Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-02-13
DENIS0N.
4 Man Fifty Years Old Tried for AS
sault on the Person Of a Little
Six.Year.Old Girl.
The Adultery Case Dismissed-Aoc ident
Caused by an Open switch-Gate
City Social Clubs Hop.
srecInl % lhe aazette.

Special to the Gazette.
DRNIs0S, Tx, Feb. 12--It has Just
come 10 light that on last Saturday night
an old man about fifty years OF a. e,
named William Tuiley, committed an
aggravated assault on the person OF a
little girl aged six years and six months,
by the name OF Nora Roberts. II Rob-
erts, the father Of the child, is an en-
ploye OF the Missouri Pacific round
house, while his wife attends to
small grocery-store in connection
with her household duty on West
Main street. Turley lives Immediately
opposite, and at times drinks very hard
Deputy Constable Gardner went out to
make the arrest on warrant sworn out
by Roberts before Judge Adams, but find
ing old man Turley sick in bed with a
doctor waiting on him, he did not make
the arrest. The little girl never made
known what had taken place until to-day
The people on our streets could hardly
believe the rumor, but the little girls
statement is made, and Turey will be
placed under arrest Immediately.
Harvey Jones and Glassoock had a
rough-and-tumhle fight in front of the
Colorado bar this evening over Glass
cocks buying whisky and refusing TO pay
for it.
A bugey-horsc belonging to II. Alexan-
der ran away this evening on Gondy
street, smashing the vehicle pretty badly
but hurting nobody,
j. Il. Keller and Miss Emma Saxton of
Dallas were tried on the charge Of adul-
terry to-day, but were dismissed.
The GAZETTE OF yesterday stated that
Conductor Knowlton was arrested In the
Territory on the charge of introducing
liquor into that country, and that he
made the officer drunk and left for Texas.
Mr. Knowlton is very indignant at the
statement OF his doing such thing The
statement was based on the sayso of one
of the parties, and, as Knowlton
was absent at the time, It was
impossible to interview him. Jim Steven
son was arrested last night by United
States Deputy Marshal Hackney, and
owned up to being guilty of selling whis-
Ky in the Territory. The whisky and
Stevenson were on Knowlton's train and
he, having no bill for 1t, as matter of
fact, was arrested on the above charge
When he explained matters
the officers turned him loose
and arrested Stevenson, who tried
to lay the blame on the conductor. But
as Knowlton proved himself innocent, of
course the other party was held, who
succeeded in making his escape and came
to Denison, where be made the assertion
that he would sell all the whisky he
wanted to; but from the present appear
ance he Will not sell any more until after
he serves out u term in the penitentiary,
II found guilty. The friends of Knowl-
ton will be glad to learn of his being re-
leased
The o. o. OF ii. paraded the streets last
night in full uniform, and attracted much
attention.
Twenty-Five carloads of cattle came in
this morning from the South and were
fed and watered in the stock-yarda to-
day, and left this evening for the North.
Trainmastcr Rhea of Fort Worth was
in the city to-day.
a switch in the lower yards of the Mis-
souri, Pacific was left open last night and
switch engine No so ran into some other
engine standing on the track. No. so was
damaged to considerable extent. The
other engine and box car or two were
also more or less damaged. An investi-
CATION committee is looking into the mat
ter to find out why and who left the
switch open. Il
Miss Matte lewis, who is visiting her
sister, Mrs. John Creager, went to Van
Alstyne, her home, this evening to attend
q Masonic supper at that place tonight.
She viii remain Il few days.
The Gate City Social club held their
first hop in their new hall last night, The
ball was private, being only for members
and their ladies, and was a most enioya-
BILE affair. There were twenty-five couples
in attendance. The ball was so well con.
Quoted and managed that it was impossi-
BILE for member not to enjoy himself
AT II O'Clock there was an intermission
OF twenty minutes and the gentlemen
escorted the ladies to an oyster parlor.
where they were refreshed, when dancing
was renewed, which lasted until the sea
sonable hour of / 80, when the members
disbanded for their many different homes
and pronounced the evening well spent.
Prof. Rosenburg furnished the music.
which Is guarantee in that line that the
best OF music was made for the dancers
Mrs. Fowler of Detroit, Mich, is
visiting in the city, the guest of Judge
Nevins.
Conductor Lasher denies having had
D, ). Keller and Miss Emma Saxton ar
rested for adultery.
Monroe Mcalahon of Sherman is in the
city collecting for &. A. Teryiss & Co. of
that city.
1t Is understood in Denison that Cash
Slrpluss, late editor of the Sherman Reg
lister, will start that paper again in few
days.
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