The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-12-02
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>. rr,lsht rrain-His Head Severed
,he I,ody-Mysterious Letter-in-
a. Etc
i Pacific, Of which George Clark is
~ came laundering along yester-
~ -,,nhe about O'Clock, when lust
Z White Rock creek II ran over a
~ me wheels completely seyering the
nom the body. The engineer
II The body and whistled
bnses. but too late to prevent
engine from running over
fRlAs Nv Il was placed in a box.car, and
~ which was entirely separate, was
If sbirot the body and brought TO
~ The body was colt, there being
os il. aud the fact thai there was but n
=, .monpt of blood on it gives rise to
~ hlns S.nieion that there had been foul play,
ieS Moi i,sat the body had been placed on the
nd vssaI .'.d track 10 cover up the crime The
va s.s1 was about 70 years old,
R =, ~ore the garb of u laborng man.
unity. W IN al playing cards and the following
!. A n. I, importing u be from his mother,
ar Bsr ast Gurnee, Illinois, dated Septem-
Uvads a lSS9, and addressed to "Mr. Louie
lso bs s,utid, Furney, Kaufman county,
Que 2 oi ~ we're iouni on his person. The
! !; lShe p.noe was post-marked on the back
v Yo, Ss rney, Texas, November 30" and reads
Vietons ATOMS, word for word:
THE LETTER.
R'y IA, mar SoN:-Your letter received Doant
AoDsde .,,e your place OF residence until you
rom me again, wich | hope will be
Hesrne. M in haste, your loving
George. MOTHER AND FRIEND.
sanies s-Say nothing about this"
M above is rather u mysterious doCu-
KY M and the request to say nothing about
/ Louis IN IS still more so. 1t is an enigma, and
Pleas GERS, appreciating that there was
Ne mysterious meaning in the
raj Ry erer. noted closely the features
ana Al, The severed head as it
by the hip of the body. They are of
s d. o1inon that the deceased was fugi-
-. from justice, or else why such brief,
rsclnc Dnprehensibe letter and the injunction
~ Esa Oa kep the matter of receiving it Il secret
,anss. Nm was bruiSe above the left eve, and
nd all sEG the only wound louho on MS per-
He had been picking cotton in the
d P grht Store neighborhood. His death
IA. who he is is 80 far a mystery. Justice
ma yards empanneled jury aud held an
'' aesl over The remains.
THEINQUEsT.
T. Bailey, bei first sworn says that he
As n in Dallas county, Texas, near
laghts store; think have saw the man
{},u nee body is now in box.csr OH side
M sk Of the Texas &c Pacific railroad, in
ady Of Dallas | knew the man to have
| ana In engaged in picking cotton in our
yghbOrhOod all this fall; he went by the
aae name as is on the envelope found
lns hon bis body, Louis Wusenfeld; saw him
i've two weeks 8go to-day at Mesquite in
NEG ssNunty; | saw him this morning when
alry was sworn; his head was entirely
fOfhis shoulders, and was lying by his
rs ady near his right hip; he was lying upon
sstcr aught in by freight train passing
La NE, on the Texas & Pacific rail-
ad, this morning; | do not
ana how whether the man had family;
blocked as if lie was about "a or % years
gise.
'pec. @. TURNER,
Mt sworn, says: am local agent Of the
,rc iHs Pacific railroad at Dallas; about
~ lplhs morning Conductor George Clark,
aifeight passing here going west; called
aOut of my office and told me that the
nSA aepeaking of box.car) am setting off
uaS here, has a mans body in it; about
tdOck this morning Conductor j. Il.
hVell, coming west with freight train on
alns tt Texas & Pacific railroad discovered u
si b0Cy on the track about one.quarter
nav asmile west of White Rock bridge; his
w Egneer, UOley Bum, discovered the body
nd vhisted for brakes, but the train
pissed the body before he could stop; Con-
.lAor George Powell got off and tagged
a.. CONDUCTOR George Clarke, on train No. 2l9
''' Moving him, and be stopped and put the
nv Ndy in the empty car and brought 1t TO
Nv sas and turned it over to me; Conduc-
hf 'iark says the body was cold and still,
nd covered with frost, showing that the
nan had been killed early in the night;
All these trains have passed on west; the
~ 1an head vas separated from the body; |
Tvs DhOl Know who the man was.
Aninquest held in the city and county OF
DALLAS, Texas, December 1, 1852, by vii.
IAN Edwards, justice of the peace, upon
is lie dead body of an unknown white man,
opposed to be that of Louis Wustcnleld,
ed at the depot OF the Texas Il Pacific
,,e Nlsay company, upon the oaths of L. G.
Fry ], Il. Lane, T. b. Shandley, I.
AeOecke, S, S. Taylor and II, b. Dean, good
EdaSlul jurors ct said county who being
"a due form sworn, upon view of the dead
'' Wy OF said Wustentel1, say that in their
pNon, Louis Wustenfeld, white man,
eolt u or 20 years OF age came to his
zap some tiiuc during the night of No
.s91oer 30, 1882, near White Rock creek
- sMge, in Dallas county, by being run
Hu by train or trains of cars passing over
ae Texas & Pacific railway company'S