Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-07-11
THE DAY AT DALLAS.
A Negro, Who is Suspected
Sneak, Under Arrest.
CLAIMS He HAS BEEN ROBBED
Sewer Under Way that IS Causing Think
ing Citizens Much Worry-Tslking
Over the Commissions Ao-
tions-Oak Cliff
Snncfal 10 the Gazrtte.

| DALLAS, Ten, July 10.--One Saturday
! night last February young peoples party
| was given al the residence OF Mrs. Alice
| Anderson, 1853 San Jacinto street. After
! the party was over a young lady who had
| attended the marty remained all night at
| Mr.. AnderSs $, and was put to sleep with
two of Mr& Anderson's children. During
! the night . rs. Anderson heard a noise in
! the parlOr and asked who was there, and
went at once to investigate. On reaching
| the room a reCediug form was seen TO MAKE
| exit by the window, and the young lady
guest of Mrs. Anderson was on the floor
| still sleeping. On being awakened she
| could not tell how she came on the floor,
! but the suppOSitiOn was that the party seen
! TO leave the house by the window had
! taken the girl from her bed for immoral
| purposes, but the awakening of Mrs. An
| derson frightened him away. Again, some
| time after the above instance, Mrs. Auder-
| son awakened during the night by a tight
| grip upon her throat. She cried out. when
! the grip was relaxed, and Mrs. Anderson
! recognized j tall yellow negro leaving the
! house by the window.
Both of the above instances were given TO
! the readers of The GAZETTE at the time
Again last Wednesday night another at
tempt was made to enter Mrs. Anderson S
home One of the window screens was cut,
but the inmates of the house were
awakened and their conversation frightened
away the visitor, who was seen to leave the
yard and proved to be negro. Last night
Police Officers Miller and Steele We're
placed on watch at Mrs. Anderson's with
the hopes of catching the man in the house.
About o'clock the negro again put in APP
pearance. He first walked up and down
the sidewalk in front of the house, and at
last entered the yard. About this time
horseman was heard coming up the street,
and the negro beat a retrecC TO the street
and stationed himself under an electric
light The horSemau proved to be Ed
Cornwall assistant chief of police. The
officers on guard thought the game up and
We led to Mr. Cornwell to arrest the negro.
This he did by pulling his gun and making
him surrender. The negro proved to be
Levi Williams, and when searched a large
gun was found on his person. His story
was that his wife was in the neighbJrhood,
and he had reason to believe that she was
with a negro man, and he was trying to
catch them. This story would not hold as
Williams wife was found a her home in
Stringtown, and had not been away from
the house during the night. Just what Can
be proved against Williams remains TO be
seen. The description given by Mrs. Ander-
son OF the negro who choked her tallieS
with Williams description.
Jake Fischer an Elm street jeweler,
claims TO have been robbed of some rings
and clothing, and has caused the detention
Of one OF his-ClerkS, Charles Bower, a Mex
lean, until the matter can De investigated.
Fischer claims that Bower is the thief.
while Bower denies the charge, and says ne
can prove his innocence.
President Connor Of the state fair has
closed an engagement with Rising's Man
haitian English comic opera comnany TO-
month engagement at the grand music
hall. commencing August 3. The company
have forty people and are of high standing
in their profession.
The city OF Dallas now has in course of
construction 4 sewer that is causing much
comment and adverse criticism. The work
Is Known as the Elm street sewer, and the
contract price Tor the same IS many thous-
and dollars The sewer VIII. when com
nIe5ed. be fully one-haf mile in length. At
IS mouth in the river front the sewer IS
.wanty-seyen fee, under ground. while at
Murphy street the depth Is seventeen feet
Much Of the excavation is through rock,
lni the expense o. construction is very
heavy What o9the,s the average citizen
is why the sever pipe used Is only sixteen
inches in diameter G''is si4s is hardly
large enough fer an average hotel. much
less for the use OF 4 busy street like Elm.
~ east Il four-foot sewer should have been
constructed here. a. least so the tax PAYERS