The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1891-04-29
DAVIS MUST HANG.
THE SUPREME COURT Or
THE COUNTRY DiSMIS-
SES HIS PLEA.


chance for life, and that lies in
executive clemency. Telegrams
were received yesterday from
Washington, ID. C., announcing
that the supreme court of the
United States had granted the
petition Of the state of Texas
and dismissed the petition of J
w. Davis ON the ground that
the court had no jurisdiction
whateyerin thecase Davis has
now been tried in our district
court, foundguilty and the death
penalty assessed. He has twice
been heard by the highest court
of Texas, and his executionthen
stayed by the supreme court of
the land until yesterday, when
they dismissed his petition.
When the mandate from Wash
ingtonis received Judge Peck
ham will sentence him d second
time, and he viii be deprived Of
his life by hanging.
Davis heard the news calmly;
he has always been calm when
spoken to on this subject. He
is d constant reader of the Bible,
and is seeking Divine support
and comfort.
Why is j. w. Davis to be hungi
The following accountprinted
in the Gazette July 8, 1889, will
tell.
The most woeful occurrence
ever chronicled in the city of
Fort Worth is that which took
place at $40 yesterday after
noon in which b. G. Evans lost
his life, and a whole city is
plunged in grief. The blow
stuns, it paralyzes, men stand
aghast with horror, grief and
rage while the poor, heart-brok-
en- widow weeps and the father
less children gather about the
sacred dust of the once loving
parent. Better had Fort Worth
been laid in ashes than that y.
c. Evans should have been.rob-
bed OF life IN the way he was,
for Fort Worth would have risen
from her ashes more beautiful
than ever, but the taking off Of
the good man, the loyal citizen,
the fond husband and father,
the great merchant and the pro-
moter Of public affairs cannot
be undone.
At $40 yesterday evening j..
w. Davis sho. and killed b. G.
Evans. Hundreds who were
within a few b ocks of the b. G.
Evans company's establishment
on Main street heard the sharp
ring OF a pistol fired five times
with remarkable regularity,
and from the interval between
the shots, with apparent great
deliberafion. Men standing q
block away could see the smoke
from the pistol curling out
through the entrance to the
carpet department Of the house
and carried away by the gulf
breeze. At the first shot hun
dreds started TO the place, and
when the last shot had been
fired and Davis was putting the
pistol in tue inside breast pock-
ct Of his coat scores of men were
at the store. Marshal Farmer
was there, and at once took the
pistol from Davis and took him
| In custody. Charles |. White,
an employe of the company, ran
70 Mr. Evans, who lay on the
floor Of the little office in the
carpet room, his head and
shoulders projecting under the
baize curtain, and partially lift
ed him up. Physicians were
summoned at once, but nothing
could be done and in ten min
utes the soul OF b. 9. Evans was
with the Creator. A scene ol
wild confusion was witnessed
both IN the house and on thI
Istreets. Asif on the wings ol
the electric current thenews has
flown down the streets, "B. q
Evans is dead" "
.B. G. Evans has been muir
ldered!' few from lip 70 lip ant
passed from house to house.
MEN PALE AND ExcITED
came running from every direc
tion-the laborer, the mechanic
the banker, the lawyer, thl
merchant, the clerk, pressed for
ward TO the point where th'
mortal remains of u q Evan
lIay. The clerk IN the housl
came from every point anI
floor, and from every cOunte
land gathered about the rema ms
THE doors were closed hastily 4
keen out the crowd and hid
from those without the body o
the dead and the weeping em
Iployes. Yes, many wept, O
There was cause, for the bes
friend many a man and womal
lin that house had would neve
nnnin anenk q kind word OF len