Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-11-24
TEXARKANA.
Fitch, Better Known As "Texas
MARLEY" Attempts 10 KIN Two
Men, aud Is Himself shot.
." barber Commits suicide by Piao.
inE HIS Feels 20 the Ran-ne
s Decanttated.

special 70 Tho Ghaotto.
i. ihAABkANA, ARK, Nov. %. Charlie,
rl'ch, better known as "rexas Charley. !,
cattle shipper who IL well known N
sort worth and elsewhere, rot Int, a dlf
nculty 10 this city to-day which rcsul,ea
~ his dangerous--if not fatal woundlpr
Inc light took place In the etoekv,yards
ionr reporter CLEANED the following facts
rom parties who claim 70 have been Wit.
nesses TO Tho Transaction A nan nv tho
nhule OF w l.. Crowley, who works IN
wv yarus was handling some hay which
oelVDHtd To Texas Charley,n He was
toiu oy charley not 20 open the bales of
nay ~ certain manner aud In certain
pens, but he persisted I'm d.
ing so. "Toxas Chareyn ana
rowley Then passed some words
shu Charley threatened TO hurt MIN n he
did not desist. Crowley kent On ana
ieNas Charley went OF prosumsblv ~
get gun. Crowley also went altar =
pistol, but failed To find one and Returned
10 liud that Charley had also returnpd
aud the butt Of large pistol could bs
seen IN Charley's breast. About this
lime Ben Pillows, another yard hand ana
a man with whom Texas Charley had nre.
WouslY quarreled, came np d the thrce
men had further words. Texas Charlev
then said something about killing them
both, and put his hand Ia his breast
PHlows then pulled his pistol
and shot Texas Charley, tho baII
entering his left jaw, dividing the lIpruaI
artery aud lodgI0g beneath the radius ~
the right jaw, pnyslalens were AZ onee
called In aud after examining the wound
pronounced Texas Charley ia q critical
condition, though II IA not imnossible
that he may recover. Pillows has not
YET been found, though the officers are ON
his track
There WAS great excitement caused In
TINS city to-day about noon by the rumor
thet a man had been run over and Killed
by freight train Ia the Texas & Pacific
yards Of this city. a GAZETTE reporter
~ once Iepalred 20 the scene aud found
that II was true. A man by the name OF
John B Kelley had been found living
across the track IN very bloody and
CHASTITY condition. He was picked an
ana laid on tbs platform where IL was
discovered that his head was entirely
severed from his body and one of his
hands crushed aud mashed all TO pieces.
A jury was impaneled by Justice Hays
ana an Inquest held over the body. The
testimony showed that he had lain down
with bis neck across ono OF the rails and
with his left hand under hla neck. He
was lying In that position whom the en-.
eines backed freight train out OF the
yard and three OF the cars passed over
the unfortunate man. Kelley was well
known white barber Of this city. lie had
not been working for the past week,
as he had been ON spree, though 1t Ia
claimed by parties who saw him half
hour before his death that he was not
drunk then. letter and a telegram from
a party in Malvern, Ark, was found in
his pocket, requesting him to come TO
that place at once, and proposing
10 pay his expenses II he did not have the
money. Some few think that his death
was caused by an attempt 10 board the
train while II was In motion, but the gem
eral Impression is, that after SOLDERING up
he committed suicide, as he could not
have fallen In tho position In which he
was found His brother, In Kansas City,
No., has been telcgraphed to.