The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-22
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The town was filled to overflowing. .W We walk,c to the hotel and on near ing the postofftce. saw a large crowd waiting for the distribution of the mail The, young fellow who was with me called my attention 10 colored man. who was standing apart from tho crowd and evidently waiting for a let ter.
 That's the nigger I sold that piece of pipe to." he said.
 1t was John Perry.
 l told me boy to stay where he Was until the negro had been arrested and then to follow quietly 10 the jail. [ approa ehed the negro hut then decid- d to wait until he had received his letter In few moments the negroes in the crowd began lining up in from of the postoffiee window John Perry received d letter He left the limo at once and walked around a corner of the building. opened the envelope and extracted 6 couple of bills. which na placed in his vest pocket. Meanwhile had appI cached him unobserved. and. as the man looked up from the letter which he was reading, he saw d .11 calibre Colt revolver pointing at his head.
 He tried to draw a revolver from his pocket but, seeing that he was GOV II had quickly gathered, and d tall, thin man. drew a Colt on both of us and. with a voice as shrill as that of a wild goose yelled:
 "I am the sheriff of this county and I commani peace!'
 MT. Sheriff, I am an officer from Dallas and have arrested this negro for murdering white man there. Take hold of himv' I replied.
 The sheriff grasped the negro by one arm and ! by the other, and we started for the Jail through an angry mob, which, hearing that the negro was ar rested for the murder of a white man. threatened a lynching. The sheriff dissuaded them. however. promising that the negro should be dealt with by process of law. At the jail the man was searched and the letter was taken from him, together with the two bills, whicn proved to be of the value of $50 apiece. The letter had been torn. but quickly pieced the fragments to- gether and read as follows:
 "I enclose you s100 on receipt of which you must go quietly and at once to the City of Mexico. I will join you there. Detectives are onto us and you must not let them catch you. It would
 l instructed the sheriff to feed the prisoner. but not to allow him knife or any otEer implement with which he
  plained that it was essential that the negro should be brought back to Dallas In safety, In order that statement might be obtained from him as to why he had killed Temple.
 was eating my dinner when dep- uty sheriff rushed into the room, call ing my name
 "Come Co the jail at once." he said "That nisger of yours has cut his damned head nearly off"
 As soon as l had departed the pris- oner had called the jailer and told him that he had silver in his finger, ask 2 ing him to lend him his knife to re- move it. The old jailer offered the man his pocket knife through the bars. and Perry. stepping back. opened 1t and cut his throat before the iafler could get into the cell.
 The man had cut the windpipe in two hut be had not several the jugu- lar vein. An old physician. who was summoned. looked at the prisoner.
 'Why. that nigger will die. I can't do thing for him. he said
 He refused to sew up tho wound. but finally a younger man was found who performed the operation, I myself hold ing Perry meanwhile, and stated that with proper care. the man would live
 About the middle of that afternoon Perry admitted to me that his young master. john Perry had induced him to go to Dallas for the purpose of kill ing his partner. MT Temple. He said that lis raaster had paid his expenses and mad furnished him literally with money pl omising also 10 give him $500 more after the murder. He said he had not wanted to do it, and had tried to back out of the agreement after reach . ing Dallas. but that his master had threatened to kill him unless he did so, and that through fear of him he