Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-01-14
norrssnondence Of the Gazette.

Correspondence of the Gazette.
Fort SMITH, ARK, Jan. ll.-The iali-
ure of Congress to appropriate the reces-
ssrv funds to run the Federal courts has
compelIed Judge Parker of the United
States court for the Western district Of
Arkansas, to carry al criminal cases on
the docket of his court over until the
Msy term, IS there is no fund available
with which TO pay witnesses and Jurors.
This state OF sff.irs works & CREST hard
ship on the msay prisoners confined in
i.iI here awaiting trial, some of whom
nave zen behind the bars nearly ye&T.
There are now fifty seven in Jail awaiting
trial, tWenty-siX # whom are charged
with murder. A GAZETTE reporter visit
ed the jail last evening and interviewed
those charged with capital of 5nses as u
tleir crimes, with the following result:
4 J. 3. HOrine, charged with the muir
de Of his child 28sh OF September last,
in the CnoctaW nation, lodged IL j al here
September p, says he IS not guilty..
George Johnson, charged with the muir
der OF Albert Jones, IN 1881, I0Gggd II
Jail February 4, 1887, says NJ is Innocent,
out the proof against him is quite dam
aging to his Cause.
Randall Lovely and Sank Vann, charged
win the murder Of man named Trimble
a. Fort Gibson, in the latter part o. OCt0-
Der, last, says the killing was accidental.
Committed t. j iL3t Of November, Isst.
Lee Dixon, charged with completely in
the murier OF Deputy Marshal Frank
Dalton, IN The CGerI kse nation, the latter
part OF November. Been in jail since the
murder
Charles Stephenson killed Dan Tucker
IN n fpf h @ l. IS
August last and was lodged in iail here
December Il. Gains self defense.
S2da Bfuner, Creek Indian, charged
with killing brakeman on the missouri,
Kansas and TeXSs r Ded two or three
years ago. He denied al knowledge Of
the matter. Don't know VINO the man
was he WAS charged with killing, when It
was done or where.
Elsie j. JAMES quite q respectable look
ing old Cllkss8W woman, is char-ed
wish numbering q man named William
Jones on the 2d OF July last IN the Chick
sssW nation. Committed TO jail DeCem
Der II. She is n0n-committ8l concerning
her Csse.
Thomas Smith, mere lad, killed Is
fayette Wilson in the C6ickasaw nslion
December, 1885; WIS arrested in Texas,
and lay IN ] Ill ST Dallas about seven
months; was brought here and placed in
jiil July %, 1897. He Claims that he
KILLED Wilson 10 self defense.
Frank Longly and Henry Ivy, charged
with the murder Of Charles Mosely in the
Chocktaw nation on November % last,
lodged III jsil here December II, claim
that theft had nothing 10 do with the
killing of Mosely.
BurreI Odenwood, charged with the
murder OF has brOtaerin law, 7. A
Brown, in the Chickasaw nation Decem-
Der, 1886, tried at the May Q6S7) term,
Aand the jury failed TO agree, clsimS that
ne is not the man that did the killing.
Ephram Green, Pete Clark ono Joe Hol-
land, murderers Of Mark Garrett ct Nc.
Allister, T b., on the % q Of August last
Green did the killing aud claims SELF
defense. He and Holland have been in
Jail here since September q. Clark was
committed on TIE l8gn of last month.
Steve Bussel, charged with completely
in the killing of Wilism LuttrelI and
John Christian in the Chickssaw nation
in May, 1856, committed to sill July I6,
w&s on $40 900 bond for some time after
being arrested.
Gus Bogles and William Netherby,
charged with murder and robbing of VII
liam Morgan in the Caoctsw nation
Lodged in jsil the I6sh Of July last,
shortly after the murder Wss committed.
Charles Boolail and John Parish,
charged with being accessory TO the muir
der of Deputy Marshal Dan Naples st
TaleQuah LAST April, have been in Jail
here since Msy last, claiming that they
are innocent, and have been granted bail
in the sun of $4,000 each, but up to the
present writing have not made the bond. |
Marion Aoles, Clyde Holden and Mop
re Johnson, charged with being aces |
sOry TO the murder of Tom Spradling, |
who was killed in The Chickasaw ration |
on the Ist Of July last by Wilson Moore. |
Moore is st large. They strongly assert |
their innocerce, and say they only desire |
q trial to fully establish it. They have |
been IN jail since the 10Th of July last.
Lewis Burrows killed his father-in-lsw, |
William Morgan, st Skullsvi!ie, Choctaw
nation, September 10. 1886, snd has been |
N iail here since the day of the killing. |
He will endeavor to clear himself OF the |
charge on the ground of sen-defense.
Mack Gains killed George Patton IL |
the Choctsw nStion August II last, beng !
badly wounded in the ace and thigh, IN |
the light with his victim He Claims in |
nCcence on the ground of self-defense.
WilliAm Walker is charged with the |
murder Cf C4lviu Church near Durant, |
Cnoctaw nation, last month. When first |
arrested ne claimed he hsd been |
hired to do it, but DOW says he don't |
know anything about il, and never killed
anybody.
There are six men in jail under convic. |
ton for murder and one for rGps, who |
Will likely be sentenced some time this |
month. They are Richard Switzerland |
and JEFF Heldertrspd, quarter blood Cher
okees; Emanuel Patterson, Owens D.
Hill, Jack Craw, zorge Moss and Will |
lam Alexander, negroes. The last nsmsd |
is the rapist.