The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-03-13
Mr. FINALE or A NOTORIOUS LIrE,

Tho sudden taking OF gt San Antonio OF
tho notorious Bgs rnoxr.os OF Austin wss
bat tho end the, no had evideLt'y been
o,urting for many tnobths past
How many OF bis fellow'beings tho
d ceased had killed IA hand'to'hand
personal difficulties we are not apprisad,
but ge Will recall few instances. IL wa,
on the II h Of June, IN 1882, ut the same
vaudeville theatre where the ARRAY oc-
curird night before lssi, on tho o rner Of
.th, Main pl.xa and Soledad street
that no kill.d JonS d. PurSah,
< ,ndson o. GrVrRAL IsaAsL PurS,a
OF revolutionary lame, alias JACK HAsE's'
TnonP,os shot through a screen 10 the adj
joiaii < bar.room. wouuding him 20 fatal =
tlal ho died Within forty minutes sfier tho
shot TIE quarrel arose about tas loss OF
some 1850 that THoMrsor had lost a.
II RRI- 4 FosTEss faro bank, but which
was refunded 90 hun. Another fatal rem
oountrs WAS that With MARX WILSON, pro-
pri,tor OF the Capital theatre at Austin, on
the 20 IA OF ID, december, 1875, WILSON dying
ia,tiutly. rhequsrrel ~es about awoman
named CARRIE WOODS. Again, dur
ins the Fronoh-Amcrican irou.
bles THuMP.os killed Mexican
when IA MAxINiLIAs's army at Qlolaro, Ia
duel. Tao lormer was q commissioned
officer aud the latter sergeant or cor-
p rel. Again, he snot man on Congress
avenue, in Austin, during the DAVIS
administration, from tho ELECTS OF the
Iwpnnd the party Is said 10 have suhse'
qusnilv died. A peculiar ciiouns'ancs &C.
Cured in tie list OF his romRut c ozper-
encas. II was st ball In Ma,smorss Mex
io9. Tn Nr,ps was eorgeously ntiired As n
Spanish grandee. A United States Of
deer regarded him quizzioslly. folio So
log him about the room after u
sra Of coniemp nous fashion. Suddenly
rnoMr.oy stopped. deliberately caught
tho shout er-strspped individual by the
mu,tiche and clipped of one side with
% ale kuie AID instantly performed =
similar operation on the other aide, leaving
the as,opished cavrlier 80 dumb'founded
as 10 be disabled from Resistance. TnoMP.
SON was singulaily successful In his crimi
nal defensss, and wss but once sent to the
psnien,isry, aud then under sentence OF
i've years, though his term was
shortened by executive oclion
While at Huntsville he became
a mattress maker though he vas printer
by trade snd served apprenticeship with
JussrH WALKER, ESQ, on the Austin g.
q .tte.
Indeed, the life Of this strange man Is a.
varied WITH multl.colored incldenisas Is the
faleidefospe with hue from its elasses'
As brave and adventurous as ROBIN Hoop
Of old, he was yet 80 doclle as cn'ld when
the hands OF thote he esteemed, when
ths red devil thst turks IN the wine cup did
no, have him under its vi. cherry. Like
mes, such desperate characters, hislit bad
lis brighter sbd better side. He was true
to his friends, he was generous to the
needy. Had no directed his energie0 and
his talents and his hre, manly physique
lotto the channels OF usefulness he might
have attained an exalted position. Had he
No ger i'm oued his hnnds IN the blood OF
hat r ~ victim, II an impetuous nature
under drink, and which, perhaps, tended
10 make him the more reckless, he would
doubtless have felt not so mucn No he
surely did like the guilty @AcpirR
With the ghosts OF Banquo and the
others externally appearing before HIM.
But counting his victims bv the fngers on
Ia hands. he seems to have lost oil hope
'or reformation of himself or the presents-
ion to family he loved or the citizens he
moved amongst, with character less des.
,er.,e or conduct less degrading. He 10
zone. and Austin aud the state bresthes
reer. His life -hould be- lesson Of warm
NJ against liza petuous temper, Intoxicating
iouor and the pistol.