The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1892-08-26
BUNCH KILLED.
nEfddled by n Posse Under DE
aecLaves jackson and
Summers.


aecGlvea jackson and
Summers.
City Item.
Eugene Bunch has been summoned,
arralpned, tried and sentenced before
that higher tribunal, where Jesse
James, Rube Burrows and other less
noted Knighta Of the Road bad
appeared.
The name OF Bunch has become
universally notorious within the past
half decade, but as his daring exploits
in the profession of holding up trains
had been confined almost exclusively
70 the states of Louisiana, Mississippi
and Texas, the Inhabitants of these
sections were alarmed and terrorized
TO a greater or less extent when &C
counts Of train robbery from some
poiut or other, conducted on a strictly
scientific basis showed clearly that
Buuch's master hand had been at the
helm.
Despite his cunning and sagacity
that had always served him SO admir-
ably in eludIng the sleuth-honnds of
justice, these ever treacherous gualifi
cations, of which recklessness is con.
ceived materially aided In bringing his
career to a richly merlted ending.
He was cornered by a posse under
Detectives Tom jackson and c. o.
Summers, near Franklnton, in Wash
iugton parish. lie was accompanied
by the now famuus Colonel Hopgood
The posse were full well aware of the
nature of the man with whom they
now had to deal.
Men of Buuch's character know not
what fear is, and when brought face
to face with the inevitable, there is
but one course left for their pursuers.
Bunch opened fire on the posse, but
they were protected by fence.
CapitulatIOn was ont of the question,
and the result was that from their place
of shelter his pursuers riddIed him
with bullets. Col. Hopgood offered
40 resistance, and was taken an easy
captive. He was taken to Amite City
for incarceration.
The following account was received
this morning, furnishing further par
tIculars
ANTE CRY, Aug. 22.-TSpeeial =
The 77-Mile Point train robbery sen
sation eliminated at midnight by the
arrival in town Of Detective T. Y.
jackson and Ohas. o Summers, who
brought with them Col Hopgood, one
of the Bunch gang, Eugene Bunch
had been killed Sunday morning at 8
O'Clock at a farm eighteen miles east
of Franklnton. Washington parish, the
detectives representing the Southern
Express Company having been in puT-
suit since the l4th of last April. They
at last located Bunch ANA Hopgood
yesterday morning at what is known
as Muster Ground, their party consist
ing of five men, drsmOunted and sur.
rounded the farmhouse.
The men wanted, however, were
not in it, for they were discovered in a
clearing a short distance in front of
the house. The detective party then
dashed upon them
Bunch fred his 45-calibre Winches.
ter and started to run. He was then
fired npou and filed with bnckshot.
HopgoOd, seeing Bunch fall, threw mp
his hands and was taken INTO custody.
An inquest was held on Bunch at
FrankhnIOn where he was buried.
Hopgood was then brought here where
be il lodged in Jail He will be taken
to New Orleans by the detectives by
the evening train.
THE LIFE AND MIsDREDs OF THE NOTORI.
GUS OUTLAW.
Eugene Bureh, the daring train rob
! Der, whose death at the hands of the
law officers has just been teIegraphed
was a man of extraordinary nerve and
crack shot. He formerly taught
school at CovingLon, but his passion
for gambling proved his rnin. Hi
first exploit, which he accomplished
single handed, was committed on the
! New Orleans and Northeastern Rail
road, when be secured about $4,000
Great efforts TO capture him, mad,
by the late Chief Hennessey, ONLY
resulted in the arrest Of a woman, wht
had been associated with him.
Bunch was then Thought to hav,
escaped to the Rocky Mountains, bu
aeon after he turned mp near Dncl
| Hill, Mics, where he again robbed 1
tram, killing passenger.
| Four months ago be eommitie,
another train robbery near NsWsOm'
mill, since when be has been persist
emily trailed by detectives with blood
hounds, with the above result.