The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-09-30
THE DEVILS ANGELS
s!Tk.ss-ssS.Ag''S
aEsM TO- BE HOLDING HIGH CARNl-
VAL AMONG us.
Crime Stalks triumphant, and Willing
Hands Do His Horrid work-A Speci-
men Atrocity In Texas, and An
other In WISCONSIN.

GALVESTON, Tex, Sept 80. - An Austin
81 ecial says: horrible tragedy was
acted Monday night in which a negro man
and three women were brutally assaulted,
one: of the women killed, the man and
.aIlothsr woman fatally wounded, anl the
third wonian.G badly injured, the bloody
workSbenggdon WITH an ak The names of
the victims are Orange Washington, bis wife
tknown aS Gertie vance,, Patsy Gibson. and
Lucinda Boldly. From the testimony and
surroun ling circumstances it appears that
the ASA. sins entered the room Of the sleep
ing occupants through a window, and, be
fore any of them awoke, succeeded in strik-
ing all four OF them on the head with an
AZ. SEEKING Gerte Vance, they dragged
her through a window, threw her
over a fence, then pulled her through weeds
across a vacant lot to q rear stable. AT
this place she must have recovered CON-
seriousness, as evidences of death struggle
are abundant She was, however, over
powered and her heal battered TO jelly
with IA brick. Theu. apparently, while she
WAS struggling beUwe9n life and death TIE
VILLAIN outraged her.
While this horror was being enacted LG-
cinda Boldly, recovering somewhat from
the blow she had received, regainei suf-
iicient strength to got up and light lamp
IN the shanty One of tue assassins, seeing
the iight, returned, ard, sticking his head
in the window, cur cd the wo-
man, and ordered her to put out
the light At seeing him she
screamed and ran from the building. He
leaped through the window, put the light
out, and followed and overlook the fleeing
woman. Just as she ot to the front gate
there was another desperate struggle during
which Mr. Dunbanl, who was awakened by
the woman's screams, threw open his front
door Not knowing that murder had been
committed, and thinking the disturbance
was a simple row, he levele1 his gun al
them without any intention of shooting, and
ordered them TO cease their noise. The
woman by desperate struggle freed her
self from the assassin, and running to Mr..
| Dunham threw her arms around him and
implorsd his protection, saying the man had
murdered every one in the shanty. The
| murderer ran as soon as the woman ran to
| Mr. Dunham who at once called
| his neighhOrs to assist in catching the
| murderer, who has now running through {
| thicket a few blocks back of the house. Id
was followed by several persons, and severa
shots fired at him without apparent effect
a. he gained the thicket and made his es
cape. The officers, however think theJ
will capture the murderer, as they have sev
eral clews and description obtained from
Lucinda Boldly. If caught he will b
| lynched
| Gertje Vance was dead when found
Orange Washington died at an early hou
Tuesday morning Patsy Gibson and Ln
cinda Boldly are in the hospital. There ar
hopes that Lucinda will recover, but n
hopes OF Patsy. All the victims were terri
| hly cashed about the head and face
LATER A negro named Doc Wood ha
been captured by officers in Bairl's cotton
field, eight mites from town Blood wa
found ON the lower part of shirt and on hi
sleeves