The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-05-13
A Horse with u MistOrY

"Do you see that gray horse Jack Curry
is driving?' said Chief Speers to Times re-
porter yesterday, as u well-known hack
man passed police headquarters. "Well,
that animal if he could talk could tell
heap about Jesse James, the McDaniels
boys and their robberies -
why, he's nothing but common hack
horse, and don't look as if he ever had lite
enough to attract Jesse James"
YES, that is So but he has a record.
Thomp McDaniels who was killed after the
Huntington, West Virginia, bank robbery,
rode the animal from Muncie, Kansas, the
night the Kansas Pacific train was robbed,
aud is the same one poor Witcher, one of
the Pinkerton's detectives, WAS tied upon
and murdered, after his capture near Kear-
ney."
With the above pointers the reporter
sought out prominent eX-oniCial, who
was here when the events above named
took place, and the following facts were OBJ
tanned: The horse above mentioned form
erly belonged to old man McDaniels, who
kept livery stable out ON Grand avenue,
near Seventeenth street. Thompson and
"Buu" Mechanics, sons OF the above, both
thought great deal OF the animal and rode
him whenever they had chance. The
boys had been bushwhackers during
the war and were warm, personal
friends of the James boys and Youngels.
The afternoon before Detective Witch, r
was murdered, in 1873, Jesse Jane,
came TO Kansas City AND rode over
into Clay county ON the McDanels gray
horse, and at his mothers house, near
kearney, Witcher was captured by Jesse
and Frank and accused of being one
of Pinkerton's men. The fellow of course
tnH hut La. Has.
ANA about dark tied the detectives hands
behind his back and placing him on the
gray horse, rode to Blue Mills landing and
crossed the Missouri river by ierry-boat at
that point. The ferry -maSter noticed that
the Two heavily-armed strangers had a
| prisoner, but said nothing, and the next
morning Witcher was found dead in the
middle of the road, aoout four miles from
Independence, with u bulet.hole in his
forehead and paper pinned upon his
breast read: The way we treat all Pink
erion's detectives who come to Missouri ~
In the field close at hand was found the
wards Bud McDaniels claimed the ami
nal us his own. In 1874 the Muncie
train robbery occurred, and the same night,
about ! O'Clock, Bud McDaniels was seen
riding turiously up Grand avenue upon his
gray charger, and two days later he was ar
rested on Main street by Police Officer Col
lopy. His connection with the Kansas Pa.
cifc robbery, his trial, escape and death In
the woods near Lawrence are facts of his.
tory. The night of his arrest by Collopy, a
friend fastened to the livery stable on
Grand avenue and said to Thomp. McDan.
iels; Bud has been arrested on Main
street."
as he hurt?n
No he was drunk and the police took
him in"
~ he kill any one?n
He did not know enough to do that
THE id drunken fool was all Thomp,
said aud then bnckling on two huge re.
volvers he mounted the ever-iai,hlul gray
horse, aud the words "see il they capture
me without some one being killed." gal
loped away and was never again seen alive
here, being shortly attcrward killed in West
| Virginia.
The horse he left ut Independence, and
after passing from one hand to another
driited into the hack service, where he re.
mains. He has been an evcntful career,
ana OF his three most famous riders, Jesse
James aud the McDahiels boys, all died
violent deaths.-[ Kansas City Times.