The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-12-03
THE ENNIS COURAGE"
rhe Marshal Of the Town says it liz
Not True.

| 70 the Editor OF The Herald;
Emil December lst.--l see flaming
article in your paper of yesterday, head
ed "Rayished--A young woman out
ragged Sunday night in Ennis by three
iiends, etc, in which our town and peo-
pie are slandered by, to say the least of
her, crazy woman, | hope you will
have the cOndor to publish this letter.
For the truth Of the statements herein,
refer to 7, J Montgomery deputy
sheriff and to the section boss, section
81, Houston and Texas Central Railway
and to the Rev T. G. A. Tharp. On
Monday morning last, the section boss,
section 81, came to mo and told me
that woman was lying on the railroad
track Just below town who refused to
get up, and who said she intended to
Kill herself, and Mr.. Montgomery
went to where the woman was
and found her weeping bitterly.
recognized her ~ u waitress Of the
Ennis House, She refused to tell what
was the matter. At last, after making
us promise not to tell she related the
following story: She said that she
came from Mississippi and that she had
been at the Ennis House for about four
weeks; that day or two after she be.
gan work there, Billy McCord, the cook.
began to nuke improper proposals to
her, but failed to gain his object by per.
suasion, and that about three weeks
ago he told her that he had something
good for her and himself to eat,
and she accepted his invitation to
eat with him aud in few minutes she
became wild and reckless, and did not
care what became OF her. She knew
all the time what was going ON vet
yiel led to him, and he ACCOMPLISHED
his designs, and that next day he told
her that he would furnish her money
to leave on whenever she wished to 90
and that since that time he had kent
up his proposals Of improper intercourse
with her, but that she had aluays re
fused, and that on Sunday night last he
had come to her room door and told
her if she did not let him in he would
tell what he had done, and ruin her
anyhow She said as she was all ready
disgraced and that rather than it should
be known she would kill herself |
tried my best to got her to make oath
to her statement but she positively and
refused to do so, and the
only way in which we could induce her
to return to town was by promising to
give her money enough to leave on,
which we did, after every effort was
made to got her to swear to her state.
ment, which she pcrsistently refused to
do, and said that no one was to blame
except McCord have made dilicent |
inquiry, and so has Mr. Montgomery to
fiud out whether her story was true or
not, Every circumstance and all the
Information we could gather went TO
provo that it was not true and that the
woman was a lewd charac.
ter. This is the truth of the history
Of the ravished and outraged woman as
given by herself, and were it true,
the citizens ofthe town of Ennis would
hang Billy McCord rs high as llaman,
in less than twenty minutes. The poor
and unfortunate woman deserves the
pity of the public, but it is not fair TO
allow herto damn the good name of a
law'abiding people, who never vet have
refused to clothe the naked, feed the
hungry or to give shelter and protec-
ton to the poor and defenseless and as