The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-07-02

examination Of the premises that be had been
murdered for the purposes Of robbery.
Everything about the store was 10 confusion;
Hour all over the floor. broken glass, bottles,
tuolssses, sugar; the money drawer gone
aud the floor was st.ined with the blood of
the victim. The struggle bad evidently been
hard one. the poor old German fighting
against his asssilsnts. single handed and
alone, as best he could, but in vain.
THE TRACKS OF Two MEN
were found leading from the store and into a
cotton patch adjoining. where the tin hex
in which the old German kept bis
money was found broken open and
rihed, some two hundred yards distant from
where the murdered man lay. Here the
murderers had halted and divided their spoils.
The murder in all its circumstances was
horrible one.
sCHUMAKER,
the victim, wins over fifty years of age, and
was liked by all. Excitement ran high at
the time of the murder, and threats OF u nch-
ing the perpetrators if found were made.
The county was up in arms and the hunt
began in earnest.
Close to the murdered mans residence
lives
AN OLD CoLoREp MAN
named johnson. He informed the
Officers that two young coiored men
had come to his house on the morning of the
murder and asked for foad He gave q
minute description Of the two, to which Yves
Pollard and Adam Thompson answered.
The officers and citizens then went in
puRsTrIT
1t was supposed that they had LETT the
country. According to Thompson's state
ment they went drst 10 Collin county and
from there to Fannin county, where they
subsequently separated. Cant, their con-
federa,e, disappeared and has never been
seen or heard siuce. Thompson went to
Cle6urie, where tho mother of Pol
lard lived. Afterwards Thompson
and PoHsri met here, and on their presence
being mao known TO the officers the pursuit.,
OF them began in earnest, and within short
time they were caught by the officers and
lodged in the county Jail.
DESCRIPTION.
J thompson was between twenty-six and
twenty-seven years of age; black; six feet
high; robust, AMI weighed about one hua-
dred and seventy five pounds; his left eye
was inclined to seuint lie said it was put
out BY being jobbrd with fishing pole by
his brother, when boy. He WAS
over the average Intelligence for one of his
race; could read but could not write, and
psssionately fond of newspapers. He was
erect in his carriage, and dignifed in his
manner.
HIS DEMEANoR.
During his confinement he conducted
nlmset IN such manner MS to elicit special
Kind attention from the guards, never having
given them any trouble whatever. He
passed
| HIS LAST DAYS
in reading the Bible and singing and prsy>
ing with colored preachers, Yet he admitted
that he hadn't got religion" but felt
I that there WAS some great Being that would
come to his rescue in dea h, in whom he baL
sli COLI ience. lie believed in a great here's
after, and that he WAS going TO better
world than this. He said when bow he
looked forward with pleasure and fond an
tlclpaton to the day when be would arrive
at manhood, but that since he had reached
1t he had seen nothing but trouble and trip
nlatlon. He could not, he said, conceive
how there was another world worse
than this had been to him
He thought it was hard to die for crime
that Others had committed, yet he had 10 be
hung. and that was oil there was of it. He
referred to the fact that he had been
INJURED IN DUNGEON,
and prisoner held for the awful crime OF
murder during the long period of Ave years
lie was loud in his praise of his attorney,
Mr.. U f. Clint, who, he said, had done
everything In bis power to save him, and tina,
he had visited him end lsbored Faithfully to
Save him, but that after his fate was newt.
able, DO cheered and comforted him in every
possible way.
AN INTERVIEW WITH THOMPSON.
A reporter of the HERALD visited the Gull
prlt In his cell a few days ago, and asked him
II ne had anything to say relative to tn,
crime for which he e1piated with his ,ii'
upon the scahoid Yesterday. he replied:
"You remember that when WAS sentenced
last April l m4de statement which YOU
published in the HERALD at that time That
was true statement and have nothing to
add or take from 1t, aud I want you
to promise me that when I
am hung If you publish anything about 1t,
to publish 1t just as you did then. You
kaow that newspaper men like TO make
things read fine whether there ia any thing
In it to make it read that way or not, and /
hope you will publish il the same way as YOU
did then, for am not guilty Of the crime
and have no confession to make, though
certain newspaper reporters have tried TO
make me confess, when l had nothing to
confess. They have worried me nearly to
death. Hero tears came into his eyes.
The reporter assured him that il should
oe repuolished word for word as 1t was pub.
lished at the time. Here With is
HIS STATEMENT.
The question has been asked me IL I in.
tended " make confession of the crime of
which ! an charged. Now since I have
been tried, convicted and sentenced 10 be
hung have only to say what have always
sid. that l am not guilty of the murder of
Schumacher, but will make Q statement of
facts as near as remember them: l know
now that the grip with which held on the
secret OF others has placed me where am /:
IT had taken different course from the one
did when fret heard of the murder am
satisfied l would have been clear of the
charge long ago; circumstances have been
against me from the start, and tho evidence
that was produced on both of my trials was
enough TO convict me; early In the spring
OF rs Yves. Pollard and my self came from
Cltb to Dallas two weeks after we
had been here the house of Tom Mcconnell
and a grocery kept by two Dutch women
near nv u,us rnhhod N.~nl.. 4