Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-12-09
WACO
Poison Finds IFS Way into Some Corn
Bread and Causes The Death Of
Good Old Colored Nan.
. New Institution In tho way Of a Dressed
Beef Company PrspAripg TO DO
Flourishtng Buaaness.



Special to the Gaactte.
WACO, TEX, Dec. s..-The cold, stia
corpse Of Bob Ware, slias ,'pop,n alias
Butter MIX" an aged colored man, Is
lying In house at 497 Franklin street.
white man by the name Of WIN. Phillips Is
lying 10 one corner of the room on pile
Of straw Phillips firmly believes that he
and the negro were poisoned. They were
taken violently IN Monday afternoon
about O'Clock, just after eating lunch
and some corn bread which had been
baked by Ware. Ware continued sick
until III O'Clock Tuesday night, when no
died. Learning OF these facts Justice
William Sleeper empanucled a coroner's
jury this morning and proceeded TO inyes
tgate the facts which lead to the cause of
Wares death. The house In which the
corpse is lying contains three rooms; de.
ceased lived In front room, Julia Brown
and Bob Mcdonald occupying the other
TWO. Ware acted for the agent aud col.
lected the rents from these parties. A
lew days ago deceased had row with
two women, Fannie Taylor and one Ida,
both colored, and elected them from the
house. He also made complaint against
Mary McGaughery and BEETLE Donahue,
two color d women, and il is thought
they intended TO do him bodily harm.
Ware was considered good, honest old
negro, who did odd Jobs about the city
for living, The first witness examined
was William Philips, white man,
who came TO Waco about one
month ago from the Indian Territory.
He was sick and destitute, and
made his home with Ware. Phillips
says; On Monday about O'Clock he
met Ware ut the door and he had lunch
In paper bag Ware told him to come
In aud eat; the lunch consisted of boiled
cabbage and pork, which came from
the Brunswick hotel, and some warm
corn bread, whica was baked by Ware;
after they had eaten part OF the
bread both men became violently III,
yomlted freely and had severe cramps In
the stomach and bowels; have not eaten
anything since that time, but have drank
some hot tea, which was made by negro
woman; Ware ate more OF the bread than
did; ] am satisfied It was the bread
that was poisoned; IL was made from a
sack Of meal which Ware left on the
mantle; someone carried the remainder
OF the meal away since we were taken
sick; II had eaten as much OF the bread
as Ware did would have been dead by
this times Ware was very sick up to the
time he died.
The white man, PHILIPPE, is thirty-nine
years Of age, native of Virginia, but
was raised in Ohio. To THE GAZETTE
reporter Phillips said: 81 am what the
world calls tramp. Three months ago
| left the Indian Territory with $500, but
have been sick nearly ever since, and had
to spend my money. II ] was not in bad
health and had friends you would not
find me lying here. Necessity compelled
me to come into this room to sleep; and
have had to do odd jobs to get some
thing to eat The negro, whose corpse
is lying In that corner, vas the only
friend I.had; he shared his meals with
me when was not able 20 work. ] have
been in Waco nearly one month. l have
seen better days, and hope viii come
out all right"
He then asked II there was any
chance for him to get we'll. Being told
that the doctor said he would live, be
seemed to brighten up. lie Is an intelli-
gent fellow, and there is no doubt but he
has seen better days.
Other witnesses were examined and
the general drift Of their testimony was
that the two negro women, Fannie aud
Ida Taylor, who were lncensed at Ware,
were seen in his room and the witnesses
believed these women put poison OF some
kind In the meal that was afterwards
baked into bread. Physicians who saw
Ware and Philips say there was every
symptom of poisoning. 1t was in evil
dence that Ware had given $50 OF his
money TO one OF the negro women to
keep and when he tried to get It
from her she refused to give IL
up. The verdict OF the jury was as fol-
lows: We the jury Of Inquest being duly
summoned, empanneled and sworn TO
diligently inquiry make into the case,
time, place, manner and circumstances Of
the death OF bert Ware, find that de
ceased came 10 his death at Waco, in
McLepnan county on the 7th day OF De-
cember, 1886, by being poisoned, the
poison having been put into his food by
the hands OF some person whose name Is
to the jury unknown.
very important and novel enterprise
IS the Waco Dressed Beef company, char
tered at Austin yesterday. The Waco
incorpurators are Messrs. s. W. Slayden,
w. W. Seley, G. w. White, A. Wheeler,
4. Rotan, j. A. Solomon and o. Bailey,
Mr.. George p. Holgate represents the
outside capitalists, Philadelphia syndi-
cate. The capital stock is 100000, a
majority Of which has been taken and
will be held by the Waco parties. The
charter was received by mail this morn
ing, and as the stock has all been sub
scrlbed and part Of the plant here, the
work of putting the enterprise on foot
will commence at once. A site
has been purchased in East Waco,
where the buildings will be erected The
process used is that covered by the Hol
gate patents, controlled by the American
Beef company Of Philadelphia. 1t is en-
tirely new and novel, in that II dIspenses
with Ice, either at the Strengthening works
or In the cars In which the dressed meats
are transported 10 market, The process,
briefly described, is as follows; The car
cases are placed In an mense tank,
from which every particle OF air ID ex-
naut ted. Then what Is known TO chem
lists as anhy drous gas is injected very
txpedtiousIy and simply into each