The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1878-04-27
TWO OF THEM.
Arrest Of Two Wen Named Pipes aud
Aersdsn Charged with Beiag Mem
bers OF She GANG of Train Robbers

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Hersdsn Charged with Beiae Mem
bers OF she 6anx of Train Robbers.
Major John Is. Jones, Lientenaut
Peak and q squad of his men arrived
in the city early yesterday morning
having in charge two men named Sam
Pipes and Albert G. Herndon, whom
they arrested or charge Of being con.
nected with the late train robberies.
The prisoners were taken directly 10
the jail, where numbers of people be-
gan fiocking in hopes of getting =
glimpse of the men, but the majority
of them We're doomed to disappoint.
ment, Sheriff Moon having issued or
ders not to let them in, and 80 the idle
curiosity of n large number of people
went unsatiated
Crowds began TO gather about on the
streets talking over the news OF the
capture, and started numerous and
groundless reports, which were widely
circulated throughout the city.
A HERALD reporter visited the Jail
and found the prisoners in the iron
cage. They are rather fine looking
young men, and were better dressed
than the average countryman. Pipes is
is about five feet, ten inches in height.
well built and weighs about one hun.
dred and seventy-five pounds. lie has
black hair and eyes, rather bald fore
head, and black mustach. Herndon is
about five feet, eight inches in heie ht,
well made, and weighs about one hun
dred and nifty pounds. He has brown
hair and light mustach.
Both men appeared TO be in good
humor, and after few minutes told
the story of their srrest, etc Pipes
stated that yesterday morning about
daylight he awoke at the residence Of
MIR. Albert Collins, an old and respected
farmer living some ten miles north Of
this city, where he had been stopping
for sometime to find several armed men
In his room, while the house was liter,
ally surrounded. They told him that he
WAS wanted a. one 0: the train robbers,
which he states surprised him no little.
He laughingly remarked 10 the re.
porter that twenty-five men armed
with Winchester rifles had good deal
of influence over n man, and that he
dressed himself and came along ith
them to this city.
Herndcn stated that he was arrested
at the house OF Thomas ]. Jackson, in
this county, some eight miles from the
city, where he was staying. He was
arrested by Lieutenant June Peak and
party, who never once told him what
1t WAS sil for. The worst he hated about
the affair was that they hurried him
of without any break fast, bringing
him along with Pipes to this city. Both
men said that they would not expert.
ence the least difficulty in proving
their whereabouts the nights the rob
berries were committed.
They are both young meu. Hern-
don is about twenty-five and Pipes
about twenty-five years of age. They
are of good addI ess and lively DISPOSE
tion. Both are of nice, respectable
families, and the arrests have created
q good deal of surprise among some OF
our citizens, yet it is learned from q
strictly reliable source that the officer.
knew whereof they reckoned, aud
facts are in their possession, that can
not at present be made public, that jus
tify the arrest. To Major Jones, who
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