The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1894-08-23
CHARGED With MURDER.
Mrs. "TeX" and -Four Others Arrested
for The Crime.
MORE WARRANTS WILL Be SERYI D
what About the Squeezing and who
Furnished the EvidenceT VIII the
True story OF the Murder be RE-
peated I'm Court.

What will the criminal harvest be-.thp
gallows. the prison, or freedom? This
is the question that is now being debated
in the minds at the Yakima public over
the arrest OF five persons charged with
having committed or being accessories to
the murder OF Nathan :. Bagwell. com
monty known as Tex" who was muir.
dered in the most cowarily manner on
the first hour of the morning OF June 18Th,
while on his way and within sight of hi
home on Second street. near the corner Of
Chestnut. There was nothing to warn
him OF his danger until the cold. blooded
assassin, concealed behind the fence aud
within the shadow of Lees shoe store,
fired the rifle ball which entert his back
and passed through the heart.
Who killed TEX" Bagwell? Six citi.
zens, assisted 10y the coroner and prose.
cutting attorney, and after taking couple
OF days in hearing he testimony of many
witnesses, declared they didn't know and
dropped the case. But some one certain
ly did kill TEX" and there are now I'M
der arrest. charged with the crime, Mrs.
Philomene Brassard, Alias Bagwell;
Omar Harvey, Frank LaVergne and his
son Louis LaVergne; J. II. King, colored,
and l.. ID. Joslyn.
Frank and Louis LeVergne were arrest
nj hxsN A
Short in klickitat county, near Center
vile, and their arrest was talegraphed
here and was the notification for the ar
rest of Mrs. Brassard, or Bagwell, the
reputed wife OF the dead gambler, who
was taken in charge Tuesday noon by
Deputy Sheriff Dilley and Fred Rowe.
Mrs. Brassard made no resistance and
took the matter coolly, simply declaring
her Innocence and making preparations
for leaving her home. The arrest OF King
and Joslyn followed quickly, but the lat
ter, who lives on Front street, near the
Valley House, was sick and in bed so a:l
officer was detailed TO guard him until he
is able to be moved. The arrests were
kept as quiet as possible for day. rs
nothing had been heard from Sheriff
Simmons, who was after Harvey in the
Walla Walla country. The sheriff found
his man some miles from Milton, near
the Blue Mountains, where he and his
mistress were working on a ranch.
With all these arrests it strikes the
thoughtful enquirer that this was a large
number to be let into such an important
secret, but they are not all. There are
to be two more arrests and possibly a
third. There were too many implicated
or had knowledge of the crime for it to be
kept securely hidden. Murder does not
always out, but in this case there is a
strong probability that the guilty will
have to face justice at the bar.
What is the evidence? This the attor-
neys aud the law officers are most charry
in giving out, but the effort will probably
be made to show that while Harvey fred
the fatal shot LaVergne guided and direct
ell the movements ard was by his side
and carried away aud secreted the gun
under the Second street sidewalk that
he was the man who tried to conceal his
face from John Horton behind a soft red
dish hat. That Mrs. Brassard, alias Bay
well, through jealousy, anger aud perhaps
greed melted the other principals to the
killing by promises of reward, and that
King, Joslyn and Louis LsVergne were
accessories through knowledge and minor
aid. King was in the employ of Bagwell
at the time and when the shot was fired
was in the kitchen OF the house; Mrs.
Bagwell was also alert aud expectantly
awaiting the report that was to heral /
the untimely end OF TEX" and there
was third person present. These points
the prosecution will undoubtedly endeav-
or to establish and by evidence of those
who were interested in the murder.
Who gave the plot away? Well this is
rather difficult to say. Perhaps it was
Joslyn. Perhaps two others have talked
more or less. Anyway there has either
been squeezing or indscreet volubility OF
speech, and the law officers are OF the opin.
ion that they have a strong case. The
credit for this is mainly due to NJ. q. Wills,
who has been indetatigable in working
on clues when everybody else seemed
content to let the matter drop. He has
done some clever detective work and has
involved the threads which may IN time
be used in forming the hempen rope with
a hangman's loop at the end.
The warrant which was issued by JUS
| tice Clark upon complaint of Mr.. Wil-
charges the defendants with having "un-
lawfully and feloniously, purposely and
with deliberate and premeditated malice
shoot and MORALLY wound N. S. Bagwel
with gun which the said Harvey then
and there held in his hand; and the said
Frank LaVergne, Louis LaVergne, Mrs.
Philomene Brassard alias Phiomene
Bagwell, l.. d. Joslyn and J. II. King,
colored, aided and abetted the said Har.
vev."
Thursday afternoon was set for the pre-
liminary hearing and the defendants,
with the exception OF Joslyn, were
brought before Justice Clark at the court
house for arraignment. Mrs. Brassard-
Bagwell was represented by her attorneys,
Vance & Euglehart. She was dressed in
black, with natty black chip hat, trim