The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-04-27

entered tho house and shot Isaiah u. Taylor,
Harry Taylor said he was tall, slender
young mAn, with n light mouslAeha and light
hair and complexion, aud cloth around his
head, and looked like bill Taylor aud A, u,
TAYLOR was just like HIN, except that he was
\ boy without beard and not 90 tall by head
Mrs, England said II was kTebs, VIA wns de-
serbed by her and Others Us . different look
ng man, and she knew \ was krebs from hla
hat, hs whishers aud his Dutch talk, hhe
must have gotten her idea 0f kr6bs Identity
out OF tho house, when the person followed
her for II WIS then she heard bis Dutch
talk, and WIS close enough 70 him " have
caught him by the beard, Aud she must
alsO have saen tho person that looked Ike
BIl TAYLOR when he came Into the house,
beesute sho stated from the first
that thorO were three persons,
and unless she saw him then she gave
no account Of where else Rhe saw person
Of that description, aud V ha were Krebs that
shot Isaiah D. Taylor, and followed her and
her daughter out md shot them, then she
could have aeon but tw0 pefapnf, the other
ono being thu p0raon with u cloth on hls head
TINT killed her huahand, by whom she pn'sod
IN tho house after she was shot, mud whom
pho described ~ looking GOLDFISH" Ike Prra'
ton The most reasonable reconciliation Of
this evident contradiction, then, u that the
till, slender man with u inoualRohc, hooking
like Bill Taylor, entered Tho HOUSE aud shot
IsHlhh ID, Taylor, and she and her daughter,
seeing IL, ran out NJ tho back door, and there
she WIS followed md shot by another man,
whom she recognized ~ krebs by his hat
whskers and Dutch talk That "a far more
reasonable than IN suppose that Harvey Tay-
lor, In u better light on the porch, would not
know kreba from tho person he took 10 Do
BIZ Taylor, when they were 80 different In
appearance, especially when tho person
ordered him into tho house, and " ho had
been Krobs he would have been betrayed by
his Dutch talk Now, under this Wow, II the
three parties accused we're tho persons who
did the acts, Il would put A, X Taylor, q
beardloss boy disguised with false nous
tache and cloth over his head In tho front,
leading M principal actor IN this horrible
tragedy ofb.oodshed, with his identity esIab'
lished, from the iact that he resemblod his
brother Bill, and was proved 10 be A. krebs
house late In the evening before the murder.
II We take a broader view of this whole
transaction, We must conclude that there
were three desperate, blood-thrty men to-
gether In that neighborhood on that night (;
that they deliberately planned the slaughter
Of that whole family nj tho England house,
upon some powerful motive, far beyond tho
degree OF mNllgnity that controls ordinary
men in this country. They lal their plans
80 AZ to be sure OF their object, which was for
ono TO enter the house, and ono TO guard
each door at the front and rear, and slaugh.
ter the members of tho family, all oftbom, as
they arose from their beds in the house, or rs
they escaped from II by the doors, The
leader, finding Harvey Taylor on the porch,
ordered him in the house, because shooting
him there would have disconnected their
plan. He went through the house and es-
capped before one Of the men reached
the back-door ia passing around
from tho gate, but he was
there in time TO follow Mrs. England and
her daughter and shoot them, and the tall,
slender man with the cloth on his head WAS
the one.who shot Isaiah ID. Taylor, and who
Mrs. England saw killing her husband.
After. the shooting ceased finding that two
Of their victims had escaped, IL was to be ex-
pected that they would divide out and search
through the field for them
and possibly 90 into No field of another per-
son and search for them.
Is it reasonable to suppose that A. X.
Taylor, beardless-boy, without any known
motive, Would assume the leadership in such
q wholesale slaughter, or that Preston, al
ways friendly and under strong obligations
to the England family, would be a partici-
pant in II, or that krebs frem hard feelings
engendered about prosecution for
assaulting old Mr.. England, not resulting
in any battery, would seek such revenge as
that-a revenge that could only be sought by
the most desperate and heartless of the race
ofmurderers, for such mparatively trivial
matter, when three witnesses, Mrs. Krebs,
her daughter and son, by n former marriage,
swore on the trial that Krebs, Preston and
A. X. Taylor were at Krebs' house at the
time the shooting occurred, and were not
therefore, at the England house when the
murder was committed.
1t may be so, and under the forms of law
it has been so declared, and still upon full
consideration Of all the facts, there is a lin
goring substantial apprehension on my mind,
MS there is on Judge CAROLS, that it would
be unsafe to inaict the death penalty.
Therefore, do hereby, for these reasons,
commute the punishment adjudged Of death
to confinement to labor for life in the State
penitentiary. O. NJ. RoBERrs,
Governor.
D.nannuA