Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-02-11
MAXEYS VIEW OF IT.
a LETTER ABOUT THE PARIS
HOLOCAUST.
Critics Should Keep in View the Horrible
Crime Which melted The People 10
Desperate Action.
dIouston Post)

General S. Il. Maxey eY-united States
senator, who has lived many yrurs at
the very scene Of the Paris horrors, writes
the following letter to a friend IN this
city on the subject, which, though not
intended for publication, is of public in.
terest and importance:
Paris, Tex, Feb. g.
Dear Sir-I have copy of
The Houston Post of tn Bird
instant, with editorial under the cup
tioI, "'rhr Paris Horrors 1t So the
clcnrest and most logical presentation ]
have seen In any paper. The unpUulllell'
ed crime. hcudish beyond conceptions,
should be- kept 10 the front, and followed
by the fearful eTpl0tons. This is done
clearly. If ! were defending the people
who burned the negro, smith, | should
throw, my strength on the awful, hOrrihl,
crime and let the expiration tlke care Of
itself. / was told yesterday hS Justice
Hunt who presided at the cOroner's IN
0uest, that there we're present among
others some forty of die old aud respected
citizens of our City aud county, and when
the manCled NmNins OF The helpless
child were under investigation, there was
not a dry eye iu the house. The excite
ment before this, when the remains Of
the dead child were discovered, wis at
fever heat The che't produced 10y the
tale of those old men, who had seen her
mingled body. YOU can imagine. No
power on earth could have arrested the
people. aud this excitement ran through
both races / have T,gro man working
for me who lives on a place OF NINE
some blocks OFF from my residence lie
has n large family. When the people
were searching for the niue git' he Nsksu
my wife II he might 20 10 help IN the
search He was with the party who
found her remains, On his return my
wife asked him how large was the litue
pirl why" said he Miss MuNey you
Know my little galT, She said yes.
We'll" said he, THE poor little thing
was about the size Of my htile gal
A day or two after the burning ]
passed down from my office into a drug
store underneath il 10 get some article
| wanted 10 take home. A very intel
ligeut, law-ubidiug citizen came 10 me
and said:
"General. have never heard any one
| say that sou had expressed an opinion
ms 10 the burning Of Smith, would ike L
Eun,v said. MIR. Ware, ! have al
| ways opposed lawlessness in every shape
| INF had such horror for the brutal
unprecedented crime Of the hend' that
| feared / might say something that would
| add fuel 20 the lire, 80 / stayed al home
! / continued, Mr. Ware, no punishment
| possible would have been adequate 10 th'
| crime Nv only anxiety was as 10 me
| eject II might have on the public Wit
| would look nc the expiration ana los'
| SIGHT of the crime, All the powers q
Texas could not have saved the bend
| life. and / believe that under the llk,
| circumstances anywhere the punishment
! would nave been meted out by an out
| ragged people.
onnosed mob law. but when ! went hom
| he evening Smith was burned my htu
| girl. about as large as the one outrhge
/ ana murdered. cuwled into NY lap az
| / looked into the child's face, ana ~
thought ran through my mind, supp9s
IL had been my little girl, what would
have doney and could lot blame ia
That that thought was eyerywhcp
ana moved the people. no good man "a
donbt / am no Pharisee, aud unde
lie circumstances 1 would not IKE
Saw that j would have waited for juAlle
| Al tnlte its course. There are SON
crimes against society that were, genefe
iv settled Ia their own way Here va
the blacklist crime against nature eve
committed. and was expiated by leal
moi ADEQUATE. but as nearly. adequate
he crime as an outraged eominuh'
coula desire i S. b. MAXEY.