Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-11
WOE, WOE, WOE.
One Of Our Foremost Citizens Shot
Down and Killed.
]. W. Davis, a Clerk in the House,
Kills B. C. Evans, President of
the Company.
The Entire City in Mourning for the Man
Who has Done so Much for
Her Prosperity.

4ne most WoefuI occurrence ever
chronicled in the city of Fort Worth is
that which took place at 8 $40 yesterday
afternoon in which B. c. Evans lost his
life, and a whole city is plunged in grief.
The blow stuns, it paralyzes, men
stand aghast with horror, grief
and rage while the poor, heart
broken widow weeps and the fatherless
children gather about the sacred dust of
the once loving parent. Better had Fort
Worth been laid in ashes than that B G.
Evans should have been robbed of life in
the way he was, for Fort Worth
would have risen from her ashes more
beautiful than ever but the taking off of
the good man, the loyal citizen, the fond
husband and father, the great merchant
and the promoter of public affairs cannot
be undone.
AT $40 yesterday evening J. W. Davis
shot and killed b. G. Evans Hundreds
who were within few blocks of the B
C.. Evans Company establishment on
Main street heard the sharp ring of a
pistol fired five times with remarkable
regularity, and from the interval be-
tween the shots, with apparent great de-
liberation. Men standing n block away
could see the smoke from the pistol curl
ing out through the entrance to the
carpet department of the house and
carried away by the gulf breeze. at the
first shot hundreds started to the place,
and when the last shot had been fired
and Davis was putting the pistol
in the inside breast pocket of his coat,
scores of men were at the store Mar
I,oI
the pistol from Davis and took him in
custody Charles 1. White, an en-
ploye of the company, ran to Mr.
Evans who lay on the floor Of the little
Office in the carpet room, his head and
shoulders projecting under the balze cur
tain, and partially lifted him up. Ply
sicians were summoned at once,
but nothing could be done
and in ten minutes the soul of B c..
Evans was with the Creator. A scene of
wild confusion was witnessed both in
the house and on the streets. As if on
the wings of the electric current the
news had flown down the streets. "B.
c. Evans is dead. -
"B. c. Evans has been murdered!''
flew from lip to lip and passed from
house to house.
MEN PALE AND EXCITED
came running FROM every directIon-the
laborer, the mechanic, the banker, the
lawyer, the merchant, the clerk, pressed
forward to the point where the
mortal remains of B. G. Evans
lay The clerks in the house
came from every point and floor, and
from every counter and gathered about
the remains. The doors were closed
hastily to keep out the crowd and hide
from those without the body of the dead
and the weeping employees. Yes
many wept, as there was cause, for the
best friend many a man and woman in
that house had would never again speak
kind word or lend helping hand.
BREAKING THE NEWS
to the widow was a heart-rending task.
Two lady relatives went at once to the
family residence on Lamar street and
told the wife with choking sObs that Mr.
Evans was badly hurt Then Mr. Whit
DRYDEN, brother of Mrs. Evans, came
and told her that the injuries were severe,
that the doctors had little hope; that DR..
Burts said there was no hope. And then
came friends bearing the corpse of him
who had been so much to her, and who
but few hours before had kissed her
and his children goodbye, stopping
at JlS IlTSSUOlO 10 Idh6 IlIII0 bIu6l, his
| two-and-one- half-Years old baby girl in
his arms and embrace her for the last
time on earth. They bore the form into
the parlor and laid it gently down, and
even then the widow could not believe
him dead and the agoniZed children
called for him and to him.
In another home friends came and told
a stately old lady of siXty-five that her
son was in jail and why he had been
placed there. That boy was her all he
was her son and she wept for him. He
| had supported her and been kind in her
old age and she grleved, she would have
given her own life to have undone
that days work, but 100 late and the in
exorable laws of time and God went on
| with their work.
THE FACTS OF THE CASE.
| As far as careful and rigid investigation
! pouId arrive at the facts fhev are these.