Nogales international., 1938-10-22

Tuesday night
II left Fort Huachuca about 3:3(
O'Clock Saturday afternoon with
Clarence Sewell and ........-.- Allen
We had no pass from the 25tf
Infantry but were not on duty he
said.
IT brought $3.50 revolver with
me. I had carried it for years.
came here with the intention Of
doing some shopping and having q
good time. I had wired my mother
in Prescott for thirty dollars, she
wired me five Saturday and the
other twenty five was coming
Sunday.
Smokes Marihuana?
"I killed drank at least one
and one half pints of meScal and
smoked one and one quarter mari
huana cigarettes. I wasn't an adj
dict and if 1 hadn't been drunk
wouldn't have smoked them.
After having been over to the
ranch the redlight district in
Nogales, Sonora,) I came back over
to the American side of the line
and drove around. I then decided
to stage a holdup but had no item
tions of doing any shooting.
Sees Large Car
"As drove along (north on West
street, I saw large car turn the
intersection of the street Cat Craw-
ford) and go north. It struck me
that the driver was prosperous. I
didn't know whether the driver
was a man or woman.
LAS the car parked I drove by
and parked at the edge Of the hill
by the telephone pole and, cover
ing my face with a bandana hand
kerchief, rushed back. The man
who alighted from the car stayed
in it for awhile, if he hadn't !
wouldn't have had time to catch
him before he entered the house.
II put the gun to his back as he
had one hand on the door and
told him to hold 'em up BY the
time he raised his hands I had
his wallet and he turned and
grasped the gun and I grasped his
left wrist with my right hand. We
pulled and tugged for a second or
SO and he tripped and stumbled
and fell inside the building and
pulled me indoors.
Then we kept Scuffling and
pulling and he got practically up
and was trying to release my left
hand which held the gun. The
main thing then, since he put up
a fight, I wanted to run and get
away as soon as possible.
Pistol Goes Oft
During the struggle, it was
dark in there, the pistol went of
I and he released me and fell over
against the stairs. I intended tc
stay there, was torn between stay.
ing and running, but I heard
some noise upstairs, then I took
panic and ran and left out o1
there completely.
"A short distance from the house
I stumbled and fell, got up anc
ran down the side of the hill
tearing off my clothes as I fled
Gle had civilian clothes over his
army uniform). It only took me
a second to step out of my trousers
go back and put the car in gear
and let it down the hill with.
out lights.
Praises Tracy
1.-THE man (Tracy Bird) was the
bravest man I ever shaw, or he
was foolhardy. No ordinary per-
son would attempt to fight back
someone with gun
Had I intended killing that mar
I could have done it from where
first saw him after getting Out
f the car about 100 yards away
n could have shot him while he
Eas turning during the scuffle.
II don't know what caused me
to do it. I want everybody tt
know, to realize, that had I beer
n my own normal thinking mino
I wouldn't have done anything
ike that. I understand he wa'
one of the finert men that eve
lived and they tell me he was
man who would give you his shir
; off his back.
when that shot went off i
pretty well sobered me up. It wa
like someone sticking their heat
under cold shower, it actual,
left me sick inside.
after the shooting I was tori
between confessing and bluffing
, out. I realized the problem the of
!, ficers we're up against. was jus
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