The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-22
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SWEETS OF FREEDOM.
TASTED BY A PRISONER FOR .
MINUTE ONLY.
Having Served n Term of Years For
Counterfeiting, He is Released,
only TO Be Booked For the More
Serious Crime of Murder.

NEW YORK, March 21.-The Herald
this morning says:
j. W. Dearmond, alias Charles Rice
a rather quiet-looking young man, who
has just completed a term of two
years and six months Imprisonment ir
the Kings county penitentiary for
counterfeiting, has been arrested on a
charge of murder at the prison.
Dearmond, who went by the name
OF Rice when convicted of counterfeit
ing. before the United States court al
| Shreveport, was received at the Grow
Hill penitentiary on August 5, 1894. He
gave his age as a years and his &C.
| cupation as a farmer
The second arrest Of Dearmond. or
Rice, was made upon a warrant issued
by United States Commissioner Morley
at the request of Assistant United
States District Attorney Roy. He is
heid on a requiSition from the district
attorney of Paris. Tex. under an in
dictment found on May 26. 1891, by
the United States grand jury for the
eastern district of that state. for being
concerned with others in the murder
of Edward Howett. a wealthy cattle
dealer. The warrant was executed by
Deputy Marshals McManus and Koch
Dearmond was remanded to Jail at
the request of Mr.. Roy, and the ex-
animation set down for Friday next by
Commissioner Morley, to await the ar
rival of the federal authorities from
Texas with the Indictment and proof
of the identity of the prisoner.
THE STORY OF THE MURDER,
as recounted by United States Marshal
]. S. Williams of the Indian Territory.
is seemingly strongly circumstantial
against the accused. Edward Howell.
who was interested in the cattle bust
ness, had determined with other citi-
zens of Pickens county, l. T., to rid
that section of a gang of desperate
characters. In pursuit of his inten-
ton he incurred the deadly enmity of
the desperadoeS.
He was called to the door of his
house on the night of January 6. 1891,
and six of the men who confronted
him demanded his money, which he
refused to give them. He was imme-
d.ately riddled with bullets, and his
murderers then rif1ed his pockets and
ransacked the house. The horse and
cattle thieves who committed the crime
are said to have been Frank Jones,
alias Frank Schuck; Will Brillson, j.
D. Dearmond and three others. Two
were captured and lynched. Dear
mona escaped to LOUISIANA, and the
three other men were arrested and
dealt with according to law.
In Louisiana Dearmond is said to
have connected himself with a
PARTY OF COUNTERFEITERS,
and while engaged in the business he
fell into the clutches of the United
States secret service officers. He was
tried before the United States circuit
court and sentenced for counterfeiting
to the penitentiary, under the name of
Charles Rice. by which name he was
known to the authorities. Marshal
Charles Williams of the eastern dis !
trict of Tennessee, who has been I'M |
in his search for Dearmond, |
evidence that led him to be- |
lieVe that Convict Rice and the object |
Of his search were one and the same |
man. Having decided that he was on |
the right track, he addressed a letter |
10 Warden Hayes few days ago. in |
which he said that he believed that |
Dearmond was in the Kings county
The marshal gave de-
of Dearmond, and Warden
Hayes, upon making a personal inspec-
Ion of the federal prisoners who were
lnder his charge, soon found that the
appearance of Convict Rice. in all par
iculars corresponded with the descrip-
ion he had received of the man that
s wanted for the murder of Howell
Rice denied that his name was Dear
nond and he disclaimed all knowl-
dge of the charge against him.