The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-04-11
AN OLD OFFENDER
Serves Five Years for Hog Stealing
Now TO be Tried for Murder.
A MAYOR HUNG IN EFFIGy.
An illinois Police Court Elivened by
a.Fres Fight.
KANSAS CITY sRARPERss
White Caps Make their Appearance
in Tennessee.

SAN ANTONIO, Tex, April 4.-On
the 10th of May, 1881, occurred the
Altita pen killing, one of the most
celebrated in the criminal annals of
Texas. TWAS fight over some stolen
cattle, and was between what was
known as the Wright gang on one side
and officers on the other. Deputy
Sheriff Mccoy, of Gonzales county, vas
slain. Numerous indictments followed
| and some arrests were made. One
Dolly Durand turned states evidence,
and joined the ranger service for pro-
lection. One year later young Lyons,
of Karnes county, was put on trial in
the San Antonio district court under a
change of venue. Durand testified
against him, but he was acquitted.
About dozen others were
indicted. and their trials were
to come up subsequently. Among
them was John Tumlinson, one-leg-
ged man from Atascosa county. On
the day after the Lyons trial Durand
came to the conclusion that he no
longer needed protection, and left for
AtascOsa county in company with two
or three of the parties suspected OF
implication in the Altita affair. He
did this in the face of strenuous advice
from the officers. Three days later
his body was found on the side of the
road riddled with bullets. Tumlinson
was subsequently convicted of hog
theft, and was sent up for five years.
He has served his term, and yesterday
passed through on his way to AtascoSa.
He was in charge of officers, and will
be put on trial for the murder of Dolly
Durand, the states witness who pas
sed i'll his checks in 1882. 1t is sup
hot ovid
been secured.
TRAIN. -
PITTsBURG, Pa, April "a special
from Mansfield, Ohio, says: A fendish
attempt was made to wreck the Penn
sylvania limited, west bound
passenger train No. 5, at Lewisville
near Canton about II o'clock last night.
Eight pieces of iron, such as are used
to fasten IT, rails together, were
tightly wedged into the switch near the
little town. An east bound passenger
struction, but an unusual jolt
caused the train men alarm and
they reported it to the operator.
He investigated the cause and stopped
the limited before it reached the
switch. His efforts to take the iron
out of the switch by hand proved
futile. A fireman had to be sent back
to the engine AMI with the hammer he
, procuredsthey were forced out. They
had been placed in the switch with the
! east ends raised so to derail west
bound train.
The switch is only forty feet from a
bridge, and the momentum would have
thrown the whole train into the creek
l and the consequences would have been
terrible. The train which it is sought
to wreck had more passengers than 1t
usually had, the majority of whom
were from New York and Philadelphia
but few of them discovered the reason
why tbs flyer was stopped.
l A GEORGIA MURDER MYSTERY.
ATLANTA. Geo., April 3.-There i:
1 genuine murder mystery at Stone
Mountain. near here, and d unique
I mystery it is. They have there the
e body of a murdered man without the
l slightest clew to his identity, but il
Jail they have a man who committed
the murder. His identity is already
I established. The two men were entire
i undoubtedly burglars, who had gone
e there to do up the town. The maj
Il who was murdered reached Stone
Mountain Friday, registering a!
Charles Thompson. Atlanta. Yester
F. day he was joined by another stranger
o hey went together to Charleston, bu
a returned to Stone Mountain i'll thu
u evening. The last conner, who i:
r, identified as A. d. REVERE, carried /;
It satchel, now believed to contain bur
1t glars tools. The two men were seer
IS together as late as midnight. A little
b later pistol shot was heard by the
Ie negroes about the depot, but no atten
| 4 60, h
is body of Thompson was found, hi
t. head crushed by BURGERS jimmy
which laid at his side. REVERE haC
fled, but was captured at ConyerS. HI
refuses to say even word. Nothing
can he found to establish the identity
ID of the murdered man.
q DENVER BANK ROBBERY.
G. DENVER, Colo, April 3.-W. b
: Stevens, alias Spencer, was ARRESTED
here yesterday afternoon, charged will
being principal in the robbery at tn
- First National bank, in which Presi
- dent Moffatt lost $2l 900. The lnfor
nation OH which the arrest was mad
came from VIM. Levy, mining maj
of st. Paul, who knew Stephens II
cord in the Northwest. Presiden
If Moffet, Teller Kelly and Cashier Woo
IL visited the jail after the arrest, bu
e. could not make mp their mind as to hi
ct identity. Subsequently, they admittet
5 that, while the resemblance was exact
the prisoner was not the robber, Ste
a phens was then locked up on charg
u of forgery. W. II. Clark, gambler
D. of st. Louis, is still held as an accom-
plice in the robbery.
DICK HALVES CASE.
a BIRMINGHAM, Ala, April S.-Dic
4 II Hn
ut change of venue. Hon. E. Il. Ia
ny iaferro, his counsel, is now preparin
n a third motion for change, based,
at is supposed, on a sensational April foo
ge fake published in d local paper yestel
" day morning. This publicatio
- aroused much feeling and revive
70 general interest in the Halves case, an
al his attorney at once went to wor
y, preparinga motion for change {
10 venue aud getting affidaVits that I'll
al prisoner could not obtain fair tris
pG in this county. The result of this la:
10 application will be awaited with niue
X interest. 1t will probably not be file
N for several days yet.
10 he KICKED THE GoyERNoRoUT.
WASHINGTON, April S.-A special {
oy the Post from Charleston. West vi
~ giuia, says: Last night as Editor X
r. Der, of the State Tribune, was STAN
he ing in q grocery store, he was accOstE
NO by Governor Wilson, who shook h
ne fist under his nose and threa
- ened him with personal violen
-, for criticisms made in the paper of ii
%, governors official actions. The grocer
,et man not being an admirer of the go
ernor ordere him out of the store al
cl as he failed to go Summarily ejectl
e, him by force with the injunction new
n, to enter his doors again. This is ii
&c second attack made on REFER by W
70. son during the past four weeks, frien
,os interpOsing each time.
rs. PULLING FOR CANADA.
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