Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-07-12
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should be given to Constable Lucas,
his deputies and two u. 3. border
patrol inspectors, Ramon Longoria
and r. ID. Trahan.
Reed also declared that the Next
can women living in the neighbor-
hood in which the slain woman had
lived also deserved credit for their
assistance to officers and aid in Sc
scuring the evidence which later
prompted Cara TO make a complete
confession.
In his confession. CARA admitted
that he had taken off his clothes az
the site Of the murder and had at
tempted 10 wash off all blood stains
officers said.
The chain Of details pieced
together by Constable Joe Lucas and
other officers in the case gave indica-
lions Of making a strong case against
Cara in the Staying Of the oma
The first clue to the murder came
with reports 20 officers from the
family In Harrington at whose home
q Mexican woman had stayed. The
woman had been missing since
Thursday of last week, when
she was last seen walking off down
an alley, in company with Ramon
!, Cara.
The woman met the man in re-
spouse to . message delivered 10 her
by the at whose house she
was staying. Before she left TO meet
Cara, Juana Paniagua expressed fear
that she would never return TO tell
about it." She said Cara was in
sanely jealous, and said she feared
him.
Clothing Described
At the time Cara was wearing
brown duck clothes, according 70 the
testimony of these people.
When officers appeared at the
htuse after the woman's body had
been found, they asked for a descrip-
tion Of the clothing which Juana vas
wearing when she left. The people
ut the house gave a description which
exactly fit that of the murdered
woman They said she was wearing
q cheap, plain dress, with a blue
stripe in il, that she had on black
stockings, tied with black strings,
and wore pointed shoes with no laces
in them. All these details exactly
fit the woman who was found, estab-
fishing her identity almost without
question.
Then the people produced the pass
port, with a picture on it, showing
that the woman's name was Juana
Paniagua, that she was Is years old,
and lived in Matamoros. She had
crossed the Rio Grande at Browns
willie about two months ago, but was
turned back because she had no pass
port. She later secured a passport.
applied for admission at Reynosa, and
was admitted on June 10 of this year.
Caught in Cotton Field
The man who is being held is a
laborer. He is a Mexican citizen,
and is said to have come across the
Rio Grande illegally. He admitted
that he was wanted at Matamoros
for the murder there two years ago
in March. Of a woman named Con-
eepcion Medina, officers said. At
that time Cara was only Il years
old.
Furnished with q description Of
Cara. the officers started a search
for him, and late Tuesday he was To-
Gated in a field of cotton, picking
cotton with a number of other labor
srs. Lucas and Deputy Constables
Fernando Leal and Pedro Garcia
made the arrest. They said that when
thew approached the laborers in the
field, all Of them stood up except
Cara, and that he squatted lower in
the field.
Cara was taken to the spot on the
Arrovo Colorado Country club
grounds where the body was found, in
a. effort TO secure q confession, Of
ficers said. When they showed him
The spot. he turned his head and APP
nearsd greatly affected. but still
maintained that he knew nothing
.bout the death Of the m
Clothes Sought
When he was shown the passport
pictrre Of Juana Paniagua he said
s.ycs. that Is my wife, but ! don't
know where she is" the officers said.
At the time of his arrest he vas
Gearing different clothes from those
worn al the time he was last seen.
Carza is a small man, appearing
ven more youthful than his age. He
has rather large brown eyes, thin
Inns and Q thin nose.