The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-25
GOT orr By TEXAS TRICKS.
FAD MAN .DoUHERTY, H0WBTER,
y FOkp6f ILL ABOUT TELEPHONEh.

ne Held Up with Didicuious Ease the Cen
necticut Constable who Handcuned Hin.
and Escapod AFTER n shert Tupsie - Cap
tured ut y Bridge Later while FhyinG Toll
NEW LONDON. Conn, July 24.-Edward
Douhorty. aged 20, Of Cucro, Tex. was brought
TO the county jail here tonight on q charge OF
horse stealing and of attempting to kill Constable
Rogers Of East Lyme. Early this morning
Douherty rode on o pony into Great Neck
village, four miles west of New London Stop
ping at the house of Farmer Reagor he In
quired II he could find shelter and feed for
tho pony, while he went down the road on
n little business. The pony was placed in a stall,
and Douherty was absent until noon time. He
was invited in to dinner on his return by tho
Rood-natured farmer. and was to resume his
journey, when Constable Rogers arrived on q
bicycle and informed Douhertv that he had .
warrant for his arrest for stealing q horse from
farmer Jerry Shumway OF Montville.
Tho constable drew o revolver and held IL in
readiness II the horse thief attempted TO show
fight, but Douherty quietly submitted to being
handcuffed, and AZ the constable started toward
the stable Douherty asked that no be allowed to
get his coat in q wagon near by. The East Lyme
constable. was only a minute in releasing the
pony, but when he emerged from tho stable his
hair fairly stood on end at the sight which con-
fronted him.
Douherty had an ugly looking six-shooter re-
volver which he had flshed from his coat, and
holding tho weapon tightly clinched in his
hands and aimed at the constable, he remarked:
Now, Mister officer. I've got the drop on you.
full O. lead"
Constable Rogers was about ten feet away
from his prisoner and knew that an attempt to
pull his own revolver would be counting instant
death. He deliberated a few seconds and sud
denly made a leap for the man from Texas. The
s sas5eF At was .h wate eonsFs.s hi| al like he a f lynx u nnd
him. The bullet erazed the constabIe's ear.
and the two rolled about the farm yard, the
Heht e s,iiI 4, With D%SpSh h on top. and re.
to his revolver, but the horse thief was too
quick in covering him.
Now gimme yer shooter; take of these
This order was complied with, and Douherty
further commanded:
Put the saddle on the pony and hustle, If yer
don't want yer other ear famed"
Rogers reluctantly saddled the pony and
the constable's bicycle.
" don't like Their looks of that ere machine"
and loosen their wind a Bit
This was the final order, and as the constable
Of East Lyme cut his tires the desperate started
Farmer Reager and the neighbors were at
tracted by the shooting, but were afraid TO stop
the modern Dick Turpin as he started toward
Mantle, brandishing his revolver.
A telephone message in that direction cut
abort his career, however, as Constable Hill and
two other men were ready to meet him with q
revolver, shotgun, and baseball bat at Niantio
,Douherty was paying his toll innocently when
the trio sprang upon him and prevented him
from repeating the tricks he learned in Texas.
noon and was brought to New London jail to-
night