Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-01-18


cases as an incentive. There is but one
human passion dcvilish enough 10 furnish
the motive for this horrible series OF
crlines-reyenge
"But can 1t be possible that one man
can entertain equal feelings of revenge
against nine persons. living apart, some
white and some c0lored And is IL not
still more incredible that two persons or
my theory be correct that more than one
has engaged in these murders should
have precisely the same feelings Of ven
geance against precisely the same per-
sons, and should take precisely the same
means Of wreadng them?"
We shall see.
put my revolver on the table by my
side, turned down the lamp and went 20
sleep.
The editor had promised to assist me
in any way he could. was not SLOW 70
ask his assistance on the next morning.
The first favor asked OF him was a note
of Introduction to the coroner From
what had learned of him froms the re-
| pOrters had determined TO make him my
only conlldant as to the real mission had
come on. After telling him, therefore,
asked whether might be allowed TO see
the records of the office for some few
years back. lie willingly complied, giving
me private room Ia which to investi-
gate them. When we were alone, said
doctor, did you conduct the inquest
In the case of all these murders?n
| 81 did"
eight victims out of the nine were
killed by the blow of an az, were they
not?"
"Yesn
"was the frontal bone crushed in, in
each case?"
| eyes,
"Then the blow, no matter how sharp
the AK, must have been very heavy
one?"
"Decldedly."
"Now, doctor, please try and think
whether the incision made by the AK was
deeper at one point than another, in any
or in all cases2"
The doctor reflected.
Eyes, it was" he replied.
"Was it not deeper toward the lower
part of the face than towards the upper?"
"Ies-in all cases, IL l remember
Alright But what does that proye?" he
asked.
at proves that the theory of the police
that these murders are the work of one
man Is wrong. You have doubtless
noticed that in striking log OF wood
with an AK the inclsion Is deepest at the
point where the ak strikes first. While
the heel of the weapon comes away
easily, the striker has often to wriggle
the other end of it two or three
times before it is released. Surprising a
man to be standing up to WELD the AK las
he must necessarily be to strike a blow
of such force as to crush the frontal
bcne), the incision would be deep ut the
point farthest from him. II the deepest
4 lnclsion in these cases has been at the
lowest part Of the face, therefore, the
man who welded the az must have struck
while standing behind the head of his VIC
tim. This proves that two persons ut
least were engaged Ia the murders; the
one holding the body while the other
struck'
THAT seems to be so, " said the doctor,
renectlyely.
~ say nothing" continued /, "about
the impo5sibility of one man welding a
snnd-bag upon two girls in one room and
numbering two full-grOWn persons la the
next room, OF the same time, without Gre
atlng sufficient noise 60 alarm the neigh
: bors, That is circumstance for yOul
police to reconcile with their one-man
theory. No; there were two men engaged
in this crusade OF blood aud outrage. In
: my belief, one was white man, the other
colored. Perhaps these records win lead
! us TO determine who they are"
An hour or so passed IN searching, and
, the coroner again came into the little
room.
"Doctor," said, suspending the in
vesLigation of the records for moment,
! tho u
after one OF these murders suspected
man was traced (Lhese are the very
Words from the stable across the CITY TO
where he took Il hack. The wheel marks
led up to an alley back OF the cabin in
which the murder was committed. There
back and man disappeared. Is that so?r
eyes"
''Then there must have been somebody
to drive the hack, This was the fourth
or filth MURDER and of course was mace
public next day"
"Yes.n
"Were the hackmen investigated, or
did any OF them volunteer statement
that he, or any friend of his, or any other
hackman, was the person hired?"
"The hackmen were investigated. A.
proved IL Impossible that they could have
been implicated. Nobody came forward
to say word as to his being hired"
"Precisely. Do you know whyg Sim
ply because this lack the suspected man
took was not a regular hack-but his
own. The hack Of q white man. driven
by 4 negro; each having his revenge 10
wreak. Farther the newspapers again
say, and the police corToborate IL, that
ON another occasion a carriage was used (;
that its tracks were followed for some
miles from the scene of the murder, aud
were found TO lead back precisely 20 the
scene OF the crime. Is that so?n
/ eyes
"And that when bloodhounds were put
on the track they followed the trail for
some distance, but suddenly were at
: fauip"
eyes"
"Does not that prove to your mind that
the old slave methods of confusing the
scent had been adopted aud that in all
: probability a colored man drove that
hack2n
The doctor admitted that it looked like
it,
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