Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-04-26

find out there where your Uncle Tom is
and go to him. Stay there as long as you
live. ] hate to leave you, but can't help it
now. So goodbye. Your loving
y. c. MARTIN
was the first witness for the defense: 81
know the defendant. | am not related to
him. ] became acquainted with the de-
PENDANTS family in 1881 in Arkansas. He
had two sisters. / knew his brother,
William Martin. ] knew the mother and
father of the defendant since 1871. have
lived in Texas most of the time. l now
live in Red River county, where ! have
lived for the last ten years. | next saw
the mother of the defendant in Red River
county in 1880. She seemed TO be in
trouble and did not seem to care whether
she kept company with good or bad peo-
pie. She was high-minded when ] first
knew her. When she was in Red River
county she chose to leave her son to go
and live with Il family of bad repute that
she had met away back in Alabama. One
of the defendants sisters seemed also to
be mentally deranged. She left her
brother and moved into house
by herself She did not stay there but
few days. She went from there to Clarks-
vile, and left there after little while.
know a man by the name of Smith
reputed to be a kinsman by blood, who was
mentally deranged. The defendants
brother, W. A. Martin, found in Texas in
an insane state of mind. When | knew him
in Arkansas he was single and worked well.
When met him in Texas he was married
and had family. He would act very
strange and would do nothing. He would
not even feed horse. When his neighbors
came in he would speak to them, but would
have nothing to say. He would sit and
read the Bible all the time. He appeared
IN ha in a lly-
grew out of this condition.
]. Il. MARTIN.
II am a nephew of George Martin. My
mother was his sister. My mother had
four children. She is dead. She died in
Little Rock. She always suffered with the
white swelling. She was always absent
minded Her mind was not good at all as
far back as | can recollect. When her mind
was IN bad state she was cruel to us
children. She had roaming disposition,
and wanted to travel all the time. During
her travels my oldest sister would go with
her We often thought of sending her off
to the insane asylum, but never did it. l
know the defendant intimately. Some
times his mind was all right, and the nagain
he would not know what he was DOING
JOHN DENDINGEY.
81 know the defendant. I've known him
about four years. We've traded horses to-
gether. 1t has been near two years since
we quit trading together The first 1 no.
ticed wrong with him we went to Denton
and started back and camped-on prairie.
After supper he acted very strange. He
said some one was trying to steal his horse,
and dug hole in the ground which he said
he was going to hide in to shoot the thief
That was about two years ago. Next
morning when we started on he seemed all
right. He drove, and when he came to
muddy branch, drove out of the regular
wagon track off the bank down into the
branch. asked him what he drove off
there for and he said he did it so we could
cook dinner as there was plenty of water
there. Directly after that we dis
solved partnership because l did
not want anything to do with
him. Since then I've had very little to do
with him. He came to me one time since
Their and said he wanted me to go and talk
to his wife on the children's account.
said: Why, George, your wife is dead
and he replied no she is not, we are parted
and don't want people to find it out. His
wife was dead at the time
&C. COPELAND.
81 live IN Cleburne. know George Mar
tin. I've known him between two and three
years. I remember the killing of Della
Close. l saw George on that day. went
to Mrs: Covington's about O'Clock George
came while was there. saw him about