The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-07-07

| -four oil over tho floor, broken glass. bottles
holasses, sugar; the money drawer gone
and the floor was stained with the blood oil
the victim. The struggle had evidently beer
n hard one, tho poor old German nsbun9
against bis sssailsnts. single handed anc
alone, as best he could, but in vain.
THE TRACKS OF Two MEN
were found leading from the store and into Q
cotton patch adjoining. where the tin boz
in which the old German kept BIZ
money was found broken open and
rla.d, some two hundred yards distant from
where the murdered man lay. Here the
| murderers had halted and divided their spoils
The murder in all its circumstances was q
horrible one.
sCHUMAKER,
the victim, wins over fifty years of age, and
was liked by all. Excitement ran high at
the time of the murder, and threats OF lynch
| ing the perpetrators if found were made.
rhe county WAS up in arms and the hunt
began in earnest.
Close to the murdered mans residence
lives
AN OLD CoLoRED MAN
named johnson. He informed the
officers th,t two young colored men
had come to his house on the morning of the
murder and asked for food He gave a
minute description of the two. to which Yves
Pollard and Adam Thompson answered.
The officers and citizens then went in
PURSUIT.
1t was supposed that they had LETT the
country. According to Thompson's state
ment they went first TO Collin county and
from there to F4Dnin county, where they
subsequently separated. Cant, their con-
federate, disappeared and has never been
seen or heard sluce. Thompson went to
Olebur,e, where the mother of Pol
lard lived. Afterwards Thompson
and Pollard met here. and en- their presen ce
being male known 10 the officers the pursuit
of them began in earnest, and within short
time they were caught by the officers and
! lodged in the county jail.
DESCRIPTION.
Thompson was between twenty-six end
twenty-seven years of age; black; six feet
high; robust, AMI weighed about one hun.
dred and seventy five pounds; his left eye
WAS inclined TO seuint. lie ssld it was put
out by being jobbed with fishing pole by
| his brother, when a boy. do Was
| over the average intelligence for one of his
race; could read but could not write, and
passionately fond of newspapers. de was
erect 10 his carriage, and dlgnifed in his
manner.
HIS DEMEANoR.
During his confinement he conducted
himself in such manner as to elicit special
kind attention from the guards, never having
given them any trouble whatever. lie
passed
HIS LAST DAYS
in reading the Bible and singing and pray
ing with colored preachers yet he admitted
that he hadn't got religion" but felt
that there was some great Being that would
come TO his rescue in dea b, in whom he hat
all conf fence. he believed in 6 great here's
after, and that he was going to better
world than this. He said when boy he
looked forward with pleasure and fond an
ticipat:on to the day when be would arrive
at manhood, but that since he had reached
it he had seen nothing but trouble and trib,
ulaton. He could not, he said, conceive
how there was another world worse
than this had been to him
He thought it was hard to die for crime
that Others had committed, yet he had 10 b.
hung, and that was all there was OF it. Ht
referred to the fact that he had been
IMMURED IN A DUNGEON,
and prisoner held for the awful crime oil
murder during the long period OF tive years
He was loud in his praise of his attorney
Mr.. O. F. Clint, who, he said, had done
everything in his power to save him, and thai
he had visited him end labored faithfully tt
save him, but that after his fate was newt
able, be cheered and comforted him in every
possible way.
AN INTERVIEW WITH THOMPSON.
| A reporter of the HERALD visited the cul-
prit in his cell few days ago, and asked hin
If he had any thing TO say relative to the
crime for which he eapiated with his lit
upon the scsffold yesterday. He replied:
'"You remember that when was sentenced
last April l msde q statement which you
published in the HERALD at that time. That
was true statement and have nothing to
add or take from it, and l want you
to promise me that when
am hung, if you publish anything about 1t
to publish it just as you did then. You
kaow that newspaper men like TO maxi
things read fine whether there is any thing
ia il ~ make il read chat way oT not, snd J
hope you will publish it the same way as yot
did then, for am not guilty OF the crime
and have no confession TO make, though
certain newspaper reporters have tried u
make me confess, when l had nothing e
confess. They have worried me nearly K
death. [Hsre tears came into his eyes. =.
The r. porter assured him that il should
be republlshed word for word as II was pub
lshed at the time. Here With Is
HIS STATEMENT.
The question has been asked me II ! In
tended W make confes ion Of the crime o.
| ,,h;oh 7 a., oh.r0~d Now ainca Il havs