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Galveston Daily News
Galveston, Texas
Friday, August 15, 1890
A Wife’s Desperation
Atoka, I. T. Aug. 12: SIMON CLARK and RICHARD COCHRAN, two negroes suspected of killing Marshal JIM BILLY recently, were discharged by the commissioner yesterday, the evidence being insufficient to warrant binding them over. SIMON CLARK subsequently had to defend against the charge of peddling whiskey (for which Marshal Billy had him under arrest when Billy was killed) and bound over to appear at the next court term at Paris.
CHARLES BROWN, a miner and nephew of Superintendent LIDDLE/LIDDEL of the Coalgate mines, was crushed to death under a chunk of coal yesterday.
The preliminary examination of Mrs. MOLLIE J. TUCKER for the murder of her husband, SAMUEL H. TUCKER at Coalgate last Sunday morning, was held before Commissioner Rabb today, yesterday having been consumed in subpoenaing of witnesses and awaiting the arrival of her counsel, Hon. JOE COBB of Sherman. She was held for the Paris Court, where Marshal WILLIAM MCCALL will conduct here tonight.
In an interview with The News Correspondent, she voluntarily made an additional statement, which, however, developed nothing materially differing from the report already published in the News. She has no conception of the gravity of her act and simply pleads justification on account of extreme, repeated, and continued cruelty and persecution. All her statements were collaborated today at her examination and she has rather the sympathy than the condemnation of the community.
Thirteen years ago, she was Miss MOLLIE J. STALLCUP. E. A. STALLCUP of Dallas County and JOHN C. and J. M. STALLCUP of Montague County are her brothers. Cooke and Montague Counties, Texas were the home of the family for some 16 years. In 1877 she married W. T. ROSSEAU (Rozzel?), with whom she lived three years, when they separated by mutual consent on account of the intemperate habits of Rosseau. TRAVIS, a boy 11 years old, is her only child. In 1884 she married the man for whose murder she now stand arraigned at Antioch, where the two lived about two years, after which they rapidly changed base for Leonard, Ladonia, Denton and Honey Grove, then left for Washington Territory. Their plans were changed en route and they settled at Lehigh, I. T. where they lived about a year, then moved to Coalgate, where the tragedy occurred.
She claims to have been abused by Tucker during all these years. When she offered to leave, Tucker threatened to kill her and she feared him. When she proposed to appeal for protection to her brothers, he threatened them with a like fate. This and the fact her family had opposed her marriage to Tucker, who was her own cousin, she explained, kept her from making the affair known to them. She says after coming to the territory, Tucker became worse, taunted her with her unprotected state and proposed to worry her to death by systematically depriving her of sleep. Her appearance gives credence to her statement. Much sympathy is expressed for the aged mother of Mrs. Tucker, who is here utterly prostrated. Her mother was 65 years of age today.
Galveston Daily News
Galveston, Texas
Friday, December 2, 1892
Shooting Scrape at Butcher’s Knife
Ardmore, I. T., Nov. 30: News has just reached here of a shooting scrape which took place at a dance on Mud Creek Monday night at a settlement called Butcher’s Knife. STAR TUCKER, one of the participants, is seriously if not mortally wounded. The names of the others injured and who were engaged in the row cannot now be learned. Four men were shot. Officers left here with warrants for the scene of the trouble.
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