Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-04
DALLAS.
Brunck. Lang and Fossil Held to the
Grand Jury.
Irish american Society to Observe st. ratriek's
Day-Lunstic Creates a stir on Texas
and Pacific Train.

hold these men to the grand jury and fix
their bond at $1,000 each. don t care
whether it is unpopular or not. This thing
smacks too much OF the Bender business
to SUIT me.
The speaker was Justice John Henry
Brown. who had just finished taking evil
dence in the Engii inquest to-day. His
little courtroom was crowded, and there
were murmurs of applause when the YER
dict was announced.
The men referred to by Justice Brown
were John Rrunck, who conducted a
hotel on Camp street for several years =,
Joseph Fossil, tough-Iookiug, besotted
and ignorant employe and general roust-
about at the Brunck hosiery, and
Robert Lang. who was in the room with
Engli on the night he received the in
juries which caused his death.
Saturday Justice Brown resumed the
taking of evidence Drs. White and
LeEel and John Brunch, proprietor of
the house where Engli died, 1928 Elm
street, testified. One witness swOre
that EEgli attempted, with blood stained
fingers, TO write a name on the walls Of
his room just before the vital spark fed,
and this produced a great sensation IN
the courtroom and very unpleasant eff
feet on the minds of those present.
This morning at 10 O'Clock Justice
Brown again took up the case and heard
the statements of Robert Lang and
Joseph Fossil, two Swiss laborers. Mr..
c. f. Alderman acted as court interpret
ter and a. w. May, an old newspaper
6nH hn nt-ia hp Wi
nesses swore that Engli fell out Of
bed and received his injuries in that
way, and that he had no money when
the body was seached, after death had
taken place. Lang fed from Brunck g
house after the coroner took charge of the
body, and stated that he changed board
ing houses TO avoid getting into trouble.
He is a wild, uncouth man of middle-age
and hang-dog counteuauCe. Fossil is
roustabout who does chores about the
hotel, receiving his beer, board and
Brunck 5 castoff clothing tor his services.
These men have been residents of Dallas
for some time, but belong TO that migra-
tory class of nomads called tramps,
Judging from their garb and manners.
Lang took his arrest philoSOphically and
merely shook his head when the decision
was communicated to him by the inter-
prefer. shadow of smile shot across
the dull countenance of Fossil when made
aware of the Justices finding. He re-
marked to Alderman that he did not mind
being shut up in Jail, but to be deprived
of his beer was a terrible affection. Con-
stable Jacoby gave Lang and Fossil in
charge of Il deputy and proceeded to the
residence of Brunck where he read the
warrant and nailed his man, who ap-
e. l,aF h.,f
nc resistance.
Bruuck is looked upon with suspicion,
although there is no direct evidence
connecting him, or, for that matter,
Lang or Fossil, with the killing or Engli;
but the bad reputation his house on Camp
street bore has greatly prejudiced his
case. This Is the fourth death, under
suspicious circumstances, alleged TO have
taken place beneath his roof. On Camp
street two men were found dead in their
beds. They were strangers, and
il was given out that they died
from natural causes and no in
vpstigatIon was ever made. Then the
body of q man, name unknown, was
found in we'll on the premises. The
remains were in an advanced stage of
decomposition and it was never known
whether il was case of foul play or self
destruction. Two or three months ago
Bruuck deserted the old place and moved
out on Elm street, but the same fatality
attended his house land Engli was the fist
victim. The Officers are emphatic in
their declarations that the Swiss was the
victim of foul play, hence the action of
the justice III holding the prisoners to the
grand jury. Since Engli died Brunck's
house has been avoided by his old GUS
toners, nearly every one of them having
packed up their traps and skipped to
more cougenial quarters on the day fol-
lowing the death of the unfortunate man.
THE VERDICT.
After viewing the dead body and hear
I'M, the testimony of DR.. Alfred Bessard,
DR.. Rufus White, DR.. Adolph ]. Len
gel, c. F. Alderman, A. W. May. John
Bruuck, Robert Lang and Joseph Fossil,
l find that deceased came to his death by
blows inflicted 10y John Bruuck, Joseph
Fossil or Robert Lang, and require each
of them to enter into bond of $1,000 TO
appear at the next term of the district
court of Dallas county, March IL, 1890,
and there remain until discharged by
due process of law.
JOHN HENRY BROWN.
James Blerniu's Case.