car short
ly after three persons had been killed
by a machine whose driver raced
away without stopping to care for
the victims. He pleaded guilty today.
Oxford, Miss. April 16.-Theodore
G. Bilbo. former governor of Missis-
sippi. went to the Lafayette county
jail today to serve sentence of 30
days for contempt of federal court.
When Mr.. Bilbo appeared in federal
court here today to answer to n charge
Of contempt because of his failure to
appear as a witness in the suit of
Miss Frances Birkhead against Gov.
ernor Lee NJ. Russell last fall he
pleaded guilty. Judge Holmes fixed
the sentence at fine of 500 and
went to Jail.
Bilbo asked for suspension OF
sentence until he. could try a case in
Poplarville, his home town, where he
is a lawyer. The judge denied him
the request and the former governor
went OF Jail.
Had you been common laborins
man." said Judge Holmes, 'the
sentence would have been the same.
You are intelligent enough to know
when the summons was served on YOU
and that you should have appeared"
. Philadelphia, April 16.-Henry G
Brock. banker and clubman, was to-
day sentenced to from six 10 ten years
in the Eastern State penitentiary for
killing three persons with his auto
mobile.
Kalamazoo. Mich, April f6.-Rev.
Father Charles Dillon. confessed slay
er of his superior. Rev. Father Henry
O'Neill Of st. Augustine's Catholic
Church last. Thursday. was sentenced
to life imprisonment at hard labor by
Judge Weimer in circuit court this
forenoon.
The killing of Father O'Neill cul-
minated what Rev. Dillon told police
was thirteen months of ill treat
ment" He was sitting at table,
he told police. when his superior or
dered him TO pack his grip and leave
the house in which they we're living.
He had finished packing, he said.
when he noticed a pistol he had
bought recently for the purpose of
shooting Rev. ONeill.
Il had intended giving him
chance to repent" be said. but ms
l advanced into the dining room. with
the revolver extended. saw him
grab a salt cellar and throw it at
me- Then i fired
The priest expressed repentance
about the shooting but told police
that II had no right to kill Father
O'Neill: not one right in the world
At a previous examination he de-
clarcd that he wanted to 20 to the
state prison at jackson. Mich, pres
ferably to be clectrocuted.
Police doubted his sanity. feT