The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-03-18
SID HOWARD SUICIDED.
WAS POsTMAsTER AT nEEyILI.E
AND VERY HIGHLY EsrEEMEp.
Interview With the United states
Postal 1nspector-Assistan POST
master Was Arrcstcd Monday.

Beevtlle, Texas, March i7.-There prob
ABLY never was u greater gloom cast over
a community than that caused by tho
suicsde of the esteemed and worthy post
ns.stcr. MIR. SID Howard, at 10 o'clock this
morning. Cftfsrna Were grouped all over
town during the entire day talking n,
atated tones OF the rash act.
MIR, Howard YVES about IS years OF acc.
was born and rcarNI ut ~. Mnrys. TEXAS,
| aud In his youth clcrked for AIR. jim
Wood tho leading merchant In 81. Mary :
at that time. lie moved from th.xo TO
Rcckport. and ihon TO Beovslle. For NJ
teen years lie served Hoe county as as-
SCISSOR. and when he WAS defeated for
that office in 1875 was appointed postmas.
ter. The expression OF the citizens gem
orally was that he WAS ono OF their most
prominent citizens, and was by commoa
consent the most popular man In Bee
county.
An interview with the three government
officials who are on the scene elicited tho
following statement from Mr.. Jones one
Of the three. TINS morning. upon tho
| arrival of our train, we repaired at once
la the poStofhcc, showed our authority
ana uskol 10 inspect the office. Mrt How
am nSkcd II we could not wait until the
AFTERNOON. and j replied that We could
not. and chat we would count the money
While tho morning mail was being distrib-
uted. and that the remainder of the check
ing could he continued afterwards. ask :
cd him II lie kept hi3 box rent money with
other funds, and he replit-i that he INA. /
also asked whore he kept his pogtofI,ce
.sso,N key fund, and he replied chat he had
Howard said he would no and got IL. and
sstid thrrc wound be no necessity bun he
Went out anyhow. ana supposed thal
few moments heard a pis',o l shot and was
told imnied!ately thsut MIR. sid Howard
was dead"
His death was suicide nv shooting him.
the runr OF tho pcsiofiicc. lie procured
the pistol from n bartender. nss,lrlha MN
ut the time that he Would do no harn
with II. N '''' ~
on sunday sfternoon Tom ID. Howard
eldest son of tho WESTMINSTER. ngod "a
years. ran away with and marricJ Mis-
rents having objcctei. Tom Went To- ylc.
torta SatirrSisy ana obr,inrd NJ Wrnrsa
and sunday aitcrnoon he stole IN, ' vo,,n,,
lady from hcr sisters residence and d.ovss
town, where they were married undcr !"
largo mesquite tree and rirove 70 Sl,ta
n,oic In time 10 catch tho night tI,lin to
Ro,kport. W
The postal authorities hnyo for acme
time had n watch on this office ne, son Gee !.
~ a registered leticr passed through That
had moi been hammered with 10 said the
Inspector tc The Posi- reporter On s'f-
urday he sent test reglsicred letter from
RcfugIo &c brownsville Via Boovllie It's
| natural route, containing s1s In which
w"ro several marked s. BILLS Monday a +
icrnoon Howard and his ieau,iful Young
bride boarded the train at Rockport m
route to Corpus Christi ana bought a
ticket for which he u,id one on the
marked Sc hills that had benn enclosed in
the test letter. The Inspector thep board
ed the train. called him from his Wife