The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1878-03-09
LOUISA BEALL TRAGEDY.

Murder snfctas
Some six weeks since, the HERALD
made mention Of the sudden and mys
terioB- disappearance OF the vile OF
negro named Isaac Brall, who was at
the time arrested and thrown II To jail,
upon warrant sW orn out by the miss
lug vomsn's mother, charging him
with having foully dealt with her.
The clothes she had worn the day pre-
vious, and all her other wearing APP
pArel, we're left behind, not single ar
ticle OF AM description being misslug.
There was sn air Of my-tery over TIE
whole affair that was uHexplainabie,
Several days after Bealps confinement,
II was reported that she WIS seen ~
Fort Worth, where she has sister
living, but upon Investigation IL proved
70 toe false. The woman had upon diff
ierent occasions before threatened 10
leave him, and taxing iato eon-idera-
tlon This ii.Ut Beali " as discharged from
custody, the officers being Of opinion
that she had EoLe of to some place, and
from some odd fancy had tried 10 make
her demise rs mysterious As possible
The affair had passed out Of the minds
~ the general publlc, and the circum
stances concerning the matter hst
usen forgotten, when yesterdNy
morning the body Of woman
Vas found lodged in pile OF drin
wood on the Trinity, about half mile
below the bridge. A negro man cut
ting wood for Mr.. Robert CockreIl, was
the first person To discover the BODY.
On going To the place % chop he was
horrided at the CHASTITY and naked
oody OF the woman lying among the
logs. He informed Mr.. Cockrsll of
what hs had seen, who In turn notified
the authorities. Upon going to thu
spot theyiOund the woman lying among
the wood. as the negro n AN had de
scribed. She had on no clothing whats
ever save her stockings. The body
was considerably decomposed, the
tiesh la many places having begun to
drop of. The mother of the woman
Identified the body ~ that of her
daughter partly through recognition
aud ny two rings ana u crosse she wore
In the mean time the new ,pread like
wildhre through the city, and
especially exciting the g, Jred people
20 action, who turned on. IN masse 10
look for Beail who had ,nl seen in the
ivy that morning. She O. Moon upon
learning of ths hndiu. { the body
rode directly to his house, situated be
yoBd the su bur s on the Preston rosc,
where he found aud arrested bin. The
-herif took the prisoner to the spot
where the body was still lying when
he said that he Guessed IL mus be
! ner." Justice McLure held All IN
quest over the body, occupying the
lay In hearing the Testimony OF vii
nesses, and will return verdict
| this morning. Beali was placed
Ia jail and the reporter call
| 81 TO hear what he had
20 say concerning the matter. he
stated that he thought it was the body
| u his wife, and protested that he was
Innocent Of her death, ssyiug: "They
can hang me II they will, but am In.
noCent OF numbering her." 1t il jus;
ts told you the fret time WAS put
la here. ] Awoke one morning, and
she was gone that il all know about
It," Up0u the reporter asking him if
| .he had ever threatened to suicide, he
answered that she had frequently
'sid that she meant TO disappear some
| lime, and no one would ever know
what became OF her" BeAll and bis
Sife--who had been married before,
saving left her former husoand--got
along unpleasAutly together. he having
IN two different occasions left her on
hat account; but each time noaking up,
with her again. IL 10 also stated by
hose who knew them, that they were
Doth jealous of each other, and that
Misunderstanding between them were
DOT unfrequent Whether this is foul
murder or suicide, will have TO be
determined by law. Terrell Martin,
an old negro man living near BealPs,
states that he saw her alive, near that
portion Of the city, few weeks ago,
aud since the time OF her disap
Jearauce. The negroes are much tx
cited over the affair, and 1t was ru.
noted that they had threatened TO
axe him from the Jail and hang MIN.
But sheriff Moon will be on the look
out and at once put an effective stop
TO any such demonstrations. Beall
sill probably to-day have an examin-
ing trial.
A few days since Sam Miller, a
orother-in,law OF the negro woman
found 10 the driftwood Of the Trinity,
came to Sheriff Moon aud showed him
a letter he had received from the wo-
name sister, telling him to come over
at once, a. there was woman there
who could tell all shout the murder of
her sister, and where she was buried.
She stated in the letter that the wo
man said her sister bad been muir
dered by her husband and two other
men, aud that her remains were con
cesled three blocks west of the court
house In this city. Thinking that the
woman in question might be a partici.
pant 10 making away with the wo-
man, or might throw light upon the
matter, he told Miller to meet him at
tue three o'clock traiu for Fort Worth.
Arriving there he went To the house OF
the sister and enqulred for the won an
whom he was told had Just left for
Jaeks6oro. He asked the sister II the
woman WAS from Dallas, when she
told him she did not know. The sher
tf then asked her how the woman
knew anything about the supposed
murder. Way. boss, she cuts o.
cards" Everything was nov plain.
A fortune teller, In whose power she
believed, had made dupe OF her
Captsin Moon says that he was never
- taken back Ia bis life, and that he
felt like whipping himself though II
is nothing more than shat any other
dutltul officer Of the Law would have
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