Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-07-18
RAILWAY TRAVEL IN TEXAS.
An Eccentric Passenger Bent Upon Empty
ing Both His Bottle and Revolver.

An Eccentric Passenger Bent Upon Empty
ing Both His Bottle and Revolver.
From the Fort Worth Gazette.
The passengers on the north-bound train on
the Missouri Kansas and Texas railway yester-
day evening were treated to a lively little sem
sation just after leaving Grandview. for which
the company made no extra charge, though it
is one which ordinarily is of character that
passengers could very cheerfully dispense with.
Just after leaving Grandview penitentiary
Agent Ferguson, who was on his way to Fort
Worth, was accosted by n strapping six-foot
individual wearing q SLOUGH hat, heavy black
mustache, and deeply tanned. The gentle
man was evidently very intimate friend Of
John Barleycorn, for he had o supply of the
festive juice in bottle in his hip pocket He
got into conversation with Ferguson and
broac he'd the subject of robbing a train, and
became imbued with the idea that Mr.. Ferpu-
son must make Johnny's acquaintance, and
presenting the bottle, urged him to drink.
This Mr.. Ferguson firmly but politely declined.
Then the fellow remarked: "Well my forty
four is very anxious to talk, and il you don't
drink I'll kill you."
Ferguson pushed the revolver aside and the
fellow said:
"oh. I know you. You're detective from
New York"
This Mr.. Ferguson denied, but the fellow in
sisted he was right and that Mr.. Ferguson
must die. While parleying Ferguson managed
to slip out Of the door, and told Conductor
Murphy that something must be done with the
fellow. The brakeman happened to pass
through the car at the moment and the man
with the gun shot into the window casing,
which had the effect of considerably accelerat-
ing the brakeman's movements. Three or four
shots were then fired into various portions of
the car. Things had hardly got quiet when the
porter entered the car. and as he did so bullet
shattered the glass over the darky's head. He
soon got outside Of the car, and the man with
the gun was then sole monarch Of the car. After
a whispered consultation with Conductor MUIR
ply he and Ferguson made q rush upon the
fellow and captured his gun after a very seri-
GUS tussle, during which they were compelled
to beat the fellow pretty severely in order to in
duce him to let 60 OF the gun, which action
lent the affair decidedly scrap-like appear
ance. He was finally overpowered and Fergu-
son clapped the darbies on him. He was brought
on to Fort Worth and placed in q cslaboose,
and the auth critics of johnson county, within
whose borders the scrap took place, notified Of
the fact.
Mr.. Ferguson says the fellow wore his gun in
a shoulder holster, making it easy Of access,
and the man was evidently used to gun plays.
When searched at the calaboose he was found
to have $51 in money, . supply Of cartridges,
and some other unimportant matters. He
gave his name as Finley, but when q reporter
visited the city prison a. O'clock last night he
intoxication, and was not in Q condition TO
know. whether his name was Adam or some
thing else.
He il said to have made numerous and Wig
orous threats about the uncertainty Of Mr..
Ferguson's lease of life and ANNOUNCED he
would terminate II for him with the greatest of
felicity at the first favorable opportunity.
A telegram was received from Sheriff J. B.
Rogers Of Cleburne that he would be MP after
Finley on the first train. Mr.. Ferguson, Con-
ductor Murphy aud several other trafnmen
viii appear against him, though IL b not known
Just exactly the styls ofcharge that VIII be pre-
ferred against him.