Fort Worth Daily Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 161, Ed. 1, Tuesday, December 11, 1888 Page: 2 of 8
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terday morningburied in theeityCeme
tery A fund which was subscribed by
the citizens served to purchased plot and
she was luriefl in a handsome white
casket There was no parade or excite-
ment about the funeral and no carriages
or attendance
THE GOVERNOR OX TJUl GROUND
Nashville Tenn Dec 10 A spe-
cial to the American from Birmingham
Ala says Governor Seay arrived
here at 11VJ5 aud is now in conference
with ColonelJones Governor Seay in
an interview said He came < to
satisfy IinnscIf by personal ob-
servation of tut situation here tn
Icani what tho publjojrentiment was and
to decide whether Or not if would bo t > est
to take Sheriff Smith away until
the excitement had passed no says
from reports that ho has received
by telegraph ho thinks Sheriff Smith
only did his duty At midnight the city
jsperfectly quiet and very few people are
on tilestreets The oxcitement is fast
siiUsiainj JI iv Vijiilmore ono of the
woundedis uyjug to night He was
shot through the body
HISTORY OF THE CRIMR
A brief history of the erimowhich led
to tho riot Saturday night is as follows
The dead body of a girl eight years old
was found Tuesday morning December
4 at East Lake a suburb of Binning
ham The child was well dressed and
there was every indication that the little
ono had come from a good home The
Birminsham AceHerald of December 0
siys All day yesterday the littlo body lay
stretched out in the under-
taking rooms and during the morn-
ing no less than 1000 per-
sons called to look at it The spectators
were of every size ago and complexion
but each ono passed by without identify-
ing the remains until about 2 oclock in
the afternoon when young Mr W O
Franklin a Soutli Side butcher dropped
In and at once recognized the child as
May Hawes the little daughter of Rieh
ard It Hawes an engineer on tho Geor-
gia Pacific road
Yea I know her well said Mr
Frauklin when asked about the child
I saw her last on Saturday afternoon
She came to my shop after some meat
and in the course of conversation said
that her family was soing to leave town
She said that her father was that night
going to Meridian Miss and that her
mother and the three children would fol-
low in a few days I know that they
moved away from the house before
Monday evening and supposed that they
had all gone to Mississippi
Some of the witnesses before the coro-
ners jury testified as follows
DrHS Duncan I know the child
to be a daughter of Mrs Hawes who
lives near the base ball park I was
called some time since to the bedside of the
mother The girl was her only nurse
aud the mother was recovering from a
beastly drunk Two days afterward a
man giving his name as Hawes called and
asked what had been the matter with his
wife I told him I thought she had been
druuk aud he said it was as he had ex-
pected
Mrs C F Carrodine I think it is
May Hawes I did not know her very
well nor her mother although I did do
some sewing for her mother My hus-
band told me that Mrs Hawes bore a bad
character aud I had as little to do with
her as possible
Eliza Johnson colored Yes > it is May
Hawes I havo known the family two
years and furnished them with their
meals for a year Mrs Hawes drank
viry hard Mr Hawes a month ago
lived with his family when in town
Jiminie liealle colored I tlriuk it is
one of Mrs Hawes children She was
a pretty lively woman Drank heavily
I have drank with her
Charles S Chapman I am acquainted
with It It Hawes and family The
body is that of Mamie Hawes I saw her
last about 9 or 10 oclock Monday De-
cember i at her home near the baseball
pirk I did not see Mr or Mrs Hawes
there I was in the house I saw no
other members of the family I was told
by FannieBryaut that neither of them
wre there Idonot know where Mr
Hawes is but uudcrstdod that he was to
bo married today at Columbus Miss
jus Hawes has told me that they
were married but I was told Monday
evening that they had been married but
had been divorced 1 was told by the
mother that she was the mother of the
deceased and ho the father The fur-
niture was moved Saturday morning
Mr Hawes told me it was to be taken to
the auction house of Mr Baudman
When at the house on Monday
morning the Bryant woman told
me that Mr Hawes was at 2313
Second avenue and Mrs Hawes and the
tho other two children had gone to At-
lanta She did not state why but said
ask Mr Hawes that he Mr Hawes
had dried one man up that morning 1
kuew Mr Hawes was at 2313 as he
told me lie would be at the Singer office
and pay me Mr Hawes paid > and
signed the lease Monday He said Mrs
Hawes was in Peoria III
Fannie Bryaut I knew Mrs Hawes
but not her husband She lived near the
baseball ground 1 lived near there and
wahd for and waited on her They
passed lor man and wife She was pack-
ing up things Friday and Saturday She
said J Fannie be sure to come back and
helpme 1 went Sunday at J a m
and found the little girl and her father
in tho house The girl said her
mother had gone off but she did
not know wiiere She got mad
about papa carrying off Willie and said
she was going to Atlanta and bring him
back Mamie came to my house Sun-
day afternoou and I carried her back
Kf Hawes asked me to return and help
theih jpacl the pictures saying that
Emma his wile would probably
return I went back at 7 a m
Monday and found them there He said
ho was going to take May to their board-
ing house lie asked May what she would
do when he brought in his girl asked
if sho would call her mama Yes
sir I will call her mama she replied
It will bo some time before you see her
however because I am going to put you
in school said her father He asked me
what I would charse him to work for him
and his girl I helped him lix his room
at 2313 Second avenue where he said he
was going to take his girl I saw May
last Monday night after dark Her
father
came
sad carried
buttons on
plaited her hair
to tale her to
io
mv
her oil I
licr shoos
T i a 5 j S > > s > s asT rt Trr 3 r i vwr
house
sewed
and
Ho said ho was goiug
Montgomery at 3 a m
Tuesday morning and put her in a eon
vent The witness described Mays
dross which tallied with the dress of the
ehild drowned 1 havo not seen Mr
Hawes since He said lie would be back
on the 12th with his bride I saw Mrs
Hawes last Saturday evening Mrs
Hawes drank whisky She was line look
ins a d appeared tobo about twentysix
years old Mrs Hawes said she had been
married ten years to Mr Hawes I
bear H twes say on Monday evening that
he supposed that his wife had heard
he had gotten a divorce I have heard
Mrs Hawes say that she might go to her
unt in Northport NY Mamie also
said tus her father had offered her
mother u ticket to her aunts homo
she agreed todo so I live m Avondale
near the rolling mill 1 pay iny rent to
Mr Edwards Hive on Thirtysecond
street between Avenue E and F James
Bryaut was my husband and was run over
by an Alabama Great Southern train
seven years ago
This closed tho evidence of the evening
but as tiie last witness had appeared to
know mora than she cared to tell of the
case it was deemed proper to put her
under a SlflOO bond in default of which
she was sent tOjajl The coroner then
adjourned the inquest until 9 oclock this
morning
It was just 9 oclock last night when
the coroners jury adjourned after the
evidence of the Mast witnessia the re-
porter entered tho AgeHerald office u
telegrtph messenger entered anil deliv-
ered the following special
Columbus Miss Dec 5 Mr R R
Hawes one of the most popular em
ployes of the Georgia Pacilic Railway
and Miss Mayes Story daughter of Mr
J DStory of this place were married
this evening at 3 oclock at the residence
of the brides father the Rev J W
Price officiating They left at ouce for a
visit to his relatives in Augusta Gaaud
a bridal tour through the east There
were no cards and only a few friends
were present
The authorities were at once informed
and a number of officers met the Georgia
Pacilic train which arrives hi this city at
940 Deputy Sheriff Truss Officers
Pinkerton and Carlisle and several others
boarded the train as it pulled into the
carshed A glance into the first car re-
vealed the presence of the man they
wanted seated beside a lovely woman
his bride He walked up toward him
and when ho saw them his countenance
so they say fell Captain Truss ap-
proached him and stated that he held
a warrant lor his arest tho charge
of which was the murder of his child and
without any ado the man surrendered
himself turned his new wife over to ttie
care of an acquaintance and went qut
under the custody of the officers Tho
reporter met him at tho car door aud
walked by his side to the prison lie was
exceedingly well dressed and was rellned
in appearance He wore a lightbrown
overcoat a neat suit of black
clothes and a white satin cravat
His dress was very susgestivo of
that of a bridegroom Ho asked no
question as to which of his children he
was accused of having murdered nor did
he express any desire to see the remains
About all he said on the way up to the
jail was that he was innocent On the
way to the jail the mau was followed by
an army of curious ones intent on seeing
what manner of man ho was During all
this ho was perfectly tranquil and be
trayed no emotion of any character
On arriving at tho jail several officials
and an AgeHerald reporter were al
lowedadmittance When asked if he
had any defense to make tho prisoner
said that he was prepared to answer any
questions that might be put to him
You know sir I suppose said the
reporter the charge on which you are
arrested
Yes for murder I believe It is
staled that I have killed one of my chil-
dren
It is your daughter Mamie sug-
gested the reporter
Ma you mean I suppose sug
gested the man deliberately
She is
the one then
As calmly and deliberately as ever a
man conversed Hawes then made tiie
following replies in answer to questions
pu to him
1 saw May last I
night at tho house
think on Saturday
ou Twentysecond
street near the ball park 1 brought my
boy to the car that evening and sent him
to Atlanta by my biuther who is taking
care of him I was aivay from tho house
about frvo hours and when I re-
turned I found the mother of my
children and my two little girls
gone Tho voinan was once my wife
but I was divorced from her in October
last and have not lived with her since
She has taken care of our children since
and I have provided her with mono I
hsi e been on the road rao < t of the time
since When I caino to town I would
stop at the hotels and sometimes went
out to see the children I would frc
tiuuitly see her and always spokotoher
She is the mother of the three children
and I am their father We have been
married nine years II ay is eight
years old ou the 31st of next
month I searched for the children
on Saturday night aud Sunday aud con-
cluded that she had left town with thchi
I left the city for Columbus yNsteiday
morning at oclock I stopped at the
Florence hotel Monday night I think 1
returned about 12 I sat around tho
office and talked with a friend of mine
named Wyley for a couple of hours be-
fore I retired I spent the lirst part of
the night with my brother at the depot
He left for Atlanta during the night
When asked if lie knew a woman named
Bryaut he replied in the uegative When
the womans first name Fanny was
mentioned he said he did know a
woman named Fanny that she washed
for his family The last time he saw her
was Saturday morning he denied having
seen her Monday night
I have been connected with the
Georgia Pacific Railroad for four years
he said I moved my affairs into Mrs
Fullers boarding house last Saturday
Yes 1 told my brother that I had given
mv divorced wife 500 to go to her aunt
iiflnris III
I married my first wife in Atlanta
nine years ago on the Sth day of July
I took out a license We ran away and
were married She was about IS years
old I was married to her twice the
ilrst time at Paynes chapel by a Metho-
dist minister and the second timo by a
priest in the Catholic church in Atlanta
she being a Catholic
I got a divorce from my wife in At-
lanta last October I dont remember iu
what court My plea was inlidelity on
her part 1 filed the suit two
years ago but according to the
Georgia law a couple must wait two
years before the decree can be granted
The decree of the divorce court gave me
the custody of the children I was
going to take the girls off to school in
Mobile on Sunday last I had made all
arrangements through Father OReilly
of this place and was to leave them
there until they were grown paying only
S2 1 per month for the two
Yes the mother of tho
childreu drank to excess That
was one reason I left her
She used to send May all over town after
liquor My divorced wife knew that I
was going to marry aud knew thedafe
Sho had known it for months
I came to this eityfrom Atlanta about
a year since I breught my wife in d
children with mumy suitfordivorce IniH
been filed butw e decided tolivetogMher
until tht deereo uad been sued I paid
her rent atid other expenses T love
all of niy childrenatid I gave up
the search on Sundav because
lifidtfo leave to till my engagement in
Mississippi No Idid not hare anybody
to look for them I hate uot been n t
East Lake since Fisk jumped from tho
lKillpou
My divorced Yrtle s inqidcn
Emma PellUv Sicvwasvd > out
uanie was
in I eighteen years of age sthcdlmarried
JfWTork if she would co and said that I her and bur first child May was bom 1
Py > r j K i fJ i <
THE GAZETTE FORT WORTH TEXAS TUESDAY DECEMBER II
in about twelve months The last time
I saw May she was at home in bed The
woman Fannie claimed that I owed her a
balance on washing but I did not think
so aud refused to pay her
When asked what he intended to do
with his new wife he said that he thought
if he was to be confined in prison it was
best that she should be sent back to her
father She will probably go baek to
Mississippi this morning
Hawes was locked up in the jail and
will this morning bo taken down to the
undertaking rooms to view the remains
of his child
The AgeHerald of December 7 has the
following The mother of the dead girl
is still missing and evidence was yester-
day obtained which indicates that a dou-
ble murder was committed Coroner
Babbitt is doing all that can be done to
solvo the terrible mystery and the in-
quest will be resumed this morning sev-
eral important witnesses having been
summoned
To sum up the situation of the case
this morning it is about as follows
nawes and the negro woman Fan-
nie Bryant are still in jail Their
statements have not been materially
changed from those published yester-
day morning Both protest that they are
innocent The house of the woman
Fannie Bryant was searched yesterdaj
and a cape which was identified as the
property of Mrs Hawes was found A
number of blood stains were found or
the cape aud it was torn In a num-
ber of places Tho statement of the
Bryant woman that nawes brought hi
daughter to the city Monday night has
been corroborated by a street car
conductor Hawes statement that ho
had been divorced from his first wife is
proven to be untruo by a special from the
AgeHeralds Atlanta correspondent
The youug bride of the prisoner is still iu j
the city and will testify before the coro-
ners jury this morning Tiie water is to I
be drawn from the lake at East Jake and
a search made for the body of the miss j
ing woman
Further testimony before the coroners i
jury was as follows
Mrs G P Fuller I live at 2313 Sec I
ond avenue I luive a boarding house j
there Mr Hawes came and asked board I
on Saturday for himself and child 5 years
of age and his wife that he was to marry
on AVednosday He said he was a
widower and had been for two years
We agreed on the terms In the
afternoon of the same day a genT
t einan came and asked mo if Mr
and Mrs Hawes did not hoard in our
houso I said that Mr Hawes was a wid-
ower Mr nawes came back to my
house on Monday afternoon at o oclock
and said that I would not see him again
until I heard from him what day he
wonld be baek When Faunio Bryant
came to arrange his room on Monday
morning I asked if in was a married man
She said Dont you know all about it
She said ho had been divorced for
two years She said that everybody felt
a sympathy for him that he had ono
child in a convent at Atlanta but that
the mother had the other child Sho
said that sho had been looking for the
child she said the girl was eight years
old she seemed very anxious to get the
child she said nothing about her father
taking her down to the new boarding-
house Fannie thought Mrs Hawes was
in Xew York
Beverly Johnson I know the de-
ceased I have not seen her for two
months I saw her over to her house
near the base ball park I know the
family well They sometimes quarreled
He used bad huiEuarge toward her I
heard him say three or four different
times that he would stamp h 1 out of
her I never saw him strike her Sho
drank considerable I knew all the chil-
dren
J Bronger This forenoon Officer Car-
lisle Deputy Sheriff Truss and Mr Rob-
bins went out to search Fannie Bryants
house ou Thirtysecond street between
Avenues E aud F We searched the
houso and I found these articles iu a box
They were a piece of braded passemen
terie intertnuzled with blonde hair
The carpet was strewn with hair of
which this is a sample Tho hair
was of the same color as that intertau
glcd with the bedding I discovered a-
piece of oilcloth with blood on diagonal
corners On one of the ends it seemed
as though the blood had dripped and ran
after it fell I saw Fannie Bryant this
afternoon and cross questioned her and
in the examination sho admits that she
yesterday washed at her houso blood
from pillow cases which had been
used on a bed in Mrs Hawes house
She said that the oilcloth came from Mrs
Haweshouse I found it under Faunio
Bryants house Fannie told me that
Mrs Hawestold her that her husband
had atriickTler on tho head with a club
This conversation she said took placo
ou Friday Mr Carlisle and one of tho
deputies at the jaH and another gentle-
man were with me when I talked with
Fannie Bryant
IWXNV RRYANTS TESTIMONY
At this juncture Fanny Bryant tho
yellow woman who was on the previous
night locked upon account of the import-
ance of tho evidence sho gave and who
is suspected by many of being an accom-
plice or perhaps the principal iu the
murder was brought in the court and
gave evidence as follows
Fannie Bryaut I was at Mrs Hawes
house l st Friday I did not hnve any
conversation with Mr Hawes with regArd
to his and her domestic troubles When
they were packing up their things I asked
her what they were going to do She
said Dick was selling out the old furni-
ture to buy new and that they were gp
ing to bonrding She said they
would board on Twontythird street
and Second avenue Mrs Hawes told
me that Mr Hawes had struck her ou
the head When I asked about a scar I
saw there she pointed to a stick on the
fireplace and said he had hit her with
that I washed for Mrs Hawes I did
it for 81 2j per week I saw a small
amount of blood on a pillow slip and she
said it had come from the wound that
Dick had made on her head
This was Friday or Satur-
day I washed these pillow eases
yesterday The bump on Mrs Hawes
head looked as though it had been bleed-
ing The blood had clotted around the
wound The blood was still oozing out
on Friday I am sure this was Friday
The oilcloth ot my house was given me by
Mrs Hawesou Friday It had been in
the little room this way She gave me
carpet on the same day I took the oil-
cloth from Mrs Hawes house late Mon-
day evening I never have noticed the
blood on the oilcloth I never
have unrolled it since I took it The lit-
tle girl May was with ine when I got the
oilcloth Mr Hawes was there Monday
and told May to stay there with the
things and help me pack up while lie
went to town He was preparing to go
then He left rae and May going away
to my house when he took the dummv
We had left tho yard She to ld
him to get her a hat He
said he would get her ilothing until he
carried her to Montgomery He asked
her if she wanted to go to my house
She said she did He told her to go
down there with me and stay until he
came after her He told her not to play
with negroes He did not like negroes
Did not want them to come to his house
Witness was here handed the passemen
terie She said she recognized it as hers
and said the officer had gotten it
from her box Tho beads came from
one of Miss Emma Hawes dresses Miss
Emmas hair I think is darker than
this I got this out of a vase when I was
packing up the things on Monday I
saw Mrs Hawes just before dark Satur-
day evening for tho last time She was
at her house I delivered her clothes
She told me to come up the next day and
help her movo the pictures She said
nothing about leaving town I went up
about 9 a m Sunday Mr Hawes
and May were there I went into the
houso I met May at the door and she
took the pillowslip I had washed She
said Mamma is not here Fanny
Nobody is here but papa and I She
asked her father if I could come in He
asked who I was May said it was Fanny
He said come in and 1 did so There
was no fire She said her mother went
away that morning I asked Hawes
what it meant wiiere was his wife
He said she had gotton mad and he sup
pofed she had gone to Atlanta She was
vexed because she had sent Will off he
said He said he had sent Will to At-
lanta by Jim his brother lie said he
had not been long at home He said his
wife said she was going to bring Will
bag from Atlanta May said her mother
carried some clothes aud her book with
her that her papa told her mamma he
would give her a ticket if she wanted to
go to her aunts She said she would go
I gave them their breakfast and left at
10 oclock There were two mattresses
on the iloor They looked as though
they hod both been occupied Fannie
said she had slept with her father that
her mother had taken Irene her
sister with her May aud her father
said that Mrs nawes had gone oil
that morning Mrs Hawes came to my
house after dark Monday May had
played iu the yard all day with a little
white uoy wiio lived across the street
Mrs Hawes preserved hair of her own
of her sister and of her children I
Straightened out Mrs Hawes room at
Mrs Fullers on Tuesdav I did not
tell Mrs Fuller that Hawes left May
with me when he went off I said he had
left her with me during the time ho was
iu town ou Monday
was xor Divorcnn
Al r < NTt Dec 0 Xo railroad man is
better known in Atlanta than Richard R
Hawes He was well thought of when
lie lived here and still has property in
the city His brother is now living in
Atlanta Hawes wife was a daughter
of William Pettus who was assistant su-
perintendent of the State road at the
time of his dentil Mrs Hawes
was an exceedingly handsome
woman and her conduct excited
the suspicion of her husband about two
years ago Hawes who was then an
engineer on the Atlanta and West Point
Road and lived at 147 IIuliter street
left homo presumably to go on his
regular run to Montgomery but returned
at a late hour tho same night and found
his wife in the same room with a man
named Mike Cain Hawes entered the
room and picking up a poker gave Cain
a severe beating The affair created
quite a sensation at the time Cain was
not seriously hurt and shortly afterward
left the city Hawes immediately ap-
plied for a divorce and retained Messrs
Hoke Burton Smith as his attorneys
The suit was tiled but never
came up for hearing Hawes quit
the Atlanta and West Point road and
secured a position as engineer on the
Georgia Pacific He moved to Birming-
ham aud took his children with him It
is not known hero what became of Mrs
Hawes but if she is the woman who has
been living with him in Birmingham she
must have followed him to that sty
Hawes was always fond of his children
and it was mostly on their account that
he regretted the conduct of his wife
Tiiis afternoon the chief of police re-
ceived a telegram from tho chief of
police of Birmingham asking if any of
the children of Richard R Hawes were
in Atlanta Areporter went with the
police to the residence of Hawes brother
ISO Walnut street and found there
Willie a little son of R It Hawes aged
five years Tiie child has been here for
several months
From the above it will be seen that Mr
Hawesstory of the divorce is untrue
and he is at least guilty of the crime of
bigamy
THE nrIDES STORY
Hawes bride who was Miss May
Storey of Columbus Miss occupied a
room at the Commercial hotel yesterday
completely prostrated by the terrible
shock Even if he is innocent of the
grave charge against him Hawes has
grossly deceived the woman he
married aud she will seek a legal separa-
tion at once
Miss Storey was a highly accomplished
young lady closely related to some of tho
best people in Alabama and Mississippi
She had a number of relatives iu this
city who did all they could for her yes-
terday and to them she told the
story of her acquaintance witn
Hawes She had known him about
seven mouthsbut only recently knew that
he had been married She met him iu
Columbus and found him a man of pleas-
ant address and most agreeable manners
He was supposed to be a young man and
soon after their first meeting began to
make love to Miss Storey The affection
became mutual and they soon
became engaged After their engage-
ment Miss Storey accidentally learned
that Hawes had a wife living and she
asked him about it at the first opportu-
nity He frankly admitted that he had
been married but said he had been
divorced for two years His divorced
wife he said was living in
New York and he had uot
seen her for two years He told
Miss Storey he had one child a little boy
about five years old who was being cared
for by relatives in Atlanta So plausible
was this story and it was so well told
Miss Storey did not doubt it
for a moment and prepara-
tions for the wedding went on
without interruption Miss Storey is only
about twenty years of ago but she is
well educated and a young lady of the
most refined sensibilities Hawes had al-
ways conducted himself in the most ap-
proved manner and he was to all ap-
pearances a polishedgentleman Miss
Storeys parents and friends approved
the match and she felt that her hap-
piness would be safe in his hands
THE NEW WIFES TESTIMONYv
The AgeHerald of December S says
Following is the testimony of the second
Mrs Hawes before the coroners jury I
know the father of the deceased I was
married to him Wednesday evening at 3
oclock at Columbus Miss We were
on our way to Augusta He told me that
he had been married but had been di-
vorced for about two years and that he
had one child a boy who was in
Birmingham He said that his divorced
wild was in New York This conversa-
tion was about four months ago I cant
state definitely but I think that he said
his divorce was granted two years
ago He has not said anything
about his wife being in Birming-
ham He said nothing about having
any other children except this boy He
s t fc
r
said that his former wife was with her
aunt in Lockport N Y I was on the
train when he was arrested but I didnt
know what it was about He sat on tho
same seat when a gentleman came in and
called him and he told Mr Gordon to
see her to the hotel Mr Hawes ar-
rived in Columbus at the house at
3 oclock Tuesday evening The train
gets in between 12 and 1 oclock nu
did not say anything to me about an
officer when ho was arrested in Birming-
ham on the train I have not seen him
since his arrest I received a note from
him yesterday evening This is the
note Iliave not replied or sent him
any word
My Darling Slaves What can I say to
you for the terriblo trouble I have got
into I know how independent you arc
and only blame myself for not telling
you all For Gods sake do not think
I am guilty of this terriblo thing
try and judge me as light as
you can I loved you so I was afraid to
tell you about her I knew you would
not have to be troubled with her as she
would be iu a convent Dont believe
anything you fee iu the papers as not
cuehalf is true Let me know what you
are going to do to me this eve
This terrible suspense is just killing
me I dont think I can stand it much
longer Oh my darling if you only
knew you could not censure me too
severe for it will prove out all right
Your brokenhearted aud most miserable
oue Richard
P S You will see me this p m if I
can get off
Nerds a Good Nislits Rest
Harpers Ba ar
Doctor to Bobby So youre sick
again are you my little man
Bobby who dont like medicine I
dont think I am I dont feel ick
Doctor Well well see Show me
your tongue please
Bobby Well now doctor you cant
always tell that way Ive had a busy
clay of it today and if my tongue looks
bad I guess its only because its tired
aud needs a good nights rest
A NEW GA3IE OF WHIST
Contributions of a Chicago Player A Duplicate
System Kxplaiucd
Chicago Globe
To the Editor
I have read with great pleasure and
profit the articles by Dr If in several
of your Sunday issues and beg leave to
submit to him and to all readers of the
Globo interested in whist the duplicate
system of playing the gamo which was
suggested to me by the following article
from Loudon Field the first of last
winter
A match at whist was played at Glas-
gow between teams of the Carlton and
Wanderers clubs April 10 when a new
system of duplicate play the invention
of Mr James Allison was tested
The cards nt tho commencement of each
hand were dealt in the usual manner but
iu the course of play they are not formed
into tricks Each player keeps his thir-
teen cards before him till the finish of
the hand and after playing to each trick
he places his card either longwise or
shortwise to show bj which side the
trick has been won This arrange-
ment prevails at two tables
the hands being simultaneously
plajed Tho hands as soon as
finished are gathered by each player ilnd
placed backs up on the table the
dealer leaving the trump card faco up on
the top of his packet The players then
change tables and replay the baud the
players being reversed A deal was only
necessary every two handsd and but lit-
tle more time after some practice was
taken than in playing one baud in the
usual way
Tho secretary of the Blythswood club
and tho president of the St Georges and
Carlton were present and expressed a
high opinion of tho Allison system as-
a great saviug of time and also as tend-
ing to eliminate luck and had no doubt
it would be adopted as the system on
which the proposed interclub tournament
iu Glasgow wouid be carried out next
season
Having shown tills article to seven of
my friends we formed a club and pro-
ceeded to carry out the plan as indicated
but found that the reserving back of the
card by each player made a very awk-
ward game and there was more or less
dispute at the end ot a hand as to how
many trieks each side had taken Be-
sides the cards not falling in the center
of the table was found to seriously inter-
fere with the memorising of cards that
had fallen Another objection to the
game was developed which was more
serious as it proved that a player
had to suffer for mistakes other
tiiau his own or bis partners
For instance A B play C D and A B
make the odd trick This baud is played
oil at the other table and E F by a mis-
take on the part of G II take nine tricks
or two more than A B made A B and 0
D lose and gain respectively whereas if
the hand had been played properly at tho
other table the score would have been
even
To obviate these defects and after one
or two abortive attempts it was decided
that the only true way to play the dupli-
cate game was that the hands should not
be played at the other table but at the
same table and by the opposite
players aud that long enough time
should be allowed to elapso be-
tween the first playing and tho
second to render it unlikely that anyone
could remember the hand ho originally
played To enable the redistribution of
the hands and to allow of the forming
the cards into tricks as in the ordinary
game we got up a score card on which
each player could register his hand be-
fore playing it aud when the time came
for playing the duplicates the score-
cards were exchanged between the tables
A B and C D arranging the hands fop
E F and G II and vice versa After the
duplicate hands have all been played
the total score deducted from thirteen
times the number of hands or thirteen
times the number of hands deducted from
the total score gives the gain or loss to
the player the score being reckoned by
K
trieks instead of points
In playing the duplicate game a player
can keep the same pnrtner a whole even-
ing or he can change partners with every
deal making a progressive or competitive
match game In the latter event a
schedule of players and positions is neces-
sary and I append a copy of the one
which we found to be fairest to all
players by which it will be spen that
for every time a man plays with another
he plays twice against him and by giv-
ing the first deal to No 1 position the
second deal to No 2 position the third
to No 3 and the fourth to No
4 tho fifth to No 1 again
and so on and at the other
table tho first deal to No 5 the second
to No G etc it will be found that the
deals and leads are about equally dis-
tributed
Of course with the aid of the register-
ing score card the Allison duplicate game
can be Blared with greaterfreedom than
U M 5KM
without it and it has this in Ub favor
hiit the Wads being immediately played
3ft at the other table the resultinggain
or los3 in points is known at once but I
think that anyone who tries it will expe-
rience the same trouble that we did that
he suffers for other peoples errors aud
makes gains without earning thpn
The scorecard is divided into four sec-
tions headed Clubs Spades
Diamonds and Hearts and each
section is divided off iuto thirteen lines of-
ten columns the lilies being marked at
tho side A K Q Kli 10 9 8 7
5 4 3 2 and the columns at tho top
10
In registering the cards the trump card
turned up is marked with an X all tin
others with a 1 each hand being marked
in its proper column first in 1 second in
2 etc When the progressive game is
played sevenfiands complete the circuit
and the hands may be played off on the
same evening or seven more can bo
played and the fourteen played off on the
next evening When tho sumo partner
is retained for the whole evening tec
bauds can be played aud duplicates
played off in about the same time as
seven in the former way as it takes
longer of course to arrange the hands
when you are changing positions with
every deal
At some future time I may give you the
filledup scorecards of a nights pay
aud show you the practical working of
the scheme but will merely say for tiio
present that the more we have played the
gamo the better wo like it and
as there is no going behind tho returns it
stimulates a player to do his best as he
cannot say after tiie game is over that the
cards were against him
There are no printed scorecards
to be had that I know of but by drafting
one in prepared ink as many copies as
wanted may be had by the autocopyist
process at siight expense
I think r have described the duplicate
game as we play it at such length as
will make it entirely clear to your whist
readers and if Dr N and his friends
experiment with the game I shall bo
greatly pleased if he would favor mo
through your valuable columns with his
opinion of the results J T M
NEGRO
SUEFBAGE
A Prominent Southerner Interviewed
About the MatterTalk of Dis-
franchising the Negro
Congress Never Hail any klght to Rosalato tha
Qualifications of Voters In tho Mates
Iiiterito Voters
NsnviLiE TrNx Dee 10 The
American will publish tomorrow a long
interview had by its Montgomery corre-
spondent with exGovernor Thomas n
Watts who was attorneygeneral of the
Confederate states on the quession of
disfranchising the negro Governor
Watts says
Congress never had any rfcht to regu-
late the qualifications of voters in states
Perhaps under the power to organize ter-
ritorial governments and its exelusivo
jurisdiction over the District of Columbia
congress could prescribe the qualifications
of voters in territories aud in the district
but it is beyond dispute congress has no
power to prescribe or regulate tho
qualifications of voters in states in
election of members of congress or of
presidential electors By the fifteenth
amendment the states are prohibited
from denying or abridging tho right of
citizens to vote on account of race color
or previous condition of servitude States
are not prohibited by any other clause
of the constitution from prescribing an
educational or other qualifications so
that if they see proper to have
THE UNQUESTIONED RIGHT
to prescribe educational or property or
taxpaying qualification to theright of
voting and such qualification is pre-
scribed iu tho state constitution it
would operate iu state electiomi
aud in elections for members of con-
gress and presidential electors If
Alabama were to prescribe educational
qualification to the right of voting it
would necessarily apply to white as well
as to colored citizens Under the census
of 1SS0 Alabama had over
24000 whites over tweutyrono years
of age who could not write and-
over 90000 colored citizens who
could not write It would in my judg-
ment be almost practical suicide for any
Southern state to so act No public man
advocating such a change iu our state
constitution as to make an educational or
property qualification for the right of
voting could politically survive the just
the condemnation or the people Without
action of states in their separate sovereign
capaeityno change in the qualification of
voters can be made Congress is with-
out any power on the subject except
to propose amendments to the federal
constitution or to call a convention
ofstates on the applications of the legis
ture of twothirds of the states and such
amendments as it proposes or as the con-
vention of states proposes would have to
be ratified aud adopted by threefourths
of the states Such
A SCHEME IS IMPRACTICABLE
even if it were desired The increased po
litiral power which tho South has ac-
quired by the freedom of the negroes
ought never to be relinquished There
is no policy of the South which demands
it or makes it desirable So long
as intelligence is superior to ignorance
or brain power superior to the mere
muscle 4n this policy of tho state the
Sduth has nothing to fear from the pres-
ence of tho negro with equal
right to vote The Northern states
being conqu erers in tho war between
tho states is unwilling tpm increase tho
political power of the conquered in the
election of presidential electors That
the conquerors should augment the power
of the conquered was never before done
I believe in the history of mankind It
was not magnanimity to tho conquered
but in the
theVAIN
VAIN BELIEF AND HOPE
that the former slave when ouce free
would directly increase tho power of the
Republican party in congress and
the election of president and
vicepresident for all time which
induced such remarkable action
I doubt not the suspicion arose greatlj
from ignorance of the negroand his ca-
pacity for government when edu-
cated If the Northern states could
now and then observe what
the experience of the Jast twenty
years sofully shows they would
doubtless act promptly and vigorously
Fortunately for the Southernslates tire
constitution of j tne United States
presents an insuperable barnec to tho
exercjse of such power however much
the fanaticism and hatred iseiteendered
bj the bluuuj couluct nughtDtoinpt
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