Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1913-05-02

/ dashed tORgrga home a large ln.
! dlan mounted ou 600 American horse
pushed fhe negro The negro b
horse. when boz reached the creek
PLUNGED into Il and fell The negro
jumped OF and ran up the bank and
tho indian fired at him. Che BAH
striking the ground beyond hlm lie
then saw The other four pursuing
laHhon very cio7o.y ou the hill BE
then ran. making bis escape. and saw
DO more % them
White Man among Indians.
The negro stated that one Of the
parts was "a white man and the other
four indians. naked ald armed With
enr The ahife man wae dressed in
DARK clothes with white bat lie
saa most distinctly that one that pur-
eud after he had shot at him
being not more thaa 200 steps lrom
hIm The man. he declared was ah
indian. and NOT q Mexican as some
ur fod The negro had often seen
Indians Goo Texas and had mixed %
good deal with Mc.caus and bis
statement Has all the evidence that
Judge Jones had ~ the character OF
bad white men and Noy.caus did @
rood deal OF Killing and robbing
10 those DAYS. commonly laid 60 lu-
the party boo question Some % the
settlers iu that country supposed that
dian.
Zoo the meantime 'hc alarm had
been given Zoo fho settlement and q
party of men repaired 20 the scene,
taking tne negro along with them
when tfpy arrived there the Indians
were gone and I.auhon could not boz
seen boo the statement Of the neaeo
being confirmed by tho horses tracks
aud other Isus on the ground. they
proceeded 40 search Tor the missing
man 900. hat was found near The
starting point and his saddle.with The
Ht.rrups and the skirts cuJ Of was
found ON the retroatln2 trail OF the
ayanps about one mile Off Then
they found the trail OF hts horse from
o.. place where ho had been attacked
end followed 10 until they found his
dead body Zoo thicket Ho had been
shot through the heart with q large
bail aud his body and face otherwise
bruised and cut \ bluntarrow was
found by his side lie was not armed
and had TO trust 10 his horse for safe
iy. The horse hc rode. although large
and strong. was not fleet lie had
evidently made a desperate struggle
TO save hts life
Makes Brave Effort to Escape.
From the point at which he had
first discovered the Indians he had
turned westward in the direction op-
pusite to that in which they had
come but soon being oyertakeu b>
hs purUrrs. boz wheeled hy a short
.urcuif and. loapiug % large rcViue .
uased the place from which he bad F.
started. crossed the creek at the /
point sirOm which the Indians had /
FIRST issued. aud ran mp the hin ON .
hat side in the direction Of home .
Being oyortakeu again by his saw
age pursuors. he dashed back again /
INTO the creek valley lower down aud [
acre among the small thickets and Z
brush he seems to- have been sur I
.ounded and hcmmel in an angle /
made by the creek whore perpoudic- |
llur bluff made passage impossible I
Wheeling again. be burst through the I
ground. followed hy the whole pack /
md once more he faced home After .
'unuing four or nyic hundred yards /
lcross the ends ol ayincs. Dc APP /
reared TO have been agaiu oyrrtaken /
b hen iu desperation De- plunged down
, bluf thirty feet high aud nearly per
part of thc distance DTS
mp the rocks and crush
ng the brush boz his downward course
At the fot of theu huff he landed T.
n one end of q long thicket and
possibly might have escaped had he
abandoned his horse None Of the
indians followed him down the bluff
'ut the horse tracks indicated that
portion Of them turned the poin,
% the bluff and met him as be-
merged from the point of the thick
q aud shot him
Mr. Lawhon was an industrious
nd most worthy citizen sober. NOR
o.. OF unimpoachahic integrity and
steemed by an of Dol. acguaintances
BE- was about - years of axe. OF
manly person and gave the highest
romiso Of usefulness 20 his country
nd honor 90 his family BE lett
.ifp and two small children.