Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-03-09
rrom Fridays March . Daily.

"Has Mr.. Watkins come over from
Dsllss?" we're q few OF the questions
asked yesterday.
All day long people we're around the
i,i. curious to see Beason, the man who,
in the minds of many, was 8 fend Of
blood, while others-and probably ma
iority Of the people-believed him inno-
cent Of the horrible Gainesville crime.
Dr.. Mclean was in constant attendance
snd did what he could, but stated
from the first that there was no
hope snd so the result proved. No NOR
phine OF opiates were used so the coma
tose state Of the prisoner was due entirely
70 his Injuries. DR.. Mclean says thst at
times Bess0n would res pond to d gentle
shaking by raising his head, opening his
eyes and glsncing about the room, but he
ssid nothing lntelligibly.
To the morning gentleman from Deca-
tur, who knew Beason, went to the jail
snd stepping up to the mattress and TAX
ing the dying mans hand said, "Bill, how
Sre you2"
"How dye" answered Besson, as a
look Of intelligence spead over his face
for second, but that WAS all, and the
same old state ensUed.
LAWYER SECURED.
/. must not be supposed that Beason's
relatives had deserted him. His arrest
was great surprise, snd probably his
father, who is q very old man, his brother
sad his wife were never fully Spprised Of
the charges against him. However, the
relatiYe5 were true, and yesterday, in re-
Spouse to s telegram from Besson's
isther, Judge Smith, well-knoWn Dallas
attorney, appeared in Fort Worth to
defend the young man on the charge
against him, Finding his physical condi-
ton TO be what it was, the attorney could
do nothing at the time and returned home
leaving word 10 be notified of any change.
Il is also the opinion Of many that the
brother in answer to q telegram sent
Wednesday night has already left for Fort
Worth and will be here tomorrow.
A SISTER ARRIVES.
Last nights sOUth-oGuud Santa Fe
train brought as passengers City
Marshal Honeycutt of Gainesville and
Mrs. JuliA a. Letellier, sister
II BeSgon. The lady at once went to the
I3iI md before she reached the cot on
WI. 4 her brother was lying broke down
and Wept. Throwing herself down be-
side the dying man the poor woman gave
vent TO her grief. All present except one
Of the guards Withdrew. After time
Mrs. Letellier was asked II her brother
nsd given any sign of recognition, and
answered sadly, "no +" Never tor q mo-
meut old she Ieave him until about 10:40
the angel Of death csme and settled for
concerned his guilt or innocence. Death
came quietly and within five minutes
from the time the first spasmOdic shiver
came, sill was ever. a clean white sheet
was brought and the corpse hidden from
sight, Sud for time the sister, the sole
mOurler, was left alone with her dead.
That sister was as dev ted to the brother
she loved as if he had been the mightiest
man in the land; IS II he hsd died on
couch Of elegance instead Of on mat
tress laid on the stone 10 r u ISL. That
sister had Rll faith in the brothers.
innocence, and feels that he has been IN
Justly dealt with.
THE SISTERS STATEMENT. -
Mrs. Lstellier speaks plainly shout the
case, and her words are certainly truth
iul. She says BeSsou never lived WITH her
husband aad herself 10 Gainesville, eth
before the murder or afterwards. She
says thst in May, 1887, she moved to Hen
rietts, and in O;tooer her husband want
TO Gainesville, about two weeks befe5e
she followed him. Her husband had
gone to secure employment, SHnd
found 1t IN hardware aetore
Sle can show by letters regeiYed
daily from her husband that she was IN
uenTfetts at this time. Somrtime, early !
In 1887, Besson wrote to herr that hsiwas I
gOi.g TO leave Fort Worth, not TO write
10 him here any more. she next heard
.IOm him at Dale, and remem-
oers particularly that in one
letter ne said gentleman
named Alexander she had known in Mis-
5issippi wss keeping 9 small store near
Dale. Later Besson wrote that times
were dull in Caldwell county and he was
going home, out might stop in Lou
sisaa: She never heard from
aim for some time and wrote
10 her other brother in Mississippi that if
Will Was there to tell him to come TO
it wss The incest place in
Texas and she knew he could do well
there. Early in February she re-
,eiYed 6 letter dsted in LOuisi-
sna early in January, but which
vas advertised in Gainesville and was
thirty days in reaching her. The next
she heard of him was through the papers
Of his arrest, and when she sSW
The GAZETTE yesterday and learned that
ler brother was badly hurt she
It once started for Fort Worth. She |
3sys the people in Gainesville do not be- |
ieVe Besson guilty, and th&g Captain |
3ostick came to her husband and told |
i'm he did not believe Besson the mur-
ierer.
"Wnat, in your opinion, was the reason |
your brother Jumped from the train?"
"Will was always high-minded and I |
understand exactly how he felt. He
new he would be put in jsil here and |
.ould not make bond; he knew ne could |
lot fee lawyers to fight his case,
md rather than be disgraced /
" being put in iail he
made up his mind to take
my chances and so jumped OF the train.
Talk about my broIher killing g girl for
he little jewelry he would get, no one
mt 8 mean spirited person would do
hat, and he was never mean. He didn't
eem to care much for anything after
lis wife died, and he had had
pretty hard time in Texas.
lie wrote to me that he had
skster-in-law in Texas, and that he loved
Ter as sister, but l never knew the lady.
md. unless her first husband died and she |