Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-04-14
WACO.
A Swcde Says His Brain Is Ont Of
Order and Immediately Puts a
Bullet Therein.
where IL the $4,000 is the Question
Courts In Session visiting Attorneys
Local Notes.

Special 10 the Gazette.
WACO, TEX, April lS.-The sharp re
port Of gun startled people in the vi
cinity OF Third and Franklin streets
about 6.30 O'Clock this morning. It wa:
soon leaaped that the shot was fired In
one of the rooms of the clearinghouse Of
Mrs. Tom Scott, on Third street. MIR
McElwee, one of Mrs. SCOTS dodgers, was
aroused, and, upon going out into tbC
hall, found that the gun had been fred IN
the room adjoining his own. He tried
the door and found 1t locked; then pro.
curing q chair, be looked over the tran.
som and saw man lying on pallet on the
floor with the top OF his head shot away,
and a gun lying upon his breast. lie
broke open the door and then witnessed
most horrible spectacle. Upon folded
tent, just within the door, lay man sp.
parently about forty five years old, with
almost the entire portion Of his head
above the eyes gone, and the walls, bed
and floor bespattcred with brains, blood
and pieces OF skull. A new 44-caliber
Winchester rifle lay upon the body with
the muzzle pointing to the deceased's
head. He had evidently taken his posi-
ton upon the pallet he had made by fold
| ing up mis- tent, and clasping his rife Ia
( both hands, had pressed the muzzle to
bis eye and pulled the trigger with his
toe. The ball entered the inside corner
| of the left eye, passed through
the head, then through the
door, and traversing the hallway
buried itself in the wall opposite the
room. Justice Davis, with q coroner's
jury arrived about 9 O'Clock aud, after
viewing the body and its surroundings,
repaired TO his Office TO conclude the in
quest. Mrs Tom Scott, Mr.. McElwee,
Mr.. +. o. Anderson and Jailer Tom
stephens testified before the Jury. Mrs.
scott stated that deceased came to her
house a week ago to-day and engaged a
room, for which he paid; that she had
spoken but little with him, and did not
even know his name. He would leave his
room in the morning and not return until
after night. He came in about $3.50 last
night and retired She did not know his
occupation. Mr.. McElwee, who occu-
pies a room Just east of the one
where the deceased killed himself,
testified that he did not know him
or his name and had never seen him alive
derson was another witness, who thought
the dead man fellow-countryman did
not know him. A letter found in the
coat pocket OF deceased was shown TO
him. He said that 1t was written in the
Swedish language, and the envelope was
addressed to &c. d. Kihlman, merchant,
Suudswall, Sweden, Europe.n The let
ter translated, read as follows:
March IssE Cor1 Suuue,pafi ru.o
den DEAR BROTHER CARL--When this let
ter reaches y0u VIII be at an end. Brother
Gustaf has been sick about three months and
my brain IL out Of order. have nothing to
leave behind. Give my regards to Edla.
GUSTAV kIHLNAN.
"P. ST. hope God win forgive my sins
On a stand at the foot of the bed were
the contents of the deceased's pockets,
having apparently been carefully placed
there before he laid down upon mis- i'm
proyised pallet. There was pocket
book containing 1915 in silver and a
pawn ticket for hunting case silver
watch issued to II. Lawson by Domnau &
Brother, on April z, 1856, showing that
the watch was pawned for S4.75; the
pocket-book also contained tract, and
some recipes clipped from newspapers.
The letter, of which the translation Is
given above, was found unsealed in the
kOGl HOihEb vi utItuHtu, WHICH WIFI his
vest, white shirt and other garments,
hung upon a chair at the foot of
the bed, In his trunk were no papers
10 further identify the deceased. The
Winchester rife was apparently a new
one, and Mrs. Scott said she had never
noticed it in his room before. This was
about all the evidence that could be pro-
cured, and the jury returned verdict to
the effect that deceased, whose name ap-
peaIed to be Gustave Kihlman, came to
his death at his room in the city of Waco,
on the morning OF April Is, from the
effects of gun-shot wound inflicted from
a gun held In his own hands.
The letter above quoted shows that
Kihlman had meditated some time before
the commission Of tine act. Nobody here
knows anything about the man save that
he had been in Alabama recently. His
letter was forwarded TO his brother Carl
in Sweden. Some of his brother Swedes,
residents OF the city, took charge of the
body and gave II decent burial at p. m.
to-day. 1t was the most sickening sui
cidnl scene ever witnessed here
COURT NOTES.
In the district court to-day the case OF
austin Sims, white man, is on trial.
In 1877 Sims killed an old man named
James Miller. He has been tried once
and.sentenced to thirty-flye years i'm
prisonment, when ne got the verdict re.
versed, and with continuances, etc, the
case has been prolonged until now.
In the United States district court the
case of the Erath County Cattle Company
vs. l.. b. Swift, suit for section of land,
is on trial. Among attorneys Ia attend
ance on the court is Judge A. T. Watts
of Dallas, Besll OF For. Worth, Col. J.B.
Turner Of Turner, Hastings lies of Min
neapoliS, and MesSrs. Ruggles Of Austin
and McKinnon of Hillsboro
Sanford Lewis, the colored mail rob
her, was brought down from Dallas last
night aud VIII be placed on trial this
term.
GENERAL LOCAL. NFws.
Some talk was created this morning BY
the publication of communication In
tho Examiner, purporting to be a state
mept OF the receipts aud disbursements
of the rity government from all sources
aud for all purposes during the past two
years. The author Is Col. VIM. A. Tay-
Tor, leading citizen and taxpayer. He
figures out that above legitimate ex.
penses the sum OF $4,000 was FILTERED
away or sqhaudered, and asks, "where
has the money gonefn