The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-03-23
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prosecuting officers of the state Was
ahos and almost Instantly killed ri
& O'Clock yesterday afternoon
Former Deputy Sheriff Niamil y.
! Scott. nuw claim agcnt of the Denver
railroad was mortally wouaded and
/ William Tomiinaon, who has but one
/ hand aud that his left vas tiddied
( with bullets hy the police. who sur
rounded him In lumber yard With"
\ or he had fled after the shooting. |
I and has little chance of recovery.
| All this came about an the result |
of a raid made on a gambling ball
over a saloon yesterday afternoon by |
[ County Attorney Mclean, Sheriff |
Wood and large force of deputies |
! Five men. it is charged were found |
playing poker and faro. They were |
arrested and the paraphernalia was |
hauled off in q wagon The deputies |
departed TO raid another suspected |
place and Mr. Mclean crossed the |
street to request his wife, who was
seated in her buggy, to remain there !
until his return. He fetraced his steps |
to follow the officers and as he |
| reached the front of the Stag saloon I
! Tomlinson stepped from the interior |
and accosted him. uttering an oath. |
/ Tomlinson had been running the
| games In the rooms above, but was
not present when the raid was made. !
! Mclean paused when at the foot |
OF the stairway leading to the gamb- |
| Iat a hp Ala En TnmlinSOn l
fired the heavy bullet striking the
county attorney in the Adams apple,
passing through his neck and pro-
iducing death in ten minutes. He
was picked up and carried into An
iderson's drug store. where he expired
in the presence of his wife, physicians
and friends AS he was being moved
he spoke to those who were carrying
| him. saying: Handle me careiully
bows. l am choking" These were the
; last words he uttered
immediately after Mr.. McLeAr
ihad fallen Tomlinson made MS es
cane through the saloon into an allie,
and thence toward Throckmortol
street. He hid behind bill boart
and among pile Of dry goods boxes
in the alley. Hamill p. Scott. who had
Joined in the chase, was the tirst 10
locate him there. Tomlinson opened
! fire from behind cover and Scott fell
face downward after the third shot
and was unable to rise, the blood
squirting from two severe wounds
His pistol being now nearly empty,
,Tomlinson rushed forward and selezd
iScott's weapon, from which no shot
had been fired. He then cut across
the vacant lot. crossed Throckmorton
Istreet and ran into a lumber yard |
In ten minutes 5000 people surroun-
ded the lumber yard. detachment
of police. with reyolvers drawn, en-
tered and began the search Tor the
lfugitive. Among the tall piles of lum-
her Officer Denny Lloyd discovered |
Tomlinson crouching close behind |
the two stacks of boards He opened
fire and drove him out.
The pistol taken from the wound
ed deputy refused to work rapidly
land the fugitive found himself at the
lmercy OF the policemen. He continued
however. tosfight and a fulsilade OF
shots was fired Three bullets STRUCK
lhim. one penetrated his bladder and
lodged in his back against rib'
lauother shattered his leg above the
,kuee and a third broke his shoulder
He tumbled to the ground. stil'
lclutching the pistol taken from
Hamnl Scott and which had failed
to Work property al the critical mo-
mcut
Five thousand men surrounded
1.-The Officers and the wounded man
inud it was oniy by threatening The
leroNd with drawn rvSolSrfs that the
lpaIiee Ucre enabled Co load the
lblsedins body into the patrol wagon
and haul it away. The horses w'r"
flashed into ran aud several thous-
land people followed to the police
lntatiom where. after romliasen had
b.pn placr, tn the hospital. evcry
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