The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1877-09-22
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Gatesyille Sun About midnight on
the night OF the cath uitimo the house
was surrounded by number of armed
men. yarioHsiy estimated at from one
hundred 70 two hundred, who woke up
the Greens and said they were in search
OF q horse thief named prsiitt, " bonn
they had traced from Brown county,
that they believed he igBs aecrel.d Ia
the house. and they wanted to search
tor HIM The Greens knew this as a
rase 10 get them ont, aud refused 10
allow any search. The leaders Of the
mob then informed them that unless
the seareh WAS allowed they would
burn the house. The house was two
stories. and some renters who lived in
the lower etory were told 10 move
ont, as there was no desire TO harm
them. SOtus one or two of the mob
proposed killing them, but lender
sIId. No. They may be the worse horse
thieves in Texas, but we don't know it
Let them alone We have not come
for them A younger brother OF the
Greens, named Joe, aged thirteen,
showed a desire 20 faht, but be was
promptly seized, carried of and guards
ID. straw was then scattered around
the house and Set on fire but Mrs
Grevni rne mother OF Bill and Jim.
came irons her own house, some hua-
drvd yards distant, aud began moving
the straw away from the house. Two
Of the mob then went oil, got a can
oil kerosene split it open, threw it oyer
every thing ana set it on FIRE The
flames were soon beyond control. In
the meantime Bill was cooily making
preparations for death. He told his |
wife what debts he owed, who was oyg-
ing him, aud what disposition to make |
OF his property he taeu took his sis |
ter by the hand and sid Come. Belle |
let US kueel down and pray like we /
used 10 when We were children They !
knelt down, and Bill prayed. He then |
got up, took his gun and stepped to the |
door when he fred and instantly kill /
ed one 81 the attacking party named |
Nichols, and in another instant fell |
himself. riddled with bullets. In the |
meantime Jim had done q good deal /
Of shooting, but installing some bed |
ding which lay in the yard for some |
OF the attacking party, he failed TO |
do much execution. By this |
time the flames had full pos- |
session of the house and the heat be- |
came unbearable. He too started out |
OF the door only 10 fall beside his broth> /
er. The roof being about to fall in. the |
women seized them aud drew them ont
TO keep their bodies from being con-
sumed by the burning building No |
sooner had they done this than the mob |
thrust them aside, and shot into the |
bodies uni5l certain that life WAS ex-
tinet Their work being Completed |
they then left Ii is rumo.ed that four |
or i've OF them were wounds 4. Albert |
Green, the father of these boys, was a /
gallant soldier and good citizen
General Tom Green, famous in Texas |
history. was a kinsznan of theirs. They |
were closely related 10 some of the best |
citizens in this county But wrighiful- !
~ or wrougfully the citizens believed |
them to be thieves. and to this they
doubtless owe their death An old
soldier, a man who is one of the best
citizens we know of, told us that he
went th' re the next morning and saw
the scene Of grief, Of ruin and Of death, |
and that he would rather 90 through
SIX battles than to see IL again