The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-11-03
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Graham

3pccial 10 the Herald.
GnAuAm, October 2S.--Tbo streets and
squares of Graham were literally packed
with q surging throng Of citizons who came
from far and near 10 witness the execution
to-day Of Jack Post, for the murder Of 1. d.
McDruitt, seven miles southwest OF Ora
ham, on or about the 18th of October, 1879.
The facts elected in thetrial show II to have
been one Of the most cold-blooded murders,
for the purpose ofrobbery, ever committed
in the state, and the evidence, though cir
cumstantial, was conclusive and ovsrwhelm-
ing-as to the guilt Of Jack Post and Nelson
Post. At the time of the murder
Jack Posts wife and tho wife of McRruitt,
the murdered man, were absent on visit
in Parker county, and Post was working or
McDruitt gathering cotton. There was
no suspicion of the crime until McDruitt's
wife returned home three weeks afterwards,
when Jack Post informed her that her hus-
band had sold to him and Nelson Post his
household goods, personal property, etc.,
and given the farm into his charge to rent
out, which lie had done. She at once
suspicioned foul play, and demanded her
property and threatened them with the law
Post proposed to return her the clothing
and pay her way to Parker county If she
would leave the county. She notified the
sheriff, Jas. Milton, and county attorney.
Jno. Brien, who found the, property Of
McDruitt in the house of the Post boys and
thereupon arrested and lodged them in
Graham jail Search was then made for
the body of McDruitt, which, after three
DAYS, was found on November 8, 1879 i'll q
partly decomposed state in canon south of
Ills house partly covered with dirt,
but mutilated by the hogs. A
tree had been cut down across the
canon to conceal the body. On some OF the
bed clothing found at Posts house were
stains Of blood, which was one part Of the
evidence produced in his trial by the prose-
cution. Your reporter had an interview
with the prisoner last night and from eleven
to one to-day. When he was brought into
the cell to-day from the barber shop, his
aged mother, now q years Ts ola threw her,
than she could bear; that she could
lis lis sister threw her arms about
his neck and cried as though her heart was
broken and sobbed that no sister loved a
brother so dearly and was separated in such
a cruel way. He, too, for about twenty
minutes, Cr1eu llkc u Cluu, Wlilc lOChcu
in the embrace with his sister The scene
was such as would never wish to behold
again: An aged and infirm mother, tottering
on the border of the grave, and a darling,
heart-broken sister, waiting and sebbing
pitcously during their last hours with their j
son and brother before his life is to be for
feited upon the gallows In answer
to my question Jack Post emphatically and
repeatedly denied any knowledge of the
killing, and said he was innocent oft as an
unborn child tina; his life had been sworn
away; that the prejudice of the officers and
witnesses would cost an innocent man his
life upon the scaffold. He did not fear
death, but dreaded the uncertainty of the
unknown future. He believed in heaven
and hell but his beliefs were not settled
as to the future existence. He hoped
it might be we'll with him,
and thought he had experienced
religion. He dreaded, he said, the disgrace
of dying on the gallows and for the crime,
especially of robbery, and said it was the
most horrible death he could conceive. He
claims to have purchased all the property
found in possession of him and his. hrotlI
and that McDruitt then rode Qff
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