Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-12-03
RUN HIM DOWN.
Further Particulars OF the Cotton
Belt Train Robbery.
The Wounded Man Gerhardt Has q Wife
at Paris, Tex His chances for
Recovery Small.
Blood Hounds. Both Four and Two-Legged,
Hot on the Highwaym.n's Trail-Possible
Clue from vi risboro.
BRAVE AS A LION.

BRAVE AS LION.
Special to the Gazette.
Tyler, TEN. Dec. 2.-There are nc
new Developments in the train robbery
of last night. MIR. Gerhardt, the
wounded man, was in the employ of the
Singer sewing machine company. He
has a wife al Paris, Tex. The old gen.
tleman Is fifty-four years of age, aud as
brave as lion. Had any other one of
the passengers displayed enough
nerve TO lubricnre gimlet
the robber would have been captured. as
Mr.. Gerhardt held onto the pistol and
fought him on the platform and then
knocked him onto the ground. The old
gentleman says his idea was to jump on
him, but his left arm was helpless and
he could feel the blood rushing at every
breath, so he shut the door and walked
back into the coach just as the murderer
took
ANOTHER CRACK AT HIM
through the doorway He is shot d.
rectiy over the heart, but q spectacle
case and memorandum book detected
the bullet and it passed within au inch
of the heart, through the left lung and
came out under the shoulder blade.
The bullet was 44-calIbre.
The physicians say there Is q
chunce for his recovery, but very
slender one. He has bled prnfusely in
side and out. The rattle of blood in the
lungs 1T each respiration Is not a very re-
assuring fact. The Old gentleman is as
full of nerve and grit as a Roman glad
iator, and we do earnestly hope he will
recover.
THE RUsK BLOOD HOUNDS.
got here at 8 O'clock this morning and
il Is reported are on hot trail. After the
robbery the daring scoundrel went on
down by the tank and took the tank
man 8 cap. He stated that he was IN
escaped convict and needed the cap, and
gave the man dollar us he went
Off. The coach has several
bullet holes In it showing where the rob-
Der fired in trying TO get the pistol
against Mr.. Gerhardt's bosom. On the
platform are big splotches of blood where
the old man bied. Everybody seems
that the robber will be caught.
He has some four and two legged blood
hounds on his trail and he will have to
hunt tall timber to escape.
MAY BE CLUE,
Srecial to the Gazette.
WINNsBoRo, TEX, Dec. 2.-Ahout 4
o clock this evening, as Deputy Sheriff
Stokes was coming into town from the
neighborhood of Mussrove Springs, he
was met by u man about thlrty-fve wears
oil riding u bay mare with no saddle,
five feet six inches high, sallow COM
piexion, dark mustache, weight about
40 pounds, wearing dark or gray
sult, striped pants, had or travelling
rap, but took Mr.. Stokes white hat
John Klien, Dallas, Tex. The
rObber presented a 45-calibre Colts
ivory handle pistol aud told him to dis
mount, which he did. The highwaYman
then got on Mr.. Stokes mare, which
is sorrel hve-year-old unshod
mare, has red leather saddle
with big hair pockets, bride with
curb bit. There is a piece of small rope
in each pocket of the saddle bags, and in
one pocket a quart of whiskey marked
w. L. Anderson. - posse Is out now in
search of him. The suppostion here is
hat he is the same man who robbed the
train at Big Sandy last night.