1936 death of Edgar L. Etter in Texas
San Antonio Light
San Antonio, Texas
July 29, 1936
Freer Asst. Chief Treated for Wound
EDGAR L. ETTER, 44, assistant chief of police at Freer, was under treatment at Nix Hospital Wednesday for treatment of a pistol bullet round in the side and a fractured skull. Etter was shot and struck on the head with a pistol at Freer Tuesday when attempting to arrest a drunk man. He was flown to San Antonio by ambulance plane.
Note: Born Oct. 27, 1893 at Weslaco, Texas; parents, WILLIAM A. ETTER and MARTHA CURRANT/ CURRENT. Died August 1, 1936 at San Antonio.
San Antonio Express
San Antonio, Texas
August 2, 1936
Freer Policeman Dies of Wounds
The body of EDGAR L. FREER, 44, assistant chief of police at Freer, who died Saturday at noon of wounds inflicted Tuesday at Freer by a drunken assailant, was forwarded Saturday night to Weslasco, home of his family, for funeral and burial. Etter, assisting a landlord in trying to collect some rent money, it was reported, was shot in the side and his skull fractured by a blow from a pistol.
The survivors are the widow, Mrs. VERA ETTER; four daughters, OZELL, LENA, LOIS and ANNA ETTER; four sons, MARION, RUBLE, NOEL and ZANE ETTER; five brothers and six sisters, all of Weslaco.
Heraldo de Brownsville
Brownsville, Texas
August 3, 1936
Funeral Is Set for EDGAR ETTER
Weslaco, August 3: Funeral services for EDGAR ETTER, 42, former deputy sheriff of Hidalgo County, will be held Monday afternoon at 4 o’clock in the First Baptist Church of Weslaco, Rev. YOUNG will officiate. The Martin Nelson Funeral Home will be in charge. Mr. Etter, assistant police chief at Freer, was wounded while in line of duty and died at a San Antonio hospital Saturday.
Survivors are his wife and eight children; MOSELLE, LENA, MARIAN, RUBLE, ZANE, LOIS, ANNA and NOEL, all of Weslaco; alsohis mother, Mrs. W. A. ETTER of La Feria; five brothers and six sisters. Active pallbearers will be S. B. BLEDSOE, M. C. GALBREATH, HARVEY DEAL, R. R. TALBERT, C. D. CARNAHAN, all of Weslaco, and ELBERT HUGHES of Edinburg.
San Antonio Light
San Antonio, Texas
August 4, 1936
Blame Fatal Fight on Row over Debt
Fort Worth, Aug. 4: An altercation over a private debt was ascribed today as the cause of the fight at Freer a week ago in which ED ETTER, chief of police there, was shot fatally. ROBERT L. GRAFFT, formerly a night watchman here, sought since the trouble, was in custody and told of the argument. Graft said he owed a resident of Freer, who was trying to collect and brought ETTER into the matter. Etter died in San Antonio several days ago. Graft was found here yesterday.