The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-01-24
Additional Particulars of the Attempt
TO Robthat Safe Saturday Night
The Man dies.--What His
Effects Revealed.
Report Of the Proceedings of the
Meeting Called to Organize
Cotton Exchange.
Arrival of Il Number Of Officials OF
the Chicago, Texas & Mexican
Central.
Meeting Of the Bois d. Are Club...Pre.
pairing for the S@ngerfest.
Other Interesting Local Gleanings.
Death of tho Safe RoDber.

Death of tho Safe RoDber.
The man giving his name as Ii A. Little,
and claiming to come from Lindsburg,
Kansas, who attempted to rob the safe ut
the st. George Hotel Saturday night, and
was shot in the act by the night clerk, Mr.
I. +. Parker, died at nineteen minutes to 4
O'Clock Sunday afternoon, in room Al of the
hotel. He suffered the most excruciating
pain until about an hour previous to his
death. All efforts to secure full state
ment of his past life were unavailing, and
he died. taking with him any secret he
might be possessed of affecting himself, his
relations or his confederates, if he had any
of the latter class of friends or
associates, There was nothing among his
effects to positively identify him The fol-
Lowing letter found on him would seem to
indicate that III. A. Little is an alias under
which he was travelling:
BuRLINGAME, January 15.-DEAR NEPHEW:
/ hope you are in little better humor now
than when you wrote to me. | would have
written sooner, but thought would let your
anger cool first. had delightful visit in
Illinois, found your grandmother very sick,
she was better when | left her. She told
me to ask Otis II he remembered how mis-
chievous he was when he was little. She
said she could not keep his fingers ont of
anything. She was making bread one dav.
and had to go out of the room, and put the
bread under the stove out ofsght. Whenshe
returned You were standing in it, saving:
Tut tut naughty boy" She wanted to
when | bid you goodbye, it should be so
long before | should see you again. 1t
almost seems as il one OF my own BOYS was
gone. 1t may be years before we ever
meet again, as we expect to 20 back to
Peoria again in short time;
will ship some things this week wish you
were going with us. | got quite u lot of
presents i'll lllinois-among the rest d nice
album, and | want you to send me pict-
ure of yourself to put in it. 1t want it
cabinet-siZc, II you please. | am very glad
| am not down there to drink coffee with
you; don't think | should like it. Was
sorry to hear of your being robbed expect
will have TO come and take care of YOU
Well, expect | have written more now
than you will want TO read. Take care OF
yourself and write soon.
Bye-bye,
AUNTY.
Sunday morning the attending physi-
clans extracted the bullet from the lower
part of the wounded mans groin the course
of the ball having been downward and
forward from point through the upper
part of the hip bone about half an inch to
the left of the spinal column.
memorandum book was found
among his effects with the following
names entered therein: III. A. Little, Dallas.
Texas; J. o. Martin, Fort Worth c. T..
0rville, Kansas City, James Waverly, Aus.
tin. Ills valise had the name G. T.. Or
Vile on it, and a pair of buckskin gauntlet
gloves were marked with the initials &c. l..
O.'-undoubledly intended to represent G.
l.. Orville. The letter had no enyelope TO
indicate to whom it was addressed, and as
1t begins " Dear Nephew and closes
Aunty,' 1t throws no real light on the
writer orreceiver, further than TO strengthen
the belief that ii. A. Little was an alias
and that Otis was part of the
dead mans name, The only
name in the memorandum list, having an
o MS one of the initials, il will be observed
is"J. o. Martin, and the real name OF the
robber may possibly be j. Otis Martin
But on the third finger OF his left hand was
found pretty gold ring, of the chased
band style, on the inside of which wlsrn.
graved M, $. to I. F." and on the nutsidc
was engraved the initials at. f." This
ring may have been stolen, or 1T. f." may
be the dead mans initials, and M. ST.
may stand for the name of n sweetheart or
u friend. Among the effects was also
found a tin'type gem photograph of the
deceased and beautiful young lady,
ience scene, his picture side
view, hers front view. II was a good pict.
urc of him, only he at the time of taking
had neavy mougtachc, while at the time
OF his death he had no beard, except a
heavy, unshaven growth of about week
or ten days \ HERALD reporter endeav-
ored, for over an hour Just previous to
ldttle's death 1--WE shall call him Little for
convenience, to get him to make state.
sol. al II 4.
who the above-named persons were, what
his real name was, what he had been DOING
recently, etc., but he refused nearly every
request, saying he would not connect the
names ot his relations with crime, and
tnat lac would not give away his aSsn.
clales or conicdcratcs. When asked II he
realized that he had to die, he said he did
when told that his physicians said Il was
impossible for him to live through the dnv,
ne did not appear alarmed, nor did Il assist
materially IN securing u statement. When
asked about his mother, Il seemed to touch
tender spot. and he opened his eyes,
looked rcgrctiully and rs Il he hoped for
sympathy, graspcd the reporters hand
tightly, and said: Mother died when WAS
little child. This is the result of bad assn.
CATIONS" lie blamed no one for hi, fate
but himself and before dying called MIR
Parker up and asked his pardon, nnl
pieN'Vu lhul nc nuu uune right IN shooting
MN. He asked Mr.. McLeod's pardon for
the attempt TO rob the safe. 10 the rcporter
Little protested that the name L. A.
orville on his valise, on his memo.
rransunf book, aud the initials 40
f. o." did not indicate anything.
That Oryille was fictitious name he had
adopted, and that he wrote the name aud
me initials where they were found. but
the mention of this name appeared To piye
MN more trouble than any other. itis
surmiscd that the dead robber was mem.
yer OF q gang of desperate characters. and
1nat The different names ON the memoran.
uum We're the ones for which he was to ask
ipr mall at the post.oiilccs opposite each.
Jus, before he died he informed the report.
q. mat his real name was II. A. Little and
mat he realized he was about TO die when
ne made the assertion. lie said his fathers
name was J. NJ. Little; that he resided a,
i'uhuspurg, MCPHERSON county, Kansas