Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-22
DALLAS.
Attempted Safe Robbary-An Explosion
Fails to Open the Iron Doors.
a Cutting ARRAY that Nay Result Fatally.
Cause OF the Death o! the Mexican,
.Gonzalas-i Gcal Notes
CAUGHT IN THE ACT.
Special to the Gazette.

of safe blowing took place in this city,
but the little game was blocked by the
police before the job was complete and
both participants in the work are now in
jail. Coleman and Wagner have been
partners in the grocery business at 1920
Elm street until yesterday, wien Mr..
Coleman bought out his partner and
owned the business by himself. Be-
tween . and O'Clock this morning
Police Officers Ragland, Miner and
Brewer were on the Texas and Pacific
railroad track when they heard all ex-
plosiOn on Elm street. and they at once
ran to ascertain the cause. On reaching
Coleman 5 store faint light was seen
within and the officers at once UNDER
stood that all was not right. Officer
Brewer at once stationed himself at the
back door, while Officers Ragland and
Miner kept watch at the front Of the
house. The light was turned up and
two men were seen within. At the first
sound the men inside became alarmed.
One of them tried to escape By the back
door, when three shots from Brewers
pistol caused the fleeing man to turn and
run back through the store and out the
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was captured and the bracelets placed on
him by Ragland. The other man was
also caught and the crooked pair taken
10 the city prison. This morning the
men were examined and questioned.
One gave his name as Dave Archie,
and claims Cincinnati, Ohio, as his
home. He is u mechanic by trade.
Mr.. L. Is. Coleman, the man whose safe
they tried 10 rob, says that he saw
Archie pass HE place of business num-
Der of times, but thought nothing of that
at the time. Detective Pegues SAYS he
knew the man in Galveston, where he
worked at the carpenters trade, but he
was not known as Archie. Mr.. Pegues
says he and the prisoner worked on the
same job on the corner of sixteenth and
Broadway streets, aud that Archie was
in bad repute among the men, as he was
known TO steal their tools. The other
man gave his name as George Thorn son,
aged twenty-four years, native OF
New York and by trade stove pOlisher
or fnisher, and says that he worked at
the Hanks machine shops, New York
city. The men agree tnat they have
been "pards' for three months, first
meeting at FL Paso. They afterwards
went to Fort Worth and say they worked
on the sewer gang and boarded at Cliff
ford's. on Throck morton street. The
toughs reached Dallas last Monday,
watched for "bag,' and last nights
work finished their career in the safe
business, at least for time. visit
TO COleman's store reveals the fact that
the men were green at the business. They
had made a hole in the door of the safe
so far from the combination lock
that the explosion in no way effected
the fasteningS and the only damage done
was the blowing away of about one third
of the front door plate. 1t is supposed
that they intended to finish the job. but
the appearance of the officers kept them
from doing this. Mr.. Coleman says the
safe only contained about $40 in money.
About fourteen months ago this same
safe was blown open by burglars and the
contents taken. A new door was OBJ
tanned and the safe made to do duty once
more. Now another door will have to
be provided, and when this is doe the
safe will be as good as ever.
CUTTING ARRAY.
An alteration took place this after
noon on the Houston and Texas Central
railroad platform at the Elm street end
between Jim Waits and Ben CockriIl,
the results of which may prove fatal to
Watts. 1t appears that Waits and u
friend were on their way to visit some
ladies when Cockrill, who was under the
influence Of liquor. accosted the two
men. Words followed and Waits struck
Cockrill with his fist. Cockrill at once
commenced slashing at Waits with 4
knife. The knife struck Waits on the
right side of the head just at the base of
the brain, making a cash four or FIVE
hos Rt-a. hot
them and the officers hurried Cockril off |
to the city Jail. The injured man was
taken to saloon near by aud the wound |
tended. When the flow of blood was |
stopped the man ives taken to his board |
ing house on Live Oak and Pacific |
avenue. Waits ia a carpenter by trade |
and probably about thirty years old
lis friends say he was perfectly sober at |
the time of the fuss.
Ben Cockrill was seen at the city Jail. |
He lives at Hubbard City, where his
widowed mother now resides. He also |
has living there brother-in-law named |
Wright. Cockrill has been picking cot
ton near Mesquite. He came to Dallas
last hight. He claims to have no recol-
lection of the cause of the fuss and
would not know the man he cut If he
should See HIM. He only remembers be-
ing hit, as his nose bears evidence, and
that he then drew his knife and cut at
the man who hit him. Cockriil is in
great distress over the matter, and says
it is the first trouble he ever had in his
life. He ia twenty years old aud
showed much grief when told that Waits
would probably die.
WOMAN IN THE CASE.
The baggage platform at the Texas
and Pacific railroad depot was the scene
of fuss to-day. Charles Lawson is a
mechanic in the employ OF the Texas
and Pacific road. and no lives at Fort
Worth. He was In Dallas to-day to see
about some work for the company, nd
v as standing on the above-named plat
form when John Swenson hit Lawson on
the back of the head, il IL supposed,
with a scale weight. Lawson ran and
Swenson after him, when officers came
I'D aud arrested Lawson. Swenson, who
IS resident of this city and has num-
Der Of wagons engaged in moving house
furniture and planes, says that the
prisoner insulted his wife. It is not
likely that the full facts in the case will
come out until the case comes up in the
police court.
HEART FAILURE.
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