The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1874-11-10
FROM HEARNE.


special Dispatch 10 the Dallas lIeraldl
llEARNE, Texas, November 0,-i es-
terday morning our usually quiet
town was thrown into the widest OK
element by n report that u homicide
had been committed. Your reporter
hastened to the hotel, the scene Of the
killing, where the following facts were
obtalnedi Dan Gallagher, notorious
desperate, had u difficulty with Mr..
Connolly, who owns u barroom here,
Leehy the bur keeper, reported some
words alleged 10 have been spoken by
Mr.. Connolly, doubling the courage Of
Gallagher
Saturday night Lcehy had one hum
dred dollars which belonged TO his en-
ployer Gallagher aud another man
hung around Leehy for some time, try
ing TO induce him to spend or gamble
II away. They got about ten dollars
from him, when he declined TO spend
any more II.
Leehy then, accompanied by the
mayor OF this place, went into The ho'
tel TO supper While at the table eat
lug Gallagher came In, laughing, but
walked on through the dining room
into the kitchen. In few seconds
he returned 10 the dining room with n
large carving knife concealed In the
sleeve Of his coat stepped over to the
table at which Leehy was sitting, and
slapped him IN the face with the
knife, ut the same time saying, 81 am
Il coward, am ~ Leehy raised his
arms In getting up, when the murder
or stabbed him right in the heart, bury
Ing the blade fourteen inches in the
heart of Leehy. He pulled II out
quickly and Leehy said; lyon have
Killed me.o Gallagher drew the
knife back and, with an oath, was in
the act of again stabbing the dying
man, when the mayor caught hold OF
him and took the knife out of his
hand.
A large chain was placed around the
neck of Gallagher and an inquest was
held over the body of the murdered
man. Gallagher sat by aud looked on
with stoical indifference. He even
laughed and said "lt wasn't anything"
At twelve O'Clock the guard Went to
the depot TO start with him for the
jail at Calvert, and while crossing the
open spot Just west of the passenger
depot the sheriff and his posse were
surprised by about forty masked men,
armed with Double barreled shotguns,
which they presented at the guards
and told them to halt with their pris-
oner. In a half II minute they seized
Gallagher and took him across the In
ternational track, just outside OF the
corporate limits and made for the first
tree in view. Under its shade they
halted, thinking Gallagher had too
long been exposed to the screening
rays of the sun.
No noise or hustle was made-they
went at it in business-like manner
The rope was even creased, ana the
knot would have done credit TO o
hapgman of twenty-five years eXperl-
ence in that line. In order that Cal
lagher's long journey might DE rs
pleasant as the circumstances would
admit of, he was placed upon horse
and the morse given IL siiSHt i"osi w
start him, Gallagher gave no fare,
well word at parting-his lips seemed
sealed, and he died as heartless as he
had lived.
After the mob had dispersed party
went up to the treeand found the BODY,
was still warm, but its vitality had
fled. At ten o'clock this morning the
body was cut down and an Inquest
held, and the remains buried under
the tree upon which he was hanged.
No suspicion seems to exist toward
any one here. In fact, everybody
appears pleased at the fate of Gala,
cher and no one bothers about who ala
1t.
Dan Gallagher was a bad character
and, It is said, had killed eight men,
lie took part in the riot with the negro
sfate police at Groesbeck, three years
ago, when Applewhite was bruta,ly
murdered by those cutthroats, hired by
the radicals to kill and plumber the
best people of our state. D.
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