The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1873-07-19
JAS. y. GOODNIGHT, Secretary.
Further Relative TO the shooting NJ
tI.e DalIaa Hotel.

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Since the subsistence of the excite.
ment in this affair, we have been en-
abled to gather the facts in case
which led to liberal amount of re-
mark and criticism at the time.
The deceased, it appears, had sue
ceeded in disposing of forged draft
to the Sheriff of Robertson county, IN
the town of Calvert, for nine hundred
dollars, the purchaser paying two hun
drcd dollars down. Subsequently, sus-
picion being excited as to its genuine
ness, it was examined into and found
to be bogus, upon which discovery the
proper papers were drawn up and
placed in the hands of the Deputy
Sheriff of that county, who, with Dep
uty United States Marshal Brent, of
Navarro county. at once made search
for the criminal, who, it having
been ascertained, had taken pas
sage on the north bound train
of the Texas Central road, the
the officers boarded the train,a and after
n close search, found him. He man
aged, however, to elude them, but it
was afterwards found that he had Sc
creted himself upon the train, and not
jumped of, as they had inferred. 1t
was then determined to let him remain
IN his fancied security until his capture
could be made a certainty, and when
the train had reached about the centre
ofTrinity bridge, where it was assumed
there was no possibility of his escaping,
it was stopped. But upon the approach
of the officers, he leapcd out on the
bridge and slid out of the reach of his
pursueYs, down one Of thopiers with the
dextcrity ola gymnast. The officers then
came up to Dallas where they heard
his wife was. Upon reaching this
city, Deputy Marshal Brent stopped at
the Commercial, when in conversation
with Major Barkley, one of the pro-
prietors of that house, he referred to
the matter, and asked the Major to aid
him in arresting the party, should he
be found in the city, as 1t was sup
posed he would seek his wife. The
gentlemen then started out, and going
to the Dallas Hotel, they espied the
deceased just as he was passing out OF
the office door.
WHY HE WAS SHOT.
AT this juncture, Deputy United
States Marshal Brent stepped up and,
him, said: "You are my
prisoner, sir" Upon which deceased
announced his Willingness to accompa-
ny the officer wherever he might elect
to conduct him, when Brent, taking
him by the arm, directed Major Bark
lev to take him by the other, but just
as the Major moved in compliance
with the request of the Sheriff, the
deceased, with powerful stroke of his
arm, threw the Marshal off and back
against the wall, ut the same moment,
bringing his hand to his pocket rs
though in quest of a weapon. Quickly
catching this movement, Major Bark
ley shouted, "Don't take your hand
out of your pocket" when deceased
turned towards the Major, at the same
time slowly drawing his hand from his
pocket. Deciding in an instant, both
from his look and action, that
he meant murder, the Major
took quick and deliberate aim, and
Aired The shot tool, deadly effect, GO
ing straight through his lungs and af-
fecting other vital parts in its passage.
At lyo'clock the same might he was
a corpse.
Major Barley Immediately gave
Himself up, and an examination was
had before Mayor Long OH Sunday, re-
sulting in the Majors discharge upona
bond of $500. Captain Bower, of the
firm of Good & Bower, lawyers of this
city, conducted the defense with ability
and force, in which he was signally
aided by Mr.. Guy, of Lancaster.