Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-11-21
SHERMAN.
]. II. Harrison Pound Guilty OF MIR
der in the First Degree-Pen'
ally, Life Sentence.
An Oh Rooster swallows n 500 diamond
/. Killed aud the Jewel
Pound



special 20 tho Gazette.
I SHERMAN, Tx, Nov. 20. The district
court room was again the center oil m
tcrest this morning 10 hear the cohclnu-
. inc argument in the Harrison murder
case. Promptly at O'Clock County Az
tornoy c. b. Raudell took up the conclud-
/ inc argument and In a speech OF over one
hour and half thoroughly sifted and re-
viewed the testimony for the purpose OF
T showing the guilt OF the defendant, and 1T
/ tho end OF his remarks II was generally
conceded 70 be ono OF the very best cf-
forts ever made by this sprightly young
attorney. HIS thorough analysis Of the
case following the logical Introduction
made By Judge Cowlcs, left no point not
fully ventilated, and certainly left nothing
undonc that the state or the public could
reasonably require. Judge Maltbie gave
the Jury clear and comprehensive list OF
instructions that covered every point
raised by the testimony, and the Jury re-
tired OF Il O'Clock TO consider OF their
verdict Speculation as to the verdict
was the common theme of conversation
on the streets and In the business houses
during the day, but according to the
renowned Ben Hardin OF Kentucky
"thc verdict of Jury Is one
Of those things the Almighty can not tell
IN advance and We had to wait their
finding TO be certain about it,.
When the courtroom was cleared OF
the throng the regular business OF the
docket was resumed once more and
Lewis Jackson (colored) was arrligned
on Il charge Of assault TO murder one
David Mitchell, also highly colored, who
urc citilcus OF the negro settlement about
half way between Chocktaw aud Ken
I tUckytoWn, in this county.
Sam Lazarus of this city while on Il
( visit to his ranch i'm Cooke county, about
three weeks ago, had the misfortune to
lose a fine diamond stud worth several
hundred dollars, and in spite Of all the
searching for The precious gem it could
! not be found. A few days ago he again
visited the ranch. While there they
killed an old rooster for dinner, and on
dressing IL for the table found the dia-
mond all bright and beautiful among the
pebbles and gravel in the chickens Craw.
The diamond king, who has been
contributing so much to the phys
zeal health of DensOn for the
past two weeks, while Evangelist
I Williams was attending to the spiritual
condition Of sherman, rode over to the
county seat to-day in his golden chariot,
accompanied by his excellent band, and
/ produced q sensation here. He snatchcd
out teeth with great deXterity, Amounted
the lame, the halt and the blind, and after
! fully applying his remedies without charge
/ TO the multitude, went back TO lis camp.
+ Col, Isaac BENSON, who has been Sc
riOuSly sick for many weeks, died this
afternoon at half-past O'Clock.
Isaac Runyan, who was thrown from
the wagon yesterday west Of the city,was
brought in to-day. lie had three ribs
broken, and his head is badly bruised.
At ten minutes before O'Clock this
afternoon the jury returned into court
and offered their verdict through their
foreman, w. L. Cherry, who came in adj
vance and handed the papers to the court,
The defendant having been returned to
jail his honor ordered the jury to take
seats and sent Il bailiff TO have Han rison
brought into court. In the course OF
fifteen minutes the prisoner was brought
in and took his seat inside
the bar, when the jury was
called up, the roll was called
and the verdict read by JAG Farmer, clerk
of the court:
We, the Jury, tmd the defendant, j. II .
Harrison, guilty oil murder IN the first de-
gree, rs charged in the indictment, and
assess his punishment at confinement in
the penltcntiary for his lifetime.
Signed W. r. CHERRY,
Foreman.
The defendant was pale with anxiety
when he came into court, but exhibited
no evidence OF excitement when the terri
Bile sentence that shuts him out from the
world from this day forward was read
in his presence, lie sat calm and I'M
moved amid the commotion around him,
and seemed to accept the situation with
a nerve aud fortitudc not possessed by
many men. II by some chance OF re-
ycrSal mis- case should not DE changed,
the question whether Harrison would not
gladly change places with Jack Good
win presents itself TO all thinking men,
aud q majority would prefer to lay with
the latter In the cold grave rather than
face the life of penal seryitude that fol-
lows this verdict. Ills attorneys saved
several exceptions to the ruling of the
court, and viii doubtless take an appeal
to the higher court before submitting to
the hopeless destiny foreshadowed in the
verdict.
We understand that eight of the Jury
favored hanging, but at length gave way
TO the appeal Tor mercy mace by the four,
and agreed as above stated
PARIS.