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Arlington Obituaries - 1909 (part 3 of 3)
Arlington Journal
FRIDAY - OCTOBER 8, 1909
POLLARD PASSES AWAY
DEATH DUE TO WOUND CAUSED 48 YEARS BEFORE BY POISONED ARROW
Resident of Texas nearly six and a half decades, close friend of Sam Houston and assisted to protect early-day settlers. After suffering for 48 years from the effects of a poisoned arrow shot from the bow of an Indian, Col. J.T. Pollard departed this life at his residence in McLean, Texas.
Colonel Pollard, who was a close personal friend of General Sam Houston and of Colonel Charles Goodnight and other noted Texans of early days had been a resident of this state 64 years. He was one of the foremost frontiersmen during the civil war and rendered a great deal of assistance to Texas through protection of her early settlers.
In addition to wound to which death of this pioneer was due, he also bore 8 other scars that were inflicted by dangerous arrow thrusts. Besides the arrow wounds, there were a number of gunshot ones.
The unfinished history of unrecorded events of interest, including a number dealing with the stirring scenes in the life of this noble old man, was found in his own handwriting. In all probability the document will be finished by members of his family and printed in book form. It would be a valuable and interesting contribution to the literature of the state of Texas.
Colonel Pollard was a most entertaining conversationalist.
PERISHES IN FLAMES
Young Man Loses His Life in Fire at Dallas
Three Flats Consumed
Victim, Who Had Already Effected His Escape, Goes Back After Belongings and Has a Most Awful Fate Overtake Him.
Dallas, Oct. 3-Three flats belonging to Rudolph Gunner, valued at $8,000 each, were destroyed by fire. Inmates in many instances jumped from second story. Miss Nina Finley and A. C. Gaul, the latter's mother conducting one flat, sustained sprained ankle and other injuries. Mrs. Gaul, in whose flat the fire originated, lost about $2,000 worth of property and $200 in cash, with no insurance.
Bruno H. Krottnauer, a stenographer and linguist, speaking English, German and Spanish fluently, made his escape from the Gaul flat. Returning to get some belongings he perished in the flames. His arms and legs were burned entirely off and body badly charred.
GOOD MAN PASSES AWAY
Longview, Tex., Oct. 4-After an illness of two years George A. Kelly passed away. Before the civil war he made cow bells and invented the Kelly plow, then residing at Jefferson. He came to this city and established the Kelly Plow Manufacturing Company, whose output is sold throughout the southwest. He paid highest wages to his employees and was noted for his charitable deeds. One of his four daughters is the wife of Superintendent of Public Education Cousins.
DEATH PREVENTS HIS VISIT
Just After Buying Ticket Man Loses Life by Car.
Dallas, Oct. 6-A pathetic and tragic affair occurred here.
Byroa Wooden, about 50 years of age, stockkeeper of the Southwestern States Portland Cement Company, who had just purchased a ticket for a visit to his old home, Hillsdale, Mich., was hit by a streetcar at Lamar street and Pacific avenue. He was quickly taken to the emergency hospital at the city hall and given every medical attention but his injuries were too serious for human aid and death soon resulted.
Mr. Wooden had been a widower for 12 years. He had looked forward with much pleasure to his intended trip to his former Michigan home. Had two brothers in Mich. and a nephew at Marshall. Remains were sent to Hillsdale by the cement company's manager. He was an Elk and well known.
FATAL RATTLESNAKE BITE
Moran, Tex., Oct. 6-In this (Shackelford) county the eight-year-old girl of William Reed was bitten by a rattlesnake causing her death some hours afterward. The reptile was a large one. The little girl and her brother had climber a tree. In descending she fell among some briars, where the serpent was coiled, and bitten on a knee.
BOY'S NECK IS BROKEN
Bonham, Tex., Oct. 6-Carter Erwin, 14 years old, went squirell hunting with a number of companions north of Bonham. They were in hot pursuit of a squirrel and when the little animal sought refuge in a tree, young Erwin climbed after him. He fell and broke his neck.
INHALES TOO MUCH CHLOROFORM
Galveston, Oct. 6-To relieve headache, from which she had been suffering for hours, Mrs. Rosa Duncan inhaled chloroform. She inhaled too great a quantity and death resulted. A husband and two children survive.
Theodore Flech, 5 years old, while playing in the back yard of his home at Houston was burned to death, fire communicating to his clothing.
DRAGGED UNDER TRAIN.
Hubbard City, Tex., Oct. 5-Bert Walton, 32 years old, fell under a coach while alighting opposite his residence near Hubbard City. A ___ caught under a platform step and he fell and was dragged under the coach. He was dead before being rescued.
LOSES LIFE BY FIRE.
Jacksonville, Tex., Oct. 5-The East Texas Industrial College for Negroes was destroyed by fire. A boy student perished in the flames. Building was located 3 miles from here.
FRIDAY - OCTOBER 15, 1909
FOUR KILLED IN COLLISION.
Dallas, Oct. 12-By a rear-end collision of Katy freight trains not far from Kingston, Hunt County. Fred Burke, white, and Mort Evans, John Rolly and Steve Guthrie, Negroes, were killed. Three others were hurt. Several race horses en route to the fair here were killed. Dead men were carried to this city.
WHY SHE SUICIDED.
"FORGIVE ME, PA; I AM TIRED OF LIVING," SAYS NOTE
Stanton, Tex., Oct. 13-K.H. Worley and wife arrived at this city and stopped at the Palace hotel. Immediately after going to their room Mrs. Worley called for water. Shortly she complained of feeling cold and within a few minutes was seized with convulsions and expired.
A note was found on the back of a letter she was writing to her son. The note read; "Forgive me, pa; I am tired of living." Justice Black, after viewing the remains and securing the testimony, returned a verdict that her death was due to some kind of poison taken with suicidal intent.
Mr. And Mrs. Worley were en route from Lexington, Ky. To Herah, Tex., where they own property.
DIES OF HORSE'S KICK.
Texarkana, Oct. 11-Willard, the five-year-old son of E.R. Shuptrine, residing on College Hill, was kicked by a horse who was grazing. After lingering for several hours the little fellow passed away. The animal was always considered gentle.
TEXAS AND TEXANS
Happenings of Interest Related in Brief Way
Luther Wise, a Dublin boy, hit by a baseball, died .
J.A. Woomer expired at his key in the Katy telegraph office at Dallas.
Ex-State Senator Tilson, a resident of Texarkana 35 years, died in that city.
K.L. Sublett stepped on a tack at Beaumont. Blood poisoning set in and death followed.
After two days of agony the 3 year old child of G.W. Kindley of Brady expired as the result of eating mesquite beans.
Hearing a gun report the wife of D. Nixon, who resided near Ben Franklin, found her husband dead with half his head blown off.
Responding to false alarm at Dallas, Driver Frank Kelly was jolted off an engine. He was run over and shortly afterward a corpse.
Horse that John Dick Beall, a prominent citizen of Rosebud, was riding, fell, crushed Mr. Beall so severely death was but a matter of few hours.
Dick Justice, an El Paso pioneer, is no more. He died from the effects of an overdose of morphine. His father was wagonmaster for McGraw's Pacific wagon road expedition in 1857.
BISHOP GARRETT'S WIFE DIES.
Dallas, Oct. 9-At the family residence in this city Mrs. Letitia Hope Garrett, wife of Rt. Rev. A.C. Garrett, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Dallas, departed this life. Her age was about 84 years, Mrs. Garrett leaves two sons, both resident. She and the Bishop, then a young divine, were married in Dublin, Ireland, in 1854. They went to British Columbia in 1859 as missionaries. In 1869 they went to San Francisco and in 1872 her husband became dean of the Omaha Cathedral. In 1874 the dean was consecrated bishop of the diocese of Northern Texas (now Dallas) and removed to this city, their home since.
TWO ROASTED
Couple of Negroes Perish in a Falls County Fire.
Marlin, Tex., Oct. 9.-Parents of three boys left their children at home. The house caught fire. One of the boys ran to the house of a nearby white neighbor, his clothing ablaze, which was extinguished. The white people went with the boy to the fire. House about consumed. Bodies of the other boys, badly charred, were found. The double holocaust took place in western part of the county.
ENGINE TURNS OVER
Causes Death of Engineer and Seven Others Hurt.
Three miles south of temple a Santa Fe railway passenger train met with an accident. Some miscreant tampered with a switch, it being thrown open just half way. The engine was turned over and badly bent. Had the switch been thrown all the way the train would have gone on a siding. The blue light, which means "go ahead," had been twisted around the safety signal, but from the locomotive cab appeared to indicate a clear track.
Engineer W.T. McGinnis of Temple and having a family, jumped as the engine went over. He was pinned under it and so badly crushed that death resulted in a few hours. He had been with the Santa Fe system for twenty years and was regarded as one of its most efficient engineers. Fireman William Greer of Cleburne was seriously injured.
Six other persons were hurt but the injuries are not dangerous.
Company's property damage is put at $3,500, $1,500 being to the engine.
Lock Switch was dynamited. Santa Fe offers $5,000 for party's conviction.
ACCIDENTALLY KILLS MOTHER
Mrs. W.G. Taylor, wife of a hotel man at Myrtis, La., was killed by the accidental discharge of a shotgun in the hands of her eight-year-old son. It seems the boy was pointing the gun toward a door in the family room when his mother entered. She told her son to lower the weapon. In obeying the boy struck the trigger and the load tore off a limb, producing death. The body was buried at Queen City, Tex.
COL. J.C. TERRELL DEAD.
Died Suddenly Today From Overdose of Strychnine-Taken by Mistake.
Capt. Joe C. Terrell, a pioneer citizen of Tarrant County, and brother of Hon. Alex. W. Terrell, of Austin, ex-minister to Turkey, died suddenly today (Friday) from an overdose of Strychnine. He took the drug as a heart tonic, and by mistake took an overdose. He was in good health up to this time. He was 77 years old, and leaves a wife, his two sons-John L. Terrell, county judge, and A.W. Terrell of Dalhart. He died at his home, 1019 Terrell Ave., and had lived in this county 57 years. He also leaves 3 daughters-Mrs. John B. Hamby, Mrs. James Young Smith and Mrs. Scurry L. Terrell of Ft. Worth, and two brothers-Hon. A.W. Terrell of Austin, and Dr. John Terrell of Va.
FRIDAY - OCTOBER 22, 1909
WOMAN MURDERED
Decomposed Body found in a Thicket near Austin.
Austin, Oct. 19-A shocking crime was perpetrated. The corpse of Mrs. Maggie Hondo was found four miles east of Austin in a mesquite thicket about twenty paces from the Manor Road. She had been apparently murdered, as flesh was torn from the body. Remains were decomposed. Mrs. Hondo, who was 35 years old, had been missing from her room in an East Third Street rooming house two weeks. She is reported to have been married twice and separated from her second husband.
Presumption is that after the woman was murdered her body was taken to the thicket. Hogs or buzzards possibly tore off the flesh.
J.L. Grubbs and Jesse Smith, alias Jesse Temberton, white men, were put under arrest.
TEXAS AND TEXANS
W.E. Bates was drowned in tank of Groesbeck waterworks.
Terry Potts, a long-time resident of Gainesville, was found dead upon a sidewalk.
R.P. Wallace, a Katy brakeman, was killed at whitesboro while making a coupling.
E. A. Scott, a prominent citizen of Roscoe, expired at Mineral Wells a few days ago from paralysis.
W.F. Simmons, for twenty years the union depot ticket agent at Houston, departed this life at Mineral Wells.
Albert Snipes, engineer in the Bomor Cotton Oil Mills at Gainesville, fell into the flywheel and was killed.
While digging potatoes in Monticello community of Titus County, a well known citizen, R. A. Munn, fell dead.
"Thirty" came to Shirley W. Jones at St. Charles, Mo. He was a former well known journalist at San Antonio.
The wife of J.D. Askew died of typhoid fever at Palestine. In a few hours the three-month-old baby passed away from same ailment.
John Eaton, a resident of Texas ever since 1835, after a well spent life passed peacefully away in the Thorndale community of Limestone County.
The 18 month old child of H. Curran fell in a well at San Benito, in the Brownsville section, and drowned before rescue was possible.
Mrs. L.U.M. Johnson, who has just died at Memphis, Tn. At age of 90 years, is said to have been the first sweetheart of General Sam Houston.
D.H. Bigby, an ex-Katy engineer and former resident of Denison, lost his life in a railway accident 135 miles from Vancouver, British Columbia, by the overturning of the engine he was running. He was crushed under it.
Near Chilton, Falls County, a barn was burned. The body of a young negro named McGill, so badly charred as to be almost unrecognizable with the skull split by a hatchet, lay close by. Another negro was arrested.
Wife of Raymond Gilmore, latter connected with state banking and insurance department, formerly a clerk of the Senate, died at Austin, Twin boys were born 3 days before their mother's death. Internment was in Wills Point. Texas and Pacific train was held 20 minutes at Dallas so body could be transfered from Katy train.
FRIDAY - NOVEMBER 12, 1909
FUNERAL NOTICE
Mr. Harry L. White of Dallas died at the home of his parents near West Fork Monday afternoon, and was interred in the West Fork Cemetery Wednesday at 3:30. Services conducted by Rev. D.C. Sibley.
DIED
Harry L. White of Dallas died at the home of his parents, Mr. And Mrs. J.W. White, in the Watson Community, Monday, Nov. 8, 1909, at p.m. of typhoid fever. He was 26 years of age July 17th last, and leaves a wife and two children besides his parents and two brothers, Claude A. and Buford B., and one sister, Miss Blanche White, the two last residing in Dallas. The remains were interred in Watson Cemetery last Tuesday, Rev. D.C. Sibley conducting the service.
C.J. TAWATER SHOT DOWN BY WILL H. ROSE
Rose Said it was Self Defense-Trouble over Business
FATAL BASEBALL BLOW
Burnet, Tex., Nov. 7.-Robert Atkinson, while playing baseball during school recess, was hit on one side of his head by a ball. At first it was not believed the lad was seriously injured but late in the afternoon he grew rapidly worse and passed away before the physician summoned arrived.
CRUSHED BY TREE
Decatur, Tex., Nov. 7.-Crushed by a tree he had just cut down and dying in a few minutes was the fate of Arthur King, 32 years old, on the G. W. Short place, a few miles southwest where King was employed. He expired before the tree could be lifted off him. A widow and child are left.
SWALLOWS SAFETY PIN
San Antonio, Nov. 7-The infant daughter of Mr. And Mrs. J.W. Guillangau swallowed an open safety pin, it lodging in her lower intestines. An operation gave no relief and the lettle one was relieved from her suffering in a short time by death.
TEXAS & TEXANS
Happenings of Interest Related in Brief Way.
Just after eating a hearty supper C.H. Brooks of Dallas expired.
Arthur Davis, an Austin merchant, succumbed to a paralytic stroke.
Ollie Baker, 17 years of age, sucided at Childress, carbolic acid.
J.W. Pratt, an old citizen of the Big Sandy Community, died suddenly.
Judge C.C. Russell, twenty years a district court judge, departed this life at Corpus Christi.
Mrs. Cruz Gonzales, bitten at Laredo by a dog, died three weeks afterward of hydrophobia.
Garments of Mrs. Etta Shaw of Galveston became ignited from a gas stove and she was burned to death.
FRIDAY - NOVEMBER 19, 1909
WATSON COMMUNITY
On last Monday evening, the 8th, instant, the death angel entered the home of Mr. And Mrs. White and bore away their married son, Harry L. White of Dallas, to the heavenly home. After battling against disease for eight weeks he yielded to an attack of typhoid fever. After funeral services in West Fork Church by Rev. D.C. Sibley of Arlington, his remains were carried to the cemetery and entombed to rest until the resurrection morning. Mr. White was a true Christian, saying he was ready to meet his Savior. What a consolation that is to his sorrowing wife, father and mother, brother and sister. Remember, God doeth all things well."
DAN A. STUART NO MORE
Well Known Sporting and Business Man Passes Away
Dallas, Nov. 15-At his residence in New York City, in his sixty-second year, Dan A. Stuart, a former citizen and businessman of Dallas, owning over $200,000 worth of business and residence property in this city, succumbed to a stomach trouble, from which he had suffered several years.
A native of Vermont, when of age Mr. Stuart removed to New York and resided there some years. Over thirty years ago he located at Wills Point and then went to Terrell, finally coming to Dallas. For several years he conducted a saloon, restaurant and sporting rooms.
In 1897 Mr. Stuart made arrangements for a prize fight at Dallas with James J. Corbett and Robert Fitzsimmons, there being at the time no law in Texas prohibiting such contests. It was scheduled for October and a huge building was being constructed when Governor (now Senator) Culberson called a special session of the legislature. An anti-prizefighting law was enacted. The partially built arena was torn down and sold for lumber.
Stuart then pulled off a fight in Mexico, opposite Langtry, Tex., with Fitzsimmons and Maher the principals and Fitzsommons the victor.
He promoted and managed the fight at Carson City, Nev. In which Fitzsimmons defeated Corbett and got the royalty from the moving pictures.
Although long interested in pool rooms he never owned a race horse. Stuart established a track at Hot Springs and that and other holdings there are valued at $730,000. He also purchased Fort Erie race track at Buffalo, NY.
He is survived by a widow and two children-Helen, seven years, and a son, Douglas, five.
When Sturat came to Dallas he had little education. For hours he would write in his room from a copy book. He accumulated while a resident of this city a well selected library.
LAWYER'S TRAGIC DEATH
Nat B. Jones Victim of Bullets and Wife Arrested
San Antonio, Nov. 15-With a razor near him Nat B. Jones, a leading attorney, was found lying in his wife's boudoir. He had been shot four times. Jones was removed to a hospital. He expired in a few hours. The seat of a chair in the room was soaked with blood and the bullets passed through the back of it.
Mrs. Jones, who had a nervous collapse, after she recovered was placed under arrest. She claims her husband attacked her with a razor and that she fired in self-defense. A 32-caliber automatic revolver was found.
Jones and his wife, who resided in a fashionable house but occupied separate apartments, were estranged some time ago.
One bullet struck Jones in the forehead, penetrating the brain. Another entered the right breast, ranging down and passing put the other side, the right arm shattering. One passed through the body and shattered spine. The other entered a breast.
BLIND NEGRO KILLED.
Dallas, Nov. 15-A blind Negro piano player named John Foster was shot to death on the premises of John Walker, another Negro. Four bullets passed through Foster's head. Poking a large pistol through the bars of the jail door to Jailer Reedy, Walker remarked:: "Take my gun, Mr. Reedy, and then let me in. I've done some work that I guess they'll lock me up for, but I was justified."
Lennie, the sixteen-year-old daughter of Walker, says she and Foster were married at Fort Worth. She is a pianist also. Walker is a barber and possesses a nice residence.
LOVE AFFAIR ALLEGED CAUSE.
Big Sandy, Tex. Nov. 17-At the residence of Richard Cox, 3 miles east of here, John Slagle and another young man named Cox retired. In a short time Slagle told Cox that if he dropped off during the night he wanted a certain minister to conduct the funeral services. This aroused suspicion and members of the family summoned. By this time Slagle was in a dying condition, and although efforts were made to save his life they were of no avail and he soon passed away. It was ascertained that Slagle had purchased an ounce of Chloroform at a Big Sandy drug store. Love affair is alleged to have prompted the act.
INJURIES PROVE FATAL.
Dalhart, Tx. Nov. 17-Following a fall while playing at school several days before Leota Stem, eleven-years old, died. When the accident took place no serious consequences were anticipated, and it was not until osteomilitis arose from a bruised bone that the grave nature of Leota's condition was known. She was a daughter of City physician Stem.
HAFNER PASSES AWAY
Intimate Acquaintance of Late President Lincoln
Taylor, Tex., Nov. 17-At his residence in this city Adam Hafner passed away. He was born in Upspringen, Germany, in June 1832, came to this country about sixty years ago and resided in Illinois until a few years previous to the civil war.
Mr. Hafner was a close friend of the late President Lincoln, and furing his residence in Decatur, Ill., the afterward chief magistrate saved the life of his eldest son, Adam Hafner, by protecting from the attack of an infuriated bull.
He moved from Illinois to Eatonton a few years before the civil war. A short time before the capture and burning of Atlanta Hafner received a letter from President Lincoln offering him an appointment. When Federal troops were destroying factories and other buildings in that part of Georgia this letter saved the Hafner residence from destruction.
Mr. Hafner was also an intimate friend of Governor Brown of Georgia. Interment was at Eatonton, Ga.
TEXAS AND TEXANS
Ed Droste fell into Lytle Lake near Abilene, and drowned.
Miss Evelyn Weeks, shot accidentally at San Antonia, expired.
R. Rogers, the fireman on a log train, was run over and killed at Kirbyville.
J.M. Wilson, a prominent citizen of Wichita county, died of paralysis of the heart.
Miss Louise Bogy, noted for her religious and charitable work, departed this life at Bonham.
Body of Miss Nora Ellis Moore was found in the well at the family's home, two miles from Temple.
"Thirty" has come at Mount Vernon to R. L. Roundtree, founder of the Optic, who passed away after an illness of long duration.
Brakeman R.R. Brennan was killed at Jacksonville, being mashed between drawheads of an International and Great Northern train.
On a hunting trip in Dallas county Harry C. Mounze was shot by the accidental discharge of the gun of D.L. Swift, his companion. Mounze was taken to a Dallas sanitarium, but did not long survive.
A shotgun, accidentally discharged, in the hands of the five-year-old son of Mrs. D.G. West of Knox City has caused the mother's death, the load entering her right lung. She was at the time cooking supper.
S.A. Fowler, 21 years the foreman of the erecting machine shops of the International and Great Northern Railway company at Palestine, died in the company's hospital in that city, aged fifty-nine years.
FRIDAY - NOVEMBER 26, 1909
MAN'S SINGULAR SUICIDE
Peculiar Methods Utilized by a South Texas Party
First Builds Huge Pyre.
Henry Keck Erects it at the foot of a tree, Sets Combustibles on Fire, Sends Rifle Bullet into his head and Flames consume him.
Gonzales, Tex., Nov. 22-A farmer named Henry Keck, 50 years of age, who resided near here, conceived and carried out what is probably the most singular form of suicide ever known in this state.
Keck built a huge funeral Pyre at the foot of a tree, touched it off with a match and while the flames fanned by the wind, leaped high in the air, he sent a rifle bullet crashing into his head.
When the fire had spent its force all that remained to tell the terrible tale was the charred trunk of Keck and the rifle barrel. Keck leaves a widow and five children to battle the world. The awful deed was not discovered until the following day.
FRIDAY - DECEMBER 3, 1909
TEXAS AND TEXANS
A.S. Blackburn, a real estate man of Amarillo, fell dead. Burial was at Belton.
Mrs. Mollis Davis, a widow, was thrown from a wagon on her farm in Angelina County, run over and killed.
Joseph Trever, a long-time Texas travelling man, departed this life in Dallas. He was 67 years of age.
W.R. Hinckley, a pioneer citizen of Dallas, is dead, aged 82 years. At the funeral 6 grandsons were pallbearers.
J.R. Murphy of Portsmouth, Va., a confederate veteran, was struck by a train on the outskirst of Houston and within an hour was a corpse.
By a skiff capsizing near Port Arthur John Marshall, Abner Burnius and Peter Hacsen drowned. A fourth member of the party, George Galebru, was saved.
At the advanced age of 120 years a negress named Ellen W. Harrison, native of Texas and long a resident of Galveston, passed away in the labor home for the aged at New Orleans.
After visiting his brother at Texarcana and while standing at the depot preparation to leaving for home J.A. Morgan of Bon Ami, La., stepped on track. A locomotive hit him, causing instant death. Mr. Morgan was an extensive lumber manufacturer.
GIRLS AWFUL FATE
Gown Catches Fire and Flames Soon Envelop Her.
Paris Tx., Nov. 25-While Marguerite, the twelve-year-old daughter of Conducter John Botts of the Texas Midland Railway, was standing by the hearth dressing her flannelette gown ignited and the blaze quickly extended from her head to her feet. She died about eight hours afterward. The girl was frightfully burned.
With the flames consuming her Marguerite ran screaming up the stairway and was caught by her mother and older sister. Former's hands were badley burned in trying to smother the flames and her hair singed off.
The father, who was at Terrill with his train, was telegraphed the awful news. He reached home at noon.
LEAPS TO HER DEATH.
Houston, Nov. 24-Leaping from a runaway buggy Miss Bettie Dorothy Mendelsohn was hurled with frightful force by the vehicle's momentum, one foot also catching in a wheel, against the brick pavement. Her skull was crushed. Death resulted in thirty minutes. Her companions in the buggy Misses Annie and Pearlie Epstein, were injured, former being bruised on a shoulder and scalp cut. Latter received severe nervous shock.
NEGRO DECAPITATED.
Texarkana, Nov. 24-On the Russell plantation, twenty miles east, on Red River, some one entered the cabin of a negro, name not learned, while he was asleep and chopped his head off with an ax.
FRIDAY - DECEMBER 10, 1909
ALBERT SNIDER'S BROTHER KILLED.
Albert Snider, of Arlington, was called to Erath county, near Stephenville, Wednesday morning, on a message saying his brother had been killed in a difficulty with a neighbor over some live stock. The man killed was a local preacher in the Methodist church, and had always borne a good reputation. It seems, from reports reaching here, his calves got into the cotton patch of a fractious neighbor, who regarded it as of sufficient provocation to murder his neighbor.
JOHN SWANN KILLED A NEGRO.
Last Monday C.D. King, Justice of the peace of this precinct, and W.T. Cone, city marshall, went over to Tarrant to hold an inquest on a Negro named Will Thomas. He had been killed by John Swann, one of the best known and most prominent farmers over there. Mr. Swann is one of the best citizens of the county. It seems he and the negro had some trouble about work on the farm, especially over some woodcutting, and the negro, who tried to pose as a bad negro of the "blue-gum" type, made loud and emphatic threats against Mr. Swann. Mr. Swann, hearing this, went to Tarrant to trade and was prepared for Thomas-having an old, muzzle-loading shotgun. He found the negro in the store, and seeing the negro's gun, as he thoufht, near the latter, emptied both barrels into the negro-or tried to, but the shot struck his head and glanced off as if from a turreted battleship. They then clinched and scuffled out the door and the negro finally walked off down the railroad track. Mr. Swann borrowed a modern gun and went down the road and coming across the negro, whom he thought was laying for him. As Thomas was sitting under a small trestle of the Rock Island Road Swann emptied his gun into him, one shot making a great hole in his left side near the heart killing Thomas. Mr. Swann then gave himself up to the sheriff by telephone. Mr. Sweet and some deputies going after him. Justice King rendered a verdict according to the above statements. Mr. Swann readily gave bond in the sum of $2,000.
LITTLE GIRL BURNED TO DEATH.
Late Thursday news came that a little daughter of Mr. And Mrs. Teague, who lives just west of Johnson Station, was burned to death by her clothes catching before the fireplace Wednesday afternoon. Two reports came in: one that the child was dead and buried; the other that she was badly burned but was still alive.
It is said she was burned while in the house when her mother was out in the yard milking cows. No further particulars could be obtained.
Later, Dr. M.H. Cravens, who was called out there, says she died the same day.
LOCALS FROM MANSFIELD SUN.
A telephone message brings us the news that James Lamb has just been convicted of killing his father and received a sentence of ten years in the penitentiary.
P.S. Parham and wife were here this week attending the funeral of their son, Gaston Parham, who was killed by falling from a telephone pole in Ennis, Texas Monday.
FRIDAY - DECEMBER 24, 1909
VIRGIL BURNETT DEAD.
Little Virgil Burnett, the 2 year-old son of Mr. And Mrs. V.L. Burnett, of 1032 Cromwell St., Fort Worth, died after a short illness, and was interred in West Fork cemetery Sunday afternoon at 4:30. Services by Rev. D.C. Sibley, assisted by Rev. Collier. Mr. And Mrs. Burnett once lived in this community and have many friends who sympathize with them in this sad hour.
FRANK MELEAR DEAD.
It was a sad death at Johnson Station last week-that of Mr. Frank Melear. For two years he had been a sufferer from diabetes but had been doing very well until about a week before his death when he took a turn for the worse. He seemed conscious of his serious condition, for he told his family to be patient with him, as he would not last long. He died at 3:30 p.m. Saturday, December 18, 1909, at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Z.T. Melear. Frank was a Christian, and expressed perfect peace before he was taken with his last attack. He has many friends in that community besides his immediate family. He leaves, besides his parents, two brothers and two sisters. His funeral was largely attended not only by the people of the community generally, but by the Sunday School and the Christian Endeavorers, of which organizations he was a devoted member. Services were conducted by Rev. Mr. Cleveland, of Waxahachie, his pastor, who is pastor of the Presbyterian church out there.
MRS. MARY HALL DEAD.
Mrs. Mary Hall, mother of Mrs. Charlie McKnight, died at her son-in-law's home in Arlington, December 21, and was buried in the Arlington cemetery Wednesday, the 22nd. Rev. W.T. Thurman conducting the services. Mrs. Hall had lived here for seven years and had been in bad health for more than a year. She became worse about 3 weeks ago. She was a good woman and the friends and family sympathize with those left to mourn.
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