Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-03-07
A DAY AT DALLAS.
Startling Developments In the sherman
Cotton Fraud Cases.
Damaging Di>closures-The Bottom
Dropped Out Of The Conspiracy
Major Penn aud the Roy PfcscGcr-Tuo
Revival Meetings

: special tn the Gazette.
3 Dallas. March G As the Baum hear
: ing progresses. the interest increases
and the developments are more sur
: missing. The state l. bringing out ties
: timony that shows it 10 be thoroughly
informed On the transpirings OF the
: great cotton conspiracy, and that II Il
in posst ssion Of facts only obtainable
from some nfthe couspirators against
the Others. l. is evident someo ne has
mndc clean breast of it.
Paul Funt, teller IN Adams & Leon
ardis bauk, was the first witness TO-
day. He testified that in October last
Baum deposited IS GEO to the credit Of
Mrs. Annie We'll. Afterwards, he
drew ii out, giving $4,000 Of 1t 10 Levi
Kraft. KRAFT is one OF
Joe Lahusfein's boudsmen. and
has been talked OF very freely in Dallas
ever since the frauds were discovered
| In connection With them. Witness
! also testified thutJ e i.uhnstein, iui No
vember last, paid Adams d Leonard
| 800 he had owed for Il year.
! $. j Adams, the next witness, testi-
! fled substantially tho same as Paul
! Furst.
Mrs. Powell, mother-in-law Of Nor
! She il about sevcuty-hve years OF age,
dignined, refined and intelligent. She
appeared In court dressed in deep
mourning and looking jrrOw-strick-
en-. Her testimony was eagerly listen
ed 10. and created decided sensation
She did not know either Lahnstcin
or Baum. She detailed her
going to Ocean Springs.
Mississippi, and what occurred while
there, but the main atIr,s Of which
were that she there learned Of the
crimes Of CUmmack, Easton and their
cOuiederatts She saw Mrs Easton
have 5000 bill, and much other
money. The state, in the witnesses
testimony, apparently established the
identity of this 5000 Till with one
paid Joseph lahnstein by Oliver q
GriEgs, bankers of Dallas, on one OF
the bogus bills of lading Mrs. Powell
testified that Morgan Commack ~
Ocean Springs told her he had $780, 600
Mr.. aud Mrs EastOn told her that
Baum was the my steriOus Anderson:
that he carried d g bogus bills of |
luding between Dnllas and Sherman, I
aud after Luhustein had them Cashed, /
Baum would take the money and di- (
vide with the others. Ga one occasion .
he waited 80 long that Elston mis-. (
trusted him. 50 Mrs Ea, ton telegraph /
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puuy thht "iat she lesllhed to was
'' ,r,y wore wore. 'I rue. am =,
no ruut' ''J"uli''u VI ~ CLOCK
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lag .'"' gun ,"'ilill'ch appearance
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wo,, A., ii'nS "e uleS Wui reserve
N I'm ngonl ne gfana jury meets
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W. mn "".,o mas oven c'li'ed
US "t.u'Ss ny 'he s'"'e 10 produce
49, 49, Us '',u9'
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