Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-07-03
'.THE DIAMOND GIRL"
SDf Her Brutal Murder Called Up
Eat Night and Shot Through
tho Head.


tho Head.
TMobeetie Panhandle.l
sast Sunday night shortly after IL
lock foul and cowardly murder
! committed in Mobeetie, a woman
he town known as the Diamond
sfbeing shot and instantly killed
her own home near the court house
Iere. she lived alone.
The victim was q native of Nash
LII Tennessee, and had made Mo-
stieh home for the past two years.
I'm a letter written by her few
1rs previous to her tragic death to :,
md in Nashville, and not yet sealed,
vas learned that her maiden name
B Ella Cobb. She had been married
Il man named Brown, of Nashville,
i passed here under the name OF
ii Holmes.
rhere was no eyewitness to the
gedy, but the circumstances point
One Jim Brady as the perpetrator
he deed. Brady has been in the
sahandle about a year and during
st iime has worked at different
lcheS. There was something
)utshim that caused no one to like
i2l.and he did not remain long nj
one place. He had been about
sFa* several days previous to the
Hing, and contentious remarks
i0nped by him awakened feelings OF
-i3tke toward him in the Sc who had
hd6&his acquaintance. He tried to
rroN money from different parties,
Wing that he could replace it, as
seref was u women here who had
fsz.aloney and that he could get
Ik0nl her and he meant to have
.ssSwith other remarks to tue
gfna or worse purport. On
m NV evening Brady was engaged
/ m k on the lIe Fors place. The
u was plea SAINT and light, aud the
HIT had been in no hurry to go out
f{lkH about II O'clock Brady Dor
3s48a Ike's lprse to so and get bi'
5jlf% He rode in II gallop to the
dalnond Girl house, and shortly
nistol shot was heard and TN
httfderer was seen in the bright moon
ahtto ride around the corner of the
3lirt- house fence and out the soutt
and at the best speed of his horse
he officers were ON the alep&, bu
nose who saw and heard seemed t,
blink it was some one who shot TO
,alschief as he rode out of town.
lsIE was a half hour OF more a fte
he shot was fired before it wa
Sn0Nn the crime had been committed
The body was found lying just within
,huat one side of the front door, witt
,hefet close to the wall and the hea,
'oWald the middle of the room.
was straight and rigid, wit
the hands drawn up to IL
hfetst. The face WAS teirlbl
j)ovEller burnt, showing that I'll
weapon had been almost or against
WHEEL discharged. There were II
,{xlis of any scufile, and the left han
Nthe corpse still held. cards, the di
l3d8{t ion Of the other cards oPthe tab
where the lamp was still mrnin
l3r1Rhtiy showing that when called
Ae'door the victim had been engage
II playing "solitaire.n The room w
AftSly furnished and looked neat an
4 Ihe post-noriem showed that u
'5uHet was 3S-caliber had broke
Ntzhugh, the upper part of the l.
fIfAsk bone, and, passing through, III
He<4 ed in the lower and back part
khe'head. II had flattened out into
|fA8tsed aud very ugly piece Ct lead.
Mite Il known of the past history
&h3 Diamond Girl, but since her n
'ldelee here She lius always been We
yaaiet, never appearing on the stree
exSept when compelled To make pl
'tehN ses, and no one has seen or heard
sfler except from choice.
Ai sorts OF theories are rife as TO Z
incentive of the murderer, but the 2
>vaIent opinion seems 10 be that
thought she had money aho
The house and meant
rob her. hut that the report OF I
pistol and realization of what lac Ia
dole unnerved him and he fled le;
lug everything untouched. AS we
o,press Brady is still nj large, but
l$4crifi Arlington has been out c'
sihce the killing, il IS hoped he III
ht brought in.