Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-05-05
NAUGHTY NOVEL;.
lie Tires OF Free Lodgings In The Paia'
tiAl Temple OF the County and
Takes Turn at Scheming.
An Abjrct Apology for the BETRAYAL Of
His Comrades and shreWd APP
peal for Help.
How the Cunning Criminal Proposes to
WrestIe With theSaw and Wear
Out the Case.

1t seems that the exceedingly clever
individual who turned informer In the
jsil-delivery plot, VIII G. Novel;, is
not pleased with his situation. A few |
days ego the authorities intercepted
letter from him to Madam Brown, In
which he Expresses the deepest contri- |
ton for the trouble In which he has
involved her and, In a fit OF penitence,
suggests a plan by which II may all be
nstopped.n If "a bond Is made for him
he proposes TO
SKIP THE COUNTRY;
II not he thinks "somebody" will be
convicted The atmosphere In all IL
evidently breeding ennui for Mr..
Novel;, and he contrived a very pref
ty plan to escape 1t. The letter shows
him TO be one OF the most artful crimi-
nails outside OF Sing Sing. As cor
respondent he IN very interesting. In
fact his tastes are decidedly literary as
is evidenced by his desire
for THE GAZETTE. The hand
IL as fine 40 that of woman, very
legibleand neat. A great many words
are misspelled and the language Is not
as artistic AZ II might he, Below II Is
reproduced llteratum ct verbatim:
"CoUSrY Jan, April 2S.
"F. y. Brown.
Kind Lady AS an opportunity
presents itself that / can crop you
few lines without the officer reading
II take this opportunity OF doing go.
| | wrote you this morning letter and
mailed II, asking you for medicine,
tobacco, deck OF cards and to have
THE GAZETTE sent to me. .Mrs. Brown,
know there Ia no body in the world
that hates this affair any worse than |
do myself. III had $4,000 five thou
sand dollars / would freely give IL all II
the matter could be stopped where
1t IL. | do not want 10 see any one
punished In the least, and IL / had Of
known of the true facts OF how every.
thing was, am sure | would have
suffered death before / would have
told anything. But on Monday
AFTER / WAS DRUNK
on Saturday night / was told that
Blanche came to the jail and cursed
me for everything that she could
think Of, and after was put under ar.
rest refused to tell anything until ]
was threatened with violence and
, they told me that they had
Blanche under arrest, and that
e she was packing everything off on me;
/: this believed after they told me that
/ she abused me on Sunday when she
was at the Jail. AS to how the secret
J, first leaked out cannot tell, unless
i some OF the prisoners gave 1t away
" which I am confident they done.
cannot find out anything Of 1t, as
!. cannot see any OF the boys that knows
I. They have put me clear away from thu
other boys. l will tell you, Mrs
a. Brown, the truth, AZ near as | know
a II, and am sure that am very cor
rect. do not bellev,
that they are aiming to prosecute
n. me, nor don't think they want to d.
n. 80, They are, | think, holding me TO
-, witness. There has never been
'" complaint made against me, nor
Id don't think there will he any made
or at least they have told me theT
~ would be none made. The best thin
u, for all Of ua would be for me to Civ
=, bond before the grand Jury meets an
~ 10 OIL somewhere and stay awhile, Ru
on send Certificate from doctor hel
that l was sick. This would kee
them from finding bill this term, an
,u the bond would not be forfeited.
-, this way II | was out we would
M WEAR THE THING OUT,
m, but II they hold me In here and cal
N not make bond, they will get hills III
49, they will rush the cases into trial {
the grounds OF me heing In jail; and
y, they hold me here In Jail they will &
very hard To convict somebody on u
charges, while II / was out on boz
there would be no danger. l am d
ing all in my power 10 give bond.
no have wrote to my brother and ask
al. him to make me bond. do L
know what he will or can do. ca
- not write what want TO write out
Al here. III had money to fee n lRwI
y with, know could get out OF
" light bond, could get him TO wr
ss for me, but cannot get lawyer l
=. cannot write what / want to write.
m know the only chance for us all Is
%; get out OF here right away, and
VA getsbut am going 10 try to have
sss matter stopped without forfeltlpl
Ts bond, and l am satisfied | can do ii
.nt | know l regret the whole mat
"a more than any body else, and there
s AZ no one that would do more for y
~ and Blanche than / would do.
lin only way that l know that l
81. do anything Ia TO get 10
~ This i hope will succeed
az doing. III had n lawyer l am 50
Ss, ,- fed that can get bond at &
"a Five hundred dollars, am going
sss do
s ,Ssl EVERYTHING IN MY POWER
.c@ for all OF us, that is all l can say.
~. ~. don't know whether | can give be
'N In the way | am situated or not. n
as. ! have written you all. IL you
L. manage anyway to get me out on bt
-- | don't think you viii ever regret
ek You know enough ofbusiness 10 kr