Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-26

The GAZETTE CORES DOndent called on
| Frizzel previous to the execution for the
| purpose of an interview, which was sub
stantially as follows given in the exact Ian
| guage of F'rizzell:
My name is William H. Frizzeu. l was
born at Leavenworth, Kan, on January
90, 1864, and am now twenty-seven years of
| age.
came to Texas the first time in 1869, but
| only remained until 1871, when | returned
TO Kansas, and afterwards returned to
| Texas in 1872 or 1873. | was married at
Granbury, Tex, on February 9, 1870, to
| Miss Annie Brown, a daughter of Mrs.
Mary Brown, widow, by the Rev. Mr..
Hunt, Baptist minister of Granbury. My
wife was twenty-four years old when we
We're married and she was born in Mis-
| souri,.
We lived together six or seven months,
| and part of that time | might say hap
| PLY, all of which time we lived in Hood
| county. l am stone mason by trade, and
| made good living and l kept my family
Wei supplied at all times.
My mother-in-law and my wifes sister
| lived with me.
Men coming around my house first
brought on my family troubles, as l thought
that they were coming TO see my wife.
l at last separated from my wife on that
| account.
When the men first started to come
i
| wife and get the thing stopped. 1 offered
to do anything that l could. but when
saw that l could not cause the thing to be
stopped, | left her and her people.
My sister-in-law was sixteen years old
| and lived with me. When l left | went to
Dallas county, which was in September,
1890 and l remained there for three or four
months, when / returned to Hood county.
My wife was still there, and ] lived with
her when | went back, My wife and her
mothers family left Hood county about the
last Of December, 1880. and went from there
to Comanche, Tex. | afterwards went
to Comanche in January following.
had only been there one
night, when / went to see my wife the
next morning. My object in going around
TO see her was to get her to make up and
| still live with me. When [ called for her
she and her mothers family We're all to-
gether in the tent in which they were living
near the depot in Comanche. When | saw
her told her that wanted TO talk TO her
and speak few words with her. She
replied that she had no talk for me.
then tried to reason the thing with her,
| and | told her that | had come down there
to try and make up with her, which if |
could not do l would have to quit for good
She then said that she had to go up in town
ON business. When / first went to the
tent the old lady was the first one to speak
after | had stated my business, saying:
mir. Frizzell, we have no use for you down
here at ALL l then asked her why not.
My wife then started for town, coming
towards me as she came out of the tent.
She said she wanted to know how l ex-
pected to help myself if she would not live
with me. She also said that she had heard
that l had talked around about her. She
then refused to talk with me and turned
around and l then shot her with a Smith 81
| WesSon 3S-caliber revolver which l had
owned for some time. l have carried a pis-
toll all of my life, ever since l was
able to carry one, and my father
has whipped me several times for it. l had
no intention of using it when | went down
to the tent where they were living. l do
not know for my life why did use it after
l did get there. | had never in all my life
attempted to use pistol on any one else
before. | never was 10 nor before a court
of any kind before in my life.
the First Baptist church of Abilene, is
my spiritual adviser. l was raised and
brought up in the Baptist church My
father is now Baptist minister and is pas
tor of a church near Glen Rose, Somervell
county He is seyenty-one years old. l
have five brothers and two sisters living;
Two of nv brothers live in Somervell
county and also both of my sisters.
l am the youngest child. My broth
ers are farmers and are in very poor
circumstances. Father is just able to make
his living and that is all. When l first met
my deceased wife and her family they were
supposed to be making their living by tax
ing in washing. This was in Hood county
At Comanche they claimed the same thing
My mother-in-law is fifty years old. only
knew my wife three weeks before we were
married.
My mother died when 1 was only tx
years old.
l have no fears as to my spiritual condi-
ton and am perfectly ready to die and am
glad to know the day and l am readyfor it.