The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-03-01
THE COTTON CASES.
Preiininary Examination Before JUS
tice KssdAii has Begun.
0ahstauce OF ssperIAtsndsn Smith's. Of
Sherman, Testimony.
The ExsIssncss IL Iatsasifyiug.

dell court yesterday morning 20 hear me
fssl,mopy In the osss ~ The btate vs. y.
IAum, 6srgsd with forging billie OF l,dinS
On tbs Texas 4 Pacific railwsy cogPnhy,
Owing TO tho sbseucs Of Colonel Tom
Brown. Of ,o Sherman: s,.,l,.,n ,n' in ''I .hs
prosecution Of tho cases. and the
non arrival OF Witnesses the hearing
Vss continued until l.30 y. m, whsn Col-
opsl Brown arrived. Before ihe appointed
hour had rolled srou d the coari room was
Allied With o crowd which WAS detsruins
10 hear the evidence. no mnt'er what in-
con senience IL might oost. FiudiDa that u
was constantly Increasing. the court ad-
journed TO the district court room IN the
eourt house, bnt the vast thropg followed.
Chief Furloug. OF the Gould detective
force, arrived Ia tho city on tho morning
south bound train, accom- panied by Ida
Frye, cream colorsd woman, who ~ a
cnambormaid AZ the Besler house, Sher.
man. She went directly 10 Tho Office oil
County Attorney Cliut. A HERALD re-
porter followed and esssyed q enter. but
found the door locked. MI Clint came 10
the door aud told him that ne would sec
him later. Like Mars little lsmo, The
pencil pushsr hung around In that i'm
mediate vicinity. In the 70 san'ime tho
county attorney called D'puy Sheilh
Rhoues Ia TO hear what the witness had 10
ssy. The reporters offer 20 serve In that
capacity wss declined. Alter @ good long
conversation tbs witness len and was fol-
lowed b. him down the ttrsst. Sho spoke
10 a colored Toy ut the Grand Windsor hottl
aud iuquigy OF hini eiicit.d ibe TACT that
her name wes Ida Frye, = chambsrmsid In
the Beeler house at Sherman, tba, shs was
reported to have been on Intimate terms
with Essson while he vAs Getting NJ agent
OF ths Texas h Pacific at Sherman Ard that
ahe EAa supposed to know
moro or iess about Tho cotton
swindling cases. PockeliDs these items
thu reporter continued the pursuit and Oh,
served that another Of tbs fraternity had
caught her. Bha bad evidently oson wsIl
dri led, for abe wsn apparently ignorant OF
everything oonnectsd with tho crooked
cotton transactions. The witness who had
aroused this cariosity OF The reporters went
70 a house ct the northeast corner OF Poy-
dras aud Jackson sUer,B. kept by some
colored people D1t when they called later
they were Informed that she had gone to
Cages colorsd boarding. house on upper
Main street. Jhia woman 10 said TO be a
material witness sR abe snw those who
crms aud vent Of the Besler
house abou. the tins The al
legged swlpdnng was going 90. Pcraaps she
knew the mysterious Anderson. oho had
q phot,g rSah OF Eaton ssd scVeral irint-
cts Of his, 1t 10 asserted, in her posssssion,
or, which photographs aided him In the
capture oil Esston ana CammscS ut Oesan
Sprlpga. A. shy rtte her testimony 10 sr.
pected 10 bs Of very interesting
nature. In Ihs mpAntins other vi.-
pessSs Lad arrived, and among them
Captain Bselsr, proprietor Of tas hoseI
named. Tss w.tnss.aS called ior wa ,tats
h. z. Jones. W l.. Grsss, II. u. Strange,
3. ]. As91s. Morgan Csn mack. yosePh
LohsnItslp, z. d. Cswars, O. q. Wrisai,
Jnnss A. Wil,sn, @. h. Turssr, Rishsrd
Fesdsy, Nsssiy Allen. Mssry, (cslorsA
bsy), n. o. Osnssr, - Blssk. - Blsck,
n. d. Wright ana ". r. hsr.on: ger ths
dsissss, q. II Tsrner ard b. T.ylor.
and the dsisnss, Mr.. Osariss L. Martin va:
appoisted 10 take down the evidence. and
the defendant pleading rot guilty, the bug
NJ proceadsd 90 fellows
The b;s's OF iwxts v. B,um, haaktraSs
f.urt Dallas esanty. A, 1874. ,n,,.
f0 Is reIneU ssrss last on an examining
trisI had bsisys T. G. T. Ksadsll,ajualice OF
the peace is and for D,l 40 oeanty, Tsxas
Of r. Baum, on . charge Of forging car
tain bill OF ladiNg, puraorting % DO ths co.
OF the Texas 4 Pacific Railway COMPANY,
for three huadrsd sslss OF cotton. the sol-
lowing action was bad: Alter compla'nt
WAS Fssd, defendant pl'sd not Gull,y asd
vhsreupon the following evidences la b'hIf
Of the state was sdduc'd:
BP NTH
being duly sworn dspo.es and ssys; l'v0c
In Septes bsr, Ootoner and Novemne
1888, at Sherman, TeIU; | was In the
cotton business, running oomp'eas, the
only ons being there, csllcd tna compress
compary OF Sho,risu; two railroads run
into end out VI sherman, the Ter. q Pa
cisc and Hor,tcn e. Tsx.s Central; the Gus
tom In regard 10 cotton In that city last faii
Was that COTTON wasrsc,iss d ~ the compress
aud shipped oy ths railroads. to oil points
and bills OF lsd'pg we're given oy tne rsD,
road. sgsnts on tas cemprsss recsipls 1
fllsd tine position OF manager at tse COM
press; I issued receipts for all cotton ship
bed from the comprssA; all tho cotton re-
osivsd wss shipped save some now on hsno;
I WAS AGO uaiatsd with +. ID Ration, sGeat
there; | did not know joseph Lohsnstein,
OF Dsllss; during the months Of esptem-
Der, October ssd November, 1888, no
s sSS;sSn,h not ss. s somor... a. shssms"
In tbs name Of Jossph Lohesstsin; DOM
kpoW whore colt n shippsn from the com.
press went to: on Oc.ob,. 24sb, 1855, there
va NO cotton shipped bv Jossph Lohen-
stein to O. g. S,oidsrd d Co., over The
Texas 4 Pacific railroad or any other rail-
road from Tho Sherman comprsss; was ac'
the Sherman msrketthe last cotton season.;
the leading colt IN buyer we're Thomas
Forbes, II. q o., S,ephoDs Il Andrew, A.
Fulton J. Co., Turner h Bryant. Berge bte~-
art a 90. ADD q. N. Kinney; there we're
Q few street buyers who made no sbip-
mentG there was no man named q. J. or
J. @. Auderaon, or any other Anderson
buying cotton Ia tho Sherman mxrkst the
last GOTTEN season. and no such man
shipped any cotton through the o mpress:
Abe chipping clerk At the Texas D PAc'fc
railroad depot IVES X. p. Jones: he 10 Row II
Dallas he was IN the Texss 4 Pacific rail-
road depot q the time Eaton va there:
he roosived the cotton and loaded Il on the
so1nrssS st Sherman wss none Of II
mt In By Joseph Lohenstsin or for him.
nor Tor any man nansd Anderson.
cn0oO BxAMIuBD.
The name OF the osmprsoo Of sherman
y The Compress Company. Of bnernsu; II
= . corporation: the owners OF the comp 'ses
- ThcHcs ySres.: ~: T rsndc',h soie'
&6iSons, " ri 0hsrsus: there 70 oshee
O6ookholdofs, but don't remember
Vho; there y No oonnecsion cesvcso
Ne compress COMPANY eua Ne
Ioxns = Psci6o railroad or
DoRt Of the building 70 On railroad grouud;
6rsi ysrds frsu he Tsxas 4 Pacific depot:
500 q The ofDesn Of the eonp'sss oom.
pauy ere o@osrs or agents Of either OF TIE
railroads; the next nearest oompreee 20
Sherman y % Dsnison; PAFis. Dailss, JET
NIX .. Fort Worth snd Texarkana have
ee0pressss; cotton 10 brought 70 ehernsn
1og oonpSeso,ng from various petnss; W.
have through cotton froo points that
only stop to be compressed and
then u g0se on; 70 have cotton
bought ct Sherman and shipped from there.
cotton are Gainesville, Whitesboro, Plot,
Mex Kinney. Denton and Van Aistyse. BIS
Of fading for through cot'on are made &c.