Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-04-23
A BRUTAL DEED.
Tom Milton Rayishes Little Alice
Bowman, Eleven Years Old.
THE DEMON LODGED IN JAIL.
He is White Man Twenty-nine
Years Of Age.
SHE WEPT AND PLEAD IN VAIN.
The Most Fiendish Crime Ever Committed
in Tarrant County-City Marshal
Maddox Tells the Tale-A
Speedy Trial Probable.

A brutal. horrible outrage has been COM
mitted
The criminal annals of Tarrant county
contain no parallel.
Were the details of this crime printed,
could they be written. the blood of man
would be hot as molten lead. aad all the
cool heads in Fort Worth could not stay the
work of an angry mob.
AT 1890 yesterday Tom Milton. lately
from Greenville, III the most horrible and
tiendish manner outraged poor little Alice
Bowman. eleven wears of age. The girl
lives with her stepfather y Roberts, and
her mother IN tent not far from the new
cemetery. Yesterday about the hour named
Mr.. and Mrs. Roberts left for the
city to buy some groceries. Milton, who
had been hanging around the tent, asked
Ettlc Alice where her father and mother
were and was told they had gone to town
The bruce then stepped into the tent, and
It was soon apparent what his
intention was. He seized the girl and
handled her roughly. She screamed and he
put his hand over her mouth: she cried,
she plead for her life: she wept
as II her poor little heart
would break, but all OF no avail. The hell
ish deed was accomplished and more, but
eyes that would fash such a story Of bitter
ness to the brain cannot read the story.
Milton left and when the parents re
turned they found their daughter nearly
dead. AL was told and the father selling
4 double barre!led shot gun, followed Mil
ton While the mother ministered
to the stricken one A neighbor was
sent to town for officers At 30 City Mar
shall Maddox, Deputy Sherihs Witcher and
Glmels were in pursuit of Milton. and
came up TO him at As. Roberts was
still after him with the shotgun.
Milton was mounted on mule and closely
guarded, hurried TO the city and placed
in jail His conversation with Mar
shal Maddox damns him beyond
doubt as guilty of all
that is charged Marshal Maddox says
there is not the shadow CT doubt Milton
was warned that he might never reach the
jail alive, that he would certainly be hung
if the facts became known in Fort
Worth, but the messenger who came
for the officers had returned at once and
only three or four persons other than those
named knew ST the crime. Milton was
greatly relieved when he found himself i'll
tine jail with stone wall lined with steel
plates and solid steel bars between him
and the outside world.
When Roberts was pursuing Milton he
got close to him at one time and Milton
running into a house where several men
were, begged for protection. When
Roberts came up and would have killed
Milton then and there the men said he
must lOI 90 IT, out EluSl Wait Jnc arrival
of the officers who soon came up.
County Attorney Gillespie accompanied
by County Physician Mclean, who was
sent for TO administer TO the little girl,
who is in a critical condition, went out to
the tent yesterday evening. The county
attorney got all the facts. while Dr. Me
Lean did all that was possible to do.
Last night DR.. Mclean. when asked
about the case, said it was simply horrible;
the girl had been most brutally and shame
fully treated.
The general opinion Is that Judge Beck
ham or Judge Stedman Will call the
grand jury together to-day TO at
once consider the case and that
d speedy trial viii follow and swift and
Just punishment be melted out
When the officers reached the tent after
Milton was III jail the little girl was IN
conscious. but revived in an hour, but last
night she was again unconscious, and il is
not improbable that she may die.