Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-21
History of the Murder.

The brutal crime for which Frizzell paid
the highest penalty OF the law here to-day
WIS for be- atrOcious murder of his wife in
cold blood. al the tent where she was living
viii Lcr mother and sister, in the town OF
CaWauche
On The morning of the murder Frizzell
went 10 the tent of his wife and her people,
Il being the morning after he had returned
70 Com2nche, after having been separated
Num her for some months, during which
time be had been in another county.
When he had arrived at the tent he made
his presence known by calling fer his wife,
and So he states told her after he had met
her, that he had come down to make up
with her or play quits fer good, and that if
they could not make up then and there, that
ne was going TO secure divorce from her
IL q legal way.
She replied, SO he says, saying: "Mr
fr.Ee.i. have got no talk for YOU at all.
anu furthermore if | will not make up with
yog. ! want 10 know how you are going to
he.p Yourself"
No sooner had she said this than she
Waee.ed off, remarking as she did so: Il
have got TO 90 to town this morning on
BUSINESS, and / can not wait and talk to you
any longer"
As She was leaving Frizzell pulled out his
revolver and began firing into her.
When the balls had taken effect she fell
70 her knees and exclaimed with uplifted
L44lS, Mr.. F'riZzell for Gods sake do not
ttA!ot me any more, for you have already
killed NE uow''
FrizzeE continued to fire despite her pitt
II. plea. and when his pistol was empty he
tlil. Cd d-n YOU l wish l had some
rlre balls 10 nut into You"
atter finishing his diabolical act he at
one hunted up the sheriff and surrendered.
lillian H. Frizzell, the perpetrator of this
Ga'.arG.y bolG-blooded murder was born at
I'4veuworth, Kan, on January %, 1864,
ala was consequently only twenty-seven
years Of age.
e Baptist minister, who now has charge
OF q church near Glen Rose, Somervell
county. ii this state. His father is a very
o-a man. being now in his seventy-first
ear. h'rizzell's mother died when he was
Ul-s SIX years old, but ne was reared under
good influences and by pious old Christian
-4S'ler, and was brought up in the Baptist
church.
lie originally came TO Texas in 1862 but
on!E remained for two years, when he re-
IIlLneo TO Kansas, where he remained until
80, when he again returned to Texas for
good
lie was married to Annie Brown, daugh-
tf VI Mrs. Mary Brown, widow, at Gran
sSery, Tex, on February 9. 1890, by the Rev.
or Hunt, Baptist minister of that place.
MS wife was born in Missouri, and was
Z. The time of their marriage twenty-four
Years old.
Frizzell claimed to be stonemason by
uace. He has five brothers and two sisters
now living, two OF his brothers and both Of
Ms sisters now live in Somervel county.
us brothers are both farmers, but are in
very Door circumstances. Rev. J. c. Wingo,
u. M pastor of the First Baptist church of
!. ms place, was his spiritual adviser up to
,ne time of his execution, since his sem
4. trlzzell claimed to have no fears as to his
future life IL the world TO come, but said he
was perfectly glad to know the day and
.le hour at which his soul would come be-
ioTe his God and be put at perfect rest.
:, he has since his sentence written several
'sssers 70 the people of this section which