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Show Texas Woman Takes Her s Place Among Trappers y Eagle Pass, Texas. A slight at" young woman, mother of a seven- ; Wc year-old daughter, has become the -jnta! leading woman southwest trapper, i ot She is Mrs. Bessie Davies Ken-nedy. Ken-nedy. Her husband, Robert, is a , state-paid trapper of mountain lions, s''' wolves, coyotes and bobcats. He is recognized as the best in his pro- J fession, and his catch of 168 coy-otes coy-otes in a single month still is the 'itZ record. rf Mrs. Kennedy surprised this town 0 , early last March by hauling in a huge mountain lion on the running board of her dust-covered car. Less n0 than two weeks later she came in sln with another a feat that few men jB di have equaled. iijsi The Kennedys live in Maverick $0. county and trap in the "Indio" coun- jcier try a 100-mile square area notori- rerytl ous for its wild animals and its jsting lack of trails. Most of the area is a ot owned by the Indio ranch, and few tl f1 improvements have been made il st' since the Spanish conquistadors es- 3 tablished the ranch's boundary A of three centuries ago. f5; The Kennedys were married in 'na 1928 at Crystal city. They moved JeBtm to Maverick county in 1934, and -tnca began trapping. Their daughter, f Bessie, is in school at La Pryor, 1 . . 45 miles northeast of Eagle Pass. t |