Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-03-24

THE above is a diagram of the second floor Of
II Bent dikt Co., where Ihs shooting occur
q. The room marked (a) Is q SIN all dr-ssing
room where the men were when the difficulty
con menCed. 1t is separated from the rear of
the Duldh 6 BY curt in par ition. When
Calm shot Benedist ran toward the stairway In
the rear, designated (c) in diagram, anG fell at
the heao of the stairway d..
In the room designated by (A), Officer
Coe found note aud check orsHn on
Flippen, Adoue Lobit's bank. made
payable to L. Cbhn, but unsigned. The
check resd as follows:
DALLAS, TEX March %, 1855.
FHppin, Adoue LoDit, Bansers:
Pay to l.. Cam, or bearer, 1922.
The note WAS made payable at the same
bank and read thus:
DALLAS, TEX. March %, 1855.
Thirty days after date we promise to
pay to the order OF L. Calm, one hundred
dollars, at the Bank Of Flippen, Adoue &
Looit, Dallas, Tex A, with interest from
maturity st the rate of 100 per cent. per
annum, and 10 per cent. additional for
attorneys fees in case Of legal proceed
logs to enforce collection. Fur value re
ceived.
The lips OF all the employees of TIT
house were sealed as to the circumstances
, OF the Aiair. Benedist's friends assert
that Calm was merely trying to blsckmail
him, that he had blsckmailed him of $500
some time prior to this; others say that
as former Confidential clerk, Calm was
in possession OF some OF the firms secrets,
and that he has made threats to reveal
them unless he was psid to keep silent
| In broken manner Mr.. Benedict charged
Calm with trying to force him to sign the
note and check, and shot him because he
refused to do 30.
GAINS AETRcEDENTs.
Calm is man of low stature, nicely
dresse wears spectacles, and is forty.
three years of age. He is 5 native OF
Germany, and came to America during
the civil war. He says that during the
last two years Of the war he served in the
Confederate army in Virginia under Lee,
and for awhile was a blockade runner
between Nassau and Charleston. He has
been living in Dallas about two years and
came here from Austin. Up to last June
he was bookkeeper and confidential CLERK
of Benedict & Co. He left them in jane
and went to New York, where he stayed
until the following August, when he re
turned. He is unmarried and has no rel.
atiyes in the state.
GAINS STATEMENT.
A GAZETTE reporter called at the i,i
this aft moon to see the prisoner. Cain
| was very nervous and appears to deeply
regret the sfl air. the statement he made
was substantially as follows: HI called
around at Mr.. Benedigt's store to day to
get settlement which hs.
been pending ever since lef
| his service last June, was
employed BY the firm o.
to Dallas until last June served in the
capacity Of bookkeeper and Golf ientlul
clerk. We parted good friends, anc
Mr.. Benedict said to me
in Apollo hall on the day I qul
him, "Cshp, I will never forge
your work for me; you have been tbs
| most valuable man l ever had" / ther
went to New York to buy goods for him
I bought some goods, which he received
I then got dispatch from him ordering
me not to buy any more rs change Wa
about 10 take plsce in the firm. bough'
no more. returned to Dallas in August
heard from friends thst BeHedik,
had been sleudering me by stating that
was damned thief, and similar stories.
did not believe The reports a. first, es
considered Mr. Benedict nv best friend
Mr. Beuediks owed me 1922 so on final
settlement. have been trying TO get 8
settlement OF this since last August, but
have never succeeded. To-day Icsrried
MIN check drawn for S122 so and q
thirty days note for Sl00, which covers
the amount due me, and asked him to