The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-15
THE LAST TEXAS "KILLER."
How Mai. RandIe, n Dallas Man With
Cory Record, Met His Match.

From the st. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Mai. I. G. Randle who was killed in
Dallas, Tex, last Monday night was the
last Of the KILLERS for whom Texas has
been noted. He had slain five men in his
career, and died. as thousands predicted,
with his boots on. His last act, when he
was shot without a moments warning,
was to reach for the big 45-calber Colts
revolver which he always carried with
him. When he fell to the pavement dead
the big revolver was cooked. Like an the
famous killers" of Texas who met their
fate in the same way Maj. Rande antici-
pated his end, and was ready. The man
who slew Randle gave him no chance for
his life, and pounced upon him as Bob
Ford slew Jesse James.
Maj. Randle was the most peculiar of all
the killers of Texas. Never did he Stay
a man except just after a big cry. That
was one of his eccentricities. He would cry
and blubber like a child for hours before
a tragedy. When the tears ceased he hunt
ed his enemy and killed him in a mcrcilesa
way. All his repentance of the deed hap
pened before he made his gun play. Randle
was possessed of the bluest of blue eyes,
and a haZy film always seemed to float
before them. Very emotional as he was, he
cried easily. The tears were ever ready to
flow. And it has been a common saying in
Texas that when Randle cried mon who
feared him fed for their homes. When he
became aggrieved he would brood for days
and when the mania of murder seized him
he began to cry. After he had cried him
self to desperation and resolution nothing
could prevent murder if his enemy was to
be found. Yet the murders credited to him
We're cowardly. He was reaping what he
had sown when he was killed without a
chance, for he slew his victims in the same
way.
Maj. Randfe was very rich man, and at
one time he was worth more than 81 00O,-
co., Much of this was swept away in the
trials he had for numbering other men.
But even at the time of his death he could
have cashed in his property for $5OO,0G A
year ago he invested 100000 in cash in the
Dallas Consolidated Electric Street Rail
way Company.
Maj Randle met his match once. Hugh
~ Fitzgerald, now city editor of the Dali
las News, put a big gun under Randles
nose one night and the KILLER begged for
his life. AT that time Fitzgerald, who is
man of iron nerve, was editor of the
Dallas Times-Herald. On Christmas eve
1892, Maj. Randle killed his cousin, Ed
Randle, proprietor Of a hlgh-class cafe in
cOwardly that Fitzgerald came out in his
daily paper with some or the warmest ed
itorials against Maj Randle that were
ever written in Texas. Day after day he
demanded that Maj. Randle be hung for
his deed. He led popular feeling so high
i'm Dallas that it was feared that Mai
Randle would be lynched. At the open
ing of Maj. Raudles trial his attorneys
demanded a change of venue Editor
Fitzgerald was summoned by the state to
give evidence that Maj. Randle could get
fair trial in Dallas county.
do you think Maj Randle could get
justice in this county?" asked the states
attorney.
Il do not" swore the editor.
"Why do you think that?" asked the
lawyer, aghast at this statement.
Because, sir, ! do not think that human
justice can mete out punishment to that
man to fit his cowardly deed. Hanging
would be too good for him." bluntly stated
Editor Fitzgerald.
Maj. Randle was sitting directly across
from the witness as he testified, and look