Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-02-11

four asking me questions; | don't
know what they did ask me; they
asked me so many IL .ngs. About tel
minutes before they started TO The
| lookup with me, this man that was
working in partners with me came in,
and he asked me, What did you knock
| that man in the head for p? | told hin
that | didn't know anything about 1t
He said "Well, it's done with my
Ratchet !" that's the Ratchet we hac
in the kitchen). Then he asked me
how came this Ratchet in the saloon
and | told him how; j told him he
went out and got plank and came in
through the kitchen and brought
the hatchet with him. They
started OFF to the lookup
with me and on the way one of the
policemen said, What did you knock
that man in the head for? / said |
never did kill but one man; he says,
Where was, that AT; | says, 1t wasn't in
Texas, it was in Louisiana; they asked
me so many foolish questions | didn't
care what / did tell them; i see they
put it in the papers about me killing a
man in Louisiana; l didn't tell them
any better; after j was locked up
about an hour. an officer came down;
| don't know what he was, chief or
what, and he brought me out and
commenced to question me; two or
three of them wanted to know where
| STAYED that Sunday night; / told
him the place, what house, and 10 go
and find out the best way he could; he
said he would lock me up where the
dogs wouldn't get me and he went OH
and was gone about an hour suppose,
and came back and brought me out
again; he SAYS 10 me, Where did you
leave your eliot es at? told him Mt the
house stayed at, and he says to me,
What made you tell That
woman to burn your clothes up? told
him if she had burned them up she
had done so on her own say-so.
didn't tell her what to do with them.
He says, "She says you told her TO
burn them up because they We're
bloody.n | told him if there was any
blood on them ii was more than
knew ANYTHING about. This officer
asked me, "You have been cooking at
this restaurant, haven't your" | told
him yes. He asked me II l didn't XIII
chickens pretty often. | told him no,
moi at that restaurant hadn't been
killing many. He said. well, the
blood was liable to get Off the chickens
onto nv shirt" and locked me up
then. and took me out In about two
hours to the county Jail, and I've been
| there ever since.
john Y HIGH.
| Mark.
DAVIS OWEN
was acquainted with Lawson; nursedt
him i'm his last illness; stayed win
him all the time; he said nothing
nhout diving; for the last two or three
DAYS he said something would have 10
he done or he would not hold out; All
the talk had towards the last was
ohout the doctors; what he said about
/ hia injuries was ut the first; he SAID he
knew he was badly hurt because when
tha doctor pressed his head he conld
feel the bone press; when he naue
statement he was rational; the state,
n,ent was voluntary; he said ABOUT
niclork he asked his brother for the
kew and opened up. A young mai
WHO was a cook in the eslapiish'
n,ent was in there. Two men
came in there and had n 500 goio
niace. He took out his poke t-DooK u
pet the change. He got the yount
man TO close the door, AS horlhe
was coming up. He sat there doslhg
The next thing he knew he was YIN
an the floor with the blood running
from his head.
SAM BENSON
knew defendant; knew John Lawson
Who was a brother of his. The n,gh
the killing happened he and his bro ~
er we're out in the fore part OF W