The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1912-05-25
LOST WIFE ON WAGER
AND SLEW THE WINNER
Man Who Wagered Wife Against
$500 and Lost Must Now Serve
Ten Years in Penitentiary.

OF not j. Is. clayton OF rom 1reen
county purchased ms common Ia"
wire lot the lnslghillcant sum OF
So-zo, from the man VINO had been
hor husnahd TOT upward OF sixteen
years as the woman mas CANNED
may never be definitely settled, Tor
the court OF criminal Appeals we'd
heSday decfeed that clayton must
serve ten years In the state penl-
tertiary Tor staying the man whose
marital place ne Is alleged TO nave
taken shortly prior TO the homlclde.
Iris sentence WAS imposed py the
trial court ana the hlsher tribunal
sustained the judgment
Inc case Is one or the most re-
markable ever brought up on appear
In this state. According to the
record II o11ered IN lts original trlal
the unusual spectacle OF a woman,
namely the former wife OF the ap-
pelldnt, going on the stand and tel
ling the jury of how her husband
mad sold her for 500, how she had
agreed to the sale and how her new
master installed himself as head OF
the household, Following the vaca-
ton of the premises by the alleged
party of the second part to the al,
legged contract in question
The deal. according to the story
which the woman detailed from the
winess stand was raootia+od dpr;p O.
+b nrooroe, - ,o,,,1, tro,,, 80 a1a,,o%
ma =, ~ -. III, ~, aa,1os
'
-. 80 -
""9 oiie u '"e POI - " .iie 'uppoSU+
'oii' INC apPeiiai
VI Tue case' was SET oo"h as the
lrlal uhder the name OF MRS. M. "A.
the record in the case, during the
1 trial, that she married Clcyton, tue
appellant, some sixteen or seventeen
years prior to the killing, Five
children were born of the union.
The woman ltold the Jury thar
some time before the killing in
1903, her husband brought the
saloon keeper. Bob Gibson. to their
home and introduced him to her
The two men. shortly afterward fell
\ to gambling. she saws CLAYTON
evidently went "broke.'' according to
| the woman. he opened up negotia-
tons with his guest and opponent in
the game for the price of railroad
ticket to Lampasas, or 500
At last she says, ne offerad' II
eoilsiueratioh LOT the loan u tni'
sun u nohes' " .uih oYei nis NJ
anu ciii,oien anu MS 1n'ei go ~ 'iiei
iuuSe W 'iDon va 90
" ""'o
C,avto,, t,,or ,,,1,d ont aod 9Th
aon according to the woman. in.
stalled himself as head of the house
hold.
Some nights afterward Clayton Il
alleged to have returned to the
homo which he had given up ana
knocked at the back door for admit
tancc. Mrs. Dement, says she an
swered the knock and finding out
who it was, refused him admittance.
| Gibson, who was inside the house,
! discharged his pistol, for the purpose
of frightening the visitor away.
Evidently he succeeded and the
trouble between the two men seems
to have simmered down Tor lie"
days.
! Shortly after this episode, 1t was
testified that Mrs Dement, and her
! fifteen year old son and the appel
liant went to San Angelo to attend
show They had not been inside
the building very long when Gibson
came in. fight followed rough
exchange of words. Spectators in
/ terfered an dthe men seemed to
have remained peacable until the
show was over. Then they left the
building In the street the row was
renewed Clayton said in his testi-
monv that the deceased flung a
snuff bottle in his direction and was
up from the street. "nen ne loiaS
tom 1erked out MS plstol ana oesah
I firing me ilrst shot mlssed uio-