The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1884-07-03

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door of the room, and bent ~
robbery, or perhaps worse, proceeded
Ia move about, when Mrs, Flippcn bc
came aware at his presence and was 81
badly frightened that she could not Civ,
an alarm, \ little girl, who was sleep
ing with Mrs, Flippcn, screamed, whei
the scryanl-girl rushed Ia the door
which. she found locked II SERVED
To Brighten the i,,0 party ovn how
post of the porlico, made his escape
lie Is described ~ n coppcr-colorc!
negro, with hair cut short as though
done by u BARRIERS clipper.
Mr.. Flippon Is in Europe. The shocl
was so great that Mrs. Flippcn VA
taken quite i'll, and her condition las
night was critical.
MORE TIIAN \ BURGLARY,
Since writing the above certain iact'
have developed that shows the visit ~
the party was of more diabolica
nature than that of robbery. In his eilOrt'
To accomplish his nameloss purpose, II
which he failed, he choked and bruised
her. Detectives Duncan and Frisby
getting n description of the party, sci
about To ferret him out. They located 4
party, who suited well the dccription
and finding ont he was not nj home laid
for him and watched his house
| II was not long they had Ia
wait, for about IN o'clock he came strag
! ling To his home in Freedman town,
! They took him in charge and founed that
his face was scratched. When qucs-
| toned he said that his wife had scratched
his face. She, when asked about it, said
she had not. ON being further intcrro-
| gated he stated that he had been out
with negro on the night In question
and had attended Il colored party given
at Pattcrson's park. DIR. j. l..
Carter, who resides two doors
east of Mr.. Flippen's residence,
identified the captured party rs
one who had cut wood for him last week,
and is of the opinion that it was he who
hurglarized his house on the same night.
The feeling was so great among the citi-
Zcns, and lynching was so strongly
talked of, that the detectives had their
prisoner sccretcd, but late in the after
noon il leaked out that they had such II
party in custody, and it was not long
before the streets were throngcd with
men discussing the affair and talking
lynch law. The crowd rapidly in
creased and by 8 O'Clock the county
Jail was surrounded by 400 or 800 men,
who demanded the prisoner supposed
to be incarccratcd therein. Jailor Nor
ton permitted committee of three to
enter and satisfy themselves that the
prisoner was not there. \ good sized
crowd continued to hang around the
Jail, though tho most of them went to
other points of the city searching for
the prisoner. In the meantime the de-
tGctives took the prisoner to the resi-
dence Of Mr.. c. +. Carter, where
Mrs. Flippen is stopping, for the purpose
of seeing if she could identify him,
but she was delirious, and they hurried
him away to II place of safety just in
time to prevent his being lynched, for
every moment the crowd was incrcas-
ing. Diligcnt search was made for him,
but his whereabouts were not found out.
If Mrs. Flippen is sufficiently rocuper-
ated this morning from the severe shock
he will be taken before her for identiii-
cation. As we go to press the crowd is
still searching for him.
Tho same night the residence of DR..
j. l.. Carter, who resides on Ross ave-
nue. the second house east of Mr.. Flip
pens, was burglarized and his gold
watch and chain and "a carried off.
A burglary of the residence of Mr..
Mack Duncan, who lives only few
doors east af DR.. Carriers was attempted
by raising window. Mrs. Duncan was
awakened by the noise and awoke her
husband and tho burglar who heard her
fled.
ALL OVER.
The intense excitement occasioned by
tho brutal assault of an unknown negro
made uonp Mrs. w. III. Flippen, wife of
.he City Treasurer and banker, who is
absent in Europe, has subsidized though
the interest has not in the least
abated. Sober Judgment has superseded
it and now that matters have quoted
down, there is some chance to apprehend
the guilty party. Detectives Frisby
and duncan, who arrested Henry Bros
well, colored, on suspicion of being
the right party, showed their
good sense in keeping him secreted from
the excited crowd that thronged the
streets clamoring for him. They were
not themselves wholly satisfied that they
had the right party and preferred to
have Mrs. Flippen see him and say
said he was not the party and
he was forthwith released. A
committee composed Of six of our
most respectable citizens were
given an interview with the prisoner
by the detectives, and when they had
finished questioning him, notwithstand-
ing there were circumstances of a suspi-
cious nature attending, they wisely de-
cided that he was not the party, or at
least that there was not sufficient evil
dence to hold, much less hang him.
When it became known yesterday that
the wrong party had been arrested the
excitement died out, and last night
tho streets, which the night previous
were thronged with men full of excite
and orderly as those of a village. A re-
ward of $500 has been offered for the APP
prehension of the right party, and efforts
to capture him have not in the least re-
Taxed and are conducted by the officials
in quiet and more orderly way.
PROVED TO BE A FARCE.
News reached the city. yesterday
morning that a man named Tom Mayre
or Morris, had made an assault on Mrs.
Joe Sprowles, a widow lady residing
eleven miles south of the city, and that
he had been lynched. All sorts of rll-
mors concerning the affair were afoat.
Sheriff Smith and Deputy Sheriff Win
ston went out to investigate the truth
of the report. 1t appears that Mayre
who is a, tenant of Mr.. William
Bullock, father of Mrs. Sprowles, and
room with that lady. Yesterday morn
ing while Mayre was dressing, Mrs. |
Sprowles awoke suddenly, and seeing
Mayre near her bed screamed out, it |
seems, from pure nervousness, when
of the lady rushed in,
and thinking there was something
wrong, knocked Mayre down.
decided it was mistake all around. The
parties concerned are respectable people,
and the unfortunate affair is to be re-
GREETED.
Detective Jack Duncan called at the |
HERALD office last evening and desired |
us to state, inasmuch as he has been |
subjected to some structures for |
his recent action, that he volun-
teered his services to Marshal |
without reference to that re-
ward, and that the Marshal accepted his
proffer. He desires to state also, that in
view of this criticism, he has withdrawn
entirely from the case.