Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-10-24
LAHGDON DEAD,
DALLAS GREATLY EXCITED
OVER HIS MURDER.
Every Effort Being Made to Catch
the Negro--A Rancher Missing.
Miller Now ON Trial.

er, last night was published In these
dispatches this morning. He was OF
the firm Of Langdon, Gill & PARISH and
the city Is stirred as it has never been
stirred before over the outrage. MIR.
Lanedon attended the First Presbyterian
church of which he Is a member as well
| as superintendent Of the Sunday school,
last evening and at 9:l6 boarded a
| Live Oak street car for home. lie allght-
| ed from the car at the corner OF Lave
Oak and Peak streets and started 70
walk to his home, few yards ms-
tant
| was on the point Of entering when an
unknown uan confronted him. The strnn-
| ger had d section of iron gas pipe IN
hand and with this formidable instrument
of death lie dealt Mr.. langdon u stun
ning blow ON the right side of the head
| crushing in the skull us If II hnd been
an eggshell Mr. Bangdon reelel ana
| fell into the gutter.
The assassin then jumped upon the pros
trate form Of his victim when Il. Ii.
| Corpenniug. a floor walker at Sanger
Bros, jumped from the street car NOT
| 80 yards from the scene and yelled
murder" at the top Of his voice. Ihe
ASSASSIN He'd and passengers on the
street car and the ueghbors, WHO had
been attracted by the alarm sounded by
Corpenning, carried the dying man INTO
| the house.
Doctors were summoned, but Lang
don was beyond human aid. He In
gered until $40 this morning when he
assistant Chief Of Police Ell. Corn
| we'll Officer L. i. Gates and other
mounted police were the first officers
TO arrive. shortly after the commission
of the crime. Sheriff Cabe.l was notified
and requested to COME at once with
! bloglhuiuds Officer Gates and his com
plnions began a close Investigation.
| They covered all the territory, riding
! through alleys AMI lanes and continued
| the senrch uutil au early hour this noill-
| ing They had no description of the
assassin. beyond the suppOsition of Mr..
Curpenning that negro was the guilty
| party. Sheriff Cabell and his deputies
were out al night and q close watch
was kent ON all oTSso1ng trains.
| Mr.. Cooperating was q passenger out
on the same car with the dead man. lie
was standing ON the rear platform and
saw ihe man approach LIngton, COM
/ ing from the west. He saw the ipu
| Ear raised and Then descend upon the
! head of llmg1on. The gentleman says
| II sounded like the sharp report of
! pistol. He jumped from the car and
yelled, murder and ran to the rescue
" tiV Aul'th maui ~ N'lt'hHlhE III
clines to the theory that the assassin
was O negro or i white man with his
face blaeked
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community, ami langlon's friends de-
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