San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1881-12-15
The Latest from Ham White.

We find the following in the New York
Sun:
DETROIT, Dec. A. United States Mar
shall Wilcox of Denver arrived at the House
of Correction last night, having in custody
Henry w. White, alias Burton, who is under
sentence of ninety mine years for robbinga
stage coach near Del Norte, New Mexico.
When about thrce miles east of Pokagon,
on the Michigan Central Railroad, the con-
yict picked the lock of his haudcuffs with o
toothpick aud ferociously attacked the Mar
shal. He first struck him on the head with
the handouts, when Wilcox grappled with
him in dazed way. White struck Wilcox
again and brought him to his knees. There
were seventeen men in the car, who saw the
swhole affair, but who left the officer to
struggle alone with tn, desperate man
fighting for liberty. In the encounter
White seized Wilcox's revolver and tried to
shoot him. Mrs. Smithson, wife of Den
YER engineer on her way to New York, and
the only woman in the car, sprang upon the
seat behind and caught tho convicts arm.
The men in the chr then seized the convict
around the neck enabling the Marshal TO
once more secure control of him. White
says If he could have got bullet through
Wilcox, he would have covered the passen-
CARS with the revolver in one hand while he
united his ankles with the other, ''and then
40 ne through every one of the internal cow
ards" The Marshal says that Mrs. Smith
son declined q reward, but that he il going
to send to her New York address draft
for $500 before he is forty-eight hours
older.
The crime for which White is now under
sentence was perpetrated on the night of
June %, last, between Del Norte and Ala
mosa, Colorado. White fixed up figures by
the roadside representing men, and then,
Alone, stopped coach bound for Alamosa
with thirteen passengers Covering them
with his revolver, he ordered them to step
out and stand up in line. He then pulled
caps over their eyes, pinioned their hands
behind their backs, and went through them.
He next searched the United States mail,
and from the whole exploit obtained tho
sum of 81, 100. Leaving the victims, he
mounted his horse and rode to Alamosa,
where he stopped for the night. Before
morning the coach and plundered passengers
arrived at the same hotel. White ate break;
fast with the people he had plundered the
night before, but was not recognized After
the meal he went to the depot with the IN
tsntion of going to Pueblo While waiting
for the train he was arrested by the City
Marshal of Alamosa on description tele-
graphed from Fayetteville, Ark, where he
had committed similar robbery. He was
taken to Pueblo, tried and sentenced to tho
penitentiary for life for robbing the United
States mail. After his conviction he made a
desperate and almost successful attempt to
escape from Jail, frightening the Sheriff and
his deputy with an imitation pistol, made OF
wood, leather and tin foil He was then
sent to Laramie, Wyoming, but the prison
there was not considered strong enough to
hold him, SO he was ordered to Detroit
White is 20 years DID, of rather pleasing
appearance, and of gentleuanly address
when he pleases. The Marshal says that ht
never uses profane language, and neithe
drinks whiskey nor chews tobacco. III
confesses to having robbed nine stages alone
and many more in company with Others
On June 3, he stopped and rifed stag
near GAINESVILLE Texas, and on June 10, on
l near Fayetteville, Ark. Whit, claims II
have never shot at or injured any passenger
during all his experience. He is heavil
chained, and guarded by two men. but is con
fident of his ultimate escape and return to tn
9 mountains