The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-10-05
FROM FORT WORTH.
Mr.. II. T. HAVEN A LUNATlC.
b Nicer Wise Ambushed and Killed in
Mississippi While Hunting Murder
ers-Another Street Railway
Item - Other Locals.

FORT WORTH, Oct. A. Special. 1t is
learned from gentleman, who saw the
dead body of Frank Edwards at Temple,
that note was found reading as fol-
lows:
"This man was hung for stealing and
insulting mans wife.
"CITIzENs OF BELToN."
The Gentleman says from all accounts
I was deliberate and infamous muir
der.
our community ds Mortified TO learn .
to-day that II. II. Haven, formerly "A |
prominent hard Sare merchant here, |
had assaulted lis sOn-in-law, GeOrge Ii. /
Dashwo9d, WI eh an axe, trying to Kill /,
Hlin' ana INA he had been arrested on !
u charge ol. iunacy and lodged in Jail. !
~ mas be' IN known for .Ome time past
that ms. mind was diseased. that in his
meme Try dwolt rooted sorrow, but he
was not considered dangerous before.
| IT.. August Mr., Haven paid visit to
Quincy, Illinois, where he lived for a
number OF wears, and it was
thought he had been benefited
toy the trip, but soon after his return
home his conversation was so peculiar
that those who observed saw IL was but
q.
60 completely. one hallucination was
that since the sewerage system had been
built in this city he had been poisoned
by drinking sewage gas, which he
claimed had found its way into the
, water mains through the carelCsSncSs
Of the city, for which Mr.. Haven said he
would sue the city and recover $4,000.
Soon after returning he went into the
City National bank, when
Il pa.t 1 Ii.
/ friends held out their hands to give him
, a friendly Generalization ON his return.
/ Haven drew back, saying, "DOn't touch
my hand; am so fun Of electricity that
it would kill you dead if you touched
/ me-" All along he has imagined that
: some one was after him to Kill him for
his money, and so violent did he be-
To- come to day under this belief that when
= Mr.. Eastwood tried to quiet him he
, made the attempt mentioned. The gen
! tleman was confined in the cell for in
v wealthy, and has Il wife and one
: daughter, Mr.. DaShwOOd's wife.
a Some months ago W. y. Wise, dep
i utY Of City Marshal Rr1 went to Mis-
n souri, with a murderer wanted near
Joplin. When he returned there was
q similar work for HIM t. do and hC
Il started for Mississippi, having obtained
!, a rcquisition for Two men who werC
"a known to he in Mississippi, who twelve
is years ago committed one of the mos
! atrOcious and dlNbolcal murders which
~ has disgraced our State. This murde
n was committed IN an adjoining COUNTY
- and for obvious reasons the names arr
: at present omitted. Wise was know
n, to be Il careful and in lie lsOtlical.so
l. favorable report was expected, but to
10 day Marshal Rea received the fOllOwin.
telegram from oxford, Mississippi, datet
70. OctOber3 3:
lo al am reliably informed that W. 4
- Wise was waylaid and killed in an ad
joining county last night. Body no
H. found"
Signed, "P. T.. MATTHEWS,
Sheriff.
An interview with City Secrctar,
Harrison and Deputy Marshal Scot
III ELECTS the information that Wise had dis
he covered whore the men he wanted vert
IF hut 10y some untoward accident the fugi
Va tives from this State had learned Of thu
Oh pursurr being near them, had deCuNe
n. him into an ambush aud killed hin
ld Ih, ease is a repetition OF that hcr
~, several years ago, WHOM R!uhgld !
at Bun, iomualis', Who had gone int
a the detective business, aud had com
Ill from Pulaski, Tennessee. To- uglnst
'st murderer, was discovered 10y the Grim
IT nal in wagon and Nilicl with an AK,
Wise married niece of city Marsh,
Rcn, and leaves wife and children,
Mr.. Rea is determined lu do all in hi
re power TO detect and bring TO Justice III
49,. guilty men.
Ter Receipts i'm the Recorders court f
W. the month of Suptrmuyr are 81 $50 irol
ON fines.
hn by an oversight ou the part OF II
'l- council, the Fort Worth Street Railwa