San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-03-22
Charles E. Reyes, Consrac-
tor, Seriously Wounds
, William Blake, Grocer.
SHOT In THE BACK
Wounded Man Claims He
Merely Offered Woman
~ a Ride to Her Home.

Highway, is believed dying in th
Santa Rosa hospital, his spinal Coz,
severed by a single buck shot fire.
from a double-barrel shotgun, at Z Al
O'Clock Friday night.
80. Charles E. Reyes, IL, contractor,
1920 Pasadena street was arrested at
1 80 Saturday morning when Detcc-
lives Higgins and Norton found him
asleep at his home. He waived pre-
liminary hearing in Justice Campbell's
court. Judge Campbell, upon recon-
mendation by representatives Of the
Z district attorneys office. fixed Reyes
bail at $500. Keyes, it was reported.
. would furnish bail early Saturday
afternoon.
Blake was shot while in his auto
mobile. Mrs. Keyes, wife of the man
4 with Blake at the time of the shoot
= ing. Two shots were fired. Each cart
= ridge, police say, was loaded with
Z buckshot and though the weapon Is
said TO have been fired at close range
: Blake's body. Mrs. Reyes escaped in
: jury.
4 VIII Be Cripple II He Lives.
"OhhiNu NOAullApA4
Saturday morning was critical with
Z slight chance for recovery. An opera
/. ton was performed Friday midnight
; in last effort TO save the PATIENT
: life.
. Police were advised by physicians
Blake is paralyzed from the hips down
ward. Even though he escapes death.
because of the severed spinal cord.
I Blake will be a helpless cripple for
Z the rest of his life. it was said.
, According TO detectives, Blake says
he was delivering groceries and over
. took Mrs. Keyes on Avalon street. a
. short distance off the Foch Highway.
) Recognizing her as a customer, be
!. claims he stopped and asked her Il
: she wanted to ride. She had just en-
: tered the automobile and the machine
I was moving when the shooting oc.
Cured.
Reyes Fires Then Drives Away.
) Detectives say keyes had driven
. upon the scene in a roadster. Keeping
p pace with the other Car Keyes then
Z slowed his car down. jerked the gun
to his shoulder and fired into the car
occupied by Blake and Mrs. Reyes.
Both gun barrels were discharged in
RAPID succession.
3 Blake's car continued some distance
before being brought to a halt. Reyes
turned and drove in the opposite d.
rection.
No report Of the affair reached Do
lice until shortly after 9 midnight,
though the shooting is said to have
taken place at about Z :45 o'clock. DIR.
X. Z. Bowen. 203 Stratford court.
according TO police records, reported
at u 20 o'clock Saturday morning.
that he was attending a man at the
Santa Rosa hospital, whom he said,
had been shot some time earlier in
the night.
Detectives Higgins and NortonI
found Blake at the hospital in what
they said was doubtless a dying con-
dition. Because of the seriousness of
his wound, they could obtain little in.
formation from him.
Takes Wheel When Blake Shot.
Mrs. Keyes said she was walkingI
along the street, when Blake driving
a car. overlook her and offered her a
ride home. She had ks ~ him be.
cause of trading at his tore and
stepVed into the car. The A..chine, she
said, Mad proceeded but a short dis
lance when her husband suddenly
drove alongside and began firing into
the car.
Immediately after the shooting. Mrs.
Reyes told detectives, Blake Stunned
down in his seat and lapsed into what
appeared a semi-cOnscious condition
She assisted him from the drivers
seat and took the wheel. driving the
car rapidly to his home and thence TO
The infirmary.
Detectives reached Keyes' home at
1:3O a. m. He was found in bed and
was immediately placed under arrest.
81, Did Not Want to Kill Anyone.
he expressed surprise that anyone
had been wounded.
49," I am glad, though, I did not kill
anyone, detectives quoted him az
saying. 1t was not my intention TO
say Blake or my wife. ! did not IN
tend TO hit them when l fired into The
car. l was merely trying 10 shoot
The car, tear out the back and pane
1nre tae gas tank IS warning to
,theni.'"
Detectives Say Mr. and Mrs. Keyeg
fhoagh residing in the same house
had not lived together as man and
wife for over a year.
Detectives added chat Kcycs told
AAeh hAAAtu DAhhE ON EeE-
eral occasions not 10 modest his wife
Blake broke up my home" said
Keycs, after being taken out o. tho
city jail, prior 20 being transferred TO
county authorities when an affidavit
was filed charging him with assault
to murder.
Intended 30 Tie Them Together.
But it was not that alone that was
responsible for the shooting" he added.
1T was for my sons sake. / wanted
TO give him an education and had
pleaded with my wife to help me in
the task. ! had pleaded that She do
This. then, if she wanted to be free
she was at liberty TO go. There is
NOT selfish drop of blood in my
body and ] was willing to forsake
my position in my family affairs for
any sons sake.
81 feel I was justified in wat I
did and that L am right with God
in the matter he added. 81 did not
know until detectives told me, though.