Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-20
AVID Covered the Grave of His
Love so Fair.
WHEN GRhVE-YARDS YAWNED.
L. Visited the Scene of Crime That Angels
Wept for and Men Denounced.
:. t.lr Fury of a Moment, When satan's
lightning Flashes Through the
brain and Makes Man Demon
lie Slew His Sweetheart.

- December l, 1892 The trial began
~ IlcsG .y and the final chapter has been
,'..g 81. ne most dramatic murder in the
history sI the New England states.
l,--raEq nearly three months since Almy
---.r... ,red MS pistols on the afternoon of
3yrr.- - after having held at bay for
-, reH hours thousands Of angry and
a.r.,ea citizens who would have shot him
at. since then his character has
ra,. -.4d.eG and the story of his previous
-+..ut -Yg-rhyr hjt by bit, and to-day he
s..,-, more ike figure which had stepped
n.-o. the misty pages Of some old romance
,asaa nineteenth century New England
IL. rrr.
a4s at once a Claude Duval and a
T.-... trJia.
So erin. nal of modern times has lllustra-
ri sa sy singular 4 manner the wierd fas-
,..-r.u. which sometimes chains a muir
u.rur 90 the spot where his crime was
commit .j That IS the explanation of his
r.-.-p. II the WardenS', given me by
Fraa Amy in Hanover the day after his
ssr i- capture, as he lay with a
bro.lu leg and bandaged head on q small
~. ID. u room of the Wheelock hotel.
Hrr,..4 not leave the neighborhood, he
said. aud for five weeks after the murder
had lived ia Mr.. WarGcn's barn because ne
va-'.f 'D De AGAR the spot which Christie
N.,.'uu had cuacared TO him, and where
,fr. had wandered hand-n-hand and made
,oyr together but a few months before.
HI KNEW ALL ABOUT 1T.
A.ur knew that $1,000 reward was offered
for capture, dead or alive, and that
so~auf the best detectives in the United
S.-. were working on the case.
Az. yet he staid right there in Andrew
Wa-aaus barn for five weeks. AT night be
vu... venture out in search of food and
vIEam lie along a moouiit road to visit
Christie Wardens grave III the village Gem
e'ery He was fully aware of the danger
he was in. aud he was armed TO the teeth.
Amy told a story of his experience dur
ilg ru.s period. which seemed to afford him
some amusement. One day, Il week or two
after he murder, as he lay among the hay
sur.tyingIhe Warden home through knot
b.. ia The wall, he saw two of the officers
fr#rr up for consultation with the family.
TIL were Deputy Sheriff Corning who
Boz. U.s. returned from chasing u man in
Canada, whom he supposed TO be Almy, and
Detective Hdusom, one of PinkertOn'S men.
lbrr hijrhed The horse, and after long
'aE Win Andrew Warden, one of them
sad: Let us walk out here SO we can talk
ABOUT The case alone"
WITHIN TWO FEET OF HIM.
They walked into the barn and sat down
les Than TWO feet from where Amy lay
concealed
81 could have put out my hand,'' said
Amy when Ia told the story, land have
'ogrhej Corning on the shoulder without
moving nay body, and all the while | had
them both covered with two II smith Il
NeSs0uS. | heard them discuss the different
ccWs hey thought they had as to my move
mems, and they regretted very much that
photograph of me was nowhere to be OBJ
tanned. Then Corning got up within two
feet OF me and stretched his legs and said:
Wei. I'd shoot The Scoundrcl dead if | got
MY eyes upon him. -
II BAD number of cleverly devised re-
'7-4's IN The Warden barns. His iarder
VS. amply supplied with luXuries, includ-
in canned oysters. salmon, sardineS, and
bottles Of Angelica wine and AIedford rum,
which he had stolen from houses III Han
over during toraging expeditions at night.
\ shady spot they much frequeuted was
TIE Na.c temple, a little dip in the Hanover
road. u4I way between home and the vii
LACE and where Daniel Webster had gone
To practice oratory when he was a Dart
mu-.H college student. This was the place
where Afay had subsequently killed
Christ" Warden after dragging her from
Tie mululIt road, when she and her mother
an. trr and Louise Goodell were return
H. ROM The meeting of the Grafton Star
Gu.-.
" rr han a dozen times had Almy stolen
oll III u'Tht and visited Christie Narden's
grave. To do this he had to walk q mile
mo Hg very heart of Hanover. passing the
So where The murder was committed and
gong through some of the village streets
D-' been noticed casually that some per-
Son l1t iccd flowers upon the grave. and
AemnurS Of the Warden household had
y u.eral who it might be. Nothing was
10. -a' about the matter, however. for peo-
g." ianovcr in the widest flights of i'm
d. a..FHS had never conceived i possible
-.- AaE would do such foolhardy thing.
l.e" fH7r little wild flowers he had picked
a.'- a road, and after he was captured
4 gave ina meYpressible satisfaction TO
A." ..a they had been put upon the
aEo. Tor he had no means of know
~ where Christie had been buried, as
"-,h''ut' had not yet been erected.
HOW TIE MURDER WAS COMMITTED.
N.ea WIS Almy's life in Andrew War
ata> aara for i've weeks During that
.l.s Dc Was but name in Hanover. On
me evening of the Eth of July he had APP
i.a.ei ln the Town after an absence of
tsle .lH TWO months and suddenly Jump
~ o-' rom the shadow of a big tree. had
say1-:
Il mast see you alonen
a, INC same time Amy drew one of his
.'''-'e,S Turning to the girls mother, he
- NOW. Mrs. Warden, l don't want to
II@'& % or anybody; you walk on with
tt ana AND Louise, and let me talk with
mesquite. determined Fannie Warden,
eyer. WAS not going to desert her sister
e. --.> Au1r Of danger. While everybody
- IS garaiyzed with fear ut this dread
r,uou ana the horrible suspicion of
-. NIGHT De IN store for Christie, Fan
g her ground and tried 10 aid her
- = was of no avail, however. Almy
:, ms victim across vacant space in
H vale 10 = small clump or willows
.ee hundred feet from the road,
T- his revolver as he went. But
~ 80 logged his footsteps at every inch
'-R Na| after endeavering 10 arouse the
IS, and while poor Christie could
I., Fannie. don't desert me nowi"
So foied in his design TO have Chris
Il l.2He. opened fire on Fannie Warden.
~. powerful 44-caliber revolver rang out
- ing anu clear upon the evening air and
- A'Sh Of the powder threw luriG
S-4 UPON the scene. But his aim was
r. The bullets whizzed by the ear of
rem ding but resolute girl. who was
,I.--.hg about forty feet away from where
M marierer had dragged his victim, and
~ item struck the ground at her feet
r. Jug long, Gcep furrow in the earth.
n. AAd meanwhile come across the top of
49,. -. IN response to the appeal for aid
L. I<nnle had sent out as soon as Almy
sized her sister in the road
~ the sight of the now desperate man
~, Y Rad Drawn another pistol from his belt
80 was standing in a streak of sunlight
r. MS victim, was enough to deter young
@AGett Marshall oil he aa,,3