Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-06-28
DOC WALKER.
! .,.vsr OF Luclus Grant Swuns
Into Eternity.
,.r,ped Visited by a Gazette Re
az History of the Crime.

srAsA, June 27.-Doc Walker
!, here to-day for the murder
y Grant, in February last.
y, thousand people were pres
s.Iker slept but little last
Wing engaged in spiritual mat
I, showed
y GREAT COURAGE
.,me of his conviction to the
y, of his death and never
Nv evidence of dependency.
~, sSissited to-day by a GAZETTE
10 whom he expressed him
READY TO DIFF.
no was sure God had par
'nhis sins and would give him
asked If he killed Grant as
M admitted 1t, but stated in
n,,lye terms that he acted in
,.e He said the witnesses
him swore falsely, but he had
Miven them.
taken from the Jail and as
Ae scafiold at LAP, when at his
M hymu. Am l Born to
!. sung by his attendant min.
Twas taken up by the
'srNBLED THOUSANDS
4 people present and sung
N pathos and effect. A short
spfiate prayer was then of.
IKE preacher. At 2 O'Clock
THE BLACK CAP
"a over his head, the rope ad-
d the sheriff sprung the trig-
Doc Walker was ushered into
Unknown.
h no public talk while upon
|ys He died in eight minutes
All, and was cut down and
coffin ut 2:l5. His neck
I'm, and he died without. a
TORY OF THE CRIMINAL.
,ker, the murderer who to-
The eXtreme penalty of the
Il native of North Carolina,
[cb state he went TO Louisiana,
4 Emancipation, in company
brother, whose name we
a unable to learn, and there
1 IN farming near Monroe, on
\ hlta river. About two years
,ir settlement there Docs
I nsde hellish assault upon a
!. spectacle white lady, was af.
d spprehended and burnt at
h. About ten years ago Doc
!, this state and settled
d Miller county. He
d cmpanied from Louisiana
n named Lucius Grant. Both
ID lied about twelve miles from
until the late tragedy. which
u the death of Grant at the
d Walker, his old-time friend.
4 Walker bore o pretty good
III when sober. but when I'M
ii ,anence of whisky was very
"a ue and inclined to fight. A
tn prior to the killing ON the
~ preceding it the two friends
ed ssn, and among other things,
I'd ping pretty full Walker made
4 kOfsOme clothing for himself.
n by home he loaned Grant
,so hoes and vest out of tn e
,ut n!loned purchase on condi-
The same be returned at an
ev Grant failed to keep his
b ind In a few days Walker,
dug his delinquency, put on
~ and started on the war-path,
%, ih an old duck double.bar-
~ tgun. He found Grant at
'N edistance from his home,
Fla y made the imperative con-.
'v him to shuck Oft 'em duds,
d. ylng his command with q
pni oaths and Other ugly cuss-
le innt reasoned to the point
llE could not strip stark
you seh a place a, that, and so
VOC any shelter, but offered to
Dc goods at any reasonable
. EWalker might name. The
l0a ssyer, strenuously objected
o. q. aent other than the terms
w by himself, and pointing
his victim told him to "pull
J ~, it seems. had a half idea
ny n was teasing him, but the
y ng that his command was
~ Nly complied with, turned
~ zee, MORALLY wOuDding the
,o' bis malice. Walker was
= y. captured and safely
An 70 Miller county Jail.
y "a by a jury of twelve men
Y sitting of the circuit court,
w asn he was ably defended
q syers, Esq. T.. #. Friedell
~ Ms. Johnson, was found
afder and sentenced to hang
4. V day of June. After the
wv Me supreme court was APP
lsc Mlsustnined the verdict OF
Mnow. An effort on the part
w. \ ". Walkers white friends was
Y. get signers to a petition
~ anor Tor u Communication OF
y, snaliy to confinement in
mary Tor life, but all efforts
o. walker, AS above stated, was
81 ,sa Into the great unknown