The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-01-28
Additional Gossip and Conjecture as TO
the Identity of the Dead RObber-.-
The Burlingame Special.
Mr.. Putney, the Restaurateur, Taketll
the Wings of the Morning, and
$500.
George Blenkin Sentenced to Two
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Dave.
A Texas & Pacific Brakeman Crushed
by the Wheels.
Other Interesting LOca! Matter.
The Robbers Identity.

Undertaken Smith still has possession of
the corpse of the robber shot while attempt
ing to rob the st. George hotel safe Satur-
day night. \ number fpersons have call
ed to view the remains, the majority of
them prompted, no doubt, by the cravings
of morbid curiosity, but several have i'm
piled knowledge as to his antecedents.
Nothing satisfactory could be gathered
from these parties, however, and the myS-
terry whether common place or sensational
still enshrouds the motionlesS form. Yes
terday Mr.. J. Livingston, of Plano, called
at Mr.. Smiths office and after looking at
the corpse said that he was satisfied that it
was that of one John Il. Patterson, and that
he had u sister who married man
named Howard, who resides at Lindsburg,
Kansas.
In connection with the aboye state
ment the following clipping from the st.
louis Republican of Thursday may prove
interesting
THE LETTER IDENTIFIED.
BURLINGAME, KANSAS, January 25.-The
author of the letter found upon the dead
robber at Dallas, Texas, has been found in
this city in the person of Mrs. Mary Hart
She SAYS she wrote the letter as printed in
the dispatches to her nephew, Otis Gowdy,
who left here for Texas about a month ago.
She says the description given OF the rob-
Der is nearly, but not quite, a description of
Otis, and says she received Il letter from
him few days ago, stating that he had
been robbed OF all he had, and she thinks
the robber may have taken the letter
among the other things, and had it upon
his person when shot by the hotel clerk.
The father, however, and family friends
an nob alnrn,aI and t.l M IA ,rn "a
sent to Dallas for further description. A
letter was received from Otis Gowdy, dated
\ the day OF the shooting, saying he was
employed in Dallas sketching Tor a land
scape painter, and was boarding at a hotel,
paying $1,000 per week. The picture found
4 upon the dead robber, together with the
beautiful girl, corresponds to one here OF
Otis ard his cousin, whom he wished to
marry, but, being refused by the parents,
LETT the place for Texas in II bad state OF
mind. The family is highly respectable, and,
4 if the dead robber is really Otis, he
\ must have committed the deed when really
not in his right mind, as he could have had
all the money he needed by writing for it.
Nothing but the sending here of the like.
4 ness of the rObber found upon his person,
will settle the question of identity. The
last word received from Otis was that he
4 intended going on to New Orleans.
1t is probable that the above excerpt
from the st. Louis Republican details the
/ dead mans true identity and antecedents
1.-THE fact that the dead man represented
< himself as an artist, and that he was here
K sketching for pictorial paper TALES with
'the letter written by Otis Gowdy to
shs relatives from Dallas, on the day of the
Shooting. Ii Otis Gowdy was in Dallas the
Nday the dead man was shot, then it is not
Reasonable that the dead man is other
Ethan he. II he is or was, other than Otis
fGOwdy, how came he with Otis
NGowdy's letter and how came he
<1o claim to be an artist and in
he same business Otis Gowdy came IL
y Dallas upon? 1t would be a coincidence re.
4pnarkable indeed, that an artist in Dallas
ton sketching tour, should have robbed an
Nartst in Dallas on the same mission, and
THAT such robber should claim to be from
.tihe same town in a distant State, where
'tUis Gowdy lived.