The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-12-31
CoWardly Murder Of an Inofleusl,e
Railroad Man at Texarkana
Yesterday by Brutal
RuIllan,
Who is Seized by the Railway EMPLOYEES
and Barely Escapes Lynching
at their Hands.
Tramps Rob and Burn a Caboose at
Troupe...ilew Yesterday Passed
at the Capital.
Heavy ShipmCnt of Hldessand Peltries
From Eagle Pass.-.0ther Frou.
tier Doings.
San Antonio Excited over the Approach.
ing Aldermanic Election.
Railway Jots and Tittles--.Items from
Galveston.
Other Interesting State Na,ys
San Antonio Excited over the Approach.
ing Aldermanic Election.
Railway Jots and Tittles-..Items from
Galveston.
Other Interesting State New,
Galveston.

Galveston. --
Special to the Herald.
GALVESTON, December 3O.-.Mr. II. NJ.
Healy, Irish memberof Parliament, who
is to address the citizens of Galvestan at
the fremont 0pera-house Monday evening
upon the subject OF Ireland and Her
Cause, telegraphs from New Orleans that
he will arrive in the morning. Mr.. Healy
bears the reputation of having given the
English landlords more trouble than any
other man IN Ireland.
The journal this afternoon, reviewing the
crime for which the negress Nancy Holmes
was pardoncd few days since by Governor
Roberts and who was sentenced to life i'm
prisonment in the penitentary, presents it
in all its iiendishncss and concludes "The
exercise of the pardonlng power In this
case in an insult to the decent, law-abiding
residents of this city,
| The details of the crime are as follows.
| On .he morning of November 10th, 1872, at
Frogtown, near the freight yards of the
Galveston, Houston Il Henderson Railroad
was discovered the dead body of white
woman, clad in a single thin garment. The
inquest developed the lnct that
| tilo uVCtastu, Nls' Muly nuuucll, Nu-
man of Incorporate habits and well-known
in the city, went into the negro settlement
in Frogtown, on the l4th of November
1872, while drunk, where she was set upon
by several women, taken to vacant house
| terribly beaten with sticks and clubs by
two negresses, Nancy Holmes and Pleas
Sydnsr, and a nameless outrage perpetrated
on her. The body was disinterred and a sec.
ond inquest was held and the post-mortem
examination resulted in verdict Of" death
| from violence, at the hands of parties un
known" November q an indictment was
presented, charging Nancy Holmes ant
Pleas. Sylnor with murder. Thursday
December B, 1872, Nancy Holmes was put
on trial in the Criminal District Court
The details of the trial were o.
q repulsive character. The pris
oner evinced no concern whatever
during the trial, and when the jury ren
dered a verdict OF murder in the first de
gree, punishment assessed ut Imprisonment
in the penitentiary for life, she moved not
muscle of her countenance.
The Galveston News at the time said; Th,
case in all its features was the most outra
geous disclosed by the records o
Texas, one for which no punishment II
within the scope of human power.
The German steamship India arriveC
this morning from Middesborough, Eng
land, with l0,04 bars Of railroad iron
Lawrence Barrett's rendition Of the char
acter "Cassius," in the play of Juliu
Cesar, is pronounced by competent critics
beyond criticism.