Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-05-27
DALLAS.
Dennis Hudson PkYdonsd BY Governor
Ross-HistorY OF tho Casa MUIR
der Fifteen Years Ago.
4 List OF Suits Filed in tho District Court
Union sunday school Picnic Comes
OF at Oak Gift.
AN OLD CONVICT PARDoNED.


Special TO the Gazette.
DALLAS, TEX, May 90 Josh Hudson,
a young colored man Of Fort Worth, who
has worked in that city as 8 hotel porter
for number OF years, is in Dallas to-
day, elated because his father, Dennis
Hudson, was pardoned by Governor Ross
last Wednesday. The history Of the case
is given as follows: In thssspring OF
1873, during the administration OF Ed
mund j. Davis, Dennis Hudson was lore
man Of saw mill at Henderson, Tsg
! belonging to Major Flanagan, Ae. fstdkr
of the immortal Web. A uusdsrkel
named Charley Jordan, was Nderk
ing under Hudson, and the,
two quarrelled about someH
work which Hudson commanded Jordan
to do. They called each other hard names
and threatened to kill. Jordan went to
work and shsrpeped an ak for the pur.
pose OF splitting HudsoD's skull, and
Hudson went home to get shotgun to
bic " Jordsn's brains out. Hudson full
filed his iotentions to the letter. He re-
turned to the mill with his gun, and upon
seeing Jordan, took aim and pulled both
triggers, filing Jordan full CT buckshot,
and killing him instantly. Hudson was
arrested and tried st the fall term of
Rusk County District court, found
guilty and sentenced to ninety-nine years
In the penitentisry. Shortly after the
trial he was taken to Huntsville and en-
tered upon long and weary servitude.
His son Josh, bright boy Of twelve years.
went to work to secure his fathers par
don. Davis, Coke, Hubbard, Roberts
and Ireland were petitioned year after
year for the pardon OF Hudson, ST., with
out success. In the meantime, Josh grew
to manhood, but his efforts for executive
clemency never Jagged. and when Gov
ernor Ross Was inaugurated he laid the
history Of the case before him, and on last
Wednesday received the cheering news
that his father WAS free. The elder Hud.
son is now fifty years old.
COURT NOTES.
VIII. Keller filed suit against W. E
Keller Yesterday for the sum of 81 ,56S %,
and gsrnisheed the city Of Dallas for the
, tract with the city to grade Akard srree'
, and employed plaintiff as foreman of the
work, and also pressed into service plain
tiff's teams. he failed to settle in full
= for the work and the city is now owing {
= balance on the contract price, which sun
is sufficient to satisfy plaintiffs claim ant
which he gsrnishees.
W. Keller sued out writ of gar.
nishment against W. E. Keller for $4,000
due the said W. E. Keller by the city o
Dallas. Plaintiff went security on tws
promissory notes for defendant and hst
the-sum to pay, hence the suit.
l. M. W. Early filed suit in the Distric
g court against the Southern Home IDsur
e snce Company of Shreveport, LIS, ant
= Charles E Brown, E j. Archinsrd, W
It q. Trippet, j. E Lett, 1. B. Reilly ant
n William Burr. Plsintif represents tina
S on January l, 1888, he wss Inducet
e to abandon the employment Of good re
s liable insurance comps and accept
b position with the Southern Home Insur
J, ance Company, which position he he'll
II four months. He charges defendant
S with fraud and general irresponsibility an
sues for $4,000 commissions that woul
e have been due him and for $4,000 whic
It his services would have been worth dur
ing the year 1883 and $4,000 damsge
for Injury TO his business character.
SUNDAY SCHOOLS PICNIC.
The picnic urder the auspices of tn
- First Methodist Episcopal Church, South
. and the Floyd Street Methodist Episcops
le church, South, Sunday schools, came O.
l. to-daYat Oak Cliff. Ice water wss pro
t. yidAF for everybody. Wagons carrie
lie thE6askets to the grounds from the car!
E4lins run every half hour, enablin
IS 9ery body to avail themselves OF this gal