Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-02-14
THE STATE CAPITAL.
A Sister Of James Phillips Give DAM
aging Testimony Against Eula
Phillips Virtue.
visiting Houses Of III Fame, Meeting
Pronlncnt Citigens Of Austin
BY AssIgnntion.
Our bear o~s Wants IL Noticed that Ne
Does Nst Relieve hi srrrende-snr
an state ninhas.
special 70 The saseue.

special 20 the SA4CtC
AgsriN, Tax, Feb. ls..-4rhc isaaln,r
topic here to-day WAS tie trial Of Janus
fhilIips, Jr, charged with she murder oi
hts young wife, Eula ihlnps, on Christ
mas eve night. Developments Ia tbs tee-
tlmony before Justice Voa Rosenberg
were of highly sensational character.
Mrs. Philips, tho mother Of the piisoner,
testified thar on coming into the room
where her son bay Ia the bloody bed lin.
mediately after his wiie's body was foahd
In the yard, hen son having como 60 and
seeing his wife gone asked SIS Enla
deadY" His mother's reply WAS eyes,
my child "Then | viii - TO hell, .
said her son, meaning not remorse bpt
that he, too, might as we'll be dead II she
WIS gone.
Mrs. Campboll, rather handsome
young woman, sister Of the prisoner,
ard whose husband Is said TO be In
Mexico, was put on the stand and testi.
lied that Mrs Enla Phillips, the murdered
woman, left her husband toward the lat.
ter part of November or the lrst OF De-
cember. That on one occasion the wit
ness and Mrs thfllips together visited
the house OF Fannie Whipple (eolored)
on Red River street, In this city, thence
and then to the well-known house Of Mrs
robin as the foot OF the avenue. Mrs
Campbell testified that Mrs Phillips re-
manned at Eanaie Whipple's somo two
weeks aud two. or three days nc Mrs,
Tobins; that she was not true 30 her hus-
band; that she held intercourse with
other men; that she (Nlrs. Campboll)
had seen her Ia bed with other men on
two occaslonsy that about the last
of November, few weeks before
The murder, she went down TO klgln and
her husband went and brought her back
20 Austin. After her return she had en-
gagements to meet other men here be-
fore she was killed Fannie Whipple Is a
colored woman.
Question What sort OF q house do0s
she keep
Answer Il shrug OF shoulders.
o.; Is IL an assignation houseY
a.: | suppose so.
Mrs. ToDin Is white woman and
keeps he same 80 of u house. Eula 8
last engage gaenl, 40 far as she knew, was
on December 30 TO meet another man.
Mrs. Campbell knew nothing Of tho muir
der, as she was not In.
Fannie Whipple testified that Mrs.
| Eula Phillips and another woman came
| 10 her house and asked her TO lot them
stay--they stayed day and two nights,
leaving AZ q. m, when a man came with
d buggy.
Mrs Tohin testified that Mrs. Eula
| Phillips, the murdered woman, came "a
| her honse, nj the foot OF the avenue, In q
! hack, between III and ~ o'clock, on the
! night of the murder. This was IN hour
before her dead body was discovered
| She did not get out, but called witness
out and talked with her. She was alone
This was about the drift OF the evil
dence.
The court took the case under advise
ment, aud will render his decision Mon
day.
There are many wild aud sensations
rumors as TO the identity OF the maj
Mrs. Phillips expected TO meet al Mrs
Tobin's on the fatal night. The question
was not asked by the counsel but rumo
connects that last visit OF the murdered
woman with prominent and wtll-to-d,
citizen of Austin, who Is said to have rid
den back with her Ia the hack.
1t was also In testimony that immedi
ately aftor the murder the bloodhonn,
was put on the murderers track. Tn,
animal pursued the track some dietanc,
| towards the western suburbs, when b,
suddenly stopped and refused 10 90 fur
Their with the officers. Here Is where tn,
villain put on his shoes.
The following letter from Gov. ireland
| to Hon. Henry l.. Dodge, San Francisco
| dated to-day, explains Itself:
ExEonTIyR DEfARTMKsr,
AUSTIN, TRA FOB. 3,
| To Henry l.. Dodge, Chairman Board OF Com
merce san Franeisco
SIR--I am to-day In receipt Of you
favor, Of blank date, asking me L
urge upon cong css to pasi
La general election law for al
the states. Approaching your anxlet'
for the purity OF the ballOt-box and elpc
tion laws In some Of the states, mus
respectfully declInc 20 comply with you
request, for the following reasons; !
believe the people caoahle Of local sell
government. 2. Willie congress has th,
right 10 regulate the mode aud time o
electing members ~ congress upder Ar
i ticle i, Section I, OF the Constitution, Il
has no such authority IN the local dec
tions Of the several states 3 The Htatel
could not Without express authority e
be found ia the Constitution rclegat'
such authority TO the congress o. ths
United States, and sastly, congress c0ult
mot, even with the assent Of the states
without constitutional authority, enac
any law on the subject You viii observe
i that am not yet prepared 10 surrender
all the power and rights OF the states.
am, very respectfully. your ohedicnl
serrnnt, JoHE IRgfAND.