The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-04-01
FRANK JACKSON JAILED.
The Notorious OUTLAW Traced to His
q Hiding Place, and
Brought to Bay-..He Turns Upon
the Officers.
A Lively Fight Ensues-..Details Of the
Battle.
Interview with The Dashing Desperate.

Wednesday morning the HERALD con
tanned an announcement of the fact that
the whereabouts of Frank Jackson, Sam
Bass lieutenant, had been ascertained to
he in Arizona, and that officers had gone to
Tombstone after him. The information
concerning the locality of the young despe.
RADIO was In the main correct, aud the oiii-
Ger who went to make the arrest found
him at Las Cruces, New Mexico, though he
did not find IL a pcachesand cream affair
to make the arrest.
He was taken into custody at Las Cruces
on last Wednesday afternoon about an
hour by sun, after
BATTLING FIGHT
Of some three minutes duration, in which
two outlaws, his friends, were killed one
more wounded and captured and police
man of Las Cruces killed and deputy
sheriff of Donna Anna county, New Mexico,
seriously wounded. Jackson was taken by
surprise, That is to say, as nearly so as it
was possible to surprise him, as he was al
ways on the alert and ready to re-
Sist arrest, and never out of sight
and reach of friends, lshmaels like
himself ready and willing to assist
him. He did not know that he was
known, had no suspicion that his where
abouts had been ascertained, therefore he
had not the least expectation of arrest
when taken, for his robberies here in
Texas. Ghe officer who went after him was
Deputy Sheriff James L. Genterbruck,
of Navarro county, who left Dal-
las last Saturday night. There
was with him also another officer
from this section of the state, and in max
ing the arrest he had with him Policemen
Andrew j. Biydsong and Juan Cavasas, of
Las Cruces; Policeman Cavasas, Il brave and
fearless Mexican, being killed; and Deputy
Shcriils r. s. Wilson, Il. r. Cunningham,
ignacio Ruiz, of Donna Anna county, New
Mexico, Deputy Sheriff Cunningham be-
ing wounded in the melee, a ball from a
Colts nrmy-size revolver SCATTERING his
right shoulder and another breaking his
right thigh.
and lodged him in Jail, where
Sheriff Jones now has him for safe keeping,
and whence he will not go forth until he
does so TO answer the charges against him
for robbing the mails in this county at
llutchins, at Eagle Ford and at Mesquite
at the time Bass gang stopped the railroad
trains at those stations, and for the. murder
OF Deputy Sheriff Grimes, at Round
Rock, Williamson county, in 1873.
Deputy sheriff Wilson gave to our re-
porter the following account of
THE CAPTURE
of Jackson: When Deputy Sheriff Center
bruck, of Navarro county left Dallas last
Saturday night he Went direct to Tomb
stone Arizona where Jackson was then
known to be-. When he reached Tomb
stone he learned that Jackson had left that
place with four friends Monday evening
and gone to Las Cruces. Jackson was
known in that country as Jim Curtin, and
while he had been guilty of no infracuon OF
the law either in Arizona or New Mexico,
as far as was known, still he was regarded
with suspicion and was counted as a
reckless, dangerous man, his companions
being roughs, and cowboys, he being
one of the cowboys himself. Deputy
Gcnterbruck Immediately took the
back track and hurried to Las Cruces.
Wednesday he spotted his man, and notify
ing the authorities who he and what his
mission was, they at once entered into his
plans, and the officers named were detailed
to assist him. Keeping an eye on Jackson,
he watched his opportunity, and at last,
about M hour by sun Wednesday after
noon, he saw Jackson and his companions
enter u saloon. His force were scattered
about in easy calling distance and max.
ing the signal they all closed in on the
saloon and entered 1t simultaneously py
the three doors lending into il. The house
was an adobe with only two windows, and
these, rs is the case with all the old Mexican
adobe structures, were strongly barred with
iron rods SO that escape by them was cut
Oft
There were six men in Gcnterbruck $
! .,,,l,.I,,,.. h,u,salT all
armed with revolvers and all determined
men, and Jackson had with him three
friends, and he and they were also armed
! like movable arsenals with siX-shooters and
bowie-knives and Winchester rifles. As
Gcnterbruck and his party entered the
saloon, Genterbruck leading, Tor he is as
| fearless daredevil as ever looked into the
mu1alc of rifle, he called Jackson by
name and told him to hold up his hands
that he wal his prisoner. Jackson replied
"You be damned and had his pistol out
in u twinkljnE, and would undoubtedly
have killed Genterbruck, Ii IL had not hung
lire. by that time the firing was general
and before you could coun! twenty, Police
through his brain, Deputy Sher
III Cunningham was down, hi,
right shoulder shattered and right thigh
broken, and three of yackson's gang, Ale,
Winston, known MS "Big Aleck,n and Bill
Burson, were both killed, and the third one
known only as Mexico Lie, desperately
wounded, and Jackson laying insensiblc OF
the floor of the saloon, with the "darbies
on his wrists and manacles on his ankles.
Genterbruck had given orders
NOT To KILL JACKSON
| il il could possibly DO avoided, and ia,
shots of the officers had been aimed ut hi.
three friends, and with dirctul effect too
| The officers forced the fighting after /,
commenced, though they gave the outlaw.
the first shot--Jackson's effort to kill Gen
| terbruok, when his pistol hung tire--and
they closed in on them, aud by this means
Deputy Genterbruck was able to reach
Jackson, whom he knocked senseless with
blow from his six.shootcr, and before he
recovered consciousness had him ironed
| Where was the fourth friend who had LETT
Tombstone with Jacksong It may be
asked. lie was standing at one Of
the windows of the saloon, "a locker
on in Vienna" watching closely the
progress of the fight ready
TO rush apparently In to Jaokson's assist.
ance II the officers had been worsted aud
rcpulsed. In other words no was de.
tecticc who had put up the Job on Jackson
and led him into a trap for his arrest. He
had desired TO put the weapons of all the
outlaws out Of fix, but was onlX able to yet
hold Of Jacksons pistols which lie eilecualy
cooked and jackson may rest assured
that hc hurt no one IN the melee, as the
cartriges In his pistols were all harmless.
IA wns tn,nossihlo FIR tho' outlaws