Son of James and Agnes Brady, both of Ireland. Husband of Nellie C. Brady.
John was convicted of murdering Lehlia C. Highsmith. He was sentenced to three years for his crime.
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Austin Girl Cut to Death,
Lawyer Held
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John W. Brady Charged With Killing Lehlia Highsmith.
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AUSTIN, Texas, Nov. 10 - Lelia Highsmith, stenographer to the Supreme Court Commission of Appeals, is dead from knife wounds, and Judge John W. Brady, former State official and prominent lawyer, is in jail charged with murder. The Capital City and officials are all agog over the tragedy, which stunned the city when its details became known early Sunday. Judge Brady is to have an examining trial at 2 p.m. Monday in local Justice Court. In the meantime he is in jail without bond.
Judge Brady is approximately 57 years old and the dead girl was about 25 years old. She had been employed in the State House for a number of years, where she had come to know Judge Brady when he was an Assistant Attorney General and later as legal adviser to the State Banking Department under the Ferguson administration. At one time Judge Brady had been County Attorney of Travis County and was well known in Texas politics and State legal circles.
While a member of the Attorney General's staff, Judge Brady handled the antitrust matters for the department, and was in some of the most important antitrust cases conducted by the Attorney General's Department.
Previous to employment by the Commission of Appeals, Miss Highsmith had been of the clerical force in the State Industrial Accident Board. Her mother died several years ago.
The tragedy, one of the most sensational to happen in Austin, occurred shortly after midnight. A boarding house within the shadow of the State Capitol was the scene of the killing. A pocketknife with a large blade was the weapon used. The girl was slashed several times, the fatal wound being in her side.
According to friends, when Judge Brady awoke in jail Sunday he offered to pay a fine for drunkenness to obtain his release. He apparently was dazed and not aware of the night's happenings.
The Bradys have an attractive home in a fashionable part of the city. They have no children. Judge and Mrs. Brady have been married for many years.
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Father Not Informed.
Houston, Texas, Nov. 10 (AP) - Miss Lehlia Highsmith, stabbed to death in a car in front of her boarding house at Austin late on Saturday night, was a daughter of G. B. Highsmith, head of the accounting department of the Humble Oil Refinery at Baytown.
Mr. Highsmith late Sunday had not been informed of his daughter's death. He left Saturday for a fishing trip on the coast and efforts to locate him Sunday had failed up to a late hour.
Mrs. Highsmith, stepmother of the dead girl, declined to discuss the incident.
Mrs. Highsmith said that Mr. Highsmith announced he was going to fish on Little Turtle Bayou. Acting on this information, a searching party left Baytown early Sunday morning to notify the father, but a patrol of Turtle Bayou in Brazoria County failed in locating him. Whether he had decided to fish in Turtle Bayou in Jefferson County, about thirty miles east of Baytown, had not been learned on Sunday night.
Mrs. Highsmith expressed fear that news of the death of his only child might cause a collapse because of a weak heart. Mr. Highsmith was under treatment for several weeks about a year ago when stricken by a heart attack, she said.
- Dallas Morning News
November 11, 1929
John was convicted of murdering Lehlia C. Highsmith. He was sentenced to three years for his crime.
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Austin Girl Cut to Death,
Lawyer Held
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John W. Brady Charged With Killing Lehlia Highsmith.
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AUSTIN, Texas, Nov. 10 - Lelia Highsmith, stenographer to the Supreme Court Commission of Appeals, is dead from knife wounds, and Judge John W. Brady, former State official and prominent lawyer, is in jail charged with murder. The Capital City and officials are all agog over the tragedy, which stunned the city when its details became known early Sunday. Judge Brady is to have an examining trial at 2 p.m. Monday in local Justice Court. In the meantime he is in jail without bond.
Judge Brady is approximately 57 years old and the dead girl was about 25 years old. She had been employed in the State House for a number of years, where she had come to know Judge Brady when he was an Assistant Attorney General and later as legal adviser to the State Banking Department under the Ferguson administration. At one time Judge Brady had been County Attorney of Travis County and was well known in Texas politics and State legal circles.
While a member of the Attorney General's staff, Judge Brady handled the antitrust matters for the department, and was in some of the most important antitrust cases conducted by the Attorney General's Department.
Previous to employment by the Commission of Appeals, Miss Highsmith had been of the clerical force in the State Industrial Accident Board. Her mother died several years ago.
The tragedy, one of the most sensational to happen in Austin, occurred shortly after midnight. A boarding house within the shadow of the State Capitol was the scene of the killing. A pocketknife with a large blade was the weapon used. The girl was slashed several times, the fatal wound being in her side.
According to friends, when Judge Brady awoke in jail Sunday he offered to pay a fine for drunkenness to obtain his release. He apparently was dazed and not aware of the night's happenings.
The Bradys have an attractive home in a fashionable part of the city. They have no children. Judge and Mrs. Brady have been married for many years.
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Father Not Informed.
Houston, Texas, Nov. 10 (AP) - Miss Lehlia Highsmith, stabbed to death in a car in front of her boarding house at Austin late on Saturday night, was a daughter of G. B. Highsmith, head of the accounting department of the Humble Oil Refinery at Baytown.
Mr. Highsmith late Sunday had not been informed of his daughter's death. He left Saturday for a fishing trip on the coast and efforts to locate him Sunday had failed up to a late hour.
Mrs. Highsmith, stepmother of the dead girl, declined to discuss the incident.
Mrs. Highsmith said that Mr. Highsmith announced he was going to fish on Little Turtle Bayou. Acting on this information, a searching party left Baytown early Sunday morning to notify the father, but a patrol of Turtle Bayou in Brazoria County failed in locating him. Whether he had decided to fish in Turtle Bayou in Jefferson County, about thirty miles east of Baytown, had not been learned on Sunday night.
Mrs. Highsmith expressed fear that news of the death of his only child might cause a collapse because of a weak heart. Mr. Highsmith was under treatment for several weeks about a year ago when stricken by a heart attack, she said.
- Dallas Morning News
November 11, 1929
Son of James and Agnes Brady, both of Ireland. Husband of Nellie C. Brady.
John was convicted of murdering Lehlia C. Highsmith. He was sentenced to three years for his crime.
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Austin Girl Cut to Death,
Lawyer Held
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John W. Brady Charged With Killing Lehlia Highsmith.
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AUSTIN, Texas, Nov. 10 - Lelia Highsmith, stenographer to the Supreme Court Commission of Appeals, is dead from knife wounds, and Judge John W. Brady, former State official and prominent lawyer, is in jail charged with murder. The Capital City and officials are all agog over the tragedy, which stunned the city when its details became known early Sunday. Judge Brady is to have an examining trial at 2 p.m. Monday in local Justice Court. In the meantime he is in jail without bond.
Judge Brady is approximately 57 years old and the dead girl was about 25 years old. She had been employed in the State House for a number of years, where she had come to know Judge Brady when he was an Assistant Attorney General and later as legal adviser to the State Banking Department under the Ferguson administration. At one time Judge Brady had been County Attorney of Travis County and was well known in Texas politics and State legal circles.
While a member of the Attorney General's staff, Judge Brady handled the antitrust matters for the department, and was in some of the most important antitrust cases conducted by the Attorney General's Department.
Previous to employment by the Commission of Appeals, Miss Highsmith had been of the clerical force in the State Industrial Accident Board. Her mother died several years ago.
The tragedy, one of the most sensational to happen in Austin, occurred shortly after midnight. A boarding house within the shadow of the State Capitol was the scene of the killing. A pocketknife with a large blade was the weapon used. The girl was slashed several times, the fatal wound being in her side.
According to friends, when Judge Brady awoke in jail Sunday he offered to pay a fine for drunkenness to obtain his release. He apparently was dazed and not aware of the night's happenings.
The Bradys have an attractive home in a fashionable part of the city. They have no children. Judge and Mrs. Brady have been married for many years.
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Father Not Informed.
Houston, Texas, Nov. 10 (AP) - Miss Lehlia Highsmith, stabbed to death in a car in front of her boarding house at Austin late on Saturday night, was a daughter of G. B. Highsmith, head of the accounting department of the Humble Oil Refinery at Baytown.
Mr. Highsmith late Sunday had not been informed of his daughter's death. He left Saturday for a fishing trip on the coast and efforts to locate him Sunday had failed up to a late hour.
Mrs. Highsmith, stepmother of the dead girl, declined to discuss the incident.
Mrs. Highsmith said that Mr. Highsmith announced he was going to fish on Little Turtle Bayou. Acting on this information, a searching party left Baytown early Sunday morning to notify the father, but a patrol of Turtle Bayou in Brazoria County failed in locating him. Whether he had decided to fish in Turtle Bayou in Jefferson County, about thirty miles east of Baytown, had not been learned on Sunday night.
Mrs. Highsmith expressed fear that news of the death of his only child might cause a collapse because of a weak heart. Mr. Highsmith was under treatment for several weeks about a year ago when stricken by a heart attack, she said.
- Dallas Morning News
November 11, 1929
John was convicted of murdering Lehlia C. Highsmith. He was sentenced to three years for his crime.
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Austin Girl Cut to Death,
Lawyer Held
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John W. Brady Charged With Killing Lehlia Highsmith.
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AUSTIN, Texas, Nov. 10 - Lelia Highsmith, stenographer to the Supreme Court Commission of Appeals, is dead from knife wounds, and Judge John W. Brady, former State official and prominent lawyer, is in jail charged with murder. The Capital City and officials are all agog over the tragedy, which stunned the city when its details became known early Sunday. Judge Brady is to have an examining trial at 2 p.m. Monday in local Justice Court. In the meantime he is in jail without bond.
Judge Brady is approximately 57 years old and the dead girl was about 25 years old. She had been employed in the State House for a number of years, where she had come to know Judge Brady when he was an Assistant Attorney General and later as legal adviser to the State Banking Department under the Ferguson administration. At one time Judge Brady had been County Attorney of Travis County and was well known in Texas politics and State legal circles.
While a member of the Attorney General's staff, Judge Brady handled the antitrust matters for the department, and was in some of the most important antitrust cases conducted by the Attorney General's Department.
Previous to employment by the Commission of Appeals, Miss Highsmith had been of the clerical force in the State Industrial Accident Board. Her mother died several years ago.
The tragedy, one of the most sensational to happen in Austin, occurred shortly after midnight. A boarding house within the shadow of the State Capitol was the scene of the killing. A pocketknife with a large blade was the weapon used. The girl was slashed several times, the fatal wound being in her side.
According to friends, when Judge Brady awoke in jail Sunday he offered to pay a fine for drunkenness to obtain his release. He apparently was dazed and not aware of the night's happenings.
The Bradys have an attractive home in a fashionable part of the city. They have no children. Judge and Mrs. Brady have been married for many years.
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Father Not Informed.
Houston, Texas, Nov. 10 (AP) - Miss Lehlia Highsmith, stabbed to death in a car in front of her boarding house at Austin late on Saturday night, was a daughter of G. B. Highsmith, head of the accounting department of the Humble Oil Refinery at Baytown.
Mr. Highsmith late Sunday had not been informed of his daughter's death. He left Saturday for a fishing trip on the coast and efforts to locate him Sunday had failed up to a late hour.
Mrs. Highsmith, stepmother of the dead girl, declined to discuss the incident.
Mrs. Highsmith said that Mr. Highsmith announced he was going to fish on Little Turtle Bayou. Acting on this information, a searching party left Baytown early Sunday morning to notify the father, but a patrol of Turtle Bayou in Brazoria County failed in locating him. Whether he had decided to fish in Turtle Bayou in Jefferson County, about thirty miles east of Baytown, had not been learned on Sunday night.
Mrs. Highsmith expressed fear that news of the death of his only child might cause a collapse because of a weak heart. Mr. Highsmith was under treatment for several weeks about a year ago when stricken by a heart attack, she said.
- Dallas Morning News
November 11, 1929
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