Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-11-28

the cis;ern 50 ens the li.tle suffsIsr
drink CT water, He hsd hardly closed
The door ss he went cu.Eijs when TIE
co1ardly wretch in coDcea!men. turned
h!g qua loose CT the u2suEpscting victim
wlo fell MORALLY wounded and
very soon sfterWiIi died. The
ASSASSIN mus have lett The scene o. liz
terrible deed immadiA.ely afte: firing the
fatal sho. as s number OF cit.zene
fastened 70 Mr.. McDsde's home upon
hearing thu report OF the gun, but no
,race O. tae assassin could bs found.
Tais morning at l O'Clock Sheriff
George Ellis received telegram from
Deputy Sheriff ThoInton OF Waller
county asking for the lo.n Of blood
sounds to tratl the murderer. Sheriff
ELS wired back inst he had no hounds,
out that they could doubtless be OBJ,
ea,ned either a. Cuoninehams or
Bend counlg. A reporter called
st the county j al this morning and visited
Jack NcDAde, nephew OF the murdered
lpdictm2nl fJr the Killing Ct Allchin In
M.Dade was q deputy under his uncle
n - o
tra:icn. 80 the reporter he intimassd
his h?,itt that the assassination
OF hs uccle Was ins!issted by
! thirst Vengeance on the part OF
Alch:1'S friends. b. this as Z.
may, however, the murder Of poor
McOade Was cowsrdly, cold. blooded and
most dastardl3 in ell It's hideous
9esrtnss. He was elected az
sheriff fourteen years ago and for savsn
Consecutive times the people OF Waller
ulty evidenced their confidence In him
by re clectirg him sheriff. In September
lag. he resigned the position and retired
20 private life he WAS known IS brave
| and I'll ;itnt cffi:er and commanded the
high respect of his fellow cltlZsne. He
was essentially q man OF pesce and dur
ing his eff ;ial career he seldom went
xrmed. Whls firm and fearless In the
discharge CT his duty, he never became
involved in d! ;ulties or fueds.
From passenger who came
from Hampstead on the after
loon train it WAS learned that
Yodug man named james B!ossingame
asd bee arrested on suspicion. Bios
sipgame had been living some months at
the oome Of Mr.. Allchin whose husband
wss killed by Jack McDAde and Dick
| Springfield some months ago. A horae
WAS tracked from McDade's residence to
the Allchin residence and upon this tbs
young man WIS arrested,
WALLER CoUNTY's LAST TRAGEDY.
| special to the Gazette
Hampstead, TEX, Nov. 27.-Joe
Blossingime, ir., was arrested here this
morning on strong circumstsntial
evidence for the assassination Of ex.
Sheriff T. S. McDade last evening. The
assassin was mounted on horseback and
riding up to the back garden fence dis
mounted, knocked Of two plckets,
walked through the garden and concealed
himself near the well. Captain McDsde
went to the well to get water for his con
who WAS sick in bed. AS he stepped GU,
shot was fired, filing him with buck
shot. This morning the horse wss
tracked to where Blossingame liz,
three. quarters OF q mile from the scene
of the tragedy. Also the foot prints were
measured and correspondent with the boo,
| worn BY the party arrested. A doubles
barrel shotgun was found in the he1e
with one barrel freshly discharged. she
load Of the other barrel was drawn and
] the shot compared exactly with that taken
from the body of the decesse. Blossin.
games examining trisl comes up to,mor-
row.
BLooDEOUNDs WANTED.
| special TO the Gazette.
| WACO, TEX, Nov. 27.--At IL O'Clock
list night the sheriff received the follow
ing telegram:
HEMPsTEAD, TEN Nov. &c, lsSS.
| Sheriff:
Come or send your bloodhouuds with 8
man. Captain McDade WAS assassinated
10 night. a good trail. Come or send
at all hazards. Answer.
l R. M5THoRNToN, Sheriff.
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