The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1882-03-30

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Tho appearance Of Tho shove name In tlit
columns OF tho HERALD must attract M,
attention Of all the readers u the paper
WHO know or have heard Of tho exploits oI
Sam Bass In this section Of tho state some
four years ago. Frank Jackson was his
"let bower" one of his trusted lieutonants
aud most confidential henchmen. lie
| knew that lac could depend upon Frank no
matter what difficulties and dangers might
bcsot him, and he knew that he was always
cool and collected, aud that his judgment
aud advice were ever worthy OF attention
and consideration. For these reasons Jack.
son wos dear to Bass, and was with him in
all his desperate aud perlous adyentures,al-
ways oc upyiDg position requiring nerve,
presence OF mind and prOwess lie was
with Bass in his adventure and renCOntre
in Georgetown, Williamson county, when
the deputy sheriff OF that county was
killed and Deputy Sheriff Maurice Moore,
of Travis county, was wounded by, Bass
and his friends, Frank Jackson and Sea-
born Barnes. In This rencontre Barnes was
killed dead and Bass MORALLY wounded,
dying the next day. Jackson assisted Bass
to mount his horse, ana held him i'll
.he saddle as they retreated at
full speed under the fire of Major Jones and
his rangers, and only left his friend and
leader when IL WAS uppdIcHJ llldJ nc was
snoG unto death and could not possibly es-
cape. Lifting Bass from his horse he laid
him down gently under broad-branched
tree, and making him US comfortable rs
possible, he tenderly babe him farewell
forever, leaving INN in the WOODS to die
alone or to be found first by the
pursuing rangers, as fate might
decide, and starting out on his journey OF
escape from the clutches of the law. 1t is
but Justice to Frank Jackson to say that,
although he was an outlaw, an lshmael
wlIh ms hand against every man and every
mans hand against him, he was faithful TO
lis friends, and would not have left Sam
Bass while he had life to assist and defend
him if there had been even glim-
mer of hope for his escape. Al
though large rewards were offered
for Jackson's arrest by the state, by rhe
Houston IL Texas Central and the Texas u
Pacific railroad companies and by the ex-
press companies, nothing was heard or
known of his whereabouts after his hurried
departure from Georgetown, unless 1t was
by his relatives perhaps, until last fall about
November. Some time during November
last there were two gentlemen in this city,
and perhaps three, who received lntorma-
ton as to the whereabouts of Jackson. lie
was then in Arizona, and the two
gentlemen referred to went out into that
territory, and, while our reporter cannot
y
that Jackson's whereabouts were definitely
ascertained, and that he would have been
arrested then if it had been possible, which
it was not, as he was in the midst of a nest
of outlaws so well-armed, so reckless and
desperate, that no reasonably-sized posse
comitatus even could have apprehended
him.
city by another party other
than the two above referred to, on the 10th
of last month. This party received II letter
on that date from II. j. Franklin, city mar
shall Of Santa Fe, New Mexico, inIormlns
him that Jackson was then living at Ii s
Vegas, New Mexico, and inquiring if The
reWa offered by the railroad companies
were sill standing. Since this o,her par
ties here have learned that Jackson
was holding ont at Tom bstohe,
Arizona territory. Our reporter cannot
say oil, u verify that officers have gone to
effect The arrest of Jackson, but he is OF
that impression and he will not be sur
urtsed to hear some startling news from
Arizona ..or New Mexico in connection with
Jackson, in the course the next week.
There is little doubt but that Jackson is
in the section of country referred TO
but he does not seem to tarry
long at any one place. The proba-
ollities are that he still fears ar
rest, dreading the punishment that would
surely be meted out to him for the numer-
GUS train and stage rObberies in which he
was engaged, and the murder of Deputy
Sheriff Grimes at Georgetown, and there
fore he roams about, always on the alert
and carrying his life in his hand, in that
region where New Mexico, Arizona and
Mexico adjoin each other. That he is ever
in the midst of gang OF outlaws and fugi-
lives from justice there can be little doubt,
and when he is captured 1t must be by
strategy or by battle.