Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-02-28
THE TESTIMONY ALL TAKEN.
rnE wsHp CASE Will pE AnGuED
TODAY.
rre Testimony OF witnesses for the
Defcnse-Thc Defendant Put on the
stand-E,idcnce All Circumstantiai
Other News From the Courthouse

x The trial of John Ward, charged
t'with completely In the Benbrook train
hrobbery, was resumed in the Forty
Neighth district court yesterday by the
introduction Of Mrs. S. C. Malone as
witness. Mrs Malone testified. / am
the wife OF John Malone. / heard OF
An train robbery the Monday after 1t
III, opened. one night during the week
s'of the robbery a man who gave his
name as philips came TO our house
/. for a drink OF water. II was about
: O'Clock. He said that he had been above
tAnitn. He had no hat and seemed TO
& be excited. He had on dark clothes.
isaiad bucdie tied up in a cloth. he
slooked at the clock and SAID i was >
& O'Clock and he would get hlme at 10.
Z 1ie lived about one and One-hllt miles
:. srom my house, u little south OF east
\, nc said the cause Of his excitement
was that he heard the chickens making
q noise and was afraid MT. Malone
! would shoot him
Dennis Burns. Il live on he Gran
bury road about two miles from Fhll-
lips at The head OF Dutch branch
The night Of the robbery ] was Sing
/ down and heard horses tramping
but saw no prairie horses. i saw Two
4 men riding horseback going up the NIL
z ON the prairie and leading another
X horse. They were going west toward
h Snatohers, httle 10 The left OF Phil
lips"
r. J. Kelly: II live at Benbrook and
am agent OF the Texas and Pacific
failroad and the Pacific Express com
} pany The evening Of the robbery the
q train was on time. 5.i3 o'clock. Before
the train pull.d up 1 saw a man at a
gate. dlugOnally across from the door
OF the depot. Ia n northwest direction.
The gate was about sixty feet north Of
the platform. The man was standing
. by the gate post, He was facing north,
away from the depot lilo had on
dark clothes. The gate was between
a broad ravine and the depot. This
YVES about one and onc-half minutes
before the train came In, The train
stopped about u minute. 1 didn't see
the man by the gate after the train
pulled ouI Don't know whether he was
a robber or not. After the robbery ar
Logan and l went down the creek, but
found nothing
Joe Burns: u am a train porter and
was on the train that was robbed
at BenbroOk When the train stopped
At BenbrpOk ! saw Il man standing
north OF the train at a gate. The train
stopped about three minutes stood
between the baggage car and smoker
Nfter the train started l went back TO
ihe smoker, looked back at the gate
and saw no man. When / saw BIN
he seemed 10 be fixing the gate"
James Bland. II live TWO miles soLth
OF Benbrook / saw the defendant
Thursdny morning at Hunts gin. h.
wanted TO buy a pistol and ouorcd to
pay good price. l told him ! had
hone to sell. 30 the subject was drop
ped. / know John Phillips saw him
At the gin the next day with John
Ward. Saw him give Ward some sill
Yer money Also had greenbaoks In
his hand. This was on Friday after the
robbery"
accommodation John Graves
was also at the gin. He was ON the
south side OF the gin. Ward and Phil
lips were talking seeretly.fI told Henry
sisk about what occurred"
L. IL. Hunter: Il live about fifteen
miles southwest of here. Bland worked
Tor me, running the GIN engine. l know
John and Bob Ward and John Phillips
1hey were az the gin the day after the
robbery; Phillips paid John Ward S2"
On cross-rNauiinhuon witness testi-
ned that Wards reputation for truth
aud honesty was good.
S t. Williams ii live AT Rear Creel,
postofilee; ! know Ward and Phinips;
i saw them Friday after the robbery
saw Phillips pass my house, going to
the postuhice! saw John and Bob Ward
pass In a wagon, going after Phillips;
saw nothing In the wagon"
ID. c. Brntton; II am city marshal OF
,Weatherford; l cnme to Benbroolt the
SUNDAY after the robbery; / know
whore Billy Ward lives; Constable
Mobley was with me; ! found where
something had been burned: we found
some strings ana knife with the
handle burned; this was west Of old
man Wnrd's house goo yardD, in tho
brush II was southwest OF Bob Ward's;
the iirc had boon made by the side OF
stump ~ clearing; found also some
ereen sealing wax. Crhe articles were
introduced and identiued1 found
these things the next Thursday or Fri
day after the robbery; 1 found also a
pistol In the crib. among some shelied
~. 80. ing corn u was u small pistol.
turned 1t over to Mr.. sisk; sisk also