Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-14

of them said one day: 81
| do not believe all these visits
by Mr.. Hanks are pastoral visits - This
remark was repeated several times, until
| it grew into report that the pastor was
on improper terms with the lady. As
soon as the pastor heard it he took the
| gentleman, Rev. Kit Williams, at whose
| request he made the visits, and j q
Williams, deacon in the church, and
| traced the rumor to its source. The
| original rumor had gone through many
evolutions, and had grown into an en-
| phatic scandal. These facts have been
substantiated, and can be substantiated
! by Rev. Kit Williams and Deacon J q
| Williams, and also by the husband
of the lady and the lady herself.
| This matter was answered and would
| have remained so had it not been resur-
rected to do service with the recent SLAM
ders since the law and order move
ment. The lady went TO the
meeting TO play on the organ,
at the special REQUEST of the leader
of singing, Mt whose house she was enter
tanned; and Hanks took her by his re-
quest, and after the matter had been
arranged by friend of his in Dallas.
There is in existence Il written statement
from him, a statement from the party
who entertained Hanks statement from
a deacon i'll that church, and a statement
from the gentleman in Dallas who asked
her to go, eorrabofating these facts, and
declaring that nothing improper what
ever happened on that occasion.
The reporters information about the
second specification has been very
thorough, and has been been Cleaned
from the most reliable sources:
The family alluded to had Il servant, a
white woman, who had %lTeu birth to an
illigitimate child, and WHO had been sew
ing in family in the neighborhood On
the day that the child died and was
buried, the woman begged 10 be en-
ployed by the family, whom l visited,
that she might get away from the people
who, she declared, had treated her so
heartlesSly. She was employed, and
early last spring she was dismissed for
unruly conduct and insulting language.
She left the place in rage, went out of
the gate swearing she would ''get even -
with the family, that she 'would
make them smoke, etc. She went
back to her old place, and so re-engaged
herself to the family where she was liv-
ing when her baby died. There the first
rumor alluded to in the second specifca-
ton originated. The pastor as soon as
he heard of it with Mr.. A. c.. Reeves,
Immediately set about tracing its origin,
and soon learned that it came from the
woman above mentioned, and consider
ing it a disreputable scarce, il was not
noticed further. As to the story about
sitting on the edge of sleeping car
berth on the trip to Richmond, its circu-
lation was traced to DR.. S. A. Hayden,
who was also on the car. Another
:, 4
1.-The story about the sleeping car would
have indicated some evil intention on the
part of the pastor if it had been true as
told by the originator. 1t was said of
this at the investigation by the volunteer
committee that when the pastor was OBJ
served lie did not move, that the con-
ductor and porter were passing con-
tinually to and fro in the aisle, and that
the curtains were pinned back as they
usually are on made-up berths. As to
the hand clasping drama there were two
respectable persons i'll the double
seat beside the lady and the
pastor. And that they were enjoying
themselves, aud that the pastor, upon
exclamation by the lady, that she was
about to faint, caught her hand to see if
her pulse had stopped beating. This
SANDER has been repeatedly answered by
the pastor but his enemies in the church,
so say his friends, would not let it re-
main answered.
The third specification is a new one on
the pastor anG careful search by the
reporter has failed to find any ground for
it whatever.
The fourth specification is denied in
toto by the pastor himself, and it can
have no bearing on his moral standing,
and will doubtless not be considered by
the council, unless as Il separate issue.
The general ISLANDERS circulated through
the city are to be accounted for by the
fact that the pastor lead the law and
order movement III Dallas last
spring, as heretofore mentioned. The
lawless clement got hold of these indefinite
rumors contained in the specifications
above, and soon had them in tangible and
fearful shape, and they told things worth
listening to, had they only been true,
and in support of which no one has q
syllable of evidence to offer save "they
say.
CONCLUSION.
And so ends the history of the whole
case, and history it is, because 1t is unde-
niably true. Those who are disposed to
criticize the man who forms the subject
of this lengthy article, and whom
their prejudice would fain convict,
WILDE surprised at'the vauge and silly and
malicious rumors which have formed the
bulwark of his enemies, from which they
have shelled his good name, endeayored
to shatter his influence. wrHng the heart
of faithful wife and tried to crown with
a lasting curse his children'S bTows. If
this is all they have to offer, Robert Tay-
lor Hanks may again walk forth into his
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