Show Texas Steel Worker I Tarred and Feathered I HOUSTON Tex Doc Dec 15 IG AP W. W H. H Patton 45 steel worker who was found in a a. shed at his home hero here last night covered with a a. coatIng coating coating coat coat- ing of oil and feathers told told- officers today that h ho It was seized on a i suburban street early in the dIe evening I Iby by a a. band of men and thrust into an automobile Ho lie remembered nothing further he said until he Woke up In a a. hospital at about 5 o'clock this morning Pattons Patton's daughter Evangeline 19 said she found her father writhing in pain in the rear of their home bearing evidence of having been choked Previously the girl said her father had received threatening letters Once she asserted acid had been thrown on him through his bedroom window while ho he was asleep She knew of no reason she told the tho officers why her father should be bo attacked and knew of no enemies he lie might have Patton however gave the district district dis US- attorney the names of several persons he he- suspected of attacking him hIm |