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Tarrant County, Newspaper Clippings

TOWN AND COUNTY
In Judge Beckham's court yesterday the divorce suit of Elizabeth Diets vs. Charles Diets occupied the entire day. The jury returned a verdict at 6:15 p. m. finding the allegations of cruel treatment, etc. were true, and awarding her half the property. She will get her decree. [Fort Worth Gazette, April 2, 1891]
MARRIAGE LICENSES - Only one couple dared brave the approach of hot weather by entering into the connubial bliss yesterday. They were Acy Hendricks and Rosa Williams, both colored. [Fort Worth Gazette, April 2, 1891]

A Tarrant County Doctor a Little Late at the Altar, But He Gets there All the Same
Lancaster, Tex., April 16 - Dr. TIMS of Arlington and Miss Lena ORR were married this morning at 1:30 a.m. at the residence of the bride's father, Capt. W. A. ORR, a few miles east of here. The marriage was to have occurred at 8 p.m., but on account of the fire at Dallas the train on which the doctor was depending could not reach the city, and dumped him off at Grand Prairie. He took in the situation at once and wired a friend at Wilmer to go post haste to Capt. ORR's and make known the reasons for his delay. [Fort Worth Gazette, April 23, 1891]

FT. WORTH RESIDENTS RECALL FREED INDIAN
Ft. Worth residents who learned Monday of the full pardon granted Victor M. Locke, Jr., given a 10 year sentence for the killing of a young Choctaw Indian in 1927, recall visits he made to Ft. Worth during the war days of Camp Bowie. Locke, half Indian, was chief of the Choctaws from 1911 to 1918, and visited the some 3,500 Indians, many of them Choctaws, in the 141st and 142nd Infantry regiments at Camp Bowie. Locke held the commission of major in the infantry. In 1921 he was appointed superintendent of the Five Civilized Tribes by President Harding. [Ft. Worth Star Telegram, December 1949, submitted By K. Torp]

GREENVILLE MAN MADE DISTRICT JUDGE
Appointment of L. L. Bowman of Greenville to succeed Judge Grove Sellers as judge of the Eighth District Count was announced by Governor Moody. Reappointment of J. O. Guleke of Amarillo and Mrs. J. E. Watkins of Henderson as members of the State Board of Education also was announced. [Ft. Worth Star Telegram, December 1949, submitted By K. Torp]

NINE ESCAPE DEATH IN FT. WORTH FIRE
Ft. Worth, Jan 2 -- Nine persons narrowly escaped death when fire destroyed a two story rooming house here today. Mrs. Roy Jackson and her four small children were rescued after they had been overcome by smoke. [Victoria Advocate, Jan. 2, 1929, transcribed by, Amanda Jowers]

Express messenger F. E. Cunningham was murdered in his car on the Texas & Pacific west bound cannon ball train between Terrell and Forney, Texas. There is no clue. [Victoria Advocate, Jan. 2, 1929, transcribed by, Amanda Jowers]

FORT WORTH, Tex.. Oct. 1.—Jim Carlington was to-day convicted of train robbery and murder and given the death penalty. Three others will be tried next week for complicity in the same affair. In June last Carlington. Moore, Ellis, Evans and Petty held up a Santa Fe passenger train near here, at 11 o'clock at night, for the purpose of robbery. Garlington and Ellis boarded the engine and shot and killed Engineer Williams and Fireman Whittaker, and then kicked their bodies off the engine. [submitted by Barb Z]

FORT WORTH, Tex. Sept. 27. Rev. G. E. Morrison, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Panhandle City, who has been on trial at Vernon for a week, on the charge of murdering his wife, Oct. 10. 1897, was to-day found guilty and his punishment fixed at death. Morrison administered strychnine to his wife after returning from church. The jury was out only two or three hours. Before the death of his wife Morrison was engaged to wed Miss Annie Whittlesey, of Topeka. Kan., and when intercepted he was at her home. It developed In the trial of the case that Morrison was infatuated with the Topeka young lady, and he chose to put his wife out of the way in order that he might marry Miss Whittlesey. An appeal will be taken. [submitted by Barb Z]