Salt Lake Telegram | 1930-02-24 | Page 5 | Rummer Shot to Death in Battle with Patrolman

RUMMER SHOT TO I IDA DA DEATH 1 IN BA BATTLE WITH WilD P PATROLMAN A Border Guard Slays Mexican Mexican Mexican can in to Hand Encounter f fEL I AP-I EL PASO Tex Feb 24 4 AP AP- AP Th second rum runt running fracas fracas' within two weeks hero cn ended cd in the death yesterday of or a jn n If In a to hand fight with J I. I JI II H. H COIle Cone a a. United i States border patrol guard Suard Th The guard su was badly h beaten about the tho head ul b by the tho Mexican who had huel waded traded across the Rio Hlo Grande Grand with witha a sack mck of or bottled bottle liquor and ln en encountered encountered en- en countered the officer as ho on American soil Tho The fight took look place a short dis ilis- distance IR- IR tance from the time international bridge connecting Et Paso and mares Juarez The patrolman who had watched the movements of or the time Mexican from from dense dence undergrowth along the tho river er riverbank bank bink t the limo smuggler to halt The he Mexican whipped d out a pistol but hut his hIM shot went wild when the officer kicked him on the wrist Thin The Mexican beat tho the guard about the head with time the butt of ot the tho revolver rc Inflicting severe ro scalp DrawinG his pistol tho the patrolman pa- pa shot the time man four times Ho died two hours later In an tn El EI ElPaso ElPaso Paso hospital Ho told toil attendants ho Imo was Pedro Rodriguez 25 5 of Juarez A gun gain battle battlo occurred hers hero Feb Feb- February February It t between border guards and rum rumrunners runners some Boine of ot tho time spots shots h from the Mexican side Bide of or the river crashing through windows of or El EI ElPaso Paso buildings No one oneas was as hit lilt