The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-07-23
MURDERER CAPTURED
JOHN WALLACE TRIED TO ESCAPE 0NA
FREIGHT TRAIN.
He Boarded Captain Jim Cults Train
Yesterday Morning at Rocky Point
and was Turned Over to Omcers at
Goldsboro-Admits He Is Guilty.

Chief OF Police John j. Furlong yes
terday afternoon received the follow
ing telegram:
Black Creek. n. c.. July Is, 1901.
Chief Police, Wilmington, y. c.:
1 turned John Wallace over to the
chief Of police of Goldsboro today.
j. P. CUTS"
Captain Cults is conductor OF 4
freight train which left Wilmington
yesterday morning over the Atlantic
Coast Line. anG when his train reach
ed Rocky Point, thirteen miles from the
city. Wallace boarded it and secreted
himself in a box car. One of Captain
Cults colored train hands discovered
him and identifying him as the negro
who was suspected of numbering VIII
liam Dudley, colored, IN Monday night
near Sixth and Nixon streets, notified
Captain Cults hat he had an inter-
esting passenger on board. Captain
Cults locke the murderer UP in the
car and telegl aphed to G%oldsboro for
officers to meet his train and take Wal
lace off.
When the train reached G~oldsboro
" pOiiSciiicu Hicl TIC Train ana when
n car was opened n Wallace saw
the officers. he realized that it was use
less to resist. He evidently intended
to do so but there were too many for
him, there being also a crowd of men
present to back up the officers. Wal
lace was seen to throw something back
into the end of the car when the officers
showed themselves and when they
searched the car they found a 3S CAL
ibre pistol.
Wallace was taken from the train
and put in Jail at Goldsboro and when
Captain Cults reached Black Creek be-
yond Goldsboro ne sent the telegram
to Chief Furlong. Wallace admitted
his identity and also stated that he
shot twice at Dudley.
Chief Furlong wired Chief of Police
Freeman to bring Wallace to Whining
ton and ne will bring him down on the
passenger train which arrives here this
morning at 9:25 o'clock.
When Sheriff F.. H. Stedman heard Of
the murderer'S arrest, he also wired the
authorities at Goldsboro to hold him.
The authorities here ave kept a
sharp lookout for Wallace since the
murder but he has kept in hiding.
City Detective Green received Informal
ton that Wallace was in the city yes
terday but he knew that the report
was not true as he had been reliably in
formed that the murderer slipped out
of the city yesterday morning at 8
o'clock. He has been in hiding here
and it is presumed that the search was
| getting so warm he left afoot and walk
ed to Rocky Point through the woods.
Now tina Wallace has been captur-
ed Coroner Bell will call the jury of
| inquest together n complete h in
| vestigation, the proceedings of which
| have so far been kept from the public.
ADMITS THAT HE SHOT DUDLEY
TWICE. r
Especial to The Messenger.)
Goldsboro, n. c., July 1S.-John Wal
lace, the young negro who on Monday
night shot and killed Will Dudley, also
colored, in Wilmington, and for whom
| a reward of a hundred dollars was Of
fered by the New Hanover board OF
county commissioners, was arrested
here this evening on the arrival of the
north bound Coast Line freight by Of
| ficers y. B. Freeman n B.. NJ. Den
mark.
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