Fatal End to Brawl; Walter Anderson Passes Away Following Altercation at C.L.; A blow on the head, resulting in a blood clot on the brain, proved fatal for Walter Anderson, at Crows Landing Wednesday night. Just how the blow was incurred is unknown, but it was at least indirectly the result of a battle with his stepfather, Frank Hasek, of Patterson, who was attempting to protect Anderson's wife against his furious attacks. Anderson had been irresponsible for some time as the result of heavy drinking and Hasek had been called down several times to protest Mrs. Anderson, whose life he had threatened. Following a severe outburst Wednesday Mr. and Mrs. Hasek had come down and were aiding Mrs. Anderson in conducting the pool room business they operated when Anderson attempted to get some money. Anticipating this the cash had been taken out of the register and hidden away in a bag but Anderson finally found it and attempted to take it away. Hasek grappled with him and Anderson rained blows upon him, striking him a severe blow on the left eye with the bag, causing a heavy swelling. Hasek finally subdued him and Anderson subsided. He was placed in a back room, where he lapsed into unconsciousness. In the meantime a call to the sheriff's office asked that officers be sent to handle him and Deputes Harvey Wright and John Moore responded; but Anderson passed away //?//route to the county seat.. Yesterday morning an autopsy was performed under the direction of coroner George Soven, resulting in the finding that the brain clot was the cause of death. As Anderson had fallen down stairs and been involved in fights several times recently, the question was raised as to whether an //?// low could have been the cause ///?//he medical opinion was that it //?// a recent blow. Either the blow was incurred in the tussle with Hasek or by falling after he had been placed in the back room remains undetermined, but after an investigation by Sheriff Grat Hogin and investigator E. M. Welch yesterday afternoon, Hogin stated that there was no prospect of any criminal charge in the matter. Hasek's actions being blameless.

Stab Fatal to Ranch Worker; Negro Kills Tractor Operator in Brawl At Wesley; A drunken braw following a day spent at Stockton resulted fatally Sunday evening for James R. Elder 49 tractor operator at the Frank Cox ranch at Westley, when Elisha Robinson, 39 year-old Negro, cut his throat. The killing occurred in front of the Merchan service station, where the two, accompanied by Armsted Dixon 24, also colored, and an unidentified white man known only as "Whitey", had stopped on their arrival from Stockton. According to Dixon. a trifling argument over boxing preceded the scuffle, although he was evasive on this point. According to eye witnesses of the affair at the service station, the two participants in the quarrel got out of the car and Elder chased Robinson around the car, declaring he was " going to cut you down to my size.:" The clash followed and Elder fell to the ground with his jugular vein almost severed, dying within a few minutes. The two Negroes vanished in the darkness and a night-long search was begun. Constable C. W. Kirk and Deputy Ossie Ball were called form Paterson and Sheriff Grat Hogin who passed the scene without knowing what was going on, on his way to the Patterson Pentscost was also on hand in short order and summoned his deputies from Modesto. The search ended at 5:45 Monday morning when Hogin picked the two up on the highway at Vernalis, they having spent the night along the track between there and Westley. A large jack knife, supposedly used in killing, was found on Robinson. He had purchased it Sunday morning at the McConnell store at Westley, it later developed. Eye-Witnesses' Story; Two boys, Gerald Avila and Rex Jones, were the closest eye witnesses, with Joe Merchan and two Japanese also near by. According to Jones, both parties to the quarrel were intoxicated, and he told them not to fight, but to get back in the car. But Elder made his threat to "cut Robinson down" and the Negro backed around the car as Elder made a motion toward his back pocket. According to Jones, Robinson asked Elder if he had a knife, saying he did not want to fight that way. But elder came on and swung at the Negro, half-knocking him down. Robinson blocked the blow with his left, Rex said, and then swung the blows with the knife that were fatal. Examination by Dr. E. G. Allen revealed one slash that had cut the deceased man's clothes with a sharp slice; a second that made a deep gash in the left arm and a third that started at the crown of the head, describing an "S" shaped cut downward behind the left ear and then clear across the throat, almost severing the jugular vein. An unexplained and important item was a cut on the Negro's arm, which he said he had been inflicted by Elder. A small knife was found on the dead man but it was closed in his pocket. Whether the Negro had cut himself in the scuffle or whether Elder had cut him with some other weapon which later disappeared are matters for conjecture.