Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-01-16
And a Black One at That, Fred
Grant Died.
FORTsN MONTHS He HAD LIVED
With The We Oh Who Finally Told Him They
Must Sepersie.
But SIN She Pursued Him and We Was a VIII.
Ing caplve--sho Says Ne Shot Her
and Killed Himself, but Old
He7--Who knows

bouns, lex, Jan. o'--tSpcclnil-
Waves Of crime continue TO roll over
this county, and the number Of people
who have died with their boots on dur
ing the past twelve months, is appalling
Fanny Howard is half-breed, cross
between Indian and African. Her faith
er was Cherokee aud her mother a
negress, and Fanny Inherited OIL the
vices aud none of the virtues OF both
races. She Is oae Of the noted women
Of the town and keeps q bagniO at the
foot Of Austin street where her dusky
courtcsaus receive the attention Of dis
suiute white men Al an early hour this
morning Fanny was shot through both
thighs, and Albert Grant, her white
lover, just above the heart The shoot
Ing tool place In an alley near the How
ard residence. Grnut was removed 20
the hospital just two blocks away and the
woman 10 her room.
At 10 o'clock this morning Grant died.
He was uudcr the influence of liquor
when admitted TO the hospital, and con
stnnty kept mutttring 20 hiumolL "Nho
shot met who shot mcT' The rmains
were taken in charge by Undertaken
Smith and were shipped to Lexington,
Mo, tonight for interment Grant was
Fort Worth. He has two brothers Ina
this city, reputable and industrious cit
liens. The Gazette correspondent called
no the residence of the Howard woman
today TO obtain an account of tho shoot
ing. The physician stated that her
wounds werc not Of fatal nature and
that she would recover The woman
said:
Albert Grant has been living with me
the past ten months. He has had the
blues lately Before Christmas be wrote
60 his father who lives ut Lexington,
Mo, requesting the old gentleman 70 send
him q ticket and he would come home.
His father refuse ed and since then he
has been In low spirits, saying his kim
folks had turned against him. Last
Thursday h. said he must get 81 20
buy pistol / told him we could not
| live together and had better separate.
| I gave him money to 10 10 Fort Worth.
| Hc spent the money for whisky and came
| back 10 me. About midnight last night
/ gave him q 50 bill and told him Ia
| 20 get Il changed He did not return
! and found him at saloon two hours
! later drinking, He refused 20 GO 60 the
/ house with me and | snatched his bat
| from his head and ran homo. tie walk
| cd around the block and wnked into
| the alley close 10 my house | followed
| him and he said 'Dont come near me
or / will KIN YOU l never saw him
have pistol and advanced He shot
mo twice and then shot himself A man
unmcd Lynn carried him IN, laid him on
sofa and afterwards assisted In carry
ING him 70 the hospitql'
A great many people do not believe that
/ Grant committed suicide. They advance
! the theory that he found some riya
/ In the house and shot the woman aud
was In turn, shot down. Grants par
| ents reside at Lexington, Mo, and are
respectable and wel-to-do people, Il 4
said by those who know them. and Il
will be n grent shock 10 thom when theN
learn that their son lost his life for th,
smiles Of u negro harlot.