Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-01-21
KUGADT IN JAIL AT MARLIN
Is What Sheriff Emerson Writes Sheriff
Teague-Another Account Points to
His Being in Louisiana.

Is What Sheriff Emerson writes ohein
Teague-Another Account Points to
His Being in Louisiana.
That most ubiquitous of al
criminals. Chas. Kugadt, has beer
heard from again. Since he bA0iht
fugitive from justice on the Btt
of last October by offering up hi;
sister as sacrifice to the God Of
avarice On a funeral pyre deep in the
recesses of Jackson creek bottom he
has turned up in as many different
places as the wandering Jew" even
visited. In the jungles of the
Brazos river bottom, in the noun
tains of Mexico, in the swamps Of
Louisiana, on the sea-girt isles Of
the Antilles, off the coast of NADIA
gascar, among burning sands and
alpine SHOWS he has left foot prints,
which have been traced to the
''iumping-off place." only to ter
inmate in the vale of uncertainty,
while the wanderer continued his
jack-o'-lantern pilgrimage.
At last, after the minions of the
law have belted the globe to the
very antipodes in a fruitless search
for the wanderer, D. R Emerson,
sheriff of Falls county, is ready to
exclaim eureka over his discovery,
as evidenced by the following self
explanatory letter, which is dated
at Marlin on the 18th. inst:
F.. DEAR SIR:-I think I have the
German that killed and burned his
sister some time since in your
county. Please send me full des-
cription and picture of him if you
have one. What reward is offered
for him? Yours Very Truly.
D. r. EMERSON,
Sheriff Falls County.
The Louisiana end of the story
contained ia Lake Charles special
to the New Orleans Times-Demo-
crat runs as follows
Several days ago three TIMBER
cutters from a lumber camp on the
Calcasieu river, short distance
above Bagdad landing, came down
to Lake Charles and told a strange
story about tramp who lived In q
mud hut IN the swamps near them
They said he was something OF q
hermit, and. they wsgered he had
money. The inside of the hut was
plastered with mud, and on the
walls were hung some pictures ~oi
popular theatrical stars. The ROOF
was matched with fine brush and
chicken feathers, and from the
general life and actions of this desc
late occupant, they thought the
matter should be Investigated.
This report of the timber cutters
was not taken seriously, and the in
cident was practically forgotten unit
Monday night when it was all re,
vived in detail, for it is believed
this strange dweller of the forest
comes to town himself.
The officers about the Southern
Pacific depot are the ones who saw
him. He dropped into a restaurant
and ordered a cup of coffee. He
was dressed like a tramp on the out,
side, the clothing appearing to gel
better on the inside He wore E
heavy mustache streaked with gray
and the face showed considerable
intelligence After drinking the
coffee he said to the man behind the
counter:
Give me pair of scissors,
want to get my money"
The restaurant man was sus-
picious of his customer, and
answered that he did not have any
scissors in the house.
GIVE me a knife then, 4 guess il
will cut a coat like this" and the
tramp looked down at his shabby
dress.
Being given knife after.consider-
able hesitation, the stranger ripped
a eijt N the lining of his coat and
drSw cut & roll of greenbacks
amounting to $500. He paid for
the 6ve cent cup of coffee,
"That is nothing" said he, aud he
cut the lining of the old coat in
another place and brought forth
roll of bills equally as large.
''rve got more money in these
said the visitor, land in
twenty minutes I will be back for a
room"
But he never came back. It is
believed that the man is net a
tramp, and that he is in disguise for
some reason. The officers think he
has been in some big sob" eitller in
New Orleans or an Eastern city, and
has come to live in the swamps for
protection. The old mud hut by
the lumber camp will be inveHti-
gated.