The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-02-25
"A MURDERER oAUGnT.
Harry Thornton, who Is Wanted at
bloomington, Illinois, Captured
at HOust0n-Ris Record Acre

tude in the criminal calendar than is likel
be occupied by the name of Harry Thornr
who was released about three months I
Harry, if reports are true, viii turn out t,
chief among criminals. BE is very ,
known in Dallas. Last April ho was ARE.
and incaIcerated in the county iail Oh
charge Of robbing the American house,
this city, and became somewhat notorious
accounl thereof, An old Arkansss h
doctor had pu. up at the American not
and during the night ladder was used
thieves, wao entered aa room and stole Y
liable papers and y large sum ofmonoy. c
of the bills, of the denomination of $40 =
so marked that it could be easily detect
and the old doctor described it so closgl0 tt
when found it was readily ident;8.
On the night of the robbery Harry Thot
ton, then recently from the north or west
Dallas, with two associates, WAS seen )urlt
around the American house about mi,lniI
Tracing them up revealed the fact that h
morning after the robbery sll tbree II,
breakfast at restaurant near the ITnionis
pot, aud one Of Thompsous eognnq ms
passed $40 bill in payment for TIA XIX
lasI. rms OIL was identified as the ouhe
nero doctor had 80 carefully marked snle-
scrlbad, aud Thornton and his friend u,eiar.
rested and committed as the guilty n hes.
II was on the trial for this rob6erJnat
1nornton'5 criminal career was deyaped
and mas recently been fully exposed.
Aoolto O'Clock on cha night of Agust
1879 Aaron Goodftlow, "a citiJ of
bloomington, Illinois, was murdered MR. his
residence, while passing a dark allev, | two
men who sprang out and ateempiedb rob
him. He resisted and was shot tbroIh The
mead end heart. The murderers ri9l his
RocNeiS sane, ana lied. Investigation singh out
marry Williams. alias Rambo, and Psg De-
vine as the murderers. A reward ofbl 400
was offered for the arrest of each levine
was captured few months afterkrd in
New York city, was tried at Clint, Ill.,,
and convicted on Dec. %, 1880, and e,cuted
IN the DE Witt county jail on Jq oath.
1851. The Goodfellow murder and fayine's
arrest, conviction and execution, brokht out
the details Of the most villainoi career
imaginable on the part OF Deyinapd his
partner, Harry Williams, alias HAY Ram.
DO, alias lin Texas Harry Thorntl. We
snall speak OF nun, for conveneno, here
alIer oy tnls latter name. It has tlnspired
IpaS ne spent his boyhood days in
Kansas City, and was the l.der of
a gang of young thieves wo were
continually robbing residences apt business
houses. As ne grew up he bec,ne more
t Dulu III i's operations, and BEIGE he was
sWGnty years OF ags had worn ha stripes
WIZ, w,.ull Tue walls o. the Missouri I'D Illinois
peiltehtlarles: lie was released from tho
iaGter institution IN 1877 or 1878, I'D went to
35 i' where he met and stsrtu out with
tf 7. LEVINE noted cracksm'i and thisf
l: Seems they started ont in wiciedness and
Viilalhy on scale that wouh indicate
'"gy were Working Tor prize
livery spring hundreds of farm MbOrors
star ,I rom t49 northwest ard qma south,
uni'' esngy STRIKE the line Of mattriug crops
DIl lolio" inc season up, oftet IS far AS
lui,ueso'S' mus putting m long and remu-
i'ernIlVe season labor. D9yina and Thorn.
,ou conserved th9 Vi'ialnous plot Of follow
ny up gusso houeal' industrious, bsrd handed,
J u lAceu sons OF tho sickle and
, in @lu ny "aylaSlng md muY-
le.lis spem possess themselves of the
.oau'Is OF 'helr joil' Their mode Of proceed
tro 9nS 'p'ts,loh was to dress and act like
~ larves'sfs' Ihey would arrive in q section
,,urIus ih'unSrVest when labOrerS were in
. ,,,i, ,,,h worn from DAY to week on
,..' wii9!e many men We're employed, md
.ery gasi'y become posted as to which Of the
neu naa 'ae most money. When the
w was Hu'she1 tney would Start out
WIN soulo particular man, travelling
VI loot ana camping out nights. All
othg lonely spot the knife or bludgeon
you!u oe used on the unsuspecting victim
W es>1alagey and valuables having been !
AIKEN from his person, and all letters and |
ther evidences of Identification having been
estroyed, DeVne and Thorton would seek |
ONE otner section for similar deed Of death |
ma plunder How many their victims Of
MS nature numbered will probably !
over oe accurately Known, unless Thornto |
9es NJ 10 tall. Iney are known to have |
srrle'I thelf crimes rs lar south as Tonnes.
30 ana rs iar north as Minnesota.
Az last these two hesrtless, red.handed, |
ase-hardened human iiends arrived at
bloomington, Illinois, and committed the |
foodiellow murder, as previously detailed
levine was captured and paid the extreme
enaity. Thornton He'd to Texas and his
lreer IN Dallas is well known. After his
sIease on tho verdict of mot guilty" in the
american house robbery case, ho left this
lty before Oticer Woody could capture
nm Woody had seeurad from old acquain-
lnces OF thornton sufficient evidence of his
ui!s, 10 addition to that CLEANED from papers
nd through correspondence with Illinois