San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-26
FILE ON MAN
f. TAKEN At TER
GUN BATTLE
Lorenzo Vasquez Denies
Shooting Officers in
I.-G. N. Yards.
TOO MOOCH DRUNKEN
Charge Him With Two
Cases Of Assault With
Intent to Kill.
TOO MOOCH DRUNKEN

Two affidavits, each charging as
sault with intent to kill, were filed
against Lorenzo VasQuez, IS, in JUS
tice Fisk's court Friday afternoon.
The complaints grow out of the gun
battles staged between railroad Off
GERS, police and detectives on one
side and lone Mexican early
Thursday morning in which Detec-
tive Harry Norton and Agent A. t.
Fuller were shot and wounded.
Vasquez. held prisoner in the city
Jail, denies he is the gunman who
gave battle TO the officers.
Il know nothing" he replied when
Detectives Joe Ruhnke and bill"
Carver auizzed him Thursday after
noon. concerning the battle. Repeat
ed efforts of the officers to induce
him to talk fell flat.
"I too mooch drunken" Vasquez
replied in broken English to queries.
"Catcha too much drunken last night.
Sleep all night. 1 know nothing.
Bad Man Cut His Hat.
Officers impressed upon him. there
was no question as to his identity
and that the circumstantial evidence
against him was too strong to dis
pute. 1t had no effect on the pris-
oner.
:. "That is all right" the prisoner
replied in the most Indifferent sort of
manner.
Then officers pointed to a two
inch. Jagged slit in the left side rim
of his hat, which they declare was
torn by bullet.
Hum" replied vasquez. shat no
pistol bullet. I'm cut with knife.
Bad man cut um."
Detectives then impressed him with
the gravity of the charges against
him, that he had shot, and only for
tunately did not kill them outright.
That he would have to stand trial
for assault TO murder.
mo shoot. Me too drunken-plen-
(. ty sick Sleep at night" was the
. only response.
Calls Kilday Compadre.
vasquez had recovered TO a great
extent from the stupor he was il
when Station Officer Milstead grabbe,
him and caused his arrest at 81
Thursday morning near the I-G. \
passenger depot, late Thursday after
hnoon. He was taken into detectiv,
: headquarters "mugged" and finger
printed. He appeared amused witt
the finger print impressions taker
and soon his sullen disposition had
left him and before the task had
been completed, referred to Superin.
tendent Kilday of the bureau of Grim
inal Identification, as mi compadre'
and "Mi hermano," meaning my
partner and brother.
He was returned TO Jail pending
the filing of formal charges against
him and his transfer to the Bexar
county Jail.
Has Wife and Children.
vasquez told officers his home was
not in Laredo. as he first stated.
Neither. he added. did he smoke
Marihuana though he offered no ex-
PLANTATION for the presence Of a pound
of the "loco weed found in his
possession. For some time, too. he
denied he had partaken of any booze.
He said his home was at Thrall.
Tex. where his wife and four children
reside. He said he was en- route to
Laredo TO visit his father. His home,
he said, was originally in San Luis
Potosi, Mexico.
Detective Norton and Agent Fuller
the former with a bullet wound in
his left leg and the other with a shat
tered right arm and a bullet wound
in his left forearm are expected 10
recover. Both officers, it was report.
ed Friday. would be able to leave the
hospital within a few days.