The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1884-07-24
CAUGHT At LAST.
TIE DALLAS MONSTER TAKEN.
Detectives Iound Him Down Wounded
nj Dallas aud Earnos>cda AT the FGrt
brought Back To Dallas
His identity Sure.

Fort Wo.TH, July -. Special. -
This evenings train, east-bound, over
the Texas ~ Pacific, carried 60 Dallas
Officers b. III. Winston and q. J.. Corn
wall, who had in charge mulatto, Dick
shepherd, alias Rube, and Louis Stokes,
negro. Shcppcrd is declared To he the
mulatto who assaulted Mrs. Flippcn
and the other ladies in Dallas. Stokes.
his partner and coniidant, is supposed
10 bo the burglar who entered hLuso i'm
Dallas. The circumstances are these:
Shcpperd, who has been in the city two
weeks, formerly worked ut Craddock's
as porter. Soon after the crimes in Dali
las the COPYRIGHT Detective agency
| put four men mt work on the case, be-
| sides buying the services of negro
blacE-leg. a week ago it was known
that strange negro was in the city ut a
negro cabin, and that he was wounded
in the right leg between the knee and
ankle. COPYRIGHT and Capt. Price ut
once took direct charge of the case, and
never for minute since that time has
Shepperd been free from surveillance.
DIR. Slanter was called in to dress the
wounds of Shepherd, being summoned
by Stokes. The negro detective got
shepherds story of his wound rs fol-
lows: He said he was sitting on the
platform in Dallas at the depot, when
mis- pistol, a 4l-calibre, accidently eX-
plUded intlicting the wound in his leg.
Now it happened that the bullet extract
ed was 45-calibre, so il was found SheD-
perd had told lie number one. The de-
tectives waited to see if the Cutrages
continued III Dallas for their theory was
that Shepherd was the sole guilty one,
and If they were correct outrages would
stop, and so they did from the verv time
that Shepherd was shot by Cornwell and
come here. Stokes was interviewed in
regard to shepherds wound and he said
Dick had told him he was accidentally
shot in Denison, which was lie number
two. In the meantime Dallas authorities
had been given word of the presence in
this city of the suspected darkey, and
telephoning to Jim Maddox and other
of the officers and detectives, he in
formed them that negro answering the |
description of the Flippen negro was
here, when Cornwall and Winston came
over. This morning COPYRIGHT and |
Maddox got Sheppcrd and Stokes and
brought them to the rooms of the |
agency, where Winston and Cornwall |
were in waiting, when the two prisoners
were closely questioned. The con-
clusion reached by the officers is that |
they certainly have the right men, and |
the negro detective says he knows it
positively. Should it prove 10 be the
get the $1,000 reward offered,
Winston and Cornwall discaim-
ing any right to any part of
it. The citizens of Fort Worth rejoice
that the scoundrel has been caught, and
hope he will receive his just deserts.
When taken up town to-day Shepperd
trembled like IA leaf, and when brought
into the presence of the Dallas officers,
asked if che was the man they were al
ter" to which they replied, 1--WE guess
all he knows about Shepherd, which he
will probably do.
A fire at half past two this morning
burned Il small auction store on Hous-
ton and Twelfth streets; loss aboutSl 500:
covered by insurance. Origin Of fire a
mystery.