Dallas Morning News
March 8, 1892
HESS SUICIDE
The Devoted Wife Interviewed
Concerning His History
Denison,
Tex., March 7. - The Fort Worth special in The News this morning
announced the suicide in that city of A. L. Hess of Denison occasioned no small
amount of comment and inquiry. No one seemed to be acquainted with the
family, but a visit to the street and number indicated substantiated the fact
that Denison was his home.
Mrs. Hess is an intelligent lady, and evidently was very
devoted to her husband. She has two small children, both girls, the elder
about 5 and the younger about 1 year of age. She did not learn of her
husband's death until this morning, long after The News was on the
streets, and for a season she was overwhelmed with grief. Later in the
day she became more composed and talked quite freely with those who wished to
make inquiry.
She came to Denison with her husband
and children from Durant, I.T., about Jan. 4 of this year. Their home
prior to removing to Durant was at Binkley, Ark., in which place Mr. Hess
engaged in the dry goods business. A man by the name of Bob Reed had her
husband arrested on a charge of selling whiskey, but the lady states that the
charge was not sustained. Some time afterward Reed was assassinated.
"My husband," said Mrs. Hess, "had nothing
to do with the assassination, as he was not in the country, but he had
telegrams continually warning him to look out, as the officers were after
him." Continuing, Mrs. Hess said: "My husband could not get
work in Denison so he left for Fort Worth. This morning I received
a
letter containing $50 from him. I was expecting him home and I cannot believe
he committed the deed of his own accord. He has money coming to him from
parties residing in Arkansas and I have had good reason to believe for some
time that parties were trying to kill him. Last week he was drugged by
poison in whiskey in Denison."
Mrs. Hess left for Fort Worth to be present at the burial.
SUICIDE
Susan Hawkins
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