Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-11


so and refused to pay her.
When asked what he intended to do
with his new wife he said that he thought
If he was to be confined i'll prison it was
best that she should be sent back to her
father. She will probably go back to
| Mississippi this morning.
Halves was locked up in the Jail and
| will this morning be taken down to the
| undertaking rooms to view the remains
of his child.
The Age-Herald of December has the
| following: The mother of the dead girl
is still missing, and evidence was yester-
| day obtained which indicates that dou-
bic murder was committed. Coroner
| Rabbit is doing all that can be done to
| solve the terrible mystery, and the in
| quest will be resumed this morning, sew
eral important witnesses having been
| summoned.
To sum up the situation of the case
this morning, it is about as follows:
| HAYES and the negro woman, Fan
ME Bryant, are still in Jail. Their
| statements have not been materially
changed from those published yester-
| day morning. Both protest that they are
| innocent. The house of the woman.
| Fannie Bryant, was searched yesterday
| and cape, which was identified as the
| property of Mrs. Halves, was found. a
! number of blood stains were found or
the cape, and it was torn in a num-
Der of places. The statement of the
| Bryant woman that Halves brought his
| daughter TO the city Monday night has
been corroborated by street car
conductor. Hawes' statement that he
had been divorced from his first wife is
proven to be untrue by special from the
Age-Herald 5 Atlanta correspondent.
The young bride of the prisoner is still i'll
the city, ana Will testify before the cOro-
ner 5 jury this morning. The water is 70
be drawn fromsthe lake at East Lake and
q search made for the body OF the miss
ing woman.
Further testimony before the coroner's
jury was as follows:
Mrs. G. p. Fuller:-I live ut 2313 Sec
ond avenue; I have a boarding house
there. Mr.. Halves came and asked board
on Saturday for himself and child > years
of age, and his wife that he was to marry
on Wednesday He said he was Il
widower and had been for two years.
We agreed on the terms. In the
afternoon of the same day gen.
t.eman came and asked me if Mr..
and Mrs. Halves did not board i'll our
house. | said that Mr.. Halves wars wId-
over. Mr.. Halves came BACK to my
house on Monday afternoon at 5 O'Clock,
and said that l would not see him again
until I heard from him what day he
wOnld be back. When Fannie Bryant
came to arrange his room OH Monday
morning, asked if he was married man.
She said, Don you know ali about it?'
Size said he had been divorced for
two years. She said that everybody felt
Il sympathy for him; that he had one
child i'll Il convent ut Atlanta, but that
the mother had the other child She
said that she had been looking for the
child: she said the girl was eight years
old; she seemed very anxious TO get the
child; she said nothing about her father
taking her down to the new boarding
house. Fannie thought Mrs. Halves was
i'll New York.
Beverly JohnsOn:-I know the de-
ceased, I have not seen her for two
months. l saw her over to her house
near the base ball park. | know the
family well. They sometimes quarreled.
He used bad lanGuarge toward her. l
heard him say three or four different
times that he would stamp HI out of
her 1 never saw him strike her She
drank considerable. l knew all the chill
dreu.
j . BrOngpr-ThiS forenoon Officer Car
Isle, Deputy Sheriff Truss and Mr.. Rob-
bins went out to search Fannie Bryant's
house ON Thirty-second street, between
Avenues + and F. We searched the
house and [ found these articles in a box.
(They were piece of BRAIDED passemeq-
terie, intertanged with blonde haiI1
The carpet was strewn with hair, Of
which this is a sample. (The hair
If +l,, ho+ ;,,+
gled with the bedding). / discovered n
piece of oilcloth with blood on diagonal
corners. On one of the ends it seemed
as though the blood had dripped and ran
after it fell. l saw Fannie Bryant this
afternoon and cross questioned her, and
i'll the examination she admits that she
yesterday washed at her house blood
from pillow cases which had been
used on n bed i'll Mrs. Hawes' house.
She said that the oilcloth came from Mrs.
Hawes' house. l found it under Fannie
Bryant house. Fannie told me that
Mrs. Halves told her that her husband
had struckSHer on the head with club.
This conversation, she said, took place
on Friday. Mr. Carlisle and one of the
deputies at the jail, and another gentle
man were with me when 1 talked with
Fannie Bryant.
FANNY BRYANT s TESTIMONY.
AT this juncture Fanny Bryant, the
yellow woman who was on the previous
night locked up on account of the import
ance of the evidence she gave and who
is suspected by many of being an accom-
piice, or perhaps the principal, in the
murder, was brought i'll the court and
gave evidence as follows
Fannie Bryant was at Mrs. Hawes'
house last Friday. L did not have any
conversation with Mr.. Halves with regard
to his and her domestic troubles. When
they were packing up their things asked
her what they were going to do. She
said Dick was selling out the old furni-
ture to buy new, and that they were 60
ing to boarding. She said they
would board on Twenty-third street
and Second avenue. Mrs. Halves told
me that Mr. Halves had struck her on
the head. When asked about a scar
saw there she pointed to a stick on the |
fireplace and said he had hit her with |
that. l washed for Mrs. Halves. l did |
ii for 81 % per week. l saw a small |
amount of blood on pillow slip, and she |
said it had come from the wound that !
Dick had made on her head. |
This was Friday or Satur-
day. 1 washed these pillow eases |
yesterday. The bump on Mrs Halves |