The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1912-02-07
IAN ACCUSED MURDERER
! ON TRIAL AT DALLAS
The Alleged Slayer of q. w. l.. Per-
ry of Forreston Is Placed on
Trial-Witnesses Testify.

Dallas, Texas, Feb 1.-THE jury
to try Frank Morgan, negro, charg'
ed by grand jury Indictment with
the killing of G. w. l.. Perry, the
Ellis county farmer, on September
, 4, last year, in Junius Heights, was
t completed Monday afternoon. The
taking of testimony was begun yes
a Iterday morning and at noon seven
q witnesses had testified, The first
, witness called was Sheriff Bran
, denburg Following him several ne
gro women residing on East Elm
street and vicinity, near Crowdus,
testified in the case, and to the eff
feet that they had seen Morgan
with a white man at that place as
late as A O'Clock in the afternoon,
G. S. Gates, conductor of the Jupias
Heights car on which 1t is alleged
that Perry and Morgan rode out to
IJunius Heights on the afternoon or
evening of the killing. This witness
identified Morgan as negro on the
lear. that photograph introduced
earlier in the trial was a likeness
OF the white man who rode the car
This he declared was about $50 OF
1880 O'Clock. Sheriff Brandenburg
was notified of the murder about
| 1890 O'Clock.
The feature of the morning pro
ceedings was the fact that every
ception of Sheriff Brandenburg. |
Jailer Boone Peak, and relatives
from Forreston, had seen Perry
and Morgan together at various
times on the date of the killing,
which is alleged to have occurred
on Labor Day, Sept 4, 1911.
The first witness called was
Sheriff Brandenburg, He viewed
the body as it lay on the ground at
the place where the killing is al
lleged to have occurred and with
Plain Clothes Officer Fred Lenzen,
arrested the defendant during De
cember, some three months after |
red Sheriff Brandenburg, on direct
\ exarnination, testified in brief as
, Nfonows.
) 81 knew G. w. L. Perry He was
killed on September A, Labor Day
1911. l was notified between 7:3t
I and 8 o'clock that the body of Z
dead man had been found in Junius
Heights at the far end of the car
r AZ
murder In an automobile and must
have reached the place in about
thirty minutes | found the body
number of citizens were near the
place The killing occurred out
side of the city limits. He had been
struck on the right side of the
| head just above the ear and had
one lick on the neck Blood was
flowing from the lick on the head
! The body was cold, but had not got
ten stiff The body was lying near
the first ravine east of the end OF
the Junius Heights car line and
had not been moved, The head was
lying against pile of drift, about
thirty feet from path which leads
TO the White Rock reservoir
There was nothing to obstruci
the view from the path except a liz
tie underbrush about knee high. The
lplace is about three-fourths of "a
mile from the end of the car line
and about two miles from White
Rock reservoir. l found dry cot
tonwood limb near the body about
three feet long and about the size
of my arm. The wound on Mr.. Per
= rvs head could have been inflicted
with blunt instrument. The
t pants pockets were turned wrong
e side out A pocket knife was found
the next day. One of the blades hal
blood on it CLater the pocket
= knife was shown)
I Sheriff Brandenburg then testi-
: fled that he notified the undertake.
D ers and later the relatives Of the
man at Forreston. In his testimony
he also testified that a badge was
. found on the body, This badge was
! introduced
{ The knife which was found lying
! near the body of Perry was intro
duced In evidence. This is supposed
to belong to the man who was slain
On cross-cxamination, Sheriff
, Brandenburg was positive that
there was some underbrush between
the point where the body was found
and the path but said that a per
son walking along the path coul
have seen the body of Perry Thu
witness denied a search of the slain
mans pockets had resulted in the
finding of some papers containing
the name of j c. Wallace.
In reply 10 questions, the witness
declared that the second day after
the murder Morgan's name was
first mentioned in the case. He said
that the undertakers had called him
up and told him that negro Won
an called and viewed the body who
could probably throw some light on