Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-12-15
A Communication fron a Penitentiary
Official on the prison Punish
ment" Letters.
Bx. Convict Mullins Charges Without
Foundation Letters are Pro-
nounoed Vile Lies.
A Full List of the Members Of the
Lower House of the Nineteenth
State Legislature.
A Draft Of the Bill to be Presented to
the Legislature BY the State
Medical Association.
Special to the Gazette.

AUSTIN, Ten, dec. ~ - me lOiloW'
Ing letter from Mr. b. Il. Mccullough,
assistant superintendent Of the pen
itentiaries, to Gov. Ireland, is the
first official notice that has been given
TO the charges of one Mullins, an ex-
penitenhary convict, published In
series Of letters under the title of
"Prison Punishment" In the Gal
weston Record:
HuSrsvrLLE, TEI., Dec. ".
10 Hon. John ireland, Governor Of Texas.
Dear Sir: ] am to-day IN receipt of
copy Of the Record sent TO me, and
think | recognize the hand in which
IL IL addressed az yours. ] answer
that Mullins reported Captain Hicks
to me for cursing him / sent for
Hicks, and when Mullins preferred
his charge HiclSs replied:
~ GUESS DID,
or words to that effect, which were
spoken ironically. | told Mullins that
Capt. Hicks bud been In charge Of that
shop many months and had never be.
fore been reported for curling con-
vict, even when wicked man, and
now, since he was church member, !
would not believe the charge, espe-
cially when It came from the most no.
torious liar i'm the prison. / ordered
Mullins In the dark cell that night,
but II he was put In
THE RECORDS FAIL 10 SHOW m,
and / think II more Than likely that IL
was overlooked. He was Ina dark
cell the night Of July for la2Iness, ss
shown by the records.
Governor, these letters are 80 vile
and malicious and 10 full OF lies that
had thought them unworthy Of no
tee, but since Msi Goree's arrival yes
teriay, and receiving this paper from
you, we concluded TO write
to the senator and rep
resentative at Galveston to come up
and bring with them the senator
from Harris, and we will write Me-
Kinney and Cravena tn JON them and
INVESTIGATES THESE CHARGES
and report. In the issue you sent me
~ a card from the writer OF the
"Prison Punishment" letters wanting
employment as ''skilled iron
molder and general workman" Az
soon as / saw this / called
on Clark, our convict machinisL,
and asked him In the presence OF
Moi Goree, Jim Gilbreath and the ed
ltor Of the Ilem) II Mullins had ever
been put in his charge to see what he
knew
ABOUT FOUNDRY WORK.
He replied, "Yes, sir then asked
him what Mullins knew about IL and
he said, "No,hingn / then asked him
II he knew OF Mullins having
been tried at anyj other
work In prison. He replied, "Yes, at
soap-maRing and brick.maklng.n
asked how he succeeded, and the re.
ply was that he did not know any
thing about either.
THREE HUNDRED CoNVICTs
ut this prison will bear me out In say.
ing that Mullins was regarded here
ms one Of the boss cranks aud noted
dead-beata of the prison, and that h,
IL wholly unreliable.
Mullins voluntarily told me that h,
had served twenty.four years of All
life In prison, enumerating when an,
where, and that this was the hest In
had struck. Yours truly,
BEN u MCCULLOUGH,
As'i-tant superintendent
NINETEENTH LEGISLATURES.
The following IL u full list OF tn
members of the lower house of th
Nineteenth legislature, taken from I h
returns of the secretary OF state, and
the first complete list published
nth district; a. II. RAiney of Pale
tine, Anderson county.
10Th district: Reynolds
Athens, Anderson county.
S7th district: II H Wood OF Gollat
AransRs county; II. ID. Linn of vi,
toria, Victoria county.
6Sth district; w, ID. Cochrane
Bellville, Austin county,
S4th district: w. Scott of Kerrvill
Bandera county,
7ith dlstrioli ]. NJ. Robinson
Bastrop, Bastrop county.
6lst uistric': w. Z. Hancock
Salado, Bell county,
b6th district: g. g. Pendleton
Temple, Bell county.
seth district: w l.. THOMPSON
San Antonio, Brxar county; o. Ber
strOm OF San Antonio, Bexar count,
S9th district; D. q. Darrock
Fredericksburg, Blanco county.
18th district: w, Il. Armistead
Jefferson. Marion county; L. IA. lie
noX OF De Kalb, Bowie county.
60th districts w. II Cavltt of Brya
BraZls county.
nth district; w. O. Hamilton
Comanche, Comanche county.
72ud district; Harry Haynes of Il
dependence, Washington county.
73rd district; j. MoIlanahan
Lexington. Lee county.
10th district: j. A Ramsdell OF Blu
net, Burnet county.
0lst district: j. II Combs OF 81
Marcos, Hays county; j NJ. Sole
OF Lock halt, Caldwell county.
SSth district; r. W. Latham
Brownsville. Cameron county.
10th district: ID. 4. Hearne OF Avi
ger, Cass county.
slh district; Il L, Hendry OF Rus
Cherokee county.
ssth district; ?. b. Muse OF McKlr
ney, Collin county.
2qth district: w p. Bishopo of Franl
ford, Collin county.
9th districi: T. q. Coake OF Colun
bus, Colorado county.
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