Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-11-30

nau the pistol in my left hand. and h
SAID Give me that pistol, Cd d.
you, give IL here ~ and he snstcb.
The pistol, and IL was already cock,
IL went otl'and hit him him in m
stomach. had turned Ii loose I'm n;
hands. | would not have shot the no
for n million dollars" ~
WILLIAM COOPER.
William Cooper, the father of IN,
DEAD boy, was now sworn. and nrn
ceeded To give the following statement,
of the matter: '''' =
i was acquainted with Georg,
Cooper in his lifetime. He IL nnS
dead. In the, first place / was wort'
my at the Cowboy saloon in Fort
worth, Iarrant county, Tex. The
W.T. ement between Isaac Cooper and
myself was that was to let him have
what money had, buy out John Gal
ioway's bar fixtures, get new license.
ana start up the saloon, help him Ia
run IL and that he would
give me half of the profits.
the license being in his name
which they are. have tended to IT
up TO his morning. Mr.. John Gallo.
way mas been bartender. Monday
evening he turned Mr.. Galloway oil,
and we agreed that he Isaac was moi
able To stand the night watch. and
that | should stand the night watch
and he day, that | was ADLER to stand
II than he was. This morning he
came from home to the saloon about
seven o'clock to take my place and
stand day watch. ! took NV apron
on, ne got Il clean one
and put 1t on, and / went to
breakfast. 1t was about s o'clock
when we started. Mr. Charlie Cow
ihgton was wanting to get job tend
ing bar. After we got our breakfast
told him | would 20 back and see
brother Isaac and help him get lob.
also told him that ! was not able to
stand night watch, that | had done
tried it, and would help him to get the
night watch and would
take the day watch. When we
got there saw that Isaac
had got to drinking while | was gone.
and | took him oil to one side, and he
aud i and br ther Henry out in front
of the saloon on the sidewalk were
talking about another business aud !
told him that if he was going to get
drunk this morning HAD bet r take
watch myself. He says, "All right; you
get drunk sometimes yourself, you can
take it, We walked into the saloon,
lie in front. He went to Mr.. Charlie
Covington, pulled his apron of, gave
it 10 him, and MIR. Covington put 1t on
and went to tending bar. When my
brother Isaac first came there
this morning, rs has been the custom
every since | had been tending bar,
counted the money behind the bar
belonging Ia the saloon when ] went
of watch, left the silver in the drawer
and turned over SSj in greenbacks to
him-three SO notes and II s. note.
All of this transaction was between
myself and brother Isaac. This hap
pened before 1 went home to breakfast.
After he had put Charlie Covington
on watch tending bar he passed out of
the saloon into the back room. did
not know where he had gone to, but
thought he had gone home. Mr.
Eph. Daggett rode up in his !
buggy 10 The front of the saloon aud
asked me how many l would give
him playing game of pool. told
him | wouldn't give him anything, Ia
.ome ahead, and / would play him II
ew games anyway. We commenced |
playing, and played | believe about |
,wo games. My son George came To
NE, and told me uncle Isaac was sit !
ing in the corner of one of the back
Ooms drunk, and that there was -
Iegro in there he thought, waiting for
Jim to go TO sleep, so he could rob him |
handed my son George IA cue and .
Did him TO play till
went and seen about
Z. ! went in there. The doors were
hut, and ii is perfectly dark inside
hen the doors are shut. The first
hing that saw was the negro that
ieorge had told him ABOUT. lying on
wo little round tables sitting side by
de. When | first walked in the
arkness blinded me, and all that |
Guild see was the negro lying on the
wo tables, and directly could see
rother Isaac sitting over in the cor
en- went To him and asked him
hat was the matter He told me that
e had DIR nix too much. told him
nat if he SAID he was too full, he had
otter give me what money he
nd. He said he wouldn't do IL. !
ltll began W ltti IbI MS IIl'ucl ubh .
oppose he was so drunk he knew
othing about il. As soon rs he found
le feeling for it, he turned his head
y and looked at me, said, William,
II give it 10 you. i haven't got any,
lly what you gave me this morn
~ pulled the money out of the
atch- pocket of his pants, and tried
count it, but couldn't handle it well
lough to count IL. | took ii out of
is hand, and counted it IN yself. /
,ys Isaac, there's S35 of it, then
,ok his watch out of his vest pocket.
sad Now Isaac, I'll let you
lone. think if anybody goes
rough you they won't get much
then went into the bar-room, COM
fenced playing pool again. taking my
lace. My son George asked me If |
nd got Uncle Ike's money and watch,
nd told him | had. He asked me
DIV much money did 1 get. told
i'm $50. He said. 'That'snot all he's
1t. He's got $40 bill in his right
,st pocket. saw him put 1t there.
said, Il guess not. He told me he
dn't have any money, only what j
we him this morning. didn't pay
-. ,.tnntinn IN n mud lirpptly the !.