The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1884-06-26

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iriion pfihr Grand jury,
The Inquest held over the remains of
lpp MhnTtnti, the Cursirnua bar trndpr,
supposed tu nave committed suicide
SUNDAY ut the NJ, George hotel 10y taking
morphine, has created cOn-idrrahl" IN
turrst owing Ia developments at IuNs'
tcrinus nntuTc that followed In the
investigation uf the case. \
portion of the testimony was given IN
Mondays HERALD and The substance
of what the remaining witnesses who
were examined yesterday had Ia say Is
given In this issue, Tho testimony Of
Frank Connect, who was suspected Of
having poisoned the deceased, was
pretty well rOrrOhOrnlcd by that of Elmu
Mansfield. AMER Connect had swoonod
away, when asked 10y County Attorney
clint i he had mot poisoned Me-
drummer, added to the cxcitcment
ho demanding of the court that
the witncs should have u lawyer,
and ho rushed ont and brought back Mr..
Skilcs To represent the witness, When
Mr.. Skilcs Clipped In, however, the
Court informed him that his services
were not needed, rs there was no one on
trial. II was merely Jury ui inquest,
that was all. When Comet hud finished
tcStifVing, and rs he WAS leaving the
room in charge of an officer, he met Elma
Mansfield, the woman who figures 81
prominently in the ease, coming In To
testify. II was the intention of
the officers not to permit thom 10
communicate with each other, but IT. he
passed her he said 20 her In 4 low tone
of voice, "hon't shy anything; You are
In no trouble" Yesterday morning the
taking of testimony Was resumed AMI
finished. The death of Whurtun l.
shrOudcd in mystery, and 80 vague and
unsatisfactory were the circumstances
attending his taking on that County
Attorney Clint ordered a post morton
examination of the remains, which had
been turned over to Undertaken smith
To prepare for burial.
Mention has been made heretofore of
Clara Lee, Il young woman Of tursiC0na,
who came To this city Il few days since,
and who charged Whorton with ruin
ing her. She was in delicate condi-
ton, and her being here In the same
town with Elma Mansfield harraSScd
Whorton, who, after some cNcrtion, sue
ccctlcd in getting her leave the city Sat
urday night, and II Is supposed she re-
turned To Corsicana, her former home.
The following is the letter from Whor-
ton to Elma Mansfield, in which there
were some errors rs published IN yes
teruay'S HERALD, INC Woru you WIS
printed "Tom.,
CoRsIcANA, June II, 1851. My DEAREST
EI.MA:-I got your kind and more than
welcome letter to-day. Pet, ] never
would have said one word If had known
il would he to your injury. | am so
proud to know that YOU are coming back
to our town before leave. was afraid
| would never see the one that ] loved
better than life itself. Darling, ! know
: l,n of hnnntit
dear little brothers by coming back and
going and staying II week or so. Mr..
! Hicks asks me to bring you out To see
them. | can't tell you all until see you:
II never told you II falschood
| in my life. Now shall
! look for YOU. Mrs. II. told me she thought
of going up to-day, but don't know that
she is going. Ny dearest and only loved
( one, please come back. | would write
more, but think best to wait till | see
YOU. am always yours,
JET WmoRToS.
Will take you out any time TO see your
brother. You will find tell the truth.
Ever, .IEr.
! County Attorney Clint suggested to the
court that It post norton examination
| be held, as the testimony showed that
deceased was n healthy man.
The first witness sworn yesterday
morning was
y. VI. LEE.
| reside in Baltimore and travel for
lowering q Co.; am not acquainted with
deceased nor Connects; | advised him
to employ Il lawyer because had
caused some suspicion To he cast upon
1 him and up to yesterday evening
| | supposed there hisl been foul play; |
/ then heard he had been insane and had
been in an asylum when boy, etc.; !
saw the bottle of morphine, II was Il
small round bottle holding about twenty
! grains; there seemed 10 he small
quantity gone. maybe as much as five
grains; my room ut the hotel was oppo.
| Site that of the deceased; ! heard
| deceased when he went to
bed, Saturday night, after Il
O'Clock; the deceased called for
glass: the boy informed him that they
did not furnish glasses: some twenty
minutes afterwards Mr.. j. d. Lee came
to the door, and after rafting ut it some
three minutes, got in; they had some
talk, and | went TO sleep leaving them
i'm the room togcther-don't know how
long; | saw Mr.. Lee como out OF the
room the next morning when got up
| do not know what time; deceased com
planned of not being. very well;
at 1890 saw him and he
seemed to be worse; we got
him up and stripped him and he seemed
to rouse up; the doctor said he had
given him some soup, and he was
afraid that was u mistake; Mr.. Connect
came up about that time very much eX-
cited, and called him Jcp or Jap, and
told him he had better telegraph for his
mother, and he went of, and when he
returned he said that some one had
done so.
q. 4. EIsENLoHR.
sold morphine at 5p. III. saturday to
man of 26 or y, years,
il was in Il thirty grain vial; it con-
tanned twenty-five grains; there was no
one with him; sold no tube to feed dog
on that day; do not remember of man
and lady coming into the drug store to
ret something for sick stomach; the man
that bought the poison said that he was
addicted to the morphine habit; the vial
was afterwards brought to the store and
contents weighed; as much as
five grains was gone; don't
know that il was the same NOR
phine sold; there is no difference
In the grade of morphinc; Eugene
Starckc weighed the norphine; don't
claim to be an expert as to morphine. y
man in the habit of taking morphine
could be killed with five grains; think it
would take less than five grains to Kill
if one had taken morphine and was
| about to recover; opium acts similar TO
morphinc; sold no opium on saturday;
| sold laudanum to the same
party that bought the morphine;
j. n. LUSTER.
knew deceased; was acquainted with
him five years; was healthy man:
never sick over a day at II time; never
knew of his having asthma; he did not
use opium or morphine, to my KNOW
edge.
-. 5. TAYLOR.
Know Frank Connect; have known him
| n week and half; he was working for