Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-05-12

IL Is q COPY o. one WIlttEu ana
signed by my authority"
That's all, Mr.. Creager."
George Hill, Jr., chief Of the COM
mitteeman's legal staff, insisted or
seeing the letter but Taylor, saying
he wasn't offering 1t in evidence as
yet. refused until the court told him
Let MI. Hill see it."
Hill read 1t and then had Creager
identify some other letters-corres-
pondence between Creager and VIII
lard Ferguson. former Hidalgo
county republican chairman and
now bitter foe OF the party head.
These were not introduced In evil
denCe, either.
The letter held by the defense
was understood unofficially 70 have
been a ~delineation by Mr.. Creager
OF his method OF operations In Tex
as.
Creager stepped from the stand
having said hardly more than twen-
ty words.
Were set" said Charles =. KEEL
ley. New York generalissimo OF the
magazines legal forces. ito bring
them in here in droves."
May Bring Many
II Judge Estes rules that Golfers
may attempt to prove everything
1t said in the article "High-Handed
and Hell-Bent." n the absence Of a
specific denial by Creager counsel
Of the charges as affecting the
Baker democratic administration
Kelley will bring in his vast num-
Der of people to testify.
II the judge affirmS his holding
that the weekly need try TO estah-
lish the veracity OF nothing more
than charges made in the article
against Creager. Kelley will pro-
coed for some time In his effort 20
show that there was a political al
lance between the states republic
can leader and HidalRo county's
democratic chieftain.
After Judge Estes had announced
THAT he thought Golfers need con-
Germ itself only with the commit
teeman's connection with the ar
ticle, Kelley arose TO insist that In
that event the jury must be In
structed that In its deliberations 10
must proceed on the basis that the
allegations IS affecting the demo-
cratic administration we're true.
Jack Berry, a big Edinburg fruits
grower who looked indignant when
Bakers faction was mentioned, was
quite testy on cross examination by
j. A. Graham for the plaintiff.
Identifying himself as an inde-
na anfA ", Faewaa@A A. -
Of Graham's questions, We've been
trying to get a bunch Of thieves
out up there"
In other words" Graham said
loudly, your idea is that everybody
in office up there is a theft"
"Self-conf0sSed and proved be-
yond doubt" said the witness, COM
pressing his lips and looking about.
Who has confessed it?"
well, they haven't denied &C."
"JuSt the same, every time your
group goes into court you lose, don't
you?"
mo. sir. we set aside n three hun
bred thousand dollar contract "a few
weeks ago that wouldn't have been
OF a nickel's service to the county"
Chronicle Shown
Beforehand. articles printed I'm
The Houston Chronicle In Now
ember 1923 were submitted by Col
liers under the courts interpreta-
ton Of the last Texas libel law
amendment 10 the effect that when
more than one publication Of al
legged libelous matter had occurred.
a publisher sued could plead this
in determining whether its par
ticular story had caused any dam
age. Golfers contends that news
papers had made the same charges
IN effect that II habitat Creager
aided the A. Y. Baker democratic
Hidalgo county regime to keep in
power.