San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-01-07
Drained IN THE DARK.
MIDNIGHT ASSASINS GET IN
THEIR WORK.


THEIR WORK.
ID. f.. Bowman Murdered BY I'm
known Parties in the Suburbs
OF the City-His Brother
Notified.
Just before the usual midnight re-
lief at the police station, the news of
a murder near the 1. & q. N. railroad
track, west Of town, was telephoned
to the station. Officers Petersen and
Brown mounted their horses and
hurried to the scene of the murder
between Durango and Matamoras
street, beyond the International and
Arkansas Pass railroad tracks. Arriv-
ing there, they found MI. Tom NORM
and his brother Ed. bending
over q man who to all
appearances was breathing
his last. The injured man soon died
and Justice of Peace Anton Adam
was Immediately sent for.
Mr.. Tom NORM who lives but q
short distance from where the MUIR
| der was committed, states that about
! eleven O'Clock last night he was
aroused by q pistol shot and cries
| for help. Quickly arming himself,
he rushed out towards the spot where
| the cry enamated, but when he
| reached it, no n vas to be found
| there abouts, although he says he
heard what seemed to be two parties
| rushing through the brush about
| him. He returned to the house and
called upon his brother Ed to help
him search the place. Suddenly while
looking around them, Tom NORM
discovered the injured man in q wind
ing roadway, occasionally giving out
q few groans. The police were in
stantly notified by telephone, and the
two mounted men shortly reached
the scene of the bloody work.
Judge Adam searched the pockets
| of the deceased, and found them to
contain, besides a certificate for de.
| posit of $500 In the San Antonio Ma
tional bank, a purse containing $40 In
currency, q letter without an envelope
addressed to d f. Bowman. Slips
con tanning the records of fast horses,
q note book, q few other trinkets, and
a loaded 32 calibre pistol, were found
upon him. Later SIG. 90 i'm money was
found in his pockets.
Bowman was a stranger in this
city, living here but two weeks. He
Is said to have stopped at the San
Antonio house, owned by a Mrs. Long.
1t is thought that he came here from
New Orleans. Bowman has a broth
er In San Francisco named Jas. Bow
MAN xuhn hoe hnan nntIfiaH nf fine
death of his brother.
The deceased was q jolly young
man of perhaps twenty-six, well
dressed, and with a well filled purse.
He known to Mr.. Erhardt, a shoe
maker in Marquardt's shoe shop, and
wac seen last evening about six or
seven o'clock, by Mr.. Marquardt in
front of his shop. He was at the time
alone. Nothing new was learned of
Bowman's home or any further rela-
tons or friend this morning. The
only evidence taken thus far is that of
Mr.. NORM, who is a horse trader, and
gives no possible clue of the murder
ers. The detectives have the matter
in hand and are quietly at work.
They do not think that robbery was
the motive of the crime, as they say
that the assassins had plenty of time
to run through the pockets of the
deceased before any help was at
hand.
Mr.. d. E. Bowman was a horse
buyer and had been to Pena, Texas,
to purchase some animals.
The manner of Bowman's bloody
taking off was something horrible.
He was Drained with a cOupling-pin
ten fearful wounds being found on
his skull. The undertaken says that
the man was not shot, as an examlna-
ton of the wounds proved. The
bloody pin, was found with
in a few yards of the in
jured man. Besides the wounds on
the head, there were some severe
bruises on the wrist, and his clothing
about his body was badly torn, indi-
eating a hard struggle with the as
sassins. Sheriff Mccall has sent for
a brace of the famous blood hounds
used to such advantage in Brazoria
county in tracing c%onvicts, with
which he proposes to track down the
fiends, if possible, to their very last
stand.