Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-18

| year. The children hat We're killed swere
Della, seven years old Nora, five years old.
and Clifford, aged three years Mrs. New
berry went there TO keep house for her son
after his wife died. The first [ heard OF the
killing was about O'Clock Il. m, when
Mrs. Newberry came to my house and
called me. She was sitting on the pOrtico
OF my house, and when | asked what was
the matter she said: Some body has killed
Georges children l brought her into the
. house. When we got I light there was
bl cd on her neck and breast. She had on
her night clothes and WAS baUefoOted. She
told me that two men had come there and
carried her TO the gate and lied her and
killed the children; one sJaid and cut at
her throat, while the other did the killing.
! got TO Georges house about daylight.
The children were lying in the yard on the
east Side OF the house dead with their
1hroatS cut. | saw the knife thai the chill
dren were killed with. 1t was butcher
knife. I examined the premises some
ana found tracks OF a horse and
= mule which had come down
to the west OF the house where it looked as
though they had been tied we found where
Il club had been cut; did not track the
horses far.
The next witness was George Newberry,
who testified about as follows:
Mrs. Newberry, the defendant, is my
mother The children that were killed were,
mine. I was living ii Jim Barnards, my
haif-brotEer, at the time of the killing.
! WAS at his house the night
Of the killing, about a half
killed. My wife died last March year
ago; my mother lived at Jim Barnard's
up to the time my wife died. l had three
children. Della May, Leuora Bell and Try
ing Clifford; ny Oldest girl was seven
years Old last July, next was five and the
little boy three years Old; my mother came
to my house YER ago last April; she did
the house work; l went home once or
twice L week; l furnished the provisions;
the children seemed 10 think as much Of her
as If she was their own mother; the kill
ing was on Monday night;
staid there Sunday night; was
il bed upstairs when 1 heard
Of the killing My mother came there and
said the children were killed; got up and
went downstairs. She said they were all
killed; that their Threats We're cut; that
someone had come there and killed them
about mOOndoWn. She said that she heard
them and went To the door: that they de-
maudeG her money; that she told them she
had no money. They took her to the gate
and tied her. She heard Della say IN tell
on YOU | went over there after daylight
Jim told NE not 10 90 till someone else went.
They would not let ME see them; | never
saw them till about l. O'Clock. | slept up
stairs. was not at home the early part of
tine night of the killing.
The first thing l heard my mother saw
was, - Jim. some one has come and killed
all Of Georges children :" heard her holler
twice; | got up as quick IS I could; ! wen.-
down stairs Immediately: jim got to her
before | did; Jim was sleeping down stairs;
ne steps 90 Up On he east side Of the hail
OH the south side OF tue house: after | GOT
10 my mother she SAID my children We're all
killed; my mother went into ,lim's room
and laid down; | did not do anything: |
asked my mother If she could tell ;sho they
were; she said she could not tell: it was an
hour and 4 half before daylight: there We're
only four or IiVc there when / went there
! did not see Jun Barnard after he left Mr.
Shuier and VIII Jones told me not 20 go 10.
and | Went back to Jim Barnards; | went
into the room and asked ner how she felt:
she said they tea her to the gate post: she
said they caught her when they opeued the
door ana demanded her money; they had a
light burning in the dining room, and when
they heard her they blew il ut
Newberry seemed very much atiected
during the time he was giving in his test
mony, and several times almost broke
down.
Miss Ada Barnard was next called. She
testified III substance about the same as
Newberry. The defense introduced numer-
Ons other witnesses and experts as to the
force with which blood would flow in case-y
the carotid artery was severed.
Last was introduced Mrs. Mary New
berry, the defendant.
In substance she testified about as fol-
lows: | went to George Newharry's to live
April year ago after his wife had died |
had been living there sixteen mouths when
the child rem We're killed. I cooked and
washed ard sewed. We got along as well |
IS woman and children ever did. l WORDS
shoes-neyer did 90 harefooted. Me and !
Della washed the day before the children
We're killed, and MIXED and ate cold sup
per Girls Code and Alex Jones passed |
that night. Alex Jones came into the yard |
and wanted some cucumbers. | told him | !
did not have any. He wanted them for |
Charlie Code; he was sick. told them I 7
thought Mrs Barnard had some. Later on |
in the night l was awakened by 4 noise and |
saw q light across the hail. / iumped ont |
II bed and they blew it out. I then Jumped |
in bed. Two men then came in and said |
hey wanted the money George had. They |
said If did not get it they would kill me |
told them l had none. They picked me I'd \
md carried me out in the yard and tied me |
% the gate post and raked a knife
icross my neck. The moon was down DO !
nor know how long / staid there | heard
Della say, IN tell on YOU" One man held |
NY hands. | united myself. | thought | =
would get drink and wash my face. When
g. to the washstand I saw the children.
turned them over and looked at them:
have no idea how long | staid with them:
raised them up and then went to Him
5arnard's: I walked: do not know who
killed the children; did not kill them.
The Old lady seemed somewhat affected at
irst but soon regained her composure.
i ne principal witness SO far introduced =
~ The state is A. NJ. Shuler. He said Jim
Barnard walked me and Mr. Bowman up at
bout $3.50 and said that George Newberry's
hildren were killed and his mothers
hrOat cut.
We went to the house where the children
we're: examined the premises as soon as it
vas light enough. There We're some bare
DOT tracks the same as those going I'D the r
DAD TO jim Barnad's; saw no ether tracks.
could have seen them if there had been
my other. Saw tracks going west and
'oning in from the west. l asked a young
nan what sized foot the old lady had; he
aid about I No. Z or S. found tracks
-OinC to and coming from where a cudgel
vas cut, and they correspondent with a shoe
found in the house. l saw the rope tied
0 the post; it had blood inside the knot
nd was tied after the blood was put on it.
am certain the blood could not have
-ot on it after it was tied. I saw bloody
inger-prints on the washstand and on a
Matchbox. L also found butcher knife
wing on the table by the washpan; it had |
'lood on it and looked like it had been
washed. The blood was not dry when l
aw it.
No trunks were opened as though search |
lad been made for valuables. At the close
+ Mr., Shuler's testimony court adjourned.