San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-12-23
DALLAS LETTER.

next term. Inc lew muTuererS
whose cases were disposed of have
been "sent up" for a few short
years, and are glad their trials are
over with, and they know "what is
what"
The trial, of John Gardner for
the murder Of John p. Patton is
dragging slowly along. Circum-
stances evidence is all against the
prisoner. AS soon as this case is
disposed of, comes the trial of j.
n. O. Parrish, the murder of Mr..
Young M. Langdon. The insti-
gator Of this murder, and the one
who hands are as crimsoned with
blood as the negro who awaits his
sentence, has gone before the
great judge.
The uperintendent of the in
sane asylum at Terrell writes back
that the Robinsons, of whom men,
ton was made in our last, cannot
be admitted on the evidence of one
witness, and in order to secure adj
mission for Mr.. and Mrs. Robinson,
they must be tried again.
AS Gen. w. l.. Cabell was return
ing from his regular trip to the
Crescent City he was relieved of
his "roll" as the train pulled in for
Dallas. Four men were on the car;
two of these stationed them
selves in the aisle while
the other two men crowded
from the rear. They would not
make way till strong language had
been INDUCED in by the victim.
When he got in his buggy he dis
covered his purse had been taken.
The four men who crowded around
him in the cars were arrested, and
they are now in the city jail
awaiting the action of the grand
jury. They claim to be advertis-
ing men from st. Louis, but keep
a close mouth. Their bond has
been fixed at $3.50 each.
On the Doth of December, Gen. W.
L. Cabell, Hon. Barnet Gibbs,
Col. Jno. Buster and Capt. j. B.
Hereford, will sail from New Or
leans with Paul Conrad and others
for Puerto CorteZ, Honduras.
Last Thursday night about
eleven o'clock the report of pis-
toll rang out clear and sharp at the
house Of Ed. Martin on Elm street
where the blight fantastic" was
being tripped. a jealous husband,
Joe Reeves, shot and killed Tom
James, Mrs. Reeves, formerly Ella
Brown, it seems carried on a CORES
pOndence with T. James. This was
not at all to her husbands likings.
This correspondence will be pro-
duced at the trial of Reeves.
Reeves and his wife formerly lived
in San Antonio. Her people are
residents of that city. Mrs. Reeves
is only 10, but by no means good
looking. She is not mourning in
sack cloth and ashes for the dead,
nor on account of the trouble into
which her husband has plunged
himself.
The horrible and agonizing death
of poor Ada Watson, the cOlored
woman bitten by dog occurred
in the hospital last Friday morn
ing warrants those in authority
taking some action relative to a
dog law. Our town is infected
with a lot of worthless ours that
should be dispatched on short
notice. 1t was only the
other day that a little girl was
badly bitten on the fingers and
side. A lady, in passing a yard,
heard the howl and bark Of dog,
but paid no attention to it, as the
gate was closed, after she had
passed the gate the dog made his
escape, and the first she knew a
triangular piece was torn out of
her handsome cloth dress by this
vicious and worthless dog on
which never a cent tax had
been. paid. And since hydro
phobia is such terrible
and dreadful thing, and the most
scientists know about it is, that
they know nothing; it behooves
civilized communities to suppress
the disease by ordering the owners
of all dogs to keep them muzzled
at all times. Never before, in the
history Of Dallas, has such an
agonizing death been witnessed.
Imagine a suffering being, gnash-
ing her teeth and frothing and
foaming at the mouth, eyes almost
starting from their sockets, wear
felon's manacles on her wrists
and ankles, chained to an iron
bed-stead, lest she, a reasoning
creature, do harm to a fell
low being during convulsion that
caused strong men to run away,