Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-04-08
A BAD MAN.
RgLsv Of the Charges Against J.. l..
Lcggins, at Present Held at Lisiie
Rock, Ark, for Bigamy.
A Man of Many Aliases and OF Many Dar
ing Deeds-His Third Wtfe's in3m
riIE Lend to His ArresE
rorrs.pondsncs Of the Gazette.

Correspondence Of the Gasette. ~
CENTER, TEX, April st Is reported
here that our sheriff has captured at
Little Rock, Ark, L. L. Logsins, who
exceped from the San Augustine county
isil in 1888, and who has been at large
ever since. After his escape he left tho
country, was absent about year and re-
turned fulI-nedged doctor. He then In
defiance Of the officers practiced medi-
cine in the thinly settled portions
of San Augustine and Sabine
counties until the spring Of 1885, when
he organized band of men and rescued
from the jail of Sabine county the no.
torious Sabine county outlaws, Willis,
Fed, John and William Conner; Fed be-
ing under q sentence of imprisonment for
life and the others under charge OF
murder, all of whom have since oeen
killed while resisting arrest except John,
WHO is still at large. The citiz ems OF Sa-
eire county becoming aroused, the doc
tor was compelled to leave to avoid ar
rest; since which time 1t is believed he
has not visited his old haunts. Loggins
was raised in San Augustine county,
where his father and large number Of
relatives now reside. When boy he en-
tered the office of the Jasper Newsboy,
where no became q practical printer,
and being man Of moro than
ordinary ability soon rose into
local prOminenc and as the editor OF the
San Augustine Saxon IN 1879 and 1850,
ACQUIRED the confidence and esteem OF the
people generally. In 1882 the land boom
struck his section, and Loggins, having
obtsined license to practice law, en-
barked in the enterprise of buying and
selling land. he purchased q trAct Of
land lying near the line OF Sabine and
jasper counties, and sold it to Captain
Norseworthy, prominent and worthy
citizen of Jasper, who found in time to
save himself harmless that the deed TO
L7ggins was forged. The witness by
whom this deed purported to have been
proven was one Abe Smith, q citizen OF
Saslne county, and short time after the
discovery Of the forgery Smith was found
with bulles hole through him dead upon
the publ c road. Loggins Was in
dicted for the two offenses, was
arrested and escaped as above stated.
He is an expert with the use Of aFery
kind OF firearms, an accomplished woods
msn and has escaped time and again
from the officers where escape seemed
impossible. He has assumed several
aliases, among which are DR.. Henlphill,
ParsoR Wright and DR.. Rell. he mar
RED an estimsble lady n San Augustine,
with whom he lived until 1856 and who,
with her children, also the children of
Loggins, resides;in Sabine county. After
leaving IN 1885 it is reported he again
married lady near Sherman, Tex, with
whom he lived q while, when he aban-
doned her, went to Arkansas and again
married. In some way his Arkansas
wife heard that her husband had wife
In Texas ana she wrote to our Sheriff,
asking il 1t was true. From some
facts stated in this letter
Sheriff Sims suspected that the lsdy's
husband was the notorious outlaw. Sc
curing photograph of Loggins. taken
while resident of San Augustine. he
sePs 1t to o trusted party at Little Rock
who knew the person mentioned in the
lsdy's letter, who reported that 1t WAS in
deed the one and the same man. Obtain
ing requisitioDEfrom Governor Ross
upon Governor Hughes, he and his depu-
ty, John Caldwell, an old acquaintance
of the Doctors, went TO Arkansas, and
finding him, only await the formalities OF
the requisition to be accomplished to
bring MIN to Texas. Such are the re-
ports, and 1t is believed they are reliable.
II Loggins Is brought to trial he will
surely be convicted in at least one Of ths
ceses, that of rescuin G prisoners. -