Fort Worth Daily Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 169, Ed. 1, Saturday, January 15, 1887 Page: 1 of 8

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DECATUK
Approve of the legislatures Action The
frraent Dry Weather
Special to the Gazette
Dkcatur Tkx Jan 14 Oar people
are ranch gratified to see the liberal stand
taken by most of the members of the leg
islature to relieve the diouth sufferers of
Texas Something must be done and
speedily or many will be nnable to make
a crop There is no longer a chance to
doubt the wolf is at the door of many a
poor family The lowest estimate in this
county puts it at 300 families with a
probability of some more
Trie drouth still continues in this coun
ty Wheat and fall oats have succumbed
tothe dry weather and if there is not
rain before long there will be no use
planting The ground in many places is
too dry to plow which makes the situa-
tion bad indeed
have gone lrom
trouble
JlKLWEY
Murder Casts Iwn Burglars Arrestee and
Property Kecuvereil
Special to the Uazette
McKixney Tex Jan 14 Judge II
O Head today declined to reduce the
bond of SC000 heretofore Used by Judge
Maltbie and required of J V Johnson
The murder case of J V Johnson was
se for 1 ebruary 17 and a venire drawn
The Taylor murder case was set for
February 14 and a venire of sixty men
drawn
Officers noticed J Mead and C Patter-
son peculiarly clad and arrested them
Shortly afterwards news arrived that Da
hpneys residence six miles east had
been burglarized Among the articles
stolen were a breastpin and watch chain
which were found on Mead and Patter-
son
AN INDIAN TERRITORY KILLING
vvhltky and Cards Din Came of a Xrngedy
Near Arthur City
Special to the Gazette
Paris Tkx Jan 14 News of a ter-
rible killing scrape in the Indian Terri
tory just across the river from Arthur
City reached this city late this afternoon
The particulars arc very meager It
seems that yesterday a man named Brown
who has a grading contract on theFrisco
came over to Arthur City and while there
got into a quarrel with a barkeeper
by the name cf Flynn over a
game at cards Last niaht Flynn
and others went to Browns camp
on the other side of the river
and went into it Fiynn renewed the
difficulty by drawing a pistol and firing
on Brown Brown returned the tire
with a fhot killing Fljnn instantly
Browns daughter seized another gun and
fired on the others who beat a retreat
Brown is under arrest and great xcite
ment is said to prevail at Arthur and
there is talk of lynching Brown Officers
here to the scene of the
A HOUSTON SENSATION
A Young Iady IteglsterH Under an As-
sumed Name and Pavrns n King
Special lo the jazette
Houston Tkx Jan 14 Yesterday
evening a young lady arrived in this city
over the Houston and Texas Central
Kiilroad and went to the Capital Hotel
She registered as Jliss Dayston of Dallas
Tex She remained at the Capital Hotel
until this morning when she went to the
jewelry store of Sweeney Coombs and
tried to sell two rings She gave her
Dime to Mr Coombs as Lula May
Dysart and said that she was en route to
Galveston to visit a friend but that she
had lost her trunk and money After
pawning the rings for SO she left th
store stating that she was going to the
hotel During the day she met with a
lady who directed her to the
house of S K McIIhenney where
she applied for a situation Mrs Mcll
h < nney > et > t her to the residence of Mrs
Juiise P W Gray where she securtd a
position as governess Late this after
noon a gentleman named James Scott a
merchant of Melissa Tex arrived in
Houston in search of Miss Dayston Mr
Scott said that he was a brotherinlaw of
theeirlandtbatsnehad left home two days
before After some iDquiry hf ascertain d
the whereubouts of the object of his
search and in company with a prominent
uentlemanof this city he repaired to the
residence of Mrs Gray The young lady
at first declined to go home with Mr
Scutt but after considerable persuasion
she finally
pie left
on the
Dayston is
consented and the cou
tonight at 8 oclock
Central train Miss
a remarkably handsome girl
intelligent and refined She wore a badgs
of the Lexington Guards of Missouri
whicn was presented to her by one of the
members of that company Her father
formerly resided in St Joseph Mo
where some of her relatives now live
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CLUYBRIOS EMBED
Thomas J Cluverius Expiates with His
Life the Strange Death of Fannie
Lillian Madison
Tho Last Act in a Celebrated Case
Another Man Hanged on Purely
Circjiuistantial Evidence
Iil6tory of the Crime and the Prloner
Snuday tiehool Teacher and Writer
of Obscene 1oetry
NO RKSPITE
RicuMoxn Va Jan 14 The gov-
ernor has taken no action in Cluverius
case up to 11 oclock this morning The
execution will take place about 1230
Everything is in readiness at the jail
UK IS IIAKGKI >
At 10S oclock Cluverius was hanged
He died without making a confession
Speaking through Dr Hatcher r his min-
ister he said that in this moment of
death when nearing the grave he had no
ill feeling toward any man on earth He
died by stransulation
TUB SCKNK AT THE JAIL
Richmond Va Jan 14 Thomas
Judson Cluverius convicted of the
murder of Fannie Lillian Madison was
hnged in tne city jail today As early
as J a m people began to gather in the
vicinity and by noon every approach to
the jail was packed with
human Deings as were also the house-
tops and the hillsides near the jail from
which a sight could be obtained Ad-
mittance into the jail was had by tickets
bsutd by City Sergeant Smith who ad-
mitted over 200 persons Tne prisoner
passed a sleepless niyht most of the
time being spent with Beverly Crumb
the one counsel who has done
everything to save his life and who re-
mained with him till 3 a m From that
hour until G oclock he was engaged in
lirayer and at intervali he sang hymns
From < > cclock nntil t he slept soundly
and then arose and ate a break-
fast of teucirloiu beefnteuk a
mushroom and an egg omelet
During the morning hours there was
much sreculation as to whether the gov-
ernor would grant a lurlher respite and
that question was not Dually cettltd until
omo time after noon when Mr Crumo
who had be n to see the governor re-
turned to the jail and announced
that the executive power would not in-
terpose Rsv Dr Wm Hatcher came
to the jail about 11 ocluik aud remained
with the prisoner to the last administer
iug reliaious consolation and pravin
with the prisoner At noon a suit of new
black clothes was brougot to
the jail and the prisoner donned
them At two minutes to 1 oclock the
death procession was formed counting
of Sergeant Smith two deputies Rev
Dr Hatcher and the prisoner the latter
having his hands tied in front and his
body lrom his neck to his ankles envel-
oped in an oldfashioned ladys water-
proof cloak From the cell the
march progressed to the lower court
of the jsil and then into the yar
fronting the cells of the white prisoners
Forty policemen were on duty to keep
back the crowd Tho prisoner though
thin and pale moved with steady steps
to the scaffold which lie ascended
in the tame quiet manner
and stood on the trap Sergeant
Smith then read the death warrant and a
copy ot thu judgment to wni uhe pns
oner listened with bowed head and ap
paient close attention When Sergeant
Smith had concluded he asked the
doomed man if he
HAD ANYTHING TO SAY
and Cluverius replied No sir nothing at
all his voice being scarcely audible
Dr Hatcher then knelt and offered prayer
and when he had liui hed he turned to
the prisoner who said a fewvrordin a
low tone and Dr Hatcher turning to the
crowd in the yard said I am requested
by the prisoner to utter one word for him
and that is that in this moment of death
he carries to the grave no feeling of ill
will towards any man on earth
Dr Hatcher then Kit the scaffold
raising both hands as he went out He
said the prisoner had asserted his inno-
cence to the last moment When Dr
Hatcher had gone Deputy
Seargeant Allen tied the pris-
oners knees tightly together put
the rope around his neck and a justtd
the black cap and hood Everything be-
ing ready Sergeant Smith gave the
iianal and at 10S oclock the trap was
sprung There was a sudden siss fol-
lowed by the claug of the
falling trapdoor and the next
instant the body of Claverius
was at the end of the rope over ten feet
below where he had been standing The
rope which was made of particolored silk
stretched over afoot and he toes ol the
hangeman nearly touched the brick
pavement beneath There was a minute
of tjillet and then there was considerable
sttuugling lasting several minutes to-
gether with hard breathing indicating
that death was being produced
by strangulation After sixteen
minutes the physicians pronounced the
ody dead and twenty minutes after the
trap was sprung It was taken down and
placed in the plain wooden coffin and
turned ovt r to the undertaker to be pre-
pared for burial at his former home in-
King and Queen county
I1ITOKY OV THK CRIME
Cluverius was couvicttd wnolly upon
circumstantial evidence The bjdy of
Fannie Lillian Madison was found in the
city reservoir off the morning of March
13 1SS3 She was enciente At that
time Cluverius was at nis aunts forty
miles from the city The poor girl was
his cousin and had come to Bicamond
from her mountain home 300 miles
distant two days before her death She
had told a falsehood os to the cause of
ber coming saying that she was called to
lUchrnond to see a sick lady and would
be there two weeks She was there
within a few weeks of the time when she
wonld have become a mother She re
maiked casually as she got on the train
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FORT WOETH TEXAS SATURDAY JANUARY 15 1887
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wished the train would runoff and kill
herShe
She registered at the hotel in Rich-
mond under an assumed name A gen-
tleman called for htr at night whom the
porter says was Cluverius but they were
not seen iu ttfer hotel together the only
other witness giving testimony as to his
identity that nijht being a 3aiall negro
boy who insists that he recognized him
as he go in the street car
Here tbe testimony ends Istobody ele
swears to him so f r as that nisiht was
concerned The only thing that connects
him with tbe scene of the tragedy is a
watch key which has been identified aa
being very roach like the one he hud but
when this bit of testimony was creating a
sensation Clnverius brother produced
another key aim st a lac simile o tbe
one found and swore that it was his
brothers The pris ner was shown to
IJ chmond helped no little in begetting the
impression of his guilt It was shown
that on the occasion of a previous visit to
Hichmond he had in the day time visited
two houses of prostitution with a lady
whom some of the inmates swore to be
the image of the photographs of Fannie
Lillian Madison and worse still a piece
of horribly obtcene doggerel called On
the Delaware wo found in tbe poor
girls trunk and written in thp hand of
Cluverius The poetry in short simply
described with disgusting minutia ihe
seduction of a girl on the Delaware r ver
Sticklers for law however snrusged
their shoulders and said while all this
was very bad yet there was no lesal e i
dence that the prisoner had seduced his
cousin or that he had murdered her
People were simply inferring that because
the young man had btcome engaged to a
rich girl he wanted to get his cousin out
of the way
Nor was there any legal evidence that
he ever intended to marry Mi s Madison
But there was a note which Miss Madison
had giyen to a negro boy at the hotel
with directions to wait for an answer
The boy came back and told the clerk he
could not llnd the party to whom it was
addressed The clerk put it in the desk
and when Miss Madison did not come
buck he tore it up and threw the bits in
the waste basket That note was in
pencil in Miss Madrons handwriting
and wa < addressed to Mr TJ Cluverius
I read
I will be there as soon as possible so
please wait for me
Liwyers shrilled their shoulder
again and said people mteht infer as mush
a tn y pleaded but there was no legal
evidence to convict Ciuverius with tnis
note There was no legal evidence to
show that he ever received it But the
jury inferred and acted upon their infer-
ences and found Cluverius guilty and
though the lawyers cried that it wa a
travesty on justice the verdict was re-
ceived wiih cheers bv the great throng
outside and it was affirmed and reaffirm-
ed by tne highest court in the State
So Cluverius is dead He all alorg
smiling y said he would ultimately get off
Cluverius was a wonderful psychological
study At college when he studied law
he wa known as Smiling Moses be-
cause of his way of always smiling He
was considered intelligent and verj
moral When he went home he was
superintendent of the Baptist Sun-
day school and him elf a teacher
of a flourishing bibleclass manr
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VOL XII NO 169
GOSSIP 0F THB BAY
Resgan Visits the Senate and House
Looking as Fresh as if He Had
lost Come Out of the Bath
The JnesHon or Aid for the Drouth
Sufferers Brought Ofllciully Be-
fore ihe Legislature
fnbllo yentlnnMit Ortlliered from the slate
Capitol Uie LfRlKlHlorn Getting
I > owu to Work
Austin Tex Jan It Among the
have been in Richmond at the same time biJls introduced in tbe senate todsy
was
LMnr aUinndtT w s one that strikes slight and hard at the
fulure to account for histime while iu
ironclad note acd =
of whom visited Kichmond to
see him hanged Then he was a uennine
ladykiller He was engaged to three
girls at one time He was the ranst
sunghtafter beau in the neighborhood
and yet at that time he was writing ob-
scene doggerel to his girl cousin He
sang
On Jordans stormy lianks I stand
Ana nsta wishful eje
at the time they were escorting him to
Richmond It is a singular coincidence
that at the last execution in this district
this very hymn was sung on the gallows
Cluverius jail life was spent in an ex-
emplary way He was a great reader
and devoted mnch time to his Bible and
he prayed devoutly upon rising and re-
tiring He had an esthetic fondness for
dowers too many of which were In his
cell He was a small man but was said
by his friends to be strong If the only
reasonable theory of the murder is
accepted ho must have been a powerful
man for according to that he would after
killing bN cousin have been ccmpelbd
to carry her bodv up a stew embankment
and then lift it over a spiked fence to
throw it in the water where it was found
It has been contended that he must
have had help Who helped him Who
could have had an object in helping him
One of the negro witnesses testfdea to
having f een the poor girl with a certain
wry straDgelooking old c tuntryroan the
night before her death Tne murder is
still a mystery Much yet remains to be
disclosed
SHUT A WOMAN
ADrnnkeu lirntn Ciimnuts Foul Murder
Without Provocation
Special to the gazette
Fort Smith Ark Jan 14 Parties
from the Iudian Territory report that on
Sunday la t f mr miles lrom Kullacbaha
Choctaw nation a man named lira Boy
kin went to the houe of Mrs Mary Long
In an intoxicated condition and after
abusing the woman for a while drew a
pistol and pointing to a little child lying
on the jfl ior said Ive known you
evjr since you were the bize of that child
Djmn yon Ill kill you and suiting the
action to hi Wiriis he shut her in the
breast and inflicted a wound friirn which
shededjesterday Boikm escaped but
tne officers are on his track and it is
1 kcly he will mike another subject for
the same gallows on which four murder
ers were hanged today
TILDEVS WILL
lie Leaves S400000 to balked in stab
liHhiug nLlbrarj
Albany N 1 Jan 14 Theexecutors
and testators of the will of the late
Samuel J Tilden have addressed a mem-
orial to the state legislature asking suit
able legislation for the incorporation of
the Tilden trust for a memorial library
mortgage business
Its specifications cover personal property
generally but thu provisions against
mortgaging growing crops is particularly
pronoancedThe committee will probably
report favorably on the bill
Judge Beagan visited the senate and
house today about 11 oclock looiing
fresh and neat and we suspect he had
jusficome from his bath the animal
insinuation practice of the Washington
reporter to tne contrary
Judge Randolph of Ccicmau county oc-
cupied a seat in the house today
by courte v He is the youngest district
judge inthe state
Senator MjAlanus resolution to re-
quire the advertisement of pool ssiiing on
the senatorial race removed from in front
of the door of tho capitol stirred up a
spirited debate He claimed thai it was
botn an insult to the leaislsture and an
announcement that the law w ere being
violated
The chairmen of ail the slandins com-
mittees met iu the supremo courtroom
today and decided on certain hours for
the transaction of business so they
would not conflict by reason of som of
the members being on different cortiait
teesSenator
Senator Claibornes resolution to
have 30O copies of the rules with
the constitutions of the United
States and Texas appended awoke
the eloquence of several gentleman and
dually was referred to the committee on
rules with discretionary powers
The memorials in the senate and house
from the drouth sufferers and the ad-
dress of PJr < on Brown of Alhanv in the
hoiitonight in their behalf brings the
subject immediately to the notice of our
lawmakers
It is not likely that Senator Allens bill
to erect and furnish a printing establish-
ment will meet with favor in either
house The publishing of the Journal
has not proved entirely satisfactory here-
tofore aud it is probable that the pr > po
Itlon offered by Thomas II Wheeles
will be adopted aa it was concurred in by
the senate tooay
It was generally understood that ihare
wottla be an Ireland caucus at the
Brunswick tonicht but it was postpon-
ed until Wednesday of next week A
compaign committee of four managers
consisting of Senators Burgess and Pope
on the inside and Ueut Gov Gibbs aud
Gen A S Kobertg as chitf scouts on
the outside have taken general manage-
ment They have counted the votes and
claim forty on the first bibot It is
evident since Maxey and K aaan are
on the ground that OxCtrt John will
have to hitch on another yoke to his
team
A number of senators and representa-
tives met in the hoiisv of representatives
tonight to hear the address of Ii v John
Brown relitive to the drouth sufferers in
Northwest Texas Senator Calhoun of
K istland was called to preside over the
meeting Mr Brown In a lengthy appeal
set forth the condition of the people and
asked for au appropriation of 8500000 for
immediate relief Mr Brown rtad a let-
ter from Hon T R Fleming to the effect
that the consiitution permitted an appro-
priation in case of a public calamity
Senator tilhoun followed Mr Brown and
vouched for the truth of his state-
ment and told of individual instances
that came under his observation He
also urged the members present to ue
their efforts to have some relief bill
passed Cc motion of Representative
Latimer the audience indorsed Mr Brown
by a rising vote Several members pres
ent advocated the appointment of a joint
committee by the senate and house to
immediately visit the drouth district and
report assoon as the facts can be ascer-
tained Mr Brown will preach in the
operahouse Sunday on this subjct
W I McGaughey tbe member from
Hood is u favorite with the farming
element oE the house and may be consid-
ered one of the recognized leaders
The farmers are disposed to steer clear
of any complicated alliances with the
Kjiights of Libor or anv other element
of the third house While they hold the
balance of power in tne body aud will be
mutual in their interests they show no
iudication of a desire to force legislation
from an antagonistic standpoint
AttorneyGeneral Hoggs views on the
leading questions that are liable to come
up for legislative action connected with
theinfotcementof the penal laws of the
stateare that the people will have a able
ervant iu that department of the state
government
The wisdom of Speaker Pendleton in
the selection of the house committees is
already spoken of by leading members as-
a guarantee that tbe body will attend
strictly to business during the sessiou
The strength of the lobby has not felly
developed yet though there is evidently
much private caucussincgoing on Meas-
ures looking to the better protection of
landlords in collecting their rents iafree
ly talked of by members lrom the cotton
districts
Though Ireland pools ara still selling
at a premium it is not considered any in-
dication that he is gaining strength
though his friends are making a great
deal of noise about it
The Rev John Brown of Albany has re-
turned to Austin and publishes an
appeal in the Statesmac asking the
legislature to take immediate aotion in
the relief for drouth sufferers He has
just returned from Dallas where he was
that her cousin Tommjs Cluveriusj to be established in the city ° fcNewYork j ln consultation with his old enemies the
would meet her In Richmond and
though she left home smiling she said in
a fit of sadness to the conductor that she
Under Jhe terms of the will the trustees
tlnd that about 400000 la applicable to
the purpose
Newsmen He says he will remain here
Continued on Fifth Toye