Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-05-13
CREACER SUIT
PASSES into
FINAL PHASE
Hidalgo Editor 10
Heard On Probe
Findings

Golfers weekly rested To-Day is
long defense or r. 3. Creager's half
million dollar libel suit after . re-
iterated decision BY the court had
limited finally the extent 70 which
testimony need 60.
The magazines counsel asked
again that ii be permitted TO prove
the truth Of all charges made III
"High-Handed and Hell-Beut," the
article in controversy, against a. XXI.
Baker, democratic Hidalgo county
administration. but Federal Judge
w. Lee Estes held again that this
lengthy effort was not necessary In
that Golfers had not charged Baker
with the misconduct alleged against
Baker and Creager's lawyers had
not denied the complaints against
the democrat, these not being the
issue in the suit.
Independent On Stand
q. II. Pease, "a lean, gray little
man who edits the HidalGO County
independent for the Good Govern
ment League, thus left the stand
before he was permitted 70 divulge
the fun findings OF Investigations
he said he had made. When the
weekly'S attorneys tried to 20 into
the matter IN detail, George Hill.
ir.. chief or the plaintiffs staff,
and Charles Kelley, defense head
came rushing to the front from
the seats In the real they had been
leisurely occupying. The old wrangle
was had-and the courts decision
was announced again.
Pease had testified that as q re-
suit CT his investigation, five suits
against various Hidalgo county Of
ficers charging financial manipu-
lations had been brought and 1udR-
ment for the plaintiffs had been
obtained In one thus far.
RebuttaI Opens
Earlier the defense had announc-
Ell that at last 1t would stop offer
ing witnesses 70 testify that they
believed there was "a political ALI
ance between Creager. republican
national committeeman and Baker
the sole charge Golfers admits
having made against the commit
teeman. The magazine served no.
tice, however. that If the point was
made an issue in the plaintiffs re-
buttal, which began Immediately.
10 would put on more witnesses In
that connection.
"A deposition by Leonard With
ington. executive secretary or the
state republican party, was offered
first by the Creager side In rebuttal.
Wilmington said MFR. Creager was
not present at the state convention
which recognized Harry Carroll as
Hidalgo chairman-a procedure
Good Government LeagIers claim
was part of the asserted Creager
scheme to deny them a republican
ticket IN that county.
The accustomed route lay ahead
today in the libel suit and there
were dozens OF witnesses ready 10
travel X.
Most or them were members or
the Good Government League, made
up largely of t~ransplanted mid
w~esterners holding a long grievance
because they feel that political In
dependence had been deEied them
i'm "a measure due to Creager's al
legged political alliance with the
a. Y. Baker democratic regime-an
alliance they claim led the repub-
lican national committeeman to
discourage local tickets of his OWN
party to make the way smoother
for the millionaire sheriff"
Many to Testify
How many Of these who we're yet
to testify could not Be measured
not even by Charles u. Kelley, In
90 whose hands are entrusted the
magazines fortunes at bar. II
don't know" he said. when we'll
stop. 1t all depends on what devel-
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