Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-02-17
CAUGHT IN THE CROWD.
Texas Dan Held Up in a Busy Chicago
Street in Broad Daylight.

the few 0ld-tashl0ned cowboys OF the
Southwestern frontier, was arrested at
State and Washington streets yesterday
afternoon bv Detective George II. Hart
man. Hewas turned over to Sheriff NJ.
c. Walker, of Kendall county, Kansas,
who Immediately paid the detective the
$1,000 reward offered for the arrest. The
Otfense charge is the robbery and attempt
ed murder of DIR. Leander p. Bowen, a
San Antonio ranchman.
AT , O'Clock a man and woman got off
the stock yards ear at Madison street,
and started north. The woman was
dressed in loud cOlors, and her face showed
thorough acquaintance with the ways
of the world. The man was of medium
height, and at about the meridian of life.
He wore a high-cFOwned black SLOUGH hat.
The top and the sides were crushed in:
the rim hung low over his face. A pair of
brown corduroy breecheS, with smoky
pearl buttons on the outer seam, were
visible below a shOrt-waisted over
coat of black that came to his knees.
His coat and vest, of the same material as
the pants, were open, and exposed a buck
skin shirt. He wore red handkerchief
about his neck. He walked leisurely
along, gaping at the street scenes, and his
hands clasped the lapels of his coat,
when Hartman caught his wrist, and
showing a cooked revolver into his face,
shouted Hands upe' The man crOuched
a little as he stretched his
hands vertically above his head. The
woman walked on and said nothing. One
of the mans wrists was placed in irons
and then the other was bent downward
until it also could be placed within the
cuff. He was held under cover of
weapon all the time. When his wrists
were secured he turned to a man who
stock at his side and cody said, ''IIOW
are you, Walker?' The Sheriff replied,
"HellO, Texas" swell, l guess you've
got me. For that Bowen scrape, l reck-
on" the desperate continued, without
the least expression of emotion. Sheriff
| Walker assured him that he had named
the Ofense. The scene lasted but an IN
slant, yet it made great cOmmOtion, and
the people who gathered around the Off
| GERS were astOunded with alarm when the
Sheriff reached into the prisoners over
! coat pocket and drew a 42-calibre double
action Smith & WessOn revolver, and
/ throwing back the coats, put his hand on
/ the butt of a weapon that was sheathed
/ beneath the prisoners left arm. As the
/ Sheriff pulled it forth the people were
/ treated to the sight of a cowboys trusted
4 and typical companion. 1t was a Rem
/ ingtOn revolver, nearly two feet long, and
! having seven chambers OF 4S calibre.
Three hours later Texas Dan sat in the
! Office of Justice Lyon. He wore an over
I coat, his hat was pulled low over his face
! and both feet rested firmly on the floor
/ He had rested in that position since his
| arrest, and, beyond occasionally changing
/ the position of his chained hands. he did
not display a symptom of unrest from the
mOnOtony of his position.
"Dr. Bowen had sold his cattle at San
/ Antonio, and on Nov. a. was going back
to his place across the palms. said Sheriff
/ Walker, in telling the story Of the crime,
/ when he met Texas, who was known to
/ have gone that way. The Doctors horse
with an empty saddle, gallOped into a dis
/ tant ranch that evening. 1t was recOg-
( niZed, and on the day following the Doc
1 tor was found on the trail unconscious.
/ He had one bullet hole through his BODY.
/ piercing the right lung. and another
through the scalp, the course having been
( changed upward over the forehead by the
resistance of the skull. He remained IN
conscious for week or more, and then
told how Dan had met and shot him so
that he fell from his horse. Dan then
got off the horse be was riding, and taking
! $500 out of the Doctors
4 pockets, remOunted and rode away. He
! thought the Doctor was dead. That was
/ the last seen Of Dan. He went north
through the Indian Nation. and, striking
/ Caldwell, Kansas, made his way to Kan.
sas City. Soon after mis- arrival he went
] y a
! house girl he had known at Laredo. She
was in company with a spectacle agent
! known through the Texas towns as SDeckV
Mike. Dan asked the girl to become his
companion, and, when she refused, he
whipped her and Specky. The girl, how
/ ever, joined him, and it was not long until
he told her the story OF his crime. To get
even she wrote to me, telling the where
abOuts and plans of Texas. / started in
pursuit at once, but when got to Kansas
City they had gone. l wrote to Mr.. Hart
man here, and he got mario work up
the case. A man was employed who
offered Specky a big sum if he would get
some dance girls to take to Denver.
! Specky said he knew where one was. and
he at once wrote to the girl, who was with
1 Texas. The address was procured by our
agent and sent here. We soon located
the couple. A note was sent to the girl to
come to jewelry store down town to-day
! at O'Clock and bring Texas with her to
meet one OF her old friends. She did so,
and that is the way we got him.
SIS Dan genuine cOwbOy?"
"He is one of the old-fashioned fellows
who have made cowboys known over the
world. He was raised on the plains, Is
/ now AZ years old, and is as well known as.
| any man on the border. Heis very quiet,
] but dangerous when under the influence
! of liquor fearless when alarmed, but as
/ quick as lightning; very fleet of foot, a
/ dead shot wish the revolver, and one of
| the best hOrsemen on the plains. He has
Travelled over Mexico, Texas, Colorado
! and the West. have seen him sit on his
4 horse and kill blackbirds on the wing
/ with his revolver. He can pick his hat
/ off the ground while riding his horse
bareback at a dead run, and is a great
/ hand with the lasso."
! Texas retained his stoicaI demeanor as
! the Sheriff told the story of his crime.
/ When the reporter asked him for his side
/ Of the story, he looked up, his Jet eyes,
! bright as a WeasePs, glistened, and he
/ said:
''Pard, sit down. lived in Texas. 1
/ was ridin' along one day and saw old
4 Doc a comm. Him an med had trouble
/ about boss. You see I'd snapped with
/ him and KIM O. beat the Oleman, and he'd
| SAID, Texas, I'll get even.' l knowed
what that meant; all us Texas fellers
1 know what a man means when he says
1 IN get eVen.' SO when / saw him a
comm, thinks to myself, that's ole Doc
Bowen, an he's been q drinkin. IIl fix
for him. 1 was ridin' one boss an lead
i'm another. pulled out my little revol-
yer an held it in my rein hand behind the
saddle bow. When old Doc come up,
says he, Texas, throw up; got the drop
on YER kind o thought he hadn't, so l
put a couple o pills IN him an he fell.
AAlo nOSo III d0 cf 1 4DUhEu dbnlIl n min
ute from my saddle, am thinkin he'd
passed in his chips concluded | better
make myself scarce in that neighbOrhoOd,
so rode off across the plains. | crossed
into the Nation, struck a cattle train at
| Caldwell; l got to Kansas City night
afore Christmas, stayed two weeks and
then come here"
why did you let the officers arrest
your"
"Pard, when a nan like me comes into
town O. this kin, be goes a gapin' about.
was dOin' that. / had my hands up ON
my coat collar when the feller caught me
and showed the gun against my snout.
Says e. Hands 1p,' and / put 'em there.
J. never do anything to a man when 'e's
got the drop on me. A mans a fool that
will"
Chow do you account for the absence Of
the Doctors money :"
''SOme o. the boys must O. come along
next day, an SEEM the old man LAWN
there they went through i'm. When / got
to Caldwell ] sold that horse o. miae for
$3.50, with his mate, an / wouldn't a
parted with him for twice that sum if l
hadn't been hard up. | tell yer loved
that boss. / never was u married man,
but l reckon l must o. loved that boss
about like man does his wife. | had
i'm so we'll trained. When l was goin'
through the brush | could make that boss
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