Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-10-04
WACO
Prof. II. NJ. billiard Under Arrest Tor
Violating the Postal Regulations.
REV. shnw 10 Attend the Rational Liberal
Lengue- Tnlii-rh
Church Notes.

Special 10 The Gazcttc.
WACO, Tx, oct, 8.--United States
1 NarshaI Van Hall arrived last night hav-
Z Ing in charge Prof. u NJ. billiard, who
/ he arrested IN the town OF Haskell, Has
ke;l county, on Wednesday last. billiard
7 Is charged with misuse of the p0stoillce
( establishment Of the United States with
7 intent 10 defraud did delraud one x.
I Howard, resident OF Meridian. II isa|
! cute swndlc that Dilurd Is charged With
/ IL seems that he, too, was Il resident OF
/ Meridian There Is valuable mineral
\ well at Meridian. IL was owned by a.
stock company, Howard being president
and owning controlling interest. Dllard
had nine shares Of stock, 500 each, and
was secretary. The shares never reached
pal falnc, aud about 500 per share seems
10 have been tnCi- Richest price. Dillard
cssnyed TO unload his stock on How
ard nc fictitious value. He sets to work
and writes Din Meridian, u letter dated
Bolton, March lG, 1884, signed 81 M.
Russell, NJ. d., making proposition 10
Howard TO buy large interest IN the
company at $50 per share, Howard 10
retain Sl200 interest aud put IN 1880 ad.
ditional, while Russell and his associates
would furnish $500. The envelope IN
which this letter was placed was stamped
Bolton, witha lictitiousp0stal mark pre-
pared by billiard. This letter he deliy-
cred, as secretary OF the company, to
Howard saying he had got il out OF the
Meridian pUstohice. Howard, who isan old
man seyenty.two years Old thought
tho proposition was good one,
and thinking he could get $50 share
Tor the stock, purchased billiards. nine
= f..t,. az share which lnn nGgn
going at $50 per share. Then Mr.. How
ard wrote TO the supposed Russell, at
Bolton, accepting the offer TO rCorganizc
the company. ON the 28d OF March,
however, he received another letter from
= Russell, this time dated aud postmarkrd
ut Temple, Withdrawing the proposition
OF the lGth, ON the ground that ne had
heard there was Il cloud on the title OF
the property on which the well is situ-
aled. This letter, too, had q bogus post
: mark on 10, prepared by Dillard, and
was handed by him 10 old an How
q ard. Thus Howard was left with
his old stock, and that he had pur-
chased, Mt fictitious value, from Dillard.
The latter played a double part, staying
I, right In Meridian aud making Howard
believe the letters he received were
genuine and from party named Russell,
billiard, however, had now unlOadcd his
stock at more than twice It's value. This,
az least, Is the theory OF Tue government
and what IL proposes to prove. MIR.
Howard says billiard has swindlcd him
out Of $3.50 IN the transaction Marshal
HAIL rs stated above, found lllllard IN
Haskell county Postolllce Inspector
smith WORKED up lhc case CoullllS-
sioner tinks ms set inc case lor pct9oer
,, aud ilXed i)lllardS pan AT S20oO' M
lard Went to the country this morning IN
charge OF Deputy Marshal ism, TO see II
he could get Rev, y. +. wright TO make
his bond, Dillard rs about hiiy-hye
years old,
Mr. j. u. Shaw VIII leave Waco to-
morrow evening for Cleveland, OHIO, to
: attend We congress OF the National Lib
eral League, which meets in annual SEES
sion October 3, holding three days. 1t
T, viii be composed OF tree-thnkers, agnos-
ties aud iniidels from the United states
and Canada. Bob lngersoll VIII preside
MIR shaw is the pastor OF the Free
Thinkers congregation here, known as
the Religious and Benevolent association,
, 10y whom he Is sent ms delegate to their
National Liberal League. Four years age
the gentleman was attending the Southern
Methodist conference as u minister %
that denomination, and was voted for a
! Nashville as bishop of the NJ. Il, church
I south. That he Is honest in his new llclC
: of thought and labor Is not doubted b,
anybody here, but the incident show'
= that slime changes and men change will
. time"
Sanford Johnson, proprietor OF tbs
!, Waco driving park, left for st. Louis TO
day, accompanied by Mai, Wiley Jones
= who is largely interested in sporting
matters. They VIII also visit Chicago
y Cincinnati and other points, to sccur,
'r are being made daily for the Waco races