The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1882-06-15
More Train Nobbor News.


A HERALD reporter yesterday made dill
gent Investigation in quarters liable to be
possessed Conformation, TO learn additional
news about train robbery matters. lie
found it subject Of fruitful results, and
gives the HERALD readers the benefit. Two
gentlemen, well known to this community,
are deserving of the credit of having sue
cessfully developed the plans of the robbers
and signally delicate dthem. They are Dep
uty United States Marshall Tom Gerrin OF
Denton, and Division Superintendent !. IL
Keller, of the Missouri Pacific road, mead
quarters at Fort Worth. Fully three weeks
ago Mr.. Gerrin discovered the plot Of the
highwaymen to rob the Missouri ,Pacihc.
His knowledge of the details OF the con-
templated affair was so plain and
full that Superintendent Keller sue
ceeded in having all passenger,
mail and express trains under his
management run with strong qua d for
protection. On the night of the 23d of May
the robbers attempted to execute their
plans, the determination being to rob the
south-bound train on the Missouri Pacific,
at Mingo station, four miles north OF Dem
ton. By mistake they stopped a freight
train passing a few minutes i'll advance OF
the passenger train, and seeing their error,
they fled. They then concluded to rob, on
last Monday night, the west bound
Texas & Pacific train, of the Trans
continental branch, near Argyle, the track
at that point being used jointly by the Texas
d Pacific and the Missouri Pacific roads.
They were again foiled, the train selected
being so late that it was found necessary to
abandon their object for the time-being.
The attempt made on Monday morning
near Denton, and its disastrous results to
the robbers, is already known to the public
The facts recited above were furnished
yesterday by parties thoroughly poste.
aud reliable, and it gives the HERALD
pleasure to accord to Mr.. Gerrin the praise
ne deserves in the premises. The parties
who informed the reporter of the foregoing
facts also told him that only ore of the four
robbers are now i'll the land of the living
and at large. One, it will be remembered,
named s. 2. Shelton was found dead Mon
day afternoon, not more than eighty feet
from where he attempted to aid in the rob
berry. Another, named Joseph Carter, sur.
rendered Monday afternoon and turned
states evidence. A third, there is not the
slightest doubt, was oyertaken MondLy
night in the timber ten miles from Denton.
and after a stubborn resistance was killed
and buried by the posse The fourth is
still alive, but is not believed to be in
Texas. No one but few officials are
aware OF tue names OF THESE TWO latter, Out
they are said to be professional and noted
highwaymen, whose identity, for iudicious
reasons, is withheld from the public. 1t is
also learned that Mr.. Gerrin has been an
almost constant escort to trains since the
discovery to rob the Missouri Pacific, and
that he was on board he mail car when it
was attacked. There is good reason for be-
lieving that the only train robber ever
killed in the overt act of his crime bit the
dust from receiving the contents of GERMS
gun. It's understood that the railroad people
propose to properly demonstrate their APP
probation of the valuable services of this
intrepid and tireless officer. The robber
Joseph Carter, who surrendered and who is
now in Jail, is learned to be the uncle of
Charles Carter, at one time arrested as
member of the Sam Bass gang, but who,
before he could be tried under that head,
was arrested and convicted of
robbing a store on Red river, in
Cooke county, and sent to the peHiten-
tiary for five years. He escaped few
ago and is still at large. His rob-
Der relative now in Denton Jail, had also
just completed two years term at Hunts
vile. 1t is evidently not IA good season
for train robbers in Texas.