Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-05-01
THE HAPPY MURDER TRIAL,
A jerry OBTAINED WITHOUT MUCH
TROUBLE.
The State INTRODUCING Testimony.
Happy and cunneis DeinE Tried
Jointly On the Charge of
Numbering Miss Tewmcy.

The trial OF a. Happy and Jack Gun
nells, charged with the murder Of Miss
Maggie Tewmey. iH now in progress In
the seventeeth district court. The fol-
lowing constitutes the jury on the
case: II. T. Bryant, r. J. Dooley. $.
X. Bank. a. w, Balsh, W. S. Head.
Sam Harlan. Thomas Bratton. y. w.
Burke. X. S. Cloud. ! NJ Mingtfs, s.
T. Harrison and n. Lowe. About
O'Clock Monday afternoon the selec-
ton OF the jury had been completed
and the testimony for the state was
commenced. DR.. II. G. stevens, who
made the professional examination OF
the body Of the murdered woman, testi-
fed to the condition In which he found
the body. wound through the fore
hend and MARKS upon the person. From
the examination which he made, Or.
stevens stated that he had formed the
opinion that the woman had been out
ragged. when croas-examined. he de-
clured that he did not remember hav-
Ing made the statement that death
was the result OF the outrage, he was
Of the opinion that she died from the
effects Of the gunshot wound In the
hend
Deputy sheriff Gunnells testified that
he did not exactly remember who It
was that Informed him Of the discovery
OF Miss Tewmey'a body, and he de-
Hcribed the condition OF the body and
Of tho clubhouse IN which n was
found. The door had been nailed up
with plank across IT, which had been
Q
there was coagulated blood In one cor
ner OF the clubhouse. After the body
WIS removed to the morgue, the Wit
ness said he saw Il there. the hands
and legs were marked with scratches
and there was bullet wound through
the head. Witness thought 1t was on
Tuesday when the body was found and
II was about o'clock In the afternoon.
He had made an examination OF De-
PENDANT lIappv's premises on Weather
ford street and had examined the
stable IN The rear OF the saloon and In
the ainblo he found a lot OF shucks
and such stun The clothing Of the
deceased, both tho outer clothing and
underwear. was bloody, and had corn
silks mixed up with Il. The shoes had
clay sticking To them and the clay IN
color resemblod the clay around De-
fendunt Aappy's stable
Witnesn said he knew the defendant,
Gunnells, but did not know where hc
WINS living at the time the murder was
committed. Witness thought the day
on which the body was found wns the
2Ath Of january, 1893,
Cross Naminad Witness stated that
as well as he remembered, the ufor-
nation he received about the finding
Of the body uf the deceased came 10
him from negro but he hid not know
the neRro's name hut thought he WIS
called Bob The soil on the shoes Of
q H.-.u a.
over tho hillside near whore the body
was found and around the Happy
promises. Witness had gone twice 10
examine the alley In which the body
was found. once at night and another
time In the day, Both ends Of the al
ley were open. Witness did not make
n thorough examination until after the
preliminary trial There WINS board
fence near where tho body wus found
and II hud been broken down to some
extent
city Marshal Maddox teatlnel that he
held hts present office January, 1898,
| when the body OF the dcucaaed wnR
found. lie saw the body at Gausc'a
undertaking establishment, hut did not
remember the day of the week or Of the
month. II was In the evening when
the body was found. Witness saw the
| examination made, there was u hole
through the head, CuruaillS WIS on tho
! clothing uad red sandy mud WIS stick
| lng to the shoes Witness had examined
! llhppyA promises and also Ind pNum-
! ined the place aud surroundings where
! the body hud been found Witnesa had
| founds tracks of wagon wheels IN the
alley coming from the east To .he west;
| tracks We're cut deep IN the ground az
| u something heavy had boon hauled
! through the alley, Witness trnced heavy
! tracks east FROM the clubhouse for noili'-
" Iull hlook, witness know defend
! mt, 6uunclls; he Is Happy's stcpsou.
I The clubhouse In which the body Nyna
| found ~ one and a half blocks due
west OF HappyH place OF business.
Juntlee ~ H. Rondle testified tina.
| u was In January Of last year that
| no hcld an autopsy over the body of
MISS Tewmoy, The body when ne nrat
| saw u was In an clubhouse at IA West
/ Weatherlurd street, He found the body
| IN sitting position, the head bent
I down 10 the door and iuttlug against
/ the front wall The door was omen
! having been pred apart. Wltnass had
examined the body before the phyRi-
l clan arrived; it was cold ana stlir, the
I nose and fingers had been gnawed by
/ rats Clarence WALKER, NJ II. Bngby
ana colored man unmcd sam lone.
I were there at tho time witness snw tho
! BODY In Tie clubhouse; the colared man
v u rag picker, There was blood un
J the floor ami the head showed a vound
| through the temples; the wound was a
! uttle hiEhor up ON the right side than
/ on the lett, The deceased wore a blnelx
1 cloak butloned up3 u gray underallirt,
sher7 and stockings, and a hat and vail,
! When witness eNumlncd the body az ND
h'VIkue ne found bruises ON ;hc legs;
/ on tho right lex was Il large soar ns "
/ the skln had been deeply torn with
aome iough instrument. WHOM ,yitness
g the body first In the outhnugr
there was bottle OF medicine by il,
witness suw no whisky there. Witness
was ~ the opinion that the deceased
eddy,
! Tho sooner you buy one
The more good you win get
! out OF It,
| We have the boat line
! l1Nar In tho gItV