Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-11-07
KILLING.
J. w Fleming Shot on East Wca'her'ora
street BY y. l.. Cunningham.
An Accouufb r the Occurrence as Related
BY the Eye Witnesses.

| lost MS lie ny plstp Sh"s ytI,
l.. Cunningham, also citizen OF tiis
city. The particulars are as iolIoWs'
Bad feeling had existed between, we
parties for some tlrne, anu slisni
| quarrel on Monday evening ihleisiiieu
that feeling which continues ~ ,n
crease until its elimination III rie'ii'
ing's death yesterday evening"
Mr.. W. l.. HoLT,
mn cve.witness gives substantially
/ HE following statement of the occur
| renee Fleming was walking down
| East Weatherford street after i've
O'Clock when he was passed by Gun
ninpham and his son driving III
lIghf covered spring wagon.
When nearly to Harding street
Cunningham passed w. l.. Holt and
| Charles Ferguson, who were walki ~
1 In the same direction. He was dry,
! ing and asked Mr.. Ferguson II he did
NOT want to ride, and as Ferguson got
| INTO the wagon, Cunningham made
some remark about Fleming, who WAS
| then some distance behind, but who
| heard the remark and rctorted, and ri
the same time ran his hand BEHIND
him rs though in the act of drawing
pistol. Young Cunningham then
slowly drove the wagon around the
corner of Harding street, at which
point his father took hold of the reiDs
and backed the wagon around until II
was facing Weatherford street, ana
waited for Fleming TO come up,
Fleming, who lived on Weatbertord
street lust beyond the railroad, contin-
ued to advance down Weatheriord,
with his band still behind him on the
pistol in his hip pocket. When he
! had cotton ut the junction Of the two
streets Cunningham hailed hInl and
said: "You d---n old f. of b,
YOU have been carrying a pistol for me
] all day."
Fleming stopped, never removing
/ his hand from behind, and said, ms he
! raised his left hand and moved ii in
the direction of Cunningham resi-
dence on East Second street.
"NOp had better 90 on home, Gun
ningham.n
Cunningham continued TO curse and
abuse Fleming for some time while
the latter still held one hand aloit and
! the other one behind him. Finally
Cunningham jumped from the wagon
| 10 the ground and as he did, Fleming
pulled pistol from his left hip pocket
and held it down behind him. Cum
niugham then said rs he started IT,
wards Fleming, "Iou have got Il pis-
toll In your hand now, Cd d-n
you, and running his hand into his
bosom pulled large sized iorty-two
calibcr pistol from il and showing it
towards Fleming, fired. The ball en-
tered fleming's head just above the
left eye killing him instantly. Cum
ningham then got into the wagon and
drove TO the Jail and delivered
himself up TO Deputy Sheriff II. IL.
/ Tucker and James Maddox.
/ MIR. n. j. PARKER,
who Is delivering clerk for VIM.
Brown, the grocer gave the reporter
! the following account Of what he saw
and heard:
! He had stopped his wagon at Mrs.
Williams, 10 deliver some goods, aud
had got rs far ns the gate. Mr.. Cum
bingham had driven past and was
hidden rom him by the house. He
heard Mr. Cunningham talking very
loudly. He saw Fleming standing in
the street, with his right hand behind
him on hiN pistol, which was in his
pocket. Sic heard Cunningham say
Fleming hhd been carrying pistol for
him all day. Thinking there was
going TO be difficulty he started up
that way, but stopped at Hrlts
gate. Directly after this he heard
Cunningham say "lll yet out
of my wagon" He had not
heard Fleming shy anything ut all up
to this time. Cunningham suited the
action to the word 10y jumping out of
his wagon, and started toward Flem-
| ing. Then Fleming said TO him,
Don't you come another step toward
me!p but did not pull his pistol, only
keeping his hand on ii. Canning
hams reply 10 this menace was TO pull
his pistol and fire, Fleming fell on
his right side, dead.
| MR. c. 8. FERGUSON
was found by the reporter ut his home
Il short distance beyond the scene OF
| the killing, and gave the following ac-
count of his connection with the mat
ter as an eye witness: Hewas returning
home, walking along with Dave Holt.
Cunningham and his son passed them
in livery wagon, and as they did 50
called out TO him, "Dou't you want to
ride homer He replied, You ought
TO have spoke about IL before. while
we were IN town. The wagon stopped
aud ne jumped IN the back part. Altei
he got in, Cunningham said tc
him, looking back toward,
Fleming, who was walking In
the road, "That d. old s. of IA b.
has been carrying pistol for me-
This was In IA tone loud enough TO b,
heard by Fleming, who was walking
along the road about forty feet back
with bis hand behind him as il in hi
hip pocket. lie said something in re
ply In loud tone, but the buggy mad,
considerable noise, and he did not un
derstand what he said. Cunningham
) clutched very oXcltedly at the reins t,
stop the horse. The young man tolC
his father he was drunk and drove on
Cunningham kept repeating THE d
old s. OF "a hitch,n etc. He hnallS
succeeded in catching hold of the lines
and the horse backed ant
turned the wagon round. Fleming
was coming along behind, but stoppet
near Hollis house when the Wagon
began backing. After 1t was turned
round, and the horse had stopped h,
Jumped. out saying II will get out
Cunningham, and 10 on home, ii that