Daily Texarkana Democrat., 1893-02-01
THE FIEND CAUGHT.
Glow Station, 80 Miles from Hope,
Ark, the Scene Of His Capture.
Carried to Paris, Texas, Where He
is Exhibited on Float and Burn
ed at 2:06 this Afternoon.

N~l NVht NuA aiiiu AhV ohiohc ahN
flame of the terrible fire kindled by
his own damnable deed, have the peo-
pie of this city been aroused to such a
terrible state of intense excitement
and universal indignation as when the
news was flashed over the wires yes
terday afternoon that Bob Dowery,
alias Henry Smith, alias Greene John
son, the tiendish brute whose unparal-
elled atrocity upon the tender person
of an innocent and fragile child, has
aroused the slumbering fires of human
passion and personal vengeance in the
breasts of thousands, had been caught
and was then being held for safe
transportation to Paris, Tex, there
once more to face the people whose
every sense of humanity and humane
feeling he has SO terribly outraged
and brutally defed. The excitement
aroused over the news of his capture
was intense even in this city, one hun
dred miles removed from the scene of
his deyilish crime, hence some faint
idea may be conceived of the the fear
full strain of feeling under which the
people of Paris have existed since the
news of the capture of this fiend was
first heralded abroad in this city.
Under the impression that the pris-
oner was to be brought to this city
last evening, en-route to Paris, thous-
ands of people aocked to the union
depot, in the hope of catching a
glimpse of this unexampled monster
of crime. The eager throng were
doomed to disappointment however,
as, at the last moment, the time for
removing the negro was changed to
this morning, when direct connection
through to Paris could be secured
AT the appointed hour this morn
ing, hundreds Of people could be seen
making their way to the union depot,
and when the noise of the approach
ing train was heard, the large platform
facing the depot, was a perfect living
mass of eager and expectant humanity.
Over all, however, there brooded an
ominous calm, which told more plain
ly than any overt act could possibly
have done, of the deep feeling and
deadly passion which lurked in every
breast. When the train bearing the
prisoner and his captors slowed up IN
front of the depot, fully one hundred
armed and determined men, ranged
themselves, winchester in hand, along
side of the coach in which the murder
er and his guards had taken place, and
forming themselves into compact
body guard, proceeded to escort the
party containing the prisoner to the
train in waiting, which was to besr
thcm to their destination.
Immediately after the party entered
the car reporter for this paper, by
previous arrangement and courtesy of
those in charge, made his way into
the car where he was given the full
particulars of the capture and allowed
the privilege of addressing such ques-
tions as he desired TO the prisoner in
person. The scenes and incidents of
this most fearful crime, determined
pursuit and final capture are as follows:
The prisoners real name is Bob Dow
cry, his crime the rape and murder of
little tbree-year-old white girl. The
wretch fleeing from the wrath awak-
ened by his damnable deed, passed
through this city on Sunday night,
skirting the town he made his way to
the coal schute ON the Iron Mountain
road where he entered box car Of a
north bound freight, making his way
to Hope, Ark, where he left the train
In the early morning hours and after
spending several hours Of the day in
that place, took his departure going
out on foot over the track Of the Ar
kansas & Louisiana railway, presum-
ably intent on reaching the home Of
his mother In the town Of Nashville,
Ark. Parties at Hope heard of his
having been there, and Immediately a
searching corps of brave men started
out in pursuit Of the brute and easily
follwed his trail along this line to the
the little station Of Glow, Ark, where
he was overtaken and captured with.
out a struggle or the slightest show OF
resistance on his part The gentle.
men composing the capturing party
were Messrs. j. I. Hicks, II. B. EIol.
man, (cx-sheriff of Hampstead county
q. V. Robinson and negro known as
Noble Robinson, taken along to iden-
tify the prisoner.
Assistant County Attorney b. B
Sturgeon, OF Lamar county, Tex, wal
at the time of the capture In the town
of Washington, Ark. and being noti.
fed thereof was only a few hours IN
reaching the scene of caDtlre 10