The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1910-07-22
Young Man Who lm Threat.
Il Skcpno tm,p|e lltcoah
10 This CT,
FOUND ASLEEP N WOODS
Iml Worth OIi,eefs Stumble upon
Him on III, Banks d q Small
Stream - Talks Of
N, Crime.

Hunted 10 earth. driven into q
corner with no avenue of escape,
benumbed with the grief aud horror
of his crime, Mark Rochester. who
stands charged with cutting the
threats OF his haH sister. Mrs Joe
Logsden, and her husband at Venus
Monday night, practically gave up
to the Officers Thursday afternooa,
and was taken into custody by Dep-
uties Snow, Squires, Williams aud
Hobson, all of Sheriff Sweets OF
flee at Fort Worth. They discovered
him lying upon a bank OF small
stream about two and one-half milas
west of Mansfield
He Offered no resistance when
Deputy Hobson, who almost stumb-
led upon him before he saw him,
pulled his gun down on the fugi-
tive and ordered him to put up his
hands. Rochester was lying on his
side on the rivers bank and sat up
slowly when ordered to surrender.
+ He seemed little startled, breathed
heavily as if exhausted, and some
what frightened, but apparently was
not sorry to be taken up. He arose
to his feet and thrust out his wrists
for the handouts to be snapped upon
him, making no comment but walk
ing with the deputies to where they
had left their horses.
He was captured within eighteen
miles of where the crime was cold
mitted and by his own acknowledg :
ment had spent twelve hours in the
place where the officers found him.
He said that he knew he was being
hunted although he had neither seen
nor spoken to anyone since he left
the Haney home Tuesday morning.
The posses that were after him and
the dogs both missed his trail and it
was only when they left their horses
to make a thorough search on foot
of the woods near the Haney home
that the Tarrant county officers
found him.
To prevent any demonstration
against the man, Rochester was TAX
EN- to Fort Worth Thursday night
and kept there until Friday morn
ing when he was turned over to
Constable McCalpin and Deputy
Sheriff Davis of Waxahachie. The
prisoner was brought here on the
1925 Central and placed in the
county jail.
Regarding the arrest of Roches-
the following:
Deputies Hobson and Williams as
companied the prisoner from Mans
field to Fort Worth where Sheriff
Sweet and half a dozen deputies
hurried from the left side of the
train when it pulled in last night.
Rochester stumbled along between
the two officers who kept helping
hand one on each side of him as
they walked up Fifteenth street to
the car line on Main.
The prisoner set his square Jaw,
pulled his ragged old straw hat
down over his eyes and looked log
gedly at the sidewalk. Once man
who knew him called out, Hello,
Mark, how are you" and with
wistful smile he answered with a
gleam of recognition in his eyes, "Oh
I'm all right"
The sight o. the mana lied Lads
brought a crowd on the run and it
jammed about the young fellow,
gazing up into his face with cruel
intentness, when the small party was
stopped for several minutes to wait
for the car. He gave no heed but
kept his eyes downward, looking up
only when a question was put to
him by the officers to answer with
a courteous Yes, SIR" or No, sir, :"
as the case might be.
The prisoner was hurried from
the car line through the courthouse
and up the steps OF the jail where
the curious crowd was excluded. Not
until he heard the doors clang be-
hind him. and saw that he was sur
rounded by the men with whom be
had grown friendly during the long