The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-06-09
A LONG CHASE
AFTER NEGRO
One Supposed to Be Wanted in
Ellis County Eludes
the Officers.
.THF D0Gc I0eF THF eCFNT
THE DOGS LOSE THE SCENT
After Following Trail for Five or Six
Miles They are Baffled in Their
Pursuit Of the Negro
Fugitive.

The Dallas Times Herald of Mon
day contained the following story of
the efforts being made to capture the
assailant of Constable Conger:
After an exciting chase which last
ed for seven or eight miles last night
negro, supposed to have been Nell
son Golden, who is wanted by the
authorities of Ellis county, charged
with shooting the constable at Red
Oak on Saturday. eluded the officers
last night, and so far has not yet
been captured.
Deputy Sheriffs Roddy and Brit
ton returned from their trip down
the Hutchins road Saturday evening,
and reported no trace of the man.
Saturday night about 9 o'clock re-
port was telephoned to the sheriff's
Office that negro closely answering
the description Of Golden, had been
seen near Eagle Ford, and with the
dogs, Deputies Roddy, Britton, Por-
ter, Carson and Sheriff J. H. Will
liams of Rockwall county, left the
city Immediately.
1t was reported by Mr. Matlock
who lives near the new cement plant
that big, burly, black negro had
come to his house about o'clock
| and c OF to ~
fering to pay for it.
Excited Suspicion.
Mr.. Matlock had read the descrip-
ton of Nelson Golden given in the
papers on Saturday, and when the
negro came in, he Immediately be-
! came suspicious, because he was
dressed identically as Golden had
been described. except that he had
on black hat
Matlock says he had only one load
in his gun, and was afraid to make
an attempt to arrest the negro, he
tried a discretionary move. Furnish
ing the man with something to eat,
he seated him at table, and then
tried to leave the house and make
his way to the nearest neighbors and
secure help. The negro saw him,
however, so he says, and grabbing a
handful of the victuals placed be-
fore him, ran from the house.
Then it was that the report was
! telephoned to the sheriff's Office here,
and the posse started out.
Trailed by the dogs for miles
through the fields from Eagle Ford
almost to Grand Prairie, and then on
the railroad track for another mile
or more, the scent was finally lost,
when the dogs stopped threw up
their heads and then began tc run
around in circles hunting for the
, vanished trail.
Caught Train.
From the actions of the dogs the
belief is strong in the minds of the
deputies that the negro caught a
train on the Texas and Pacific near
Grand Prairie. Ordinarily, 1t is said,
it is hard matter for the dogs to
follow scent on railroad track,
as the oil and cinders tend to dest roy
1t. Last night, however, the animals
followed the trail even after the man
took to the Texas and Pacific track,
only to have 1t finally vanish, appar-
emily in thin air,
1t is believed by Mr.. Matlock that
the man lay in a wheat patch near
his house all day yesterday, only
coming up and asking for a meal
late in the evening
Sheriff Williams and Deputies
Roddy and Carson did not return to
Dallas until early this morning, af-
ter the trail had been lost They re-
ported that FIVE deputies from Tar
rant county, together with Deputy
Dan Harson of Dallas county, who
lives at Grand Prairie, and Deputy
Britton remained out In the hope
that the lost trail could be found
again.
| Was Going West.
From the general direction the ne
gro took, and the belief that he
caught train, 1t Is almost certain
to the deputies that he went to Fort