The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1877-04-20
OMachita Tele0raph.
MONROE. LA, APRIL 20, 1877.
THE TEXAS HIGHwAYMAN.
A strange Story of Texas Life.

The stage robber of Texas has al
last been caught, and his name is
| Ham. White. White is a young man
and deserves place in history. Claude
Duval and Paul Clifford were but anna.
tours to him for it is now discovered that
this one man is responsible for the hun
dreds of highway robberies that have
been committed in Texas in the past
six months; that he, alone and unas-
sisted, has stopped stages full of able
bodied and we'll armed men and made
all the passengers deliver.
His story is highly romantic from be-
ginning to end, and must certainly be-
come a drama. Two stages are robbed
in one night by a solitary horseman.
The robber tells the four occupants of
the first stage to hurry up with their
money as he has got another important
job on hand to one of them who has
surrendered everything, he returns
some money, "for supper and drinks to
remember me hy.'' The ladies who oc-
cupy the coach he treats with the great
est gallantry and courtesy; will take
nothing from them, not even Il ring as
a token of esteem and remembrance.
With the money and mails he rides of,
encounters another stage, stops it, robs
gentlemanly style, and, this done, rides
quietly away by moonlight, CHANGING
over the mail AS he rides, tearing open
letters, pocketing those containing
money, and laughing merrily over
those that contained nothing but love.
Here was his error. When the Texas
Rangers came up from Austin, thirty
miles distant, in pursuit of the high
Wayman, they were able to track him
miles by the debris of these letters. He
did not, however, appear to have the
least IDEA OF Tying, was, in fact, stop
ping at a hotel in Luling, and calmly
maturing robbery for that night,
when the rangers came UP, rushed up
on him and captured him. He had
money and letters still upon his per-
son, and, strangest of all, a memoran-
dunn book in which, like the valet de
chambre of the French story, he had
jotted down every robbery he had
planned and executed.
"March Z. Will try the Gainesville
coach.
March 10. Tried stage. Empty.
March %. 1 will try the Hastrop
line to-day"
These strange memoranda wind I'D
with the following appeal, almost
made to some colnrade:
changer to-day if Pm killed, bury
me quietly, but give no description of
me.''
This highWayman is now in Jail,
and there seems little likelihood OF his
getting out-for some time at least. He
seemed to be fully prepared for every
emergency, was we'll armed, equipped |
with Il mask for a disguise; carried his |
money in his boot, and had saws and |
other instruments concealed about his |
person, to release him from prison in
case he should be captured. White is
young, of medim build, lame in one
leg from Il wound he received in u fight
in which he killed his man, and is in
every respecta perfect knight of the
road, tor, if his memorand:. are to be
believed, the excitement and danger of
lis profession were rs great an lncen-
i've to his robbcries as tho money it
brought him. In fine, no is a strange
character, a represents
i've of 100, living in the midst of the
nineteenth century.
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