Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-03-08


"When first saw Roots he was shoot
Ing az Waller aud nll Of us IBID not
honr word spoken until after the firing
was over Tho noise of The shooting
drowned any remarks ToOta fcll for
ward with hia head toward me when |
had fired thrc shots. aud J ran up 10
the cdgc ~ the sidewalk To shoot RgIlin,
Int my pistol failed 10 act 1oOt fired
the hrst shot The Othcra came very
rapidly Rftor lt Waller aud had been
together FROM q 90 this time. about 1.
] found Wnllcr was shot after the mr.
INK ceased. lie was shot M the bowels
ana ouch shouldor Tho shot Ia the let
shoulder was FROM behind aud did not
80 through, lac lived until about Z
O'Clock the morning Of the Both DID
not recognize Horace Hell that night
Saw the man that purnOrtcd 90 be- hcll
lrulod ouu. Cannot say that | recognized
The deicndaW as being present that
night
"know whoro Emma Jewell lives cor
nor Sixteenth aud kush. IOots lives on
Calhoun street, nunr Fifteenth both
hOuaps are IA the samo block. We nnaa-
od her house TWENTY-FIVE or thirty minutes
before tho Hh0oiing We were not look-
Ing for anyone. Saw mnu running
from Emma Irwcll's back TO Toote
There was o woman ntundng ON the
platform. aud just Oe ho left going to-
ward Tuots Lee mid Wen get oven
with the lnm Of $500 before morn
ing No one Int the woman was there
for him To speak 10. We asked the wO-
man Who u wnA Lett llmmn Jewell'r,
went Ia Hollands thcnior, walked In
there aud stayed ten or hftoon minutes.
We were told something aud leitthere.
Went on up 1woltcth street and down
ltuHk to whore iho shooting took place,
We were told something aud left there,
We were looking for lOOts 10 arrest
him. We not 20 1wolfeth street. roois
was not them aud we went down the
street but we were not there looking
for him, for we understood he had gone
home We We're pnirnNng the bent.
There had been difficulty between luots
aud Waller that night Tint occurred
nt between twenty aud thirty minutes
after H. op TweliOth street in ma alley
ON the west side of Tom Curry'B aa-
loon between Main and lluHh streets
We were walking along Twelfth aud
aud Lou DAVIS, 70 negro woman, about
seven COR pirht feet from the sidewalk
Wien Waller saw them ho told Lou TO
come ont InOtg said, WHATS Che matter
with YOU, ~ ho showing % rock out there
after you I'm Doe showing something
else hnrk ht YOU, Waller replied We
went in 10 put Lou under bond IQois
imprfored aud be and Nallpr Ept into
quarrel, curaiuH one another FINALLY
Waller struck TOois with h,H club aud
iouts followed him ont uf the ulleyWay
j inturfnfod aud stopped it, an To0is was
going onto Waller, lO0r went back
down the nllry aud ont Of sight The
saloon ~ about the middle Of thr block,
between Mnin aud ltnsk or Twelfth
Htreot. The place was llghted un Lou
Davis H. "A negro prostitute. She Wu1
standing with her arms on Ioota shout
dor or around bis neck. We were golng
60 pnt her under bond for vagrancy Tor
being prostitute and atnding 9n The
street with man a city ordinance
makes this an olienHe"-
ltulcd 0nt)
waller told Toots 10 20 on aud shut
up on be- would pun him nader bond
lie rtirnted ihe story of the qunrrcl,
only nddiuR that ToOts IN reply 10 the
threat Of Waller % put him under bond
cursed Waller and stepped towards him
and Waller struck HIN once with hia
club we an went out 10 the sidcNnlk
ANA Touis started towards Waller and
1 drowimy club aud told him 10 stop
and be- went away
The 0firofs then went around the beat
iatlng sboni hnlf hour adjust have been
au hour after The trouble a. Curry's
aal0uu 10 the shooting. After The shoot.
INK ! saw lfotg running down tusk
townrd fourieenih'
Thon the matter of the difficulty was
again gOno over mud the PROCEEDINGS were
pnncuntcd with one or two little sq1Hb'
bios between iie counsel about the mode
of getting in che testimony, nloat VI
the objections 81 ibo defense being 0yer-
ruled
Towns arrested Bell the morning after
the shooting, Eerfcted under tbs roof Of
a house between IooiB aud Emma Jewels
0n tho same block n WAS iOOkinf Tor
Horace Bell When | found ana arrested
him. II was about 10 in he morning,
This shouting occOfrel in Fort Worth
Tawnut county on the might ot June
- 1892, pr morning Of the xOth "A
was after ! o'clock"
CROSS EXAMINATION.
Tho council Tor The dcfcnDe had an
elaborate diarranl Which was explained
aud deacrihed Tho questions Of iqeu1-
nention az I'oOts and George Davis BY
Towns and thp time used Ia going
from point ~ point, Fuu tbe question ~
rcco21iuon oi Ioolu " loWne were the
subjects ~ innunfefahie questions but
fhe direct evidence Of Che witness wHs
not altered IOuta wis mol Knocked
down ~ tine blow EiyeiH by Waller and
oils one blow Wna struck Whrn IuWna
stoppod no row. 1'o0A WAS golng %
IA hin Waller drew hls pistol and Stop
pei 1'O0tg saying II 10 did not stop he
would Mn hun Towns heard no Otlcr
threat FROM Waller % KIN rooia thaf
night An Rflelnpt NHe made BY The de-
feiisc 10 show that Onieiu Judklns might
have fred tho ehOt that lt Waller ln
che back. but the witness said jadkins
came up after the shoufnf WIS az over.
1he wiinrHs testified lheiV was no crowd
of cScitcuienf about flln house where
Horace 1911 was hildlp ip1iil i WAS
tiisoOgcrcd that . man bad cllmllea ~
into the i0ft ana WAS stfreicd. y VAS
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