Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-01-22
APrisOncr's Plea.
Fort WORTH JAIL,
Ia,tiary nj 1874

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To the Gazette.
You viii do me great favor II you
will insert the following statement III
your paper. / don't make this state
m. mt hoping to gain public sentiment,
but as / am friendless with no one To
help me, and innocent Of the ofiense
for which am now held, / do this
in simple justice TO my self at the same
time hoping that this may meet the
eye of those who well know ! am
indeed the wrong man, and If they
should happen TO See this silent APP
peal l trust they will in some way try
and repair the great wrong that has
been done If they could in any way
without committing themselves, ami
save AN innocent man from state
prison.
Now | will give n full account Of the
crime for which / am accused, IA far
as any connection of mine in the affair
IN conc rned. The facts are as follows:
One night last October / went to the
theuter. | stayed AT the show until
after l. o'clock, ! think between II amt
/. 1 lett the theater to go to bed. i
went over 10 the Cattle Exchange and
started down Houston street, think
that Is the name of the street. Any
way, as | was going down the street,
and when got to the corner, two IN II
came out the side street. The name
Of the street / don't know The two
men Were running. One of them snih
To the other, KNOCK him" L thought
they were going to do me harm, 80
j ran across the street. They
ran up the street towards the
Cattle Exchange saloon, and ] ran
L.. n nj
the street heard some one calling for
the police, and when | got across the
street the policeman Was there.
He took hold of me and asked mt
what was the matter. / think / told
him that fight or something WAS he
matter, that / did Lot know. He took
me over the street with him, and on
the corner was man who said some
one had snatched pair of pants out
from under his head. He said he had
went TO bed and left his door open u
little, and some one came along and
reached in or stepped in and took the
pants. ] told him and the
policeman that | WAS in
noe. mt; that run tn
save myself from harm, as | thought,
when those two men came running
around the corner right at me. Wen,
while we were on the corner Mr.
Muore found his pants in the street,
where they were thrown by the
thieves, / suppose, as they ran up 10
ward the Cattle Exchange. | was h,l !,
and in few days got hearing be-
fore the justice was bound over to
await the action OF the grand jury.
| who found bill. | was called up fer
trial. The court appointed Capt. Reed
to defend me. Capt. Reed had the In
dict eut bill quashed. ! Was b.in
until new papers were got out, and
committed back to Jail To lay there UNI
Ill the next grand jury meets, which
will be many long an
weary day TO me, as times in q county
Jail seem to go along very slow, 80 II
seems to me. But still we get treated
very well. Sheriff Maddox does what
Ia right AZ far as he can, and treats us
all alike, aud Jailor Mccain anuses III
now aud then with his jokes aud lirllt
stories, which ret all the boys laugh
ling Well. Mr.. Editor, | must not
take up 100 much space In your pap r
and IA | said in the beginning of this
statement, ! say at its close, don't &c
this for public - mnaihy but In justice
10 myself. however suspicious tbing'
may look In my case, which ~ a re-
markable one and shows even the IN
nucent can suffer us well M the guilty
CHARLES MILLER.