The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1878-03-01
Capture Of spoiswood the
Leader Of tho Allen Train
Robbers.
The Arrest Il Effected BY W. X cornish,
The Dallau igent Of lhe Texas IA
press Company, Ia Pilot Point,
The Rohher Chief Is identified by the Mes.
sen0or Of tho Train, Tried PrellmIaa'
rly, aad In Default Of Ball Com.
mlttcd 10 lall,

Itis Thought tho capture OF the LEADER
of the naHd viii Lead 90 ihs AgTeal
az the kaiiro Oui1L
Last night Mr. W. X, Cornish, OK
press agent nj lhla point, who captured
Tom Spotswood, tho leader Of the gang
of robbers who robbed the express car
n few nights since NJ Allon's station,
arrived In the city, The reporter called
upon Mr. Cornish, aud clcited from
him the following facts relating To
SpolswoOds capture, Arriving n. Al.
len he left that place accompanied by
Thomas the messenger " the robbed
car, going westward, the direction
from which the robbers were said 10
have come In, When about eighteen
milea out they got track Of their man,
from parties who described him aud
the horse he was riding, IN having
passed that way. doing on 10 Denton
he raised u posse OF men, among whom
was deputy shorih OF that county.
Leaving there at \ o'clock Tueshay
evening, they proceeded ~ the bottom
OF the North Fork OF Elm, whero they
remained during tho night, concealed
by the dense underground. At the
break OF day, the next morning, they
made u run on his house, but he was
not there Learning that he had gone
TO Cooke county TO place of his nine
n lies north OF Pilot Point they went
to that place 10 secure fresh horses.
Arriving NJ Pilot Point and while they
were walking across the square 10 n
livery stable, they met SpolswOod,
who Cornish ordered ~ throw up his
hands, presenting II cooked pistol on
him, electing hls arrest. On
searching him, only eleven dollars
and some cents were found on his
person. He stoutly protested that he
was rot guilty, aud appeared con.
iident OF proving his innocence. though
Thomas, the m ssenger, who was along
identified him, They started immediate
~ for Mckinney, arriving there Wed
nesday night with him, whore he was
again Identified by u man named
Thomas Newman, who Keeps "A saloon
at Aliens station, besides others, all
who saw him on the night OF the rob.
berry. Yesterday, he had preliminary
trial, and was bound over In the sum
of twenty-five hundred dollars, In de,
fault OF which, no was committed to
jail Though the bond Is com para.
lively small, yet he cannot give 1t,
should he do 80, warrant Is ready for
his reargost, charging him with shoOt-
ing With intent to kill. Spotswood,
1t Is said, IL man who Is the terror
aud bully Of the neighborhood in
which he lives, everyone standing In
fear OF him. His avocation Is one of
farming and cattle raising, principally
the latter He has, near the north
fork Of Elm, bunch Of one hundred
and twenty head OF cattle, to
which he pays more attention than
anything else. MIR. Cornish thinks
that the capture OF the leader of the
band will lead TO the arrest of his fol-
lowers, and he leaves again to-day for
Mckinney. He deserves great credit
for the manner in which he worked
the matteru Spotswood was arrested
ut Mckinney, in the fall OF 1874, as a
fugitive from Justice, and carried back
to Benton county, Missouri. where he
was tried for the murder OF man, but
for some reason was acquitted.