Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-10-22
WAS III MURDER I
CIande Herald, Young Man from
Lamar County. Mysierionsly
Disappears.
seeking rorsc-Trade lie rcrns einto the
Jaws o. Death, Into the Mouth Of
uoii.r

From a gentleman Who resides near
oak Grove IN this county a GAzRrrg re-
porter learned yesterday that the cross.
roads community Is greatly aeitated over
. case ot mysterious disappearance. The
circumstances rs given SO the reporter
Indicate that foul murder has been com
mittcd, and the standing OF the gentle,
man who related the story vouchcs
sufficiently Tor is truthiuluess.
rom HNCuEioRS oN \ YARN.
About The last of January or The first of
February, this year, y Young man named
Claude Herald moved into the cross roads
school community, four miles east OF Oak
Grove, from Lamar county lie was
about twenty-five years of age aud mn
married His effects consisted OF pair
OF brown mules, a new Tennessee wagon
and a gray stallion Herald first stopped
with three young men VINO were keeping
bachelors hnll and farming, two broth
ers, Billy and Lillarl Williams, and Luz
cius Roscoe. After remaining with.
them a week he contracted with the
Widow Dlckcrson ia work her farm ON
shares. Under thls agreement Mrs
nlckcrsou WIS tD furnish teams and
Herald left his own team aud wagon
WIFI AliN AIiiNE ItNNhAlI AAAiNflNt lAN
worked very induslriously on Mrs. Dick
rrson'S place for two months.
TIM BEGINNtNt on rifE MYSTERY.
After finishing planting corn about thc
lst OF April, Herald rode over one Thurs
day evening to the Williams Roscoe farm,
There he remained until the following
saturday, when ne started TO return on
She gray stallion. The Williams state
that after riding % few yards nc Turned
back and asked II y Mr. Taylor was at
home as ne wished 80 make n hoySc.tradc
With him. They replied IN the atlrma-
tive, and Herald rode of IN the direction
of Taylor'S house Since that moment he
has never been seen and no trace of him
can be found. The general conclusion in
the community is that he has been mm-
dcred and
nus BOpY srR,TEp NW.lT,
( only two clews have bccn discovered,
/ aud they are so SLIGHT as TO afford no sat
isiaCtion. Que of the neighb0rS after
wards recalled that on Monday succeed
ing the disappearance he saw the gray
/ stallion witch Herald was riding eNhlb-
+ tied in Fort Worth wagon-yard for sale.
He paid no attention to Il AZ the time, not
! knowing of llomld's mysterious fate.
rHEY SUSPECT
NNOiNcr circumstance WnlcN t0uSCU a
great deal OF comment was the burning of
Il log cabin ON the farm cultivated by the
three Young men, one night about the
time that Herald disappeared. The neigh
hors differ as 20 the exact time that this
occurred, hut q party who claims to know
says that the lire took place ON Sunday
night following the day that Herald was
last seen The house and all It's contents
were totally destroyed.
Other Chcums tmccs have tended to
arouse the suspicious OF the people m the
community, and various rmnors have been
IN crcalation, but nothing has yet beer
done towrads clearing up the mystery
RAruGE RErlCENt.
Nothing IS known about the antccodrnt'
OF The missing man beyond the fact that
he was from Lamar county The Shcrif
OF that county was written to In regard tC
his relatives, but the letter was ncNcl
answered Herald was Of a very rcticent
) disposition and rarely conyerscd abou
J himself. ii Is said that nc has q mother
! and sister living IA lamar, and that Ia
= owns town property IN Paris but nothing
I definite can be learned rs to this. IL,
, was a rather SMALL sparc-built man, not
. exceeding twcnty.SiN years of age,
The wagon and team belonging TO Her
l aid, together with his trunk anl
2 clothes, are IN the possession OF the VII
: li0ms brothers and Roscoe II the uhlor
! tunatc man has any relatives they are N
, Ignorance of his fate,