The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-05-05
DAY OF DESPERATE DEEDS
Crime In Its Most Heiaous Form Runs
Rampant.
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A FlENDlsH ACT AT AUSTIN.
A Sleeping Dentist ChlorOlormed and
His Apartments Fired.
A WOMAN DRIVEN TO SUICIDE.
An InsuItod Wife and an Enraged
A WOMAN DRIVEN TO SUICIDE
An Insulted Wife and an Enraged
Husband More Details From
the Battle Win Delaware
Bend Cattle Thieves.
THE DAYS RECORD OF CRIMES
An Awful ANaIr at Anstin.

AUSTIN, March 4,--(Special. l-At an
early hour this morning the premises of
DR.. G. B. Stoddard, on Congress avenue,
were entered by some unknown Cas-
tard. An outrage, which very nearl '
ended in the death OF the well known
dentist, was perpetrated, The motive
underlying the crimo was private re-
yenge, as there is no evidence whatever
that robbery was the object.
THE FACTS IN THE CASE,
Shortly after O'clock This morning.
some party or parties entered the dental
parlors of DR.. Stoddud, by cutting A
hole through the door large enough TO
admit a PERSONS hand, and in this way
the barring bolt was drawn. Once in-
side. the would-be murderer, with a
hendishness equal TO his desperate pur.
pose, chlorotormed the doctor, and then
deliberately piled up nine heaps
OF paper in as many parts of the room.
each heap being thoroughly saturated
with coal oil. Chairs and lounges were
also saturated with the same infiamble
material, and all things being thus pre-
pared lighted match and set fire to the
establishment. With fearful rapiditV
the fire shet upward in the main parIor,
filling the adjoining room Of DR.. Stod-
dard, where its hapless
OWNER LAY HELPLESS
from the effects of the drugs adminiA.
tered, with dense volumes of smoke.
Fortunately Officer VIM. Howe discoy-
cred the flames in very few moments
after they had been started and az once
gave the alarm. Meanwhile, however,
the rooms had become mass Offire and
smeke and several parties who arriveed
early on the scene made their way TO
the rescue OF the sleeping and intended
victim of the outrage. They carried
him to place of safety, and although
everything known to medical skill had
been employed in his behalf, he re-.
manned in a state of Inconsistencies nm
10 late hour this afternoon. Tho fire
department. responded with alacrity
and soon, what might have turned out
TO be serious conflagration, was sub
dued, The dental parlora of DR.. Stod.
dard were as bandsor ae q that can
be found in the count and we're furn-
ished with the most costly and beautl-
iul trappings OF artistic merit. Some of
them were purchased regardless OF ev-
pense In bondon and Paris, and the en-
tire outfit of the three rooms, including
the paintings that decorated the walls,
was NoANu ~ lbdsb AlO,UUua Inc damage
done amounted only 20 about $500.
That Mt least one life has not been sacrl-
iced and fine business block totally
destroyed is due more 10 the interven-
ton of
ACCIDENTAL GOOD FORTUNE
than any lack OF diabOlical intent on the
part of the heartless malefactor who
concocted the horrible scheme. Tho
outrage has been the theme OF universal /
comment here all day, and many are the
theories advanced regarding tho devil
ish deed. Detectives are now at work
on the case, and as suspicion points TO
certain parties, who have long cher
ished ill-will towards the doe
tor, II Is likely arrests Will
be made tomorrow. The promises were
insured for $3.50 in the Niagara com.
pany, S2,50O in the Springfield, Masss.
chusettS, company, and 5000 in the
York.
Tonight DIR. Stoddard has partially
recovered consciousness, and great
sympathy is felt for him by the public.
IL The crime can be fastened ON the par
ties suspected, Austin will bo made un
comfortably hot for them in the future.
by STRANGE ooINCIDRNoE
this was the day set tor hearing nine
cases for criminal libel preferred by
Dr. Stoddard against w. Y. Leader, OF
the Evening Dispatch. They were
temporarily postponed, however,