Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-20

seen to stick out from knot-hole in the
| side of the barn and the crowd all scat
tered. But Amy did not fire and withdrew
his pistol
Then a council Of war was held in the
| parlor of Andrew Warden's house. An at
tack was decided on.
| Placing guard with cooked revolver at
each of the barn doors, Capt. Hoffman. with
| a band of ten fully armed men, entered the
| barn where Almy had been discovered. In
| a loud voice he called out:
..Almy, if you are in this barn the best
| thing in the world for you to do is to give
yourself up. We will protect you and see
that you are taken to safe place. But If
you do not surrender peaceably we shall
take YOU. for we have the barn surrounded
with men, and we propose to do So"
There was no answer.
Then the hay-mow was searched and
turned over with pitchforks. But no sign
of the murderer was to be found. 1t was
clear that he had escaped into the barn next
towards the west, which was approached
by small pitching-hole just big enough to
allow man to pass through. This opening
was on level with the top of one OF the
piles of hay, and Capt. Hoffman jumped up
there and called to Amy to surrender.
Halt where you are or shall fire.
These words, uttered in clear, distinct
tones, startled the searchers, and at the
same time Capt. Hoffman caught sight of
Amy through the hole. He was seated on
top of pile of hay with the opening COW
cred by his two big pistols, which he was
slowly moving up and down ready to fire at
thirty feet away and parley ensued. Amy
said he had thrown out bundle of papers
containing his confession. This was after
wards found upon the ground and turned
over TO the state officials, and it will proba-
bly, figure in the trial.
g [ want to see John Fuller" continued
Almy. Send him in here
Fuller, who was among the crowd outside.
walked nervously down the long line of
barns and entered the door from which the
other SearcherS had withdrawn. AS he
went up towards the small opening where
the murderer had been seen, he said:
''Almy, do you want to see mel''
g want TO talk to you, - was the reply.
''Come up here to the window and throw
up your hands. You won't get hurt"
Amy and Fuller talked there for half an
hour, the crowd outside, which by this time
was getting into an ugly mood, waiting i'm
patiently to see what should come of it.
THANK God / have chance to speak to
friend" said the murderer Il have been
hunted and haunted for weeks, and now |
am surrounded and hemmed in, my leg is
broken and | am getting weak from loss of
Blood and Mr.. Fuller noticed his leg hang
ing limp and ragged, with the cloth of his
trousers soaked with blood, which was
slowly trucking on the hay. A bullet had
smashed the bone below the knee.
Mr.. Fuller shall l shoot myself" he
suddenly asked, at the same time putting
up pistol at each side of his head, with his
finger on the triggers.
Now, Frank, don't do that said Full
Ter, and the murderer put the weapons
down.
Il shot poor Christie" SAID he, "but as
I'd ic a,Xr ind 7 irtp 70 iii
her l loved her dearly, and without her
life had no charms for me. prouder,
better or nobler girl never lived. l have
suffered untold agonieS ever since. My
only purpose that night was to get an op-
portunity to talk with her. l had watched
and waited for the chance for weeks, until
l became desperate. Try as l would I
could not resist the temptation to resort to
desperate means to see her. l have been
here ever since the murder and | saw them
carry the body into the house that night"
Almy then described his midnight prowl-
ings in the neighborhood. He asked which
was Christie'S grave in the Hanover ceme-
terry, and then said that he was glad to
know he had put the flowers upon the right
grave. He then took from his finger
large and heavy plain gold ring which he
said his darling Christie" had placed there
the day he had left the farm. This he gave
to Mr.. Fuller, saying he wished him to keep
1t IN memory OF his dead love.
Amy undoubtedly expected to live only
short time when he gave up that ring. for
he called for it when he began to recover
his strength few days afterward, and he
has 1t now.
But the crowd outside the barn was bit
terly disappointed when John Fuller came
out. They wanted blood, and they wanted
it quickly, and angry cries began to break
out on all sides. Fuller said that Amy
was considering whether he should sur
render, and asking terms.
Instantly several shots were fired from
the crowd into the barn. where the muir
derer was concealed. Amy replied, shoot
ing up through the roof and making the
shingles fly. On all sides men were loading
their weapons and preparing to make a
rush ON the barn when Sheriff Bingham
mounted tall ladder and addressed the
crowd.
Two hours later Almy surrendered and
was taken out-fatally wounded, it was
supposed. He was taken to jail, where he
was recognized as an ex-convict named Alb
bolt.
This was his secret which he concealed
from his love, for whose murder he will be
tried on Tuesday.