The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1878-03-03
"MURDER WILL OUT. I"

An Aged mnrderess, after Thirtean
Years oi skuiking IL Captured "a
Li.no aad sped 10 she seene Of tes
Orime or Crimes.
Yesterday evening, about tlyeo clock,
as the reporter WAS nearing the Unlon
depot, no over heard two men talking,
when one remarked "Well I've seed
many one taken back 10 answer
fur KILN but never seed woman
'afore,N The reporter was all Of sud
den intensely interested In the conyer.
sation, aud on lnterrogating the men,
learned that n sheriff from Ohio waa
aboard tho east bound train, having In
charge woman charged with murder,
Hurrylng TO the train, he lost no
time In hndlng Mr., Porter, the
sheriff, aud Introducing himself was
told In substance tho following story f,
The prisoner, who IL widow woman
named Mrs, Sarah Conkrlght, lived for
"A number Of Years prior 10 aud after
the death OF her husband near Port
Clinton, Ohio, on vineyard owned
and cultivated by her, Her husband,
who was u very incorporate man, died
suddenly, but nothing strange was
thought VI his death, II belng the gen
eral opinion that he had died while Ia
n drunken NJ. A few years after the
death OF her husband, among others
she had employed In her vineyard
in the year 1865 was n negro boy,
who on the 18th OF July OF
that year mysteriously disappeared.
The woman had, short time prior
to his disappearance had quarrel
with him, and as she had the reputa-
ton OF being a bad woman, the curl.
osity Of the community In which she
lived was excited, and they began to
investigate tho matter by looking for
the body OF the boy, for they had be-
gan to think that no had been foully
dealt with. AT last their search was
rewarded by the finding OF the body In
an old sink or well ON the place; but
they were doubly horrlied on dis COW
ering skeleton ola man In the same
place. Whose remains the skeleton 10,
remains mystery, though II 10 oonced-
cd that 1t was one OF her Victims whom
she had murdered, probably for
money. The woman was Jailed but
effected her escape, II Is believed, by
bribing the guards. No trace OF how
or where she went to could be gained,
and the matter was almost forgotten,
when IN the fall OF 1871 niece OF hers,
who resided IN Port Clinton, mystic.
riously disappeared. Everyone said
that she had gone to her aunt, and
they were not mistaken, for she had
gone TO Llano county, In this state,
where her aunt was visiting under
the assumed name Of Mrs. Phillips.
a few weeks since, the girl for some
cause, either attempted to visit or
pass through Port Clinton, nattering
herself that she had changed, and
outgrown recognition. "The train ON
the Lake Shore railroad had hardly
stopped" said the sheriff, "before she
was recognized and arrested. Here Is
a copy of the Ottawa County News,
which has full account OF II; you can
have it," The reporter thanked him,
when he resumed saying that the
whereabouts OF her aunt having been
scared out of the young woman,
he came on and got her. The woman
looked to be about fifty years of age,
hard, coarse features, gazing defantly at
the reporter as he looked at her.
Her hands were cutied and the sher-
1T, as though he OWNED the thoughts
of the reporter, remarked that II
| looked hard to see woman hand
cuffed, yet he was compelled to do II,
for she was such desperate character
that ii was necessary to do so. After
thirteen years skulking In Canada,
Florida, Colorado and Texas, she was
at last being sped away to the scene Of
her crime and maybe crimes. Yet
she sat In her seat as dignified and
naughty as u queen.