The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-07-21

north Toes, ara lived N Dfn'Oh hun
| Wisa counties aboUt two y ara. j came W
Wealth, rEofd IN 1878. bavo been 10 the
sal ,on business The creator part ~ the vac
! 4 have lived IN nonb Texss i ilfst met
Jack Rush IN March. 1880, but hevet be-
came In any way familiar tn Minis be was
nrt tho style of man that i liked, pui he
often came about my saloon, wblcb, OF
course, Insde noe acquainted win Nun 10 n
certain extent | sm Ms perfectly Innocent
Of his killing, sir, No you are. inc grouu!s
for suspecting me. are: there WIS nuns
ciral election held in Weitheriord on the
9Th day Of April, 1880. l was wo' k'ng 10
the interest Of one Of the candidates LOT
mayor l was challenging votes. one
Jack Campbell came IN front OF me a. the
polls, and said he would like 10 have me
challenge bis vote. A dispute arse ana
he struck mo and l fell on my lace.
| When got up was struck again In the
back of the head. As l fell l saw Jack
Rush and Jack Campbell standing over me.
Both were arrested and fn' d ore cot and
costs. Jack Rush had tn remain in jail
about ten days to pay his fine. OF course
ut the time of the assault, l used come
tbre, tening, violent language, but she
extreme i'll feeling passed off and had no
Thought of ever molesting Jack Rush. "A
short time before the killing Jack Rush and
A GAMBLER CALLED SLIM JIM
went or hunt in the B szos bottoms, about
twenty miles from w. atheriord, and were
absent over a week. Rush assaulted Slim j IN
in their tent and gave him 40 unmsrcilul
tprashing; then left him and returned to
Westherford. The night Rush WAS killed
| Slim Jim WIS in Weatherford, but could not
| be found the rext day These statements
about Rush and Slim Jim are corrobornted
by m4ny good citizens of WeatherioId) 1
| feel positive that
SLIM JIM KILLED JACK RUSH
as revenge for the tbrsshlng he had given
him. Previous to Jack Rush and 81 m Jim
going on their hunt, Jonn Greenwood and
myself had difficulty with man named M.
| G Clark Green wood and myself knew we
had to kill Clark or he would kill Va. While
Rush and Slim Jim were absent, Clark re-
appeared and the quarrel was renewed.
Greenwood and myself had my brother Wal
ter borrow two shot guns, TO be prepared
for emergencies. We wanted to leave them
in the house of Greenwood's parents, but
they objected, so we laid them uhder the
house where we could gettbe u conveniently.
had received a threatening aooDym us let
ter, which construed 10 be from Clark. l
mad it in my mind to kill M @ Clark, but
never thought of k ling r ish. The testmo-
ny on the trial was substantially the same
sgainsl Greenwood aud myself but none OF
it mplicsted my brother Walter, and be was
acquitted and released. The testimony of
the Inmates of Kate loves house-none
of them in any manner reliable-was TO the
effect that Greenwood and l were seen st
IT. NIT chn mhi
was the re on tho night of The killing, and
that was seen by them to shoot Jack Rush.
I'll us wss all the positive, direct ard clear
testimony against u.s. but these three unreli-
able witnesses were sustained by
A MASS OF CIRCUMsrANTIAL EVIDENCE
from persona of good standing and
we we're convicted. The circlmstantial
evidence fitted in us perfectly as possible.
II WAS to t effect that Rush and L had
difficulty On election day, and Of my violent
talk; that had IF c,ed the borrowing Of two
shot guns, and Greenwood and | had been
seen carrying them 1T night; that we were
seen with them the night zach Rush WIS
killed, a I'd the SUBS euent fading of the guns
under II reenwoJd's house. All this circun-
stantial testimony was by reliable witnesses,
but those who gave it were not aware the
guus vera carried for Clrrk instead of Jack
Rusk. But the testimony tlttd in perfectly
and made the testimony of the three women
al Kate Lo we's pass for the truth, and we,
though. innocent WIRE conG"mned to sutiar
for whist l feel positive was the crime of
Sim Jim. The killing occurred may IA,
1880; We we're nll Indicted and tried sepera,e-
ly at the following term of court; my brother
Walter was acquitted, aud Greenwood and
cJnvic.e6; we sppesed our cases; both were
rtfifmed by the court of appeals in Decen-
Der 1880, ~ Tyler.
On the 18th of January 1881 hoping and
believing that with the lapse OF time TINS
truth about the killing would become known
and my life be spared,
1 COMMENCED FEIGNING INSANITY.
The prisoners ha jast been removed from
the old wooden jail building 10 the new one
one, with its iron cages and cells. was
not nearly a. well hestei..ss the old b., ing,
and the removal occurred during severe
cold weather of last winter. J ne old
building the pers'ure ave. during
the cold spell at least 30 alb We &c; 10 the
new Jail with lis cold iron aoor cages and
nothing but our blankets to lie on it Certain
ly was down 10 gro, at least Wa
suffered fearfully by such gres
change, and concluded to make 1t tho IS
of my feigned insanity, wanted tho idea
W prevail thai nay mental faculties had neeu
psralS zed OF greatly impsTed by reasonof the
radical change of tempersturr; that had be-
come idiotically insane. / would cit on my
char, gazing at the floor or around my csg-,
appsrentl, oblivious to trsnspiriug events.
| would not tall and cate but Little. No one
can begin to imagine the
MENTAL AND PHYSICAL TORTURE
| subjected my selt 10 during the Dinety-one
days from January 15.h TO April 15sh,
feighing insanity, and at The came time pos.
sessing all my faculties. Sometimes would
be almost dea,hly sick, and If hsd dared 10
let my physician know my condition, how
felt ETC., my sufferings could have been re-
level. My brotbtr ana friends would call
TO see me, aud l could not even let them
know what I was undergoing to save my life.
All the time was watched, to see If 81 any
time l gave evidence Of being sane; and doc
tors and oil kinds of expert we're employed,
with all kinds of devices 10 tempt me to be-
tray myself succeeded in convincing all
that was insane. aud Judge Hood refused 70
sentence me, and was returned 10 my cell.
The same survilsnce and scientific investigs-
ton was kept up. A fellow prisoner, sens
tel ced TO the peniteniary, occupying the
same cell with me, one night committed