The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-08-30
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Murderers and thieves have suffered /
fearfulIy Of late in Texas. Two notori- I
Gus scoundrels, RinggoId end GLADDEN. F.
are imprisoned or dead. Kig Fishef
is incsrcerated OF has been released on
bail remaining under the surveillance OF
the State troops. Scott Cooley wac
arrested and died in spasm Of rage
and chsgrin. Bill IIongley sSeats and
swears in the Giddings jail. Ham
White, the famous stage coach robber,
makes cigars for life in the West Virgil
MIA penitentiary. Jim Taylor, of the
Taylor gang OF despersdoes, was killed
when resisting arrest st San Saba last
Thuredsy. His pal Hoy vas killed,
Under like circumstances, the day be.
fore. Both fell before the guns OF the
State troops. Bill Taylor, brother Of
jim, bresthes hard and is nervous to
the last degree, with three Of the SUIT
ton gang, here in the Travis county
Jail. Wadsworth, cattle thief, was
shot in the Llano Jail August
~. He was terrible boy, the PEG
pie SAID, but his murder was an out
rage. Bill. Thompson, well known in
this city, is now in the Ellsworth city
Jail, charged with killing the sheriff OF
Ellsworth, Kansas. Wesley Hardin.
cousin Of the Taylors, the most reck-
less murderer ever known in Texas,
was committed TO our Jail Tuesday.
He has killed, so the story goes, TWEEN
ty-fve or thirty white men besides
Mexicans and negroes.
In addition to these recent incidents
in the fortunate history OF Texas it
will be remembered that on two or
three occasions within brief period
the outraged, impatient peopls of Bell
county have rigen IL their might and
hanged the villains there incarcerated.
| Some of the foremost knaves of Texas
thus wrongfullY met pleasing and
timely fate. Near the boundary line
between Bell and Coryell counties
there IS a tree of death. Beneath one
great, sturdy, Bonded branch there
have been suspended, prey to eagles
and carbon birds, like the sons of Riz-
peh, seven admirable devils thus least
out" OF Texas. In Lee comfy, within
a few months, twelve or tOurteen
scoundrels have been remorselessly
hanged by the people. Some OF these
were taken from the Jail, four were
suddenly lifted from the ground at a
ball, and, swinging from a live-oak,
danced on nothing into eternity.
Twenty one men, in the last four
years, have been killed in one county
in Texas, and only one of these muir
derers was ever punished. In this
last instance negroes robbed store and
choked a boy to death who guarded
it. But the facts we state show that
the end of desperadoism and
of lawlessness and robbery
has come, and the terrible
facts recited tell the bloody-handed,
cowardly villains who still wear pls-
tols and knives gIrt about their bodies
that this of Texas is no longer health
full atmosphere. They should mi
crate. The people are surfeited with
devilish deeds, juries are now
doing their duty, and sure and
swift justice is meted out. Not
many months ago the State troops were
hardly capable of coping with organ
lied bands of predatory scoupdrelism
in the West. Now these fearful Or
gauizatlons are thoroughly broken up
aud their leaders have been killed OF
imprisoned or sent TO the peniten tiary.
The eighty murderers of Tennessee for
whom rewards amounting to $50, 00O
have been offered by the Governor OF
that commonwealth may be in Texas.
But they "siDg low" The frontier Of
Texas is no longer proper place OF
refuge for continental kGavery. Mexi'
CO must be ITS receptacle, and fortu
nate FOR Texas will be the day wher
the use of the pistol and the knife il
more vigorously punished here than in
Massachusetts,.