Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-09-25
THE LONE HIGHWAYMAN.
The Texas Terror Finally Killed by Brave
Woman.

SAN ANTONIO, Tex, Sept. 24.-The noto-
rious Lone Highwayman" who has for
the past two years been terror to travel
lers in the vicinity Of Kerryille, who has
without the assistance of a single confed-
crate repeatedly robbed stage coaches.
rified mail bags, and gone through as
many as six commercial travellers in broad
daylight, without the slightest inconven-
fence or resistance, has been killed. He
was shot by Mrs. Lizzie Hay, formerly
Miss Gibbons, at her home on the head
prong of the Rio Sabina, Bandero county,
last Monday.
The scene of the occurrence is so remote
from railroad or telegraph service that the
news did not reach town until today,
when Mrs. Hay visited the city with a
company of friends. She told the story of
the killing as follows:
LAST Monday morning was sitting in
my room when suddenly masked man
appeared on the front gallery. l told him
to leave or l would kill him. He laughed
and said: You are plucky woman, but
I'll have what l want out of this house or
burn it down over your head By this
time l had needle gun. He entered the
house l drew upon him within eigh-
teen inches of his heart, but it
you,' at the same time producing
long, keen-bladed knife and aimed it at
my throat. l warded off that blow, but
the next time he struck the end of the
knife stuck in my forehead, making an
ugly cash. At the same time L reversed
the end of the gun and stuck him over the
head, telling him to the floor, and before
he could rise / had reversed the gun and
pulled the trigger. This time l fired, the
bullet taking effect in his left side. He
gave a yell and rolled out ON the porch. L
looked for another cartridge, but the blood
was streaming down my lace so | could
not find them. I wiped it off with my
apron and reloaded the gun as soon as L
found the cartridges. He had by this
time almost reached his horse. I took
good aim and fired, but L don't think hit
him. My husband was up in the canon,
but when he came home few hours after
dark he Immediately organized party OF
rangers They trailed him for distance
of twenty miles by his blood and found
him dead"
The mans name is unknown, but he is
recognized as the same man whose bold
depredations have for two years past ter
rorized Bandero county.
LYNCHED BY A MOB.
CUBA, No, Sept. 24.-Lewis Davis, who
for SIX months has been confined in the
ST. Louis Jail on the charge of numbering
David Miller, and who was brought here
last Tuesday for trial, was taken from
Jail by a mob early Sunday morning and
hanged. Early in the morning the sheriff
was informed that a mob was coming.
Tie sheriff sent Dunlap, deputy, to in
form Judge Bland, who was stopping at
the hotel, to get some advice as to what to
do, but the deputy only got a short dis
lance when he met forty masked men, who
marched him back to Jail. The lynchers
procured cold chisels and hammers and
cut the Jail door down.
Only one guard was on duty at the Jail
and he was soon mastered. Davis fought
desperately with a piece of heavy bed
stead in his cell, but he was overpowered,
led with a piece of rope around his neck
about half mile north of Stelleville, on
the Cuba road, and hanged him TO the
limb of an oak tree, Immediately over the
grave of Pat Wallace, who was lynched
October 4, 1884, for the murder of the Lo-
gan family.
Judge Bland has ordered a special grand
jury composed of representative men of
the county to inquire into the matter.
He says that all violatOrs of the law must
be punished to its full extent.