El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-01-24
, IS. 800 to 80 South oregon Street
HACKS, BUS AND BAGGAGE.

the deceased, but psrEaps all were
m staken except Captain Bendy, of the
police. H, had seen the man before
and went away TO think the matter
over. Finally be heard some one say
the name name was Newbill. 81 know
him." exclaimed NJ. Bendy. The
mans name had been learned from
several tags sewed into the clothes by
Chicago tailoriog firm, showing for
initials of the deceased had been print
ed on the shirt, corresponding
with the name sewed into the clothes
aud there was no longer auy doubt tina:
the mans I anne was JnO. Newbill.
Capt. Bendy knew Newbill we'll, and
with the mere mention of the lame the
identity was made complete. Capt
Bendy, in company With. A. Escaje-
da, who also was acquainted with New
DILL, went TO the mOrgue, and both re
copnized the deceased at a glance. 1t
was at this point that the theory of
murder, to which all indications poi q t.
ed conclusively, vanished. Capt. Ben
dy had reason to believe, as will be
shown later, that Newbill hal sui led i,
but he had some strong circumstances
to overcome before his theory looked
plausible. In the first place, if the
skull was crushed by she passing train,
nil had cut his own throat, because no
knife or other iufrument had been
f ,und at or near the body. In addition
to this two towels were wrapped
around the dead mans throat, and the
concensus of opinion was that Newbill
could not have cut his throat, wrapped
the wounds in towels and laid himself
on the track to be cut to pieces by q
tr ain. But developm ants have proven
-,
startling than this.
Identified his friend, for Bendy and
Newbill were friends, went to the tele-
e. aph eff e to send a mes age to the
uncle of the deceased, and while writ
ing out the message. was handed the
following by Mr.. Latta, of the Western
Union Office.
"Eastland, Texas, % Mr.. Bendy:
Have you seen Johnnie, is be still
there? Please see if you can find him,
or his whereabouts ard wire me. Try
to get him to come home. Answer by
wir w. Fl. MCCORD. Agt.
Capt. Bendy replied that job, ME
was dead, to which he received the
following:
please put h ion in coffin aud send
him here by baggage car. Find his
trunk and send it home, please. Draw
on me through express company
Chief Lockhart and Captain Bendy
s. artsd out at 3 o'clock yesterday TO
find out where Newbill had been
stopping and on the register at the
Lindell hotel was FOUND the name:
j. q. Newbill, Ess.lamd. Tex"
He had arrived there on the Goth met.
and had rambled around for two days,
but had remained in his room all day
saturday. lin Lyons, the proprietor,
showed Chief Lockhart and Captain
Bendy to room No. 9, remarkirg as he
did 60, that he "Guessed he knew
what they were looking for" Evil
dences of tragedy had Heen discover
ed in the room about II O.. lock by the
hotel people, but J. H. Newoill. who
occupied room No. could not be
found. The bed he had occupied
vas badly derauged ava the two
sheets, the pillow slip ard three
towels were comp! etely saturated with
b God and large pool of blood had
formed on the wooden mattress and
dipped through onto the floor. A
/ audanum a1 and an Simply bottle Of
| whiekay were found on the bed.
Newbill bad probsbly taken the
laudanum, then cut his throat with the
razor and then laid down on the bed to
die. He had apparently wrapped the
t,wels around his wounded throat and
lad drank the whi-key as there were
b cody finger marks on the bottle. A
memorandum book was found on the
wash stand and there we 9 evidences
that be had written a note which he
probably later destroyed, when he
thought he would rot Gle. On the
bureau lay two p;ctu ~es of a woman,
on the back of one be had WRIT n
Goodbye Mamie, forever, j."
The theory now is that Newbill
thinking he would not die after cutting
his throat, had left the hotel. after
wrapping two clean towe's around his
wounded throat, he had wandered
away from the hotel and eitae caught
an outgoing Fl GIT train on the joint