Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-11-25
GAINESVILLE.
Accused OF CremaiIng a Courthouse
10 Make Ashes Of an ln'
dictment.
a Little Girls sad Fate Getting over =
Dose Of Poison--Joined Ia Wcdiock
Personal,


Special 10 the Gazette.
! GAiNEsvuIE, TEX, Nov. 2A.-Wililam
/ CLARK. charged with burning the Mon
I tuguc court house In Murch, 1851, was
placed on trial in the district court this
/ morning This case wax tried IN the
I Montague district court about six months
( ago. and the defendant was convicted
/ but his case was reversed by the court ui
appeals because the Indictment was
/ found by an illegal grand Jury At the
I last term Of the court in Montague
county the defendant was granted u
change OF venue to- this county because
Inc could not obtain fair trial in the
county where the uffouse was committed.
There are some fifty or sixty witnesses In
attendance upon the trial, all OF whom re-
side In Montague county. The state Is
represented By County Attorney ham
bcrs OF Montague, County Attorney
Worthington Of Cooke county ana X. V.
Bell OF Gainesville. The defendant is re-
presented by l.. c. Sparknan OF Decatur
and Col. Bill Sparks of Montague. The
case is worry interesting one, and large
crowd Is constantly present In the
courtroom. The evidence Is wholly cir
cumstautial and the testimony so far
fore the burning the defendant told an
other party that IL seemed the only way
for him 60 get rid OF an
ing against him in the Montague
court charging him with THEFT of cattle
was to burn the court house 1t Is also
shown that considerable coal oil was
used IN burning the courthouse, and that
hors 5 lricks leading rom town to the
defendants house, and also beyond there,
were found by the officers next morning.
The defendant was found al his home
working next morning, and said he did
not know OF the lire until told of it.
The above is, in substance, the testl-
mony SO far introduced by the state,
The case will hardly he concluded before
tomorrow night The next case to be
taken up after this is finished will be that
OF the state VS. j. II. and j. Il. Raincy,
charged with killing Officer Johnston in
February last.
The hye-year-old daughter of w. A..
Malloch, who lives nine miles west of
this city, was badly burned last Sunday
evening by her clothing catching lire from
a stove. The mother, in her efforts to
save her little daughter had her hands
severely burned. III Is thought That prom
ably the little girl is fatally burned, and
the mother is great sufferer.
The parties poisoned in this county last
week by the use OF bad -four, and reported
to THE GAZETTE, are quite recovered,
Some of the parties were seriously affect
ed, but rallied under prompt treatment,
The alarm OF fire was sounded this
morning at II ia o'clock, and the tremen
responded promptly. 1t proved to be Il
small blaze up on Dyer street, which was
quickly eXtingulshed. The alarm pro-
du ed quite u cummotion.
Mr., w. Il. Sparkmun and Miss Bell
Gilbert were married in this city Novem-
her %, Rev. A.. j, Bush of the Christian
church officiating.
The ladies Of st. Pau's Episcopal
church will spread an elegant supper on
Thursday evening, the 2Glh inst.
John NJ. RorcN of the Montague North
west is in the city attending the Clark
trial as a witness.
John Egbert of Denton is in the city
visiting relatives.
"Thc World" promises to have the
largest house OF the season.