The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-07-13

QutsuOH ny SOlohel CteHinoHs lpr lus
defense.-"What are your feelings toward
Mayor Thurmond."
Answer. -"Well, | reckon they are not
kind; about what yours are, reckon"
Mr.. Beard, witness Tor the prosecution, was
sworn and testified: | was on the jury in
the Goldsby trial Mayor Thurmond said in
his speech that he was there TO defend that
boy, and that before he begun he would say
word about his police, and correcting him
self, said, "No, not my police, but
the city's police" He went for
Frenchy, calling him robber and thief and
said that the police stood in with him and
gamblers, and that ii SCENE strange to him
that they should do SO.
Cross.examined Il am a special police.
man, and got my appointment on the recon-
mendaton of Alderman G. f. Keller; am
kindly disposed toward the mayor the
mayor said that Waller received pay from
Frenchy.
Henry Cohn--I was pr sent at the trial OF
Goldsby before Justice Edwards, and heard
the mayors speech; his speech was al first a
general defense Of the boy and then a de-
nouncement of Frenchy MS most disrepu-
table character: 81 pledge you my word and
honor MS an honest man, no, won say hon.
est man, for that woul please some Of my
friends too WE'LL Fendrich for instance
that the police stand in with Frenchy." 1t
seems strange he said, that the police should
stand in with such disreputable characters
Henry Waller, witness for the prosecu.
ton, testified; heard the mayors speech !;
he gave me deal, and referring to the police
he said that they stood in with thieves, rob.
bers and gamblers; he abused me first and
pitched into the police generally.
Cross-exsmined-Th was on the occasion
of the trial of Goldsby, who was arrested on
the charge of abusive language; | hold the
position Of deputy sheriff, and stay at the
Red Light at nights to keep ORDER and | AIN
paid by Frenchy; think that Mayor Thur
mond's speech was more severe than Judge
Hurts, who spoke mostly of Sheehsn and
Clapp; | was formerly on the police forces
my feelings toward the mayor are not good.
+. f. Gray, for the prosecution, testified
| am clerk in Justice Edwards court; heard
Mayor Thurmond say in the Goldsby trial
that Frenchy's house was a resort for ieves
and robbers; the officers f the city stood in
with Frenchy, and he then corrected bin.
self by saying some of them did {:
He said that he thought Sheriff Moon did
very wrong in giving Henry Waller com
mission ms deputy sheriff to watch the Red
Light
| Cross-examined-I think he said the po-
lice seemed to stand in with Frenchy; he
said in his speech that he thought that if
Sheriff Moon knew of the facts that he would
never have given Waller commission.
The witness though. the mayor referred to
the police.
W. H. Smith. witness for prosecution,
testified; The latter part of April arrested
a man on suspicion of stealing horse, which,
it afterwards trsnspired, he had, in Wise
, county; the man was discharged on writ of
habeas corpus, and Mayor Thurmond received
the horse MS his fee on the 18th of May |
received a telegram from the sheriff of
Wise county saying that the party was in
Jail in that county for the theft of n
horse; | afterwards received let.
ter from the owner Of the horse,
giving description of the horse, which suit
ed. Here witness produced telegram and
letter, then went to Mayor Thurmond
and showed him the letter and telegram. |
told him that the horse he got as "A fee was
the stolen animal. He said he had sold il.
asked him to whom, and he said to man
who lived in Palo Pinto county. told him
|
rs there was $50 reward for it. He said he
would not tell me where the horse was, nor
could net be forced to, and that he could
write to the man who had lost the horse,
for him to write to him (Thurmond) and
that he would see that got ten dollars, il
dropped the matter. He never told me
where the horse WAS, but it was found in the
| nnc Nf H. IN u,F "a.
sides near Richardson's we had another CON
versatlon, and on my repeating the first one,
he said that he agreed with me; it was on the
construction of the ten dollars that we dis.
agreed; he said that he made me the propo-
sition because had been at some trouble,
while | considered 1t an attempt to bride me.
Cross.eXamined by the IN .yor.--You did
tell me that if wrote TO the owner ofthe
animal where it was, that | would not get
the reward, for he would 60 and get it HIM
self; you further told me that when the own
ers came, we would all three go and see the
horse, and that the reason why you wanted
him to come to Dallas, was that you wanted
him to describe the horse before he saw ii;
wrote him where the horse was, and he
went and got it, but |
have never gotten my reward;
you told me thstif I wrote him where it was
would never get any reward; you remarked
! that you wanted to see the man before he
saw the horse; understood that tho $40
offered me by Thurmond was hush-money-
that is, after | wrote to the owner of the
horse should drop the matter and the search
for the horse. AT the time the agreement
was signed made the statement about the
$40 to drop the matter about the horse: |
did not hear Thurmohd make any statement
about paying me whether the horse was
stolen or not understood then, and take it
now, that the $40 was offered as p bribe.
Mayor Thurmond denied that be stated in
open council that the charge of Morton about
the horse was false in toto
By prosecution These conversations that
Mayor Thurmond has had with me have
been since this investigation was set on foot.
ID. L. w. Hutihines, witness for defense,
was sworn and testified: | bought the
| horse from Mayor Thurmond for S45 and he
gave me bill of sale; ne said he had gotten
it for fee; the horse was afterwards proven
away from me by the owner, and Mayor
Thurmond, when | told him of it. paid me
my .money back; he never enjoined secrecy
on me.
Here the third charge made by the mar.
shsl that tn mayor had fined gamblers only
81 for gsmieg, while the ordinance fixed il al
not less than $40 in each case, WAS taken IN
and the docket of the court introduced Ms
evidence. The mayor acknowledged that he
had erred in this respect and saws that it
was ignorance of the law on his part that
caused him t. do it.
This morning at . O'Clock the investigation
will be resumed, when the defense will intro.
duce their witnesses and the mayor makes his