Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-09-15
WACO
mrs anaI chist Parsons Recognized as
the Wife Of Respectable Negro
Of Waco.
An".her Attack on Hayes OF the postai
service-Gambiers Arrested-rhat
Free Bridge.

ANARCHIST PARSONS ALLEGED WIFE.
Special to the Gazette.
WACO, TKx., Sept. IA gentleman Of
this city induced Oliver Gathinus. col.
ored, to go to photograph gallery this
morning for his picture. and in A few
minutes the photographer had turned ont
dozen tintype representations Of
divers physlognomy. The face is that
OF buriy, good-natured negro. The pic-
lures will go to parties in Chicago. with.
10 a week they Will no doubt figure "a
wood cuts in the columns Of me chi.
cago dailies and Mrs. Lucy Parsons, wife
OF the condemned anarchist, Albert r.
Parsons, will look upon the face ~ she
reads the Chicago papers) OF the husband
sne deserted In Waco Y become the mis-.
tress OF Albert Parsofie. II is said that
Parsons married her in Chicago. Oliver
Gathings Is a negro, not light. colored,
either. He has lived In Waco twenty
years and Lucy, the Mrs. Parsons above
alluded to, was his first wife, She was
Ia bright, good-looking muIatto. Her
step-father, a negro man, Is now living In
East Waco. lie saws her romsstic
tale, told to the Chicago reporters
Of her mother being an indian woman
and her father Mexican, Is folderol.
Her mother, according to the step-iather,
was a colored woman. Her paternity is
not so well established, but It is com
/ monty ascribed to a son Of the white man
who owned her mother. Oliver Gathlngs
says Lucy pore him one child, but II Is
now dead. II was he (0llver) aud not
Albert Parsons who first encour-
aged her to learn TO read.
Oliver says he bought her books
and paid to send her to one OF the earliest
schools for colored people taught In Waco
He wasi proud Of his handsome quad.
room vile, and aspired to lift her
to as high plane as he could. He
soon found out that Albert Parsons was
attracting her attention and drawing her
away from him. Once, he says, he made
up his mind to kill her, but thought bet
ter OF it. Then the lisison between Lucy
and Parsons was fully developed, and
shortly afterward the couple left Waco.
Oliver has remained here, contentod,
Woodworking man, first at one Job and
then another around town, and rarely
ever out of employment. There is moth
ing OF the "Ostler Joe" In his compost
ton, and II he has any feeling OF affection
for aud regret at the loss OF his ex-wife
he doesn't show 1t. The woman went
with Parsons to Chicago, and as the
wife and ally In the anarchist ideas OF
the socialist, has achieved certain kind
of fame that has gone throughout the
| world. All her utterances and especially
her speeches at the anarchist gatherings
are wireo throughout the world as fully
and eagerly as though she were Louise
Michel or petroleuse of the Paris com
mune. 1t is queer, whirligig career
that of Lucy Gathings, or Parsons, anC
old negroes here who knew her when sh,
was humble divers contented wife, still
talk OF the pretty mulatto 'that Alder
Parsons stole away" and wonder II sh,
ever thinks Of Oliver now.
| A CowARDLY ATTACK.
i About three weeks ago THE GAZETTl
published an account OF the arrest Of Mr.
X. b. Hayes of this city, then employee
In the railway postal service, charged wit
mutilating mail matter at San Antonio
The arrest was at the instIgatlon OF j.
Hollingsworth and S. II. Royal, postofc
inspectors. Mr.. Hayes was arrested a
Fort Worth, carried to San Antonio anC
i promptly discharged by the United
States commissioner there, as Their,
was absolutely no evidence agalns
him. Mr.. Hayes is In Waco to-day ant
told THE GAZETTE reporter: al came
up from San Antonio last evening
While the train halted at Austin, Hol
lingsworth and Royal came into the coacl
where sat, and Royal proceeded to at
tack and beat me savagely. Then Hol
lingsworth wanted to jump on me bu
the passengers interfered. | did no
have anything In the shape Of weapon
not even pocket-knlfe. Holllngswortl
anc Royal both put their hands
on their hip pockets as though
armed with pistols. They have had !
grudge against me since my arrest, AM
especially now because l went before Thu
grand Jury at San Antonio day or two
ago and gave information Of their wantor
course in having me arrested. ! an
gong back to Austin In few days an(
expect to have them arrested for the as
sault OF last night. / think II the post
office department knew OF the course o
these inspectors, they would be dismissed
from the service"
FORT woRTH's REPRESENTATIVES,.
Two white men, one known as "Cat
fish, and the other as "Ed, the Kid
were arrested here this evening an'
JAILED, charged with running faki
gambling game In connection with
negro dive on Bridge street. 1t Is salt
they came here from Fort Worth, wher'
they are well known.
DISCUSSING ThE FRKK-BRIDGK QUESTION
Another public meeting is In progress
tonight, discussing the free-brlage
across-the- Brazos question. Nearly every
body wants free bridge, but no0od'
annears IN know exactly how TO get IL.