The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-02-28
CAUGHT Ii THE CROWD.
Texas Dan Held Up In a Busy Chi.
cagO Street In the Broad Day light.

the Southwestern frontier, was ar
rested at State and Washington streets
yesterday afternoon by Detectiv,
George FL. Hartman. He was turned
over TO Sheriff NJ. Z. Walker, of Ken
dali county, Kansas, who Immediately
paid the detective the $1,000 reward
offered for his arrest. The offenst
charged is the robbery and attempted
murder of DR.. Leander 2. Bowen, 1
San Antonio ranchman,
at o'clock a man and woman .go'
off the stock yards car at Madison
street, and started north. Tie woman
| was dressed in loud colors, and hel
face showed thorough acquaintance
with the ways of the world. The MAI
Was of medium height, and at about
the meridian IF life. He wore high
| crowned black SLOUGH hat. The toI
and he 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 wasted over
coat of black that came to his knees
His coat and vest of the SAINT ma
terial as the pants, were open
and exposed a buckskin. shirt
He wore a red handkerchiei
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 up!' The man
crouched little as he stretched his
hands vertically abeve. his head. The
woman walked on and said nothing
One of the mans wrists was placed III
irons and then the other was bent
downward until it also could be placed
within the cuff, He was held Under
cover Of a wepon all the time. When
his wrists were secured Returned to a
man who stood at his side aud cody
said, "How are you. Walker?" The
Sheriff replied, Hello, Texas" "Well,
l guess you've got me. For that Bow
en- scrape, l reckon" the desperate
continued, without the least express
ion of emotion. Sheriff Walker as
sured him that he had named the Of
Tense. The scene lasted but an in
slant, yet it made great commotion,
and the people who gathered around
the officers were astounded with alarm
when the Sheriff reached into the
prisoners overcoat pocket and drew a
42-calibre double-actiOn Smith u WeS-
son 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 Sher-
iff pulled it forth the people were
treated to the sight of cowboys
trusted and typical companion. 1t
was a Remington revolver, nearly
two feet long, and having seven
chambers of 46-calibre.
Three hours later Texas Dan sat in
the office of Justice Lyen. He wore
an overcoat, 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, be-
yond occasionally changing the posi-
ton of his chained hands, he did not
display symptom of unrest from the
monotony OF his position.
"Dr. Bowen had sold bis cattle at
San Antonio, and on November "a,
was going back to his place across the
plains" 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 rec
ognized, and on the following day the
doctor was found on the trail uncon-
scious. He had one bullet hole
through his body, piercing the right
lung, another through the scalp, the
course having been changed upward
over the forehead 10y the resistance OF
the skull. He renamed unconscious
for a 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 he was riding, and taking
$500 out of the doctors pockets,
remounted and rode away. HI
thought the doctor was dead.
That was the last seen OF
Dan. He went north through
the Indian Nation. and, striking
Caldwell, Kas., made his way to Kan
sas City. Soon after his arrival he
went over to Wyandott. where he met
a dance house girl he had known at
Laredo. She was in company with a
spectacle agent known through the
Texas towns as Speky Mike. Dan
asked the girl to become his compan-
ion, and, when she refused, he whip,
ped 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 whereabouts and plans of Texas
l started in pursuit at once, but when
l got to Kansas City they had gone.
wrote to Mr.. Hartman here, and got
man to work up the case. A man was
employed who offered Specky a big
sum if he wonld get some dance girl.
to take to Denver. Specky said ht
knew where one was, and he at once
wrote to the girl, who was with Texas
The address was procured by oul
agent and sent here. We soon located
the couple. A note was sent to The
girl to come to a jewelry store dowI
town to-day at 2 o'clock and bring
Texas with her to meet one of her ole
friends. She did so, and that is thu
way we got him."
"Is Dan genuine cowboy?"
"He is one of the old-fashioned fel
lows who have made cowboys know
over the world. He was raised on thu
plains, is now AZ years old, and is a
well known as any man on the Dor
der. He is very quiet, but dangerou
when under the influence of liquor
fearless when alarmed, but as quick a
lightning; very fleet OF foot, a deat
shot with the revolver, and one of tn
best horsemen on the plains. He ha
Travelled over Mexico, Texas, Colorado
and the West. have seen him sit OF
his horse and kill blackbir6s on tn
wing with his revolver. He can picl
his hat off the ground while r1din,
his horse bareback at dead run, an
Is great hand with the lasso."
"Pard, sit down, lived in Texas.
was ridin' along one day and say
old Doc comm. Him an med ha
| trouble about a boss. You see L,
snapped with him and kim O. beat tn
old man, and he'd said, Texas. Pn &c
| even I knowed what that meant
all us Texas fellers know what ma
means when he says 'I'll get even
So when Jaw him a comm, think
1 to myself, that's ole Dowen, an he
been a drinkin'. I'll fix for him.
was ridin' one boss an leadin' another
I pulled out my little revolver al
held it in my rein hand behind tn
saddle bow. When old Doc come VI
gays he, Texas, throw up; l got tn
drop on yer.' 1 kind O. thought b
hadn't, SO put couple O. pills in hir
an he fell. His boss ran away.
looked at him a minute from my sal
die, an thinkin' he'd passed in b
chips concluded ! better make m!
self scarce in that neighborhood, so
rode off across the plains. l crosse
into the Nation, struck cattle trai
at Caldwell; 1 got to Kansas Cit
night afore Christmas, stayed tW