Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-11-23
DEAD AND WOUNDED.
The Bloody Shooting Array all the
Town Talk Policeman Mel
ton Doing Well.
The Dead Buned-Jot Gunter CCngntu
lated--A Chicken Thief Gets
Year Behind the Bars,
special 10 the Gazette.

sptclhi 10 tOt NhAehtts
SHERMAN, TEX Nov. 20 The city
was stirred with excltementlsst night,
The smell Of blood and slaughter was
In the mir, and everybody was inquir-
lag OF every body all about the particu-
lars of the shooting Of Policeman Mel.
ion and the subsequent killing of the
desperate men who shot him In the
fearless discharge Of his duty. tap
pears that the two dead men were
living i'm the neighborhOod OF DIR III
A. Barnes In the Chickasaw country,
the elder, A. j. Atkins, Sr.,
being the father-in-law OF the
doctor 10y marriage short
time ago. Barnes had employed
the two to haul cotton to the Sherman
market and while in the city they In
dulged pretty freely In whisky. Be
ing natives of the mountains OF East
Tennessee or Kentucky, full OF fight
at the slightest provocatiun, aud deem.
ing it manly thing to set the law az
defiance and bluff the officers. they
got on the war-path and raised The
town Sheriff Douglass and Marshal
Blaine with their assistants all agree
that & more fearless and desperate pair
of men never drew trigger or died
with their boots on. This morning
the bodies were decently clad, and the
county Judge made an order for their
burial In the pOtter's field Of the city
cemetery.
DR.. Barnes Is yet held in Jail rs a
prisoner, aud Il complaint has been
filed with the Justice, charging him
4. 81. ~ NIA1Y.y,
all tue statements Of the officers, we
find nothing criminal in his acts, I'M
less il be that he tainted the posse
with being "Rfraid to run onto those
Winchester rifles when they passed
him and his little boy while
pursuing the off, nders yesterday.
The son, William Barnes, won the
sympathy Of all present In the court
this morning by his manly answers to
the many questions propounded to
him He WAS permitted 10 take pair
Of the horses and return to the terri.
tory this evening fol the purpose Of
carrying the sad news to the family
there, and bring sucu of them as
wished TO come back to Texas to look
after the effects OF their dead here.
10 Melton has rested well during
last night aud to-day, and his surgeons
have strong hopes of his final recnv-
cry.
There was great rejoicing In the city
last night Mt the acquittal of Jot Gun
ter. His numerous friends Stocked
around him in earnest joy Mt his dis.
charge, and offered muny heartfelt
wish that his future life might never
be troubled with similar misfortune
w. O. Davis of Gainesville, counsel
for Mr.. Gunter, DR.. w. w. Graves
and DR.. Trollenger OF WhitesbOro who
had attended the trial left on the mid
night train, by way of Denison, for
home Col. j II. BrittOn, who had
been aubpWnued here AS witness, left,
| going ron n. this evening.
The district court to-day took up Inc
| case of the state VS.. Geo. johnson
colored, for theft of Mrs. Kings fowls
This was an aggravated case from The
fact that George stO the same chick
ems twice. He sold them Co grocer
early on the morning after the taking
and during the day the owner f0unC
aud reclaimed them. The next nigh
he made q raid on the same coop, bu
when he went into market with hi
truck AN officer was ON hand and tool
MN III, Inc Jury assessed ms PUNISH
ment no twelve months confnemen
In the county Jail,
a bevy OF twelve iail-birds wer,
brought into court this afternoon
TO have counsel assigned them
The court Intercepted each one q
10 his ability to pay lawyer but they
all entered the plea of poverty and hi
honor appointed the younger mem
beers of the bar to defend them. Tel
of this dozen OF prisoners are whit
and two cOlored, and 1t is lamentabl
to tell that about half the number ar
youths who failed to 'tarry u Jerich,
until their boards be grown
The Judge remarked when this ARA
was gone through with that ther
would be work enough to keep th
court engaged until Christmas.