The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-09-23
REDMOND THE OUTLAW.
rwsnty.seven Years Oid-Rendered n
murderer by the Cowardly inso-
lance of Internal Revenue Officers.


renee of Internal Revenue Officers.
New York Evening Express.
Iouis r. Redmond has been moonshiner
in South Carolina, but was captured last
April, and the various stages of h's,trisl have
occupied the time until few Gays since.
He is now confined in penitentiary of this
state, having just been brought north for the
purpose of more secure Incarceration. He
has been depicted asa blood-!hirsty despers-
do who had killed many men during bis
s.sv 10 the south. A correspondent had a
talk with Redmond on the train near Dan
Vile Virginia, while on his way 10 this city,
strongly guarded. The correspondent says
| had learned that Redmond was in the
smoking car. After entering the smoker |
stopped opposite Il seat upon which pale
faced youth WAS sitting with one knee drawn
up on the seat, Bending over him asked
in an UNDERGONE Can you point out Remond
TO me? Redmond is my name, was his an
sw9r.
All, but mean Lewis X. Redmond, the
noted outlaw, replied. am Lewis Il. Red
mond, he answered. He had the name, but
not the face, nor voice, nor figure Of the man
| was looking for and | required time to
reconcile my mind TO possible identity be-
tween the red handed Desperate of whom
had read and the tranquil vissged gentle
voice before me. OF the score of men in
the car some were New York arummers
and a young Epscopslian clergyman; there
was not one whom | would not have sooner
pointed out as the probable moonshiner.
His features are of delicate chiseling, express
siye of finest sensibilties, his complexion
fair. His hair and mustaChes tastetully trim
med are dark brown. Clearer, softer blue
eyes or kindlitr glance never looked from
the soul of girl And to this blending of
personal attractions vOcalism malodious and
gentle and the reader will wonder as | did in
contemplating him, where existed and what
were the elements Of character constituting
this man o
LAW BREAKER AND MAN.sLAYER,
| am Georgian by birth, he answered to
query of mine. My birthplace WAS about
twenty miles from Atlanta. When | was
two years old, in 1858, my parents removed
TO Transatlantic, on the western counties Of
North Carolina. | am now twenty-seven
years old.
How long since your first affair with the
revenue officers? | asked. That was eight
wears ago, when | was nineteen. That first
difficulty, ne continued was forced on me.
did my best TO avoid it, but it was pushed
on me.
Tell me the circumstances, | requested of
him. Well, | will 90 back to the beginning.
You SEQ, away back in the mountains where
we lived, there wasn't much money, for it
was long ways to where cropa had to be
hauled to sell them. When | was seven,
teen l began driving cattle across the
mountains, ard made some money by the
business. lnever went TO school, What
title have learned about books | picked up
the best way could. After 1 mad been
trading in cattle about year, "a widow
woman, living neighbor TO my folks, was
about to be sold out for taxes, and she begS
gel me to lend her money. | let her have
$40, which paid her out. She tried who'll
year to pay me back, and seemed worried
about it. At last she asked me TO take pay
in some whisky she had, and just to oDlge
her | took tie whisky, and sold it tor just
enough money TO pay back what | lent her.
/ didn't know Just how | was breaking the
law, for | talked about that like | would
about any other trade. There WAS deputy
marshal named Alfred Duckworth who
heard about it, and one day he met me in
the road and leveled 6 pistol at me and told
me to surrender. asked him what had
done, but he would not tell me, out cursed
me. | mad no pistol. told him to stop
pointing his at me, but he kept it leveed at
me and kept on cursiDg me. The man who
was driving my wagon / knew, had pistol
in the feed>trough. | ran for it, and we
both fred at the same time. His bullet just
touched tho head of the driver, but mine
killed him. That was my first
TROUBLE WITH A REVENUE OFFICER.
What was done with you for this? Moth
ing. When the grand jury met the judge
told them that as DuckworLh had no war
rant he was acting unlawfully by trying &c
arrest me by force, and that | was justified il
using the same kind of force in resisting ar
rest, But some Of the other deputy mar
snas were mad at me for killing Duck
worth, and began making threats against me
Well, heard about that, and | got mac
like and said | wouldn't take Il dare and be
gan trading in whisky then, out of'spite,
reckon.
What other officers have you killed be-
sides Duckworlh? l asked. Duckworth II
the only man ever killed. All these thing
the papers have said about my killing Others
besides him are false. did try to kill an.
other marshal named Il. Ii. Barton. Ths
was in January, 1877. lie and squad o
mon with him surprised me one night, anC
had shot guns leveled at my head wheI
they woke me. They crossed and I'D my
hands, and then Bq-'oT searcbed mt
and took one hundred dollar
from me- and then gave ms u hard kick
in my left side. was mad then for true.
was Just boiling hot. Barton told me to pu,
on my shoes. He was swearing at me wher
l stopped down to put them on. He wa
standing close by mo. dumped up at him
punched him in the side with my elbow ant
as he fell | ran out of the housein the snow
barefooted. found man who united MI
hands. My wrists we're bleeding where tn
ropes had cut them. ierked up gur
from the mans house and ran barefooted tC
the road, where Barton was driving off m,
horse and wagon, and shot him In the shout
der l get three years now for that.
You had many raiding parties after 70,
from time to time?
Yes. have been shot OF enc hundred AM
siIty-two times.
There was no bosstfulness in Redmond
recitation Of these and other incidents, bu
when he was telling Of the occurrence of hi
arrest and ill-ussge by Barton, began (,
read the secret OF his desperate life. TIL
mild blue eyes underwent transformation
OF expression, and of color, and In tho 70
mem6rance of Barton's indigni,es towart