The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1890-10-22
DESPERAD0'S DEATH.
THE TRAGIC CLIMAX OF
THE CRIMINAL CAREER
OF RUBE BURROWS,
THE GEORGIA. OUT
LAW.
Bound Hand and Foot He Makes
Captives of His taptors.

bOuUu f1anu anu OOt A1c AlaheS
Captives of His raptors.
Rube Burrows, the Georgia train
robber, outlaw and murderer, was
shot and killed at Linden, Ala, on the
morning of the Sth inst. He died
with a pistol in each hand, meeting
his doom in a reckless and daring
attempt to regain his liberty, but
when he fell two men had already
gone down before his never-failing
aim. He met a man at last who was
his equal IN courage and in skill
with a revolver. Burrows played
for high stakes, life and liberty, and
loss. The incidents attending his
mad dash for liberty and his death
are thrilling in the extreme. 1t was
a grand climax TO his career Of crime
and adventures.
Burrows was captured late in the
evening the day before in a negro
cabin, eight miles south of Linden.
His captors were J. c. Carter,
country merchant; John McDufiie,
a farmer, and twonegro farm hands
Carter and McDufie employed to
assist them. The four men carried
their captive to Linden and placed
him in the Sheriff's Office in the
county Jail for safekeeping that
night. They placed handouts on
his wrists and tied his feet together
with a rope and then McDufiie and
one Of the negroes, John Marshall,
remained TO watch over him during
the night. Carter took cnarge of
the money found on Burrows, Sl7S,
and securing a bedroom in the rear
Of a store near the Jail, went to
sleep. When captured Burrows
carried a well-wOrn leather satched,
which he said contained some food
and clothing. This was thrown in
one corner of the room where he
was captured without being ex-
amined. Manaeled as he was, Bur-
rows laid down on a cot and slept
sOundlY until 1 o'clock in the morn-
ing while the two guards watched
over him with pistols in their hands.
When Burrows awoke he said:
Il am hungry; get ME something
to eat"
II can not get you anything to
eat at this hour, replied McDuffie.
We'll, hand me my satchel over
there, have few crackers IN that.
McDutiie handed him the satchel,
and with hi, hands manacled, Bur
rows opened il and took out some
crackers, which he handed his
guards. They put down their pis-
tolls and took the prOffered food.
Again the manacled hands went
down into the satcheI, and when
they reapPeared again each held a
revolver, with a pistol pointed at
each of the astonished eaptors. Bur-
rows ordered Marshall, the negro,
to unite his feet and unlock the
handouts. The negro obeyed. Now
put those handouts on th It man,
ordered the outlaw, pointing 10 Nc
Duiiie with his revolver. Again the
negro obeyed, and the captOr be-
came a bound and helpless prison.
er. "Unbar the door, was the
next order, and the door promptly
swung open. Then Burrows pOck-
eted one of the pistols aid with his
free hand secured the key 10 the
door. Marching the negro out in
front Of him he locked the door on
the outside, leaving McDuiiie help
less prisoner within. Now then,
lead tie way to the man who has
nv money" ordered the outlaw,
and the trembling, frightened negro
conducted HIM to the door OF the
room where Carter was sleeping.
Burrows knocked. aud in response
10 Carriers question: "Who Is
thereg'' be- ordered the negro in a
whisper to say that McDuilie wanted
him at the Jail,
Carter recognized the negrOs
voice, and came TO the door. As he
orcue | it, burrows thurst a pistol
in his face and demanded: Nv
il NV money! Givcit tUmequick.
Carter recognized Burrows and at
once compTeheudcd the situation.
IIc sprarge to the bed where his
pistoIs was laying. liz grasped it
snl turning quickly, fired at almost
the same instant that Burrows fired.
Carter was shot through the breast
above the heart, but his bullet pass
ed entirely through the bOdyof Bur
rows. The outlaw staggered back
from the door TO the street, and a
second shot from his pistol crashed
through the shoulder Of John Mar
shall. the negro, inillcting a painful
but not dangerous wound. Badly
wounded ~ he was, Carter ran out
INTO the street an | lifsd four more
shols al burrows, who was still
hacking away. Burrows empticd
one Of his pistols, but rs he reached
thr oppusitc side Of the street, he
sank down with groan, and after
one convulave shudder was dead.
Carter also fell about the same
time. His wound is a dangerous
t...I "a :. thouyht he will Tpcoy-