Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-12
DALLAS.
Two Young Men Strike the Town and
Proceed to Get Into Trouble.
How the Death of Antonio Mails Explained.
Walkers China Hall Makes an Assign
ment-sOl Richardson Jailed.
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DALLAS, TEX, Noy. 1.-Yesterday
afternoon Henry hurry of Winchester,
III, and Albert Burks, carriage
painter born at Williams, A. T.. arrived
IN this city on a freight train. They are
both Young men, not over eighteen 81
nineteen years old. They say they were
| hunting work, but now Henry is in the
county jail for an assault TO kill, and
Albert is IN the city hospital with a
| broken leg.
Alter arriving in Dallas, they started
to take in the town-visiting the saloons
end other tough places. At one saloon
they became so abusive that the propri-
etor made them leave at the point of q
revolver. They then took themselves to
Pat Blank 5 saloon, on Elm street, near
the Union depot. Standing in the saloon
was John Langley, a teamster of long
| residence in Dallas. Without g word of
warning Murry plunged a knife into
Langley's right shoulder, inti;cting q
painful though not serious wound. Police
| officer Brewer rushed in and grappled
with Murrg, who then tried to stab the
officer. Officer Ragland pulled his pop
o96Fienry. when he WAS chained and
xMn TO jail. Henry's pard, Albert.
Eth8'eht Dallas too hot for him, rushed
fo&the railroad and boarded morning
fre Eht. On gaining the roof of the car :,
In PINE way he lost his hold, falling to
the ground, breaking his leg below the
hlp& The patrol wagon was called and
the ebbed man and the man with the
brokV hip were taken TO the hospital.
whiieSpe would-be murderer was taken
to iailA
Evil-4oers comesto grief in this WELL
protectdf city.
Fred Hice, lIght-colored negro boy
was repofted TO police headquarters by
his father as missing since Sunday. Rice
Is OF the impression that his wife s
people, with whom his family are at
outs, have some hand in the affair and
are OBTAINING the boy for some PURPOSE.
Antonio Mazi, the Italian reported IN
this mornings GAZETTE as having been
found dead on the Texas and Pacific
track last night, was buried to-day.
Coroner Braswen held an inquest this
morning, but no especial facts were
brought out. The man had been drink
ing on yesterday, and 1t is supposed that
he was taken with fit or heart disease
and fell in dying condition. The slight
cut In the back of the head was uudoubt-
eddy caused by the fall to the ground.
This afternoon W. w. Walker, doing
business at 81 Elm street, at the store
known as Walkers "China Hail.
made an assignment In the way of a
trust deed, on his entire stock to E. M.
Rearden, cashier Of the City national
bank. The assets are not enumerated.
and only three creditors are named as
follows:
Crawford & Crawford, Dallas ........s /, 900 90
City national bank, Dallas. notes
amour ing with interest. 49,. $3.50 So
Mrs a. V. Walker, notes, with in
terest...... ......... 25lO 90
Iotai. $3.50. ..--.... ............ ..sl3, O99 So
The Mrs. Walker mentioned 10 the wife
OF w. w. Walker.
AT some time in 1888 the whole country
was talking of the revolving outrages
Ferpetrated upon an old man and his
wife named Smith at their home In South
Dallas, full accounts of which were pub
ilshed In THE GAZETTE at the time. Two
masked men entered the home of the
aged couple, bound and ravished the
wife IN the presence of the husband
After doing this hellish deed they
threatened to burn the house with its in
mates, but did not carry out this threat.
Subsequently two negroes, Charles and |
Commodore Miller, were arrested for the |
crime. Other indictments were out |
against Charles, and he was sent TO the |
but in the rape case turned |
states evidence.
Yesterday the Commodore Miller case,
On the charge of rape, came up in the
fourteenth district court, and until
noon to-day was consumed In obtaining
jury. When the case came to direct
rial the prosecution had. no direct evil
ience against Miller, as their principal
witness was in tho peniteutiary and
'culd not under the law testify in the
'ase. The case was given to the jury,
Ind they IN turn were about to bring in
'erdict Of ''not guilty. when the dis
riot attorney asked for the dismissal of
he case for lack OF evidence. Judge
surke ruled the motion In order ard the
ase was ruled out of count. There are
Their indictments against Miller.
The readers Of THE GAZETTE are al
eady familiar with the mysterious dis
ppearance of a strong iron box belong.
ne TO the Wells Fargo express company
nd containing Sl4 200 in silver, also
Rth the arrest of Sol Richardson, a
9iored 1anitor for the express company,
harged with the theft. 1t will be re-
,embered that Sol was kept in Jail for
'any months and only two or three
'eeks ago released from custody for
lck OF evidence to convict him Of the
pbbery; aud that only couple OF DAYS
tier Soils release the iron box was found
. clump Of bushes near the northern
nits OF the city, with the contents gone !
nd marks upon the clasp showing that (
had been recently fled open. Another I
hapter has been added to the strange I
tory, and Richardson is again behind
hs bars. charRed with the theft, aud it
} understood that the evidence agaiust Is
i'm has been 20 carefully worked up | ,