The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1882-01-26

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Ltllo's death I've shall call hin Little for
convenience. tu set him ~ mako u state
ment indicating where his friends reside,
who the nbnyp-namcd persons were, what
his real name was, what lac hnd been doing
recently, etc, but lac refused nearly every
request, saying he wOull not connect the
names OF his relations with crime, ana
that he would not give away his nsso.
ciotcs or conicdcratcs. When asked It he
realized that he had 10 die, hc said he did'
When told that his physicians snid 1t was
lmpossiblo for him TO live through the day,
he did not appear alarmed, nor did II assist
materially in securing a statement. When
asked about his mother, il seemed to touch
tender spot, and he opened his eyes,
looked regrctiully and MS If he hoped for
sympathy. grasped the reporters hanu
tightly, and said: "Mother died when was
little child. This is the result OF bad asso-
cations" lie blamed no one for his tate
hut himself, and before dying called Mr.;
Parker up and asked his pardon, and
asserted that he had done right in shooting
him. He asked Mr. McLeod's pardon fol-
the attempt to rob the safe. To the reporter
Little protested that the name q. e.
Orville on his valisc, on his memo
ranelum book, and the initials NC.
II. o." did not indicate anything;
that Orvlle was fictitious name he had
adopted, and that he wrote the name and
the initials where they were found. But
the mention of this name appeared to give
him more trouble than any other 1t is
surmised that the dead robber was mem
Der of gang of desperate characters, ana
| that the different names on the memoran'
dunn were the ones for which he was to ask
for mail at the post-ol1ices opposite each
Just before he died he informed the report,
err that his real name was II. A. Little, and
that he realized he was about to die when
| he made the assertion. lie said his father :
name was J. NJ Little; that he resided al
! Lindsburg, Mcpherson county, Kansas
midway between Burlinsame and Topeka
| He did not care to be taken home for burial
No amount of persuasion could induce him
| to tell who "Aunty," by whom the lett Ell. was
written, was. After death coroner's jury
was impanneled before Justice Edwards
and the following verdict rendered:
State of Texas, Dallas county.
An inquest held ut the st. George hotel
in the city of Dallas, county and state
aforesaid, on January %, 1889, held by w.
NJ. Edwards, Justice of the Peace, acting
Coroner, in and for said county, upon view
ing the dead body OF one II. A. Little, upon
the oaths of I. G. Bailey, II. 7. Aunspaugh,
Val. Winston. VIM Bradshaw A. Barber,
and J. o. Gillespie, good and lawful jurors OF
Dallas county, who being in due form sworn,
say that the deceased. IL. y. Little,
came to his death in the city Of Dal'
las, county and State aforesaid, about half
past II O'Clock p. m, January -, 1857, from
The effects of pistol wound, the pistol be-
ing i'm the hands of one Theodore Parker,
and was by him taken from Little while
| Little was attempting to rob the hotel safe
on the night of January q, 1882, about half
past II O'Clock p m, and we are OF the
opinion that the said I. f. Parker was war
rantcd by the facts and justified i'll the act
of shooting.
| Mr.. Parker was released on $500 bond.
| Little's body was turned over to Underta-
ker Ed. Smith, who still has it in charge
| awaiting information, if it is possible to re-
ceive any, from friends or relatives, as to
what disposition to make OF
the remains. Little had on his person
when shot S3l.25, and few
miner effects. The dead man has promi-
nent scar on his left hand, evidently caused
| by burn or a scad. He also has scar
on the left side of the stomach, like small
| bullet had entered, and directly opposite,
on the right side of the stomach, scar as
if the bullet had come out there Little S
description Isl six feet high, heavy set,
prominent cheek bones, sharp nose, large
nostris, light blue eyes, heavy
head of dark brown hair, growing very
| low down or the forehead, no beard, but
very heavy unshaved growth of about
a week or ten days. These minute descrlp-
tions, memoranda and the letter ana ring,
may lead to his identity. 1t IS said that as
! he iell from the effects of Parker's shot, he
called out Jack, Jack, oh, Jack ~ and
that parties who went to the back door OF
the st. George hotel saw man run through
the vacant lot to Commerce street ard
disappear. How correct this rumor is, we
know not, but if true, it goes to show that
Little had confederate waiting on the
outside while he should commit the crime
1t is also said that about an hour before
he attempted the safe robbery he APP
preached "a hack-driver and asked how
much he would charge him to drive him to
Underwood's saloon, near the Central Rail
road track, saying he had box up there
he wanted to 20 after. For some reason he
did not engage the hack. For short time
before Little died, he made periodical calls
of George, George Come here
George" There is great amount OF mys-
cry about IL. A. Little's identity.
In the bright autumnal days the tempta
ton to comfortable exposure yields its fruit
in a most pernicious cough and irritation o.