The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-08-20
FROM FORT WORTH.
cse HARRIS LUCKY IN COURT
4, Lindsey's Murder Statement-The
city Council and the Warning Street
Railways-A Hotel Scandal
A Woman Assaulted.

ironT WORTH, Aug. l9.-[Special. T.
,se Harris was acquitted in the Re-
I ,dor's court to-day of unlawfully
irving pistol, the testimony show
owing he was in danger of being at
Il .ked by (Slade) J. w. Putin n.
yPnfns Lindsey makes the following
! %arkable statement in writing to the
AIrp,Ln correspondent. Its headed:
Il wurR DER By HUtUs LINnsEY,r
l,5 is as follows, capitalization and
IeHng as he wrote it:
fSIuglst $, my brothers and went to
H. DALLAS reunion, staying two or
lroe DAYS. Returned home; my sister
H. NV slep-father and myself were
llking in peace and quietude 30 hard
Lines Existing Between us After re-
Idng to my Bed fell of to sleep. As
ioIas | Remember ! went 20 sleep on
IN face. it appears to me there were
i yeral men trying to kill me in my
jgpp When 1 arose | GRABBED my pistol
l~d went to shooting after shooting
isrerai shots some one screamed then
In off All that remember Of shooting
lwas my Brother Johnney it seemed
hat him and several others
rpre irving to kill me. il
oppared to me that they had
6Iown a cot on me before | went to
,5ooting. ! then left, and the next
3mew / was on the Railroad. l then
Heard them say they extended to kill me.
then went to my brothers for some
l,bthes and told him about it. | told
Him had shot some of them, | thought
Johnny and old man Right, but did't
ibink had killed them. | then went
HI Cass Co., near where my wife and
Children lived. There | was arrested
lmd brought to this place and put in
Ian. When | left my brothers. I took
Ihe Dallas road to Keenan's Crossing, on
lElm, from there to Plano, and from
| There to Greenville, from there to Blk
Sack Grove and the Sulphur Springs,
| and to Mount Pleasant and Mr.. Hickcs."
The City Council met to-day and re-
reiyed the opinion of their Attorney, j.
Y. HOgsett, on the street railway mud
/ die. He holds, the Rosedale to be the
only road entitled to the street, and
arther, that at any time the Council can
order the track torn up and removed,
rat any time withdraw the privileges
granted to any street car line, where
upon the council repealed all of ordi-
nance No. 80, passed in 1874, giving the
Fort Worth Street Railway company,
heright over all streets,and combining ii
to Main street and such other streets as
granted by ordinance since that time,
The road is nearly completed, but since
this opinion, no work will be done al
night. The Fort Worth company will &C
10 the courts.
The Overland Telephone company was
granted right of way over the streets.
1t was ordered by the Council, that the
ordinances lately codiiied be printed il
book form.
Simou Robert will get new bale OF
cotton tomorrow, raised by II. Floyd
lOmiles south of the city. This will be
the first bale received grown in this
county. The first bale received here
came from Bowie at 7 o'clock tonight
shipped by l.. Sigmund to John A
Thornton.
Word was received by the Sheriff thi,
morning that Jim Dewett had struck his
,tep-mother on the head with a six
shooter at Whites Chapel, seven miles
from Grapevine, and that she was eN
pecied to die. Deputies Maddox and
Tucker have gone after Dewett. NJ
undergraduates can be.Obtained unit
they return.
The property of the Investment com
pany, all papers and material toots NJ
$1,000.
Emma Cross, q negro woman, suicidcC
this morning by taking sixty grains o
morphine.
Phil McCusker is back from Washing
ton with his Kiowa and Comanche "bil
reds" where they went to consult will
Ia. Af nt a
to the ACCESSIBILITY of leasin!
their llnds to cattlemen, VIII
would pay for them, thus putin,
into their treasury. Assist
ant Secretary Joslin advised them by
all means to lease the lands, and they
viii so report to their tribes. Thes,
two tribes at least will vote to sustain
the lease law.
As he has been known to the citizens
of Fort Worth, j. w Pierce has beei
running the Grand Central hotel in thi
city for some time and has "a healthy
bank account. A lady, Mrs. j. 2
Weaver, arrived here yesterday from
indianapolis and had Pierce, who turned
out to be j. p. Weaver, arrested TO
adultery. Pierce has had
woman at the hotel who every
one supposed was his wife, bl
who turns out to be Mrs. Fannie Eden
who deserted her husband when Weave
deserted his wife, and has lived witt
him since. Weaver's desertion of hi
wife was infamous. lie took all tn
money, leaving her destitute, with tire
children nearly blind to care for. Ii
February Weaver returned to lndianap
oils to straighten up some business
when Eden, the husband of Weaver
cOncubine, met him at hotel, and sho
him in the back of the neck with
2-calibre Smith & Wesson. As 500
as Weaver was arrested, Mrs. Edo
disappeared, or she too would have bee
taken in custody. Weaver was granite
bail in the sum of 5000. Mrs. Weaver ha
employed Robert McCart to attend I
her case, and will doubtless recovC
some of this worlds goods now pos
seSsed by tho man Weaver ALA
}. w. Pierce, which wi
aid her in taking care of he
deserted and unfortunate children.
would not be very surprising if Weave
were taken out and treated to coat ,
tar and feathers, for those Of our either
who have heard Mrs. Viewers stor
and some who know 1t to be true spea
very plainly about his infamous action
There was u law and order meeting
according to call, ut the courthouse Il
night. Twenty thousand good either
Staid away while four good citizens an
fourteen gamblers, who took back seat
met. One of the four took the cha
one acted rs Secretary, an
by unanimous vote
three, long resolutions, denouncin
primn \Vpro nnSSnd Thp result of tl
meeting shows either the law and ord,
people TO be in gigantic minority
this city, or the people generally sati
tied with the existing order of thing
The resolutions cover too much paper
wire them to the HERALD tonight.
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