The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-04-01
GOT DE ORMOND AT LAST.
WILLIAMs's LONG HUNT ron A
MURDERER WINS.
The Texas Marshal Had Been After the
slayer OF Dan Howell for TSyo Years,

The Texas Marshal Had been After the
slayer OF Dan Howell for Two Years,
md Found Him Doing Time In Crow
Hu Penitentinry for Counterfeiting
The long hunt after J. w. De Ormond. the
murderer OF Dan Howell. the Indian cattle
rancher. which began on Wild Horse Creek In
the Choctaw and Chickasaw lands in 1890,
ended in United States Marshal Hnyden's Office
In Brooklyn yesterday when Deputy Marshal
James NJ. Chancellor of Paris, Tex, identified
Charles Rice. the counterfeitcr, as the long
looked.for man. Do Ormond had Just finished
under the name of Rice, n two-year sentence In
the Crow Hill penitentiary for couutorfeiting
In the South, and his rearrest on the old charge
OF murder illustrates the tenacity of purpose of
United States Marshal J. s. Williams, who COW
ers the largest and most turbulent district In
the United States, embracing rs 1t does all the
territory between Oklahoma and Galveston.
Mr.. Williams became Marshal two years ago.
One OF his first acts was to study carefully the
fugitive list. He found that thlrty-elght men
charged with murder In his district were at
large, among whom was De Ormond, whose
crime was particularly atroc lous. He was q
s~quatter and all-around bad man, and In COM
pany with two companions he occupied q strip
OF Dan Howelrs land. One day in the spring Of
1890 Howell, who was we'll to do, paid n visit to
De Ormond. The squatter and his two compan-
ions shot the Indian and robbed him, after
which they buried the body.
There was n great hue and cry among the
ranchmen when the Indian did not return.
Suspicion turned upon De ormond and his pals,
and In order TO do away with all traces of the
crime Howcll's body was dug up and they
burned 1t in the fireplace of De Ormond's house.
The Marshal's men afterward found the charred
bones there, and after Il long chase Do Ormond
was captured and locked up in the Paris jail,
whence he was transferred to the prison in
sherman by Deputy Marshal Chancellor. A
few days later there was a jail delivery and De
ormond and ten Other, prisoners escaped.
Williams took up the chase. After a long
search Williams located him in a logging camp
in Louisiana, but De Ormond got wind of his
coming and fled further south. Last August
Williams learned from a returning convict that
De Ormond was serving u two-year term in the
Louisiana. The Marshal came on to brooklyn,
ana IN the penitentiary no met Dan Cash, a
we'll, having been twelve months with him in a
Western jail. He pointed out the murderer, but
De ornond denied his identity, and the United
States Commissioners could not take the uncor-
roborated testimony Of n convict. SO Williams's
long journey was f%ruitless.
Before De Ormond's sentence expired last
week Williams journeyed again, to brooklyn,
Immediately rearrested on a warrant charging
him with the murder OF Dan Howell. He again
denied that no was the man. although he was
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cellor Immediately started north: He reached
BitS Sis cS ge tct g cdn yr1 m1rdnin ns 5rmo I'm company n PIa4,
shall Hayden's office.
Hello. DE Ormond," said Chancellor. Its
a long time since we met
y don't know you" replied the prisoner sui
lenly.
Identification, and the officers will start with
their prisoner for Paris this morning.
Marshal Williams, Is a large, heayy-set man.
is not only the largest, but 1t is the worst in the
world, and almost every man IN II goes heavily
Tor murder. During his short term Of
office Williams has taken more than 800 con-
victs to the various penitentiaries and he has
attended the hanging OF seven men. He has
l25 deputies under him.. and it was under his
was hunted down and Killed last June at the
house Of Houston Wallace In tho Chickasaw
skin bag which lone Woif, the chief Of the
Spanish silver dollar Of 1872, which he took
shot to death by Deputy Marshal Hart.
Out of the thirty-eight murderers who were
captured and four others located in different
prisons where they are confined for other
IN the district and the one at Paris has jurisdic-
tion over crimes committed In the Indian Terri
tory. Marshal Williams said last night that
there had not been II lynchtng in the Territory
since he took office and there had not been a
robbery or a murder there for which
the men concerned had not been arrested. His
deputies have shot twenty men who resisted
arrest. He declared that the penitentiaries at
Crow Hill and Detroit, particularly the former;
are the best managed in the country. He said
that the prisoners there look better. are better
cared for and more amenable to discipline than
reason hundreds of Federal prisoners from the
far West and Southwest are quartered In them.