Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-06-25
DALLAS.
Street Car Driver in Tronble-Robert Lang
AcQuitted-Cutting Affray-A Vari-
ETY. Theater shuts Down.

! Special to the Gazette.
DALLAS, TEX, June 24.-w. D. Nc
Keeham, q conductor on the Dallas and
| Oak Cliff railroad is under arrest
| charged with theft of tickets from the
company. McKeeham confessed to get
| ting possession of the tickets in the fol-
lowing manner: When q passenger
presented half ticket, good one way,
he would put it in his pocket without
punching. When another passenger
| presented a whole ticket he would take
it up and hand him back a half ticket.
He would put the whole ticket in his
pocket without punching. In this way
he managed to get hold of large
quantity of whole unpunched tickets.
His Offering to sell these tickets at q
discount led to his detection and ar
rest.
The summer opera season at Oak Cliff
is being enjoyed to the utmost by Dallas
ties who love good music, well rendered,
in cool and delightful place. An audi
ence of 1900 interested the first perform
ance of the "Chimes of Normandy
last night. The leading characters were
strongly sustained, and Miss Blanche
Chapman as Serpolette, - Miss Carrie
Sweeny as "Germaine, - and Mrs. Ar
thur Bill as ''Gaspard were repeatedly
encored.
Mr.. Il. G.. Locke, editor of the Waxa-
hachie Democrat, was a visitor at the
Cook headquarters to-day. He left for
home loaded with anti-commission am
munitIon.
The case of the State VS.. Robert Lang,
charged with the murder of George Egli,
terminated to-day in the acquittal of
the defendent under the instructions
from Judge Burke, there being no evil
dence against him.
Last night in the saloon at the corner
of the Central railroad and Swiss avenue
a difficulty arose which involved, 1t is
SAID, Tom Spivey, Frank Zimmerman,
George Heynman and Al Hawkins. In
the course of the alteration Hawkins
drew a knife and made a dash at Zim-
norman. City Officer Kirby in the
capacity of q peacemaker, attempted to
separate the men, and as he passed in
between them and threw Zimmerman
back he caught the blow from Hawkins
knife, which entered his r light fore arm
and inflicted a deep and very painful
wound. Spivey was arrested charged
with aggravated assault and battery.
Hawkins made good his escape. Mr.
Kirby g wound was dressed, and to-day
he is resting easy at his home on San
Jacinto near Shady View park.
This morning Henry Jones, tough
looking negro youth, was arrested in
Pages shos shop on Elm street. When
the officer walked in Jones was in pos
session of formidable looking shoe
knife and two employees were guarding
the door to prevent his escape. They
companled by another negro, who. while
Jones engaged them under the pretense
that he wanted pair of shoes, opened
the show case, secured a fine pair of
shoes and ran, making his escape. They
accuse Jones of being an accomplish.
The negro conducted his own defense and
he showed his shrowdness by asking the
witnesses: 'Could you swear dat my
intentions was to help dat niger steal O
pair of shoes2'' The city judge fined
him $40 under the vagranoy act.
The Capitol theater "a variety and wine
room amusement resort, closed its doors
last night, Manager Orr being unable to
pay the salaries of the actors, actresses,
wine room girls and others in his employ.
Thursday was the regular pay day, but
he put off paying until Saturday when he
gave checks. Monday morning these |
were presented at the bank and it was
found Orr had no funds. Monday night |
the company refused to work and the
house closed.
Orr claims that his failure is the result |
of deception practioed upon him by a fly |
fellow, claiming to hail from Chicago, |
who did him up for $500. Orr's story is |
as follows:
''The chap said he had $50, 900 in the |
bank, and was going into business here. !
l cashed his checks for $500 or $500, and |
IN addition to this he obtained $500 credit |
at my place. He did not have a dollar
in the bank and he knew it. 1 am going
to prosecute him, and don't you forget
it. l intend to hire Bookhout s. Culber-
son and Judge Russell when the case
comes to trial, and will make it very
warm for the gentleman.
Three weeks ago Orr had to postpone
pay day from Thursday until Sunday,
and the house has been doing slim bus
ness of late.