The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1893-12-14

one minutes laughing az another--this was
a picture long to be remembered
The cot was surrounded by officers.
newspaper men and others Slt watching
with interest the doctors movements and
listening with morbid curiosity te the
strange confessions OF the wounded man.
within a fcvy feet. % his cell. ny Lum
Deaton. hearing every word and hearine
his own condemnation In Language full OF
force and cutting IA "a knife.
The Post mBn left the side Of the slci,
mans couch and pecrlng into the dark
ness Of a cell saw Deatln. and asked him
VI be had heard what Bronson had said
Ne replied that be had and further said
that everybody knew that he was DID
coward. This was confederation OF what
Bronco Bill had just been saying
"Bronco Bill" or Bii Bronson is &c
years ola and was raised on Walnut
Creek IN Travis county. His father and
mother live NJ the Austin dam and sub
sist by catching FISH. There Is one grown
daughter living with the parents and one
lives In Austin. A brother. Joe. boy
o. lG was with him when arrested Unu
short time ago Bronco Bin lived ct the
dam also. He claims that he went the
Colorado river when he was found yes
tsrduy In order TO get away from those
id Iellsys who had been bothering the
life outer him TO get him to rob the
train This man Is not unknown to the
criminal annals OF the State, having scrv.
ed term IN the state penitentiary FOR
horse taeft Of which he frequently spoke
last night az the bedside scene,
Lum Dentcr was born and raised IN
FRANKLIN county, Tennessee, and came
60 Austin fourteen years ago. He has a
widowed mother living in Austin who is
very poor. a brother lives In Fort Worth.
For some years Deaton farmed on the
Old Joe Jones plantation, twelve miles be-
low Austin. Three years ago he worked
Tor A T. Corwln, who then lived In the
country but who Is now policeman.
since That time he has been driving a
hack 90 Austin
sheiton's parents live Mt Goldthwaite.
and 70 was there he was going when ar
rested. They are said 10 be good old peo-
pie, asalnsi whom nothing can be said
Dick Wallace was raised IN Travis coun-
~ in tbs mountains near Bull Creek. but
or late years he has skipped about from
one locality 90 another. but all the while
returning 20 Austin at different periods
His face is a familiar one on the streets
e Austin.
BEFORE ending this account OF the trag-
coy % should be noted that the people OF
A3sla have been aroused to degree Of
Intense feeling over the manner In which
these train robbers treated the female
gassenEcrs on the International train. IL
vns brutal and cruel Eye witnesses de-
care that women were abused and ierlyed
ahout in "a most ruthless manner and
language was used that places 81 beyond
verbatim mention. These so-called men
were not sntsded with terrorlzinR the vu-
mon. bur they added base and low-born
Insult 70 their unlawful acts.
Lum bshtou, n seems. was detailed 20
buy provisions Tor the other outlaws, and
went to Duval store often enough 70
snow scar upon his hand This was one
}t the threads that led TO his arrest He
was taken 70 Duyal and Identified by par
ties there
The only talk To-Day on the streets is
INC robbery and the arrest and the un-
usually quick manner In which tine partic.-
pants were arrested
Austin, Texas, December S.-Indlct.
nen,s were found today by tho grand
'HfF agninnt Bronson, Wallace, Deaton
ana shelton and notice served on the
lfteutanta. shelton was brought in to-
night by Sheriff White. II IS learned
mat Bronson and peaton viii plead gull
~ The other two VIII make fight in
DE court.
Tile officers who went out in the coun-
Ft i9 recover The jewelry and money bur
Ell by the Duval train robbers returned
without hndins anything. They think.
however. that IL Will be surely found
ne watch found last night upon the per.
son Of bll Bronson, the wounded mon.
urns ont to be the property OF Herman
ttlienneimer OF Austin, who WAS on me
rain when the robbery occurred.
BIN Bronson rs resting very wen today
ma denies all the statements made last
light