The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-06-22
THE DAvIs.MeCRAw MATTER
Mr.. McCraw's Statement of the Part
He Bore In the Matter.

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The following is from the Brazos Pilot.
st. Louis, June Al feel that II will be
your pleasure, MS it ia your duty, to do Mrs.
Davis Justice. In your report of her troubles
you leave the impression on the minds of
your readers that she intended at first to
abandon home and children permanently.
Such was not the fact. But briefly, the fol-
lowing are facts; While North last summer
one of us, reading aloud, read an account of
the supposed drowning of lady, her
funeral and resurrection. Mrs. d. remarked
that she had always intended to play dead
that she had often told Major Davis so, and
that was the way she would do it. re-
piled it was good idea; that she always
wanted to create a sensation, and that would
be "a good one. All joking. Reaching st.
Louis. at the river remarked to herr "This is
your place;Tll 60 home and report you dead"
mot ready yet" or some such reply, she
made. All Joke. Afterward she got anxious
TO try it, and your report of facts are about
true. She went to New York alone. was
to report her drowned keep notes Of all; if
| funeral; notify her, and she was to return in
| disguise; hear funeral and resurrect. ltnoyer
became serious to me until it came time to
telegraph Major ID. could not telegraph
lie to man | loved above all other
men. tried, but hand could not write
it. Finally sent telegram to Charles Davis
and Judge Perry, at Rockdale, requesting him
to notify Major ID. No man except Major
D. suffered more in Galveston than |. The
intended joke became monster fraud-and
on man | loved, yet had not moral courage
to plainly tell him facts, thought it would
all be over soon. knowing she would return
in a fow weeks But imagine my horror on re-
turning to Bryan, learned through friends
that many Thought she was not drowned |
notified Mrs. d. of the fact, and coucurred
with her that she had best stay dead till mat
tors could quiet down; she could not bear to
return and face these reports; time passed !;
matters grew worse. | had gone TO New
York and seen her, and was return
ing--'l te OF funeral was not in Bryan
AS Pilot says it was informed Mrs.
d. was almost crazy promised her to get
her father to SEQ her and advise; went TO Bos-
ton twice on purpose; remember once of
meeting Captain Fulkerson here, but he was
sick; could not command courage to tell
him; thought of going To Mexico-but sh G
did not want me, and could not leave her
in that tx. If you, Messrs. Editors, could
have seen her in her daily agony, from the
time told her of reports, and she feared to re-
turn, and away from her chldren--you would
Mt least be glad 10 report facts In her favor
In March | went to New York, boarding lirst
on Tyenty-hfth street, and then on corner oil
Thirty.eieth street and Sixth avenue intro
duced her as Inv sister she WAS anxious
to be self sustaining, and, u
crafty that wish, on the 9th Of
. NAV rented for her the residence on 6lst-
Mr. Stone; she boarded him, two Messrs
Mitchell (brothers) ard |; | could have
gotten number of boarders tor her, but
Knew her distress and would not; / KEEP
her up on hone, telling her daily her pa
. would come and all would be we'll. FL
nallv saw in tho Pilot, and Bud Crool
3 yyroie me, Col. w. was 10 Hot Springs told
i, her at her earnest solicitation went TO Sc,
him: gave his letter from her; he promised
, and wrote her BY me he would come and SEE
her; no could not but photographed me t
: brieg her tc Hot Springs; sh,
). went alone; no pnrer, better woman
lives; always nv friend death alone car
sever the ties of friendship that bind me Il
4 her as to your illusions to roo. damn ma for
5 what | done, that Is enough; draw not OF
Q vour imagination; | received $500 by m,
r wiG.. sho has always and now HIS every com
T fort of life; 5000 is to her credit now will
Q Mr. Cocke, and all her wants supplied: m,
$ domestic relations do not concern Tie public
: conscious OF all my faults land they are many
1 sbo il Too CONSERVATION, to say that | eve
= fiIsd In sunnlv hor financial wants: move
a had charge Of her father o.ta,e; his son, L
: Il. Goodwin. did; he got his: managed an,
: borrowed Mira Goodwin's: only drew Mrs
mo and ho,ght hor home before she receive
il from her fathers estate; Mr.. T. T. Good