The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-01-13
TWINS WHO DIED TOGETHER.
Tao Notorious Rough. Commit suicide 10
Avoid Capture.

were puE upon slabs in the county morgue
this morning, where at least 1900 persons
who had, read or heard of the remarkable
manner M which they met their deaths came
10 look upon them. The intelligent casts OF
their features attracted attention, but not at
all in the Same degree as their likeness to
one another. As they lay side by side upon
the marbld tables IT seemed to those Eho
stopped ami studied the faces as though not
even theirl mother could easily have told
them apartl Those who had known them
in lite laid that the likeness they each bore
to the other had now become even more
striking. Their lin bs were no longer fet-
tered, but THE silk handkerchiets that had
bound thein wrists were lying by Their
bodies Sp4cial Policemen RuSk twho is
not related I'd the brothers, and Surk, who
came togethet from Philadelphia TO make
certain the identification of the bodies,
heard in full the story OF their Hight to
Trenton and their deaths.
The Rusk brothers were born, as they
lded, together, They were 20 years old,
and were natives of Philadelphia. They
learned the trade shOe.making, but only TO.
hive it up soon, after they mastered it, and
10 take to lives oi vagabondage, theft ard
Violence. There is hardly a crime in the
calendar that they have not been accused
OIL They we're arrested time and
time again, but through heir in-
telligence, their political influence,
or lhe diInculty witnesses found i'll dislin
cuiehing one from the other they always
esscaped punishment. They knew how to
maize the most of their resemblance one to
The other. They dressed in garments of
similar cut and clbth, they combed their
hair alike, they drained their mouStache
after one pattern.
In the summer on 1850 they organized the
Whitn( Fawns. Their brother Charley, "A
nuiet young man who has never given the
noIice any troubled was with them, and
nrther members wdro "Birdy" Glenn,
"WhitcS" Hamilton, johnny" Hughes
and Cole" Saltsberaer. 1t was intended
to b 3 n political club but those who joined
in nm Tint account dropped out rapidly ana
these half dozen nIled characters be.
came The only White Fawns, and
came 10 be called \ "the dirty six"
They were. thorns in THE sides of the police.
The Rusk twins led th4 rest. Cleaning out
bathrooms and liquor shores was their high
est conception OF spoTt. They were re-
veugelu, as well as daring, and Policeman
Jarvis, who was an Inquest, faithful ana
brave man and who had put some Of the
White Fawns in Jail, way by no means the
only policeman they had sworn to
! XIII score of ctizenf, us they walked
the streets Cf Philadelphia, after hay
ing read of the deaths Of Ahese desperadoeS,
felt like new men suddet y released from
long, (clt fears OF the dirty SIX" -Four
are now out of the way, tWool them being
| i'll jail.
delphia ON Christmas night, and William
was with him. Policeman Jarvis
came TO the other pa(rolman's aid
and william stabbep him II
the back and abdomelN, linen th'
twins lied. Jarvis wrs alvey last night Du
il was thought he would dlel before morn
| ing. The twins went ut onSe 10 trenton
and wandered up and Gown llhe streets al
uight not daring to enter any motel @
iu,ior store est they shouldlbe captured
Their elder brother John wal with them
| Toward morning on Tuesday they went u
the house of James Mills, al relative, OF
North Willow street, and toAd nm thel
were in trouble. Daring the DAY John
wife, Sally, came on from lpliaueiphla
expecting to find Her husband there
but he had gone back 40 fhladflphla. Sh'
says that the twins were greatly aSltateu
and their nervousness took We form o
nbiect terror when she told to thsm that 10
liCeman Jarvis was dead Sha had beet
told so in Philadelphia and she Believed II
was true. The brothers paced up and
down the room until o'SlocS on Weune'
day morning, and then, when the Mlilse'
were all in lie and aslceR, called heir SIS
ter-in.law from her ro0m.\
sally, - said one, 1--WE arc going go drowi
ourselves Our bodies WilNbe found nea
where our clothes will be pvt.
William gave her what money ne mad
quite sum, she says-and Whatever els'
lie had that would be of use( and asked he
to stay in town until their bNules had peci
recovered, and to see that they We're taRel
to their mothers in PhiladelNhla f. burial
She says she pleaded with\tHr'n GoG Il
kill themselves, but they did ". Lveu het
She felt, from the first, she sats, mat me.
were determined, and she kne(% mat thel
minds once made up, had ncyeN before oeei
changed. They went into thf yard an,
brought back SIX feet of clothcstline, whlc
they told her they would tie themselves u
with.
In tho meantime the PHILADELPHIA police
who knew that when. in 1879, khe twin
were wanted for cutting many 10 deati
they were traced TO Trenton, NOD ifeu IN
Trenton pol &c, and when the brotNers wer
drowning the search Tor them was gong OF
! They went from Mills house to the waite
: took oilthelr hats aud coats, put them o
the bank of the canal tied one announcer
U feet ana each his own wrists, leapdd INT
: the raceway ani died
The fact that their wrists were tied Rehin
: their backs led to the suspicion that Snm'
one had aided them, but Mrs. Sally lkus
: says that they were experts at varous\ lea
Of seght .ot-hand and tricks OF knot.tNlni
and one OF their accomplishments was Vh'
of tying their wrists together in irony
n them and then passing their feet over VI
< knots so that their hands came behll
!, them.
IS DR.. G. IL, Danham, the county phys
:; oian, declared that an inquest was not n
IS ccssary, and gave permits for the remov'
Z OF the bodies from the city, At 3 o'clot
|. they were taken to their mothers home
= Philadelphia, The burial will be in Glel
y wood cemetery, kcnsington, on Sunday.
Trenton, n. j., Dispatch to New loi
sun,
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