Typed as spelled and written
- Lena Stone Criswell

THE DAILY DEMOCRAT
Thirty-First Year - Number 51
Marlin, Texas,Tuesday, June 30, 1931

ROSEBUD MAN FACES TRIAL
AT BELTON ON MURDER CHARGE

R. H. Hale Charged With Death of
A Companion May 6 Near
Bartlett.

Belton, Texas, June 30 -- Robert H. Hale of Rosebud was scheduled to go to trail in the Bell county district court, this morning on a charge of murder growing out of the killing of Raymond Hilliard near Bartlett on May 6.  Hale, Hilliard and Andrew Kelley are said to have been riding together in a roadster automobile at the time the trouble came up.  They had been in Bartlett and were going to the of Kelley, near Davilla, nine miles east of Bartlett but stopped on the road, five miles east of Bartlett.  Witnesses to the shooting stated that Kelley left the party when the automobile was stopped and that one shot was fired immediately afterward, which struck Hilliard near the right eye, killing him instantly.  Hilliard also lived in Rosebud and the men had been closely acquainted for a number of years.

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