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Re: MATURA

rlangermann  (View posts) Posted: 12 Feb 2009 6:24PM GMT
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Surnames: Matura
Hello,
when I understand your question, then you are on search to informations to Clement Matura, born 16.Febr 1871 Moravia, immigrated in year 1894 from Europa to Baltimore/MD and death or execut on 02.July 1937 in prison of Huntsville. His mother with his siblings immigrated in same year from Europa to New York and had arrivel this port on 26.May 1894 and wanted to going to Schulenburg/Texas. His mother come´s to New York with Frank, Rudolf and Mary Matura.
On 16.December 1898 his mother Bertha Matura was working on the Huebner farm near Schulenburg. John Matura and his friend Vincent Krobot come´s to the Huebner farm to speak with his mother and become´s trouble with her. In result of this trouble and showdown Klement Matura had shooting his brother John Matura and the friend of John Matura, Vincent Krobot. The Vincent Krobot was also native from Moravia. This variant is wrote in obituary on 19.December 1898 in Weimar Mercury. Hope this helps in moment!
With best wishes from Germany
Rüdiger Langermann

MATURA Obituary

rlangermann  (View posts) Posted: 12 Feb 2009 10:18PM GMT
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Surnames: Matura
Obituary to John Matura
Weimar Mercury 19.December 1898

Defending His Mother and a Young Man Kills His Brother

"Schulenburg, Tex., Dec. 16. - The Farm of Andrew Huebner, located five miles northeast of Schulenburg, was the scene of a tragedy in which two men, Vincent Krobot and John Matura, met death at 10 o`clock last night.
Mrs. Matura, widow, was a tenant on the Huebner farm, and with her lived her two sons, John Matura, aged agout 28 years, and Clemens Matura, aged about 26 years.
John Matura and Vincent Krobot had rented some farming land a few miles west of Schulenburg and were preparing to cultivate it next year. Together they went fo Mrs. Matura´s household effects belonging to John Matura. A dispute arose between Mrs. Matura and her son John in regard to the ownership of some of the effects, which culminated in the killing.
Clemens Matura came to town to notify the officers of the killing. To the justice of the peace he said that when the dispute arose between his mother and brother, Krobot took the part of the son and struck his mother, that he, Clemens, then interfered to protect his mother. Krobot and John Matura both attacked him, the former with a pitchfork and the latter with an ax, when he shot and killed both of them with a pistol. Krobot was shot through the heart and John Matura through the heat, the ball entering the left lobe of the brain.
Clemens Matura came to town this morning for coffins for the dead men. During the day a warrant was issued for his arrest.
The Matura´s are Moravians and came here from their
mother country about three years ago.
Vincent Krobot was also a Moravian and came to this country
three or four years ago. He was about 30 years old, a laborer, and had a wife and four or five children in the old country, whom he expected to join him here next year.
John Matura, deceased, and his brother Clemens Matura, the slayer, were unmarried. "

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