Salt Lake Telegram | 1929-09-16 | Page 5 | Arrest Looms in Slaying of Texas Official

lOOMS IN SlA SLAYING Of IAl Officers H Hope pe to C Capture Assassin Before Da Day Ends n BORGER Tc Tex Sept 1 16 A A- A J Ar Apprehension Ir of tho the man nan whom the tho ho widow of DI District A. A Holmes b believed lIt td was tho ambush assassin of t tho the young official was expected today by Texas rangers leading heading tho tim pi great cat group Croup 0 of dogged officers fleets f threshing out ut dozens of clues luen Holmes was shot hot down by three pistol bullets Friday night Mis 1 s Holmes t told Ranger Captain rank Frank Hamer that she believed she knew whoso har hand d Jell heM th the gun gun Captain planned to tako take t the e eman man ian she he named nC in cus tOda today The towering ranger chief the chief figure in this perhaps tho tIle biggest criminal search in hi his years jears cars or of f experience Ic learned from front th the desolatEd widow ido that Holmes had bc been cen n expecting an attack but whether he lie also was Informed of ot the source from which the district at- at orney believed It wo would vo ld Jd come was not ot revealed Meanwhile Me colleague Captain Torn Tom lad had departed departed de- de parted mysteriously and It was thought bought possible that he lie had gone to o arrest he the the suspect o of whose whereabouts hereabouts ho fre seemed informed POLITICS THEORY An unconfirmed rumor that that some of t the scores of 01 pence peace peace officers d de- de to to run down Holmes Holmes' slayer thought that politics might lave have been Involved d In the tile murder sent ent that t i tory theory ory to 10 prominence mom amon among the vast press of leads mulled d over United States Assistant District Attorney tt i Aex Alex G. G Moods Mood's Io d s conference with the Rangers Bangers yesterday had caused sp speculation in tho the direction n nor or of f Borger men Borger inca men and women scheduled for trial today in federal court ourt court at Amarillo Amatillo on n liquor charges tiled led after a a. raid b by tho the state of- of Leers ceis here her in Jul July Holmes Holmes' to as h havo o a assisted the tho government in En the cases jf TIle Tho possibilities opened by the discovery that a mans man's d deathbed nt allegedly implicating William J. J n Walker as asserted as- as gunman gunman- In ill two old Killings here liere was missing from Holmes Holmes' office tiles files appeared t to Have Ita lost some of or their lure a Inv investigators tirs as far as could bo be learned rester- rester d day ay t pushed the h matter back among their minor more moie l concerns GARAGE GARAGE EXAMINED An investigation tho g garage ae at 10 district attorneys attorney's t ho olby by the tl rangers angers convinced them that the slayer either cither leaped out ut of 91 or the build building InS InS' upon Holmes firing as he camo amo or or hid in inn ha a corner coiner a and curled i ilila lila his is trigger finger as th tho victim drove e rove the lie machine machino in Itt and tem tem- was blinded by thi the tho Hood of oe f light which tho cars car's Jain lamps made lade in tho tIm small area Mis Mm Holmes Holmes' believed that h had d she h ho gonen gone In n with he her h husband huband band tho the would have la ed his hand hund tearIng tear tear- Jn Ing ng that she w would uld have havo lived to hi his arrest cause