The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1877-06-30
MURDER RAMPANT.
4 isospersa0 Kills Ben Loag, Hunu,is
Another. agas Muck, Is ssiai and
finalil BFeugli so Lay, Fight
Ing to tbs lasl.

! Tragedy Which Startled our CITY from
Its Quiet and Thr6~ ii Into Fever
Of Excitement Full aad Detailed
Particulars The Desperate
at Deaths Deer.
risc parI .aefea by ssvartea IN tue
capture i'tece of admIraf,is Ser.
~ ANA Goodness.
For long time cur city has been
blessed with peace ami good order, and
sc were congratuiaiIng ourselves Ou
This happy state of affairs, when OF q
Iddeu tragedy oceufs that chi!.s the
ioUd, and throws our city into the
deepest mourning. = Murder EOsg
.Jui has been committed, and Tie
consequences are wide spread. Not
only Is prominent citizen de-
pF.yed OF his lille, bul family OF
iJgr tatherless children and widow
are lett 10 mourn the deep damHat!an
OF his taking Oft % Nor is this ali. An
llOiiensiye man is wounded, and his
family thrown in.o CONSERVATION by
tue ruinaBisn OF man ia his cups.
THE TRAGEDY
hieh startled our city from its quiet,
occurred last evening at about seven
clock, aud lis horried details are
enough to make the Every stones cry
out" We viii endeavor To give the
particulars, pretaciBg our statement
by saying That when am affair of this
Kind occurs there are thousand
q ilcrent versions OF lhs o3curr ence,
aud even eye witnesses seldom en-
tirely agree AS to the exact manner in
hich the affair took place. At the
time ABOVE stated, man named Rey-
npids catered beer saloon near the
cuFLer OF Austin and Wood streets,
kept uS !. ~ ISIS named Hausinau. HE
Was accompanied by "a woman and AL
other Llgu. They sat down at IA tauls.
ia The conner and called for some beer,
watch MAS furnished. Mr.. Ben Long
wts there, having come over from nis
"a use, y it'll Swiss named axe, To see
The proprietor on some busiuess. R-y-
nulIs ana his party drank their beer,
when Reynolds arose to 70 without
paying for II. As ne was about leuv-
ing, Hausman stopped him and ASK e,i
for his pay. lie replied he had no
change, bat wonld 20 and see his part
tat and get some Mr. Long, who was
sitting in the corner, spoke ami said
/ thlt lie ought to pay FOR What he got
As Hau-man KEEP, the place as a means
/ Of livelihood Reynolds then went onl
and proceeded down town. and was
7etn u cross Main street.
| THE SHOOTING.
What we are ahni,t to relate, We
gather from the statements OF i1aus-
man's wife, and others who saw all, ol
par; of it. They differed in some par,
/ tleLlArs, but in the main, corroboraft
/ each other. Reynolds returned il
about fifteen minutes, aud on entering
I said "Now rve got the change. YOU
dounle-teamed me awhile ago, aud
! I'll play for even" Hansman's wife
say ) the first thing she noticed was
bis drawing a pistol and firing at hei
| husband. lie then turned and fireL
ut Ben Long, who was sitting on
table in the front corner of the room.
MR.. JuHSSToN's STATEMENT.
Mr.. Johnston il Waterman at tn
/ Centrai freight depot, opposite, an,
wa sitting gu the platform when Ia,
aiiair occurred. lie says he hear,
some words over ia the saloon, saw
/ Reynolds come to the door; hear,
him say something about TWO men I,
one, anj saw him go towards Mai,
street. Mr. J. remarked TO a frien,
near by. that the fellow would b
back, and in few minutes saw hin
retura III an express wagon, driver
by a daTkey named Leonard. Rey
mol Is went ia the saloon, aud present.,
he heard two shots fired, and saw Be,
Long come out, holding his hands =
his breast. Mr.. Long ran 10 the cor
ner, tarned it, and ran toward
his house. HaasmAn then cam
out Reynolds following him an
shooting NJ him when outside
hey holds then jumped into the ex
press wagon, ant. the ,larky jumpe
out. Reynolds started 60 drive oil, bl
nae just got across the track when
man named Graft, who drives a tw
: horse express, caught the horses hea
, ard stopped him. Before this, how
ever, Hausman's wife, armed with
: stone, ran after the wagon, cryiL.
stop him. "poiiee." Reynold pr,
5 scented his pistol at her, when sh
lodged and dropped the stone. Whe
Graf stopped the horse Keynote
jun ped out of the front of the WACO
and ran down the street, closely Ia
lowed by man named McGinle,
} who had seen part of the difficult,
t and was runnisg to catch Reynolti
: and arrest him.
+ M'aINLEY's STATEMENT.
II | was on the platform of the freigt
depot, heard the shooting, and sa
Reynolds come out, jump into I'll
wagon and make oil. / started aft,
him. Just rs j got near the wagon, 1
/, jumped out. and / followed He IN
south Oh Austin street. through Oh
, brick yard, aud across the swail. Rel
nelds found scme difficulty in eros
ing, but finally turned to one side al
got across jumped, and got into ii
mud ap To my knees. had no wen
on. When we got into the timber he.
the river, hailooed TO Reynolds I
! stop, lie turned and fired at nae sey
erai ;imes.
On reaching the timber, Reynolc
, backed up against a tree and som
horse men appeared. Shots were q
= ciiange'i between them ami Reynoid
I the latter swearing he wo.,d seli-ot
: right there and refusing 10 surronde
got pistol from man, approache,
!, aud drawing down on him, told llii
r | would kill him II he didn't su
r render. He dropped his pistol, and