The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-06-10

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window above was another student with n
pitcher of water. Buck, suspecting trick,
would not put his head out. AT last the
students above got tired of waiting, and
having induced Murphy to put his head out,
they dashed the water on him.
Subsequently some OF the students entered
Bucks room, fitted key TO his trunk, opened
the trunk and took from it revolver. AT
the table Buck sat next TO Student Beke-
meyer. 1t was noticed he put food into his
mouth with knife. Thompson, seeing this,
got up from his place, went around the table
and laid fork beside Bucks plate, between
it and Bekemeyer's.
"Whom is this for?" Buck asked
~ suppose its for your Beckemeyer
answered.
Buck laid the fork down and appeared to
think little of the incident. Afterward, how.
ever, when he was spoken to about it, he
said to Student w. O. Beer that Thompson
did very wrong thing in bringing him the
fork; that he BUCK would not do anything
desperate unless forced to it, but If he were
forced he would act as quick as any man. On
Monday evening Buck went to board at Mrs.
Stewards boarding house in Highland Falls.
lie had little money, and Colonel Huse ad-
vised him to board there, offering, at the
same time, to teach him gratuitously. In the
course of last week he visited West Point,
and afterward it was reported al Colonel
Huse's academy that he had told friend up
there that he had Cleaned out" the boys at
the Highland Falls school. This annoyed his
school-fellows.
On last Friday morning at 10 o'clock, after
the boys had recited in grammar to Mr.. Reg
inald NJ. Huse, a son Of Colonel Huse, teach
or and pupils stepped out on the broad piazza
which commands magnificent view up and
down the Hudson. The building WAS for
merly summer hotel. Buck is said to b. a
clever student, and, in Colonel Huse's 6pin-
ion, he Is we'll prepared to enter the West
Point academy. Nevertheless, there were
some points in the lesson Just recited to which
Mr.. Reginald NJ. Huse desired TO call his at
tention, They talked with each other, lean
ing against the rail of the piazza, a little to
the right of the main door. When Mr.
Huse bad finished talking to him, he turned
almost in his tracks to talk to another one of
his pupils, who was standing by { 0 rail be-
hind him. He had hardly turned around
when Thompson approached Buck, and,
standing nearly between him and Mr.. Huse
said:
~ hear that you have been saying at West
Point that you cleaned us all out down here
/ want you to rectify that mistake"
Mr.. Huse overheard this remark and
walked away about twenty or thirty feet to
the north side of the door that opens on the
piazza. He did this because he did not want
to listen to any such conversation, or t be
privy to it. He naturally walks briskly. but
he did not succeed in getting more than
thirty feet away. When Buck heard Thomp.
sons demand this is the story of all tho
dozen students who were on the piazza) he
backed away along the piazza to the south
ward, vt the same time putting his hand in
his hip pocket and keeping 1t there. AS he
stepped back he said:
- - all you boys. I'll stand no
more of YOUR nonsense"
Thompson followed him, but, it is insisted,
not threateningly. He has habit of shab-
ing his open hand beside his right temple
whenever he desires to emphasize an asser-
ton made half in sport and half in earnest.
1t is a habit, it is explained, which he has
picked up from politicians inWashington or
elsewhere tie used ttis gesture as he ad.
vanced and said
"Pull your pistol. Pm not afraid of your
pistol"
Thompson is not quite rs tall as Buck, but
he is heavier. The students, say, however,
that he is not strong, though apparently in
good health. On thu south piazza, Just
around the corner of the house, sat Col.
Huse. He was within fry feet of where the
away from Thompson, and in reply to the
Ia, nf, ha latt h. "A.
. all you boys, and - ---you"
referring to Thompson).
At the same instant he drew revolver
from his pocket, raised it, and lowered it to
an aim at Thompson's alb omen and fired.
The motion was so quick that Mr.. Huse, who
had turned at hearing the oaths, and was APP
preaching the two youths, thought that the
revolver was selt'cocking. He nov thinks it
must have been cooked while it was in Bucks
pocket As Thompson saw the pistol at an
aim he turned partly and raised himself on
his toes. After the discharge he turned
quickly around toward Mr.. Huse and the
boys, and turning the palms of his hands
outward, assumed an expression as if he had
said, "rhat is the kind of n man this fellow
is" He then walked toward the entrance of
the house irresolutely, for few PAGES, but
turned and went to the rail where he had first
approached Buck As he neareu the rail he
said, his strength suddenly failing him:
"Boys, Pm hit"
Murphy, who was standing near him, ran
to his aid, and helped to carry him upstairs
to his room. As they carried him up the
stairs he sang a verse of an academy song.
''See where that coward has shot me" he
said, when he saw the wound where the
bullet entered, just below and about four
inches to the right of the navel. Soon after
ward he discovered the bullet in the left leg
of his drawers. 1t had come out behind the
left hip, but had been caught by his cloth
ing. The large bullet, said to be forty-two
caliber, was Jagged when it was found, but
the bone 1t had struck was merely the point
where II emerged, so that it was doubtless
smooth when It passed through the more
vital parts. Whether it injured any of the
intestines or came very dangerously near
them is not known, because it was not neces-
sary to probe for the bullet, but the wound
Is very serious. A number of physicians are
watching the case, but they declare that
little else can be d ne.
Buck stood stock still few seconds after
the firing Then no turned and walked away,
holding his hand in his hip pocket, where he
had replaced the revolver, keeping his face
turned toward the group Of boys and the
teachers. When he had got clear of the
south piazza he ran quickly up to the village,
followed by students Wall, Gallagher, De
Witt, Beer, and Mr.. Huse. He delivered
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