The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-06-07
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CoRsTCANA, May 31-Ten thousand
pounds of wool, being the cut from
Captain S. J. 7. Johnson's flock, was
sold yesterday to A. Swartz. There
is now in stock in town, awaiting
shipment, 100000 pounds.
A deposit of S13, 500 is in the hands
of Garietty & Huey awaiting the
owner, who does not put in an APP
pearance. The owner was arrested in
Limestone on charge of horse theft,
and put up IN cash $1,000 for his APP
pearance. On being searched the first
named amount was found on his per-
son, which the sheriff brought to this
place and deposited with our bankers
until more was found out about the
party.
MARSHALL, May 31.-The killing
as given you in a New York special
yesterday, in Carthage, occurred in
this way: John Collins was a bar
keeper and man of very bad charac-
ter generally. He was overbearing
in every way and set himself up as
the bully of Pamela county. Last
| Tuesday night, without the least
/ provocation, he hit young Baker over
the head with a pistol and fired on
him about the same time. Baker,
| being unarmed, left the house and
| was followed by Collins to the side
| walk, when he was shot by some I'M
| known party in the neck and killed.
1t is said that a brother-in-law of
Baker did the shooting, but it is mere
| guess work and is not founded upon
| evidence.
WACO, May 31.-A fire broke out at
five O'Clock this evening in the two
story brick Clubhouse of j. w. Mann,
and totally DESTROYED the building,
two gin stands, condensers and ma
chinery, press, four bales of lint cot
ton, and large amount of Gotten
seed. Mann's loss on the building
and engines was about $500.
The Waco Oil Works loss on cotton
seed and balance of machinery, $500;
no insurance. The fire, it is sup
posed, originated from match or
| piece of metal running through the
gin.
Ten indictments by the grand jury
to-day-fiYe felonies and five INSIDE
meanOrs.
The case of George B. Campbell VS..
John F. Hardie & Co., of New Or
leans, Was decided in favor of plain
tiff. The case was an injunction suit
to prevent Hardie & Co. taking pos
session of the homestead of Campbell,
to which latter he had given deed to
the former for money borrow ed.
Plaintiff claimed that the deed ope-
rated simply as a mortgage, which
view the court sustained and a per-
manent injunction was granted.
The case of w. II. Matthews 81 Co.
VS.. f. V. Hogan, administrator of the
estate of b. +. Graves, was taken up
at the conclusion of the case above
stated. This is a suit to determine
the value of the good will of Il bust
ness firm, the firm of Matthews & Co.
having bought the stock of goods and
good will of Graves, who afterwards
entered the same line of business.
This Matthews & Co. claim was a
breach of contract, and claim release
from their obligation on that account.
| DALLAS, May 31-John Milestone,
who killed man named Berry in
1871, in Van Zandt county, and was
captured in Louisiana year ago, and
held on preliminary trial in $1,000
bond, was released from the Canton
jail to-day, his bond having been re-
duced to $4,000. which he succeeded in
giving. Although the killing oc-
CURED tWenty-one years ago, there is
still a very strong case OF murder
against MILESTONE, as nearly all the
material witnesses are still living.
Mrs. Heacock, who was convicted
of numbering her husband by poison
ing three years ago, and life sentence
passed, but which was reversed by
the court of appeals and bond set at
Zandt county jail to-day. Her bond
was reduced to $500, Her alleged
paramount, DIR. Ball, under sentence OF
death, escaped from Tyler Jail two
years ago and has never been recap
tured. The case excited more interest
and became the most celebrated in the
criminal annals of Texas. Mrs. Hea-
cock was a young, popular, handsome,
cultivated and well-informed woman.
Her husband, a tine gentleman and
salesman for mercantile establish
ment at Wills Point, was taken sick.
DR.. Ball attended him. He and Mrs
Heacock became enamored. Mr.. Hea-
cock SO far recovered as to be able to
sit up, but suddenly and mysteriously
| Iio6 Tho nOSt IoOrta1.n acfa h1jcb HI
poisoning. Purchase of the poison
was proven on DR.. Ball. eliminating
and loving letters between
written during the illness and
after death were intercepted, and the
strongest sort of murder case made
out, resulting in both being convicted.
The court OF appeals set aside the yer
dict against Mrs, HeaDock on techni-
calities. Now her release on fifteen
hundred dollars bond is generally re-
garded as ending the case forever,
with no one punished for the crime,
as DR.. Ball will probably never be re-
captured.
Henry Meyer, the German found
shot in the head a few days ago, died
this morning, He maintained to the
last that he was shot by negro fifty
miles in the country, although a lady
declarrs'she saw him shoot himself
near the southern limits. He was
buried to-day without a coroner's in
quest being held, which is the cause
of some comment, as that is not the
customary mode Of procedure iRl such
cases.
The residence of VIM. Wynn, eight
miles from the city, was destroyed by
fire yesterday. The loss is estimat, d
at about $1,000; no insurance.