Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-02-26
A DAY AT DALLAS.
Furtler Developments in the sherman
Cotton Fraud Cases.
Arrest and. Commitment ia Jail Of q
Leading Dallas Merchant.
Three Runaway Iioys- Accident TO
Railroad Engineer.
special 10 tho Gazette.

| special 10 tho Gazette.
Dallas, February 25.--'rhe sensation
of to-day in business circ!,s, on the
street, In the salonns and hotels, and
also in official circles, il the arrest of
A. Baum, w.il.known citizen and
former business man In Dallas, us u
principal IN the Eaton-Conuiack cot
J ton frauds. The presence In Dallas
| all this week of numerous detectives,
with Chief Furlung of the Gould roads,
service at their head, ny II were, gave
the newspaper fraternity every REASON
10 believe that important develop
menis or movements were soon To &C.
eur. This view was also strengthened
by the srmi-oillcial statements that
Commark was becoming uneasy,
even unto the point OF re-
| uuesting to turn states evil
oence, which the authorities re-
| fused to allow him The TN ~ Inter
ieres, manifested by and activity of
the lawyers Tor the defense also show, Il
that something new was about {" come
to the surface. Lust night r, porters
wee given the "polnterp by parties in
| position To know that number nf atll-
davits had been made during Sunday
bv Mr.. q ii. Il, rner. division freight
agent of the Gould foMs a Dallas,
against Baum, and that papers were
out tor his arrast, but all were forbid
den to use tile Information in
public way until the arrest should
be made, az it mi hit thwart
the ends of the law. This norring
Baum was arrested by Constable Geo.
Miller aud taken before Justice Ken
dali, TO answer t. seven separate
charges OF forgery in connection with
the fraudulent bills of ladiug of the
Texas Il Pacific railroad company.
The GAZETTE representative saw one
OF the documents charging forgery OF q
bill II luding on October ist, 1883.
The charges also include other dates.
Justice Kendall held the prisoner in
the sum of So 600 bond for each case
for future hearing.
Interviews with var!pue parties to
the prosecution developed the fact, by
statements from them, that they con-
slider they have conclusive eYidence
against Raum as one OF the cGDspira-
tors and beneliciaries In the fraudulent
transactions, AMI that no Is TO be held
and tried as u principal with E.aston
and Cammack IL IL probable That a
number of other uflldavits will soon be
found against the accused. ils one ofthe
principal railroad authorities in the
matter asserts that ~ least az many
hlliVuNlth tdti Dt lliuNt 'ik,uilst Blu ts
against Easton and Gamma, and
hat the ny gregate amount of bond de.
manded of him viii be too much for
him to make. County Attorney Clint
and others will furnish bur little infar.
nation for publication at the present
time, decmiug IL ujudci0us, a. there
are n number ut others charged with
connection with the frauds. whom
the law IL making lis way towards,
and If the defense could get posses-
sion of what is positively
known by the otlirors, IL
would be just what they desire. The
GAZETTE representative made an eff
fort 10 see the prisoner, fur a state
ment, but found that he was very
busy In he custody OF Constable Mil.
Ter, seeking bondsnlen and consulting
counsel. One of HE lawyers was nc
cordipgly interviewed. He said they
and their client had nc fears; that bond
would be made aud Mr.. Baum releas-
cd; that he could establish his limo.
cence; that the lat grand Jury made
la thorough examination Of
the charges on which he il now ar
rested, and failed 10 tiud any indict
menis; that the prosecution had uoih-
| ing positive whntevtr against Baum
on which TO work, but mad arrested
hum, hopiug To yet some now clew,
and taking their chances Tor succeed
ing In that effort; tina, Suspicious were
all that they We're moving against
him on in connection with the cotton
Bwindl-s. On tie Other hand, II Is as.
serted by the prosecution that very
| Important developments ure material
| Zihg and that well-kDown persons
will be found 10 be Implicated, among
he ntners several Of the female rex.
To one of the parties connected with
| HE prosecutions the Gk2ETIE repre-
sentative asked II Mr.. baum wns tho
! my soriuus character known ~ Audef
sou In the fraudulent cotton sransic-
| tons, and was informed that II would
not he "A surprise II his identity should
be established as that important Judi
| viduul Baum, IL Is said, ma 10 frequent
trips between Dallas and Sherman
about the time Of the issuing Of the
fraudulent bills OF ladlng &C the last
named place
B,um, having failed 10 make bond,
! was this evening committed 10 the
county Jail Interviews were sought
by reporters, but the prisoner was in
clined 70 eiicence, saying he had
nothing Of interest to communicate;
that he was innocent. aud would vim
dictate himself. Justice Kendall suys
the cAseS may come h, fore bitl cO-Iuor-
row, or perhaps at "A later daic, as no
time has been re for hu hearing.
Parties were ia he city to-day seek
Ing three runaway boys, ben
Collins, eyed fourteen years; Joe
Hart, aged thirteen cara, aud CHARLEY
Hart, aged eleven years. Tho last
named has en impeachment In his
speech, caused foni fever. Anyone
capturing them are requested 10 hold
them and nniiiy the Hvu-t ION Il Texns
Central railroad agent at plnn0. They
were living with their uncle, a Hen
Hart. and last week stole sl5 from him,
hut he recovered $50. As Eoue OF
them can read i, Is not q ease OF peru
sil Of Sam Bass on jesse Jaaics lltera-
tnre.
Mr. Holt, an engineer on The ltous-
ton & Texas Central rlliOad, Inst
night III, tiined u triple irasiure o his
left arm by % heavy pileof cad ia.ling
from his engine ieuhrr, catching his
arm between the cnal aud rail
Tax-pnS ers are rrowding the collect
or's office; $50 O0) has b.ct pu,h in
SO Coz s,lll "a be- collected pepalties
for non payinent can bs collected aiier
| March l-l.
Audiur Cooper Knot y in tho city.
| he vii. iO-noffew Install Mr.. it ID.
I I.rwi4as ttiiipn agpps Ell Da.lAs, "a
| successor to q. III. Turner, prDtinisa