The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-03-06
ROOM Is.
IT'S MYSTERIOUS OCCUPANT AT
LAST UNEARTHED-CA
MACH IDENTIFIED.
Furthe;' Testimony IN the Trial OF
the Texas TrIckster-Fire
at Denton.
A LONG LINE OF ELECTRIC
LIGHTS, In THE CITY
BY THE SEA.
Court House and Contents Completely
Consumed at WeatherfOrd-
Blaze near Taylor.
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| Special 10 the statesman.
DALLAS, March LIN the Baum
examination to-day j. G. Beeler, pro
pritor of the Beeler house, at Sher-
man, testified that from September
both, last, stranger stopped a week
in room No Is, in his hotel, having
his meals brought to him. The hotel
books were introduced in court and
showed he registered and paid his
bills as II. c. Potterfield. He repre-
scented himself as a detective in the
| railroad service. The hotel books
also showed that F. Baum, Dallas,
Texas, registered at the Beeler house
on September "a. The prisoner, Baum,
was identified by the proprietor as this
identical guest.
Ida Fry, colored chambermaid,
identified Morgan Cammack, who
was brought from the county jail
into the court room, as the
man who occupied Ii at the time
mentioned She testified she was in
his room several times every day
while he occupied it, and that the
hotel servants brought his meals to
his room, she bringing them on sew
eral occasions. Cammack told her he
was a detective, but she could not re-
member the name he gave. She iden-
titled the prisoner, Baum, as a visitor
to Cammaclz's room one forenoon, and
on Cammack's order brought break
fast up to both IF them. Easton, she
testified, was frequent visitor to the
room. Cammack occupied the room
constantly during the day, going out
only at night.
Jones, shipping clerk for the Texas
and Pacific Railway Company, at
Sperman, swore that Joseph john
ston had no cotton shipping transac-
lions at Sherman last fall, neither was
there any such cotton man as Amber
son in that market.
Johnston is announced as one Of the
states witnesses.
Court adjourned till ten o'clock next
Tuesday morning.
The interest is undated. The tes-
timony of all the witnesses was long
and tedious.
A report reached here to-day that
the Weatherford court house was des-
troyed by fire at o'clock this morning.
The fire department at Fort Worth
went ovor to help eXtinguish the
flames, but the fire had got such start
that all efforts to check the flames
were futile.
The records of the courts and all
other public documents deroSited in
the building were burned. Loss eSti-
mated at $4,000.
Postoffice inspector Smith, of Aus
tin, is here again to determine the To-
cation of the post office. The ques-
ton will be settled next week.
VIM. G. Hill, county clerk of Dallas
county, has received notice of the ac-
cidental killing of his brother-in-law,
c. L, Hudson, in Parker county.
A hotel at Denton was destroyed
by fire to-day. Loss $4,000.
Darlington and Brady, the alleged
Tennessee moonshiners, have been
ordered transferred to Nashville for
trial. Deputy United States Marshal,
Grant, leaves with them Monday.
The question of the cost of feeding
federal prisoners at the Dallas county
Jail, is to be submitted to Judge Nc
Cormick for arbitration. The United
States marshal has only authority to
pay thirty cents per day. The county
demands fifty cents, the same as paid
for county prisoners.