The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-12-01
DRAINED WITH AN AXE.
Killing of Young StOrekeeper in Fort
Bend County Last Tuesday.
The Murderer Escapes to San Antonio But
is Arrested by Detective Hughes.

Yesterday the police received telegram
from Sheriff Townsend instructng them to
arrest Jim Stanley who was "wanted.' giving
Il somewhat vague description of him and Of
fcring liberal reward for his arrest Among
| the means of identity was the impression of II
wound; not quite healed which Stanley had
received in Il fraCaS with Il woman. In the
course of their inquiries the police discovered
that strange negro had been seen about
HOrd'S hotc! and the gambling houses across
the San Pedro who was of the same stature
and form of the individual wanted but the
clothes We're different. These Of course the
police knew could have been changed. TO
avoid suspicion Detcc,iV' Hughes got another
negro to interrOgute him and then Stanley adj
mitted having recently come from Columbus,
which is not far from the scene Of the
tragedy. Hughes and Officer Gleason, who
now arrived on the scene, kept Stanley in sight
while he spent his time in gambling. Towards
dusk stanley went to Il tlnale stand where he
S,Ipped. This done, Hughes and Gleason ar
rested Stanley and conveyed him to the city
jail on Il charge of vagrancy in order that he
might be Intercepted and examined. He adj
mitted that his name was Jim Stanley, but told
various stories of his whereabouts which we,
very contradictory, but he evidently strove to
show that he had been in the city long enough
to show he was not the man wanted and that
he had not come from the vicinity of the crime
Detective Hughes here called upon Waterman
kOhr to bring a light, and on examining the
mans head the wound mentioned in the telc-
gram was found on the left side. His clothes
were searched but all that was found upon him
was put int, Il cell and subsequently, was idcn-
titled by Sheriff Townsend, who had come
hithcr to seek him. to be the man wanted. He
was then taken to the county Jail
Sheriff Townsend gave details of the crime
of which Stanley is charged. 1t was committed
at Eagle Lake, in Fort Bend county. The vic
tim was Il young man named Strickland, aged
Is years, who kept ii store there and was known
to many to have acquired mony. He retired to
rest on Monday night and on Tuesday the store
was unopened, but the ncighbOrS thinking he
had gone to buy stores, had no idea of the trag-
"dy occurring in their midst until the after
noon when Il negro girl noticed blood in front
of the store. After consultation the neighbOr>
broke open the door and found that Strickland
had been murdered while he slept. He lay IN
a large pool of blood and his brains were scat
tered around. The murder had evidently hien
committed with an TX, his head having been
split by the blade. Sheriff Townsend was sent
for to arrest Stanley on suspicion, as it was
known that Stanley had been accustomed to
sleep with Strickland, the latter having Il 50
we're cold. The sheriff had passed Stanley at
Columbus station on his way down to the
scene of the tragedy, bat did not there have
any idea of his being the murderer. 1T was APP
parent that the man was en- route to san An
tonic and he therefore telCgruphed Marshal
Shariein and came on here to participate in
the search.