The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-03-17

amtntng Trial
Reguu.
Lsst Friday Deputy Uai!ed States Mar
shall N. NJ. Norton arrived here with and
lodged in j,, R. g. Welsh, whom he had
arrested near ] jefferson City, Missouri, on the
charge of being accessory to the robbirg of
The United Stakes mail, and placing in ieopar-
5v the lives df the carriers y. Hutehins,
ON the Texas Central, in March 1873 There
i another charge egains, the prisoner
charging him with conspiracy in the rob
berry. The government Is Inclined TO the
belief that no was connected with the noto-
rious Bass gang or cogniziut OF the move
ments of the baud Welsh wa formerly
resident of this county aaa after wards moved
10 Missouri where he resided up to tha tune
of his capture. Yesterday his examining
trial before United Ststes Commis Toner
Burford began by consent of counsel, all The
witnesses on either side not being presen'.
Major u w. Helm represented the govern
ment and Colonel d. A. Williams the de-
PENDANT. l, is rummored that other arrests
for the same robbery will shortly follow.
Ex-Sheritf Moon, of this county, was the
only witness examined. The ezamina,
ton of other witnesses was postponed until
next Saturday. The witness testified as fol-
lows:
On the first day Of April, 1873, | vas
sheriff of Dallas county. Do remember Tue
train was robbed at or near Hutchlns on the
Texas Central road, about that time.
know nothing Of The deiendsnt participant
ing in the robbery, and nothing ABOUT
his being in the nelghborhood az inc
timo save from hearsay. Don't know VINO
did rob the train. | had seen h,m once 70
knoy him prior to the robbery OF tue Tram
at Hutchins. which was about a year before
thai time. He then lived in the nelghporr
hood of Hutchips. II was in Dallas that L
saw him. and understood tbst hs lived at
Hatchins. | don't know Of anything OF my
own knowledge that connects blm win me
robbery. | suspiconed bin Of being con-
nected with it. After the robbery received
a telegram stating that the robbery had DC.
Cured. and went to Hutchins and
got description of the men,
one one OF which was described as
a very tall man, and a description OF two
others suited the descriptions OF the Goo
boys. was told by the ferrymsn at Dowdy's
Ferry, that Welsh had crossed tho evening
of the robbery about A O'clock, gong
towards Hutchins. | met him at Role
Johnsons. recognizes the prisoner now
Ihsd him in Jail on the charge OF stealing
horses. but no beat his case. That WAS
about one year ago. -Four or five weeks
after the robbery | employed him
10 assist mo in ferreLing out the
nsrties to the robbery. Role
Johnson told me that it was reported that
some doctor, / now forget the name, had
t,een seen going into Bots dare island, md
Il was supposed that there WAS wounded
man hid away in there, ard that in all prob
ability il was one of tho train robbers.
had n cspias then for the ares, Of Welsh,
who was charged with horse stealing, and
Johnson recommended Welsh az n suitable
nartv TO ferret out the matter, and on those
conditions agreed not to arrest him. welsh
told mo that if there was .
wounded man hid away in there he
could find him no wounded man was evel
found: he never told me who was present NJ
the robbery or who did do the robber,; u
,uao some time afterwards that no left this
country when he went 10 Cook county, and
tho sheriff of chat county arrested MIN on
the capiss, brought him here, whore he was
tried and Acquitted; he soon af:erward LEFT
th;s country and / never saw him again un'
I'll day before yesterday in the county jail.
GROSS examination-At the time Welsh wa
in search of these psrties, | commissioned
him AZ deputy sheriff, and told him to Ar
rest such parties when he deemed it necessary
a week or two after that revoked his com
m,ssion as deputy sheriff. AT the time l re
yoked ir do not know whether or no
Welsh WAS in the vicinity. Citizens a
Hutchins told me that Welsh had gottel
into quarrel there. l heard that Welsl
was there at the time L revoked his com
mission. At this time still held the cspia
against him charged with In
theft Of horses. When
revoked his commission, notified the con
stable of the Hutchins precinct to arrest tn
defendant on the charge of horse stealing
ON the cspia. that hold 10 my hands. M,
opinion Is that Sam Bass and his gang com
mitted the train robberies. do not beiiev
thst Welsh was IN the robberes. slmpl
commissioned him to find, il possible, th
wounded man, because no knew tho countr
so we'll AT first refused TO commissio
Welsh, but on receiving note from Mayo
Jones, of the frontier batlailon,, sskln
mo 80 do so, | did H. The idea wa
that it might become necessary Tor nm |
make on Immediate arrest:
BY prosecution: The ierryman Nv DOW
dy's Ferry was named Dod Cade, AMI DO IS
white man. Al.
Cross.examined Hutchius was on tn
way to Steeles, from the ferry; an
understood that Welsh made Steele
his home.
Owing to the absence of other witnesst
for The government, further exarninatio
was postponed until Saturday.
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