Two Sentenced in Holdup

 

The Dallas Morning News
Thursday, November 17, 1927
sec 2 pg 15

Three years was the the sentence assesed Otto Cox, 19, who was tried Wednesday in Judge C. A. Pippen's Criminal District Court No. 2 on a charge of assault to rob with firearms. In the court a jury Tuesday meted out a two-year sentence to Cox's alleged accomplice, Weldon Frazier, 19. Cox's young wife sat beside him during the trial.

Testimony of G. O. Evans tended to show that Cox was one of two men who attempted to hold up a filling station at Maple avenue and Throckmorton street the night of Aug. 10. Evans, manager of the place, testified that Cox attacked him with a hammer and attempted to get possession of a money bag held by Evans, the other man held a pistol on Ven Veldeman, a visitor at the filling station. When Evans jerked away from the robber attacking him both bandits fled, he testified. Similar testimony was given by Veldeman. Both identified Cox as one of the bandits.