Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-03-24
THE INVESTIGATION
or THE BATEN CHARGES AND
ALLEGATIONS CONTINUED.
Pemberton on the Stand Gave Some 0pin.
lons-Tho Testimony Of Tho Three Assist.
ant Attorneys on The Armstrong Case.

The session Of the police committee yes
terday morning was brief In time and
small In the importance Of the evidence
elected
Ex-Policeman William Penberton was
put on the stand and gave 1t AZ his opin-
ion that Officer WtLerspoon was in earn
est when he made the proposition to
divide the sum of money deposited with
the said Witherspoon by "Skeeter' Root
60 pay n fine In the city court, also that
II was his opinion that he was discharged
from tie police force because he Insisted
on the prosecution Of the Armstrong
case. He testified that his suspicious
were excited rs 10 the character OF the
house by seeing men and women going
IN there and that he had no suggestion
or hints from anyone about watching tie
place. That he first gave the information
10 Marshal Maddox and that the marshal
did not first give him hint on the sub
ject.
That he lad had u conversation with
Chairman Montgomery of the police
committee about the case, but IL was
after the case was settled and In that
conversation Mr.. Montgomery had said
YOU boys are supposed to know your
duty and that was all that was said
on the subject. That he had had a CONVEX
sOtion with City Attorney Powell about
the case and especially about closing the
house quietly and the city attorney had
| NAlu ne Mpulu nuke IL MS hWnlhtno I"
see the the place was closed. AFTER
tie place was reported 10 Maddox the
! latter had said that If the house was the
! character Of house that had been re-
, ported TO him by Mr.. Clark he wanted 1t
/ broken up.
Officer Garrett, recalled, snid he was
! sure tie conversation with the chairman
| of the police committee in which he aud
I Pemberton We're told to 90 ahead and DO
! their duty Ina the Armstrong case was
! before the case was closed.
Marshal Maddox, recalled, said he had
! talked to the city attorney about raid,
/ ing TIE house or closing II quietly and
| they had agreed that II the house could
be closed quietly II should be done but
that IN any event the place was to be
! closed.
Chairman John r. Montgomery took the
J stand aud testified that the time he talk
/ ed to Pembelton and Carrot about doing
! their duty in the Armstrong case was
/ between the filing of the case against the
| woman and the closing of the case by
her plea Of guilty.
| City Attorney Powell testified that he
had advised with the marshal about the
/ Armstrong case and was of the opinion
that II the house could be closed quietly
II was the best. but that the place
must be shut up. That never In the
four years that he had served the city
had advised that q case he nolle prose
! pulled. That the police officers had nolle
prosecuted many for their statements
were Of necessity taken about the city
! cases.
w II, Mobley testified that he was the
assistant city attorney ut the time the
| Armstrong case came before the court
aud he accepted the plea of guilty The
two officers seemed TO be acting together
/ in this matter and both Pemberton and
Carrot in consultation with me had said
| they would not give the names of the
witnesses If the onse was settled by Il
plea OF guilty The proceedings in the
case ran on for three OF four days and
Il was witnesses Impression that she
woman tried TO leave town for the chief
her arrest. MIR. Moreland, the attorney
for the Armstrong woman, came 20 his
oitlcc to ask II he would accept plea OF
guilty aud II so what was the minimum
fine; he was told It was 500 and the
witness then went TO the house i'm ques-
ton, the plea of guilty was taken
ana the money paid by two checks
one given by u man, named
Brooks who was the brother OF
brotherin.law Of the woman, and the
other by her attorney Mt the request OF
Mr.. Brooks who promised TO make Il
good, The two officers who We're on
guard, Pemberton and Carrot. were told
by the assistant attorney that they could
20 and thus relieve the woman from
arrest. City Attorney Powell had told
him 20 60 ahead and prosecute the case
Just as II he was the city attorney him
Recess was then taken until II o'clock
today.
A LETTER FROM DIR. BATEN.