Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-12-23
He Had $4,000 Coming From
the Old Country,


The police have uncarlhod a Glow I'm
connection with the man who was found
hanging To tr,c near the Sylvanla
bridge % week ngo which gives PROMISE
VI revealing one Of the most revolving
crimes that ever occurred Ia Fort Worth.
Murdered and thvn hanged 80 destroy
suspicion scems to be- whit will soon be
rcyoalcd The man suspected Of The hor
rihe crime Is well known 10 thc officers
pnd the finger of circumstance po'nls
to him at every turn.
The murdered man, The yicllm Of fouk
greed OF money, was Charles sIlhman
German lit,e known. though ne hnd
boon hero several months, Ills Huppotd
alayor's name the police refuse To- diyulge
Readers Of the Gazette win remember
reading an account, NJ the supposed stl'
icido Of an unknown man n week ago
last night Tho body WIGS found hanging
IN secluded place VA the wola, nearly
milo from tho nearest house. II was
hanging to tho ond of small, short
ropo aud Tic feet wero barely touching
| The ground. A. soon as the body was
found ne officers wcrc notified An in-
quest was held, the verdict Of which
was suicide, The body was brought 10
ln undertaking establishment whpw "
lay inul thc noNt afternoon and was bn.
rod as ana unknown. A number Of men
called 10 SEQ the body hut mono could
idcuufy him, though several had seen
hun
The day HE body was hurled o man.
whoso name also me police refuse 10
dNulgt called at police headquarters and
said he believed he know who The sup
posed suicide was, and that be- had been
murdmod lie then related a story,
which, in substance. was that u pfopod.
lion had been made to him 10 kili klhb-
mann. the reward being 5000 which
was due SibbmAnn from an osihte IN
Germany. Tho Informant says be- do
clinod tho offer aud thought nothing more
Of Il until, missing sibbmann and road
Ing Of ibe finding Of an unknown body
be suspected that sibbmann had been
murdered.
The money. a' stated before, was sibt-
manns portion Of un esiatc, Tie necos
snry vouchers bud been aeut "a hiu, he
| lnd SIGNED them and WAS 70 srld thnn
bnoit 10 Germany u few days Tho
man who Il suspected Of the horrible
crime uaa Silbmnun's most Intimate,
II not the only intimate, friend Dc bad
10 knew Of Sibbmnnna niinlrs. and he
alone know that Hlbhmann was 10 SCI
tho money
on The case and The iiuni evidence Na-
gerurod yesteniny whfu the body wa.
eshumed II was too much dOc9mpOsrd
and rN0ion 10 mako q positive idenWp'
cation possible, but the colhre, ana, ~
fact an me wearing apparel were non
ihad ppsifiwey ihr,f men, "h i.
names also the police refuse 20 give, Men'
tG0d The body One Of them Fnid Sihh'
mann had one tooth missing from nc np'
ner law. The laws were tightly a"t
and II WIS Gully after they bon Dom
forced open With Two sticks ibnt ne
rtus could DO sien. htfh nun w
Wow WIS unsatisfactory, for the fllma
,vrre 40 lady swollen that only The cdg'
nf IN iefli rDMd be seem, However,
from what little could be seen. no tooth
b Wah missing.
,nri,n; iho clothes were iden'lied posi
Gveiy a. Ms; tho onlt possible deierl
n H. Identification waa the failure q
ind where ono tooth was missing Ihl'
vas madn improbable BY BE- swollen con
diii8n Of the gums Another pa 81 eti
= lcnee which points Htcely ny ihe nls
t,asfed man "a tint he MS .egl VIII
dm fhe evening before inc BODY WW
found. or about tweniy-iour hours be
There Is much n mystery about th'
d ease. and n accBia llkely hui mat t0l
e betrayal by one taken lhio ~ aopli1ell''
7, the snspfcfed murderer would nave Tor
aHnuf4NN IlNNHfIlu.