Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-02-21
WARNING FOR A CORPSE.
Two Ladies Equally Positive as to the
Identity Of a Dead Man
il Georgia.
lie Was Himself, But Was He Weaver
or Was lie Pierce, or Was lie
Both, a Deable or slnsleg
Que Court Calls Him Pierce aua Now INC
supreme Court win Re,icw rhs
Cause Csicbre.



ATLANTA, Ga, Fch. 20 The cola
brated law suit for the posSessiop az m,
body OF the Texas millionaire. j w
Fierce, which Is claimed hy two tyumen
both OF whom represent themselves a,
being bis widow, came up before .Iudg,
Marshall j. Clark here to-day, III,
courtroom was packed with spectator,
as the case has achieved national motto,
rlcty Mrs. Weaver OF Indianapolis
claims the dead man as her husband, who
went % Texas several years ago and
changed his name to j. w Pierce.
Mrs. j, w. Pierce brings evidence TO
show that her husband was not the man
referred 10 Ia Mrs Weaver's allegations.
len days ago the authorities OF West
view cemetery ordered the dead man
turned over TO Mrs. J. w. Weaver, she
and her friends having Identified the
remains, the friends OF Mrs. Pierce
then asked the court for an injunction
against the county authorities; hence
the snit, as the dead manS property Is
valued at two millions. In support OF
the allegations OF Mrs, Pierce were tiled
some twenty depositlons, u large portion
OF which are In support of this PROPOSE.
ZION That ), Woods Pierce WAS horse.
trader IN Texas aud that parties had
I'm lwn him for several years as such
that no was an illiteratc man and
could not spell or write his
name. BY some OF the deposl-
lions they trace him as shipping
stock last fall from Fort Worth TO
shreveport, and from thence to Atlanta,
and that some OF the brands on the stock
sold by him In Atlanta were recognized
as that OF stock sold to him In Texas.
II was proved that he had on the day no
was killed billed an Arabian horse 10 San
Angelo, Tex, and also sent $50 ia rouIs.
tered letter 10 his wife. The complain.
ant was married TO him In 1870, and In
had by previous wife grown sop and a
son-ln-law. His wife aud family testify
their recognition Of his body In West
View cemetery.
Judge Lockrane presented for Mrs.
Weaver his answer TO this bill az well AZ
the answer OF the WestyIew Cemetery
government. The answer of the Gene.
terry company simply showed the infor-
nation derived from the examination OF
the body by parties from Indianapolis.
who identified IL us the body of j. +,
Weaver, The answer Of Mrs. Weaver
was suppcrt4rOms "a ,sss-ss. ss-.....,. ~
the preaaptai lifetime ia hia nas, ID ~
waer1,r In III bile claiming the right to
the body at the proper time they dis
claimed all desire TO remove Ii until
all litigation was ended, including the
litigation with the railway corpora.
ton. The first Information Mrs. Weaver
had OF the death OF her husband was u
letter mailed at Atlanta inclosing an nc
count OF the railroad accident, and also
the business card OF Weaver, while he
was an undertaken In Indianapolis II
appeared further from the answer that
Weaver left Indianapolis In 1883 with
woman named Mrs. Eden, and settled Ia
Fort Worth, Tex the same point from
which the stock was shipped to Atlanta.
That he took the name OF j w. Pierce,
rs shown by his letters to his wife, and ON
HIS return TO indianapolis two years ago,
he was shot In the neck by the husband
OF Mrs. Eden. That he returned to
Texas and under the name OF j. w.
Pierce kept hotel at Fort Worth. One
OF the dispositions, that OF Miss Long OF
Atlanta, showed her recognition OF the
body as being the same as that OF the
Pierce whom she knew In Fort Worth.
Mrs. Weaver went TO Texas In August,
1884, and prosecuted him for living with
Mrs. Eden, whom he was passing of IA his
wife In that city, and he was fiued $1,000
and costs An undertaken in Indlanapo.
lis examined the body and found bullet
marks on the neck hs well az the PEE
culiarity about the feet which
they had described. Mrs. Wilson
also testified that she recognized
in book taken from the body Of the
dead man the handwriting OF Weaver TO
copy Of medical prescription CON
tanning sarsaparllla and iodide Of putas-
stun, which she said was the same
medicine prescribed by his physi.
clan at Indianapolis b. n.
Moore, president of Moore's Business
college as an expert, testified TO identity.
ing the writing IN the book aud those 10
the letters as being the same Mrs. A
Pierce aud Mrs. j II Weaver were
both placed on the witness stand and tes-
tilted
Al 6 O'Clock Judge Clark rendered his
decision IN favor OF Mrs Pierce.
Judge LOchranc, in behalf OF Mrs,
Weaver, VIII appeal the case 70 the su-
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