The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1891-02-19

~ "ShU AAGo supper.
Each man was assigned a place
around the house, and when Dick.
erson went into supper they closed
in on the house. The oldest girl
discovered the presence of the off.
GERS and hollered to Dickerson that
armed men were around the house.
Dickerson grabbed his pistol and
opened the back door, and as he
stuck his head out, Sheriff McLain,
standing at the corner OF the house,
raised his shot gun and fired at
Dickerson, who jumped back in the
house, just in time to save his head
from being perforated with buck
shot. Dickerson then ran to the
end of the house and started to OPP
en- a wooden window shutter, when
marshal Parks fired his pistol
through the window, the ball
missing Dickerson not more than
two inches. Dicke-son then tried
to get out at the other door, and he
was met by Mr.. Miller Walker, who
fired load OF shot into that door.
Seeing that all sides of the house
were guarded he became desperate
and raved, cursed and defed the
crowd to take him.
Sheriff McLain pulled off plank
and stuck his gun through the crack
of the house and Dickerson shot at
McLain, missing him.
Dlckerson then gathered the FIVE
children around him and told the
officers that they dare not shoot in
there and kill those children. Sher-
if McLain told the children they
must open the door and come out or
they might be killed. Dickerson
told the oldest girl and children not
to leave him, that as long as they
staid with him that the officers
would not shoot. The children
chung to Dickerson, crying and
screaming. The officers told Dick
erson that he had better surrender
and keep nom being killed, as they
intended to have him at all haz-
ards. He cursed and abused them
and told them to kill him. They
tried to bluff him by threatening to
burn the house if he didn't come
out. He replied with defiance and
said: "Would you burn these chill
dren up?" They told him, 'No,
but when the house is on fire the
children would come out, and he
would have to come out, too, and
they would take him dead or allve.''
They finally began to reason with
him and told him that it was
impossible for him to escape-that
the house was surrounded-and if
he shot and killed one of them, that
some one of the posse would kill
him, and in order to prevent blood
shed that he bad better surrender.
He wanted to know if they would
hurt him il he gave up. They told
him under no circumstance would
he be harmed. He said, "All right,
come and get me-" The sheriff told
him that he must lay his pistol
down and come to the door with
hands up. He opened the door and
Marshal Parks covered him with
double barrel shot gun and Sheriff
McLain handcuffed him.
The shreiff and posse went back to
a farm house and got supper, and at
nine o'clock, started home with
their prisoner, arriving here about
six o'clock on Thursday morning.
Dickerson now acknowledges that
he has done wrong and said he was
under the impression that Sheriff
McLain's repeated efforts to arrest
him, we're with a view to carrying
him back to Alabama and he was
determined not to go back there if
he could help it.
Sheriff McLain and posse deserve
much credit for the arrest of Dick
erson, and our citizens fully accord
it to them. He has displayed pur-'
pose to arrest Dickerson in the face
of all of his threats.
1t is very unwise for any man to