San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-01

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Mr.. Riebe testified that there we're
two wounds in Stoves body, one in the
chest and one in the back Of the head.
The shot which struck him in the breast,
he said, evidently had been fired at
close range as some of the wadding was
in the clothes of the dead man.
+. n. Flores, deputy sheriff, identi-
fled the shotgun as the one found az
the Stowe home after the killing. IL
was here that the state rested.
Henry Stowe, for the defense, testl,
fled that his mother and brothers had
left home the day before the killing pc
cause Stowe had beat Mrs. Pearl stowe.
He told of their going to the ponce
station to ask for help and later golng
to a friends house for profession.
George Stowe, witness said, came 10 me
place and demanded money. ana ms
wife's clothes. He was given tne
money, Henry said, but he refused 10
Give his father his mothers clothes.
a. tbe time. witness said, George Stowe
shouted to his son Hugh, I'm going TO
wbip YOU il / catch you, whether II DC
in front of the courthouse or the city
hall" His father had beat Hugh ~ or
30 times, witness said. and his grand
mother had warned the boy to remain
away from home.
Tells Of Alleged Threats. -,
On the afternoon preceding the Kill
ing, Young Stowe testified, his father
was sitting in a chair. whetting a knife
ON his shoe. In the course of the con-
yersation between his mother, father
and Others present, his father jumped
10 his feet, saying to Mrs. Pearl Stowe
I'm going to cut your d throat,
sprang at her and showed her head
Same Stowe and I grabbed him and
he tried to stick the knife in my right
side" witness said. Grandmother
showed my mother out of the door, TO
get her out of the way and as she. went
out the door my father told her that II
SD left he would kill her" d,
Witness testified that his grandmoth-
or remained at their home that night,
for fear there might be trouble. he
testified that his grandmother had told
his father that he was "too hard on
Mrs. Stowe and the boys, the same as
your - father" That night, Henry
testified, he and his brothers had gone
To the police station to ask for an Of
ficer TO be sent to the house, but that
their request had been refused, When
the grandmother left next morning, wit
ness said, she warned one of the boys
IN remain at the house as she expected
trouble when George Stowe returned OIL
his milk route.
"Haye YOU ever seen your father beat
vour motbcr?" William Schlessinger
one of the defense counsel asked.
Beatings Are Recounted'
at have seen him knock her down
and heat her six or eight times, one
time he raised a knot on her ear" wit
ness replied. He also beat the blood ou'
of Hugh with a quirt." ..,
Young Stowe at this point identltlec
n rawhide auirt as the one used or
Hugh. 1t was placed in evidence pS
the defense.
"What kind Of a temper did youl
father have:" witness was asked.
"a very high temper and he cursed
| worse than any man L ever Knew
witness said.
aYes. he beat them with an iroi
water pipe. One time he killed one .
them" ,..;.t.,t his
tr;ct Attorney W. S. Anthony. broush
our n discrepancy nthe testimony 0
The witness on the stand and at pre-
vious habeas corpus hearing. His stor.
in the main, however, remained un
Court recessed until $50 Thursda
after Gus Nentwig, second witness 10
tbs defense, had been placed on tn
stand. The state objected to certai
nortions Of his testimony and lt WI
he reviewed before the jury is above
Ia henr il.