Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-22
Model Man at Home, a Sport of
Sports When Abroad.
THE WOMAN IN THE CASE.
Not Unknown to Fame and TO Fort Worth as an
Adventures Afraid of Man.
Wright Squandered His Money on Her Like
Prince-Bot!i Have Flown-Be-
lieved to Be in Mexico-A Loqua-
cious Hackman's Story.
The Old Adam and Eve Story.
Special 10 the Gazette.

special 10 the Gazette.
DALLAS, Ten, May 21.-The Times Her.
aid prints the following:
H. B. Wright, the GAINESVILLE financier,
who mas gone wrong to the tune of S50,00C
or SIS 900, was well known in Dallas and
was frequent visitor to this city.
Wright in Gainesville was 4 churci.
member man of correct habits. and
his populations and crooked ways astounded
his friends when the exposure came and
flight followed
In the Paris dispatches to the Times
Herald yesterday it was stated that a mys-
FERROUS woman was mixed up in some way
with WrightS affairs that frequently he
was summoned by wire or letter to meet
with the unknown party at SOME point dis
tant from his home. The correspondent
intimated that he was on the trail of the
woman in the case and startling develop
ments might be expected in few days.
The peoples paper will save him that
trouble. Last evening 4 representative of
the Times Herald made the rounds of the
city and ascertained that ffnancier Wright
was high roller or else he is woefully
miSrepresented man.
1t seems he led Il dual existence At
GAINESVILLE he was a gentleman of high
character and iTreproachable morals In
Dallas he was just the opposite and was
sail, wine and women had more charms
for him in his hours of leisure than the
attractions OF a pure and unSullied home
life
The Times Herald reporter discovered
that there was IA woman in it, If all re-
ports are true, and she sailed under the
aristocratic name of Clarissa Hudson,
called Clara for short by her intimate as
sociates. She was an inmate of 4 fashion
able palace of sin, where high rollers con
gregated. The siren had cast a spell over
Wright, and he became madly infatuated
with her. She was an adventures OF the
most unscrupulouS CHARACTER, pasSably fair,
a good dresser, and wore diamonds. She
had led many bright man with d banker
ing for the world. the flesh and the devil,
to ruin, and boosted OF her numerous con-
quests. She, it is said. is the mysterious
woman in the background OF the dark pict-
ure of Wright's life, and she, too, has dis
appeared from Dallas:
On his tour Of investigation the scribe
CHANGED TO meet two hack drivers who
know a thing or two and who study city
life by gaslight and are sharp-eyed and
keen-witted. These men know the high
rollers of sOciety-the plungers, who, after
nightfah, tackle the tiger and who have
liking for ''wine, women and song"
One of the jehus was asked if he knew
Wright and his mysterious charmer. well,
] should say" said he. land | always SuS-
pected something was wrong about that fell
lIOIU, Duu uc was pIuEScI- ne
would come to Dallas with his pockets
bullying out with greenbachs. He loved
hack-riding and was AL all-nighter. Wine
why he would open bottle after bottle and
he would treat everybody. A $50 supper
for himself and his lady friend was nothing
for him to pay
But the letters and messages! How
about them2''
4 have carried many letter written by
the woman IN the and mailed 1T n
Wright. His letters to her We're directed
10 negro porter, who turned the letters
over to the woman. She '!feathered her
nest" Lord, how that sucker lavished
money on her He kept it up long time,
too, but his gold mine evidently gave out
and he flew. "A financial firm in this city
caught on first, but too late to save them
selves. Wright must have blown in thou
sands of dollars in high rollin' in Dallas.
Talk about yer steppers. He was one of
EN-
WAS the woman high roller, too2'
"kinder. She was one of your dime
novel heroines of the off color kind, smart
as steel trap and Just the woman to pull
j chump's leg and bleed him for all he
was worth. Remember the woman who
visited bankers house in Fort Worth and
raised the devil two months ago. Well,
SHE'S the one. Had two strings to her bow,
it pears, and perhaps dozen"
Have you seen Wright lately in DallasN'
Mop"
''Nor the woman"
Not much. She's gone. Wright has
evidently taken his baby with him
The absconding lawyer had many friends
in Dallas who will be no doubt shocked
when they read that he was a lion in the
ranks of the fallen women and their asso-
ciates, and that he participated in drunken
orgies in dens of infamy in Dallas that
him as a roller of the most profit
gate kind.