The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1878-04-23
IN SELF-DEFllNsE.
Such was tho Verdict ~ the Ingram,
Richards shooting ARRAY nt Alien
Particulars OF the flair.

Such was tho Verdict ~ tho Ingram,
Richards shooting ARRAY nt Allen
Particulars OF the Affair.
Saturday night Deputy United States
Marshal Ingram, who on that same
evening shot Richards at Allen station,
landed In the city In charge OF an OH.
Ger, who turned him over to Sheriff
Moon, After learning the facts con.
nected with the shooting, Sheriff Moon
allowed him to 20 about under charge
OF mn officer. A HERALD reporter met
with Mr., =. l.. Rodgers, who was n wit
ness to the affair, when he learned
from him the following;
Richards, who a short time since ran
u saloon In Mibe0la, was arrested on a
charge of wholesaling liquor without
license. lie and Harry Maupin, his
business partner, went on his bond,
which, at tho last term OF the
United States circuit court, he forfeited.
During Major Purnell's term OF office
and after the bond had been forfeited,
Deputy Marshal Ingram had writ
for the arrest OF Richards on the same
old charge. On Major Purnel's being
succeeded by Colonel Russell rs United
States marshal, Richards WAS dis
placed but was in a few days replaced
by Colonel Russell. In the meantime
judgment nj 81 issued from the court ut
Tyler against Rodgers and Maupin for
the amount OF the bond. They asked
Ingram to arrest Richards, when he
told them he could not do 80 without
a proper writ. They then went before
u. =. Commissioner Gum, at Sulphur
Springs, who informed them that I'M
der the circumstances he had not the
authority to issue writ, but he told
them to get Ingram and 90 and
take Richards. They went to AL.
LENS station accompanied by
Deputy Ingram, where they
found Richards. Rodgers told him
that he had befriended him by going
on his bond, and that he now wanted
him to favor him by going to Tyler and
appearing before the United States
commissioner. He said I" You have be-
friended me and will go, for don't
want you to suffer through me.n
While they were awaiting the five
" CiOCh tiuiu NJ hlltuj IiClluIuS uluuh
to such an excess that he soon became
intoxicated, and being of quarrelsomc
disposition when drinking, got into
difficulty with a saloon keeper at that
place, cursing and abusing him. The
saloonist told Ingram that II be did
not take him away and keep him out
OF his saloon he would kill him. After
much difficulty Ingram got him
OIL, but Richards went back again
and was second time taken
out by Ingram who told him
that ii he kept insisting on going In
there the saloon keeper would shoot
him. This remark seemed to nfuriate
him, and drawing long knife he
made for Ingram. AS he did SO he
said, "You are no friend of mine or
you would not talk that way" In
gram, seeing his danger, attempted 10
escape, closely pursued by Richards,
who gained on him. Ingram admon-
ished him to stop or he would shoot,
but Richards kept after him, and was
fast closing in on him when he turned
and fired, the shot taking effect just
above the right nipple, producing se-
rious though 1t is thought not fatal
wound.
Ingram was taken before Judge
Hunt in the district court yesterday
evening, and after hearing the evil
dence the court discharged him, 1t be-
ing clearly proven that he acted in
aelf.defense