Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-03-22
THE BEAS0N CASE.
A Letter from dale and What Omeer Evans
says bout IL.

| A Letter from Dale and What Omcer EVAN
| Says sboltIt.
The people and papers of Gainesville
took considerable interest In the Bessor
case, and judging from the tone Of the
letter printed below the editor of the
Hesperisn must have written the Dale
postmaster at length and sent the full &C.
count of the Beason case as pub
lished In The GAZETTE. Shortly
sf.er Bessoh's burial here Ofa;er
Evans started to Caldwell county
TO get certain aft isvIts in regard to the
case out was taken very sick at Taylor,
and had to return to Fort Worth, but the
matter has been placed In the hands of
Caldwell county people and Will probably
soon be attended to. The full text Of the
letter as printed In the GAINESVILLE Hes
perian, head and all, reads:
DO NOT BURN THIS LETTER.
!itor Hespetian:
SIR-Yours of 8 recent date st hand
and in reply will say: W. L. Beason
came to this vicinity to visit his brother
in Law, II. G. Barris, in the spring Of
1887 Beason was here In July, 1887,
working on the railroad about 800 ysros
from this place, where saw him every
day perhaps, l was with him on the Gin
OF July at big speaking at Lock
hart, we returned hOmetogelher. / have just
been talking with two men, who say lney
were with hum on the 18Th Of July, al
work on the railroad, and Mr.. Louis
Linch of this place tells me that Besson
took supper 81 his house on the 18th Of
July last. 1 can fud twenty men who
will swear that Beason was here on the
y dsy Of July, 1887.
He went to work for me and my part
ner, the firm Of W. NJ. Alexander & Co.,
the latter pa of July, snd was In our
employment several months. Beason may
have been bad mAn, but so far as
know, during the time he SiRId with US,
better man l never saw. He rode over
the country great deal, collecting for
US, and never knew Of him even at
tempting to cheat or wrong us.
He kept aloof from bad company while
here, always kept himself neat and gen
teel lookiog. VS. to the statement thst
he had sold rszlr in Fort Worth be-
cause he WAS hard up, Judge that must
be mistake, as he always had plenty OF
money, and while here he had consider
able amount deposited with me.
see in Ben Evans statement that
Beason received letter from my o@ce
December %, postmarked Gainesville,
Texas" This Is 8 sad mistake, he never
received any such letter from this G flee
Evans states further that he learned
through me that Beason was receiving
mail under four different names. Tai.
statement Is equally as false IS the other,
and more than this l never saw Ben
Evans in my life, SO far as I know.
learned that man by that name had
stopped in our town one night about
the time Evans claims to have been here,
but never met him. Beason got good
many letters from various places, but l
saw but enc addressed wrongly to him,
aud 1t was from The EisterlaDd Business
College, and had the mama ". L. Bedson.
He frequently tslked to me about going
pack TO Meridian, Miss, to marry girl
there, to which his people very much OBJ
jected. He mad been looking for letter
some time from his brother at Meridian
concerning the estate Of their father of
which the brother had the management
He r ceive1 such letter on the 18Th Of
December 1 think. He left me on the
26th of December. As to Mrs.
surris of thIs place, getting letter from
W. L. Besson ms'led o. Gainesville on the
IL OF July, 1887. as stated by Evans,
know no hirg about it, and sm satisfied
no such letter WAS ever received here by
he-.
You have my permission to publish
this letter II you so desire. Yours truly,
W NJ. ALEXANDER. Postmaster.
DALE, TEX, March II, 1888.
BEN EVANS STATEMENT.
There are letters and letters, and oil
denials do not deny and from what Mr.
Evsns says this is case In point. In the