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PHOTOGRAPHS show the death cells at the Huntsville prison,
and the new electric chair which: Was: put into-strvice Friday
for the first time, as well as the .five negroes who .were serit-to
their death for murders. The five are, reading from top to” bot-
tom, Melvin Johnson, last ¢o die; Ewel Morris, Mack Matthews,
George Washington and Charles’ Reynolds. Reynolds was the’

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first to die. : - - i
a wis ® i at! “c". present- and ‘expressed satisfaction

Executions— ee over the new method, both declaring

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-——- (Con os a lectrocution ecame thea Jegal|;
4 ( ontihued from page 1:) method of execution in the.state in |

Bish Nigh oer ge at Deas -- e''-] AUgUst-and-since.that time no one
Ing hfs polnt of view, “A warden has been’ executed, Governor Neff
can't be warden and killer too, The granting’. several reprievos to the
‘| Denitentlary is a place to reform a negroes executed today, in order that
-}™Man,. not to kill him.” the chafr might be finixhed: .
With Miller {t-was différent. The bill was passed at the last reg-|
, + “It’s « caso duty withyne,” he | Ular seasion of the legislatures 4°,’ «,.
“1 gald. oy ha haytred - I men —_——————S SE
{—while I.wag sheriff, and to touch |-—————2> _—_ .
- ‘| the button or pall the switch on |... ‘
~} .@0 electric.chair mcaps no more to -
‘me than pulling the ‘lever of the
lows, At any rate, {t's moro,
Toenectue chair.” :

While the executions were.in-prog:| | AF
Tees :Coleman was in” bed. soundly |.
sleeping and @id—not—-know-thatthe
condemned -men -had- met-thede -fate
until] he awakened late Friday morn-
ing. He-ls now ‘the proprietor of a
Huntsville hotel and had served 10
years as warden before his retire-
ment . a
Representative L. K. Irwin of Dal-
las County, who introduced the elec-
trocution bill, and Prison -Commis-
sioner Walter Bayles, who

Ohnson, were wa”

Electrocutions Are
First Under New

as the execuiloner, |

Trettht -the-end fall thing smoertal |

ASK REPRIEVE
Warden Allows One:

Time to Phone
To Austin, ©. |

Associated Preas Dispatch
HUNTSVILLE, Feh: Tat 12:86
& m. three of the {ive negroes con.
Berane to weRath hat been ete =F
cuted in the state prison hese, |
The fourth victim was alectro-:
cuted at 1:30 a.m. his name was:

Mac. Mathews. The other three |
were Charile Reynolde, Ewell!
Moria and George Washington n :
the erder named. A Inat minute
reprieve wae being sought - for

AMalvin —Jebnaon—-—-Warden--W.-agt

Miller Raving allowed titne for a
jong distance message to Austin in;
the attempt. ‘

ALL HOPE FOR LAGT...—-.-- --}
MINUTE MIRACLE.
International News Dispetch.

HUNTSVILLE, Feb. 7.~In their
Ceath cette at the «tate penitentiary
bere:--eeemingly hardy cognizant
that Mfe-for them Is but a matter of
hours, (iva negroes «rill retain the
fuith of the doomed. that romehow,
somewhere, something will be per-
formed, perhape a miracie, in the |
Cleyenth bour that will interfere
with thelr Journey to the elec:ric
chair. °°: - :

Tielr Jast hope of’ another re-
priave was shatttred today with the
arrival of the new -wardor, Watter}
Miler of Crebirne, who must serve

“Nye post Gf warden had vren)
vacufyd Dy {ta former occupant be-
cause ihe oppused his taxk of turn-
lik @n the electric current that

tor tle five negrocs. ee ae
The fF 3 rnegtocs Whe await death
have all beer convicted of murder,
They sit numbly in their celts, eat-

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Ing heartily, but Saying Uttle.

‘| Casionally they Aiscuas With &coki!

indifferance “how the Jute 5
feet wor ThgiTtably end thelt tate
{| With a word of hope. p

{The eletric chatr has neyer been
[teed Months bave been - neumed |
ttn Ste Installation, resulting in four.
j' reprleves for the doomed men.-

i} They will be given the “death
meals,” today. Food fspeclally pre-

it pared, food that the warden. him: |

‘TMalf would Yeel gratified to Ne
{eume, will be thelr lot. Five pew
feulte of clothes have been uid put-
‘| Five caskets, plain black wooden
; affairs, have been purchased. It fn
| probable the first wii] be executed

at sunrise.

OLDE8T PRISONER TO
GO FIRST
_Mack Metthews, 68-year-old New.
'fon county negro, wil} be the first
Texas prisoner to pay the death
Penalty under the new electrocution
daw-which abolished hanging, ac-
cording to records of the atate peni-
tentisry. Heand four other negroes
} are sentenced te be elactrocuted to-
,Morrow morning, “between midnight
, add sunrine” within the prison walle
‘at Huntaville, Four of the nen
were granted reprieven by Governor
Neff, postponing date of thelr ex-
ecution untl! Friday, to permit com-
pletion of the electric chalr, and
later to permit the prison board to
employ a warden.. W. M. Miller,
former ehertff of Johnson cotinty
wan Tuesday elected by the board,
Gov. Neff announced aevered daye

Rranted.

The five condemned negroes were
-Convicted of murder, . .....
| They will go to the electric chair
iin the following order: : yo
Matk Matthews, 88 years of age,
| Newton county, sentenced last Aug,
| 32, to be executed Bept. 20; re
r loved until Feb, 8. George Wash-
‘ington, 38 years of age, Newton
county, sentenced Bept, 15, for exe-
‘ution Oct. 19. Melvin Jokneon, 19
years old, convicie@ jn__ Liberty
county, Aug...23, execution set for

Bept. 27, alno repriéved to Feb-¢.-

Ewell Morrie, 22, convicted fn Vie-
toria county, sentenced Dec. 5 for
execution Jan. 16, reprieved to Feb.
8; and Charles Reynolds, age 27,
convicted in Red River county, sen-

ab about 4-n'clock: AH must be dead |

:ago nO further reprieves would be!

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| tenced-Jan. 1, Lor ‘gexccution Keb. 8,

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HOW FIVE DIED IN
ELECTRIC CHAIR

Dance of Death at Hunteville Goes Or a
Scheduled; Chair Works " Splendidly” |

, Warden Shows Nerve |
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- ° BY H.C, WATERS
Huntaville, Tex, Feb.
‘orgy of death Just after t
It had prepare €
Sveti ee aan epeannernaoat rece
‘Everything went off methodically.

he midnight hour this morning.

The little room where the five men died was packed to ca-

ee; wee

i ith about 40 persons. ~ ;
PaTnere will be no smoking here,” pane Ye
deputy warden. “There are no openings in

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ak Acie pages one'te the pear of the death chair,

hace 7 leat eat them out'to be thrown on a stretcher.

Every one of the five negroes walked to hig death without

“1a tremof.

deen Selected as master of Slaugh-
ter, was the calmest Man in the
Nttle death chamber, :

Prison guards led out the ne.
&tO, first in Texas to die by the

aap None_of You Know,’
“Charles, have you anything to
say?” queried the Warden,
“Yes,"’ said the negro, and he
started. to Speak, “Well, -turn
around,” said » Suard at one bide
and two guards wheeled him
BbOUE, Om at cer a oa
The negro spoke in a Clear
voice, , :
. “I have broken the law,” he
said.’ “Tl am ready to die, ] have

yreligion and I am Aol afraid to
meet my Maker,

aie but Done of you know how
oath will come ta you "O™ | |

8.—Huntaville staged its grandest

: he legalized trag-
carefully the peensee oe tis tee here.

announced N. L. Speer,

back
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murder. charges. Two of thenvl]

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. Huntsville, Texas, Feb. 8—Jn-a brightly lighted ‘foom of the
state prison here, with prison and state officials, doctors and news-
paper men present, the lives of five negroes, sentenced to pay the
extreme penalty for their. crimes,.were snuffed out in the new
electric chair of the State of ‘Texas, shortly after midnight.

The execution of the five marks-the inauguration of a new Icgal
method for the state to exact. the death penalty of the criminal,
taking the place of hanging.in the county jails of the state, which
method had been. in use since I'exas joined the-Union.:

At the end of the corridor on which is located the new death cell
of the: prison-is the-execution room.—Against-one Avail sits-a-lew

|sturdily built chair of oak, fitted with arm, ankle and head bands,

to‘carry the death charge of 2500 volts-into-the-body -of-the-con-
denined, and straps to hold the victims to prevent struggles as

they prepare for the last long
{journey. At one side is & black
panel with electric gauges, indi-
Gating to the. executioner the
amount of current-available.. .

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Lant-Minute Attempt Fall, . |.

- One of the negroes was granted a}
reprieve of one hour shortly before
hia turn came to be placed in’ the
‘Techair, in order to allow his attorney

, GS to make.a lagt-minuto attempt to
( _. kave his life. A long distance call

Charles Reynolds and Ewell Morris,
were tried on charges of having slaln
white men, the former In Ned River
and the Intler in Victoria County.

A third, Mack Mathews, was tried

sent-up-frem the same county on

for the denth of his wife in Newton
1 County-anitt- George-Washington won
conviction of murder In commection
with the death of &@ negro mnan.. The
fifth, Melvin Johnson, received the
death penalty followlng hi» trial on
n charge of having slain w vegsro
/ woman in Liberty County. .
_ Reynolds was the first to he place |
ed In the chair. Morris, Wushing-
ton and Mathews came next in the
order named. Johuson was the last
\joxeegted, _ : a ee
4: Johnaon wae the negre granted an
| hour's reprieve, iiy* 0° wie f
. Walter peut ta citi former
sheriff bf ‘Jobtibon -Count¥. newly
| installed.warden at the penitentiary, |
fbrew the electric awilCh that, sent
the high ‘charge-into the bodies-oftie)
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Coleman Gives His Viewpoint, —
Muler takes the. pluce ‘af foritr
Warden @. F. Coleman of Hantsville.
who resigned when he Jearfed that
he wan to be chief executioner of
the state. ° = =
“It juat. coukin’t. be done, buys,”
Coleman told nawspaper men, in gly-

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Feb. 14th, 1924.

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| i Sek Received Death Yarrant, together.with the body of
oo" Charles Reynolds, from the: Sheriff of Red River County,
on the 4th day of January, 1924;.

In compliance with said Death Warrant I have duly
carried out its commands, at the State Prison at
Huntsville, Texas, in accordance with the law, on the
Eighth (8th) Day of, February, 1924, at the hour of
12:13 A. M.,, by causing to pass through the body of
the said Charles Reynolds a current of electricity
of sufficient intensity to cause death; and the said
Charles Reynolds was pronounced dead by L. H. Bush,
M. D., the legal Prison Physician, xkk at the hour
of 12:163A. M., Three and a half (3%) Minutes efter
the application of the electric current.

Further, there having been properly made a claim
for the body of the executed man, by hisrelatives,
the same was delivered to them through the County
authorities of the county of his conviction.

Witness my hand at Huntsville, Texas, this the 14th
day of February, 1924. . .

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3 State Penitembiary of this State by causing tp pass through the
body of the said Charles Reynol:is a current of electricity of

wou. 1 @uffieient dntensity to cause death, and the application and

continuance of such current through the boty of said Charles ReynolJs

I ChaTISs heynolig ia dead, and that the Clerk or this”

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Court issue a Death Warrant in accordance with this Sentence directed

to -the Warden of the State Penitentiary at Huntsville, commanding him
ne , to proceed at the time and place named in this Sentence, to carry
: . the same into execution, and said Warrant, together with the said
. Defendant, Charles Reynolds shall be delivered by the Sheriff of this
County to said Warden as is provided by law,

Bu And the Defendant, Charles Reynolds is remanded to jail to

oe = aWait the execution of this Sentence,

These are therefore to command you to execute the aforesaid

aay Pars or, sentence on Friday, the Sth day of February o D. 1924,

"at any time before the hour of sunrise by causing to pass phirttigh the
body of the said Charles Reynolds a current of electricity of sufficient

intensity to cause death, and the application and continuance of such

current through tHe boy of the said Charleg Reynolis, until the said
Charles Reynolds is dead, and that in the execution of this Warrant
you observe, obey and carry out the provisions of thd said judgment
: and sentence aforesaid and the law governing in ‘such Cases.,

| Herein fail not, and due return make hereof in accordance

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Witness 3 my signature and official ie at office in the

City. of. Clarksville, Texas, this the wa say of January ,

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‘ , Clerk of the Kft. trict flatts of Ref River County, Texas,

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The friends of a slain
Officer get their man,

BY EDGAR DILLIN GHAM

ATURDAY Night Death! Saturday night another car was stolen, and the
A streaking phantom form that darted out following Saturday night the Saturday Night

of darkened highways and left mutilated and killer Struck with diabolical brutality.
beaten bodies at filling stations and small Hubert Dodd, a filling station Proprietor at
stores. A strange and mysterious bandit, who Lone Oak, was slugged and beaten and left for

Police officers were baffled and hopeless, Bloodhounds were used. A posse of Texas
Posses scoured the country side, but the phantom ranchers threw a net around Dallas for forty
killer disappeared as if the earth had swallowed miles, but the Saturday Night killer eluded them
him up. with an ease that made a mockery of law and
: Then there was peace and quiet for a week— order. ,
i until the next Saturday Night. It had started Then came the Saturday night of March 7th,
on the Saturday night of February 5th, 1938. It 1938. It was seven in the evening and darkness
j had been a minor case of a stolen car. The next was falling slowly over the streets of Dallas,

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THE WORK——
of a man who died
fighting. Capt. Lyons
and Jackson (left).

CONSTABLE—_
Latham who
helped organize a
Texas man-hunt,

Henry Jackson, a taxi driver, was '
cruising’ slowly alang East Grand
Street, looking for a customer. A man

came out of the darkness. He was small
and dressed in a heavy sweater and

Khaki trousers,

He hailed Jackson’s taxi and Jackson
pulled up to the curb and opened the rear
door by reaching back with his arm. The

small man jumped in the rear seat and said:

“Take me out to Greenville Avenue.”

Jackson’s taxi shot away from the curb and
roared down East Grand for Greenville Ave-

nue. When he got to Greenville Avenue, he

turned and said to his fare: “Here we are.” |

“Just keep going, buddy,” the man in the back i
seat said in a soft and half-whispered voice.

Jackson felt a chill g0 down his back at the
sound of that voice. He didn’t like it and he didn’t
like the indefinite instructions, but he drove down
Greenville Avenue for two miles.

Then he turned and said: “What number?”
Jackson’s fare didn’t answer at once with words. The
answer came in the form of a small round circle of cold
steel on the back of Jackson’s neck, a circle of chill
that numbed every part of Jackson’s body.

Then the passenger said in his soft whispered voice:
“Okay, Buddy, you just keep driving and step on the
gas and show some speed.”’.

The first flush of numbness passed and Jackson’s
head was doing some fast and very cool thinking. He
wasn’t a coward; neither was he a fool. The touch of
that cold steel of the gun barrel on his neck and the
whispered voice told him that the man was a killer
and Jackson knew that a killer didn’t hesitate to
Squeeze the trigger if any foolish move was made.

So Jackson continued to send his taxi through the

gs age eae ere erga : at

the motorcycle cop that had stopped
Jackson, lay on the cement in a
pool of. blood.

This blood had started to cake
when the other officers arrived,
because Marion Taylor was dead!

The news of the shooting of Officer
Marion Taylor was flashed to the
office of Sheriff E. B. Moore of Col-
lins County. Five minutes later he
and his deputy, Dan Rike, stood
over the body of the dead officer.

And as they did, Jackson had

stopped at a filling station near
Denton and was phoning to the
police. The news had flashed to
Denton to.be on the lookout for a
Dallas Taxi and its driver and De-
tective George Fuller walked into
the filling station as Jackson was
putting a nickel in the slot.
“Don’t bother about phoning
now,” Detective Fuller said to Jack-
son. “You're going back with me
and tell the officers back there what
happened.”

story from the beginning. He! told
how he had run-through the red
light and then had tried to signal
somebody with his left hand.
“What did your passenger look
like?” Sheriff Moore demanded.
“He was a small sort of a guy,”
Jackson answered. “He wore a
sweater and khaki trousers and his
face was thin...”

“The Saturday Night Killer!”
Sheriff Moore gasped. “Every
meager description we have of him
is that he is small, wears a sweater,
and khaki trousers.”

The news of the murder of Officer
Taylor by the Saturday Night Killer
spread over that section of Texas
like wild fire. Three hours later, at
around midnight a posse of three
hundred Texans had gathered at
McKinney under the leadership of
Captain Lee Miller of the Depart-
ment of Public Safety. With the aid
of Constable W. Latham they were
organized into patrols and sent out
to cover the countryside for a
radius of fifty miles.

Word had been flashed to the
Texas Ranger headquarters in
Dallas and every available ranger

P P grabbed the knob of the rear door and AT GREENVILLE—— in that neighborhood had been dis-
‘andie, yanked it open and said: “Come on out, Sheriff Frank Wolfe pro- patched to McKinney. The High-
whoever you are.” tected a killer in his jail. way Patrol was mobilized and sent

The sweater-clad small man in the over every road going out of Mc-

rear seat came out that door, but as he did, his gun spat Kinney. Grim and silent was the search for the Satur-
death at the cop. Two bullets hit the cop in the chest. day Night Killer.

The cop went down, but as he did, his gun came up Something of the Texas of the old days was enacted
and roared, and a bullet went through the window of that night; but the dark prairies held the secret of the
the cab. Then the cop collapsed to the ground. identity and the whereabouts of this strange killer,

The passenger leaped over the inert body and dis- and when morning came, members of the force, red-
appeared in the darkness beyond the highway. Jackson eyed from lack of sleep, reported back to McKinney
stepped on his starter and sent his car roaring for the that they hadn’t been successful.
nearest telephone. With the coming of dawn, W. I. Stokes, known

But other cops had heard the roar of the gun and through the southwest as “Bloodhound” Stokes had
they arrived at the scene where Officer Marion Taylor, arrived in McKinney with his famous bloodhounds from

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night. Five miles and then ten miles. The cold steel
was still against the back of his neck. Jackson’s eyes
watched the highway. He knew that the first Dallas
cop to spot a Dallas taxi ten miles out of town would
stop the cab and investigate.

But no motorcycle cop appeared. Jackson was now
twenty-five miles from Dallas and outside of the juris-
diction of the Dallas police department.

The cold touch of death was still on the back of his
neck!

The lights of the town of McKinney loomed ahead
of the cab. The passenger said: “Don’t go through Mc-
Kinney. Go on the outskirts, and head straight for
Sherman.”

Sherman was thirty-three miles from Dallas. Jackson
turned his car on Highway 75, which cuts around Mc-
‘Kinney. He saw a red light ahead. He took a chance.
He ran through the red light, but no cop was there to
stop him. ;

Jackson let his left arm slip out of the open window
at his left. He waved his hand frantically. It was a
futile hope. ... .

The hope jumped into a reality. Somewhere behind
him came the shrill blast of a motorcycle siren and the
next thing he knew a motorcycle cop was at his side,
pushing him over to the curve.

“What's the big hurry?” The cop said when Jackson
had stopped his taxi.

“I have to get to Sherman in a hurry,” Jackson an-
swered, trying to give the cop a sighal with his eyes.

Either his emphasis on the word “T” or the signal
with his eyes caught the cop’s attention. The cop

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DEPUTY——
Dan Pike and the gun
that he found when
he captured a killer.

LEFT FOR DEAD——_—
Hubert Dodd a victim of the Saturday Night Bandit.

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Cabbie Henry Lee Jackson, too, fled from the horror
he had just witnessed. At full speed he raced down the
road, hoping to find a telephone from which he might
spread the alarm. Three hundred yards away was a fill-
ing station, He stumbled to the phone, his mind dazed
and his heart pounding. .His hand trembled as he flashed
the operator, ;

He was never able to complete his call. He was in-
terrupted by the sudden entrance of a burly man who
pointed a gun at him.

“Put them up or you'll get what you gave that officer.”

Speedily Jackson complied. ;

The man who now held the cab-driver at bay proved
to be a peace officer from the neighboring city of Denton,
He had been driving not very far behind the cab and had
pulled up in time to hear the shots and witness Jackson’s
flight, On foot he had given chase.

With difficulty the cab-driver convinced the officer
of his innocence. The operator of the station corrobo-
rated his statement,

“This man was trying to get the sheriff’s office on the
telephone,” he asserted.

The Denton official put away his gun and put in a
call for aid,

RDINARILY, Sheriff E. B. Moore would have called

it a day long before nine o’clock when the report
came in. What he heard over the telephone stunned him.
He turned to his Chief Deputy, Dan Rike.

“Great Scott, Dan, there’s been an officer shot—out
on the Sherman Road.” Rike was galvanized into action.
Swiftly the two looked to their guns, piled into a wait-
ing automobile and raced for the scene.

Already a large crowd had assembled when the sher-
iff and his deputy arrived, Pushing his way through the
mob, Moore turned his spotlight on the form which lay
there sprawled out beside the police motorcycle. “It’s
Marion Taylor,” he said under his breath.

There was nothing to do but to wait for the ambu-
lance, In a few minutes it appeared, Gently the body
of the slain officer was lifted from the road and placed
on the stretcher.

It was a tragic scene, Marion Taylor was easily the
best-known law officer in Collin County. His friends
were legion. He had lived near McKinney all his life.
In and out of uniform, he had worked unselfishly for the
good of the community,

Sheriff Moore swung into action. First he questioned
Jackson, the kidnapped cab-driver who had been an un-
willing witness to the killing.

After hearing his story, Moore asked for a description
of the man who had hailed him on East Grand.

For a moment Jackson pondered his reply, Then he
said:

“He was a small man whose eyes darted a contempt
for human life. I saw his eyes in the mirror when he
pressed his gun against my neck, He was dressed in a
brown sweater and khaki trousers. His hair was’ black
and curly, His face was lean and wan. I could never for-
get that face.”

“Did you see which way he went?” :

“Yes,” he answered. “I looked back in time to see
him cut across the field, and he was headed east.” He
indicated the right-hand side of the highway, a fallow
strip which extended for half a mile east and ended in
woodland.

Posting guards on the road, in the contingency that
the fugitive had retraced his steps, Moore and his deputy
headed back for the office. En route, no one spoke a
word, Marion Taylor was an officer in the old tradition,
calm, steady, thorough and (Continued on page 79)

Driver Henry Jackson’ shows, bullet hole in cab.

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{t just his imagination? No,
there it was, all right. “Put-put-
put.” A curt command issued in
a clear voice,

“Pull over to the curb,”

With dispatch Jackson obeyed,
Deliverance at last!

The motorcycle policeman
drew up alongside and faced
Jackson, his right foot on the
running board of the cab. He
was a genial-looking man with
& quiet, courteous manner,

sn “What's the rush?” he asked,
a pulling out his notebook,

: “Nothing, officer, nothing “at
all,” Jackson stammered. We
were just trying to make Sher-
man in a hurry; that’s all.”

It must have been the tense-
ness of the cabbie that did the
trick, The half smile on. the face
of the officer disappeared. He
had caught the hint.

Whirling around, he turned to
the passenger in the back com-
partment, reaching for his pis-
tol, even as he spoke,

“Where do you think you're

The possemen, just before they took off in pursuit.

time now. For almost half an hour they rode in silence,
punctuated by the periodic click of the meter ag it tolled
off the quarter miles,

Twenty-five miles outside of Dallas they were, he
could tell at a glance, Now they had left the jurisdiction
of the Dallas County Sheriff, Jackson began to get un-
easy, He thought of home, of his wife and children,

Suddenly the lights of McKinney popped into view.

mand rang out,
“Turn right. We're not going into McKinney, At least
not through the center,” The gunman laughed harshly,
Jackson made no answer, Obviously his fare knew the
city well. Obeying orders, he took a road which veered
to the right, And in a few minutes they were on U.S,
Highway No 75, which lances through the very heart of f
the city of Sherman, 33 miles due north,
“Proceed toward Sherman,” the voice resounded in the Sheriff Wolfe, who had trouble in his bailiwick, too,
dark,
Faia were now almost on the outskirts of McKinney, going?” he demanded, throwing wide open the rear door.
which lay behind them like a far-away, lighted carni- For answer, there was a rapid burst of fire from the
val. In desperation, Jackson risked a long shot, He de- back seat, Without a word the passenger had thrust his

unnoticed, Apparently he had. Nothing happened, Em- Heroically the patrolman responded, Raising his ser-

boldened, Jackson dropped his left hand over the side vice pistol, he sent a shot hurtling through the back win-

of the car, Frantically he motioned, hoping that a car dow of the cab, missing his assailant by inches.

in back of him would fathom his plight and summon aid. Then he toppled to the macadam pavement, dead.
Seconds passed, Minutes began to glide by. Suddenly The gunman moved quickly, disappearing into the

there came the sound of an approaching motorcycle. Was black night,

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The bloodhounds couldn't find him, but
they were able to send the sheriff off
in the right direction, and his common
sense showed him the rest of the way.

friend. Keep going. And don’t ask so many questions, pal.”
Jackson started to protest, when suddenly he felt cold

steel against his cheek.

“Now you know what I mean, don’t you?” the armed

one said in hard tones,
“Yes, sir.”

For a minute they rode in silence. Then there was a
brisk command from the man on the back seat,
“Step on it—if you know what’s good for you.”

Driver Jackson explained that he was go-
ing as fast as he could, thanks to the me-
chanical governor which set up a 35-miles-
an-hour maximum,

“Pull up and remove it,” came the terse
order,

Jackson was no coward. On the other
hand, what had he to gain from a vain ex-

Hubert Dodd, whom the Saturday Night
Kid left for dead, told cops his story.

Marion Taylor, the slain policeman whose
death all Texas officers swore to avenge.

He decided that Satur-
day night was the best
time to rob and kill.

hibition of bravery? He
was unarmed. His pas-
senger was not only
armed but _ obviously
desperate, The fact that
he would commandeer a
taxi for a wild drive
was ample proof of this.
Cabs rarely take out
over the plains. With the
efficient Dallas police
constantly on the look-
out—not to mention the

cruising squad car patrols of the canny Sheriff of Dallas County,
all shrewd and fearless officers—the gunman was putting his head
in the lion’s mouth, And for what? What did he want? Where

was he bound?

Jackson did as he was told. In a few minutes the governor was
removed and they were headed north once more, making good

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fearless. Moore and Rike had known
him since he was a boy. Only recently
Taylor had married. Moore dreaded
having to break the news to his wife.

Back in his office, he turned to
Rike.

“Dan, this is the first time in the
history of Collin County that a peace
officer has been murdered. If it’s the
last act on the books for me, I’m
going to have this mad dog tracked
down and brought to justice. It’s the
least I can do for Taylor.”

With no further comment, he
picked up the telephone, In a moment
he was connected with the Dallas
police. Quickly he described what
had happened. Then he requested the
authorities to make an immediate
broadcast over KVP, the local police
sending-station.

Hardly had he hung up before re-
verberations of the tragedy on High.
way No. 75 began pouring in. It
seemed as if the whole state had
been aroused.

First to call was Captain Jim
Lyons of the regional headquarters
of the Texas Rangers, who notified
Moore that he was sending men im-

DRAMATIC DETECTIVE

(Continued from page 43)

mediately. Next, an official of the
newly organized Highway Patrol,
Captain Lee Miller, telephoned to say
that every officer in the organization
would be called into active service.

Fellow sheriffs and neighboring
police chiefs sent messages notifying
Moore that they were on their way
to take part in the manhunt,

From McAlester, Oklahoma, W. L.
“Hound Dog” Stokes reported that
he would come immediately, bringing
with him his celebrated dogs, which
had tracked down hundreds of fugi-
tives,

So it was that in less than an hour
there had assembled on the streets
of McKinney a formidable force
whose objective was the capture,
alive or dead, of the slayer of Marion
Taylor. It was a tribute to the loy-
alty and brotherly spirit of Texas
officers, this posse of over three hun-
dred men who had put aside their
own interests to offer their services.

A startled city, roused to activity
by the ringing of the great bell in
the City Hall tower, milled around
the courthouse clamoring for action.

Moore, himself, took charge of the

man-hunt. First he issued orders to
blockade the field across which the
murderer had fled. Nothing short of
a miracle. would permit the killer to
sift through the cordon.

Then the miniature army spread
out, like spokes froma giant wheel
of which McKinney was the hub; a
host of grim men bent on trapping a
little man whose eyes mirrored ‘a
contempt for human life.”

Through the night the men rode,
stopping all cars, exploring every
possible hiding place, watching
tensely as shadows seemed. to be-
come alive. Hours passed. If the
killer was abroad that night, the
dark prairies had hidden him well.

And now “Hound Dog” Stokes had
arrived with his pack. The dogs
seemed to sense their role almost
instantly. Their weird moans echoed
in the night as they pointed their
noses upward and howled. A mild
reproach from Sokes and_ they
ceased,

Quickly they were transported to
the scene of the murder, fretting to
be off, Once arrived, they leaped into
action, sniffing the earth hotly. For a

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to accompany the officers back to
Dallas. This she did without asking a
question.

Fritz drove while Henderson ques-
tioned her. They had not covered
many miles before she admitted that
she had been a passenger in the car
on the night of the murder. She also
said that she was sitting in S. A. Rob-
inson’s lap when he fired the fatal shot
that snuffed out the life of young
Officer Isbell. She said that S. A.,
Forest, and herself left the house to-
gether the morning after the murder,
S. A. asked her if she had any money,
to which she replied that she had only
street car fare, but that the next day
was Saturday and pay day. He told
her that she had better not go to work,
because she acted too nervous, but for
her to go to her aunt’s at Ferris and
stay until she heard from him. They
agreed that he would communicate
with her through a Negro preacher and
his wife whom they both knew.

He gave her a dollar and a half,
which was a few cents over the fare to
Ferris. He told her that if things got
to looking too hot, he would have to
vanish but would inform her through
the preacher’s wife where he was and
would send her money to come to him.
She said that she intended going to the
preacher’s house the following day to
see if they had received any word from

Day was just breaking as the trio
drove up to the Dallas County Jail.
The officers were convinced now that
it was not Whinn who had fired the
fatal shot.

On Saturday afternoon the officers
drove to the Negro preacher’s house.

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Deputy Sheriff H. B. Morris, of

Jackson County, Missouri, was one

of the officers who helped arrest the
slayers

He was not at home. They drove to
his church where they questioned him
about the two Robinson boys and the
girl, Mable Lofton. He denied know-

‘ing any of them. He was arrested

and placed in jail. They then drove
back to his house and talked to his
wife. It» was not until she was told
that her husband was in jail, and they
had threatened to lock her up too, that

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she told them what she knew. She
said that she and her husband had
known Mable Lofton for several years.
She also knew the Robinson boys from
seeing the three of them together on
several occasions. She said that S. A.
Robinson had come to her house the
morning after the killing, but did not
mention the murder. He had said that
he would probably leave town in the
next few days and would write her a
letter to be delivered to Mable at her
aunt’s house at Ferris, Texas.

THAT night when she and her hus-

band read the account of the mur-
der in the paper they both were of
the opinion that the boys knew some-
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and clothes to them in care of General
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went to a nearby house and phoned
for the police patrol car, and when it
arrived they placed the prisoner in it
and entered the house. There they
found two Negroes who gave their
names as Allen Whinn and Dave Rob-
inson, the latter a brother to Buddy and
James Robinson. They, too, were
placed in a patrol car. The driver
was instructed to place them in sep-
arate cells and charge them with
“suspicion”.

Officers Fritz and Henderson were
unable to start the Hupmobile and
were obliged to tow it to headquarters,
where it was placed on the police park-
ing lot next to the city hall. It was
gone over inch by inch and soon there
was found what appeared to be a bul-
let hole, which had been stopped up

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with mud just below the right
front door. Officer Wofford was called
and he said that it certainly looked
like the slayer’s car. Wofford stepped
about twenty-five feet behind the car
and instructed the police mechanic to
race the motor. It made a peculiar
noise that convinced Wofford it was the
murder car. “I could never forget that
sound,” he declared.

The Negroes, one at a time, were
brought from their cells into the large
interviewing room in the jail and ques-
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possession. This was the first time any
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hour they grilled him. About 3
A. M. the constant strain seemed to be
wearing down his iron-like resistance.
The cross-questioning was kept up
until, an hour later, he broke and
told the story.

And what a story it was! He admit-
ted that he had been a passenger in
the death car but denied emphatically
that he had participated in any way
in the shooting. He named seven
Negroes and himself as being in the
car when the shooting occurred. They
were James, Forest, and 4. A. Robin-
son—three brothers—and _ himself;
Mable and Bertha Austin, Lottie
Raipe and another Negro girl whose
name he did not know. According to
his statement the eight of them had

S. A. Robinson, who boasted of his
part in the killings, naming himself
as the brains of the pair

been to a drinking party at a house in
South Dallas.

GHORTLY before 10 o'clock the

party began to get rather noisy.
Forest and S. A. both had pistols. The
host finally asked them to leave for
fear white people living nearby would
call the police, as they had done once
before. They left the house and after
driving around in South Dallas for
a short time started out Forest Ave-
nue, with Forest Robinson driving.
Forest continued to exhibit his pistol
from time to time, and as they were
nearing the fire station on Kimball and
Forest Avenue, a small roadster kept
trying to pass them, whereupon Forest
speeded up and started racing with it.

At the intersection of Colonial Ave-
nue a coupé pulled out in front of them.
It was here that the small roadster
passed them. Forest was now driving
with his pistol in his hand. The
coupé had no sooner passed them than
a motorcycle officer whizzed by in pur-
suit. Whinn said that he looked back
and saw another motorcycle officer fol-
lowing them. He told Forest that a
motor cop was after them. S. A. Rob-
inson was seated in the back seat with
the girl whose name Whinn did not
know in his lap.

Pulling his pistol S. A. said, “Watch
me clip that cop off his motor.” Rest-

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ing his pistol on the side of the back
seat, just as the second officer was
even with them S. A. fired. Forest
also fired at the officer, who fell from
his machine. Forest then stepped on
the gas and sped on.

Al the next corner the first officer

that had passed them had stopped
the smaller car which had been racing
with them. Seeing their car approach-
ing him the officer stepped a few feet
in front of the standing car. There in
the glaring headlights he made an ex-
cellent target for the half-drunken
Negroes. They both opened fire at
him. Without moving a step the officer
stood there and emptied his pistol at
them. Whinn did not know whether
any of the shots struck the officer, but
did know that two or more of the
Officer’s shots struck their car, once
just below the right front door. He
was unable to find where the other bul-
let struck when he examined the car
the next morning. One of the officer’s
shots barely missed their heads as they
crouched low in the car.

They sped on past the end of the
pavement and over the rough road
across the Katy Railroad tracks and
on past the Trinity River bridge.
After crossing the bridge S. A. told
Forest to slow down a little and see if
the cop was following them. When
they were satisfied that they were not
being pursued they stopped the car.
The two Robinson brothers reloaded
their pistols, throwing the empty cart-
ridges in the high weeds at the side
of the high embankment. They started
out again in the direction of the Sky
Line Service Station at Forest Avenue
and Eighth Street. They were travel-
ing so fast that they almost overturned
while making the corner to the right.
At the narrow bridge at the foot of
Eighth Street hill they nearly collided
with a milk wagon that was a little
slow in clearing the narrow bridge.

After crossing the railroad tracks,
Whinn continued, they stopped again
to make sure they were not being
followed. They then drove to 930 Bet-
terton Circle and let Lottie Raipe and
Mable and Bertha Austin out of the
car, warning them to say nothing about
the shooting. Forest and S. A. had
been living part of the time at 930
Betterton Circle, but decided to drive
over to Whinn’s house to spend the
night. After eating they went to bed.
The girl whom Whinn claimed not to
know remained with S. A.

S. A., who was the first to arise the
next morning, went to the white people’s
yard in front and picked up a copy of
the Dallas Morning News, Whinn said.
He brought it back to the house and
together they read the account of their
crime of the night before.

They had killed an officer. They all
knew what that meant. The entire
country was alarmed and a search for
the killers had already begun. The two
brothers decided that they had better
make a getaway, although they felt
reasonably sure that the finger of suspi-
cion would never point their way.
Dressing in their best clothes, S. A.
sporting a new snap-brimmed felt
hat with a bright-colored band, they

borrowed all of the money the other
Negroes had, which was only a few dol-
lars, and left. The woman left with
them, saying that she had to go to
work in North Dallas, where she was
employed as housemaid. The car was
left in the alley where it had been
parked the night before. This Whinn
declared to be all that he knew.

Lottie Raipe was questioned next.
She corroborated Whinn’s statement
and gave the name of S. A.’s woman
companion as Mable Lofton, who was
employed in a North Dallas home, the
address of which she also furnished.

The officers proceeded to the address
given, and were informed that Mable
had not reported for work in two days,
neither had she phoned. Returning to
the jail they obtained a list of the Rob-
inson brothers’ friends, which included
many Negro women. They also found
that Mable Lofton had an aunt who
lived on a farm near Ferris, Texas,
about twenty miles from Dallas. From
the Negroes in custody they were able
to get a fairly good description of S.
A. and Forest Robinson, but they were
unable to obtain a photograph of either
of them. The description was turned
over to Chief Gunning who immedi-
ately had two hundred and fifty circu-
lars printed which he mailed to police
departments, sheriff’s offices, and rail-
road special agent’s departments all
over the country. He wrote to officers
in towns where the two brothers had
friends or relatives.

THatT night Henderson and Fritz
drove to Ferris, Texas, where they
looked up the constable, who knew

Forest Robinson, who said that he

and his brother, with pistols pointed

at each other’s hearts, made a
solemn pact never to tell

Mable Lofton’s aunt. He agreed to
show them where she lived. About
midnight they drove up to a small
house in the Trinity River bottoms.
A pack of dogs started to bark and a
Negro woman came to the door carry-
ing a coal-oil lamp. The constable
told her to call off her dogs. They
asked for Mable Lofton and found that
she was there. She was ordered to
dress and told that she would have

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case.

Chief Gunning told Fritz and Hen-
derson to leave the suit-case and letter
in his care to be sent the next day, and
ordered them to take Allen Seale of
the district attorney’s office with them
and go to Little Rock. They set out
at nightfall. All night long they drove,
plowing through sleet and snow and
arrived at Little Rock about noon.
They located at once the postmaster
and express clerk. They were cover-
ing both places since the letter had
failed to specify whether the suit-case
was to be sent by parcel post or ex-
press. Then the long nerve-wracking
hours of waiting began. Fritz and
Seale were on: guard at the post-office.
while Henderson was at the .express
office. Hour after hour for two days
they waited patiently.

At the end of the third day, after
both offices had closed, the three offi-
cers went to their rooms at the hotel
and discussed the situation. Something
had gone wrong somewhere along the
line, because the fugitives had had more
than ample time to come from Tex-
arkana to Little Rock.

FR1Z went out and bought a copy

of the Little Rock evening paper
and returned to his room to read a few
minutes before retiring. He stared at
the broad _ headlines:

“SPECIAL OFFICER SLAIN BY TWO UN-

IDENTIFIED NEGROES ON Kansas City

SOUTHERN Railway NEAR DE QUEEN,
ARKANSAS.”

Fritz rushed to the phone booth and
placed a long-distance call to the
authorities at De Queen. He was told
of the killing and given a description
of the suspects. One of them was re-
ported to be wearing a hat with a
bright-colored band. The descriptions
fitted the Robinsons to a T. That was
perhaps why they had failed to show
up. They had added another life to
their bloody toll. :

The next day Henderson and Fritz
drove to De Queen. From Chief Spe-
cial Agent D. M. Lay of the Kansas
City Southern Railway they received
the following details of the killing of
his Special Officer, H. H. Delmas.

Delmas had just boarded a lumber
train pulling out of De Queen when a
railroad employee informed him that
two Negro hoboes had caught the train
at the water tank and were now about
seven cars back. He started in that di-
rection, working his way over the cars
loaded with new lumber. That was
the last time he was seen alive.

When he did not come back the con-
ductor went to investigate, and to his
horror found the officer lying face
down, a bullet wound in his head. He
had been shot and then clubbed in the
head with a blunt instrument, presum-
ably a pistol. His money, watch, and
pistol were missing. The pistol was
described as being a blue steel Smith
and Wesson, thirty-eight special, with
a four-inch barrel and wooden handles.

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The serial number was either 19383 or
91383. No description of the watch
could be obtained. The Dallas officers
stayed in De Queen the next day work-
ing with the sheriff and his men.

The following day, after Henderson
had called the postmaster at Little
Rock thanking him for his codperation
and instructing him to send the mail
and suit-case back to Dallas marked
“Unclaimed”, the officers returned to
Dallas.

They were not discouraged. They
were accustomed to bad breaks. Be-
sides, this case was but a few days old
and they were confident that with a
little more time their efforts would
bring the slayers to justice.

THE day after their return to Dal-

las, they again took up the task of
following the postman. Three days
later they were rewarded by finding
another letter at the preacher’s house.

MEMORY MARKSMANSHIP

ANSWERS TO (QUESTIONS
ON PacE 68

1—72

2—Bad liquor
3—Theodore Roosevelt
4—James C. Kelley

5—Commander of the New
Jersey State Police

6— Yes
7—Yes

8—The scientific study of
finger-prints

9—By shooting
10—Eight years

This was postmarked “Kansas City,
Missouri,” and contained a letter ad-
dressed to Mable Lofton, General De-
livery, Ferris, Texas. It contained in-
formation about the killing of Special
Officer Delmas. This information was
at once communicated to the De Queen,
Arkansas, authorities. The letter to
Mable requested that the suit-case be
sent to them in care of General Deliv-
ery, Independence, Missouri, under the
name of George Roberson. Mable
Lofton who was still in custody wrote
the following letter:

Ferris, Texas
Dear S. A.

I received your letter and am
sure glad that you are all right
for you know how much I love
you, and when you send me the
money I will come to you for you
know that I had rather be with
you than anybody in the world. |
am at my aunt’s at Ferris, Texas.
I will stay there until I hear from

you again then I will come to you.
From your loving girl

In the meantime the officers located
a Negro boy who knew the two Rob-
inson brothers. As the brothers were
not known to the officers it was thought
advisable to carry the boy along on the
trip to Independence in case the fugi-
tives should send another Negro after
the mail. They left the letter and suit-
case in: Chief Gunning’s care to be sent
the next day, and proceeded by train
to Independence, Missouri, accom-
panied by Allen Seale and Hal Hood,
a special investigator from the district
attorney’s staff.

When they arrived in Independence,
the Sheriff of Jackson County detailed
Deputy H. B. Morris to work with
them, and the next morning they re-
sumed their respective posts in the
post-office and express office. How
slowly the hours dragged by! The
officers’ nerves were put to a severe
test. They were always alert, and
every time a Negro walked near the
offices the officer on duty would get
ready to spring at the given signal. A
mirror was placed on the wall of the
post-office so that the officer on watch
could have a direct view of the Gen-
eral Delivery window without standing
in full view of the lobby.

It was noon of the third day’s watch,
and the officers had just changed shifts.
They had a peculiar hunch that the
fugitives would show up that day.
Henderson had taken the watch at the
express office while Seale was on duty
in the post-office. Deputy Morris,
Detective Fritz, and Special Investi-
gator Hood were seated in a car parked
half-way between the two offices with
the Negro boy who knew the fugitives
by sight. They were heavily armed
with pistols and riot guns, for if the
killers showed up they must be appre-
hended without another life being
added to their toll.

About 3 p. M. a Ford coupé drove up
on the opposite side of the Pout House
Square and two Negroes alighted, one
of them carrying an oil can. After
stopping momentarily as though to
make observation, the one with the
can proceeded up the alley in the direc-
tion of an oil station. The other
walked into the post-office. The
Negroes were the Robinson brothers.
The time to act had arrived!

SEALE was standing in a corner of

the post-office when S. A. walked
in. The lobby was rather crowded.
Seeing the Negro in the mirror, Seale
watched his actions. He walked
straight to the General Delivery win-
dow. He called for his mail, and upon
turning around, walked straight into
the arms of Allen Seale. The Negro
was quickly disarmed and _ handcuffs
placed upon his wrists before he had an
opportunity to resist. He was carry-
ing a fully loaded revolver and plenty
of ammunition.

A bystander whose name was never
known hurried out of the post-office
and into the express office a half block
away and informed Henderson that
the Negroes were there. Fritz, Hood,
and Morris surrounded the oil station

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tols pointed at each other’s hearts,
they had made a solemn pact to go
down together and never tell, but said
that since he had the heavy load off
his chest he felt much better.

HE next morning the two killers,

handcuffed and under heavy guard,
were transferred to the Police Identifi-
cation Bureau at police headquarters
for finger-prints and photographs. They
talked freely with newspaper reporters
and posed for several pictures.

On Monday, February 22nd, grand
jury indictments were returned against
the pair, charging both with first de-
gree murder. At this time all the
Negroes, except those held as material
witnesses, were released. Allen Whinn,
James Robinson, Lottie Raipe, and
Bertha and Mable Austin were held on
accessory-to-murder charges.

The District Attorney promised a
speedy trial for the killers. Their cases
were set down for the following Mon-
day morning, March Ist, 1926. A spe-
cial venire of two hundred and fifty
men were summoned in each case. S.
A.’s case was set for trial in Judge
Felix D. Robertson’s Criminal District
Court Number One, while Forest’s was
set for trial in Judge Charles A. Pip-
pin’s Criminal District Court Number
Two.

Monday morning, March Ist, both
Negroes went to trial in the two courts
simultaneously. Both entered pleas of
guilty after being warned by the re-
spective judges that they were entering
pleas of guilty without inducement and
with the knowledge that the death
penalty might be inflicted. There was
considerable difficulty in each court to
secure twelve jurors who did not have
“fixed opinions”. Witnesses went from
one court to the other to testify. The
written confession was not offered in

commerce clause of the Constitution so
as to aid the states in suppressing the
activities of the racketeers and _ the
gangsters.

With that in mind I have intro-
duced a bill in Congress. If it is en-
acted into law it will become a felon-
ious offense, punishable by Federal
statute, for any individual to go from
one state to another to commit or aid
in the commission of crime, or to in-
duce, entice or coerce others in that
commission. It would empower Fed-
eral agents to proceed directly against
the rackets, which are almost invaria-
bly interstate in their ramifications. |
think there would be no question of the
Constitutionality of the law and it
would cover practically every case it
was desired to reach.

Another contributing factor to the
present widespread tendency toward
illicit use of concealed weapons is
the ease with which revolvers may
be imported into the United States and
redistributed to criminals without re-
striction by mail. Census figures for

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either case. The killers both took the
stand. Forest admitted that there

was an indictment against him for

shooting a Negro named Merryfield in
this same county. Merryfield had
caught him robbing his chicken house.
He also admitted killing Special Officer
Delmas at De Queen, Arkansas.

The jury in Judge Robertson’s court
took exactly two minutes to return
a verdict of guilty of murder in the
first degree, as charged in the indict-
ment, and assess a penalty of death,
and the jury in Judge Pippin’s court
took six minutes to assess a like penalty.
Both Negroes waived the two days al-
lowed for filing a motion for a new
trial, and were sentenced before leav-
ing the courtroom. The date of their
executions was set for April 2nd, 1926.
Calmly the killers marched back to
their cells in custody of the bailiffs.
The District Attorney dismissed the
cases against the other prisoners who
were charged with accessory to mur-
der as they had assisted the state.

In the gray of the morning on
March 4th, 1926, Sheriff Schuyler B.
Marshall, Jr., and Texas State Ranger
Captain Tom Hickman spirited the
killers from the county jail to the State
Penitentiary where they were placed
in the death cells to await their execu-
tion. Mrs. Miriam A. Ferguson, then
Governor of Texas, granted the con-
demned slayers a reprieve of four days
so that they might live to see another
Easter Sunday morning, which was
April 5th.

Forest was the first to walk from his
cell to the death chamber. He took his
seat in the electric chair. His trouser
leg was slit for the electric attachment
and the electrode was placed over his
shaven head. When asked if he had
anything to say he replied:

“T am guilty. I am ready to die. |
have made my peace with God.”

Root Out Racketeering

(Continued from page 4)

a recent six months’ period show that
34,745 pistols and revolvers valued at
less than four dollars each were im-
ported. They were, almost without ex-
ception, of the type that has no value
for police or military use.

When it is estimated that the price
paid out by the American people for
rackets is around $5,000,000,000 a
year, the figure does not begin to rep-
resent truly the aggregate cost of crime
in this country. There passes through
our penal institutions each year an
army of 500,000, if we include all. De-
spite the small fraction of criminals
punished there are today 175,000 men
and women in prisons and more than
200,000 in reformatories and other cor-
rectional institutions. This situation
undeniably has a definite effect on
every man, and in a sensitive spot—
his pocketbook.

It is a known fact that in 1913 the
crime cost paid in actual taxes by the
average American family was forty
dollars. Today it is more than three
times that amount. The average

The switch was thrown, the motors
hummed, the lights dimmed, and four
and one-half minutes later the prison
physician announced:

“Upon examination, I find Forest
Robinson dead.”

Just before S. A. was called from. his
cell, he declared that the only rea-
son he could offer for his life of crime
was that when he was a small boy his
mother had told him that it was his
birthmark to hate all white people. He
declared that it had always been his
life’s ambition to get even with every
white man who did him the least
wrong by repaying him double. So
far, he said, he had managed to accom-
plish this desire. However, he said
neither officer whose .life he and _ his
brother had taken had ever done him
the slightest wrong, and he guessed he
just killed because he was mean. He
was called from his cell and placed in
the electric chair. When asked if he
had anything to say he replied, ‘‘Yes, |
have. There is one thing that my
brother refused to tell you before he
died.” And he told of a third crime.

BAcK in January of 1925, when they
were serving time on the county
road in Lamar County, they both
escaped, and in the shuffle became
separated. When he saw his brother,
Forest, again, he had told him that
while running across a field near De-
Port, Texas, in Lamar County, a white
man stopped him. They engaged in a
dispute and Forest told him that he
beat the man to death with a club and
dragged the body to a swamp and
threw it in. This he thought they should
know as it would probably save some
innocent man from paying a penalty.
The electrode was adjusted, the
switch thrown, and again the motors
hummed. Exactly ten minutes later,
S. A. Robinson was pronounced dead.

American family today is paying $135
a year as its special crime tax. But
this is by no means the total price we
pay for the luxury of crime.

Estimates vary on the national crime
bill, some placing the total as high as
$18,000,000,000. For example, the big
surety companies place the crime pro-
tection cost of property alone at about
$7,000,000,000. Local, state and Fed-
eral governments spend another $3,000,-
000,000 on police forces, courts and
prisons. The private outlay for pro-
tection administration, the extra-gov-
ernmental system set up to deal with
crime, the funds advanced to support
the multitude of commissions and or-
ganizations for research into crime con-
ditions and cures, make up the re-
mainder of this huge total.

We have reached a stage at which
racketeering and its kindred ills have
become more than social and moral
problems. They present an economic
aspect so compelling and important as
to warrant the immediate attention of
the Federal Government.

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just as Henderson walked up. Seeing
that he was completely covered, Forest
Robinson held his hands in the air.
He was quickly disarmed by Fritz.
Forest, like S. A., was carrying a fully
loaded revolver and a pocket full of
ammunition.

Neither of the Negroes denied his
identity. Forest told the officers that
he was going to the oil station with
hopes of begging a can of refuse crank-
case drainings, as their car was out of
oil and could go no farther and they
had no money to buy more. They had
stolen the Ford coupé, he said, near
De Queen, Arkansas.

A cab driver seeing the commotion
around the post-office turned in an
alarm that it was being robbed. Soon
the street was filled with people and
police cars with crying sirens.. A Cad-
illac “to-rent” car was parked in front
of the post-office. After some diffi-
culty Henderson located the driver,
end in less than five minutes after the
arrest the officers and their prisoners
were en route to Kansas City, Missouri,
at a record-breaking speed, leaving the
curious mob still gathering.

Arriving at Kansas City, Henderson
hurriedly obtained tickets for a state-
room. The prisoners were transferred
trom the car to the train. The driver
of the Cadillac, upon being told what
the prisoners were wanted for, refused
io accept any pay for his services.
\lowever, Fritz forced a bill into his
hand and boarded the train.

Fritz, Seale, Hood, and the prisoners
entered the drawing-room and locked
the door. Their baggage was given to
their Negro helper who was instructed
to go to the Negro coach.

Henderson took up his station out-
side of the state-room door. It was
necessary to exercise every precaution

because the officers were many miles

from home and were taking two pris-

Special Officer H. H. Delmas, of the
Kansas City Southern Railway, who
was shot and clubbed to death near
De Queen, Arkansas, and his money,
watch and pistol stolen

The Master Detective

oners from the State of Missouri with-
out extradition papers. They were not
even armed with a justice court war-
rant.

W HEN a Negro porter came through
the train and asked Henderson
which compartment he was occupying,
Henderson slipped him a_five-dollar
bill, and told him to say nothing.
When the conductor came through for
the tickets, Henderson told him that his
companions were inside with two notor-
ious killers and asked that they be un-
disturbed. His request was granted.

As the train stopped at a Missouri
town to take on a_ passenger, Fritz
hurriedly penciled a telegram to his
chief, informing him of the capture,
and tossed it out the window to the
depot agent.

All through the night the killers re-
lated the details of their two crimes.
S. A. boasted of his part, constantly
placing himself as the brains of the
pair. At first Forest refused to ad-
mit that he had participated in either
crime, but after an hour or so he, also,
talked freely. S. A. admitted firing
the shot that killed Officer Isbell. For-
est admitted shooting at Officer Owen
Moore in Kessler Square the night be-
fore the Isbell murder. S. A. admitted
writing the letter to the Chief of Police
and to the newspaper. Forest said
that they had both shot at a farmer
north of Dallas a few weeks previously.

As the train was nearing Denison,
Texas, Henderson sent a telegram to
Chief of Police C. W. Trammell, re-
questing that the police patrol car be
sent to the Highland Park Station,
which was about five minutes’ ride from
the Union Station at Dallas, to receive
the prisoners. This was done to pre-
vent any mob violence. Feeling was
high and almost anything might
happen.

The train stopped at Highland Park
Station on Sunday morning, February
2Ist, 1926. The prisoners were quickly
transferred and were soon on their way
to the county jail. A special detail of
uniformed police officers was sent to
the Union Terminal Station as a decoy.
A large crowd had gathered. This de-
tail was not removed until word was
received that the killers were safe inside
the jail.

S. A. continued to relate their crimes
in his boastful manner. He agreed to
write a statement of both affairs if he
would be permitted to do it in his own
handwriting. In the presence of about
twenty-five police officers, District At-
torney Shelby S. Cox and members of
his staff, S. A. described, in his own
scribbling handwriting, two of the
most uncalled-for murders on record.
Although the District Attorney was
seated next to him, it was unnecessary
for him to ask a single question.

Forest Robinson then agreed to make
a statement, but said that some one
would have to write it for him as he
had never attended school and was un-
able to write. To Shelby Cox he made
a corroborating statement.

Neither one tried to place the blame
on the other. Each took his part. For-
est told how, sitting around a stick fire
in the river bottoms of Arkansas the

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1895

KIT ROBINSON IS BROUGHT BACK
Srneriff DeBlane last Monday brought over from the Houston -iail

the nezro Kit Robinson, who is to be hansed here today for the
murder of the old pumper on the Houston East and Yest Texas rail
way in sane. | -

The News correspondent at Fouston says. of the prisener:

Robinson, before leaving, said he had killed the nan -f whose
murder he was accused: that he did it without any special rotive--
in fact, could not tell’ why he did it. He exnressed himself a
few weeks ago as ready to "take religion" and hed made what
cceparation seemed to him meet for a starter on the creat ane
krovn journey.

re has preserved a rather. cool demeancr so far snd has not

shown any great signs of

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erturbation at the near approach of his
end. Sometime azo he said he would never ¢o out of this
jail alive, but when the officer entered today the priscner al-
lowed himself to be handcuf "ed and manacled without opposition or
resistence and left the jail very submissibely. It may be re-
membered that when he killed the old pumper he burned the house
with the body in it, probably to annihilate it, but failed in the
latter. In attempting to arrest him Sheriff Stanlev of Folk
county shot him in the shculder.

Sheri*f Hrichson was advised of the threat that Robinson had
made sot to Leave the jail alive, and had been further advised

nare 3
that he had concealed in his cell some very formidable weapons,
py 2 ruse he enticed Bobinssn out of his cell yesterdsy ard,
making a search of it found two bars of iron concealed in the
mattress of the prisoner's cot. These bars, one 0° them about.

34 fect long, t:e other about 6 feet long, and each sbout 24 inches
in circumference, had been wrenched out from the iron cot, with ©
evident intention on Robinson's part, of carrvins his threats
into execution.

Sheriff M.A. DeBlane has made all necessary arrangements for
the exeevtion today of the condemned murderer, Kit “obirson.
The seaf’old is sudstantially built and has been tested frilly to

see trat it worked right. The fall is about 8 feet, ‘Je have

not heard at what hour the hanging will take place, brt presume
it will be between 12 and 2 o'clock. The scaffold is immediately

behind the jail, on the open square, and will therefore, ‘e in
a

public view of several residences and all who mav desire to see

the necro hung.

October 18
1895

KIT ROBINSGCN HANGED .
The murderer of the Old Frumner, John
Johnson, Fays the Fenalty of the Law
He Confessed His Crite
800 People Witness Hanring

By daylight last friday morning the people commenced novine
tovard this place fron every section of the county, to witness
the erecution of the nezro, Kit Robinson, for the murder of the
old man Johnson, on June 10th last, who was employed as a prmner

on the Houston East and West Texas railway. Before -the hour of

execution. fully 500 visitors hrd arrived in town.

pise lt

The -allows was built in the rear of the jail oe “NLL ieview.

It was ones: above 2nd helow the plattorm and SOQ rennle saw Wit
nedinson shuffle of this mortal cnil.

Wren he arose he was weenin7. He did not. go ta Sleep mrtzl nearly
LE oheloak, He only awoke once during the night. when he yveucke
safed the information to Sheriff Mark DeBlane and the desth wateh
that re was voinz to heaven and felt much better then he did hefrre

beinz >breurcht from Eouston.

he arose at 6 o'clock and attired hivself in new elothee ?rnar
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head to foot, which had deen breught for him bv the sheriff.

He wore 2 white and blue’ striped neslisece Shirt, a dark blue serre

suit and his shoes were nolished to ah alnecst patent lacther de-

cree, ;
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rit had recently professed the Catholic religion, and at 5.15

o'clock he left the jail for the little Catholic chanel, where
he wes t. be received into the faith. Re walked with a firm sten
out of the jail vard and got in and out of the sharit’s hurecy

unassiste‘’, When the church was reached, Rev. Father }cSorlev

was .vaitinzg at the altar. There was not a zo0d lirht in the

buildin-, the only lights bein two candles, As Fit walked dow

Kinz, the scene anreared wierd in-

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e isle, with his chains clan

deed, With Kit sittin: on the front seat, vather MeSorley becan

the miss. The condemned msn knelt and in a per’ectiy audible srd

sreed and the Lord's fraver

strony voice repeated the Apostles ;

anc seve the answers to the articles of Faith, He wee then bene

tized avd made his last confession to the holy father. He said

2 nrayer'of penance and received his last cormunion, throuchout

the service Kit was calm and selfpossessed end he saered vot 2t
3211 nervous. | Juite a number of men attended the service and
one little girl. |

The condemned man was tal:en back to the jail, where 2t 8,15
he consi: tired with his religious adviser, and to hin he. réthorated
his resignation and conversion. He did not want te see arrone
else, as his time was short and he wanted to utilivre it “nr nedita-

tion and praver. Robinson refused to see the News renorter, but

sent him word that on yesterday he had made a full ennfessian to

Father MeSorley and Sheriff DeBlanc, which was in suystanre as

follows:

I wish to make a full confession of my crire, I went to
Johnson's home about two weeks before the killine and rohbed it,
getting a six-shooter, shotsun, and lady's wrist watch. I after-—
wards made up ny mind to rob and kill him, which I did »y striking
him with a piece of iron , which I picked up by the side of the.
railroad track. I got a silver watch 6ff the body. I he °
had any money I did not find it, as I zot frightened and ran
off before had made a thorough search. I did nnt set fire
to the body, but simply pulled the fire out of the furnace for
the purpose of setting fire to the house with the hody in it.

77o one else had enything to do with it or knew anvthine abont it.

I did it on my own accord. Vy object in accusing Claiborne

Jefferson was that I was told if I confessed and implicated

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others that it micht be lisht on me. Il now make this con*essincn
that Claiborne may be exonerated as he had nothing to do with it.

Rebinson also confessed to Sheriff DeBlane that te had about

18 months ago burned Cruse's barn and set fire to his store at
Keno snd that it was the (illecible) Cruse's clerk shet wren he

attempted to burglarize the store, Also that he had burelarized
rs. Booth's store at Cleveland and wes guilty oF kone ine a Mex-~
ican on t’e he2td and robbing him near Clevelard, Up to this tine
the of icers had dean unable to locate the party who committed
these crimes and his confession came in the neture o* a surprise.
as.it had been laid at the door of tramps.

Kit alsn confessed tha t he burelarirces: the heuse of George

Davis on Tarkington's Prarie, and stole about $200,, This crine

it was tidught nad been committed by someone livin; in the neivh-
borhkood. Kit said he lost most of themeney garmlin-. So it weruld

seem that even if he did not appear bright, he was an artist.

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slving that Kit was an artist at losing.)
About 9 o'clock he ate a hearty breakfast ad snent the time

between breakfast acd LOWS i

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rrayin-. At 1¢.50 father McSorley
arrived and he and Kit aeccoiwtpanied by sheriff DeBlane and deputy
Wil?) Duncan, went into the sheriff's office to particivate in

the last earthly service Kit woulda ever know, This was over at
11.15, and at 11.35 Kit, with his arms tied behind and nesvily

ruarded, came out o° the jail ard started for the rallows. He.

walvead erect ard steady, ard while he locked about a* the erows

ROBINSON, Willie, black, electrocuted Texas State Prison (Denton County), 9-23-1927

"Dallas, July 12, 1927-A medical examination made in the county jail Tuesday afternoon

disclosed the fact that Willie Robinson, negro,charged with murder in-connection with

the fatal shooting of J, C. Terrell raed night (July 10) at his farm near Justin

was not seriously wounded, -

"Thenegro, who is held in the fellas County jail for safe keeping, was peppered with

birdshot by members of the posse who captured him early Tuesday near Haslett,

Tarrant County.

"In themeantime officers are seeking anothing negro whom Robinson declared WXKAXKXK

was with him at the time of the slaying and did the actual shooting. In a written

confession to which Robinson placed his 'mark' the negro admitted his part in the

killing, officers declared.

"In a written statement typed by County Attroney Elbert Hooper and on which the negro

is said to have placed his mark, being unable to write, Robisson is claimed to have

XSAMAXEXXE said that he and another negro did the slaying, the other, he claimed,

having fired the shots which took Terrell s life. Robinson described his: companion

as named Butler or Buckner and as being dressed in brown withblue shirt. The

second negro wears a mustache, Robinson said,

"Robinson stated in his purported confession to Hooper that he was the same negro who

callwd at the Terrell home Sunday afternoon seeking work,

"Charges of murder were filed against Robinson Tuesday by Hooper before Justice of
the foe Matthews in Denton," POST, Houston, Texas, July 13, 1927. Part 2, pagel,
column °

"Dallas, July 13, 1927=Fingerprint experts here have identified the negro giving his
name as Willie Robinson, held in Dallas County J&ZX Jail and charged in connection with
the slaying of J, C, Terrell, Justin farmer, as Jesse Brinkley, who escaped from the
*+exas prison farm near Houston where he was serving a 78 year sentence on conviction
of burglary and assault to murder in Williamson County,

"Robinson, or Brinkley, Tuesday placed his mark on a written confession that he par-
ticipated in the Terrell slaying, but claimed that a confederate did the shooting,
"The negro, wounded by the guns of Denton County deputy sheriffs, was captured Tues=
day at BlueMound crossing near Haslet, Tarrent County. He was shot in an attempted
resistance to arrest, the officers said, Meanwhile a posse of about 100 men was to
continue search Wednesday for theother negro whom Brinkley blamed with the shodting,.
The negro in jail here will recover, officers said physicians," POST, 7-1-1927,

Par 2, page 1, column5,

"Dehton, July lh, 1927-Two bills of indictment, one charging murder and the other
Shee rte were returned here Thursday by the Denton County grand jury against Willie
Robinson, alias Jesse Drinkley, in connection with thr slaying of J, C, Terrell at his
home near Justin Sunday night, Terrell and Mrs, Terrell returned to their home to
find a negro emerging from robbing the house, Terrell was shot and killed and the
negro fled, He was arrested later near Justin and in a written confession admitted
participating in the killing." POSI, Houston, Texas, July 15, 1927. Part II, Page I,
Column V,

"Huntsville, 9=23-1927=<Willie Robinson, negro, went calmly and almost cheerfully to the
electric chair at the state penitentiary early Friday to pay his debt to society for
killing J. M, Terrell, farmer of Justin, Denton County, Robinson went to the chair at
12:26 AM and at 12:31 AM he was pronounced dead, Before going into the chamber he made
a statement which he deliberately signed, absolving Bennie Mitchell, negro, serving 1)
years in the penitentiary for crimes of burglary and assault committed in Williamson
County. Robinson accepted full responsibility for the crimes and declared Mitchell
innocent. When Terrell was killed, Robinsonwas an escaped convict, having been cone
victed in Williamson County with Mitchell, He was prosecuted by Governor Moody, who
was then district attorney for Williamson and Travis Counties, After his conviction in
Denton, Robinson was seeking food when he entered the home of Terrell, When he emerged

he met Terrell and the shooting followed, Members of a posse captured Robinson and he was
quickly brought to trial. The negro's last stemement was simple and a bit pathetic, It

ever exnerssionless, re had so firzly fired his ind cn his
religion and what he believed was a future of harniness and icv

thet the scaffold had no terrors for hin. He mounted the stairs
without assistance and at once took his place on the tran. His
eyes stared directly to the front into vacancy and never. changed

iad

tee direction of their vision. Father MeScrley bersan the service
and Kit repeated arter a short prayer. The crucifix was placed

to his lips and he was sprinkled with holy water, the rope was

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aced around his neck. Ee never moved. No sicn of life did
he give. No sound did he utter. <A statue could not heave been
~ore lifeless... The black. cap was placed over his head, and at
(121.40 sheriff DeBlane touched the lever, the tran docr dronned,
erd the soul of Kit Robinson was sent to meet his naker.

At 11.52 Dr. ailey pronounced Kit dead and he wad ent down.
in examination showed that his neck wes only partially spaven,
After Kit's body had been placed in his coffin, Father McSorley

stated from the scaffold that Kit had confessed, as siven above;

that he had forziven everyone, and that he asked the forviveness

of all: that he did not feel hard toward the judge and jury which
tried him, as they only did their duty, and he returned his thanks
to sheriff Erichson and jailer Anderson of Houston and sheriff
Deslane and his deputies for their kindness to: hi.

Azsong the prominent visitors nere last Friday were sheriff
pDavis of Chambers ccunty, ex-sheriff Epperson of Poll county,
State renitentiary Azent Carmich
county. The Latter of"icer shot Robinsen in the shoulder at

Livinzston on June 12th, when trying to arrest him.

October 18.
1895

Last Friday, considering it was the day for the execution of
Kit Robinson, was unusually quiet.and orderly. Notwithstanding
the fact that there were some 500 or 600 people in town and of
course considerable drinking among some, there was ot the least
turmoil or disturbance of any kind, so far as we noticed or were
advised. The arrangements for the hanging were aviet and well
directed, and Sheriff DeBlanc deserves credit for the manner in

which he supervised everythine and for the Z00d conduct of the

people.

All articles were taken from the June, July, and Oct-
ober issues of the 1895 Liberty Vindicator,

ROBINSON, Tom

"Hillsboro, Texas, -28-1899-Tom Robinson, colored, con-
victed of crimin al assault upon a small colored giftl,
was hanged today. He protested his innocence to the
last. This was the first legal execution to take place
in the county since its organization in 1856." GALVES-
TON DAILY NEWS, Galvestan, Texas, KXZ2XXRXTKEX 1)-29-
1899(26) Ay 22 CaovrsAs re ee.
ii rch 18, 1899-Judge Hall sentenced Tom -
DT tun colina os a charge of criminal assault on

i d to be hanged.
i d , a negro girl, and sentence :
Tales Eali fisea a date for his execution at conte tee
1899, It will be private, Robinson declared tha

‘not guilty, saying that he was the victim of persecution,

and that they wuld have mobbed him if it had not been for
the white people, Judge Hall, reviewing the Case, warned
-him not to expect the governor to pardon him, as the
offense he was charged with was too heinous and brutal

for him to expect any human aid, and told him to make his
peace with God and prepare for death, Robinson exhibited
no fear or nervousness." DAILY NEWS, Galveston, Texas,

3-19-1899 (16), ” “ii C é

YO boy thupectice ae

"4eethe condemned man invited Mary Adams, his victim, and
her mother to be present at the execution, ‘Mrs, Adams
attended and wanted to 'pull the rope,’ but bhhe daughter

was unable to be present," BEE, Sacramento, Calif., Apr.

28, 1899 (8/4. )

read: 'There is a boy in the pen here who has 11) years for.assault and midnight
burglary. His name is Bennie Mitchell, We were both sent up from Georgetown
(Williamson County seat), He is on Ramgey Prison No. 1, He-did not know about
the crimes. + cormitted all of them. "He does not know any more than you about
them. He is as innocent as a new born babe.' Relatives.of.the negro took charge
of the body." SIAR-TELEGRAM, Fort Worth, 9-23-1927 (23h),

ROBINSON, Y. D., black, electrocuted SP (Wichita Co.), July 16, 1951.
“Negro Executed For Slaying Here.

“Y. D. Robinson, 33-year-old convicted Negro slayer of 22-year-old Barbara Jean Roberts
Thompson of Wichita Falls was electrocuted Monday morning at the Huntsville penitentiary.
Robinson was pronounced dead at 12:08 a.m. Hed was strapped into the electric chair at 12:02
and received the first charge at 12:05. Robinson proclaimed his innocence until the end. In his
last statement, Robinson said: ‘I am not guilty. It was an accident as I have stated before. I thank
the Lord for having mercy on me. He will save me from my sins for He prepareth a table for me.’

“Robinson paid for the murder with his life after the state board of pardons and parole
refused Sunday to interfere with the execution. The death penalty was set by a jury in June, 1950,
after the Negro, a former air police sergeant at Sheppard Air Force Base, was found guilty of
murder with malice. Taz Locke, chief defense counsel, carried the plea personally before the
board Friday, asking that the death penalty be commuted to life imprisonment. Gov. Allan
Shivers had granted a customary 30-day stay of execution.

“The prisoner spent most of the Sunday afternoon talking to R. B. Francis Duffy, Catholic
chaplain at the prison. Duffy said the condemned man was ‘very calm, he reads the Bible a lot,
and he prays constantly.” Robinson’s wife, Rosa Lee Robinson, of East St. Louis, Ill., visited him
in the death cell Friday morning and afternoon, then returned to Illinois. For his last meal - always
served condemned prisoners at 4 p.m., Robinson chose a menu of barbecued ribs, hot sauce,
baked sweet potatoes, corn bread, jellied cake and ice tea.

“Robinson, former Air Police sergeant atSheppard Air Force Base, was the first Negro
sent to the state’s electric chair from Wichita County for killing a member of his owns-race. A
native of East St. Louis, IIl., Robinson received the first death penalty exacted in Wichita County
in 18 years. Clyde Fillmore, former district attorney, was assisted in the prosecution by special
prosecutors hired by a group of negro citizens.

“During the trial in 30th District Court here, Robinson admitted the slaying at 705 Waco,
but claimed it was accidental. He said he and the dead lady were playing with a .45-caliber auto-
matic when the weapon discharged. The shot passed through the woman’s forehead. “I didn’t
know the gun was loaded. I loved her,’ he testified at the trial. Robinson said after the shooting
he became frightened. He said he put the body in his car and took the body to a lonely lane. Two
days later - on March 11, 1950 - the body was discovered east of Lincoln street.”-Wichita Falls
Times, Wichita Falls, TX, July 16, 1951.

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"Henrietta had completed require-} convicted Negro. slayer of 22- all tho Way from Pusan to th
ments for the Red Cross junior life | year-old Barbara Jean Roberts! + inchurian border, and fought ©
saving course, Those girls include: Thompson of Wichita Falls, Was f oth coasts of the Korean penir#
- Alzada Bass, Dell Ruggles, Carol; electrocuted Monday morning at ite eae
: Spangler, Jeton Blakely, Gayle the Huntsville Penitentiary. h
"Featherston, Beverly Guy, Sue! Robinson, was pronounced dead ;
+.. Gay, Nancy Stanley and Janice! at 12:08 a. m. He was strapped | Son and Family
Broyles, Wichita Falls and Sanara_ into the electric chair at 12:02) "0" saa
Guthrie, Henrietta. Instructor forjand received the first charge at Visits Wichitans
“the course was Mrs. Quenna Dean 12:05. - : mY oe
Tillman. Awards wens made by; Robinson proclaimed his inno-| _ T. Set. A. W. Bell, his wife an ata
“.\ Miss Elizabeth Owen, camp direc- cence until the end. _ {three daughters left Monday for aa
tor. Os oe ! In his last Statement, Robinson Crittenden, Ky., after a few weeks
_The fourth session opened Sun-' said, “I am not guilty. It was an | Visit. with’ his parents, Mr, an
day with 73 campers. New coun-! accident as I have stated before,! Mrs..A. W. Beli, 1203 Austin,
selors joining the staff include| I . thank the Lord for having! Sergeant Bell has just return
Misses Margaret Dillard, Jeanic | mercy upon me. He will save me | from Japan where he was stab
~~ Schuitz and Patsy Mullins. and! from my ‘sins for he prepareth | tioned with the Air Force foul
Mrs, Arthur Beyer. The last ses-. a table for me. That's all.” | years. He has been re-assigned th
sion of this season will begin July; * Trialin 1950 _, duty at Wright-Patterson Field be
‘21 and camp will close July 28. Robinson paid for the murder | Dayton, Ohio, and will move h
Already more girls have taken, with his life after the state board family there as soon as quarter}:
advantage of the camping facili-! of pardons and paroles refused ; ate available.
ies than any other year, Sunday to interfere with the
: "ROE : execution. The death penalty was
eee . set by a jury in June, 1950, after
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before the board Friday, asking 4 \

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the amazing selentife dies | CONGermned man. was “very calm,
emery which pot ently helps i
relieve agonising manne | Re reads the Bible a lot, and he

Para of these dread dise | PIAYS constantly,”
plies of joint owelinng az | _ Robinson’4 wife, Rosa Lee Rob-
intammaiion ButiMoaIN i Inson of East St. Louis, I.. visit-
The tenevr you wai tos | Cd him in the death cell Friday
IMDRIN tetnt nage | Morning and afternoon, then re-
A pao tee tie een { turned 46 Illingis,
i: oe For his last meal—always serv-
‘| ed condemned prisoners at 4 p. m.
Phd f yee Gocued he ene menu nf bar-
i bec ribs, hot sauce, aked |
UGGISTS EVERYWHERE | sweet potatoes, corn bread, jellied |
cake and ice tea, i
Fz . Death Penalty Rare H
Be aes Robinson, former Air Police |
oe ccmeaniaiamimemnnann Sergeant at Sheppard Air Force |
Piao aoe : : Base, was the first Negro sent to
: the state’s electric chair from ;
Wichita County: for killing a}
member of his own rare.
_ A native of East St. Louls, Tm,
Robinson received the first death
penalty exacted in Wichita Coun-
ty in 18 years. Clyde Fillmore,
former district attorney, was age
sisted in the prosecution by spe-
clal prosecutors hired -by a group
of Negro citizens,
During the trial in 33th District
»- Court here, Robinson admitted the
| Slaying at 705 Waeo, but claimed
lit wags accidental.

Flies, Mosquitoes many | He said he and the dead wom-

. Slavs / a2 were playing with a .45 cali-}.
s * iber service automatie when the
" ciner Rying insects! - | Weapon discharged. The shot
: , Passed through the woman's fore-
i head,

“I didn’t knew the gun was
j loaded. I loved her,” he testified

; at the trial.
Robinson said after the shoot- {
/ing he became frightened, He Faid
he put the body in his car andj
tok the body to a lonely iane.
| Two days later—on March it, 1950
}—the body was discovered east of

es eet in shoulder y

Affirmed: 150 SW 912.

ROBISON, John, black, hanged at Dallas, Texas, on January 10, 1913,

"Dallas, Texas, January 10-Yonvicted of the murder of Otto Kahifoff, an aged white man,
more than eighteen months ago, John Robinson, a negro, was hanged shortly after noon
today in the Dallas County jail, To the last he denied his guilt, For days before
the day of execution he had been at times morbid and at other times raving and fight-
ing the jail officers, This morning the ministrations of a Catholic priest, Father
Sweeney, seemed to soothe him and the condemned negro begged the pardon of Sheriff
Brandenburg, whom he attacked and injured with a milk bottle yesterday, and was so
contrite that the sheriff with reluctant hand sprung the trap that dropped the negro
to death,

"The death warrant was read to the man about 10 o'clock, He was clad in a new suit
of clothing and new shoes, He was given a juicy steak and a full meal, which he
seemed to enjoy for the first time in many days. He was still smoking a cigar that
had been given him when summoned to his death, He walked almost unassisted to the
scaffold and declared his forgiveness of all,

"The crime for which John Robinson was hanged was the attack on Otto hahikoff and his
wife in Southeast Dallas in May, 1911, Coupling pins from the Santa Fe Railway near
by were used, The man died a few days later. The woman recovered, The negroes

had whitenéd their faces, and at first the woman insisted white men had attacked
them, Robinson and Will Flowers, both negroes, were arrested a little after the
attack, Flowers is serving a life sentence,"

NEWS, Galveston, Texas, January 11, 1913 (1),3.)

"We, the Jury find the Defendant guilty of
murder as charged in the Indictment, and asseas
his punishment at death.

R. L. McMillan oh
Foreman, "

It is therefore consilered and adjudged by the Court,
hat the Defeniant, Charles Reynolis is guilty of tke offense of murcer,
“Yas found by the Jury, and that he be punished, as has been jistermined
by the jury, that is with "Death", ani that the said Defendant, Charles
Reynolds be, and he is hereby remanded to jail to await the further

orders of the Court herein,

And whereas, on the let day of January A. D. 1924, tho

‘said Court pronounced\Sentence upon the said Charles Reynolis, in

accordance with said judgment, as fully appears by the said Sentence as

fan entered upon the Minutes of said Court, as follows, to-wit:-
: Peedi os The State of Texas In the District Court of
<a No, 9269 -vse— Re: River County, Texas,
Charles Reynolds. January lst, A. Ll. 1924,
This day this cause being again called, the State appeared
: by her District Attorney, and the Nefendant, Charles Reynolds waa. brought
into open Court in person, in charge of the Sheriff for the purpose of
aa having the Sentence of the law pronounced in accordance with the verdict
a and judgment herein rendered and entered against him on a former day of
this term, his counsel also being present.
i aa And thereupon, the Defenjant, Charles Reynolis was asked

by the Court whether he had anything to say why gait Sentence should not
be pronounced against him, and he answered nothing in bat thereof,
Whereupon, the Court proceeded, in the presence of the said VLefen.Jjant,
' Charles Reynolas, to pronounce Sentence against him, as follows: -
It is the order of the Court, that the Defendant, Charlos
Reynolds, wWiid sae vwoou adjudger ve vs guasty OS Meiccs, aint whose punigh-
ment has been assessed by the ver:lict of the Jury, at Jeath, shall be

conveyed by the Sheriff of this County to the State Penitentiary at

Huntsville, Texas, ani that on Friday, the 8th i.ay of February A. 2. 1@a
P) y °

DEATH WARPART

uae | THR STATE 2OF . TE XA SS.

To the Warden of the State Penitentiary
at Hunteville, Texas, Greeting!-

ST en enamel

Whereas, on the 20th Jay of Cecember A... 1883,

‘in cause No, 9269, The State of Texas -vs- Charles Reynolds, in the

"las. Digtriet Court of Red River County, Texas, the said Charles Reynolds
and-legally convicted of the oxime of murder, as fully appears

by the judgment of said Court as entered upon the Minutes of said Court.

as follows, to-wit:—

The State of Texas In the Nistrict Court of Red River
No, 9269 -vs— County, Texas,

‘Charles Reynolds December 20th, A. [. 1923.

On this day this cause was called for trial, and
the State appeared by her District Attorney, and the Defeniant,
Charles Reynolis appeared in person, his counsel also being present, anit
both parties announced ready for trial, and the Defendant, Charles
Reynolds having been duly arraigned, in open Court in person pleaded
Not Guilty to the charge as contained in the Indictment herein, to-wit:-
the charge of murder; thereupon a jury, to-wit:- R. L. McMillan, |
and eleven others, was duly selected, impaneled and sworn, who having
heard the Indictment read, and the Cefen- ‘ant's plea of Not Cuilty theretc

= “and having heard the evidence submitted, and having beem duly charged

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by the Court whether he had anything to say why said Sentence BhouLd nee
be pronounced against hin, and he answered nothing in bat thereof,
whereupon, the Court proceeded, in the presence of the said DefenJwant,
Charles Reynolds, to pronounce Sentence against him, as follows:-

It ig the order of the Court, that the Defeniant, Charles
Reynolds, who has been adjudged to be guilty of murder, and whose punish-
ment has been assessed by the verlict of the Jury, at death, shall be

conveyed by the Sheriff of this County to the State Penitentiary at

Runstville, Texas, ani that on Frilay, the Sth vay of February A. C. 1234,

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The State of Texas In the District Court of

No, 9269 -vsg Rei River County, Texas.

Charles Reynolis. December 20th, A. D. 1923.

On this tay this cause was called for trial, ani the

State appeared by her District Attorney, and the Lefenijant, Charles

Reynolds appeared in person, his counsel also being present, and

both parties announced ready for trial, and the Defendant, Charles
Reynolds having been duly arraigned, in open Court in person pleaded
Not Guilty to the charge as contained in the Indictment herein, to-wit:-

the charge of murder; thereupon a Jury, to-witi— R. L. McMillan,

and eleven others Was auly selected, impaneled an‘ sworn, who having
heard the Indictment read and the Defeniant's Plea of Not Guilty thereto,
and having heard the evidence submitted, and having been duly charged

by the Court, and after hearing the argument of the counsel, retired in
charge of the proper Officer to consijer of their veriict, and aftecrwaris
on this the 2lst idy 6f December A. i). 1923, were brought into open

Court by the proper. officer, the Defenjdant anid his counsel being present
and in due form of Taw returned into open Court the following verict,

which was received by the Court, ani is here now entered upon the

minutes of the Court, to-wit:-

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"We, the Jury, fini the Defendant guilty of
murder as charged in the Indictment, andi assess his

punishment aq; death. .
oy R, L. McMijlan
a . Foreman,
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It is,.therefore considered and adjudged by the Court, °

that the Defendant, Charles Reynolis is guilty of the offense of murier,
as found by the Jury, and that he be puniohed, ag has been determined
by the Jury, that is with "Death", and that the aaid Pefen'tant, Charles
Reynolds be, and he is hereby remanded to jail to await the further

Orders of the Court herein,

THE STATE OF TEXAS

COUNTY OF RED RIVFR, I, R.B. Hollingsworth, Clerk cf the District Court
of Red River County, Texas, do hereby certify that the above ani foregoing
is a true and correct copy of the Original Juigment in the above entitle
ranaa aa enneara Of recor. in the Minutes of said Court in Vol. 22
Paye 13 ZF of the Criminal “inutes of the District Ccurt of Rei
River County, Texas,

Given under my hani an] offjeial. seal at office in the City of
Clarksville, Texas, this the D7 tay of January A. >. 1924,

Clerk of the

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eee The State of Texas In the District Court of
aE No. 9269 -ve- Rei River County, Texas,
“ "Charles Reynolds. January lat, A. 2. 1924.

This day this causé being again called, the, State appeared

by her District Attorney, and the Nefeniant, Charles Reynolus Wwe g

“brought into open Court in person, in charge of the Sheriff for the

“purpose of having the sentence of the law ‘pronount¢ed in accoriance
With the verdict and judgment herein rendered and entered against him

7 on a formér day of this term, his counsel also being present.

ea | And thereupon the Defendant, Charles Reynolds was asked by the
Court whether he had anything !to say why sali sentence should not be
pronounced against him, ‘and he answerei nothing in bar thereof,whereupon
the Court proceeded, in the presence of the said Defendant, Charles
Reynolds, to pronounce sentence against him as follows:-

It is the order of the Court that the Defeniant, Charles

Reynolds, who has been adjudged to be guilty of murier, ani whose
punishment has been assessed by the veriict of the jury at ieath, shall
be conveyed by the Sheriff of this County to the State Penitentiary at
Huntsville, Texas, ani that on Friltay, the 8th day of February A. ". 1924,
the said Charles Reynoliis be put to death by the War-ien of the State
Penitentiary of ‘his State, by causing to pass through the body of the
said Charles Reynolds a current of electricity of sufficient intensity
to cause death, and the application ani continuance of such current
through the body of said Charles Reynol<is, until the said Charles Reynolds
is dead, and that the Clerk of this Court issue a Death Warrant in
accordance with this sentence iirocted to the Warden of the State
Penitentiary at ‘Huntaville, Texaa, comsanding him to proceed at the
time and ‘Place named in this. sentence, to carry the same into execution,
asia edid Warrant, together with the said Defeniant, Charles Reynolds,
shall he delivered by the Sheriff nf thin Caunty tn anda Wandan aa ia

provided by law.

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aWait the execution of this sentence,

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Feb. 14th, 1924.

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DEATH WAREART

wie THE STATE OF TEXAS.

i To the Warden of the State Penitentiary
| at Huntsville, Texas, Greeting:-

Whereas, on the 20th Jay of Vecember A. D. 1983,
-in cause No, 9269, The State of Texas -vs- Charles Reynolds, in the

District Court of Red River County, Texas, the said Charles Reynolds

was~tuty~and-legally convicted of the orime of murier, ag fully appears

by the judgment of said Court as entered upon the !linutes of said Court.

as follows, to-wit:-—

The State of Texas In the District Court of Red River

—— — No, 9269 -vs- County, Texas,

Charles Reynolds December 20th, A. '. 1923.

On this day this cause was called for trial, and
the State appeared by her District Attorney, and the Defeniant,
Charles Reynolis appeared in person, hig counsel also being present, and

both parties announced ready for trial, and the Defendant, Charles

Reynolds having been duly arraigned, in open Court in person pleaded
Not Guilty to the charge as contained in the Indictment herein, to-wit:-
the charge of murder; thereupon a jury, to-wit:- R. L. McMillan

and eleven others, was duly selected, impaneled and sworn, who having

; heard the Indictment read, and the Cefen” ‘ant's plea of Not Guilty theret

“and having heard the evidence submitted, and having beem duly charged

3 - +s - a ee a | aaunael. ret tees in

by the Court whether he had any thing to say why gait Sentence shou
be pronounced against hin, and he answered nothing in bat thereof,
whereupon, the Court proceeded, in the presence of the said LefenJlant,
Charles Reynolds, to pronounce Sentence against him, 48 follows:-

It is the order of the Court, that the Defeniant, Charics
Reynolds, who has been aijudged to be guilty of murder, ani whose punish-
ment has been assessed by the verlict of the Jury, at iteath, shall be

conveyed by the Sheriff of this County to the State Penitentiary at

Hunt@ville, Texas, an! that on Frijay, the Sth say of February A. C. 1224,

"We, the Jury find the Defendant guilty of
murder as charged in the Indictment, and assess
his punishment at death.

oar | Re L. McMillan —
a Foreman."

It is therefore consijtered and adjudged by the Cours,
pepe at the Defeniant, Charles Reynolis is guilty of the offense of murcer,
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as found by the Jury, and that he be punished, as has been istermined

by the jury, that ig with "Death", ani that the said Defendant, Charles

Reynolds be, and he is hereby remanded to jail to await the further

orders of the Court herein,

Ani whereas, on the lst day of January A. D. 1924, the

are said Court pronounced\Sentence upon the said Charles Reynolius, in

edn y

accordance with said judgment, as fully appears by the said Sentence as

entered upon the Minutes of said Court, as follows, to-wit!—

Bayes Sew. Pc of Texas In the District Court of
: No. 9269 -vs— Rei River County, Texas,
Charles Reynolds. January lst, A. lL. 1924,

This day this cause being again callei, the State appeared
by her District Attorney, and the Nefeniant, Charles Reynolds waa. brought
into open Court in person, in charge of the Sheriff for the purpose of
having the Sentence of the law pronounced in accoriance with the veriict
a and judgment herein rendered and entered against him on a former day of
this term, his counsel also being present.
milk ste cmae And thereupon, the Defeniant, Charles Reynolis was asked
| : iby the Court whether he had anything to say why gaii Sentence should not
be pronounced against him, ani he answered nothing in bak thereof,
whereupon, the Court proceeded, in the presence of the said Vefen.iant,

Charles Reynolds, to pronounce Sentence against him, as follows:-

It is the order of the Court, that the Defendant, Charles
Reynol ds, Wii 4460 ht Se er bb aijuageu vu Ww toe vy I te a2h ik de Aw ao y ro renee & WinU ge pun i Sil—
ment has been assessed@ by the verdict of the Jury, at death, shall te

conveyed by the Sheriff of this County to the State Penitentiary at

ed ia @

Huntaville, Texas, ani that on Frivey, the ath cay of February A. £2. 1@a

we ak eee a ee

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the said Charles Reynolds be put to death by the Warden of the
State Penitentiary of this State by causing tp pass through the
body of the said Charles Reynolis a current of electricity of
sufficient qntensity to cause death, ani the application and

continuance of such current through the boty of said Charles Reynolds

TW Charles Reynolis ia dead, ani that the Clerk of thig

Court issue a Death Warrant in accordance with thig Sentence directed

to the Warden of the State Penitentiary at Huntsville, comaanding him

to proceed at the time and place named in this Sentence, to carry

the same into execution, and said Warrant, together with the said
Defendant, Charles Reynolds shall be delivered by the Sheriff of this
County to said Warden as is provided by law, |

And the Defendant, Charles Reynolds is remanded to jail to

aWait the execution Of this Sentence,

These are therefore to command you to execute the aforesaid

g7- ay eee week Semper
“judgment and sentence on Friday, the Sth day of February A. D. 1924,

With the law.

at any time before the hour of sunrise by causing to pass through the

body of the said Charles Reynolis a current of electricity of sufficient
intensity to cause death, ani the application and continuance of such
current through the boly of the saii Charles Reynolis, until the said
Charles Reynolds is dead, and that in the execution of this Warrant

you observe, obey and carry out the provisions of thd said Judgment

| and sentence aforesaid and the law governing in ‘guch cases.,

Herein fail not, andi due return make hereof in accordance

Witness my signature ani official seg at office in the

ES ste to ee

City of Clarksville, Texas, this the _ ~&’ “~~,ay of January ,

A. D. 1924,
Clerk of the Aly trict flat. of Ref River County, Texas,

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Texas State Prison,
Huntsville, Texas.

Feb. 14th, 1924.

The State of Texas
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satelite yatiners st’ Charlee Reynoldse,; oe Hae «i
> gp se - Cas@r Nos: 926% im. the District Court, o£ Red River County~ —

for ies cx, + 2.) WARDEN! S' RETURID AFTER: EXECUTION.
to : gk. Received Death Yarrant, together with the body of
be Charles Reynolds, from the Sheriff of Red River County,

ae ; - on the 4th day of January, 1924;

Dae In compliance with said Death Warrant I have duly.
asthe carried out its commands, at the State Prison at
ele Huntsville, Texas, in accordance with the law, on the
ee _ Eighth (8th) Day of, February, 1924, at the hour of

ee 12:13 A. M., by causing to pass through the body of

. the said Charles Reynolds a current of electricity

eee of sufficient intensity to cause death; and the said
ee ' CGharles Reynolds was pronounced dead by L. H. Bush,

a M. D., the legal Prison Physician, xk at the hour
._ of 12:164A. M., Three and a half (3¢) Minutes after |
= the application of the electric current. “

Further, there having been properly made a claim

for the body of the executed man, by hisrelatives,
the same was delivered to them through the County
authorities of the county of his conviction.

Witness my hand at Huntsville, Texas, this the 14th
day of February, 1924. |

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RICKMAN, J. We, white, electrocuted Texas State Prison (Collin County) on 3-18+19)0

"One of the most intensive manhunts of recent years was under way early Thursday near Mc-
Kinney after Marion Taylor, a motorcycle officer of that city, was shot 6 times near the
heart and killed by a young desperado who had kidnapped a Dallas cabdriver and forced him
rat gunpoint to. drive him through McKinney on the way to Sherman, An estimated 300 citizens
and 50 officers from Dallas, McKinney and, many other points in North Texas were participa-
ting. Bloodhounds were being sent from the Oklahoma penitentiary at McAlester to track
the fugitive, who was believed surrounded by a cordon of officers in a field three miles
north of McKinney on State Highway 75. Capt. Lee Miller of the State Highway Patrol was in
charge of the hunt, : ~
"As police reconstructed the crime, the highjacker-kidnapper-murderer flagged a Nichols
Brothers taxicab driven by Henry Lee Jackson of 5103 Garland at 7:03 p.m, in front of a
house in the 5500 block of East Grand and told Jackson to drive to Greenville Aveme,
There the occupant pushed a pistol against Jackson's back and told him to drive to Sherman,
te forced Jackson-to turn onto a side road north of Dallas and remove the governor on the.
cab so it could drive faster, When the cab reached McKinney, Jackson stopped at a signal
light at the edge of the McKinney business district which the desp erado ordered.Jackson to

~ cirdle, Motorcycle Patrolman Gaylor, about 38, formerly pSlice chief of McKinney passed

the cab and Jackson signaled to him to halt the cab. Taylor wheeled and flageed the cab

to the curb,* drew his gun when he opened the door and asked the occupant who he was and
where he was going. The kidnaper opened fire, hitting Taylor six times. Taylor shot once
before he fell and Jackson told police he believed the cab's occupant was wounded, A bull
hole was«found in the rear seat later, The gunman leaped from the cab and fled toward the
Seuthern Pacific railroad tracks, which par#llel the highway about a quarter of a mile to
the east, and into a field, f | ;

"The McMinney fire alarm bell was sounded and residents poured.out to join in the hunt.

The field and the road were surrounded and the taxicab was held for examination for finger
prints. Jackson was kept by officers to identify the bandit if caught. A erwod of 150
persons gathered in front of the jail after the search was well under way. Radio broad-
casts were made over Dallas stations asking residents around McKinney to lock‘ their cars as
polite were confident they could.catch their ouarry if he were,unable to. steal an automobil
Highway Patrol Captain Miller, Dallas Detectives Jack Archer and. Vernon Smart left immedia-
tely for McKinney as did StateRanger Capt. S. 0. Hamm, two other rangers and six State
Highway Patrol cars containing 18 policemen, The identity of the killer was believed |,
known. His description tallied closely with that of a-youth wanted for burglary with fire-'
arms at Greenville Tuesday nights The murderer of Taylor was described by “ackson as being
about 23, five feet five'inches tall, dark, wearing brown trousers, vest and hat. The
Greenville fugitive stole an automomatic pistol Tuesday night and assaulted a garage
attandant, He took $6 and escaped in a stol@m car. re |

"Taylor was belikved to have been murdered with an automatic pistol, Taylor, who was on
the McKinney police force about ten years, died before reaching the hospital, His is
survived by His wife and several brothers and sisters, Ed Blakeman, McKinney police chief
said, At about 7 pem, Wednesday, Dallas police received a phone call reporting a holdup

on East Grand. The caller said he could see the robbery occurring, When officers arrived
they could find ho trace of the caller or a holdup but late Wednesday were investigating
to see if it might have been the kidnaping of Jackson.that the caller was trying to re-
port." MORNING NEWS, DALLAS, TEXAS, MARCH 3, 1938 (1-8)... = fan,

"Sherman, Texas, Mar, 3, 1938-3, C. Richkman, 20, admitted slayer of Marion Taylor, Mc-
Kinney motorcycle patrolman, was transferred Thursday night to the Hunt County Jail at
Greenville for safekeeping, a few hours after he was captrued near Durant, Oklae Sheriff
Frank Wolfe of Greenville said he poobably willbe kept there until the feeling dies down
at McKinney. Rickman, a Farmersville farm youth, was charged with mrder at McKinney and
will go ontrial, probably in April or May, H. H. Neilson, Collin County Attorney, said.
It was a swift denouement to a man hunt over two States which began soon after Taylor fell
under a burst of gunfire from a Dallas taxicab he had halted as it passed through McKinney
Wednesday night. ...elhursday afternoon Rickman was nabbed as he highbhiked along the road

to Fort Sill, Okla., where a brother livese

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"Neilson said Richman made a statement admitting tha
sta into Taylor's body when the policeman approached the t

as the man who fired the 6 bull-
axicab Rickman had commandeered

ae hours before in Dallas, Sheriff Wolfe, who led the party which captured the youth,

said feeling’ was high at Mcinney, It was indicated the suspect will be held. out of town

for a few days. Rickman also admitted robbing and beating Hubert Dodd, a filling station

attendant south of Greenville and stealing an auto at Wolfe City Tuesday night. Wednesday
he commandeered the taxi of Henry Lee Jackson in Dallas and ordered him to drive north, In
McKinney Jackson deliberately violated a traffic rule in such a manner that it aroused Tay-=
lor's curiosity and suspicion concerning the machine, The shooting followed. . Rickman, un=
armed, was caught a short distance west of Durant, He had tossed his pistol into a puddle
of water alongside the road he told the officers,
"After the shooting, RickmanYs statement said, he walked 'to the Little town of Melissa along
the Southern Pacific tailroad tracks, He hid all night in a restroom at the rear of a res-

- taurant and Thursday morning caught a nort-bound bus, Wmen the bus reached Durant he found
he had to lay over several ‘hours, He decided to-hitchhike, the statement said, and the
officers arrested him as he walked along the highway, Rickman said he had stolen the pistol
used in the slaying from the man with whom he was staying on a farm southeast of Greenville.
‘Taylor was met by a burst of gunfire as he approached Rickman's taxicab, gun in hand. Six

shots struck him, but he managed to fire a shot in return before collapsing. In a few minutes

an army of possemén was hunting him, Bloodhounds were brought, from the McAlester (Okla, )
penitnetiaky, but the fugitive slipped through the net.
"Rickman told the officers who caught him that atone .time during the search.two of his pur-
suers passed within ten feet of him, At Durant. he slipped by Oklahoma officers,Deputy Sheriff
CXR J, R, McLaughlin of Durant said officers there were on the lookout for the. suspect and
had been keeping im touch with Texas officers. He said they did not recognize the suspect
from the*description given them'by Texas officers, The Texas officers knew him by sight
however, McLaughlin said In the party which captured Rickman were Sheriff Wolfe, Deputy
Sheriff Gordon Duff, Collin County Deputy Dan RAYE Rike and Collin County Constable J. L.
Latham, Rickman is a slight youth of dark complexion and black,curly hair, He is 5 feet
6 inches tall and weighs about $125, Rewards of $750 were offered for the arrest ‘and con=

“viction of the patrolman's killer, Gov, James V, Allred offered $250 and McKinney city and

county officials posted like amounts,

"In McKinney, Mayor Tom Perkins requested all business houses to close during the funeral

on Friday (3-l) for’ Patrolman Marion Everett Taylor, 3). “Services were to be held at 3 p.m,

at the First Methodist Church, His wife survives." NEWS, Dallas, Texas, 3-l-1938 (1- 8)
Photo of Rickman and captors, page one, Photo of Officer. Tyylor, page 12,

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"J, W, Rickman, 20, charged in Collin County for mrder of; Taylor was charged her Friday

~ for robbing Henry Jackson, Dallas taxi driver of his automobile, Earlier in day he led |
officers’ to a gravel pit near Melissa, small Collin County town, and retrieved from ‘its
waters a pistol believed'to be death weapon, In Hung County Asst, Co. Atty. Eugene Brady
prepared to file five felony. charges against Rickman, two alleging highjacking arid three
charging automobile theft, Brady said Rickman may be tried there during the March term of
court beginning Friday. S. E. Foy, Negro preacher at Bonham, identified Rickmari from a
picture in the NEWS as one of two:men who robbed him aftter kidnapping him in Greenville
and taking him near Dallas in January. Rickman, he said, wanted to kill him, but his

- companion, a-larger man, prevented him, The alleged slayer seemed unmoved by the killing
and its subsequent manhunt, dispatches said, He told nfficers he hdd’a hungh slightly
beforehe was captured on a highway near Durant that he should have left the road and walked
along a railroad paralleling it, which would have shielded him from observation by motorists,"
NEWS, Dallas, 3-5-1938 (Sec, II, -P,-I, Cols 7

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his face because it was invariably masked.
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, able to get much of a look at him.

the khaki trousers, the youth of his passenger,
‘rough Jackson’s mind as his car roared away

McKinney blazed through the darkness. Jack-
ped with a forlorn hope but this hope died

pressed harder against his neck and the whis-
|, “Don’t go through McKinney. Go around it
ht for Sherman.”

staring at a red light where the highway crossed
vite, the road he was to take to go around Mc-
ared at that red light. It was a chance, but he
lis taxi swept past that red light at high speed.
rm dropped outside his taxi and he waved it

Hubert Dodd made a miracu-
lous recovery from a terrific
beating administered by the
calloused bandit in one of his
earlier ventures during the
first weeks of his trail of terror.

frantically hoping somebody would see it and come to his aid.

Somebody did. The siren of a motorcycle shrieked and a few
moments later a motorcycle officer was waving him to the side
of the road. Jackson went willingly, joyously.

“In a hurry?” the motorcycle officer asked.

“Well,” Jackson answered, still feeling that circle of steel on
his neck, “T had to get... .”

What happened next took place with such speed that Jackson
got only a blurred vision of the events. The motorcycle patrol-
man had seen the passenger in the back. Perhaps he saw the gun
and perhaps he did not. Jackson never knew.

The motorcycle officer yanked the rear door open and called
inside, “Come out and come out quick, whoever you are.”

The man in the back seat came out of the car. His body
lunged through the open door, a gun in his right hand. The
gun spat orange-red flashes. The two deafening roars split the
silence.

HE officer staggered a moment, grabbed his throat and

then went down. He rolled over, tugging at his gun. The
service revolver roared. The bullet plowed through the window
of the taxi, but found no other target. The killer in the back
seat had leaped over the prone body of the officer and dashed
away in the darkness covering the prairies that lined both
sides of the highway.

Jackson jumped out of the car and kneeled down beside the
wounded man. One quick glance and Jackson knew the officer
needed help immediately. Jackson climbed back in his taxi and
sent it roaring down the highway toward a filling station a half
a mile away at the edge of the town of McKinney.

But as his car raced away, motorcycle patrolmen came from
all directions, having heard the blasts of pistol fire. One saw
the taxi leaving and he followed.

He saw Jackson stop at the filling station and run inside.
Jackson was at the telephone calling for help when Patrolman
George Waggoner walked in the filling station office.

When Jackson and Patrolman Waggoner got back to the
spot, they saw the prone body of the motorcycle policeman on
the cement. Blood wasn’t) flowing from his wounds any-
more,

He was dead!

A car bearing the sheriff's shield came down the highway at
top speed and stopped near the small crowd standing around
the body of Marion Taylor, the young officer who had been
killed.

Sheriff E. B. Moore, of Collin county and his ace deputy,
Dan Rike, jumped out of the car and walked over to the body
of Taylor.

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robber demonstrated his maniacal

fury when he took money from

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this taxi leaving. I followed and found the driver calling an
ambulance from the filling station.

Sheriff Moore, tall with a weather-beaten face, looked at
Jackson.

The driver quickly told his story. He told about running
through the red light and motioning with his hand. He said the
passenger had the gun against his neck and he believed he was
going to be killed.

“What did your passenger look like?” Sheriff Moore asked.

“He was a small and thin-faced chap,” Jackson answered.
“He wore a sweater and khaki trousers. T don’t think he was
very old, nothing more than a kid, and | didn’t get a good look
at him.”

Sheriff Moore pulled out a flashlight and threw its circle of
light in the rear of the taxi. There was a torn piece of a news-
paper on the floor and on the door was a piece of sweater, torn
in a triangular shape.

Sheriff Moore pulled this piece of cloth from the door. Then
he picked the torn bit of paper up and loc sked at it. It was a frag-
ment from a Greenville newspaper. The patch of cloth un-
doubtedly came from the gunman’s sweater but there was no
way of knowing whether he or another passenger had dropped

the newspaper clipping.

7 news of the murder of the motorcycle patrolman spread
over that part of Texas like wildfire. Inspector Will Fritz at
Dallas headquarters got the news over the phone and three
minutes later he and his detectives were in a car, racing for
McKinney. The brutal murder caused virtually every police
officer in the county to rush to the town and offer his services.

When the news was received at the Texas Rangers head-
quarters in Dallas, orders went out to every available Ranger
in that part of Texas to report to McKinney to assist in the
investigation.

The indignation was not confined to the police. When morn-
ing came more than 300 men had gathered to offer their services
as a posse. Capt. Lee Miller of the department of public safety
took charge of them. He organized them into patrols of 24
men each and sent the squads in all directions to search the
prairies.

By 8 o'clock W. I. Stokes: had arrived from McAlester, Okla.,
with his famous bloodhounds. Stokes and his bloodhounds are
credited with having tracked down more than 300 criminals.

Stokes took his bloodhounds to the scene of the shooting and
then to the taxi, which was being held in McKinney. He took
them back to the highway where Marion Taylor had been killed.

The dogs picked up the trail of the killer and sta:‘ed running
westward across the prairies, baying deeply.

They followed the trail for a half mile and then came to the
railroad track. Here the scent was lost.

While the bloodhounds barked impatiently and ied to pick
up the trail, and while the many patrols from th: large posse
were searching the prairies for the killer, Sherifi Moore and
his deputy, Dan Rike, entered a restaurant on ‘‘ast Grand
street in Dallas.

They sat down and ordered coffee. “Here is whore we start,
Dan,” Sheriff Moore said. “I don’t believe the blow {hounds and
posses are going to find this killer. I think he a hundred
miles from McKinney by this time.

“This restaurant is very close to where Jacks . picked up
his fare. There is a chance, a very good chance, tit this killer
had to have some reason to be in this neighbor! od and that
reason was to eat or loaf in this place.”

A waitress came to their table. “We want coice,” Sheriff
Moore said, “and we'd like to have some infor: cation. Were
you working hére last night around seven ?”

“Sure, T was here last night,” the waitress said. “What's the
gag ‘ad

“T am sheriff of Collin county,” Moore answe! ed, “and this
gentleman is Dan Rike, a deputy. We are lookin for a killer
and we have reason to believe that he was aroun! here some-
where last night.”

The attitude of the waitress changed. She went ‘or the coffee,
returning with the two cups quickly.

“Now,” Sheriff Moore said, “do you remember « young man,
maybe around nineteen, wearing a sweater and a pair of khaki
trousers, eating here last night ev

“Sweater and khaki trousers >” the waitress questioned. She
thought for a moment. “Sure, I remember a chap dressed like

Deputy Sheriff Dan Rike, left,

and Sheriff E. B. Moore of

Collin county, ‘\‘exas, took up

the trail of the bandit after his

second murder and followed

slender clues until they trapped
the elusive killer.

Cab driver Heury Jackson is
seen here pointig out the bullet
hole in the widow which was
struck during the’ bitter pistol
battle which climaxed a fatal
ride. Sergt. Jim Lyons of the
state highway patrol is at right.

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Taylor,
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back of his neck. For more than 20 minutes he had
felt the chill muzzle of a revolver against his flesh, and
in those 20 minutes the first feeling of numb fear had left.
Terror still gripped him, the terror of a man who knows he
is facing death, but his mind was working now, coldly and
deliberately. His taxi roared over the highway, 30 miles from
Dallas and approaching McKinney, Tex.
It had all. happened so suddenly and so unexpectedly, that
Jackson still half believed that he was in some strange night-

H ENRY JACKSON felt the hard circle of death on the

‘mare and nothing was real about it. At 7 o’clock, he had been

cruising in his taxi along East Grand street in Dallas.

Business had been poor all day and the night did not give
much better promise. Then a man stepped out of the darkness
and hailed him. He brought his taxi to a quick stop, thankful
that he would have at least one fare.

He did not get much of a look at the man. He noticed that .

the passenger was small and wore a sweater and khaki trousers,

By PHILIP R. RAND

but the man’s clothing did not interest Jackson. He wanted a
fare and he had one.

The man jumped in the taxi and said in a soft-whispered
voice, “Take me to Greenville avenue.”

Jackson drove down East Grand until he came to Greenville
avenue and then he said, ““Here we are.
want ?”

The passenger’s answer came in the same soft-whispered
voice. “Keep going, Buddy. Step on the gas and give us some
speed.”

And then Jackson felt the cold circle of steel press against
his neck!

“The first funny move, Buddy, and you'll get lead in that
thick head of yours,” the man added.

Jackson didn’t make any funny moves. He drove his taxi
out of Dallas and down the highway. One feeble hope surged
in his breast. If'a motorcycle officer saw his taxi that far from
the city, he might stop it.

But no motorcycle officer came into sight and it was not long
until Jackson was outside of the Dallas city limits, speeding
along the concrete.

T WAS the evening of Feb. 5, 1938, and it was Saturday night.

Saturday night! Jackson smiled grimly to himself at that
thought. For six weeks Dallas and the country for a wide area
around the city had been terrified by a strange bandit who
struck only on Saturday night. :

The bandit had started first with the mere theft of a car, but
three weeks later this twisted thug struck with diabolical fury.
Hubert Dodd, filling station operator at Lone Oak, was robbed
and then slugged and left for dead. With seven ribs broken and
a fractured skull, Dodd defied death and made a miraculous
recovery.

Thé following Saturday night it was William Rawlins, a
colored minister, who was driving outside Dallas. The masked
bandit leaped into his car, fired pointblank at Rawlins and then
dumped him out of the car for dead. But Rawlins, like Dodd,
escaped death. A bullet ripped across the minister’s scalp.

One week later the lone terror struck again and this time
left death behind him. He held up a filling station at Preston,
brutally slugged Dan Crason, the operator, and then while
Crason was on the ground unconscious, shot him five times
in the head and body. Crason died from his wounds.

For four weeks every arm of the law in and around Dallas
and the surrounding counties had searched for this strange
and vicious bandit. Public indignation rose to a fever heat
after the shooting of Crason and posses of ranchers, armed
with six shooters and rifles scoured the country-side.
Bloodhounds were brought in. They followed trails for

Surly and defiant, the youthful bandit is seen here at the
end of his terror trail, sitting stolidly in a cell awaiting trial.

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The little man didn't bat a muscle.
“You've got the wrong man, sheriff,”
he said smoothly. “Why, I’m not even
armed.” A self-assured smile began
to play over his face.

Wolfe frisked him. He was indeed
unarmed. The prisoner was leering.
For a moment, but only for a mo-
ment, there flittered through Wolfe’s
mind a doubt. If this were a police-
man’s murderer, the electric chair
staring him in the face, why wasn’t
he armed, ready to fight it out
against any odds? In a flash, the
answer came to him.

Rickman had disposed of the gun
because it would put the finger on
him immediately, if he were ques-
tioned. As it was, he appeared to any
officers—excepting those who knew
him—a harmless hitch-hiker.

Nonetheless, Wolfe realized that
he, himself, was somewhat on the
spot. Rickman now stood on Okla-
homa soil. He could not be carried
back across the line unless he waived
extradition proceedings. It was his
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was up and that all that he could
gain by contesting immediate re-
moval to Texas was a long series of
hardships. Still, he realized his man
was a shrewd character, one not
easily bluffed.

“You've played your last hand,
Rickman, and you’re finished,” he be-
gan. “You're beaten all around the
board. A taxi-cab driver named Jack-
son couldn't forget you if he tried.
And there’s a man named Hubert
Dodd, too.”

Rickman kept his counsel, looking
far off into space.

“You can contest extradition and
that will keep you here a few days.
But in the end you'll go back to
McKinney. The people in McKinney

“I'll waive extradition,” he said
quietly. “But don’t let them take me
back to McKinney.”

Sheriff Wolfe pledged his word
that he would be lodged in the im-
pregnable Greenville jail, a new
structure which could resist any
mob. Then the journey back was
begun.

T DURANT, just.as he had prom-

ised, Rickman waived extradition.
Immediately Wolfe called McKinney
officers on the telephone and com-
municated the news. Sheriff Moore
came to the phone. Wolfe could: hear
the remarks from the peace officers
waiting in Moore's office.

“We've got him,” Wolfe said
simply, “but I'm taking the prisoner
to Greenville. Feeling is running too
high in McKinney, and I'll see that
any prisoner of mine gets a fair
trial.” Moore agreed that Greenville
was the logical place for Rickman.

Even as the quartet of officers
headed home, the news was flashed
across the state. All over the country-
side possemen returned to their
homes, satisfied that the murderer
was beyond further violence.

Lodged in a cell at Greenville, on
the top tier, bristling with guards,
the diminutive desperado paced up

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and down like a trapped puma. Gone
was the arrogance and smugness of
the man who had commandeered a
taxi and headed across the plains.
Absent was the calm recklessness
which he showed when he swooped
down on Greenville, those memorable
Saturday nights at eight, like a fig-
ure out of detective fiction. He was
a trapped animal. And he looked it.

Swiftly, justice had caught up
with him, and the victims of his
outrages confronted him and pointed
an accusing finger. They were numer-
ous. Not only was there Dodd, whom
the fates had spared, and Jackson,
the cabhie, but another station oper-
ator whom he had robbed at the
point of a murderous-looking auto-
matic one Saturday night.

But the most picturesque of the
accusers was a Negro preacher who
told how Rickman and a companion:
had robbed him. Vividly he related
how this same Rickman planned to
kill him and toss him out on the
road, appropriating his car. But the
other hijacker had demurred, and so
his life had been spared.

All these accusations the trapped
killer met defiantly.

Meanwhile, Wolfe concentrated on
finding the murder gun. Back-track-
ing at Melissa, he discovered that
officers had actually rounded Rick-
man up in that town a few hours
before his trail had been picked up
at the cafe. They had been deceived
by the apparent mildness of the man
who seemed more like a farm youth.
Besides, as they discovered by frisk-
ing him, he was entirely unarmed.
Refusing to believe that a killer
would be calmly moving about with-
out a gun, they had let him go.

But Wolfe did recover the murder
gun. Rickman had cleverly tossed it
into a little brook, as soon as he had
escaped across the field. He had emp-
tied the gun at valiant Marion Tay-.
lor. Now it was useless, so he had
disposed of it.

On May 5th, J. W. Rickman stood
trial at McKinney, heavily guarded
against violence on the part of the
townspeople. The evidence, massive
in its scope, rolled over the defend-
ant like a juggernaut. On all sides
his guilt was manifest. The best his
counsel could do was to try desper-
ately to weaken the State’s case by
arguing that Officer Taylor held no

_ warrant for the arrest of the little

killer when he threw open the cab
door. ;

The jury evidently paid little heed
to the rebuttal. When the evidence
was completed, the twelve men re-
tired. They returned in record time
with a verdict of guilty, designating

‘the electric chair at Huntsville as

the agency of Rickman’s deserved
doom. Dazed, the erstwhile Saturday
Night Kid was led protesting to his
cell.

And thus came to a close the most
widespread manhunt on record in all
recent Texas police history, a tribute
to the power of an outraged citizenry
to maintain the inviolability of its
police officers.

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dow. In a trice, he bounded into the
office. Losing no time, he placed on
the desk two photographs of a young
man with curly hair and a cruel
mouth. He had dark, piercing eyes.

Anxiously Moore stepped to the
door and summoned Jackson, who
had returned from Dallas.

“Is this your passenger of last
night ?” he inquired.

Jackson looked fixedly at the pho-
tograph.

“Tt’s him, all right. _

“Then the man you want,” Wolfe
volunteered, “is J. W. Rickman.
These are his photographs. He’s on
the lam, as it happens. At last report
he was working for a farmer in Lone
Oak.”

Now Moore was prepared to strike
decisively. He turned to Wolfe.

“Frank,” he delivered with convic-
tion, “I’ve got a feeling that the dogs
are right. Stokes is positive that the
killer went north. I say it’s worth
the try. The first town north in a
straight line is Melissa. Pick your
men and pay a visit to Melissa. It
may well be that Rickman has sifted
through the lines.”

“Right, Sheriff.” And that was all.
Turning to Deputy Dan Rike, Wolfe
asked him if he would join the party.
Deputy Duff, of course, was included.
For the fourth posseman, he named
Constable W. Latham of Farmers-
ville, an officer who knew Rickman
well. They all set out for Melissa,
Wolfe, himself, at the wheel.

Arrived at Melissa, he held a war
council.

“We're going to track down this
wild animal, and we’re going to do it
today. If Rickman paid this town a
visit, he would have called at one of
two places. One of these is a cafe;
the other is the bus station.

Then, after assigning Rike and
Latham to the bus station, Wolfe
and Duff began to investigate the
cafes. The first two visits brought no
results. On the third, a bright-eyed
waitress had interesting news.

She reported that a wiry young
man had stopped at the cafe and had
eaten breakfast there. He was a total
stranger, she went on, and appeared
nervous. He asked for the Dallas
paper and read the headlines. Then
he had strolled out, leaving half his
breakfast uneaten.

Encouraged, Wolfe drove post-
haste to the bus station. Here was
additional information. A man fitting
the description of Rickman had
sauntered into the station about nine
that morning and had asked to buy
a ticket for Fort Sill, Oklahoma.

“Fort Sill!’ Wolfe exclaimed.
“Why, that’s where Rickman has a
couple of brothers stationed at the
Army post.” Pressing the agent for
further details, he learned that since
the local office was merely a branch,
the stranger was unable to buy a
ticket as far as Fort Sill. The agency
had sold him passage to Sherman.
And the bus, with the man aboard,
had left two hours before.

Undismayed, the four officers piled
into the automobile and raced for
Sherman. A two-hour start would be

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hard to surmount. What if there
were no trace of the fugitive at
Sherman? Not too far away loomed
the Oklahoma border.

It was high noon when they
reached that city. Wolfe drove di-
rectly to the bus terminal. Approach-
ing the ticket window, Wolfe revealed
his identity, then described his
quarry.

“I remember him all right,” the
clerk remarked. “He wanted a ticket
to Fort Sill.”

Wolfe registered open disappoint-
ment.

“But I didn’t give him one,” the
clerk went on. “He didn’t have
enough money. ‘So I sold him a ticket
to Ardmore, Oklahoma, via Durant.”

Hardly stopping to thank the
clerk for his valuable information,
the sheriff rejoined his men and re-
lated what the clerk had told him.

“This is just a hunch, men,” he
said. “But let’s.give our quarry
credit for having some intelligence.
He’s going to Fort Sill. He’s going
to have to hitch-hike from Ardmore.
So what’s to prevent him leaving the

bus at Durant and taking to the .

road? After all, he’s bound to under-
stand that eventually we'll find his
bus trail.” “y

As one man, they agreed. In a few
seconds, the car was headed for Dur-
ant, with four grim possemen watch-
ing the speedometer waver around
eighty-eight, the maximum speed of

the motor. Down the road they. sped,:

racing against time; Soon’ the sun
would be setting and their quest
would become more difficult.

HEY passed through Durant. Once

more they were out on the high-
way, bound for Ardmore. The sun
was fast sinking ‘below the horizon.

“There’s a curve ahead,’’ Constable
Latham spoke up, as twilight began
to slip over the landscape.

“And a hitch-hiker, too,’ Rike
added. Deputy Rike was far-sighted.

Wolfe slowed down to forty-five,
missing the hitch-hiker at the curve
with a margin of safety, he admitted
to himself, that would have landed
any other motorist in jail.

It was Latham who exploded the
bombshell,

“Stop, sheriff! That’s Rickman. He
turned his face just as we passed
him.” Immediately all four became
tense. Then Wolfe said quietly:

“We'll make this bend in the road, .

then backtrack over our course.”

It was an electric moment as
Wolfe wheeled around and headed
back. Was it really Rickman? If so,
would he fight it out?

There was no time to think of that
now as he applied:'the brakes.

Wolfe was the first to bound out.

“Get them up!’’ he said. His .45
covered the man’s ‘heart.

The hitch-hiker seemed completely
stunned. Mechanically his hands went
up.

Latham and Rike, followed by
Duff, piled out.

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while they bolted uncertainly in sev-
eral directions. Then, as one, they
picked up the scent. With mournful
howls they set out across the plowed
earth.

Baying as they whetted up their
interest in the chase, they fairly flew
over the field. At the railroad tracks
they hesitated, strained at the leash
and then veerd north. For almost two
miles they followed a straight line
between the rails, only to come to a
halt several miles out of Melissa, at
a junction of the tracks,

“A train has crossed the roadbed
here, and the dogs have lost the
scent,” Stokes said apologetically.
The news was disheartening. Stokes
promised to try again at daybreak.

Baffled once more, Sheriff Moore
returned to his office. When he ar-
rived there, he found Sheriff Frank
Wolfe, of Greenville, and one of the
latter’s deputies, Gordon Duff, wait-
ing for him.

“I’m here to help, if I can,” Wolfe
said with feeling. “I knew Marion
well. I never knew a finer man. Gor-
don, here, and I were out on business
of our own when we got the message
on our short-wave set.”

“Mighty white of you two to come
at this hour, Frank,” Moore re-
turned, “What’s bothering you over
in Hunt County ?” -

“We've been having a one-man
crime-wave, | it. appears,” Wolfe re-
plied. “First*ftWas' cars, then filling
stations, and last night a station”
operator named Hubert Dodd was
almost finished by a man who slugged
him with a pistol.”

“You've got troubles of your own,
all right, Frank,” Moore returned.
“Are you sure you can spare the
time?”

“It can wait. We're here to help
out, if you can use us,”

Grateful for the offer, the Collin
County official assigned Wolfe and
Duff to patrol a sector in the region
where already some three hundred
and fifty peace officers had thrown
up a mobile barrier on a fifty-mile
radius.

As THE clock ticked relentlessly in
his deserted office, Moore pon-
dered the case. The situation was
anything but hopeful. A killer was
loose, protected by the dark prairie
night. By morning he would be miles
away, perhaps. But who was he?
Dallas detectives had taken Jackson,
the driver of the cab, to the Head-
quarters rogues’ gallery hoping that
he might identify the desperado from
the countless photographs on file.
Would Jackson be able to spot the
fare who had looked so promising
back on East Grand Street ?

With montonous regularity the
telephone rang. Patrols were report-
ing. But always it was the same.
“Nothing yet... nothing yet.”

At three in the morning the phone
rang again. Detective Will Fritz,

. famous official of the Dallas police,

was on the wire.
“Sorry, Sheriff,” Fritz reported,
“but your man isn’t in our files,

Jackson swears .to that.’ Moore
thanked him and hung up.

Daybreak came. Still the patrols
kept reporting, “Nothing yet...
nothing yet.” Moore picked up the
morning paper. The account of the
murder of Marion Taylor was em-
blazoned in huge type across the
_ front page. Soon an embattled citi-
zenry would be demanding concrete
action,

At nine, a telegram arrived from
the office of the Governor of Texas.
In no_uncertain terms Governor
James V. Allred expressed his horror
and indignation at the reports he had
read in the Austin newspapers. On
the spot he posted a reward of $250
for the capture of the killer.

Hard on the heels of the Gov-
ernor’s offer, the Department of Pub-
lic Safety announced that it, likewise,
was making available a reward of
the same amount. ;

As the citizens of McKinney and
Collin County generally received the
news, events moved in swift succes-
sion. Meeting hurriedly, the County
Commissioners détlared that the
murderer must be taught and posted
a $250 reward. The City Council of
McKinney boosted'the reward fund
another $250. Other cities and state
groups wired in promises of full co-

operation, accompanied in an in-

stance or two bya further reward
offer, ae
But despite all this, luck rode with

: the:killer..There was no sign of him.

At ten in the morning,.the. hounds
were given the scent once more. Eag-
erly they pursued the trail down the
railroad tracks, winding up where
they had met defeat the night before.

“The scent is too confused for the
dogs,” Stokes announced, “The place
has been trampled over by possemen.
I’m afraid I can’t.be of any help
now.” 5

Mournfully the «; dogs
straining at their leash.

“They're trying to:show that your
man went north,’ Stokes said.

“T'll have to take your word for
it,” Moore returned, “I only wish I
knew whereabouts ‘north’ the dog:
have in mind.” r

Back at his office, Moore sat at his
desk trying desperately to plot his
next move. He was stymied. Hours
were slipping by. And the slayer’s
chances were improving with every
minute. If only the killer were iden-
tified, his name known. Then he
would be picked up no matter where
he fled.

Who was the diminutive assassin
who had shot Marion Taylor down
like a dog? Obviously he hadn’t come
from the Dallas area. Inspector Fritz
makes it a point to “mug” every
hoodlum, long before he graduates
into the so-called “big-time.” This
killer knew Collin County well.
Jackson had made that clear.

There was a knock on the doo::
It was Wolfe and Duff, checking in.
Moore could read their disappoint-
ment in their faces. No words were
needed.

“Sit down, boys,” he invited.

howled,

When they were seated, he turned.

to Wolfe.

“It looks bad,” he admitted. “The
Dallas police don’t. have any photo-
graphs that looks anything like him.”

Wolfe rolled a cigarette, lit it and
then said quietly:

“You reckon it could be some one
who lives right here in Collin County
or maybe Hunt County—some coun.
try boy? In that case the Dallas po-
lice wouldn’t be apt to have any
pictures of him—yet.” .

For a second Moore reflected.
Then he spoke, eyes fixed intently on
Wolfe. “This is just a shot in the
dark, Frank, but supposing you tell
me more about that one-man crime
wave you mentioned.”

“There’s little I can tell you,”
Wolfe responded. “Every Saturday
night at eight, some hijacker has
been swooping down on Greenville.
First he started raiding automobiles
and trucks, leaving them abandoned
out on the country roads, Next he
went in for hold-ups. And finally, he
seems to have attempted homicide.
At least, it isn’t his fault that he
didn’t kill the man.”

“How come?” Moore demanded.

“He had just pulled up in front of
Hubert Dodd’s filling station, right
after dark. He was standing behind
his car, getting ready to slip a mask
over his face, when Dodd came upon
him unexpectedly, Whoever it was,
felt that Dodd had recognized him.
He marched poor Hubert into his
little combination store and filling
station at the point of a gun. Then
he proceeded to slug him without,
mercy and robbed the till.”

“Is that all?’ Moore wanted to
know, as Wolfe paused.

“All except this. Just before he
started out the door, he leaned down
and called into the ear of the pros-
trate man, ‘Hubert, Hubert! Do you
hear me?’ Luckily for Dodd he was
too wise to answer.”

Now Moore turned and looked
Wolfe straight in the eye.

“Frank, we’re looking for the same
man, and I'll tell you why. First,
the police files haven’t his picture.
Secondly, he knows this neck of the
woods. But above all, in both the
incident of the Dodd slugging and
the murder of Taylor the perpetrator
shows a passion for Savage cruelty
and a supreme indifference for hu-
man life.”

“T'll tell you how we can find out.
In my desk at the office I’ve got a
couple of snapshots of the man I
suspect. If you think it’s worth the
trip, I can send Duff after them. The
cab-driver ought to be able to settle
the question for us.”

Quickly it was agreed that Duff
should go back for the pictures
which Wolfe explained he had ob-
tained from the former sweetheart
of the suspect-—-a girl whom the
erstwhile lover now spurned.

AY HOUR passed. Then another
half hour. At last Duff was pull-
ing up in front of the building. The
two men watched him from the win.

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house here Thursday night awaiting execution shortly after mindnight following con-
viction on a charge of attacking a whitewoman at the +siand. City. Visibly fearful,
the negro refused to eat lunch or dinner Thursday night, electing to spend his time
in prayer. The engro expressed disappointment that he was to die on his birthday.
He had hoped for executive clemency or a reprieve. Riles pppfessed religion two
weeks ago and was baptized by a prison chaplin. He, like most condmmned men, sought
solace in his Bible during his last hours. The death watch was begun shortly after
darkness and two hours before he was scheduled to go to the electric chair his head
was shaved and he was 'dressed in,' He spent the day reading Scriptures but occa-
sionally conversed with other death house inmates. A minister spent the afternoon
with him, ‘Friday is my birthday and I had hoped the governor would not forget me,'
he said in his simple fashion, He shook his head slowly as he gazed down the end of
the short corridor to the door leading to the death house, Then he began reading his
bible again. Warder W, W. Waid of the Huntsville prison, said the negro was holding
up better than he had expected, ‘Aside from his refusal to eat dinner or lunch, he
acts more or less like all other condemned men,' the warden said. A commutation
petition was forwarded the pardon board and Governor Sterling by his attorneys,
The prosecuting attorney went to Austin to appear before the board in behalf of the
condemed negro, The pardon board refused to intervene and Governor Sterling said
he would not interfere in viewof the fact that the pardon board had refused to act,"
POST, Houston, Texas, 7#2)j-1931 (1-3).

"July 2h, 193l-Joshua Riles, 31, negro, of Galveston, died in the electric chair here
this morning 2 minutes after the clock tolled the hour of midnight. Riles calmly
awaited witnesses to the death chamber as they filed in from the prison court. Facing
an audience of a small group of men, he surveyed them closely, 'Have you anything

to say,' the warden asked. ‘Nothing, I have said all that I have to say,' he re=
plied, Turning he seated himself in the death chair and gazed across the small room
for a moment, He then closed his eyes, He was strapped into the chair and the guards
began to adjust the leather thongs about his arms and legs. They completed their du-
ties quickly and stepped back from the chair, Themotor droned out its message of
death, Riles stiffened in the chair as the current surged through his body, Three
applications of the current were turned on before the prison physician pronounced

him dead at 12:10 AM. Shortly before the death march was to begin, newspapermen
entered the death cell for their last interview with the doomed negro, They found
him seated on his bunk, his back propped against the wall, and talking to a guard.

His spiritual advisor was a few steps away, conversing with another prisoner, ‘Joshua,
these newspapermen want to talk to you, 'Warden W, W. Waid said. ‘Is there anything
you want to tell them?! 'Yes, sir,' the negro beamed at the little group, 'I want

to tell them that I am guilty,' he said slowly, 'You mean you areguilty of attacking
that girl?* 'Oh, no, sir,' his eyes opened wide, 'I Mean 1 am guilty of snatching
that woman's purse last year,' The negro carried on a conversation with Galveston
newspaper men and told them of several Galveston people whom he wished to bid goodbye.
He thanked County Attorney Ralph Crawford and Attorneys Owen D, Barker and Henry
Greenberg, all of Galveston, for their efforts to save him from the chair, ‘Are you
ready to go?! thenewsmen asked, ‘Yes, sir,' he said, quickly, 'I'm ready to except

I hate to die on my birthday, I don't mind hitting thatold electric chair because I
am alright with God even if I'm not alright with man,’ Riles told reporters that he
had written 252 letters since he had been in death row, including several to the
governor, He said he wrote his wife a letter Thursday night bidding her goodbye. He
also expressed his appreciation of the efforts that his wifehas made in his behalf simce
his conviction and sentence, Riles was sentenced to death last October on conviction
of criminally assaulting a 20-year-old white girl in Galveston . The alleged attack
occurred in March of the same year but he was not arrested until 5 months later. At
the timehe was indicted for attacking the girl he was also indicted for robbery by
assault,. Thecomplaint charged that he snatched a purse from another white woman a few

days after the alleged attack. It was this charge, for which he was saatenced to 10

ROCHA, Juan

“Rocha, a 60-year-old Mexican :
He was a close friend of Ene lived in San Antonio, Bexar Co., Texas,

mistreated her, They had bee

in the evening until sev
i en the next morning, h
day and around 5 o'clock that afternoon ti € slept during the

Supper, When a messenger came
oe gePentitte, sue Mi
vr cs aah Around midnight
pee ome on San Marcos Street
© railraad track,
Grimsinger poured coa

dy from -
for about one block-to a meee ee

He then returned t
; © the house and h
oil over the bloody clothing and nhs Ske

it. Rocha returned to his boarding house and Mrs, Grimsinger went
to the home of some neighbors where she reported that her house had

caught fire from the explosion of a coal oil lamp. The fire depart®

ment was summoned and managed to extinguish the fire before too much
damage had been done, Grimsinger's body was found about the same
time and when it developed that a trail of blood led from his house
to the spot where his body had been found, both Rocha and Mrs, Grim-
singer were taken into custody. Rocha made a complete confession
and, as a severance was granted for their trials, he was tried first,
convicted and sentenced to hang. At her subsequent trial, Mrs, Grimp
singer was also convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment. Both
convictions were affirmed by the Texas Court of Appeals. The Gover-
nor refused to grant clemency and on August 2, 1901, Rocha was hang ed
from a gallows in the rear part of the Bexar County Jail at San An-
tonio, He walked to his death with a firm step and bowed head,
making no last, statement. His neck was broken by the fall and he

was interred in the San Fernando Cemetery.

63 SOUTHWESTERN 1018; 69 SOUTHWESTERN 583 (Mrs, SXiHXMMY Grimsing er. )
SAN ANTONIO LIGHT, August 2, 1901 (Woodcut likeness, page one) and
August 3, 1901.

ROBISON, John, black, hanged at Dallas, TX, on January 10, 1913.
Affirmed: 150 Southwestern 912.

Black, hanged at Dallas, Texas, on January 10, 1913, for the murder of Otto Kahikoff
in May, 1911. (Full content of 3x5 card). |

“Dallas, Texas, January 10-Convicted of the murder of Otto Kahikoff, an aged
white man, more than 18 months ago, John Robison, a negro, was hanged shortly after
noon today in the Dallas County Jail. To the last he denied his guilt, For days before the
day of execution he had been at times morbid and at other times raving and fighting the
jail officers. This morning the ministrations of a Catholic priest, Father Swweeney, seemd
to soothe him and the condemned negro begged the pardon of Sheriff Brandenburg, whom
he attacked and injured with a milk bottle yesterday, and was so contrite that the sheriff
with reluctant hand sprung the trap that dropped the negro to death.

“The death warrant was read to the man about 10 o’clock. He was clad in a new
suit of clothing and new shoes. He was given a juicy steak and a full meal, which he seemed
to enjoy for the first time in many days. He was still smoking a cigar that had been given
him when summoned to his death. He walked almost unassisted to the scaffold and
declared his forgiveness of all.

“The crime for which John Robison was hanged was the attack on Otto Kahikoff
and his with in southeast Dallas in May, 1911. Coupling pins from the Santa Fe Railway
nearby were used. The man died a few days later. The woman recovered. The negroes
had whitened their faces, and at first the woman insisted that white men had attacked
them. Robinson and Will Flowers, both negroes, were arrested a little after the attack.
Flowers is serving a life sentence.”

News, Galveston, Texas, January 11, 1913, page 4, column 3.

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ROCHA, Juan, Hispanic, hanged San Antonio, Bexar Co., August 2, 1901.
“JUAN ROCHA WAS HANGED;
“Murderer Of John Grimsinger Paid the Penalty;

“Made a confession in which he said Mrs.Grimsinger was responsible for the crime.

“San Antonio, Texas, August 2.-Juan Rocha, the Mexican peon who murdered his friend
and benefactor, John Grimsinger, a well-known man of this city, January 16 of the present year,
expiated his crime on the gallows in the county jail yard today. In ascending the steps unassisted
and with head erect. About 100 people who had secured tickets of admission witnessed the
execution and all of them expected that Rocha would break down, but in this they were mis-
taken. He was attended by a Catholic priest, who joined with the doomed man in prayer. When
they kneeled on the scaffold, Rocha took a white handkercheif from his pocket and placed it
where he could kneel on it, and when the prayer was over, he carefully folded the handkercheif
and returned it to his pocket. When everything was ready he took his stand on the drop, the
rope was adjusted, and a black gown dropped over him. The drop fell at 11:30 and in twenty
minutes life was pronounced extinct. The drop broke Rocha’s neck. He made a full confession in
his cell, saying that he killed Grimsinger because Mrs. Grimsinger, now under a life sentence,
asked him to do so.”-Houston Post, Houston, TX, 8/3./1901.

ROCHA, Juan, Mexican, hanged San A ntonio, Texas, Aug. 2, 1901...

“SUAN ROCHA WAS HANGED

_ MURDERER OF JUHN GRIMSINGER
- “PAID THE PENALTY.

“4

Made a Confession in Which He Said
> ‘Mrs. Grimsinger Was Responsible
; iy ‘for the Crime.
{0 | Mis aS
Ban Antonip, Texas, Angust 2.—Juan
Recha, the Mexican peon who murdered bis
friend and benefactor, John Gei{mstnger, a}
‘ well-known young man of this tity, Janu
ary 16 of the present year, explated his
crinfe on the gallows in the ccunty jall
today. In ascending the stepa lealing to
_ tbe drop he walked unassisted and with
head erect. About 100 people who had
eccured, tickets of admission witnessed
, the execution, and afl of thein expected
, thdt Rocha would break down; but tu this

. they were mistaken. He was attended
“by a Catholle priest, who jolned with the |.
.;deomed mando prayer. When they kneeled
‘:on the scaffold Rocha took a white hand-
vkerchilef- from- bls pocket and placed [t
_ where he could knesi on It, aud when the
rayer was over he cnrefully folded the
. Dandkerchief and returned tt. to Dia pocket.
. When everything was: reads he fook bl
- stand on the drop, the rope was ufjuste
: and a black gown dropped over him. The
“ drop fell at 11:30 anu in twenty minutes
Ulfe was pronounced extinct. © ‘The drop
- wroke. Kocha's veck, He inade a full con-
fextion in his cell, saying that he killed
Grbasinger becoure Mrre. Griuainger, now
wider Hfe- sentence, ask him to do 60.

OE ARTE ROT SEG ee eto ees Lg

pate ee SENTENCE

| | The State of Texas In the District Court of
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ce No, 9869 -ve- Rei River County, Texas.

c""" Charles Reynolds. January lat, A. 2. 1924.

This day this causé being again called, the. State appeared
by. her District Attorney, and the Refeniant, Charles peynoide we 3
~ prought irito Open Court’ in person, in charge of the Sheriff for the

“purpose of having the sentence of the law ‘pronount¢ed in accordance

with the verdict and judgment herein rendered and entered against him
oA, - on a formér day of this term, his counsel also being present.
ee | And thereupon the Defendant, Charles Reynolds was asked by the
Court whether he had anything Ito say’ why sald sentence should not be
pronounced against him, and he answered nothing in bar thereof,whereupon
the Court proceeded, in the presence of the said Defendant, Charles

Reynolds, to pronounce sentence against him as follows:-

It is the order of the Court that the Defenijant, Charles
Reynolds, who has been adjudged to be guilty of murder, and whose
punishment has been assessed by the veriict of the jury at .leath, shall
be conveyed by the Sheriff of this County to the State Penitentiary at
Huntaville, Texas, ani that on FriJay, the 8th day of February A. %. 1924,
‘the said Charles Reynolds be put to death by the Warden of the State
Penitentiary of nin State, by causing to pass through the body of the
said Charles Reynolds a current of electricity of sufficient intensity
to cause death, and the application ani continuance of such current.

through the body of said Charles Reynolds, until the said Charles Reynolds

is dead, and that the Clerk of this Court issue a Death Warrant in
accordance with this sentence, directed to the Warden of the State
i. Pénitentiary at Huntsville, Texaa, comsanding him to proceed at the
time and place named in this sentence, to carry the same into execution,
_ and edid,Warrant, together with the said Defenjant, Charles Reynolils,
stall he délivered by the Sheriff of thie County tn ont a Nandan a0 in
provided by law.
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‘And the pefendant, Charles Reynolds, is remanded to Jail to

aWait the execution of this sontence,

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Court of Ret River County, Texas, jo bereby certify that the above

.an? forsgeing is @ trpe en* correct: Sorry nf the Sentence in-cauce *"

No, S269, stylet The State of Texus -vs- Charlés Reynolis, as the
sane appears of record in Vol. _. at Page L544 of the
Criminaz jfinutes of the Vistriot Court of Red River County, Texas,

In testimony whereof, I have hereuntc set my hand.and official
seul at office in the City of Clarksville, Texas, this the Ao aay

of January A. fh, 1924,
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7 “ oy ‘Vl Marion Vaylor, bray rmeraville, Sherit¢ Frank ‘ ers” and Private Citizens who
Sf SOLU A iene Motorcars Peesty Cordon "Dut A tee nomen MH
@ taal game for, *anther- i ae i of Greenvil'e, *€ search for the
5 with the Ce er plow. vy as
At the finiah the first R.C, Heathington, Manager

handa of | nus his gun and rald to be ire: lotal © dea
anda o "broke,’ Rickman wag icked up {

‘d. Princeton had thelr ops Makes Announcement in/® Sunman just North af y 4

nts, 18-to-14, However,

McKin- =
Today's Issue ; Dey Wednesday night, id ba eile
lake tightened UP clefenatve. Ce nay

Officers, Added impe-
Oat who falled to : imc him. He/tus was Riven the ®earch by an-
sige and readily é ted % caught a- bus i ’ afterward -for nouncement of a reward of $750,
oo Ministers in . | Tide. they. offered him. He had Dehtagn, getting - off there and .
1 the secand period as the] In the: columns of the Dally Jices are: Rey ee bee Se oS

ended, 2ato7. but in the Courier-Garettg and i =

‘wo querters Princeton won motrat-Gazette will te

'iStarting ‘out “hiltch-hiking, , since
ame “going away.”
standing for Princeton wan

Ue V. Allred cach Posting $250 of
"Pe * SHe Wad. an the highway when /the rewara eae
ry Re HOR ot tha ray gt) Cea day ays REE 4: O'clock “Thur tenet nee the officers" tte| A dencript money: Aa a

w Te omPany . here, [Church Rev, Ear) 7 ebyterian day af ¢ the, quartet “bt; of::{ tora Tey cyith them and gave {Miller by A aaNet Uackson, Dal |
; c : i 1 Rogers, : :
Mitchel Es the forward oe whlch Re O. He thington ts /miintates 7% ra’ FU Goapel [tcers, ‘near Da ae ee ein “datatur of ono ncoting, that /as taxicab ks oe l
ce eater Of the Pan- arn rhe Mavertisement gt Pont and one Fits. | Mtch-hiker, going in the: tame tbe th! ob one of the’ cites [point at gunman nt, freed tof
Marten Tere 8 gine |annese Y May PUbUC thal Ibugh Tang! Rev. "[elared “the voce 2mm oCCer a: en | eR EDS ch sae ees PM ws 0
he Allen: mela in | thi Company Hay bean BPO ee | en. Clared mas ooked like Rueks | ane or “moat courageous law. McKinney, where the tragedy neg
muerding “for Prince. autho p Sealer sin” Gone |? Burial. WI follow tn the Prince. / Man, ‘the “mah | being ‘adug DeLor | rir fosinent® officers, Pe) as ee ee hes
the defensive ‘end of the County for. Serve) Electrolux, ton Cemetery. Surviving t hig| the ' crime, Atte B+ POUding ~.j le << Co Huge, Tiling rifige i pe
defeated Pri ue Tr ieerator . that is different: | wife, formerly Misa Jean Mone- | Curver 1h: the“ romd, : they. To Greenville og ee ad tele Rendezvous, a
a ih the bie sivertizement ‘reads jn Part: | ey. daughter of Pror, Det Mia. J. | helt: car” around ie VW etlcers sald be appeared - reted. ot WEACT® mal sen. | Of
: eason he, Dr Ties. gins ie you aye |W. Moseley. ang one brother, 3 back ‘th the Opposite * ¢ ‘and ~ afd stem moroae | SUSPec of robbin Green-
staged’ hers, atu saat more monay,: '‘Beryel Electrolux [Le Taylor. cKinney waterworks bear amd Tote Ot: got -serowtul.-at the ae [nigh ME ftation as
hed to tonight's nine an, ° moving in superintendent and “atreet fore. | into thelr car and tin-a . “the Wok inne Oficer, . > | Dight, : ab)
nedton gym ty expected to freezing ayatem, which tven you {man. minutes’ time, accordin waz Soda for & while in The McKinney Officer died in- 7
to a capactt | 7, Permanent silenée, lanting ‘ef. The dees A cers, had unfolded to them ‘Ja, but was moved ety td when he "topped the cab /nu;
— Iclene Contin low Coat ae a en a loca) story og the wild bus ride ‘Iduting the night to the Green. | &" Fan questioning the occu. wit
v EIS savin tha Pay for ‘tt. It js pee orcement Officer for ton [Dallas ® McKinne + Of the bree Villa jas} for ‘xale-keeping rede Pening tho ; ig plas
one oe Ae nee OF inors Gg Part ot ane ia slaving or ‘ais Taylor, | ¥! ‘ njore cad, he was met by a sus Dal
SHI N | pores ues! Weng, Ce! Tig tee a had “bean otis! of [and af the pence night ha nad |, ‘News ei, doe the. amttous| lade nix shots Tom AM automatic {whi
. 0 omea. mm enjoy, rate ne iw on on og epent., In escaping the law : : A he had been gun, six be being fireq in ters
badge UT evel cede hee on! Wednesda igioe Relates Btory, oe » fang nroushout the previous opal ed} Seresaee “th . twi a“ for :
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oe oe Public to come by ang | is seas When the tragic end SSS

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hh To Get Farm having “thal nice nok,

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and never ahirked GPR and .W. Boyd; Deputy Aherifts. A. WILL -
e. ‘}South Tennessee ‘Street repaint. | When the call of du y came, aa : ra eatin and. Ww, Sy ale : 15)
ed and roe s Mr. and Mrs. |Was ao tragically emonatrated Po agg oo Fd .Blakemen Chlef of Police ‘Inn “pan il
almost sultry, breezes Cox formerly: }ived in McKinney | Wednesday night. my
ther Conditions take On funtll » few yours hen they
“ance of carly summer Moved to M

Marion Everett Taylor was
born October 9, 1903,

lige d.) daughter | 8° peri nemete ureday, and Ir. ounty Rock In ‘Their Con: | mart wan the ‘man wanted for as-| Preach Sunday At Church | moc.
ed et hel: | Mins Afecy | os fin. 2 _Memoty of the Police of. struction, sault-and hijacking x Greenville f urch On Murray | bello
tometer yenil Were fvinitine in McKinney at the preg. |" OOF. and unteer fireman, All ey station attendant, Tiiosday Street let Co:
' Bixtlee: and low aey- ent time, having their residen. Naty in the City Hall were Mr, ang Mrs. Fred O Owenby :

ndererty bere paired. Gus oly en sid temoon, with alllnave 4 “Tecent months built 2 Teotlon of the maasive man-/ Rey. Walker H. Horn dt Ga

night wag an Unueu- | Hudson fs “painter, fire, rs an Ing uPloyes, and Pretty four. 1 rock rent house was under the supervision Veston will Ponduel neacnin ae
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° nae . é :
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have been using this {Sted a Karage in Plano for the ayor Perkin
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rom 3 lo € gtaels tates ial topped severaj he Riess iene ioe Jeg 's Invited to attend eve e;
é : : to t ednenda x Servicea. Wm.
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‘leeves throughout > —a¥e_Pollce officer, larger. building of Seven-rooms | moments reat and no asleep at all, :
' part of the night, ; ; a ig Tago on the
brillant sunlight,
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* enthusilastig about

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nee : : *Y also own gti?) another
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é ee 80lIng on Hea etreet, here b Uubert Wilson, alno of | : :
N Misses Bonnle Bi}) Hopkins And Frances Lee Wolford Giy They obtained the rock, which / McAlester, who Uke-| Meeting Called By Prof. Roy R. Jar
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Cox Travel | Go-To-Ch rch Movement, : X from Lake” Nas Vicinity inf work with the hounds ar thay ee
sank To Inde i oo : ae See ae Mrkea eit koup the tral Of the ante A Ss
sta : t McKinnoy's talented | Jack rin h he? Pretty, Bullies: metaciety ook
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of the Male Ceniterctiaree of thio Sale, Fy Cauotug Lo hears
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tine ard filaceUAimed-tiv CALI Aorikisccesto Ca ary, the’
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Jad defendant, Charles Keynatels, thatl heleliucred by the
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March il, 1987

Ronald C. Van Raalte
Post Office Box 72883
Roselle, IL 60172-0883

Dear Mr. Van Raalte:

Please find enclosed, requested photocopies for officers
Marion Taylor, dated March 4, 1938 and Tommy Ashley,
February 1, 1970.

Please let me know if you need further assistance.
Sincerely,

Shirlene Salter
Library Technician

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During the remainder of the day,
Sheriff Moore and Rike took up the task
of tracing the Sweater, and talking to
Persons who could supplement the infor-
mation they obtained.

By nightfall the officers had obtained
a fairly complete list of Persons who had
bought sweaters from which the triangu-
lar patch might have been torn. And
working carefully over this list, the
sheriff had eliminated all except the names
of three young men, any one of whom
might roughly fit the description of the
killer.

Moore and Rike then decided to spend
the evening loafing around restaurants
where the younger element hung out, in
hope of hearing something which would
enable them to make identification posi-
tive,

Shortly before dinner time the officers
sauntered into a cafe, found seats and
ordered food. Moore spoke to Rike in an
undertone,

“Two of those boys qn our list are in
here now,” Moore said. “Keep your eyes
open. We don’t want to make a mistake
and tip off the killer.”

But. the minutes passed and nothing
turned up to be of help to the officers.
Then Moore noticed the electric phono-
graph against a wall. Suddenly an idea
occurred to him. He left his chair, strolled
over to the instrument and looked over

the record selections. He was in luck for

among them was the recording of
“Harbor Lights.” Moore dropped a nickel
in the slot and the strains of the music
rose above the mumble of conversation.

Sheriff Wolf was on guard outside the
restaurant. He had pointed out the sus-
pected youths to the Collin county offi-
cers but had not entered for fear of tip-
ping the killer that there were officers in
the cafe,

This group of officers was one of more than a score of s
countryside around McKinney, Tex., when a Posse of 300
to track down the bandit after the murder of Motorcycle

The phonograph record played to the
end and the machine was silent, Then the
officers turned quickly. A thin-faced
youth sitting alone in a booth at the rear,
one of the suspects, was staring into
space, humming the melody just ended.

Moore and Rike Started instantly for
the booth. The youth looked up quickly,
leaped from his chair and before the offi-
cers could reach him he had darted out
a rear door and disappeared in the dark-
ness.

And once again the killer had eluded
the police! But now his identity was re-
vealed. The fleecing killer was recognized
as John W. Rickman, well known in the
community.

This time the police were not working
in the dark. The town of Greenville was
searched, but Rickman apparently had
fled. .

Sheriff Moore hurried to a telephone
and called every town of any size between

rreenville and Fort Sill, Okla.

“He has a brother at Fort Sill,” Sheriff
Moore explained to Rike. “The chances
are he’ll make for the Fort. He knows we
have spotted him and he may try to join
the army to hide his identity.”

At 11 o’clock the next day, word was

flashed back to Greenville that a thin-

faced youth had tried to buy a ticket to
Fort Sill at Melissa, Tex., but didn’t have
enough money and had bought a ticket
for Durant, Okla. ‘

Sheriff Moore and Rike got in their
police car and made a record run to Du-
rant.

They roared into Durant late that after-
noon. They went to several restaurants,
and again they picked up the trail of the
humming killer,

The manager of the restaurant where
Rickman had eaten said that the youth

quads which combed the
men assembled in an effort
Patrolman Marion Taylor.

had started for the bus station less than
15 minutes before. Sherif! Moore and Rike
rushed to the station. The bus had left,
but there was no record wi any thin-faced
youth buying a ticket.

“He’s nearly broke and | think he’s too
smart to risk the bus,” Sheriff Moore said,
“He left this town on fov! and probably
will steal a car or hitehhike a ride.”

The sheriff's car left th. town of Du-
rant, headed out the high way. that led to
Fort Sill. Three miles o1: of town, the
car swung around a cur: on the road.

A youth was standing ( icre, thumbing
for a ride. The Sheriff's cur roared past
him, but Moore got a lool: at the youth’s
face. Around another cu; ve, the sheriff
stopped his car and turned around.
“That’s our man, Rike,” he said. “Get
your gun ready. I'll driy: slowly up to
him and stop.”

The sheriff kept the speed of his car
down to 25 miles an hour, ‘he youth was
still standing in the road The sheriff
slowed down even more 2: he neared the
youth.

As the car stopped. Devuty Rike left
the front seat in a leapiiy jump. He
landed within two feet of K\ickman as the
thin face of the boy twisted in a snarl and
his right hand streaked for his hip pocket.

Rike threw his fist up in « swift upper-
cut, crashing against the youth’s chin and
sending him sprawling backward. He
tried to catch his balance but failed and
fell heavily’,

Rike and Moore were anding over
him when he tried to strugy ic to his feet.
There was a snap of handcuffs and the
bandit-killer was yanked to his feet,

“AIL right, Rickman,” S\veriff Moore
said, “you’ve pulled your |ist murder,”

And John W. Rickmai. Greenville
youth who had terrorized ‘| exas for six
weeks, scowled and said, ‘\ou’re crazy.
I never killed anybody.”

Rickman was rushed back to Dallas.

To protect him from) mul violence,
Sheriff Moore took him t, Greenville,

The news that John Rickinan was the
double-killer was received }y the public
in stunned amazement. Rickman was a
well-known youth in Greeny lle, He had
been raised in the community’.

In his mob-proof cell, Rickman re-
mained surly and defiant. He denied his
guilt, and the fact that his lingerprints
matched those found on the taxi did not
break him.

The identification by Hubert Dodd and
William Rawlins failed to break his sullen
defiance. .

Crowds descended on Greciville when
word of his hiding place leake« out, From
the window of his cell he saw them, and
then his nerve broke and he became a
sniveling and terrified youth. But the
mobs didn’t get into the jail and his fear
left.

He was charged with murder. He tried
to get publicity by issuing statements to
the press, but the Press was not inter-
ested,

In October, 1938, he was brought to
trial for the murder of Marion Taylor.
He had retained lawyers, but there was
not much they could do for him. He
was found guilty of murder j); the first
degree and the judge sentenced him to
die in the electric chair. Rickman’s ap-
peal was denied. As this is wi itten he is
in his cell awaiting execution.

that. He ate here and I waited on him.
He loafed) around after his meal and
played the electric victrola over there.
That’s how T remember him. He seemed
stuck on one record, ‘Harbor Lights’.
He kept playing it and humming it and
after loafing here about half an hour, he
walked out.”

Sheriff Moore drained his cup of
coffee. “I’d like you to go to head-
quarters with us,” he said to the waitress,
“and look at some pictures. I believe that
young chap was the Saturday night
bandit ancl the murderer we want.”

The waitress went immediately to ob-
tain permission from her employer to
accompaiiy the officers. Twenty minutes
later she was in the identification bureau
of the Dallas police department, studying
hundreds of pictures in the rogues’ gal-
lery.

The girl went over the photographs
carefully and. finally turned to the sheriff
and shook her head.

“Tam sure his photograph is not here,”
she said.

At this moment Inspector Fritz. en-
tered the room and spoke to the sheriff.
What he said confirmed the girl’s state-
ment. For the police had found two finger-
prints in the rear of the cab which they
believed were left by the killer. And the
prints did not match any of those on
record in Dallas. Fritz added that copies
of the prints were being sent to other
police departments and to the FBI at
Washington.

HE waitress was sent back to the

restaurant and Moore and Rike ac-
companied Fritz into his office to review
the known facts in the case. Fritz ex-
plained that he had just returned from
McKinney and that the posse and the
bloodhounds had not been able to find a
trace of the killer’s trail.

Moore told the Dallas officer what was
learned in the restaurant but this seemed
to add little to what already was at hand.
An eight-state alarm had been sent out
and departments throughout Texas had
been requested to join in a close watch
for the elusive gunman.

The fact that the fugitive seemed to
have a particular liking for one popular

Deputy Sheriff Rike, famed for
his “camera eye” and his memory
of criminal faces, is shown here
examining the pistol used by the
phantom killer. In the photograph
of the Greenville courthouse,
above, the bandit can be seen
at cell window which is circled.

song possibly could be of help, but this
was discounted. “Harbor Lights” was a
hit tune and there were many thousands
of young men who might be found to be
exceedingly fond of this number.

Moore was particularly interested in
the torn fragment of sweater and the bit
of newspaper found in the taxicab. These,
he believed, were the best bets available
toward establishing the identity of the
killer. It was decided that the posse and
other officers would concentrate on the
task of trying to find some actual trace
of the murderous bandit. Moore and Rike
decided to follow through on the sweater
and newspaper angle to see if these might
lead to the trail.

By this time the murder of Marion
Taylor by the youthful gunman had be-
come a statewide sensation. The terror
of the lone bandit who had hit scattered
spots regularly for a month and a half
and who had killed twice in cold blood
swept through Northeast Texas. Police
redoubled their vigilance. Would the
terror strike again or would he lie low
for a time until the mounting pursuit
would fade away ?

That the pursuit would die quickly did
not seem likely for the last murder had
fired the grim determination of the Texas
people to rid themselves of this menace.
The posses at McKinney had increased
in size until nearly 1,000 men were on
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their time and energy to tracking down
the killer. Guards were put on highways
and county roads. Cars were stopped and
searched.

Sheriff Moore and Rike left the Dallas
headquarters and headed for Fort
Worth, 30 miles away, determined to lose
no time in following the clue of the torn
sweater. They could learn quickly
whether this bit of cloth had any dis-
tinguishing characteristics which might
help them in the chase. :

In Fort Worth, Sheriff Moore went to
an office on the sixth floor of a building
in the main part of the city. He was
ushered into the private office of the head
of a chain of department stores.

“We want you to help us find the killer
of Patrolman Taylor,” the sheriff said.

Tue business man looked at the sheriff
in surprise. “Help you find the mur-
derer 2?” he exclaimed, “I’ll do anything
I can, but what can I do C.

“Plenty,” Sheriff Moore answered. “I
have here a piece of sweater that caught
in the door of the taxi. I have reason to
believe that this came from the killer’s
sweater. You are the best authority in
the Southwest, on cloth. I want you to
look at this and see if you see anything
peculiar about it.”

The expert took the triangular piece
of sweater, laid it on a piece of white
paper and then he took a clothier’s mag-
nifying glass, a glass that could reveal
the number of threads per square inch.

DETECTIVE

He studied the piece of sweater carefully.

When he had completed his examina-
tion, he looked up and said, “The only
thing peculiar about this piece of sweater
is the fact that the number of threads is
less than eighteen to the square inch.”

“What does that mean?” Sheriff
Moore asked.

“Tt means that the wool and cotton this
sweater was made of was formed on a
machine that was out of line,” the man
answered, “It really doesn’t make the
material defective, but usually this type
of wool would run twenty to twenty-one
threads to an inch.”

“Thanks,” Sheriff Moore sa id.
“Would you be able to guess from where
a sweater like this might be shipped into
this area?”

“That would be very difficult,” the ex-
pert replied. “But if I had to guess, I’d
say from Oklahoma City, Kansas City
or St. Louis.”

When Sheriff Moore and Dan Rike
were down on the street, the sheriff said,
“Rike, I want you to go down to
Greenville and start checking up. A
family name is mentioned on that piece
of newspaper. See what you can learn.
T’'ll be there as soon as I can get
through. I’m going on the road to see
about that sweater as soon as I can get
some firm names. It’s a slim hope, but I
think it’s worth a try.”

Dan Rike, known throughout Texas
as the man with the camera eye and a
man who knows more criminals by sight
than almost any other peace officer in the
state, went to Greenville. He reported to
Sheriff 1. 1. Wolf of Thunt county and
then started his work.

Two days passed and then tl.-ce days.
The murder of Marion Taylor emained
unsolved. The Saturday night | iller had
again eluded the pursuit an officers
waited with apprehension for ‘he next
Saturday night and the news hat this

bandit had struck again.

It was fantastic and bewilder: ug to the
public that the killer could elude the com-
bined effort of every police org:nization
in the state with such uncanny case.

The Texas Rangers, one of ihe great
police organizations of the couniry, were
baffled and unable to understaii! it. The
Dallas police were equally stuniped.

Nobody had heard from Sher! !f Moore.
But in those three days the sheriff had
covered much territory. Driving day and
night he had gone as far as Kansas City
and then had returned to Oklahoma City.
And his “hopeless” task had paid off. He
had found the origin of the shipments of
sweaters. He had narrowed his search to
Greenville.

On the morning of the fourth day after
the killing of Officer Marion ‘laylor, he
drove into Greenville. His face was hag-
gard from lack of sleep and his eyes were
red-rimmed from sheer exhaustion.

Deputy Rike met him at Sheriff Wolf's
office. “I’ve been all over this com-
munity,” Rike said. “IT haven’t found any
trace of any man who might [it the de-
scription of the killer.”

Rike explained that the family whose
name was mentioned on the piece of news-
paper found in the taxicab was well
known and respectable and that he had
found nothing which would indicate any
connection with a murdering bandit.

Moore told the officers that ic believed
he had traced the sweater deiimitely to
Greenville and further proo! that the
killer lived in this community was con-
tained in the newspaper clipping. The
combination of the two seemed positive
evidence that this was the home of the
bandit.

HE officers went over the details of

the case again. The faci that the
family named in the clipping was promi-
nent and respectable seemed ignificant.
Finally Sheriff Moore offered lis theory.
He believed, the sheriff said, t! vitthekiller
must be a youth of a good family, who
might have started out on a niinor crime

career as a lark. Some peculiar mental

twist led him him deeper into criminal life
and eventually turned him into a killer.

The chances were that the youth had
never been in trouble before aiid that few,
if any persons had ever ass: ciated him
with criminal activities. The ‘act that no
fingerprints or photographs wcre on rec-
ord would tend to bear this out. Again,
this theory would explain the ease with
which the killer had evaded capture.

The youth, the officers fg red, proba-
bly slipped out of town 01 Saturday
night, went about his trail of terror and
then returned home where no one re-
motely suspected that he wa. the badly
wanted bandit-killer.

This appeared to be the only logical
answer to the erime riddle.

[Continued on page 97]
33

CASE OF THE

HE insistent buzzing of the
telephone on the desk of
Sheriff Frank Wolfe of Green-
ville, Texas, was the first
sound to disturb what might
otherwise have been a quiet Satur-
day night. Mechanically, the Sheriff
noted the time. It was half-past
eight. The day, February 7th, 1939.

“Sheriff Wolfe speaking,” he said.

“This is Banks,” an irate voice ex-
ploded.

“Yes, Tom,” the Sheriff answered,
calmly. ‘“What’s up?”

“My car’s been stolen—from under
my very eyes,” Banks explained, re-
lating briefly how he had looked out
his shop window just in time to see
his car roll down Main Street.

“Sorry, Tom. We'll do all we can.
Let me have the dope.”

Banks supplied the necessary in-
formation, license number, type and
color of the car and its condition at
the time. What he said about hi-
jackers and persons who stole other
persons’ automobiles as he hung up
the receiver, did not go into the rec-
ord.

Sheriff Wolfe called to Deputy
Gordon Duff, whose desk was near-
by: “Look here, Gordon, Tom Banks’
car has been stolen. Get busy on the
case. I'll ask Dallas to send out a
radio alarm.”

Three days later, State Highway
Section Foreman O. D. Dickey, in-
specting a bridge over the Sabine
River at Lone Oak, observed a car
parked under one of the concrete

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spans. A telephone call brought
Sheriff Wolfe to the spot. It was
Tom Banks’ car, all right, little the
worse for wear. It was immediately
returned to its waiting and not too
patient owner.

Another Saturday night had rolled
around, The time was 8:30, and ex-
actly on the minute of the half hour,
just as it had done at this moment a
week before, the telephone buzzer
claimed attention.

Naud Burnett, brimming with
rage, managed to explain between
outbursts of expletives that at 8:28
he had parked his bread truck in
front of his bakery. At 8:29 he saw
it roll out into the night.

“Which way did it go?” the Sheriff
asked. .

“South—leaving me behind the
eight ball. I need that truck for my
deliveries.”

“ll do my best,” Wolfe promised,
wearily. This sort of thing was be-
coming a nuisance.

Then, suddenly, he exclaimed—
“South! By George, I’ve got a hunch
and it’s worth a try.”

Jumping into his car, Wolfe raced
out toward Lone Oak. Arriving at

the bridge over the Sabine River, he
made his way down the arroyo, focus-
ing his lights on the main span, un-
der which, much to his amazement,
he discovered Burnett’s car. “Some-
times,” he muttered to himself, “a
hunch is better than all the logic in
the world.”

Homeward bound that night Wolfe
found himself musing over this ec-
centric robber who, with such dar-
ing, stole cars from the very center
of town and then left them in this
strange retreat. Why this risky busi-
ness? Was it possible that the mo-

_tive was simply easy transportation?

If so, perhaps a five-year stretch at
Huntsville penitentiary would teach
the offender good manners—if and
when he might be caught.

Another week had passed. Slowly
the hands on the station moved
around to 8:30.

“Reckon he’ll ride tonight?” Duff
ventured.

“You mean our one-man crime
wave?” Wolfe asked.

“Yeah. It’s his night out.”

The Sheriff of Hunt County put
away his paper and looked up at the
clock. The time lacked just one min-

ALWAYS AT THE SAME HOUR THIS
TERROR STALKED THE TEXAS NIGHT

8:30 KILLE

BY JOSEPH WHITELY

ute of the half hour. Duff was about
to speak but was interrupted by the
telephone buzzer. He smiled, in-
stead.

“The usual routine, or is it?” the
Sheriff observed, lifting the receiver.

This time it was an armed robbery.
The robber had walked calmly into
the filling station of E. L. Mize,
shoved a gun in Mize’s face, demand-
ing that the station operator hand
over his money. The robber was a
little man whose jet-black eyes dart-
ed murder, the victim reported. When
the man had pocketed his loot, he
stepped leisurely into his car and
was off, whistling “Goin’ Home.”

“Well, I guess it’s your Saturday
night pain in the neck again,” Duff
exclaimed, jumping from his chair.
“He’s getting too big for his shoes.”

All through that night Wolfe and
his deputy scoured the countryside,
silently moving along town streets
and outlying roadways, primed for a
daring little desperado whose eyes
served notice that he would stop at
nothing. But morning came and
there was no trace of him.

Back in his office, Sheriff Wolfe be-
gan mapping a campaign to put an
end to this geting Pepin: before the
man should finish his raid in Green-
ville and escape to fresher fields. He
was interrupted by the arrival of
Mize, who had dropped in to learn
what progress had been made in
running down the robber.

“I forget to tell you,” Mize said
on departing, “that this bandit wore

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few hours reading the Bible, He was ‘dressed in' shortly after dark and a small
patch of hair shaved from the top of his head for the electrodes, Riles is the
first person to pay the supreme penalty from Galveston since 1909, Galveston news-
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“Bastrop, Jan. 21.-John Rivera, 25-year-old Mexican, was charged with statutory assault
in an indictment returned Tuesday by a grand jury in Judge John H. Tate’s 21st judicial district
court of Bastrop! County in connection with the near-fatal knife attack upon Blanche Wise, 18,
and a criminal attack upoon 15-year-old Gladys Wise in a wooded pasture near Cedar Park
Sunday night.

“Rivera is being held in the Travis County Jail at Austin, where he was carried a few hours
after his arrest Sunday midnight by Sheriff E. D. Cartwright of Bastrop County. Quick action of
the grand jury in returning the indictment Monday, Sheriff Cartwright said, met with approval of
residents of the county who were alarmed when first reports of the attacks upon the young
daughters of M. S. Wise, Bastrop County farmer, spread quickly over the county.”-American,
Austin, TX, 1/22/1936.

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“Huntsville, Tuesday, June 23.-Juan Rivera, Bastrop County farm hand, paid with his life
in the electric chair here early Tuesday for criminally assaulting Gladys Wise, Bastrop County
girl. Rivera, who had been an occupant of the state death house for three months, went to his
death without show of emotion. He thanked prison officials for kind treatment.

“Gov. James V. Allred last April granted him a 60-day reprieve because the Court of
Criminal Appeals had not acted upon his appeal. But the court upheld the conviction and Monday
Acting Governor Walter Woodfil, at El Paso, said he wound take no action to halt the execution.

“Rivera was indicted by a Bastrop! County grand jury after his arrest on the night of Jan.
19 in connection with a knife attack upon 18-year-old Blanche Wise and a criminal attack upon
Gladys Wise. Immediately following his arrest, Rivera was transferred to the Travis County Jail
for safekeeping.”-American, Austin, TX, 6/23/1936.

94 Southwestern (2nd) 437.

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ROBERTSON, hanged Dallas, Texas, May 13, 1910 - Continued.

"Monday, Nov, 23, two of thenegroes mixed up in theattempted holdup of Wolford and his sub-
sequent murder were in the custody of the Dallas County officers, They were Walter West,
alias 'Shine', and Genie Jones. The late R, L, Cornwell, then 1t, of thepolice force, had
much to do with the unraveling of themystery, Genie Jones confessed to the crime in the
presence of Sheriff Ledbetter, Lt, Cornwell and others, He implicated Walter West and
Bubber Robertson in the killing, He gave a detailed statement of the actions of the three
on the night of the tragedy, told how they met in a negro saloon in East Dallas and planned
to hold up someone; how they ran across Wofford on Elm St, near the corner of Hawkins and
how they followed their fictim and the boy to the place where the killing occurred. Genie
Jones also told in detail how when the commanded Wolford to hold up his hands he made a
fight and was shot by Bubber Robertson still at large. He told Mr. Cornwell that another
of the three concernined in the tragedy was in jail at the time and that if he wuld go up
stairs and examine the neck of Walter West he would find a cut place behind one of his

ears which was made by Wolford just before being shot, An examination by Mr. Cornwall
revealed the wund, West refused to discuss the matter except to deny that he knew anything
about thematter,

"Bubber Robertson was Still at large, “e was heard of at Paris, where he was born, Sheriff
Ledbetter visited Paris for the purpose of finding out something regarding Bubber's where-=
abouts but nothing definite was obtained, Genie Jones and Walter West were spirited away
from Da las as there was talk of mobbing them at the time, Thurdsy, Dec, 1, Sheriff Led=
better wasnotified by Oklahoma City officers that a negro was in custody there fitting the
description of Bubber Robertson, The day before he received this information Sheriff Led-
better was visited by Harvey Ramsey of Garland, Ramsey visited the jail and picked out
Yenie Jones and Walter West as two of the threenegroes who had robbed and assaulted him
severa weeks before,

"Sunday, Mar. 28, Julius Robertson was arrestedin Washington, D. C., on advices and ifiform-
tion sent from Dallas. Two detectives of the Washington department, Messrs, Bauer and
Cromwell were detailed to the case, jBubber was working on a farm just across theline in
Maryland, he came to Washington on the day mentioned, Detective Evans of the department,
who had visited Dallas during the Elks reunion, and who had been given valuable information
by the local officers, gave Bauer and Cromwell the tip. Robertson admitted his identity

at the time of the arrest and said he was present when Wolford was killed, but denied that
he did the shooting, He said that he and Genie Jones and Walter West attempted to rob Wol-
ford and that when he resisted, one of the other two negroes shot him, Beforehis capture
Robertson was located at different points, among them Paris, Tex., Kansas City, Mo,, Cleve-
land, Ohio, Toronto, Canada, and finally in Maryland, near Washington,D, C, Two weeks ago
Gov,. Campbell sent Dets, Bauer and Cromwell the reward offekhed for the capture of Bubber
who was brought back to Dallas by Chief o Police Brandenburg," TIMES HERALD, Dallas, Tex.
5-13%1910 (7-2) Furter in same article: ",..lt was through the promtness and cool judg-
ment of this county officer (Ledbetter) that Robertson was, saved from suffering a like fate
with Allen Brooks, the negro rapist, who was hanged to Elk s Arch Mar, 3, Five minutes
before the mob of excited men began battering against the door of the county jail, Sheriff
Ledbetter had his two deputies, Weakley and Ellis, speeding along the Fort Worth pike at a
terrible clip with prisoners Burrell Oates and Robertson in the automobile witht hem,

The exciting eve ts of that trip which did not end until the prisoners were landed in

the Cleburne jail, arenow a matter of history,"

Jones sentenced to 15 years imprisonment after turning state's evidence, according to
TIMES HERALD of 5 /12.1910, page one, Photograph of Robertson here,

_ Robertson's fatherWas J. R, Robertson, a negro minister who died at Sulphur Springs, Tex.,
in 1909, TIMES HERALD of 5/11/1910, page one.

"Motioning to Elder George who has been his spiritual,adviser during all the time he has
been under the sentence of death, to come into the cell, he said he desired to. sing his
last song, Ina strong, but a voice which seemed clear, the giant black led-the singing
of the,bhymn "Blessed Be the Tie That Binds," After singing two verses of this song he,
expressed a desire to look out of the jail.,window on the thougands which were standing
in the jailyard despite the fact that it was raining. eet) oad
"hile Robertson made no set speech, he spoke to several hs saw in the crowd whom he. knew.
Gaging out of the window for the last time, hesaid: 'Well, my friends, goodbye,' Noticing
some one in the crowd he recognized and who hollered to he, Bubber said: 'Meet me in Heaven,
This is Bubber Robertson, All you boys try to be good, I always was a man and I am going
to die like a man, In twenty minutes it will be all over with me,' There were créks from
the crowd of 'give us a talk, Bubber,' and.he replied I haven't got any talk to makes,
except that I amweady and willing to die.’ Recognizing a negro.in,the crowd with whom he
had evidently soldiered, Bubber called out: 'Hello, old soldier comrade, 1 was a man down
on the Island wasn't I and I am a man here.and am going to die like a man,' f.
"Following these.remarks the negro turned to.Ledbebter and signigied that he was readye
Ahead of the sheriff the big negro walked to, the scaffold,...there was absolutely no sign
of fears Reaching the gallows and trapyeeeeBubber reached. up.and grabbed the noose and.
threw it around his own neck, Sheriff Ledbetter, however, removed the noose as he wanted
Bubber on the scaffold before the noose was adjusted, A few minutes was lort in straighte
ening the big negro's arms behind his back and he thens tepped onto the platform, His legs
were strapped, the rope placed around his neck and adjusted, the black cap dropped over
his head and in a moment more the negro was hanged, ;
.eeeThe body-was turned over to the People's Undertaking Company, The body. will be held
at this place until Sunday morning when it will be shipped to Paris, Tex., for interment.
“obertson was a negro in the prime. of life and was a soldier during the Spanish-American
War in the 8th Illinois Volunteer Regiment of negro soldiers, He saw dutive service in
Cuba," ‘ '
"Bubber slept calmly from 10 o'dlock last night until h o'clock this morning, At the latter
hour he had requested Death Guard Cantrell to awaken him, He was awakened but went back
to sleep again and slept until 6:30 o'clock, <A half spring chicken, French fried potatoes,
eggs, and tea was what the negro desired for breakfast. ailer Reedy complied with this
last requestee.e! TIMES HERALD, Dallas, 5-13-1910, page Orie.
THE CRIME
"Exactly oneyear and six months ago yesterday, Frank Wolford, a prosperous farmer of Rose
Hill was held up and shot to death by three regroes at the corner of Main and Bopp Sts.,
near where the Dallas. Branch flows under the former. Residents of that vicinity at 10330
on the night of Nov, 12 were ‘startled by a shot. This was followed by a scream of agony,
Severak men hastening to the scene found Wolford seltering in his own blood, His son, a
youth of 15, frightened at the condition of his father, told of the attempted robbery which
had resulted in the tragedy. Wolford was perfectly conscious when assistance, arrived and
remained so up to a short time before his death at the city hospital. He was w unded in the
groin, An artery had been severed and with every movement of the unfortunate man s body the
blood gushed forth a veritable torrent. He lived but a few hours, but was able t6 relate to
City Health Officer Fisher the particulars of the crime, He aad his son, and a nephew, had
arrived from Rose Hill that afternoon with a load of produce, They had left their team and
wagon at the Rupard wagon yard near the Fair Grounds, The father and son started on a walk
to town, Ab’ the intersection of the two streets named in the foregoing three negroes accost=
ed them. One of the negroes pointing a revolver point blank into Mr, Wolford's face ordered
him to hold up his hands, Mr. Wolford had a knife open in his hand, Just as one of the
negroes was going through his pocket, Mr, Wolford made a slash with theknife, and stabbad
the wouldbe robber in theleft side of the neck, He who held the revolver, fired immediately.
Mr, Wolford fell to the ground, The threenegroes fled, The Wolford boy hastened across the
street to obtain assistance. Upon his return his father directed that a doctor be sent for
immediately and handed bver to his son the $50 in currenny he had concealed.in his pocket,
The n groes were unsuccessful in their robbery....There was a storm of indignation throughout
the city following the night of the murder, County and city officers were called upon to
arrest all suspicious looking negroes in the city, This was done, Several were placed in
custody, Diligent efforts were made by: those detailed to the case to find a negro with a
stab wound in the neck or a slash across the face, Monday, Nov, 16, Sheriff A, L, Ledbetter

offered a reward of #100, for the arrest and conviction of the guilty parties, Gov, Campbell
o A “ ;

increased this reward ~
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126 SOUTHWESTERN 276

Julius B, ("Bubber") ROBERTSON, black, hangedat Dallas, — on May 13, 1910.

"History of the Crimes

Nov, 11, 1908 = Frank Wolford murdered,

Nov, 23, 1908 = Genie Jones and Walter West, alias 'Shine! arrested; Jones confessed, impli-

cating West and Bubber Robertson,

Jan, 2, 1909 = Grand jury indicted Jones, Robertson and West for the crime,

Mar, 28, 1909 = Bubber Robertson arrested in Washington, D. CG

June 22, 1909 = Walter West adjudged guilty of murder and assessed death penalty by jury.
‘ Case on appeal when West died in jail.

June 25, 1909 = Bubber Robertson found guilty of murder and assessed death penalty.

March 23, 1910 = Court of.criminal appeals affirmed sentence, :

April 1, 1910 + Mandate of higher court received. ' .

April l, 1910 = Judge R, B. Seay sentenced prisoner to. ‘death,

May 13, 1910 = Bubber Robertson hanged for the'mrder of Frank Wolford,

"Exactly at 11:30.0'clock this morning Sheriff A, L, Ledbetter sprung the trap of the
gallows of the Dallas County Jail and Julius B., alias "Bubber", Robertson, had paid the
extreme penalty for the murder. of.Fank Wolford, the Rose Hill farmer, at 11:38 o'clock,
Drs, Frank Hale, T, B, Fisher, W. M. Brumby and, K,.W. Field pronounced life extinct, At
11:50 o'clock the body was cut down and turned over to the undertakers, Thenegro went to
his death as cooly as though death was, the farthest thing from his mind, tn fact throughout
the whole proceedings he appeared to be about the coolest person among the large number who
witnessed the execution,

"Among the spectators wexse Mrs. ‘Frank Wolford, widow of the mrdered man, and a number of
other relatives, Among these relatives was Bp Golson, the step-son of Wolford, who was with
him when thekilling occurred, Vilet and Vera, two of Wolford's daughters, two of his brother
a brother-in-law and several nephews and other relatives, ‘I would like to pull the trap
which will send that negro S&ZH@ to eternity'#axaXA, said one of the brothers just a short
time before the march to the gallowsbegan,.

"After the noose had been adjusted by Sheriff Ledbet ters and' wile the sheriff was in the
act of adjusting the black cap, the big negro's lips were seen to be working, No audible
sound came from the lips of the man who was so near death, but it was apparent to all who
saw the lips working that he was sending up his last prayer to his maker to have mercy, on
his soul, While the lips were still working the black cap was slipped over, his head. A
moment later the sheriff themew the lever, The platform shot out from under the negro and
there was an ‘audible twang which could have been heard in nearly all parts of the jail as
the, rope tightened caused by the ret weight on theother end pulling it taught,

"That fall did not break the negro's neck as was indicated by the fact thathe appeared to
struggle for some little time after the drop. Gradually the rope began to cease quivering
and in a few minutes' time the doctoss who were grasping thepulse of the negro, pronounced
that bhepulse wasno longer ean _the body, however, was not cut down until ten minutes
to 12 o'clock,

"lt was a few minutes after 11 0 hileck when Sheriff Ledbetter pushed himself through the hall]
around the scaffold and entered the cell occupied by Robertson, The light in the cell was
badand the sheriff had some difficulty in finding enough light to read the death warrant,
‘Here, give it to me, I'll read my. own death warrant,’ said Bubber. The sheriff handed

the paper to the negro and he started out in a strong voice as he read thewarrant, He read
nearly a page and when he came to the word custody, he pronounced it 'cuspidor', At this
Sheriff Ledbetter took the warrant from the negro, and figwhing a point where there was more
light, he read the lengthy document to the doomed man,

"Before Sheriff Ledbetter started to read the warrant, Bubber, who was dressed in a soft
silk shirt, a neat new black suit and new shoes, asked that someone tie his tie, The re-
quest was complied with, Detective Duncan fixing the black bow to suit the negro,..Duming
the reading the negro éeood as straight as a soldier with his hands folded behind his back
and calmly chewing gum, A slight smile crossed his face when the sheriff came to that point
whichsaid that he should take the condermed man and hang him by his neck until death ensued,
"Following the reading of the document, Jay, Uverstreet, who represented Robertson at his
trial, asked him whether he desired to confess or make any statement of this kind, At this
Bubber seemed to get a little angry and said: 'H have no confession to make. Christ is my
priest and I have already made my confession to him, I will not deny that I have shed hymam
blood but- I have told it all to Christ. Following this Bubber turned to Sheriff Ledbetter

nd : 'Mn I n, :

smarting lr Papen Bubboe tien chook fades Me Pe beet an an ath a Sa Hin“ PoP has
many kindre sse€Se He also heartily thanked Jailer Reedy and declared thathe was the right

man in the right place,

ROBERTSON, Julius B. (Bubber), black, hanged Dallas, TX, May 13, 1910.

“Dallas, Texas, May 13, 1910-Bubber Robertson, a negro, who killed Frank Wolford, a
farmer, after robbing him in Dallas in November,. 1908, was hanged-at noon. Several weeks ago
a mpb attempted to lynch Robertson after lynching another negro, but the officers spirited him
away.”-News, Birmingham, AL, 5/14/1910,

Affirmed on appeal: 126 Southwestern 276,

ROBINSON, Se As ("Snap''), and Forest, Blacks, electroduted Texas State Prison (Dallas County
“a on April 6, 1926. thet.
"Huntsville, Texas, April 6 = S. Ae (Snap) Robinson and his brother Forest Robinson, Dallas
negroes, paid. with their lives in the electric chair at the State penitentiary here early
this (Tuesday) morning for the slaying of Motorcycle policeman C, M, Isbell in Dallas early
in the year, Forest was the first to enter the death chamber. He was strapped to the
chair at 12:20 AM and was pronounced dead nine minutes later. Snap Robinson went to his
doom at 12:35 AM and. at 12:8 waspronounced dead, Forest was given three shots of the
current; Snap five. The execution was witnessed by a group of 8 Dallas officers, including
Sheriff Schuyler Marshall, Jr., Deputy Sheriffs Gene Lasater,-Pat Lowery, Hugh Worthington,
and.Reuben Little; Federal Officers M, T, Gonzaulles and Charles Becke, and Dave Smith,
former Deputy Sheriff. : .
"A few minutes before he went to theelectric chair along with his brother, Forest, for the
murder of Charence M, Isbell, Dallas policeman, S. A. Robinson, negro, confessed that his
brother admitted, to him the killing of another man at Deport, in Lamar; Count, in January,
1925. The negro said that he was escaping from a road gang where he was serving a term for
horse theft when the, man, whose name he did not know, but who was a member of a citizens'
posse, attempted to capturehim, 'He came at me with a knife,' the negro said in his death.
dell a few minutes before he died, .'and I beat him to death with a club, Afterward, I |
dragged his body to a small, creek near by and threw it in the water, I don't know what his
Name was,'
"Cc, M, Isbell, 25 years old, motorcycle policeman, was shot and fatally wounded late Thurs-
day night, Feb. , 1926, by occupants of an automobile which he tried to stop on Forest
avenue, near Whitaker street, South Dallas, With a bullet wound through his right temple,
he died in the city ambulance while en route to a hospital, R, D, “offord, Isbell's come
panion officer, followed the automobile and exchanged shots with the fleeing assailantse
From the description he obtained City Detectives Will Fritz and John Henderson found the
~automobile in Oak Cliff the next day. Six negroes who had been in the car were arrested,
and they told officers of S. As and Forest Robinson, negro brothers, and the part they had
in theshooting, The trail was next picked up in Texarkana where the negroes were hiding,
A trap was set near Foreman, Arke, but they escaped after the shooting of Special Jtgent H,
(Continued to Last Page of Section One\where there is nothing.) NEWS, Dallas, Texas,
April 6, 1926 (1/3 ;

CRIME

"Cc, Marshall tsbell, 25-year-old motorcycle policeman, was shot and fatally wunded late
Thursday night by an occupant of a car which hetried to stop on Forest Avenue near Whitaker

South Dallas, Following a running exschangeof pistol shots with Isbell s partner, % D,
Wooford, the occupant of the automobile escaped across the Forest Avenue Bridge, At ll
o'clock Thursday night more than 100 policemen who were released from duty then set out
armed with shotguns and pistols in autombbiles to find the slayer of their comrade, The
killer is believed to be the same one who fired at Motorcycle Policeman T,. 0. Moore in Kess-=
ler Park, Oak Cliff, Wednesday night, the description of the large touring car with wire
wheels in both shootings tallying exactly,
"Policeman Isbell was riding along Forest avenue a short distance ahead of Policeman Woff=
ord shortly after 10 o'clock Thursday night, when a large touring car speeded by hime
Hurrying after it, Policeman Isbell caught up with it and ordered the driver to turn to the
curb and stop. Instead of complying, the occupant of the car fired on Isbell at close
range, the bullet entering the right temple, Isbell fell mortally wounded, Wofford speed=
ed up after the car upon hearing the shots, and pursued it down Forest Avenue, emtying
his revolver at the car, the occupant of which shot six times at Wofford, Unable to stop
the automobile, which dashed away into the darkness, wéfford returned to his companione
Neighbors, aroused by the shooting, summoned the city emergency ambulance, Stimulants
were given by Dr. 0. W, English to Isbell, yho was alive when reached andan attemt was
made to get him to Parkland Hospital, He died while being taken to the hospital.,
"News of the shooting reached more than 100 policemen when they left duty at 11 0 clock,
Arming themselves with shotguns and pistols, themen, led by Capt. J. F. Kelsey, t6ok
policecars or their private automobiles for a search of the city for the slayere tt was
said that the killer is a negro, lsbell esided at 3003 Grand Avenue. he is survived by
his mife, his parents, Mr, and Mrs, C, ©, Isbell; a borther, aie oe ane os
Mrs, M.. D. Chine and Mrs, Earl Lemaster, all of Tallas, GC. F, Isbe aineclothes olti-
cer, pe an uncle." NEWS, Dallas, Texas, 2/5/1926 (1-3) (Photo of shell, col, 2

ROBERTSON, hanged Dallas, Texas, May 13, 1910 - Continued.

"Monday, Nov, 23, two of thenegroes mixed up in theattempted holdup of Wolford and his sub-
sequent murder were in the custody of the Dallas County officers, They were Walter West,
alias 'Shine', and Genie Jones. The late R, L, Cornwell, then 1t, of thepolice force, had
much to do with the unraveling of themystery. Genie Jones confessed to the crime in the
presence of Sheriff Ledbetter, Lt. Cornwell and others. He implicated Walter West and
Bubber Robertson in the killing. He gave a detailed statement of the actions of the three
on the night of the tragedy, told how they met in a negro saloon in East Dallas and planned
to hold up someone; how they ran across Wofford on Elm St, near the corner of Hawkins and
how they followed their fictim and the boy to the place where the killing occurred. Genie
Jones also told in detail how when the commanded Wolford to hold up his hands he made a
fight and was shot by Bubber Robertson still at large. He told Mr. Cornwell that another
of the three concernined in the tragedy was in jail at the time and that if he wuld go up
stairs and examine the neck of Walter West he would find a cut place behind one of his

ears which was made by Wolford just before being shot, An examination by Mr. Cornwall
revealed the wound, West refused to discuss the matter except to deny that he knew anything
about thematter.

"Bubber Robertson was Still at large, “e was heard of at Paris, where he was born, Sheriff
Ledbetter visited Paris for the purpose of finding out something regarding Bubber's where=
abouts but nothing definite was obtained, Genie Jones and Walter West were spirited away
from Da las as there was talk of mobbing than at the time, Thurdsy, Dec. 1, Sheriff Led-
better wasnotified by Oklahoma City officers that a negro was in custody there fitting the
description of Bubber Robertson, The day before he received this information Sheriff Led-
better was visited by Harvey Ramsey of Garland, Ramsey visited the jail and picked out
Yenie Jones and Walter West as two of the threenegroes who had robbed and assaulted him
severa weeks before,

"Sunday, Mar. 28, Julius Robertson was arrestedin Washington, D, C., on advices and iffform-
tion sent from Dallas. Two detectives of the Washington department, Messrs, Bauer and
Cromvell were detailed to the case. Bubber was working on a farm just across theline in
Maryland, he came to Washington on the day mentioned, Detective Evans of the department, 9
who had visited Dallas during the Elks reunion, and who had been given valuable informaton
by the local officers, gave Bauer and Cromwell the tip. Robertson admitted his identity

at the time of the arrest and said he was present when Wolford was killed, but denied that
he did the shooting, He said that he and Genie Jones and Walter West attempted to rob Wol-
ford and that when he resisted, one of the other two negroes shot him, Beforehis capture
Robertson was located at different points, among them Paris, Tex., Kansas City, Mo,, Cleve-
land, Ohio, Toronto, Canada, and finally in Maryland, near Washington,D, C, Two weeks ago
Gov, Campbell sent Dets. Bauer and Cromwell the reward offehed for the capture of Bubber
who was brought back to Dallas by Chief o Police Brandenburg." TIMES HERALD, DAlbas, Tex.
5-131910 (7-¥) Furter in same articles ",,.[t was through the promptness and cool judg-
ment of this county officer (Ledbetter) that Robertson was, saved from suffering a like fate
with Allen Brooks, the negro rapist, who was hanged to Elk s Arch Mar, 3. Five minutes
before the mob of excited men began battering against the door of the county jail, Sheriff
Ledbetter had his two deputies, Weakley and Ellis, speeding along the Fort Worth pike at a
terrible clip with prisoners Burrell Oates and Robertson in the automobile witht hem,

The exciting eve ts of that trip which did not end until the prisoners were landed in

the Cleburne jail, arenow a matter of history,"

Jones sentenced to 15 years imprisonment after turning state's evidence, according to
TIMES HERALD of 5 /12.1910, page one, Photograph of Robertson here,

Robertson's fatherwWas J.. R, Robertson, a negro minister who died at Sulphur Springs, Tex.,
in 1909, TIMES HERALD of 5/11/1910, page one.

126 SOUTHWESTERN 276
Julius B, ("Bubber") ROBERTSON, black, hangedat Dallas, Texas, on May 13, 1910,
"History of the Crime: :
Nov, ll, 1908 - Frank Wolford murdered. .
Nov, 23, 1908 - Genie Jones and Walter West, alias 'Shine' arrested; Jones confessed, impli-
cating West and Bubber Robertson,
Jan, 2, 1909 - Grand jury indicted Jones, Robertson and West for the crime,
Mar. 28, 1909 = Bubber Robertson arrested in Washington, D. C
June 22, 1909 = Walter West adjudged guilty of mrder and assessed death penalty by jury.
. Case on appeal when West died in jail,
June 25, 1909 = Bubber Rebertson found guilty of murder and assessed death penalty.
March 23, 1910 = Court of.criminal appeals affirmed sentence,
April 1, 1910 - Mandate of higher court received, re
April l, 1910 - Judge R, B. Seay sentenced prisoner to death.
May 13, 1910 = Bubber Robertson hanged for the! mrder of Frank Wolford,
"Exactly at 11:30. o'clock this morning Sheriff a, L, Ledbetter sprung the trap of the
gallows of the Dallas County Jail and Julius B, alias "Bubber", Robertson, had paid the
extreme penalty for the murder. of.Fank Wolford, the Rose Hill farmer. at 11:38 o'clock,
Drs, Frank Hale, T, B, Fisher, W. M, Brumby and, kK... Field pronounced life extinct, At
11:50 o'clock the body was cut down and turned over to the undertakers, Thenegro went to
his death as cooly as though death was, the farthest thing from his mind, tn fact throughout
the whole proceedings he appeared to be about the coolest person among the large number who
witnessed the execution, ‘ : ;
"Among the spectators wase Mrs, Frank Wolford, widow of the mrdered man, and a number of
other relatives, Among these relatives was Bp Golson, the step-son of Wolford, who was with
him when thekilling occurred, Vilet and Vera, two of Wolford's daughters, two of his brothers
a brother-in-law and several nephews and other relatives, 'I would like to pull the trap
which will send that negro $&Z@ to eternity'%XXAXA, said one of the brothers just a short
time before the march to the gallowsbegan, .
"After the noose had been adjusted by Sheriff Ledbetter, and wile the sheriff was in the
act of adjusting the black cap, the big negro's lips were seen to be working. No audible
sound came from the lips of the man who was so near death, but it was apparent to all who
saw the lips working that he was sending up his last prayer to his maker to have mercy, on
his soul, While the lips were still working the black cap was slipped over, his head. A
moment later the sheriff thewew the lever, The platform shot out from under the negro and
there was an audible twang which could have been ‘heard in nearly all parts of the jail as
the, rope tightened caused by the heavy weight on theother end pulling it taught,
"That fall did not break the negro's neck as was indicated by the fact thathe appeared to
struggle for some little time after the drop. Gradually the rope began, to cease quivering
and in a few minutes' time the doctoss who were grasping thepulse of the negro, pronounced
that thepulse wasno longer beating. .The body, however, was not cut down until ten minutes
to 12 o'clock, rity .
"It was a few minutes after 11 o clock when Sheriff Ledbetter pushed himself through the hall
around the scaffold and entered the cell occupied by Robertson, The light in the cell was
badand the sheriff had some difficulty in finding enough light to read the death warrant,
‘Here, give it to me, I'll read my, own death warrant,' said Bubber, The sheriff handed
the paper to the negro and he started out in a strong voice as he read thewarrant, He read
nearly a page and when he-came to the word custody, he pronounced it 'cuspidor', At this
Sheriff Ledbetter took the warrant from the negro, and figWirg a point where there was more
light, he read the lengthy document to; the doomed man, |
"Before Sheriff Ledbetter started to read the warrant, Bubber, who was dressed in a soft
silk shirt, a neat new black suit and new shoes, asked that someone tie his tie, The re-
cuest was complied with, Detective Duncan fixing the black bow to suit the negro,,..Dnning
the reading the negro stood as straight as a soldier with his hands folded behind his back
and calmly chewing gum, A slight smile crossed his face when the sheriff came to that point
whichsaid that he should take the condenmmed man and hang him by his neck until death ensued,
"Following the reading of the document, Jay, Overstreet, who represented Robertson at his
trial, asked him whether he desired to confess qr make any statement of this kind. At this
Bubber seemed to get a little angry and said: 'H have no-confession to make, Christ is my
priest and I have already made my confession to him, I will not deny that I have shed hymam
blood but- I have told it all:to Christ. Following this Bubber turned to Sheriff Ledbetter
and said: ! t Ih d nj i ek, i !
replied Cae ee Bubber hee bed hanes nape Pe Be er and +88 SP hmoP oP has
many kindressese He also heartily thanked Jailer Reedy anddeclared thathe was the right

man in the right place,

"Motioning to Elder George woo has been his spiritual.adviser during all the time he has
been under the sentence of death, to come into the cell, he said he desired to sing his
last song, Ina strong, but a voice which seemed clear, the giant black led-the singing
-of the, bhymn "Blessed Be the Tie That Binds." After singing two verses of this song he,
expressed a desire to look out of the jail,window on the gRhougands which were standing
in the jailyard despite the fact that it was raining.
"While Robertson made no set speech, he spoke to several he saw in the atiwd whom he _knewe
Gaging out of the window for the last time, hesaids'Well, my friends, goodbye,' Noticing
some one in the crowd he recognized and’ who hollered to he, Bubber said: 'Meet me in Heaven.
This is Bubber Robertson, All you boys try to bé good, I always was a man and I am going
to die like a man, In twenty minutes it will be all over with me.' There were crgés from
the crowd of 'give us a talk, Bubber,' and.he replied, I haven't got any talk to makes,
except that I am-weady and willing to:dthe.' © Recognizing a aegro.in,the crowd with whom he
had evidently soldiered, Bubber called:out: 'Hello, old soldier comrade, I was a me down
on the Island wasn't I and I ‘am a man here. and.am going to die like a man,'
"Following these.remarks the negro turned to. Ledbetter and signigied that he was peadys
Ahead of the sheriff the big negro walked to, the scaffold,...there was absolutely no sign
of feary Reaching the gallows and trap, eeeeBubber reached, up,and grabbed the noose and.
threw it around his own neck, ‘Sheriff Ledbetter, however, removed the noose as he wanted
Bubber on the scaffold before the noose was adjusted, A few minutes was loct in straight
ening the big negro's arms behind his! back and he thens tepped onto the platform, His legs
were strapped, the rope placed around his neck and adjusted, the omietied dropped over
his head and in a moment more the negro was hanged)
eeeeThe body:was turned over to the’ People's: Undertaking’ Company. The body. will be held
at this place until Sunday morhing when it’ will ‘be shipped to Paris, Tex., for interment,
“obertson was a negro in the prime. of’.life and’was a‘soldier during the Spanish-American
War in the 8th Illinois Volunteer Regiment ‘of saad ‘soldiers... Ke saw Onttve service in.
Cuba," ’
"Bubber slept calmly from 10 o' dlock last night until 4 o'clock this morning, At the latter
hour he had requested Beath Guard Cantrell to' awaken him, He was awakened but went back
to sleep again and slept until 6:30 o'clock, A half spring chicken, French fried potatoes,
eggs, and tea was what the negro desired for breakfast... ‘ailer Reedy complied with this
last requesteoso" TIMES HERALD, Dallas, 5-13-1910, page’ biies
0" THE. CRIME. ‘ol Tom ;
“Exactly oneyear and six months ago yesterday, Frank Wolford, a prosperous tarmie of Rose
Hill was held up and shot to death by three'regroes atthe corner of Main and Bopp Sts.,
near where the Dallas. Branch flows under’the former. ‘Residents of that vicinity at 10:30
on the night of Nov, 12 were ‘startled by a shotjoy This’ was followed by a scream of agony,
Severak men hastening to the scene found Wolford ‘seltering:» in his own blood, His son, a
youth of 15, frightened at the'condition of hisfather, told of the attempted robbery which
had resulted in the tragedy, Wolford was perfectly conscious when assistance, arrived and
-remained so up to’a short time’ beforehis: death att hexcity hospital. He was wunded in the
groin, An artery had been severed‘and with every movement of the unfortunate man s body the
blood gushed forth a veritable torrent. Hei livéd but, afew hours, but was able t6 relate to
City Health Officer Fisher the particulars of the'crime...He aad his son, anda nephew,’ had
arrived from Rose Hill that afternoon witha load of produce, They had left their team and
wagon at the Rupard wagon yard near’ the Fair Grounds, The father and’ son started on a\walk
to town. Ab the intersection of the ‘two etreets’ named in the:.foregoing three negroes /accost-
ed them. One of the negroes pointing a revolver point blank into Mr.‘ Wolford's ‘face ordered
him to hold up his hands, Mn Wolford had ‘a knife open-in his hand, Just as one. of ‘the.
negroes was going through his pocket, Mr,: Wolford madea slash with theknife, and stabbad »
the would-be robber in ‘theleft’ side-of the ‘neck, ‘He’ who held the revolver, fired immediately,
Mr, Wolford fell to the ground, The threenegroes ‘fled, ‘The Wolford boy hastenedacross the
street to'obtain assiatance, Upon his return his:father. directed that-a doctor be sent for
immeiliately and handed over to’ his‘son the $50 ‘in currenny he had concealed in his pocket,
The n groes were unsuccessful in their robbery, »,J/Lhere was) a storm of ‘indignation: throughout
‘phe city following the night of the murder, County and'city officers:.were called -upon to
arrest all suspicious looking negroes in tHe’ city, This: was done,:. Several were placed in
“custody, Diligent efforts were made by. those detailed to the case to: find a negro with a
stab wound in’the neck or a slash across the face, Monday, Nov,. 16, Sheriff A, L. Ledbetter

ofifered a reward-of $1000 the: arrest and. conviction of :the guilty parties, Gov, Campbell

increased this reward
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in La atreet cae tae. ausnted. rediey by the city A Teo heure ‘Bors the, report.’ J I ’
Ne ort car company ett be aiableg (a Berres | the killing had beam henddouat Bes] \n i ‘
he Re Dt the §6b9 008 Rate AvalPabia, will enable lice received a call over ee Yne
neat oy careed cxteneteng and imerevemeats; (Cimtinued Pron # Fron rage duet * phone frond . men ‘whee ate pea ree Page ‘on oy ;
Pr@ coco Peet Cevttfthewtes vhke thirty dicioned [olenso Jasin oe and t to}
newt ’ « eee perrnenerreir (sean | were Yeeetved at the” etty hat, Ta lle advised Pollee Sergeant retype ‘on an el af DEATH 1s BLAMED ON GAS. .
Myern st ons Ne 1 Na 2 and Ne, 8 ‘ j born Inwtancea (ne deseription Of) Cnariea PiAnt that hie car almost the property. ; POISONING; WAS
(ak 8 bands et T ho, B4.009.0% | tn gr talliedt, and both persone] ousetty tallied with the description Iriety aiready, ie as been enh | eds |
ent Pann for ‘Tete te Marthoreugh.. 1 2.cen on ber mw the evcapants anid there{or the death enr, and he biggrene mitted to the attorney groecal DESPONDENT V
reel taeQeon ta HOMdervowea gers gacss 4tians nateeee three negroes fe {ha machina | the pulles «a Rnow that it Rov hetdting that the Califarnia ruling Seema |
thet ors dig Pap te TAOMO, cecssvese, AN MHH EN fe parked an Tele canna wimoee could not be applicable In Tene J.B Durham, 86 year ett wre)
ater ' crt tee PIR WEDOTMO, La geeacen ee 4A MOH oS Peeee layers Pew, lamar and that it had beeg [24 the ate other atatos In wien | pound dead in a roam at a ovetel. |
Aves “eel 1 CRPPOMOT ey ieee eee PANO HN Volice are confident that Tebail'a/there nntit the death car Blithe husband and wife Nave been 1215) Nowe avenue, atone Tol. «
tne 6m 1M UNTER. gc cccceryobereess BOO ct ayere are att! in Dalles, having | located, called Dermitted to nmke tae returns for Thureday evening. Death waite |
tine ry JOed ta RE Feeeereees TR MONEO Ane herk Inte the city after the The ewner of oe ra th m fifty pee cent each of the com: lig aan poleoning, according toon ie:
ter No ty Oak TAN Cees teen e renee ETO Cine and put thete car in somal taaicab and went home, prod munity income, pert of Fimergeney Nerapitt des
wet ee Sa tO MOVOMEM REPO EO ate germee In the event that|than fake oa chenes “ae ited Soe Waehington aoomeeting ofl tore,
day ‘tagnotin te Cottanwood, and they Dave fled from the etty, tt te eneant Pie Baia P ope pect United Htatng panatorea wrt ull: A plece of rabber howe ene cnt
tee eee ee eeepc ee cee TROOM ON | teat Mey wlll be capticed, aaj bile white the sean on Areaamen of the atatem with oon: l attached to the gta eanncetion smd!
“at tly City raving tobe Under Contract te yeenrate dem eiption of their owe] dee car wns in pias nen wera] MUMNY tan aysterme was Nell tll ine other Rear Durhama teu!
Ce ee Seen erate ea ot whe Sie wf Tabet, | Weehs Bat those taminehers les | where tha Jay upen the floor we
Mtr ‘ han tee etty UM ee ere ereenencs 8 " PaO eer in the wtate tland elven a deaription af the an. vMded Ce owithWotd further ae thon a dec
Haven © Oh tenets eee Skee eee e ee TE OON EN) Aes than TAn polloemen mid jan mt Fred Willama, poties | MMO the attorney generat tot toon
thee sity MIMO, sagesedhoeseares TROON) Agony affierre are etc ta the me e haree at night. tuened | AIven time ta inka on thorough
twoter ' STovaer, . core eCevegeens es TET ETS Md coe out ull ihe “diaala men rr nie atudy @f the Inaue
then bes teenmanTre ‘ttalleny. renee VPOMH DOL Lt wee hot dawn when he é Ad. they wrerehed “ite eee
nie ‘Momiolin and Cottens nod iverped the big automatite as it sede toatl negtth from Datla WHE Watt tow Tending.
a. ee eee eee EM MOM EO aneting weet an Forest ave. a4 Mt lie lark At the clone of the acasion I M
(mst bears erty Mette. sveccecdeserece TOBA Oe after wm ehart chaae, Mie can] aud Im tile — oo Wult of Wichita Patte, aclectedt am
. wenn: tN Hey TINMOW EN NOs vececseeees DIAM T? Vyeecton. Tt 1 Wofferd, saw the . chairman of a apectal committer to
ome i tee tRNA cece were bores tenes #008 tas of a pistol and Isbett reel | Tells of Khooting. a Herida an the position and action
sad@rere' sy 6 tee eee eee ee ees TI" toe bie motorcycle aa the officer Tn aw atatement nt headquarteral tha bedy woul! take, announced
Tan rey Thesedl OOo ee rerens VAs0 0 wae eriting out a patice cadet mint. latter killing, Wofford sald, “Taben that as he naw tt, there wae norhting
nee 0 | Pere eeeeres RTH KR aie and J were checking Up on apeed-lty ag at thle tle but wait for name |
tyler} cose WT | penetf dled on the way to Park: [ere on Forest avenue, and — had statement from the nttorns y gems |
nr youn ere ee ee ee ee ee VET TO at hempteal without remmbuvtere | jue Stappe a idrliser who wre exe frnl. {f
at ote? a er ee fe ee ee ees rer OT] The priatot Yauattes eocedtiag the mpd Minit, { had The Permanned of thee we edad
May ‘ ea err PAO ye eed Dba beratn . started te write out «SIMMONS [OF | emm mitten Wn fadem oe Yiatina |
aboe re 1 | tanono eee [the driver, when the i sprint mean, POR. Brawn preetdeut of the | .
. Mec tes rene ee i een | tutes Mineka. PAP came apeediog toward as from Magnotia Prtrotenm « orpornt=tan, | ’ " a.
an ' ' Ces 66 bebe 2 Yet sa Wolfen reed after the car andl the emat who waa ts preskiont oo the | ( ome and he Ip > “
the ' sales d Wave wre cue YAN OO cared eote with Oe oecupante, “tabelt Kicked off his motor andlenamber af Comme ree Other Just Aa few of the Hare
- Dwell, ceceec cece neces VEE OA ey dom pletot three thee FOw] started after the car, pulling up members are J. M Rockwall, I in
. , ie fired from the automobile] beaide ft and ordered the driver |yroustany WW. OW. Woodenn, Waren: Choose
| ae 8 Th Ren nn - ca fabout the hentof the pur. /te putt up to the curb. The neat Wo Wooten Anite ne J ‘4 Cut
_ A + te Wesun —_—r . es.000.00 ae ete ne. hot none of thenrt thing To knew there waa @ plagol hertaan, Therts: Shahin J King: of; "ea Sis My
lat ‘ We ftedtet (eetded). "4.000 CO Tate nim. The tig machine, fahoet and Traw Clarence reet from | reartnnn and WooE Connell of | Men's Suits ay
. ” Q2,pHn oA é red of SA iilem any Mia motor end fall Inte the etreet. licee Waeth Pincet hy
oe es a fy _ panic! Vex Pereat avcenmad i atferint)ed ta overtake the car bytming oth. prisnate sAéeetog 4 msierieies em (){)
- " tern nanan nt feo rnd autdtatanesd Wetfard cand Crea my pian msl, tye Se ae Che Die basal ae | perce \e i i
' : _ Ko oonoals,.. ‘ ta the pin where hapempty, ber the bie Mmarhing ron Men ane bankers merely deatred om VW evateds, 7
‘ oe “ SP ROT | re , en fall Worferd found [isanperre to over the Forest ave- frank and tnformud cdiseuwton af Veweede, 2
cures : . : - LOMO OMT EY, ead onttentooy had been [ Mte hebler thelr posittona ood thet pubttetty berate ee
sree i” ete | eamimnned and pelle had, been “When boretrened ta ble atde, he mlven fo aieh statements might . oa
$1 4486 at 44 seth Poe the mbeatinm Had here titen (VT re fouse and Dlnece the delegation in an tmproper sect =
‘ me Wott on few qoutes wo dae the oamibuianes ond dactone anes And mtaunderstoodt postiton, ; \
~ weripttion af the as hi been fmeret Th never spoke attec he “The meeting wan nn entirety Men's Overconls aad
r ty i ‘astore whe of thetr own chalice, howto aver the oo pelles aigualf ite te [ ceuld not tetf at the Peacahle one wnt while everyone | *]
. |!" t r jyty the emah fare rather than pare] re elem and all effler ce wagay tine whether tye accupants af the Announced ready to (Maht attempts 50 ry
| ee | thane tektete The Beeent tebet e ilee ‘tothe far the death car. {OUT Sree newroes ar whites, hut} changer the community tae plan, tl aa
RT) 2) fore, pupehmaed tm tote of fival? TO Maere, moter cele offlesn | om the rection of fire whteh | oO Wan in ot position to state Vette 5.
| Mat ANES) ‘hh khete for da cents, will not add to whe bechamel pistod shota with [ote from the machine ag the ae. Whether he helicved the governs |p B2h.00 ef
Ho! { ‘the Hving coats of the Daltaw citl- Infdentified persona in Weanlee | UPANIR returaed iny fire, two pers ment would ao far step inion ‘atate | b t
rene, and wll be an encouragement pommel Onk CUCL Wednemtay might.) wns were atooting from the aide Tighte’ na to attempt to force a Cs |
, to regular ridera ta purctinac the eelared the description of the car), S24 rene of the Sridee It gern change tn the state tavatlon eye. “ janet
hte, thereby benefiting the tallies with that of the car whtet hesre arroea the bridee inte Oak ferma’ Mtr Pate mated. N
oi » leompany in the way of emah mde he wae wateling when Me oan ever ou ene Oe ' pt
‘ eryices, mare 1 7 “ a a 1 '
UNM tuawement nf treet vara tine | firm upon fran the stark Varents Pass Mone, fede “aus Oh wticsinlton ine sack | iz
" , “| venine ho we the majority of pussen- Condact (lt Sight Search Cot fabell and hie wife O04 Keren fy the United states an| é H |
. lerte wil be provided wlth tokene At PP onetock when the pation | Mebert Tabell, tather. eet ane duly | a
eo. Sar Hebhetm) wearing Cline making mathered nt the ety hall for the ae ea me " ~~ . genet van ~ i i + |
. I ea ee hange ef detath many of thane tnt . " nt thes ax hiperer he sil ' e& 2 |
ue “Phe Teent cuan fare, mith &. who had been oan duly atnes TL Oe pasees ° on eo te $8 . 'f bn tt ra ADE | ene al ]
_ jeont thet fare (ffee tehet@ far eeclick Thureday mmorntng, auiied ee eted betel thea rig ~ ; gt * -
sw Lye ented 8A place the Patt ie with oalet@une, rifles Mre Tatett heard ern © fc \ {
' Lok ae ‘ : the ambulance as tt Bed to the s ~~ |
* l ttwihway campany ino tha position and platola aod in automobitea con: ene Rhe told her husband to 4 Men's Felt Hats ry
ocuee lV they report it le necessary for them acted nn all-night search for thelr a - wis oe seu ee « ey |
. ** Ste occupy In order ta markel mule companian’a ainie Pl ich ars later stunned ae : nd .00 3 H
ne Viva tles (o enable them to Every negro rettiement in Del. , iach 4
an . ; ficlent aecurt : ai ba . A : Inthe | token hearted, she was on her P | pelt vet rs rd |
1 Laeetre auch new capital ae w faa and Oubh CNT nd several in way home, her sow driving the Simoat everyone knows that Rage | ane k |
ies ‘lrequired to, replenish frecrvc ea. 19 outahinta of the conty were visited car while the father went toa Park. | eae ee y
vere : , “= fle _wh Tea and Rviphur, property com. |B rs |
na replace wornout and. @bsolete) yy agricera from the aheritt a offien Teed hoapttal with the wounded a bed) stylee .., 13
ae ae cymtonant, and fo make meh eel aig the cits hall tn memech of the br blend omnes, hawenne, beats inea Sak | Be ey Ste ne
. 1, fionatena nitditione and lronreter | cag the Nompltal wae reached ott 0) ‘fin wabiras : ~
_ “Teventa ae tay te fant deateatta eats Woo Pnetleh. Rineraeney Reapitel] rotar oot] iol 4 "as
eee , Liv the publte tatereat wheel Btn. Mears ty ayrer on, adoititateret atlinulante te iat i aA bire } fen a hors |
fo0 Var the Jnetermacd fare and Bechet Me Weer des Mearatyall enn fhe wonnmdet officer at the arene halt when!
an einer Konerdoreteee - The GhAP mating hey of his WeaGler Bi Oe Os Ake aby te the hospital, hart oa ‘| |
. : Hallway campang shaufd te re fepeetal demiution deen from place] ek el! ' atrewhead ue aray
_ ' aired 1@ peeyre and rapend HOW) to place theougheot the county tn Inhell had been a menher of the . te _- ia. i ea, |
_ roy, [maney te the amaunt of one nite lan effort ta inate the biacke Pollea department! alinoat a year, ate was ta clea
an va {iion dollare, and alnao to expend) at doting’ Uritay morning the having Joined Inat April. Ho was \ at home, which ts | Fe ’
t ote ‘ come from the reserves for replacementel car was reported to have boen aeean married last September {o Mise laey ahd, [roublencire | : P
ts} rr hate autn of Approcimately $450,000) on Forest avenin near Meadow! avai, mtevenson. The couple re-) Nowadaya we aimply ask at any | Bo . .
ere nit und cipend aaine without delay Infatreet. Ten automobiles filled with side? with the wife's parents at Arua mtorn for “Wyeth's Mage anil Also W omens W ear
the Improvement af tha property, [efficera and civilians eneeded = te 3003 Grand avenue. Kulphur Compound." You will get 2
fos i fe the opal. Bet: the rar ad dleap-| Parente and near retatives ef |i harmo — ne pene | * i
renee _ : re mee ’ recipe improved by o ads ©
a ye . | Ot. 000 Available ph rien ic, tHe ans tne ena alae Inaredtents, for onty 7h centa. | Stea ms up «
erga tof "A inition dallare now moncs| Datiag Natleay company they have! fanmily be * in| Mvecybody sea thie preparation | Ba :
ed their deatte, both now] tle te survived by Ais wife, Ate naw, beeattwe nO dane can poralhly | ’
we et a ea ee future to ce-eperata| Nother and father, Mr. and Mea tell that vou darkened yous hatr. | Y
in '') value wil replace reserves heratac; and for the fu a ' t nt ery, OO Tabell, one brother, HMobert! ae tt does tt eo naturally and even. | a vape
the Te Ose) fare teaporantiy borrowed fram) with your — ane te ba Iehall, and twa alsterm Meret. Clty. You dampen a aponge or watt | § .
ir {co e* | thetp apectal clamification, veatar.| pessthle way fading up te Taitaster and Mea MoT. Cline, all; brueh with it and draw this Next to New Sant
oy 2 lta pene te Che different reeerves,| futolabing of « flisteclaaa —_ of Deltas, The boy faa nephew of] through your halr taking one amall
Mets "1 | pereiting again the ver of yin ence’ cha a Atha ean mei ee Corneling Tebell, plaincotthes poe ceay hale Bauman cl bree 1110 and 1112 Cor
that be Treserves In providing facilities for] Dattas, — Heeman, . ‘ .
pier oT ae ewing Che pubiie when mald money | fuentah one milion a nie Gn ‘oe #8 hate henaace MecUney dark. Opnnsite Murphy Street
aih PN te uot neaded ~all ae apectiicd Ja} money, and approsinvately $480, INinerald Saterday, thick and gingay ai you look
veges oT ST rranehton thu providing froin| from reserves, and to eapend samen Funeral serviera stil be held yenre younger.—-(AAY )
the raid reserves the (approximately) {te improve the property a€ out} i Cidence of Hf. Rteve
Vth 4 fore | 450.009 mentioned in the forega- | ited In thle plan, pushing tha work enaon, 3003 Grand avenue, at 40
vote "OM - ling. whitch, together with the ona] eth all dispatch conatstent with o'clock Raturday morning.
etry cs re est miltien dollars new money, will) economical business methods, com- Nuortal will be in Grove HIN cem-
tan "oT" Take @ total of $1,464,000 for im-| pleting the entire plan promptly sa] oy ace pall bearera will be
‘ OF TUN [mediate use, eald total sunt ta be] aa to ive the Paling car riders the/ i) oF tiagetl, i: P. Mart, C, B
so sat | Need ae feollowa: (Hee accompany: | improved services with aa little Mtephenaon, J. 1. Wicker, Ro de
th SAY ing table pom g of ae, delay ne possible, and further to Jones, W. A, Wikeos, all meniber of
pers merit) ‘ss \ work In clues eared with tne (he matogvycle miuad of the police
45. te " '"-) Nay nave Ootn,, . ; ; aly commission ta take rare Of] 4 nartment, ;
whe ‘ton . : (he future street var ureda of ou Hanmracts pallheareta are all the : on
a aan ‘The foreraing Wakes 4 total af wonderfully growing city. ily atfeiale wind heada of differ. - DAI ] AS q\’ ACO 1 MR | b
ae , sce eatioes ieee ptbeie fie “tL rreammend further Mat your) ane deiroadn of the bollee depart. oe ‘. .
see ¥ . ae .:? .
. ywwtl) he Ported Hat there: han bien hengrat: le tenty make ane Plan wien dn me Pe! 9 60 tan .

CAPTURE

R ia et ° © e ‘
"Three negroes, believed to have been the oecupants of the car from which Isbell was mor-
tally shot Thursday night, were arrested late Friday afternoom by City Detectives J. W,
Fritz and J. A, Henderson, One of thenegroes was’ arrested in South Oak Cliff, near. where
a few hours earlier a touring car corresponding to the description of the death automobile
was found,. Another negro was: arrested in South Dallas and another in North Dallas. They |
will be questioned Saturday morning by police officials,
"Further investigations in theneighborhood-in which the car was found are being made by:
police anddetectives, Others connected. with the shobdting of Policeman +sbell at Forest
Avenueand Whitaker: St. are bkieved to be still at large and seakch started by more than
100 Dallas policena :Thursday night after relief from-their regular beats, is being con-
tinued by a nunber of them Friday night. With the finding Friday morning in the Trinity
“iver bottoms south of the city of a large automobile, the gas tank of which had been
punctured by bullet holes, and which contained two tanks of acetylene gas, therewas given
the first definite clue to the:men who killed the young motobcycle officer, 4tsbell was
shot when he attemted to stop a car of the same description as that found Friday at Wall ©
Street ‘and forest Avenue, South Dallase ‘The car was speeding, and when halted by the
officer one of the three occupants shot him through the heady death resulting as he wes
being taken to a hospital, R. D. Wofford, another motorcycle officer and partner of +sbeal
emptied his revolver at* the car in-an effort to stop ite.,..Ihe car found souty of te city
was identified as belonging to a Dallas man, from whom it had been stolen several days ear=
‘lier, it was said, Presence of the acetylene tanks in’the car when found lec officers to
the theory that the occupants were professional yeggmen, and probably the.men who robbed
two banks at Venus Wednesday, Motorcyle Officer- Wofford Friday gave details of the killing
of Igbell, to whose aid he went when he heard the first shooting, He exchanged several
shots with theoccupants of the car, but said he did not get close enough to say piisitively
whether they were negroes or white men, though he believed they were negroes, Detectives
Friday were searching for another car, the driver of which was stopped by Wofford for speed=
ing just before Isbell attempted to halt the other car, The latter was apparently following
the car stopped by Wofford, it was said, Funeral services for the slain officer will be
conducted atlO o'clock Saturday morning at his home, 300% Grand Avenue, Burial will be in
Grove Hill Cemetery." NEWS, Dallas, 2-6-1926 (11/1/6) :

Jar ac 8 BS,

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ot 8 sh

Pha 6,

-_ “Take them alfve (Uf porsinic,

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‘

4. CITY ADOPTS RELIEF

33 BELATED TAXPAYERS
a & eae

:URMPelay Hight after one af

‘were “lestgt by Lowe Turter, |
|

‘thé city following the shooting, the

‘ing back te Mov, f, whteh ta an.

: flat! pensity of 16 per cent of the

BLACKS
IN DEATH GAR

i eeateieeeeradad . i

aqe* he : t
3 Rarly capture of the three ne

BHA MHleanpoared
the
Kinchka hed phet dawn Afotorey ola
Folieeman Clarence AMarahall ta.
bell, while ha aan Rilempting to a¢.
feat them foe @pecding, was pre.
Atetad by city and eonnty officers
jwho were engaged Friday in a
ifronsted man-hunt @€ state-wide
scope.

" Beveea! clues ae ta, the ldantity
OF the death car trio were checked
fp by deimctives Mridny Morning,

i DEAD OF ALIVE.
a oem |
( Onderd to get! the men wha

LICE HAVE crvEs ¥Pionw?

oer

Rea ddivs dads |

Msi, deat avi NING, FEB

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tUARY
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Reasgeat TS

et
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of Police Offic«

— “7

SLAIN

— C, M. ISneLL

es
SO ye eS a Nee eee ee anes

FIGHS REAP

kitted Moterpets Oftlene tahell

Police ant fee comaietoner:
Ctaarte W. Trammell, chief of
police, ami J.C. Qumming, chiet
Of tictectivers, friday morning.

bth tine the peoper precantions
ta Aroreas thee aiding others
‘to thetr Ihet of slain policemen,”
Wein ihe Inetructiona jenuet te
inches of the department,
Chiel Gunning comfeernt wtih
tombere of his division Irhtey
Morning ard the nich BF the ie.
Partinesi were assigned tu ihe
J6d Of ruaning down the alayres.

and officlals wre camtliagt they will
be reanded un hefore many heures.

Although the death (eae was
wignted acreral times in and wear

Negrove manage 1 ta avotd captors
and sip throdg@h the cordon of
armed offivere who are pelroiling
every road with erdara ta “sheot to
kill “ =

The ceporia af the.car having
Leen seve ahortly after the aluoting

Centinued en Page Tern,
OTIS een eet ee

MEASURE TO HELP

“With only Saturday remaining
{4 which ta pay city taxee without
Penalty and tnterret fur des
Nnqueney, the cify comaiinaion PF yt.
day marning passed a reowluilen
arauling A eiell ineneties af cetiet
fo (Rapavyere whe Will net be ality
lo tmy on thine, ’ .

The daia of nemmaslig © 4 pee
COnk groeq pemalty was eatonded
from Feb, @ to May ft. The resolu.
tlon provides that ftazem paid dur-
ing the remainder of February and
March bo. sesetsod a pensity of 2%
per eent, during April 6 per cent
and 19 per cent affer May |, The
prnte extension wae made last peare
Without tt (race patd after IMyb, 6
wild tt paerseed 14 per een.

' The presiaion for the apestal
Venelly Lae na effect on the regu.
Vee luterent rate of @ per cent dat.

seseed against all detinquent taxne,
Tiida meane that faces patd afine
May 1 will be anoesend © por cont
\ntereet back ‘te November and a

Alc HARVEST
~ IN EW YORK

20.000 MEN CLEARING CITY
STREETS OF HEAYY .
SNOW

New York, Pah. 4 CP), =—Par the
frat time in uiany yeara che tinkt)
OF wiatal halle aes hanrd afory Mutt
and Pack avenue today, Old-time
cabbice took advantage of the par.
"lal paratyata uf motor traffic te
haul ferth gnclert . horse-drawy
Steighs and cutters and patrolled
(he atreetm (pr, faree, _ -'

Hoine charged $36 per hour: and
they reported Plenty of fares: at
thoac rates * <'«™* #

Meanwhile @ force of 20,000 men.
hundreds of trucks, traetors and
other eunipment, were nremped nts
hervicd to expedite the work of
clearing the Oy alrecia ef yeatar-
day's enows.

The (irr hexard reaulting fren
enow-hincked prasta, thi need af
rapid tranepottation af SUP plies and
he foentventente cof pedestriana
were condiliona which nade jt neo-

Casary for the work to be Dunnhed
as rapidly aa poanibie, .
-- ©
To Coat 81 000.000, P
The city hee 1.100 mites ef

strerta wud Iho cost of clearing this
@rea Nam heey catimatod at $1,000,,
DOO oF rice 4

Afts of the princinal tneraugh.
farce atl hittan RpRronohee were
hept open COntlitearetp, The #ork
Wf cleating the ulNer tate eireets
Wil Hod be eempleted petara (™

Mertuw, Unieea mid weather
Potten ta iheie nsaletanon offictals
fold parte of the cily weukt be

snowboumt for ot Inaat tey days.

* Meanwhile the number of caayal-
flea directly of indireetly resulting
from the blizzard continued to

Continued on Page Fievan,

STietiecudieee nt
= ene gaete pope

Divine Consigns
800 Prepared
Sermons to Fire

i ciiermnenieneemeene!

Fort Worth, Feb. 8 (4°).—Re-

TEXANS TO WAIT
"FOR AULINE GN

9 ee ea eee aoe tee,

}

Officials Wreck

Confise:

County

“INCOME TAKES

BUSINESS MEN AND BANKERS
HOLD PRIVATE CONFER.
| ENCE HERE:

hs 4 \

Vrominent bankers, be buatices
men aml Neary taxpayers of Torna
Wet In Clawnsd sommion tiday Morn.
ina In the Adatphiue Retel hamtan
land te dinstion (he (lent thep wit
Haha Agaitet any atiompt an the
Part of the gasrninent to encroach
Upon the community system of tex
parinent (a Texas, eapecially in the
vayment of the federnés income tax.
They decided to awaft.a ruling of
the attorney general Bofore taking
action, :

lendance saw to tt that their meat.
Ing wan Went private hy wvehering
Newapaper nen fram the Toent as
feat ve they appeared, Nathan
Adana, preadeut of the Antertoan
Pichange National bank and ane of
the lradera in the ran(erenvea, at.
tnitted that ba and ather inembers
of the @roup had Teerived tela.
wrairve from Walted States Con.
fremman Hatten W. Sumnees from
the Dallan district. and some of tha
Nationally known tax experta in
Washington urging that the Texan
Getegution. withbold action until
the attorney Wereral, kad ruled on

‘{the Income tay ‘pabtiene ease, in

references ta Teme and nlx other

‘jatates whieh operate ander the
femniunity tax avetens,
e@® ee
Appechondon Hicge. .
. - Whee Seprehsnatee +-develgued
Im Tenae npen the rerent ruling of

the Aupreme court in a Caftfornin
cade; where tite HRA oatPt held
that the ‘husband was Hable for
Payment o A. on - preperty

Contittued .on -Page Tet.

MAN OROWNS
IN-TANK CR

' oy
The bankers and othare In ateg

Conviction on n charge of

ent of husinens A total of $90 tn

o 2 ree *

AIR SER
"RENEWE

offansiva for a reparate alr ROT.
{ce wae renewed concurrently hee
form two congressional conimitters
taday by Major General Datrivte,
chlet of the army ate bervice, and
William MAtenetl, once Ucneral
Patrick's ansiatant and more Pre
cently the center of n quarrel aver
holley enich fed ta hia court-mars
{tal and restenation from tha army,

VICTIM TOPPLES into GASo-
LINE WHEN OVERCOME
RY FUMES.

Overcome by gas fumeg white
working on a tant ‘car at the
Aimma Ot company on tha Meate
Mord read, jt, te Tamh, 99 yearn

“A terrible incen waa the wap

CHOWN FACES

wid, BIR Wuodinwn @remue, fepeptedt
late the car Miled with Gaaiine
204 wea drowned Defore friluw
workmen reuld teyeue himw Friday
inorning,

Yamb waa werking on the car
alone, He wae alanding In the
dome trying to loowen the outlet
valve when overcoma by the fumes.
“Wearing his screams for help,
Elvy Turner,, a fellow worker,
Jumped -feom a nearby ear on
which he waa working and tried

(9 reseue Lanih, a .

. “ . @ ee ey

Crowmts tha Cary
Kariier during thy motntug

Jamb, with other
Yemeovad tha dome canto drain the
tank car, When the valve faltnd
to work Lamb crawled partiy tite
the ear in an effart to start the
flow inte an adjoining vat

C. L. Minor, foreman of the rack

emplogen, had

TATE PENALTY

PROSFCUTON ASKS REPEAL OF
FIVE-YEAR SENTENCE
BUSPENSION

District Attorney Shelby Cox Frit.
day morning filed a motion In
Judge ©. A. Mppen’s court making
that the court revekea the Biepen-
elon @hich wae attached to the
fiveoyoar Peltentingy sontanna
atven Joe llrewn, win wae convlet.
ed In Judtan Pippen'ta court feat
Keptember of manalaughter, Mrown
waetried for murder in tonnartton
with the (Catal shooting of Niwht
Watchman C. & Bwinney on Know
altreet laet June.

marking that ha needrd “ty wat

“t amount paid,

v @

Atrision, warned him that it was

Aatt@eqisn ta mocaut i

Jiutge Pippen sald he would pasa
Renftene. on Wrnwn Anringw st...

Wetlding aledee hammers tor
helpern destroyed twenty-four elot
Ing the faxt three montha,
or thirty chargne o¢ lottery
court.
Cox said be belleves tha destruction of the machinen Sib sow |

TWO COMMITTER:

Washington, Feb. 6 (.P).—-The

an Rour Thiurmtay, Asaietant py
machines which have been ¢ nf

The marhines were valued arc Spray |
are pending agufnat the operators

lotlecy carricn a fine of frog 4)

niehets waa taken from the ine

money over te Mra Loula Well of the Good Hinners Chub for ctaries
Wve nioadei gaa "Stipe: =. “%

ICE DRIV;

D BEFOR:}

Mitebell deacribed the Preeaent «@]
tua Of aviation to the howe nay!
tary committee, Batetes, xppee
Ina before the senate military +r
Mitten, doelared tha prearerse in.
one of the president's ni:
did not ga fae NOMEN, mot ad
Newed Nie adencacy of
alr COrpe ReDAERI Oly arginient ae
with at Indepy ident ptatire oar
that of tha marina corpr |
The ale services ehiet tnterpns
No ehjection to the Wuderorth bil
drafted by the war depart en
along the lines of the cly boart
findings, and providing for negra
Batlon Of the alr seryten ureter
New ansletant eecreliry of woe it.
Mnaleted, hawever that tie ropes
#1 woe anty wo parttal mobilen
SPito bell weit a orl ae oe]

teu

tory ae

iol

TE? Mery 2 Pheer bearer es
COHN Ba ea Rite Nhe Petine tien
fooedvilian tife fewer aye WHA te
nerwed the eharara mmaliet th
Prement management Of arintian

which fed to hia court mieretal.
“You've got no aysten) whatever
for operation, training or equip.
nent.” he antd, “The alr perenn-
nel iaon duty with the army, when
1 ‘@hoult be fratned to prevent
arinies from coming together, Ths
whole conception fa wine!
He anppraled (a con@resa tu Unten
A spectfli titnaton to ate Bremen
AN walt $67,000,000 Ww yenr would |
malniain an adequate ate fore

|
CONFESSED SLAYER

IS DENIED BAIL.

Hi
Phitadoiphia, Keb. 5 OP). After :

arloe avr .;

m wr bru Pee

to telephena calle from
stele and a numbder of
rial for the construc:
‘ys already on hand
leery Temporarily. .
‘nwo cadseways are
convey automodties
v‘ialand to the taland,
Gare ‘es wil be used and ar
have
cap sone at it fe belewed (hat
wot ye > oaadlis to handle a Ume
ites! - +e af peopte during the
’ although It will not
‘o handle any great
rey ' - ee the firet of next

1 tose

Cea Sora

rir te

aah

= Le ferryboat naw ‘at
Mea bo <" aatd Colonel Rob-
- ro! will bewin to operatc

but it will take at
ve Innger to finish the
veovre Christi Pass, One
revboate burned,
“oe ordered to replace it
teinched last Friday at

Tcand contains about
>and ds from one-hale
> wide, Pat Dunn has

yeaa of cattle on the
and a few cowboys

We have a few con-

ete oss at work atringing

the ° sore Tine and foetalling
. vherwise the place is

“ot little frequented.”
or Companies Invotved.

Cc ' Trvhertwon explained that
Yee . -ire are tnrolved in the
nr Oceannatde T Road
(Callahan Robert-
«Company and tha
‘co Pass Ferry Come
which will
if not the
has been
Beach

leas yey gt

a3. -

fala 1h

oa
c
oun ete
’
’

<peadway,
tree -f the longest,
: : world,
Ocean

7 . thea
*merts the

-inentioned ts W. FE.
‘ye conatruction ¢om-
same now engaged tn

Iam for the city of
hon and I own the

Vadre Island,” cone

yer . \ veres.' Col, Robert-

' | own the south end

sys ti) LAST PAGE, SEC. 1.

States

L7 ¢ onnnonwealths Ask
Di-:nissal of Increase

Application.
lip T deca ated Presa, ° ‘-
Wo -ttINGTON, April 5.—Deny-

ing there hve been a recovery from
aerloultural depresaton and that
the railroad are not earning « fair

Progrraved to|

but a,

Object :

to Rate Raises:

' —

Robinsons Pay
Death Penalty

Negroes Executed for
~ i]

Slaying of Dallas
,, , Policeman.
1+-6-3 £-—*
« A 4
per.al to The News. {

HUNTSVILLE, Texnr.- April 6.
—&S, A. (Snap) Robinson and his
brother Foreat Hgbinson, Dallaa
negroes, paid witty their lives fn
the electric chair afithe State peni-
itentlary here early hia (Tuesday)
morning for the staying of Motor-
cycle Poileeman Cy M. Isbell in
Dallas early in thejgenr. °

Forest was the fjast to enter the
death chamber. H@ was strapped
to the chair at 12:3@ a. m, and wan
srronounced dend
later, Snap Robi
doom at 12:35 a.
wan pronounced de
‘given three shots
Bnap five.

The execution
a group of eight
ticluding Sheriff
ahall Jr., Deputy iNheriff™ Gene
|‘Lasater, Pat Lowery, Hugh: Worth-
‘ington and Reubem Little: Federal
officers M. TT. Goenzaulias and
Charles Becke. and Davaé Smith,
former Deputy Sheriff.

and at 12:48
!. Forest wna
: ( the current:
&

wig witnessed by
| late officera.
.Bchuyleg Mar-

Confexsee Another Murder.

T¥y The Asenciated Prees.

HUNTSVILLE, Texas, April 6.—-
A few minutes before he went to
the electric chatr along with his
‘brother, Forest, for the killing of
Clarence M. Ishel!, Dalla’ police-
man, 8S. A. Robinaon, negro, con-
fexsed that nia brother admitted
to him the killing of another man

at Deport, in Lamar Céunty fn
January, 1925. j

The negro raid that he wae en-
| caping froma road gang whecre he
; was serving a term for horse theft
when the penn, whoee naige he dfd
not know, but who was a’ meptder
of the citizens’ posee, attempted to
capture. him. . a

“He eame at moe witha knife.”
‘the negro gald in his death cell a
few minuten hefore he led, “and
1 deat him to death with a club.
Afterward & dragwed hir. body to
a small creek near by and threw Jt
In the watér.
-@y don’t iknow

what his name

returns, seventeen Western States] ¢ yf, Isbell, 25 years old, motor-
thro: thet publia service com-| cycle policéman. was shot and fa-
mie oe or spectal counsel, asked nek een d late tligeirg ay night.

. letnpepite eb. 4, pan of an auto-
eek rite Commerce Commise| | cvie which he tried to stop on
stor. Tanday to dismiss the applii- Forest ~@ we - pear ;: Whitaker
catie: of Western roads for @ gen- } street; Sout Dallas, With a bul-
ernlor reaxe in freight. rates... -

In «a joint brief ?u con. debalf
of ths States by Joh « % Benton,
| <oltcttor of the *Wational

gene:
Asso ‘ton of Rat a ana’ ptun-
Hes Conmisstonert St “was Cone

tene.-t that back of the proposed

inert wns & MORN defeat

pure -° 2f the cor

lgtion -eering ® general ineestixns
tan of th national rate etructure
with nnin view ,ot-

Jow: «uirdthe rates Of 8

proiacts, | MAAS
Lrorvthy learings
Loy tlie comrptesion. ja thea,
ings fratitufd: By yihe:

‘road: ind thin , within ge
ioral pote ee ten bean. : tox
, ora’ sumer MBE, eta pee
tom “f aes sa eee G8
. . ae jf Wi Whcas Ke Me
: \ abe om
~y f . Nara of.
€ ae ss etek
a B

onal 1eso~-

have been hats
yee ee

» meee’
Senet Sagat *
: Robe oie

eee
eae

~Saeomeemssay Sn TL

SS eS

.Omre

Former Legislator
and Lawyer Is Dead

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LS. 0° aePeen an Of Photograph.

B. Q. Evans Is -
Dead at Home:

—s

Former Texas Legislator,

Succumbs to Linger-

° oy :

ing Illness.
———, .
Roecial te ‘The Mews.’ v4
GREENVILLE, Tesas,- April 5.
—R8. .q@. Evans, prominent inember
of the Haunt County bar fé6r almost
{ptty years and a membér of the’
‘Twenty-Fourth and Tweaty-Fitth
Legislatures, died at fe here

‘
-
.

at ¢ e’clock Monday rg§orning fol-
lowing a lingering lin y
Attaining political prominence

first in the Populist days, when he
fought :for the Democratic, party,

Mr. Evans remained a steadfant
Democrat through his." career,
though In rty councils he was

noted for-his. - independence

thoveht, | ~ . wage
‘Thia was strikingly reflected In
hie later years, when he pabdiished
the Free Lance, an: in epéndent™
Democratic weekly, at: Dallas, .-.
_- Came to Tezas tn 3888, °°

Bethet Quillow Evang was born
in Eliijoy, Ga., Jan: 18, 2350
From ithe time he was 8 yeara old
he. worked his way through An-
draws: Instituté ina, Nov.’
Wien, Ara M.:

altey,- Ala.,:
1346

‘

St.

‘ing was held, but he was not pres-

in Birmingham. . Ahe fam- ;
plist
Church’ from.-. “ap to
bis tact iliness taught og ay
ae ist PNureh.
ae ro mariver: of
ys: nlagw and
three H, : eet
a '

: Gh epee Rest

Central Head:

Louix Man Made)
President of Katy Sub-
sidiary Line.

Syecial to The Newa \
WACO, Texas, April 5.—Charles
No Whitehead of St. Loula wae)
elected president of the Texas Con- }
trnt Ratlroad, owned and operated
by the Katy, at the yearly meeting
here Monday of the stockholders.
He auceceda C. FE! Schaff of St.
Taula, who retires as president of |
the Katy on May 1]. '

Directors of the Texas
elected Monday are CC. _E. Schaf?,
Cc. N. Whitehead and J. M.
son, St. Louis: C, C. Hutt, Dallas.
Albert T. Clifton, Ed Rotan and R.
T. Dennis, Waco. r

Officers elected, other than Mr. ,
Whitehend, are as follows: Vice}
presidents, W. M. Whitenton, Dal. ;
Ine: W. W. Cameron, Waeo: see.
retary-treasurpr, Albert T. Clifton
Waco: assistant secretaries, ©. 8.
Sherwin, Dallas: N. A. Phillips, St
Louis: general counsel, J, M. Bry-
aon, St. Louis; general attorney, Cc,
C. Huff, Dalina; general nuditor,
O. H, Bower, Dallas.

lL. F. Loree, president and chair
man of the execcntive board of the:
Delaware & Hudson and chairman |
of the executive board of the Kane!
eas City Southern, was on board |
the spectal tratn when the meee |

Central

ent at the gathering of Texas Cen-
trad atockholders, Resolutions were
ndopted by the directors expressing
reerct by rearon of the retirennent
of Mr. Schaff as president, - From
Waco tho party of railroad offl-
clals went to Ban ‘Antonio, They
will be in Dallas next Wednesday.

ens,

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(Santa Te

'
Ytrvej .

ay
thre

nhle ta

TF" Tw
may
Wipe
wit!) Wie enemy
Bhturh Afi Alear:
With ropter.t
whieh we
the and poweod
he Impaled the
effecttroels
lL. Aldean, ono
“Ir Your Vix:
ald, “HC Mere At
To omuet do me
@xchange pers
“Oh pe cthan

thns

de dptencndare-maeteee rene:
CONTINUED f

Hearu

Right t
Panhas

fpeciel te Ter
AMARELIG
Six hours wet
C, Be Rote Ste
Santa Fe'« ry
to bullet a
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By The Associated Preas.

SAN ANTONIO, Texar,
—The five Southweetern States
present peculiar
problems that can
A great system dedicated eolely to
their needa, free from oatside dns
fluence, owned and operated by
men familiar with this avction,
L. F. Lores said here Monday.
committing himself and associates
to creation of such 2 system.

Loree raid he war maintaining
an open mind on the possible ac-
quisition of the Texas Panhandle &
Gulf Railway. If prudence seems
to dictate taking it over, ho will
bid for the road in competition
with the Santa Fe, Missourt Pacific
Land Frisco, in line with @ recent
recommendation of tue Intorstate
Commerce Commission. . ;

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tion tour of the Katy! lines, which
he is planning to comDine with the
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to stop, neither did he swerve his car
to the right or the left. It was there
that the roadster passed it. I took
after the roadster which was
now in the lead, leaving the
touring car to Isbell. I knew
that he was directly behind
me. Two blocks further
down Forest Avenue, near
the intersection of Wall
Street, I succeeded in
stopping the roadster. I
put my machine on the
rack and began to write
out a court summons
for the man who was driv-
ing the car. I stepped to the
front of the car and had
just finished writing down
the license number when I
heard a _sharp_ report like

he did not hear me. The touring
car was now even with me. |
pulled my revolver from the
holster, but before I could
give the command to stop,
some one in the car opened
fire at me. I believe
there were two people
shooting. The glaring
headlights from the
parked car nearly
blinded me, but I re-
turned the fire until

(Left) Detective John
Henderson, of Dallas, now a
detective sergeant, one of

the sleuths who followed the
fugitives into Missouri

(Below) The note from ‘‘The Red Rider”
received by Chief Trammell of the Dallas
police force. Little attention was given
to it at the time, but later it proved to
have come from one of the murderers

(Below) Detective Will
Fritz, of the Dallas force, who
took an active part in running down
the murderers of Officer C. M. Isbell

my revolver was emptied. |
am sure that [ struck the car
at least twice but I don't
know whether or not |
struck any of the occu-
pants. Two of their bul-
lets narrowly missed my
head. We were so cfose

to each other for a mo-
ment that reports from
their guns and mine are
still ringing in my ears.
“As the speeding car
crossed the Katy Railroad
tracks in the next block, |
noticed that it had white
wire wheels and no spare on
the rear, but a rack for a spare
wheel. I also noticed that the
muffler made a very loud sound as
if it had burst or was being operated
with an open cut-out. [ am unable to

the back-fire of an
automobile muffler.
| looked back up the
street just in time
to see a flash ot tire
as a second report
struck my ears. My
partner fell from his
machine. The big
touring car apparently
had not stopped but
was speeding in my di-
rection.

“T stepped a few feet in
front of the car I had stopped
so as not to make a target of
it, and shouted for the driver to
turn off his headlights, but evidently

Say for cert.

old Hupmot

know that t!
see the back
window in 1
sumed less t!
“My imm
partner. | 1
had fallen.
His cap had
in his right
sistance we
when the ar
a block befo
lance. Upo:
way throug
at Isbell an
WO!

The house
930 Bettertor
where Detec:
derson, posir
uncovered th
t

from, for
called him.
“1 return
parked my
that the <
stopped hz
but I[- hz
number he
mons book.
A few
man walk
headquarte:
to see the
He was r
Captain K
fied himself
127 West
Oak Cliff,
sections ol
of the T
that it wa
the roadst

me. The touring
2ven with me, |
evolver from the

before | could
command to stop,
> in the car opened

me. | believe
were two people
ng. The glaring
ights from the
<ed car nearly
2d me, but I re-
d the fire until

Detective John
on, of Dallas, now a

sergeant, one of
s who followed the
2s into Missouri

w) Detective Will
Dallas force, who
in running down
ser C. M. Isbell

is emptied. |
struck the car
e but I don't
ler Or not |
of the occu-
) of their bul-
ly missed my
were so cfose
ier for a mo-
reports from
and mine are
; in my ears.
Speeding car
<aty Railroad
next block, |
t had white
no spare on
*k for a spare
ced that the
oud sound as
eing operated
m unable to

The Vanishing Killers of Dallas 43

say fur certain but | am reasonably sure that it was an
old Hupmobile. | believe it was filled with Negroes. |
know that there were at least five people in it, for I could
see the backs of their heads through the single plate glass
window in the rear curtain. The entire commotion con-
sumed less than a minute.

“My immediate thoughts were for the safety of my
partner. I rushed back up the street to the spot where he
had fallen. He was lying beside his overturned machine.
His cap had fallen from his head and | saw a nasty wound
in his right temple. A man rushed up and with his as-
sistance we carried Isbell into the house where he was
when the ambulance arrived. | was obliged to run half
a block before I could find a phone. I called for the ambu-
lance. Upon returning to my partner I had to elbow my
way through the large crowd that had gathered. I looked
at Isbell and I. knew he was dying. He never spoke one

word. In a short time the ambulance arrived
and as we were placing Isbell in it

ss, his father walked up, |

Bina don’t know where

The house at

930 Betterton Circle, Dallas,

where Detectives Fritz and Hen- ,

derson, posing as automobile buyers,

uncovered the first real information that started
them on the manhunt

from, for | am sure no one had
called him.

“I returned to where I had
parked my motorcycle to find
that the car which | had
stopped had driven away,
but I have his license
number here in my sum-
mons book.”

A few minutes later a
man walked into police
headquarters and _ asked
to see the officer in charge.
He was referred to Police
Captain Kelsey. He identi-
fied himself as B. R. Yeager of
127 West Thirteenth Street,
Oak Cliff, one of the residential
sections of Dallas, located west
of the Trinity River and stated
that it was he who had been driving
the roadster stopped by Officer Wofford.

He said he was employed by the Dallas Gas Company
He soon satisfied the Captain that he knew nothing of
the identity of the persons driving the touring car. He
said that the large car, which he believed to be loaded
with Negroes, had attempted to race with him for several
blocks on Forest Avenue. before he finally succeeded in
passing it. He also corroborated Officer Wofford’s state-
ments regarding the shooting. He remarked particularly
on the courage of the officer who had stood without falter-
ing in front of his glaring headlights and exchanged shots
with his assailants.

VERY available officer was ordered to duty. A police
officer had been shot down in the line of duty. Every
man in the department was determined to bring the assail-
ant to justice. Slowly but surely the great wheels of the
law started grinding. All night long cars loaded with
armed police officers patrolled the streets and rural roads
in hope of picking up a clue that would lead to the
identity of the slayer.
Shortly before 3 o’clock in the morning, Police Sergeant

(Below) The fevolver with which Officer Isbell was slain.

It was taken from the murderer when he was
finally captured at Independence, Mis-
souri, after a stirring chase

Henry Voris found an
abandoned Buick tour-
ing car in a clump ot
cedars just west of the
Forest Avenue bridge,

less than a mile from

the scene of the murder.

The car contained a pis-

tol holster, belt and two
acetylene tanks. Upon
close examination a_ hole
resembling a _ bullet hole
was found in the gasoline
tank on the rear. Was this
the car used by the slayer of
young Isbell as he fled from the
scene of his crime? A check of the li-
cense plates on the car revealed that it had

Brscevementnnsanpilini

The VANISHING

By Detective —
HARRY T. RIDDELL

Bureau of Identification,

Police Headquarters jingled. C. J. Vittrup, desk
sergeant on the. three to eleven shift, answered.
He had just talked a few minutes before to Motor-
cycle Officer E. D. Wofford, who had called in to make
his hourly report. Officer Wofford was detailed in South

FEW minutes past 10 o'clock on the night of
A February 4th, 1926, the desk phone at Dallas

Dallas, Texas, Police Department Dallas with Motorcycle Officer C. M. Isbell, a new recruit

“I saw a flash of fire;
saw my partner fall.
I pulled my revolver,
and as the bullets
whizzed around me,
I emptied it at the
fleeing car!”’....So
began one of the
Southwest’s most

exciting manhunts |

in the department. Isbell was well liked and a good officer,
and was the nephew of Charles F, Isbell, a veteran
member of the plainclothes detail. He had been married
a short time after becoming a member of the department.

“Tsbell’s been shot!’’ said the
voice at the other end of the wire.
It was Officer Wofford again. “Send
the ambulance to 1220 Forest
Avenue.”

Immediately Sergeant Vittrup
pushed the electric buzzer on the
side of his desk that summoned
the Emergency Hospital ambulance
driver and the police surgeon, whose
headquarters were across the hall
from police headquarters.

“1 don’t know who shot him,”

continued Wof-
OfficerC.M. Isbell, ford. “He was
who was wantonly shot by a pass-
shot to death for ing motorist

sport, as he drew who did not
alongside an automo- I will
bile on Forest Avenue, STOP. wul re-
Dallas, Texas, P ort ed r¢) Y ou

eed

The touring car used by
the murderers of Officer
Isbell. It was traced only
after the most painstaking
detective work

later.”
rence f
lish ar}
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them.
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on the night of
_ Phone at Dallas
-. J. Vittrup, desk
2n shift, answered.
2s before to Motor-
called in to make
detailed in South
bell, a new recruit
and a good officer,
Isbell, a veteran
had been married
of the department.
shot!’’ said the
r end of the wire.
fford again. “Send
to 1220 Forest

Sergeant Vittrup
ic buzzer on the
that summoned
ospital ambulance
Ice surgeon, whose
> across the hall
uarters,
who shot him,”
continued Wof-
ford. “He was
shot by a pass-
Ing motorist
who did not
Stop. I will re-
port to you

Baas =

later.”

He hung up. Ambulance Driver Law-
rence Knight and Police Surgeon O. W. Eng-

lish arrived just then. “Go to 1220 Forrest
Avenue at once,” Sergeant Vittrup instructed
them. “A policeman has been shot.”

In a few seconds Emergency Squad Officers
Greenlee and McGlothlin, who had been seated
in the Squad Room next to the desk sergeant’s office, were
also on their way, and other cars loaded with policemen
followed the speeding ambulance out South Hardwood
Street toward the scene of the shooting.

Doctor English was the first to push his way through
the curious and excited crowd that had gathered around
the porch of 1220 Forest Avenue where the wounded officer
had been taken. The Doctor realized at once that
the wound was serious. A bullet, missing the brass button
on the side of the blue serge uniform cap, had entered
young Isbell’s head near the right temple.

BY a strange coincidence, Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Isbell,
father and stepmother of the wounded officer, driving to
their home after a visit with friends, noticed the crowd
gathering and the ambulance parked at the curb, and
stopped to investigate. Words cannot describe the scene
as the father recognized his son. Again and again he called
to him, pleadingly, frantically, but the boy did not answer.
The father climbed into the ambulance with his dying
son and the vehicle broke all speed regulations in its mad
dash to Parkland Hospital, but the young officer died on
the way.
Officer Wofford attempted to relate what had happened
to Police Captain J. F. Kelsey, who had just arrived. But

The alley in the Oak Cliff district to which the boys di-
rected the detectives; and where they found the old tour-
ing car with white wire wheels, which had been driven
by the killers

DALLAS

the crowd and confusion made talking almost impossible.
The officers hastened back to headquarters, and there Wof-
ford related the details of the tragedy.

“It was a few minutes past ten, and we had just reported
to headquarters from a drug store at Forest and Colonial
Avenues. We mounted our motorcycles and were riding
slowly down Forest Avenue to the east when we heard
two cars racing toward us. Quickly turning our machines
into Kimball Street, we whirled them around facing For-
est Avenue, so that we could take after the cars as they
passed.

“It was rather cool and there was not much traffic on
the street. Isbell was riding on my right, next to the
curb and I was riding next to the center of the street.
We rode this way because I was the older and more ex-
perienced officer: and did most of the heavy riding. The
cars sped by. One, a small roadster, seemed to be trying
to pass the other, a large touring car. We pulled out of
Kimball Street directly behind them. They sped on neck
and neck for about a block. Upon entering the inter-
section of Colonial Avenue, a small coupé pulled out
into the street almost directly in their path. It was only
the quick stop made by the coupé that kept the big tour-
ing car from crashing it broadside.

“The driver of the touring car made no attempt

RODGERS, A. L., white, hanged Dallas, Dalllds Co., July 4, 1891.

“On July 4, 1891, the various Independence Day evetits were upstaged by another, grislier
function. A. L. Rodgers, the first white man to be sentenced to death in the 45-year history of the
(Dallas) Gounty , was hanged...He was convicted of the rape of a child.”-Partners in Blue, by
Carlton Stowers. (A history of the Dallas Police Department). Provided by Warren Johnson, |
810 Autumn Lake Dxjvey Allen, TX, 75002, 2/15/1997, who says that an account of the hanging
appears in the Dallas Morning News, July 5 or July 6, 1891.

a ee ee Oe ee tao ee ol

ee ae and worked as a clerk in the general merchandise store

Of Gold & Donaldson.

Moon had a busy career in law enforcement. He served as a
deputy under the starcrossed Burnett Henderson. He served one
year — 1858 — as Dallas city marshal, the third man to hold that
position.

During his first term as sheriff, he may have walked over to Elm
Street on occasion for a meal at the new saloon in town, the Blue
Front. It is still in business, a block from its original location.

Moon served two terms as Sheriff, until 1882, and then served
as deputy under Sheriff W.H.W. Smith (1882) and Sheriff William
Henry Lewis (1886). He also served on the fledgling Dallas police
force for four years.

William H.W. Smith, an Alabamian, took a job in a hardware
store when he got to Dallas in 1873. In 1882, he was elected
sheriff, then re-elected in 1884, defeating W.P. Cochran by the
largest, to that point, majority ever given a county candidate. He
served as town marshal of Oak Cliff when that community was
incorporated.

The Sheriff's Department now was growing. William Henry
Lewis, elected in 1886, had 11 men on his staff. He was the first
sheriff of Dallas County ever elected to three terms.

Dallas, and the county, were recording growths that mirrored
the need for a growing department. The Exposition was evolving
into the State Fair of Texas. The biggest attraction at the
Fairgrounds was the race track. In Dallas and other towns in the
county, there were more and more saloons, gambling houses
and bordellos. In 1886, electric lights were being installed at the
Fairgrounds. The businesses along the railroad tracks, now
Pacific Avenue, were shoulder-to-shoulder saloons.

In 1887 a statewide Prohibition election was held on Aug. 4.
Dallas County went wet by a big margin.

‘On"July 4, 1891, the various Independence Day events were
upstaged by another, grislier function. A.L. Rodgers, the first
white man to be sentenced to death in the 45-year history of the
county, was hanged. He was the 14th person to be hanged by
the county. He was convicted of the rape of a child.

The sheriff in 1892 was Ben Cabell. He was patriarch of a family
that would be a familiar name in Dallas County far into the next
century: as dairy store, ice cream label, mayor and congressman.

Born in Arkansas, Ben Cabell as a young man raised cattle on
what was called the Crockett Farm, then 2% miles east of Dallas.
His father was Confederate Gen. William L. Cabell. In 1885, Ben
Cabell was appointed deputy U.S. marshal, under his father, and
was assigned to duty in Indian Territory. As sheriff in 1893, Cabell
enfarced the County Attorney’s new ban on dice, dominoes and
pod tables in saloons. Sheriff Cabell served four terms until 1900

: before he resigned and was elected Mayor of Dallas. Lee H.
Hughes served as sheriff upon Cabell’s resignation.

The 1909 edition of Philip Lindsley’s The History of Greater
Dallas & Vicinity extolled Ben Cabell in the courtly manner of the
times’ journalism: “He has served as sheriff and mayor (many
claim to have been the best chief executive Dallas ever had), as
well as in other official positions, and his incumbency of each has
resulted in a progressive strengthening of his character in its best
qualities .. .””.

J. Roll Johnson took office in 1901. Born in Lancaster, he was

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the first native of Dallas County to hold the office of sheri‘’ if
was re-elected in 1902. 4

Johnson’s successor was Arthur L. Ledbetter, the SECOng ‘
native of Dallas County to serve in the post. He was born the so,
of a farmer in 1863, served as one of Cabell’s deputies for seven,
years and joined the Dallas Police Department in 1900. He serveg
three terms as sheriff beginning in 1905.

Through the decade of the 1890s, the confluence of the
Trinity forks was reaching a zenith. There was a Citifying
boisterousness, and the attendant problems of higher c-i-ne
drawn by the presence of so many new opportunities: trains,
banks, post offices, merchant stores. Dallas was the largest City
in Texas, with 38,067 citizens.

Dallas County had a new courthouse destined to become a
landmark in Texas history. Out of the ashes of a fire that haq
destroyed its predecessor rose “Old Red’, so named by later
generations because of the red stone. It was started in late 189)
and completed in 1893. This time the county tried to make sure
it was fireproof.

According to historian A.C. Greene’s Dallas: The Decicig
Years, as the 90s opened, Dallas had 300 saloons and beer halls,
and 572 streets. Some of the streets—Columbia, Walnut,
Calhoun — were closed for railyards.

The first skyscraper in town was the seven-story Linz Building,
built in 1898. The First Baptist Church was erected in 1896. St.
Paul Hospital opened in 1898, with room rates $1 a day.

At the turn of the century, as Ben Cabell switched from sheriff
to mayor, the population of the County Seat was 42,000.

County government was growing as it could to meet the pace.
Ben Brandenburg was elected Sheriff in 1910, and in 1914, under
the tenure of Sheriff Will K. Reynolds, the new County Criminal
Courts Bldg. was opened. Reynolds’ department was the first to
occupy the building.

From the late 1800s to the opening of the Criminal Courts
Building there was a jail described to have been clean, comfort-
able, well lit, airy and with its own hospital ward. It was located
on Houston Street near what is now the Union Terminal Station.
Just outside the jail were the gallows where public hangings were
carried out. Across the way where the Dallas Morning News
building and a small plaza now stand spectators gathered to
watch condemned men swing.

The shows ended when the prisoners were moved to the
newly completed Criminal Courts Building Jail down the street at
Houston and Main Streets. Hangings were still carried out for the
next decade, but behind walls and witnessed only by a selected
few.

The “Death Cells” — three of them — though unused, are still
in place as they were when they were built 68 years ago.

The first to die on the inside gallows were “Muddy” Walter
Stephenson and “Fluky”’ Leonard Dodd. A third man sentenced
to hang with them was spared by the governor and was
discovered years later to have become a preacher and raised a
large family. The sheriff got $25 for a hanging which, it was said,
he customarily donated to charity.

The state took over executions in 1925 replacing the gallows
with an electric chair to become better known to those who

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HERE'S MORE ABOUT

DEATH CHAIR

STARTS. ON PAGE ‘ONE

‘current WAS “OL ott ee et
'Yes,"" nodded the warden. He

heart of the man bound in the
chair. - minis oy

“I pronounce Charles o Rey-
nolds dead,” he said. so ,slowly
like. r Te ESS

They unstrapped the man.
Guards carried him toa rear door
and sort of tossed him on ea
stretcher which was carried to a
morgue that has been established |
In’ the prison, His relatives cani
have the dead body if they want

a It Worked Fine

The new method of killing_peo
‘ple had worked fine. The warden
said so. The Prison electrician
sald it was a mode! instrument,
The prison chaplain, Rev. I. L.
‘Dickey, stood near the chair'and
said -he thought: it was-2 “more'
humane way _to kill people—but,.
“of courso I don't think jt proper.
for me to bo quoted about this!
matter,”” he added guardodly,
"Law's Author There
T. K. Irwin, of Dallas, author
of the electrocution law was pres-
ent. He stood UP front within a
few feet of the death chair when

first: execution was over he had
got back to the rear of the room..
ae Abolish Death Penalty

“Ohb,.I think this {fs more hw

“But I am Opposed to the death
penalty fn any shape or form. ]
-thought_this_ohange-from ~ hang:
ing to killing men by electrocu-
Uon would at least attract the at-
tention of the people to these lex-

“You may Say there will be a
bill before the next legislature to
abolish capital punishment Yn any
form. That's one reason I -came
pore here, just to see how ft all
s,”’ .
Dance of Death Resumes

18ix minutes from the time rey

The first negro had died Jn just

Strapped him jn the chair,

The dance of death went on un-
til the ttle handful of men was
sickened. One by one they fed
the negroes {n and each had a few
Words to‘say—a]! along the same
line. They ted all Kot religiod.

The Second :

The second was Ewell Morris,
<n; convicted of murder In Vic-
torla-co, It ‘took the 3000 volt
current only two minutes to stil!
his heart, so the doctors said.

. Then came George Washington,
convicted of murder in Newton-
co. Four minutes the awfu)

body strained at the strong Straps,
The doctors then said he was
dead, ~ ; ‘

Next came Mack. Matthews,58,|;

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whirring noise went on while the|(
t

{

of Newton-co, convicted of mur-
dér. It took four and one-half

| ie flesh of the last negro and

minutes to end his life. The war-
den never blinked.
: Odor Fills Room |

But the crowd ‘was sickened by
the tragedies it was witnessing.
Thp odor of burning flesh f{illod
the room as the current seared

men walked out of the atifling
; room to catch a breath of fresh

air, :
Then a Lall

And then there came a lu! be-
fore the execution of Melvin John-
son—a whole hour filled with ar-
dent hope and prayer, ending in
death,

People of Liberty-co, whence
the negro was sentenced, were
trying to get Acting Governor T.
W. Davidson, who was on-a train‘
from his home at Marshall to Aus-
‘tin! ¢o grant @ reprieve for the
doomed man. .-*

' Everybody around : the prison,

including the warden, seemed to

want the negro to win in his fight

for life. ,. :
Waidted In Vain

So the warden announced’ his
execution’ would be postponed an
hour. *But finally a tele ram |

s0Nn, @ Ba e
knew nothing of the facts in. the
case and would not Interfere.

So at 2:06 this morning they
led the 19-year-old negro to the
death chalr.

By this time even the few spoc-
tators had wearled of the carni-
val of death. They stood about
the prison yard telling how c je
‘iy the warden -had taken up hfs
new task of being executioner of
Texas,

“He Can Have It" -
There was nothing but praise
for his nerve but all shook their
heads and many remarked:
“Well, he can’ have the job. I
don't want it.” - ; _

RN, ad: Ate Die

The State of Texas In the District Court of
No, 9269 -vg- Rei River County, Texas.
Charles Reynolis. December 20th, A. DO. 1923,

On this tay this cause was called for trial, ani the

State appeared by her District Attorney, and the Defendant, Charles

‘Reynolds appeared in person, his counsel also being present, and

the charge of murder; thereupon a Jury, to-wit:—- R. UL. McMillan,

and eleven others Was duly selected, impaneled ani sworn, who having
heard the Inaictnent read and the Defendant's plea of Not Guilty thereto,
and having heard the evidence submitted, and having been duly charged

by the Court, ani after hearing the argument of the counsel, retired in

charge of the proper dfficer to consijer of their verjiict, and afterwards

on this the 2lst day of December A. i). 1923, were brought into open
Court by the proper: officer, the Defendant andi his counsel being present
and in due form of Taw returned into open Court the following ver:ict,

which was received by the Court, ani is here now entered upon the

minutes of the Court, to-wit:-

THE STATE OF _TRXAS

“bad .
"We, the Jury, fini the Defendant guilty of

murder as chdfged in the Indictment, and assess his

punishment; at; death.
ue *ge R, LL. Mcilijlan

Foreman, *

oh, :
It is.therefore considered and adjudged by the Court, °

that the Defendant, Charles Reynolds’ is guilty of the offense of murier,
as found by the Jury, and that he be punished, as has been determined
by the Jury, that is with "Death", ant that the said Defentant, Charles
Reynolds be, and he is hereby remanded to jail to await the further

Orders of the Court herein.
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CounTY OF RED RIVFR. I, R.B. Hollingsworth, Clerk cf the District Court
of Red River County, Texas, do hereby certify that the above ani foregoing
is a true and correct copy of the Original Juigment in the above entitle
fanaa sa anneara Of recor. in the Minutes of gaii Court in Vol. <2
Page 15 3 of the Criminal Uinutes of the District Ceurt of Ri
River County, Texas,

Given under my hani an] of ffcial. seal at office in the City of
Clarksville, Texas, this the ~~ —— jay of January A. 9. 1924,

A . Nacee sts PITT oa
Clerk of the District Qourt, Rel Yiver Co. Téxas,

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STATE OF CALIFORNIA

OFFICE OF THE STATE PUBLIC DEFENDER

107 SOUTH BROADWAY, SUITE 9111
‘OS ANGELES, CA 90012-4655
213) 897-5316 FAX (213) 897-5312

November 26, 1991

Mr. Watt Espy
P.O. Box 277
Headland, Alabama 36345

Re: Execution of Charlie Reynolds
Dear Mr. Espy:
Thank you for taking the time to speak with me the other day.

Enclosed are all the documents I have regarding Charlie Reynolds’
execution. I got the exact same set of papers from the Texas Department of
Criminal Justice and the Red River County Clerk. Unfortunately, the Library
for Archives and the Red River County Library do not have any Clarksville
newspapers for that time period. Also, the Clarksville Times lost all issues
dated before 1944 in a fire. So it looks like this information may be all that
exists.

The only other information about the incident that I havg learned
through family is that Reynolds (real name was Rundles; someone must have
misprinted it) was harassed and pushed down some stairs at the cotton gin
where he worked. This happened a couple of times. Finally when the white
man did it a third time, Reynolds stabbed him.

Again, I appreciate all your help. Please let me know if you have
any questions.

Sincerely,

Kul ule

JILL ISHIDA
Deputy State Public Defender

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Kramer authorizing Larcher to han-
dle his case?” ;

“Sure, I did. Is there anything crim-
inal. about that?”

The two dicks looked at each other
and laughed. Josie and I looked at
each other but we didn’t see the joke
at all.

“So,” said Brady. “Did Arthur
Kramer sign that paper?”

My heart was beating fast then. But

_ I told myself I was absolutely in the

clear. They could never prove Id
forged his name.

“Sure, he signed it,” I said. “Just
before he died.”

Brady walked across the room. He
lifted his hand and let me have it. He
said, “I hate a liar.”

I reeled back against the bed, the

CRIME

DETECTIVE

He was

Dallas police headquarters.

shown over three hundred pictures

from the rogues gallery, but he didn’t
find any pictures of the Kid Killer
that wore a sweater and hummed,
“Harbor Lights.”

“Come to think of it,” Jackson said
to Sheriff Moore, “he did look some-
thing like a kid when he came out of
the darkness, but he was in the taxi
so fast I didn’t get a good look at him.
I remember also he was humming a
song, but I didn’t know what it was.”

“A humming bird!” Sheriff Moore
said. Then he added, addressing Dan
Rike: “Not much to go on, Dan, but
Wie cornered -killers.on less than
that.”

The sheriff and his famous deputy
got in their car and left Dallas. They
went back to McKinney. Jackson’s
taxi was still held by the police and
it had been tested for finger prints.
A great number of smears had been
found, but none were definite.

However, a triangular piece of
fabric, torn from the killer’s sweater,
had been caught in the door. It was
a small piece, almost too small to be
of value. f

Sheriff Moore looked at it and said:
“It came from around the shoulder.
Likely right under the arm.” ;

Then he and Rike left the McKin-
ney police headquarters and started
out on the most famous manhunt in
the history of Texas. As they left
McKinney, additional posses were
still scattered over the prairies for
miles. Texas Rangers were assisting
the Highway Patrol to stop every car
and search for the young kid wearing
a sweater and khaki trousers.

Bloodhound Stokes had given up
the search with his dogs. The ground
had been trampled too much_ by
crowds and the scent had been lost.
The only thing he was able to tell the
officers as he led his bloodhounds on
the truck to return them to Oklahoma
was that the Saturday Night Killer
had _ north when he made his
mistake.

HIS slim lead, and the informa-
tion that the killer had a habit of
humming the song, “Harbor Lights,”
was all Sheriff Moore and Dan Rike
had to go on as they started north

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CRIME DETECTIVE

negligee slipping from my shoulders.
“’'m not a liar,” I yelled. “Arthur
Kramer signed that paper. I—”

“Shut up,” said Brady, “and let me
tell you something. Arthur Kramer
and his wife had a joint checking
account, The account was in his name
but by arrangement with the bank
she was permitted to sign her hus-
band’s name to checks. That cancelled
check you swiped from the dead man
was a cash check signed and endorsed
by Kramer’s wife. It was her hand-
writing you copied. Not his. Do you
get it?”

Despite the fact that my brain was
reeling, I got it. When Harry had
showed Mrs. Kramer that document
she had seen her husband’s signature
in her own handwriting. Naturally,

aa re re

she had been suspicious. She had no-

tified the police and I was laying a

thousand to one that Harry Larcher
was in a cell at this very minute.

“Get your clothes on, you two,” said
Brady, “We’re all going for a little
ride.’

It was a ride that it took me two
years to come back from. I was in-
dicted and convicted of forgery. Harry
drew five years in State’s prison and
his other nurses were given suspend-
ed sentences. Josie, as a witness for
the State, beat the rap completely.

Now I’m a nurse in a small town
hospital. I’ve learned_to be content
on my small salary. I’ve discovered
that I’m not as be ig as I thought I
was. I’ve discovered, too, that there
are some decent men in the world.

SATURDAY NIGHT DEATH

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 21

from McKinney to pick up the trail of
the most cunning and most brutal
killer in the long and exciting history
of the state of Texas.

“The kid likely has discarded his
sweater,” Sheriff Moore said to Rike,
“but it’s mighty hard to discard a
habit of humming a song. That’s our
one hope—and it’s pretty ‘slim be-
cause the killer may be five hundred
miles away by this time.”

“He didn’t get five hundred miles
from his other scenes of crime,”
Deputy Dan Rike suggested, “and
there isn’t much reason to believe
that he is leaving this part of the state
just because he killed a man.”

“That’s the only: break that will
help,” the sheriff said.

But neither the sheriff or Dan Rike
entertained any hope of quick success.
In the first place, the only description
they had of the killer that had rav-
aged that part of Texas for over a
month was meager and of little value.
He had made his escape many times
before and apparently he knew all
the tricks of eluding the law.

The two officers headed north, but
before they left McKinney, Sheriff
Moore had called Inspector Will Fritz
of the Dallas police, had asked him to
send his men into every underworld
haunt and find out what killer had the
habit of humming snatches of songs.

The same request was phoned to
the headquarters of the Texas Ran-
gers, who in turn advised every police
department in that part of the state
to be on the lookout for a youth that
hummed songs and who might be
wearing a sweater and a pair of khaki
trousers.

Sheriff Moore and Dan Rike went
directly to Melissa, north of McKin-
ney and in the direction the killer
took when he fled from Jackson’s taxi.
In Melissa Sheriff Moore and Rike
questioned restaurant proprietors.

“The man has to eat,” Sheriff Moore
said, “and we have a better chance
of picking up his trail in a restaurant
than anywhere else.”

They picked up the trail of the
killer at the second restaurant they
visited. A waitress remembered a
youth wearing a_ sweater and who
hummed to himself entering the res-
taurant at about daybreak and order-

ing ham and eggs.

But the new trail stopped at that
restaurant. The waitress had not
talked with this youth and he had
left hurriedly after bolting down his
food.

For two days the trail was lost.
Every police officer of the different
city and state police of Texas worked
day and night on the case. The pub-
lic had received the startling news
that the brutal Saturday Night Killer
was nothing more than a nineteen-
year-old youth; yet this information
did not- quiet the anger that ran
through the public and there was
muttering of using a rope on this
ruthless murderer.

At the end of those two days, Sheriff
Moore and Dan Rike were still trying
to pick up the trail they had lost at
the restaurant in Melissa.

They stuck to questioning restau-
rant proprietors, and then, on the eve-
ning of the second day, they ran into
the trail again. By this time they
were over in Oklahoma, at the town
of Durant.

A waiter in a restaurant said:
“There was a young chap in here
about two hours ago. He played the
electric victrola and his favorite song
seemed to be, ‘Harbor Lights.”

“Which way did he go when he left
the restaurant?” Sheriff Moore de-
manded.

“He turned to the right,” the waiter
said. “He could- have been headed
for the bus station.”

It didn’t take Moore and Rike long
to get to the bus station. They found
they had arrived an hour too late.
The ticket agent told them that a
young man, answering the descrip-
tion they gave, had tried to buy a
ticket to Fort Sill. However, he didn’t
have enough money and the agent
had sold him a ticket to Ardmore.

And the. most amazing thing the
agent told the officers was the fact
that this youth was wearing a sweater
and khaki trousers!

The bus had pulled out of the bus
station an hour before. It had to make
a stop at a station ten miles out of
Durant and this stop was usually for
fifteen or twenty minutes for the pas-
sengers to eat. ;

Sheriff Moore and Rike jumped in

cas

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Yee Bee.

stopped, sniffed nervously around and bayed deeply.

Stokes said to Captain Richter of the Highway
Patrol: “The killer crossed the tracks and a train has
passed over the rails and that kills the scent. We'll
have to take a long shot at picking it up on the other
side.”

The long shot chance proved to be a losing one. For
three hours the dogs raced back and forth smelling the
ground, but never again were they able to pick’ up
the scent.

While the bloodhounds bayed frantically, trying to
find that scent, Sheriff Moore and Deputy Dan Rike were
in Dallas. Lee Jackson, the taxi driver was with them
and they were on the street where Jackson had picked
up his fare of death.

“It was right over there that the man hailed me,”

Jackson said to Sheriff Moore. “I remember seeing the
restaurant before seeing him.”

Sheriff Moore nodded and said nothing. He and Dan
Rike walked for the restaurant. Both Sheriff Moore
and his deputy are two of the most successful peace
officers in the state of Texas and both are known
over that state as men that never give up a chase until
they get their man.

“Dan,” the sheriff said to Rike, as they neared the
restaurant, “it’s a long shot, going in this restaurant,
but the killer had to loaf somewhere and I’m playing
the hunch that he came out of that restaurant.”

THE KILLER——
‘ Jeft @ trail in the lunch

When they entered the rooms where he ate.
restaurant, Fred Whaley,
the owner, came out from around the counter.

“I’m Sheriff Moore from Collins County,” the sheriff
said. “Last night the Saturday Night Killer was picked
up near here by this taxi driver. Was there a man in
your restaurant last night around seven that wore a
sweater and a pair of khaki trousers?”

“A sweater and khaki trousers,’ Whaley answered
slowly. “Let me think ...a sweater ... sure, I re-
member a chap now... not more than a kid... he
loafed in here for about half an hour and played that
electric victrola. Was nutty about the record, “Harbor
Lights,’”’ and kept humming it to himself. Sure, I re-
member that kid now.”

“Kid?” Sheriff Moore questioned in surprise. “Are
you sure he was a kid?”

“T’ll give ten to one odds he wasn’t nineteen,” Whaley
replied. “He had a hard face and shifty eyes and wasn’t
very big and kept to himself. I remember some chap
tried to talk to him and he walked away in a surly and
cocky manner and played that record again. Then he
left the restaurant. It was around seven when he left.”

“Would you remember his face?” the sheriff asked.

“IT guess I would,” Whaley answered. “I got plenty
of good looks at him.” i

“Okay,” the sheriff said. “Come with me.”

Whaley was taken to the (Continued on page 100)

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102 4

their car and sent it roaring over the
concrete highway. The speedometer
touched 85 as the car streaked after
the bus. They arrived at the eating
station and found that the bus had

' left twenty minutes before.

They got the route the bus took and
again the sheriff’s car streaked over
the highway and the speedometer
touched 87 miles an hour.

‘THEY caught up with the bus an

hour later, but there was no sign
of the wanted killer on it. The driver
told the sheriff that he had seen a
youth with a sweater start for'the bus
and then change his mind and walk
hurriedly away.

“Too smart to risk the bus,” Sheriff
Moore said to Rike. “He decided to
hoof it out of danger and throw us off
the track that Way.”

The sheriff turned the car around
and started back to Durant. He cov-
ered that stretch of highway between
where he caught the bus and the eat-
ing station in record time.

He and Rike went in the eating
place, figuring that the humming
killer might have stopped there for
something to eat. He hadn’t appeared.

The sheriff started back for Durant.
His car whirled around a corner on
two wheels, and as it did, Rike
grabbed the sheriff’s arm and yelled
above the roar of the engine : “Look
out, there is a hitch-hiker and he’s
wearing a sweater,”

The hitch-hiker was almost directly
in front of the car. Sheriff Moore
saw him and didn’t slow down. His
car roared Past the youth with a

around a turn in the road, the sheriff
brought his car to a skidding stop.

“Get your gun ready, Dan,” he said
to Rike. “We're turning around and
Passing that hitch-hiker slowly. I: got
a hunch it is our humming bird.”

The car was turned around.. The
sheriff kept it down to thirty miles an
hour as it rounded the corner and
moved down the short stretch of road
to the next turn. The hitch-hiker
had walked around this turn.

The sheriff kept his car at thirty
miles as he rounded the second curve.
The youth with the sweater was just
around the curve. He looked “up
quickly as the car approached him.
The sheriff had the speed cut down to
twenty. Deputy Dan Rike had opened
the door and was ready to spring

DETECTIVE

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CRIME DETECTIVE

out, his service revolver in his right
hand. The car got even with the
youth. Dan Rike left the car in a
lunging leap, but in that split second
the youth had seen that move and
jumped back and as he did, his hand
streaked for his pocket,

This movement was never com-
pleted. Rike landed on the ground,
but came up like a bouncing ball. His
left went up in a paralysing blow that
caught the youth flush on the chin
and sent him flying backward in a
half somersault movement,

He hit the ground with a muffled
groan. Rike was over him and there
was a click of handcuffs.

Sheriff Moore was by Rike’s side.
The sheriff had pulled the piece of
Sweater left on Jackson’s taxi out of
his pocket. He whirled the stunned
youth around.

And under the left arm was a
triangular patch torn from his
sweater!

“This patch seems to fit your
sweater,” Sheriff Moore remarked,
“and I think we have captured the
murderer of Marion Taylor and the
famous Saturday Night Killer.”

The youth’s thin and surly face
darkened, but he said nothing. He
stared ahead, looking into space,

Rike frisked him and took his gun
from a_ hip pocket. Then he was
shoved in the sheriff’s car and rushed
back to Dallas,

A Dallas Police Headquarters Lee

Jackson took one look at the
youth and said: “He’s the man that
got in my taxi and the man that shot
Taylor.”

The youth looked at Jackson with
surly anger. He refused to talk, but
finally he said: “My name is J. W.
Rickman and I live near Greenville.”

It didn’t take the Police long to
establish the fact that Sheriff Moore
had captured the famous Saturday
Night Killer. Hubert Dodd, the Lone
Oak filling station attendant that was
left for dead, was rushed to Dallas
and he identified Rickman as the
assailant.

Rickman refused to talk. He stood,
with his legs a little apart, a cornered

It was sufficient to prove that the

document was written at a later date
than 1893. It was not necessary to

by the machine used in writing it.
But the laboratory sleuth went
further. He produced the machine
used for the forgery.

killer that could only snarl at his
captors,

Word of his arrest traveled over
that section of Texas and mobs
formed and started for Dallas, but
Sheriff Moore rushed the killer to
Greenville where he was put in one
of Texas’ new mobproof jails,

All his cocky and brazen surliness
left as he was in a car racing a little
ahead of gathering mobs. He sud-
denly became a whimpering and
sniveling coward and when he was
put in the mob-proof jail, he
ponoarned to Sheriff Moore to protect

im.

The mobs never got to the young
killer, and justice moved with amaz-
ing speed. “Two weeks later he was
brought to trial for the murder of
Taylor. He was taken to McKinney
under a special and heavily-armed
guard.

The Rickman that faced that jury
of lean-faced Texans wasn’t the Rick-
man that had blasted his saga of
death and crime with such brazen
arrogance. He was pale and his lower
lip twitched and he cowered when
anybody looked at him.

During his stay in the Greenville
jail, he claimed to have gotten reli-
gion. He issued statements to the
press about the evils of liquor. But
the papers didn’t give him the pub-
licity he wanted and he went into
i Tage and cursed them and the po-
ice,

Then he got religion in a different
form. He claimed to have talked
with God. He gave a message that
God had told him to make public,
In this was the admonition: “Love
your parents.”

But when his trial started he forgot
all about this new religion. He forgot

of the electric chair. His lawyer
tried to put up a feeble defense, say-
ing that Officer Taylor had no warrant
for the arrest of Rickman.

This didn’t impress the jury. They
marched out of the jury box with
solemn faces and weren’t in the jury

judge promptly sentenced him to die
in_the electric chair.

His case was appealed and legal
complications have held up his execu-
tion. Rickman doesn’t talk any more

have been cut off, shaved off, or torn
out of the body violently—and pro-
vide many an important clue. At

fluorescence under the ultraviolet
ray, the suspect might just as well
confess and get it over with. His jig
is up—and no amount of jury whee-
dling by the defense attorney will

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MARION TAYLOR—_
and some of the friends -
who got his murderer,

McAlester, Oklahoma.
Stokes and his blood-
hounds are reputed to
have tracked down over
three hundred killers,
bandits, rapists, and
other criminals in ten
years,

His bloodhounds were
the best-trained in the
country and Stokes was
Said to have a blood-
hound scent himself,
He arrived in McKin-
hey with his truck and
his blood hounds in
aken to the scene of the

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ward, following the tracks in a

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“TI believe I'll try once more in the
morning,” Stokes said as they re-
turned to the sheriff’s office. “Maybe
we'll do better.”

There was a message from Inspec-
tor Will Fritz of the Dallas Detective
Bureau. Fritz, working with a spe-
cial detail, had missed his dinner at
home, not to mention a night’s sleep,
in order to check every inch of East
Grand Street in Dallas, hopeful that
he might find someone who had seen
the gunman before he had _ hailed
Jackson’s cab.

“The owner of Wallace’s cafe re-
ports that a man resembling Jack-
son’s description in every detail spent
most of the afternoon here, carous-
ing and playing the phonograph,”
the message read. “Identity un-
known,”

In the morning “Hounddog” Stokes
again gave his animals the scent.
With new enthusiasm the dogs shot
across the plowed field, veered left at
the railroad tracks and followed the
road-bed to the same spot where they
had wound up in confusion a few
hours before.

“It’s no use,” Stokes said. “The
scent has been confused,”

With great reluctance, the posse-
men watched Stokes corral his dogs,
herd them into the truck and prepare
to return.

“If you pick up a fresh trail, get
in touch with me and I’ll come back,”
he said. “About all I can tell you is
that the dogs say he went North.
And that isn’t much help.”

Over a cup of coffee that would
have to serve as breakfast, Sheriff
Wolfe and his deputy “took account
of stock.”

“North isn’t exactly a spot on a
map,” Wolfe said. “Still it’s worth a

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try. Even killers have to eat, and
unless I’m greatly mistaken, the man
we want has come out of hiding
somewhere, this morning.”

“Meaning?” Duff wanted to know.

“Meaning that we ought to try the
nearest town due north. And that
would be Melissa.”

Riding the Trail

N half an hour the two officers

parked in Melissa’s town square.
Immediately they began to make the
rounds, quizzing the owners of gro-
cery stores, restaurants and cafes.

Phillips’ cafe was the last bet. A
little blonde waitress was in charge
when the officers entered.

“We are looking for a stranger,
little lady,” Sheriff Wolfe said, “who
might have had breakfast here in
Melissa.”

“We did feed a stranger here this
morning,” the girl said.

Wolfe perked up. Melissa, after
all, is a town of less than 2,000 pop-
ulation, and off the beaten track.

“But I don’t think he’s the man
you’re looking for,” she added.

“Supposing you tell us what he
looked like,” Wolfe suggested.

“Well, he could not have been more
than twenty-one. He was a little
man, and a very friendly fellow. He
breezed in here with his coat on his
arm, dressed in a sweater...”

“And khaki trousers?” Wolfe in-
terrupted.

“That’s right. And he kept singing
to himself while I fixed the hot cakes
for him.”

Wolfe thanked the girl and sig-
nalled for Duff to follow him.

Outside, he said: “It’s our man, all
right. And his luck is riding high.
With every side road watched, he

eae marches right into town,
which is the last place the

ath 19 ossemen would look for
eet im.”
_ “Where to now?” Duff
inquired. :

“To the bus station. Un-
less I don’t know my man,
he’s probably figured that
the best way to get out of
this ring of rifles is to ride
out in style.”

At the local ticket office,
run by the owner of the
town’s drug store, Wolfe
described his man, asked if
any person answering the
description of the bandit
had bought a ticket.

“Sure—he wanted to
buy a ticket for Fort Sill,
Oklahoma, but I told him
he’d have to get that at
the next regular bus ter-
minal,” the local agent re-

lied. “He caught a bus
or Sherman exactly three
hours ago.”

The trail was growing
warm. Wolfe and Duff re-
turned to their car. Noth-
ing to do but head for
Sherman, over an _ hour’s
ride away.

The killer now had a
start of three hours. Under
the right circumstances it

three hundred, Wolfe told
himself. Perhaps there
would be a long lay-over
at Sherman which would
make up for the long start.
He jammed the accelerator
down to the floor, and did
not let it up until they had
sighted their destination.

At the Sherman bus
terminal, the two officers
made inquiries. Had a
ticket to Fort Sill been
sold within the last few
hours to a young man with
a sweater and khaki trous-
ers?

could be as effective as.

Left: The bandit hid out in the small building
at the extreme left in picture while a hundred
armed men combed the surrounding country.
Above: Herbert Dodd, beaten and left for
dead in his filling station. He later recovered.

“We haven’t sold a sin-
gle ticket to Fort Sill this
merning.” the head cashier
informed them.

The report blew up their
bridges from under them.
Where once they were fol-

lowing a trail, they were now
completely stymied. As a routine
precaution, they visited the local
sheriff’s office, relayed the facts and
prepared to return to McKinney. As
they passed the bus station, Wolfe
suddenly pulled up to the curb.

Wolfe Plays Another Hunch

"DUFF, this is a long-shot idea, all
right, but it’s worth a try. Let’s
ut ourselves in the shoes of this in-
uman little killer, fleeing for his
life. He gets to Sherman by bus.
But all the while he realizes that it’s
more than a dim possibility that
someone might have stumbled on his
trail at the bus station in Melissa.”
“So he changes his mind about go-
ing to Fort Sill?” Duff volunteered.
“No. In order to lose his pursuers,
if any, he boards a bus bound in the
general direction of Fort Sill.”

“Such as?”

“Ardmore, Oklahoma.”

“It’s a good deduction, if it works.”

Leaving Duff in the car, Wolfe
paid another visit to the cashier in
the ticket office. :

“Perhaps you’d remember selling
to this young man whom I have de-
scribed, a ticket to Ardmore.”

The cashier’s face clouded for an
instant. But only an instant.

“I sold a ticket to a young man
who wore a topcoat, but no hat, for
the 10:50 bus bound for Ardmore,
come to think of it. He was a pleas-
ant lad. In fact...”

“Yes, I know, he was whistling,”
Wolfe cut in. Then he departed,
hardly waiting to thank the cashier.

The bus had left exactly seventy
minutes earlier.

“He’s got a seventy minutes head
start on us this time,” Wolfe told
Duff, as he started the car. In a
minute they were burning up the
road doing seventy ... eighty...
ninety . . . ninety-two.

For almost two hours they kept up
this dizzy pace. It was 3:10 when
they pulled into the terminal. Losing
no time, they sought the driver. Had
he observed a debonair passenger
with hard eyes, a cruel mouth and
sporting a topcoat, during the run?

“Sure thing. But I didn’t see him
get out here when we pulled in a
minute ago. He must have been left
behind at one of the six rest stops
we make between Sherman and
here.”

Wolfe led the way to the car.

“This clever killer could have de-
barked at one of six places. But I’m
picking Ardmore.”

Duff made no comment.

“T’'ll tell you why: Ardmore is less
than a two hours ride from Fort Sill.
A good highway runs right through
the town, and with good luck, our
man could have made journey’s end
by this time.” :

Once more the officers were off on
their will-o’-the-wisp chase of the
slippery, shrewd desperado, who
seemed to have time in his favor.
Down the road they sped, hurtling
toward their destination. Soon the
sun would be setting and their cam-
paign would be over.

They made Ardmore in seventy
minutes.

"It’s the Killer”

T Ardmore Wolfe slowed up only

long enough to find the proper
highway. Here, they set out once
more, two officers, silent, with faces
set and guns ready. The sun was
slipping fast. In a half hour it
would be dark, And the fugitive
would have reached sanctuary.

Duff broke the silence.

“There’s a curve ahead, Sheriff,”
he said quietly. “Better slow up.”
Duff was far-sighted.

“And looks like a tramp up ahead,

too,” Wolfe said as he slowed down
to thirty-five to avoid hitting the
walker.

It was Duff who exploded the
bombshell.

“Hell’s bells!) That’s our man! T
saw his sweater and the khaki trous
ers under the topcoat.”

There was a noticeable tension in

both men. Then Sheriff Wolfe said:

“Now keep your shirt on, Duff.
We'll make this bend in the road,
then we'll get this bozo before he
know’s what’s happened to him.”

But was this lone traveler really
the murderer, or had mere coinci-
dence presented itself to them? If it
was indeed he, what lay ahead?
Would he fight it out? After all,
what had he to lose by fighting?
However, no timé for speculation
now. The stakes were too large.

Ready for any eventuality, Wolfe
dropped to a lower speed, passing
the man on the road with the uncon-
cern of a tourist with nothing more
than the scenery to engage his in-
terest.

The murderer, if it were he, sus-

pected nothing. He made a _ half
motion as though he would ask for a
ride, then apparently changed his
mind. ' ;
* “It’s now or never, Duff,” whis-
pered Wolfe, turning the car sharply
to the right so that it stood across
the path of their quarry a short dis-
tance ahead of him. The two officers
then slithered out the opposite side
of the car, where, with guns drawn,
they waited until the suspect should
come abreast of them.

Seconds seemed hours. It was all
that the officers could do to restrain
an impulse to rush their quarry, but
they knew better.

Finally, the walker stepped around
the protruding rear-end of the car,
and as he did so, Wolfe took a posi-
tion directly in his path.

“Know anything about automo-
biles?” Wolfe asked.

“No,” was the suspect’s reply.

“Ever have any experience around
filling stations?” was the sheriff’s
next question. At this moment Duff
walked up from behind. Briskly, he
searched the man, their prisoner.

“What’s all the shootin’ for?” he
asked nonchalantly. “You _ birds
haven’t anything on me. I’m just
hiking.”

“You said it,” was Wolfe’s reply.
“You are going on a nice long hike,
and the deputy and I are going along
with you. Now climb in the car and
rest your feet.

“Duff,” the sheriff ordered, “fix him
up with the bracelets, and if he gets
playful, slap his wrists.” As the pris-
oner climbed into the car something
caught Wolfe’s eye. It was a rip in
the prisoner’s overcoat, an odd tri-
angular rip near the hem.

Even as he drove, Wolfe realized
he was up against a ticklish situa-
tion. To begin with, the posse was
in Oklahoma territory and had no
right to carry the prisoner across
the state border. Extradition pro-
ceedings might accomplish all this,
provided there was ample evidence
presented to hold the suspect, and,
while extradition was being ar-
ranged, there was the spectre of
escape. Somehow, the man who rode
calmly beside him must be broken.
He was wondering where he would
make his first move when suddenly
an idea came to him.

“You played a fast game,” Wolfe
ventured, “but you made a few big
mistakes.”

The man beside him did not flinch.

“For one thing you should have
made sure that you rubbed out Hu-
bert Dodd the night you slugged him
with your pistol, because .. .”

(Through the corner of his eye he
could see the man tremble. Quickly
he followed through.) “. . . because,
as you guessed, he was finally able

to place you.”

And now they were entering Ard-
more. Suddenly the prisoner turned
toward him.

“You can't take me into Texas
without extradition papers,” he said.

“Th may not be nbsolutely legal,
but) Pin taking you to McKinney
where some 300 officers and 3,000
citizens are waiting for you.”

The maneuver worked.

“No! No! You ean’t do that.
They'll lyneh me,” the man sheieked.
“You've got to give every man a

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Paqo 19

THE CASE OF THE 8:30 KILLER

lin County. They were amazed
to find the courthouse jammed with

officers. Every department of law
enforcement in Texas was represent-
ed, city police, sheriff’s men, State

Highway Patrol members and even
the Texas Rangers.

“It must be bigger than we
thought,” Wolfe said quietly to Duff.
Then they sought out Sheriff Moore,
known to both men for twenty years
or more.

Sheriff Moore broke the news,
broke it grimly.

“Officer Marion Taylor has just
been murdered. He was my friend.”

“And mine, too,” Wolfe said, sadly,
“How did it happen?”

Simply and quickly Moore told the
story. Tt began in) Dallas, thirty-
one miles away.

Taxicab driver Henry Lee Jackson
of the Checker Cab Co. was cruising
along East Grand Street about seven
o’clock that night when...

“Taxi. Hey there, taxi!”

It was a man dressed in sweater
and khaki trousers who was hailing
him. Jackson backed up to the curb
and threw open the rear door of his
cab.

“Where to, Sir?”

“Straight out Greenville Avenue.”

“Sure thing.”

The trip took scarcely ten min-
utes. When he had reached Green-
ville Avenue, Jackson looked back
nae ence “Any place in particu-
ar?’

“Yeah, Buddy. Turn down Green-
ville. And keep going.”

Suddenly Jackson felt the muzzle
of a pistol barrel pressed against his
back. ‘You know what I mean now.
Don’t you, Buddy?”

“Yes, Sir.”

They rode in silence through the
star-studded night until there came
a quict command from the man on
the back seat.

“Step it up.”

“Thirty-five is the best I can do.
There’s a governor on the motor. It
cuts the speed down to a thirty-five
top.” ‘.

“Pull. over to the side of the road
and remove it.”

Jackson obeyed. He hadn’t been
around all these years for nothing.
The little gunman was a killer. This,
the taxi driver knew by instinct.
What percentage was there in re-
sisting? A dead cab driver is not
much support to a wife and a big
brood of kids.

Besides, the situation wasn’t alto-

gether hopeless. A taxi taking off
across the plains isn’t exactly a com-
mon -sight. Any moment now and
the squad cars of the Dallas police
or, more probably, the cruising rep-
resentatives, of the sheriff of Dallas
County, shrewd and fearless officers,
might come to the rescue.
«. For twenty minutes, with the gov-
ernor removed, they made good time
heading north. And for twenty min-
utes they drove in silence, punctured
occasionally by the shrill tenor voice
in the back seat singing ‘“Goin’
Home.” Cabbie Jackson was grow-
ing uneasy. They were twenty-five
miles outside of Dallas, beyond the
boundaries of Dallas County. Jack-
son could not help thinking of home
and fireside.

The lights of McKinney, bright
and cheerful, popped into view. The
driver’s hopes were revived. A taxi-
cab in this little East Texas town
would invite suspicion. And the law
might...

“Take the first right turn,” the

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voice behind him suddenly directed,
very casually. “For some strange
reason I don’t care to be chauffeured
through the heart of the metropolis.”
Then the man chuckled, apparently
pleased with his grim humor.

Dismayed, Jackson followed in-
structions, and within a few minutes
they were following Highway Num-
ber 71, headed due northeast.

“T like your style. Maybe I’ll keep
you on regularly,” the dapper little
man announced. “Full speed ahead.”

Jackson’s thoughts now were upon
getting himself out of his dangerous
position. Risking a shot in the back,
he ran a red light, hoping that his
fare would let it pass unnoticed.
Apparently he did. Emboldened,
Jackson cautiously dropped his left
hand below the car window and mo-
tioned frantically, hoping someone
behind him in the stream of traffic
would discover his plight..; Someone
surely was bound to observe the dis-
tress signal from a black-and-white
checkered cab—miles away from its
bailiwick.

Jackson had resigned himself to
the worst when there came the
familiar chug-chug of a motorcycle,
followed by a curt command.

“Pull over to the curb.”

Jackson was glad to obey.

The motorcycle cop pulled up
leisurely alongside, facing Jackson.
His foot was on the running board of
the cab. “Where’s the fire?”

“No fire, officer,” Jackson stam-
mered. “I... or rather we...
were just trying to make the next
town before...”

It must have been his voice that
did it. The officer got the hint.
Whirling around, he turned to the
passenger on the back seat, reaching
for his pistol as he did so.

“You’re in a remarkable hurry,
aren’t you, friend?” he said, throw-

ing open the rear door. The man
made no reply. Instead he whipped
out his gun, pointed the muzzle at
the officer’s heart and sent a half
dozen slugs pouring into his body.

In the best Texas tradition, the
officer drew his own service pistol,
fought off collapse long enough to
direct a shot that missed his assail-
ant by inches, and then toppled from
his motorcycle to the highway, dead,
his blood spurting over the macadam
road. Now the desperado moved
fast. Jumping out of the cab, he
darted a contemptuous glance at the
sprawled figure, then streaked across
a field to make his escape.

Sheriff Wolfe heard the report
with a feeling of great personal loss.
Officer Marion Taylor had died as he
often predicted he would—in line of
duty. Wolfe hastened to offer his
services to the Collin County official:
“Gordon Duff and I solemnly pledge
ourselves to stay with this thing un-
til Gabriel, if necessary,” an offer
which Moore was glad to accept.

“His Eyes Were Like Knives”

W OLFE'S first move was to ques-
tion cab-driver Jackson.

“My passenger was a little man,”
Jackson explained. “He wore a
sweater and khaki trousers. His hair
was dark and his eyes were like
sharp knives. You knew from his
voice that he meant business.”

“The Eight-thirty Killer,” Wolfe
said. “There isn’t any doubt about
$ ”

But “Eight-thirty Killer” or not,
the important thing was to get him.

By this time, one of the greatest
posses in the history of Texas had
gathered. McKinney was swarming
with law officers, some 300 of them,
armed to the teeth, waited for Cap-
tain Lee Miller of the Department
of Public Safety to organize them

into groups and assign sectors of
operation.

The entire countryside, for a
radius of fifty miles, was divided into
sections, each of which was to be
flushed by the patrols.

Already, orders had been given to
blockade the field across which the
murderer had fled. A hurry call had
been put in to McAlester, Oklahoma,
for W. I. Stokes, commonly known
as “Hounddog” Stokes, who, aided
by his dogs, had tracked down scores
of fugitives from scenes of murder,
rape and prison-breaking.

At ten o’clock the signal was given
and the miniature army spread out
like spokes from a giant wheel, of
which McKinney was the hub. The
men rode through the night, stopping
all cars, exploring every possible hid-
ing place; tense, with guns ready, as
shadows seemed to move across their
lines of vision. But if the little killer
was abroad that night, the dark
prairie had hidden him well from the
grim hunters who stalked his trail.

It was 3 a.m. when Stokes arrived
with his dogs. Sheriff Wolfe and his
deputy, Duff, had come in a few min-
utes later.

“Come along with us,” Moore sug-
gested. .

Men and dogs piled into a truck,
the dogs straining at their leashes
and baying the while. A mild re-
proach from Stokes and the baying
stopped. Once on the scene, they
leaped into action, sniffing the earth,
nosing the bushes and small growth.
At last, they picked up the scent and
set out in full cry across the plowed
fields.

Howling as they whetted up inter-
est in the chase, the dogs pressed
forward. At the railroad tracks they
hesitated for a brief moment, then
cut to the north. For almost two
miles further the trail led between
the rails only to come to a halt at a
junction of the tracks.

“A train has passed recently, and
pe coae have lost the scent,” Stokes
said.

This news was received with un-
concealed gloom. The officers pon-
dered what should be the next move
when Stokes announced that in the

-morning he would try again. Every
‘minute that passed was working to

the advantage of the killer who was
abroad somewhere in the dark Texas
night, streaking for safe haven.
Where?

«stranger had entered a Ford

a topcoat torn in the back near the
bottom seam. The tear was in the
form of a triangle.”

“Good work,” Wolfe said, making
a mental note of this information.

Again, the Fatal Hour

STiLL another week passed. Once
more it was Saturday night. At
8:30 Sheriff Wolfe, who was alone
on duty glanced half expectantly at
the clock. “Let him strike tonight
and he’ll be out of luck,” thought
Wolfe, whose men even now had the
town surrounded, while special depu-
ties ‘patrolled the streets.

The minutes ticked on monoton-
ously. Nine... nine-thirty ... ten.
By this time it began to look as
though the wily desperado had
smelled the trap and had taken the
night off.

But the robber had merely switched
his base of operations to another part
of the county. Precisely at 11:15 the
telephone rang. City Marshal A. J.
Mankin of Wolfe City was on the
wire with an interesting report.

The marshal had been sitting in
the back seat of his automobile
watching the procession moving .u
and down Main Street when sud-
denly the front door was jerked open
and a young man jumped in. He
was edging over to the steering
wheel, when he caught sight of Man-
kin through the rear-vision mirror.
Quick as a flash he was all smiles.

“Mind if I rest here for a few min-
utes?” the stranger asked.

“Not at all,” Mankin answered,
his hand on his gun.

The stranger lit a cigarette, offered
one to Mankin.

“What do you do here in town?”
he asked, launching a smoke ring.

“Dm the city marshal.”

“Interesting job you have.” The
man finished his cigarette, tossed it
away. “Good night,” he said, as he
sauntered off.

Five minutes later the mysterious
coupe
that had been left running for a few
seconds in front of a restaurant, and
roared away down the high-
way, through a rain of Man-
kin’s bullets.

“And he’s headed toward
Greenville,” the marshal
concluded,

Sheriff Wolfe jumped into
his car and headed for the
road leading to Wolfe City,
eyes alert for a car answer-
ing the description that
Mankin had given.

“He'll ride tonight; I
know it,” Wolfe told him-
self. “And there will be hell
to pay.”

For an hour he combed
the highway. Then, acting
on another of his hunches,
after his fruitless patrol, he
called his office to see if
there were any develop-
ments.

Chief Deputy Gordon
Duff answered the tele-
phone. He made a terse an-
nouncement: “A filling sta-
tion operator at Lone Oak
has just been robbed and
slugged. He’s in a critical
condition at the hospital.
Name is Hubert Dodd.

“Lone Oak,” Wolfe re-
peated aloud. “Our man
seems to like that part of
the country.”

A check-up with the hos-
pital netted the information
that Dodd was still alive.
Perhaps he would be able
to talk the next day.

At noon, Wolfe paid a
visit to the hospital.

From a nurse he discov-
ered that, thanks to a rug-
ged constitution, Dodd had
passed the crisis safely and
no doubt would survive the
attack. By patient question-
ing, Wolfe was able to get
Dodd’s story.

About midnight, just as

he was getting ready to close shop,

a coupe pulled up in front of his sta-~

tion. Dodd walked over to deliver a
cheery greeting to the driver, in typi-
cal Texas fashion. Something about
the driver who sat there with his hat
pulled down over his eyes made him
look twice.

“Haven’t I seen you before?” he
asked.

No answer.

“Seems to me I remember your
face,” Dodd persisted.

“Five gallons of gas,” the man
said briskly.

Puzzled, Dodd took down the hose
and walked behind the car to fill the
tank. Now he began to feel annoyed
at himself. Perhaps he had made a
mistake. Had his memory played a
trick on him?

Suddenly, as he stood there watch-
ing the gasoline gushing into the
tank, something inside of him caused
Hubert Dodd to look behind. He
wheeled just in time, for there, stand-
ing over him, was the man with the
hat pulled down over his eyes. He
now wore a mask. In one hand he
held a gun; in the other a blackjack.

Without a word he brought the
weapon down on Dodd’s head.

“Get in there,” he ordered, point-
ing toward the little store run by
Dodd in connection with his gas sta-
tion.

“Lay down there on the floor, be-
hind the counter,” he commanded.
Dodd obeyed.

The masked man walked over to
the cash register, leisurely ransacked
it, then swaggered over toward
Dodd, and, stooping over the pros-
trate man, he went to work. Savage-
ly, he rained blows with his blackjack
on the head of his victim. When he

had tired of the assault, he listened ,

When logic failed, Sheriff Wolfe, below,
ae and trapped a killer. Right:
uspected, J. W. Rickman is held for grill-
ing. Lower right: A shot from a taxi window
rained death upon Officer Marion Taylor.

ae ce a

for a heart-beat, calling in a voice
that revealed his utter brutality:
“Are you alive? Do you hear me?”

There was no answer. Whereupon
the bandit strolled to the door, raced
past the pumps and jumped into his

car.

Sheriff Wolfe was sickened by
Dodd’s story. It had been his hope
that he might be able to trap this
growing menace and send him to
Huntsville for a much-needed correc-
tive. Now, as he left the hospital,
he determined to wage war to the
death with this brutal bandit who
had neither conscience nor the slight-
est regard for human life. What
worried him was the question: Why
was Dodd bludgeoned and left for
dead? And could he have been known
to his would-be murderer?

Throughout the following week.
Sheriff Wolfe and his men haunted
the by-ways of the county, probing
even the flimsiest
of tips. One by , ’
one the leads i ¥,
fizzled out. “This ; ‘|
killer must have } {
been born under a ;
ase A ag Duff | |
observed. ,

The sheriff and aa
his deputy were 2 i
discussing the
mysterious attack
on Dodd on the
night of March 3,
as ga patrolled,
rifles loaded, the
southern part of
the county, hope-
ful that the phan-
tom bandit would
appear here,
tipped-off that
Greenville itself

was an armed camp.

Suddenly a warning came over the
short-wave set. In shocked silence
the two heard it.

“Attention officers . . . attention
officers . . . be on the lookout for a
small man with dark complexion,
weighing about 125 pounds. He has
just committed a murder at McKin-
ney. No unnecessary risks should
be taken. The man will probably
shoot it out against any odds. He is
wanted for the murder of...”

The voice trailed off as Wolfe
slammed down the accclerator.

“Cripes!" he exclaimed. “Maybe
it’s our man. We’re headed for Me-
Kinney.” Then without another word
they raced south, a ghostly moon
riding high above them.

Arriving in McKinney, Wolfe and
the deputy headed straight for the
office of Sheriff E. B. Moore of Col-

(Continued on page 18)

tee

AXI-CAB driver H.
of the invigorating night air and wondered what

Jackson pointed his motor down. East Grand Street
one of the leading thoroughfares of Dallas, Texas, As he

cruised along, alert for
prospects, he could fee]
that spring in the air.

“Taxi, hey there,
taxi!”

Over on the sidewalk
on the opposite side of
the street, a man was
flagging him, Gingerly
Jackson made a U-turn,
pulled up to the curb,
and threw open the rear
door of the cab,

“Where to?” he asked
cheerfully, ,

“Straight out Green-
Ville Avenue,”

The trip took scarcely
fifteen minute 8. At
Greenville Avenue, Jack-
Son looked back and
asked, “Any Place in
particular ?”

Turn down Greenville
and keep going.”

RAMAT IC

This must be the passenger he was hoping for, he con.
cluded, Already the meter read $1.60, In the mirror he
could see his fare stretched out on the back seat,

the city began to recede, Jackson looked back, hesitantly,
“What number, sir?” he asked politely,
The man leaned forward. “You heard what I said,

Grim and formidable Constable Latham,

Deputy Sheriff Dan Rike and the murder
who played a leading role in the capture.

gun which was recovered from the brook.

De TECTIVE

DecemaBeRr, LPAS .

44 The Master Detective

been reported stolen from the downtown streets by a
Dallas man three days before. The presence of the acety-
lene tanks in the car advanced the theory that the per-
son or persons who last used it had probably been bank
burglars.

The theory was also advanced, from a closer study of
the car and its contents, that it was the car that had been
used by unknown burglars who on the preceding Wednes-
day night had looted two bank vaults at Venice, Texas,
a neighboring town. Friday morning the car was positively
identified by Sheriff Andy Moore of Johnson County as
the one used in the bank burglaries. The two acetylene
tank caps left in the bank at the time of the burglaries
bore the same serial numbers as the tanks found in the
car. Were the burglars the murderers of the police officer?
This theory was exploded when the car was viewed by
Officer Wofford, who said absolutely that this was’ not
the car that had passed him in the dark and exchanged
shots with him. '

Many leads and much information came to police head-
quarters that night and all through the next day. Each
bit of information was carefully investigated and run
down, but in each instance led to nothing. Plainclothes
Officer W. D. Williams received a tip that a Negro who

Manacled at last! Left to right are Sheriff Schuyler B.
Marshall, Jr.; S. A. Robinson; Forest Robinson; Captain
Tom Hickman of the Texas State Rangers; together with
other officials and spectators, as the killers are transferred
to the State Penitentiary

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Le a aight
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worked in a barber shop at Forest and Colonial Avenues
just three blocks from the scene of the crime owned an
old Hupmobile touring car with white wire wheels. He
quickly investigated, but found that the car in question
had been in a garage, where it was being repaired, for
the past week. This was corroborated by mechanics at
the garage. A Negro living in Oak Cliff was reported to
be driving a Hupmobile touring car with white wire wheels,
but when this:lead was investigated the car proved to be
an old Dodge. An old Hupmobile‘ touring car with white
wheels was found in a garage, but the owners declared it
had not been in running condition since the first of the
year. The 1926 license had not been bought. These were
but a few of the many clues that were run down and finally
eliminated.

N the morning of February 6th, two days after the

crime, a throng of friends of the slain man, both in
the police department and .in civil life, gathered at the
Isbell home to attend the funeral of the young officer.
The pall bearers were selected from the motorcycle detail
who had worked with the slain officer. A police escort
followed the hearse. They were paying their last tribute to
a fallen comrade.

But even during the solemn funeral services the hunt
for the slayer had not for one moment been abandoned.
Early on the morning of February 5th, the morning after
the murder, a hurried conference was held between Police
and Fire Commissioner Louis S. Turley, Chief of Police C.

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supposed to have traveled. They
stopped at every house and oil station.
Shortly before noon they received their
first break at the Sky Line Service Sta-
tion, located in the triangle-shaped
corner at Forest Avenue and Eighth
Street. A service station employee re-
ported that about 10:15 on the night of
the killing, he had been working on a
water hose connection on the driveway
which had frozen during the recent cold
spell when he heard a car approaching
from the east on Forest Avenue at a
high rate of speed. It swerved to the
right at Eighth Street, barely making
the corner. He thought for a second it
would come through the driveway
where he was working. He did not
notice the make of the car but did
notice that it was being operated with
either a defective muffler or a cut-out
open. After it turned the corner it was
soon lost in the darkness. It was headed
toward South Oak Cliff. He was not
sure but was of the opinion that the oc-
cupants of the car were Negroes.

HAT was important information. If

this was the killer’s car it had not
been driven out of the city, but in the
general direction of Oak Cliff.

As the two officers proceeded up
Eighth Street they met a milk wagon.
The driver informed them that about
ten-thirty on the night of the killing
he was driving down Eighth Street
toward the city limits to start on his
milk route when he heard a car ap-
proaching from the rear at a terrific

speed. He was just driving onto the.

narrow bridge which crosses a small
ravine near the railroad tracks. He
said that the car almost struck the
back end of his milk wagon before he
could clear the bridge. He also de-
clared that it was filled with Negroes
and that the cutout was open.

An old touring car, probably a Hup-
mobile, driven by Negroes at once be-
came a definite object of the search.

The officers were of the opinion that
the car had not been driven through
the residence section at that rate of
speed. It had stopped probably at the
Negro settlement about a mile farther
up the road. This settlement is located
near what is known as the Old Oak
Cliff Cemetery and near the Negro
school. The officers drove up in front
of the school just as it was dismissed
for luncheon. They stopped several of
the children and inquired if they knew
anyone in this vicinity who drove an
old Hup touring car, but got no
clue. Then they went to a_ small
grocery store nearby and_ purchased
soda water. While they were drinking
it Fritz asked the aged storekeeper if
he knew a Negro in the neighborhood
who drove a Hupmobile touring car.
A storekeeper in a settlement of this
kind is usually the best informed per-
son in the community on the affairs of
his customers. He replied that a Negro,
some times accompanied by a Negro
woman, passed his store almost every
day driving some kind of an old tour-
ing car, but he did not know the make.

“Where does he live?” asked Fritz.

“Vl declare I don’t know, but he
usually drives down Betterton Circle
there,” replied the storekeeper.

The Master Detective

Out the door the officers went, jumped
in their car and drove down Better-
ton Circle through the three blocks occu-
pied almost entirely by Negroes. They
did not see such a car. hey drove
back to Eighth Street, parked their
car, and started out on foot, inquiring
at each house if anyone had an old
Hupmobile touring car for sale. Finally
a Negro woman informed them what
the people on the next corner had some
kind of an old touring car, but she
did not know whether they wanted to
sell it or not. She pointed out the
house. The officers walked to the house
which proved to be 930 Betterton Circle.
Fritz climbed the high front steps and
knocked on the door. The Negro
woman who answered the knock said
that they did not even own a car.
Thinking it might be the house across

Correction

On Page 29, May, 1932,
issue of THE MASTER DE-
TECTIVE, in connection with the
story, OUTWITTING DAL-
LAS’ PHANTOM KILLER,
there appeared a picture of
William Mann, described as
having been murdered. A
William Mann was murdered
in the case covered by this
story, but the William Mann
whose picture we published,

a citizen of Dallas, we are
happy to announce, is alive.
The picture and information
concerning it were sent to us
from a source which we be-
lieved reliable. We are glad
to publish this statement and
correct the error.

the street that was meant, the officers
called there. A Negro woman told
them that no one there owned a car
but, pointing to 930 Betterton Circle,
she said that the people across the street
had some kind of an old touring car
which they usually left parked in the
street in front of the house, but she
did not remember seeing it there that
day. She believed it was a Hupmobile.

Fritz and Henderson walked back
to the street and discussed the findings
for a moment, deciding that the dis-
crepancy in the two reports should be
investigated. Henderson walked to the
back of the house at 930 and saw that
there was no garage. Fritz knocked on
the door again but received no response.
He knew that no one had left the house
by the front way for they had not
been out of sight of the house. Again

and again he pounded, and after a few
moments the Negro woman again ap-
peared. When she opened the screen-
door, Fritz put his foot in the door-
way to prevent her closing it, and
walked in. It was a scantily furnished
two-room house similar to others in
this section.

By this time Henderson had gained
admission at the back. The house was
occupied by three Negro women, one
of whom was still in bed, though it
was nearly | o’clock in the afternoon.
They gave their names as Mable and
Bertha Austin and Lottie Raipe, two
sisters and a half-sister. Without ques-
tioning them the officers placed the
trio in the county jail in separate cells
and instructed the jailer to allow no one
to see them, booking them with the
blanket charge, “suspicion”. Then
they drove back to the vicinity of 930
Betterton Circle and parked their car
so as to have a good view of the house
in two directions.

They had been there probably three-
quarters of an hour when an old Ford
touring car without a top drove up in
front of the house. In it were two
Negro boys in their early twenties. The
two Negroes walked up to the front
door. Finding it locked, one of them
produced a key and they both entered.
Presently they came out with arm-loads
of bed clothing, suit-cases, and other
belongings. Finally they brought out
an old trunk and placed it on top of
the already heavily-laden car and drove
away. The officers followed them about
four blocks; then drove up beside them
and ordered them over to the curb.

They gave their names as James and
Buddy Robinson, brothers, and claimed
that they had been living at 930 Bet-
terton Circle for a couple of months,
but as their rent was up that day they
decided to move. The old Ford was
placed in a garage nearby, and the two
Negroes taken in the officers’ car.
When questioned about the Hupmobile
touring car that had been seen parked
in front of their house, they denied all
knowledge of it, but from the answers
they gave, the officers were sure that
they were withholding information.

FR Tz and Henderson never resorted

to harsh treatment when questioning
a prisoner. They are of the opinion
that if a prisoner knows a thing and
the officer knows he knows it, the best
way to get it is to cross-question him
until he contradicts one of his own
statements. Then he becomes nervous
and is easily broken. That is what
happened in this case. They questioned
the Negro, Buddy Robinson, for he
seemed the more nervous of the two.
In less than an hour he admitted that
a boy sometimes came there to see one
of the girls and drove such a car. After
further questioning he told them where
the car might be found. He said it was
at a servant’s house in Oak Cliff. He
did not know the address but offered
to show them the house.

They drove as the Negro directed and
soon came to a corner near an alley in
which were located several servants’
houses, There in front of one of the
houses was a Hupmobile touring car
with white wire wheels! Henderson

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The Vanishing Killers of Dallas 45

W. Trammeil, and Chief of Detectives J. G. Gunning. running from the scene of his crime in another state, and
Detectives Will Fritz and John Henderson were chosen to feared arrest on a speeding charge, thinking he jwould be
assume full charge of the investigation. They had worked identified? Or was it a rum runner with a load of unlaw-
together for many years, and had the reputation of being ful merchandise? All these theories were considered.

fearless and efficient officers who had yet to find a case

they could not break. Chief Trammell ordered them to Cliff, which includes Kessler Park Square, an exclusive

Motorcycle Officer Owen Moore, detailed in West Oak

cease activities on any other case. They were told that residential section, reported that about 9:30 on the night
they need not report to headquarters until a substantial of February 3rd—the night before the killing—while

lead was obtained
and only then for
such assistance and
codperation as they
might require.

The detectives knew
that a difficult task
was before them.
First, no motive for
the crime had been
discovered. What
sane and sober man
would shoot down a
police officer in the
discharge of his duty
rather than pay a
small speeding fine?
Dallas had always
been lenient with
minor traffic offenders.
Was some fugitive

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The telegram received by Chief Special Agent D.
M. Lay, of the Kansas City Southern Railway, that
pinned another murder on the killers of Officer Isbell

patrolling his district he came upon an old Hup-
mobile touring car parked on North Clinton
Street, near the intersection of Colorado Street.
This being rather an out-of-the-way place, he
stopped to investigate. In the car he found a
handbag filled with tools, and a sledge hammer.
Thinking that the owner of the car might be a
safe burglar or prowler engaged in pilfering some
of the houses nearby, he decided to conceal him-
self in a hedge at 1206 North Clinton Street and
see who came for the car.

EVERAL minutes later someone fired two
shots in his direction, and he saw a man run
off in the darkness past the car. Moore took
after him. They exchanged several shots but the
Ps man was soon out of sight in the darkness. When
Moore came back the car was gone. Evidently
the shooting was a decoy to lead the officer
from the car. During the shooting several shots
struck a house at 1206 North Clinton Street. The
officers were of the opinion that this was the car
from which Officer Isbell had been shot.
On the afternoon of February 6th Chief Tram-
mell received an anonymous letter in scrawling
handwriting. It said:

1 am the one ho kiled the kop. I am hid in
the rivor botom but dont send you men after
me cause I am goin to kil evry kop that cross
my path the Red Rider.

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August, 1932

At this point in taking the confes-
sion, Captain Story. relates a dramatic
incident reminiscent of Shakespeare’s
Macbeth. Lady Macbeth, walking
in her sleep, burdened with a guilty
conscience, holds up her hand and cries,
“Out, damned spot, out I say!”

Gordon, Captain Story says, after
telling of seeing the blood on his face
and hand, paused in his confession, held
his left hand before him and said in a
tone of hopeless resignation: “I am
nothing but a murderer.”

Gordon then related how he carefully
washed the blood from his hands and
face and combed his hair “because it
was all messed up”. He then left the
house, threw the screw-driver away and
went back to work.

The Cuyahoga County grand jury
indicted him on two first degree mur-
der counts, charging premeditated
murder and murder committed during
robbery. A verdict of guilty on either
count would send him to the electric
chair.

Defense attorneys did not deny that
their client had committed the murder
but contended that Gordon killed Mrs.
Becker in ‘a sudden influence of pas-
sion and terror”, and that he therefore
“did not have time nor ability to de-
liberate and premeditate”.

Gordon went to trial May 18th. On
the witness stand he declared that two
weeks before the murder he had gone
to the Becker home with the intention
of robbing it. As on the fatal morn-
ing of April Ist he went to the suite
door and knocked. hoping no one was
at home. Mrs. Becker opened the door.

“Il was in the neighborhood investi-
gating a bad check and thought |
would just drop in,” Gordon said he
told her. He related that Mrs. Becker
was going downtown and asked him to
wait a few minutes, saying she would
drive him back to his work. He did so.

The trial was brief, lasting only two
days. At 4:15 in the afternoon of
May 20th, the jury of five men and
seven women received the charge from
Common Pleas Judge Alva R. Corlett
and began deliberating. At 10:30 that
evening a bailiff announced that a ver-
dict had been reached. As the jury
filed back into the courtroom, Gordon
watched their faces almost impassively.

“Guilty with recommendation of

The Master Detective

mercy,” the foreman of the jury an-
nounced.

Judge Corlett ordered the jury polled,
accepted the verdict and looked sternly
at the jurymen.

“If ever a man deserved the extreme
penalty exacted by the law for murder,
that man sits over yonder,” he said,
nodding toward the prisoner. “In all
my nine years on the bench I have not
encountered a more cold-blooded mur-
derer than Aaron Harry Gordon.”

The jury sat white-faced and tense as
the judge continued relentlessly:

“Based on the evidence which was
submitted to you in this courtroom,
your verdict should have been guilty of
murder in the first degree without
recommendation of mercy.

“When this man jammed a glove into
Mrs. Becker’s mouth with such ferocity
that he broke her jaw, when he coiled
a necktie about her throat and drew it
tight so that he choked her, he was de-
liberately closing the mouth of the one
witness to his crime.”

Judge Corlett turned to Gordon.

“you owe this jury your thanks,”

he said. “It has saved you
from the electric chair. Do you want
to thank them?”

Gordon shifted uneasily in his chair,
turned to his attorneys who nodded,
and after a slight hesitation rose.

“TI want to thank you for the con-
sideration you have shown me,” he
mumbled and sat down.

Judge Corlett sentenced him to life
in Ohio State Penitentiary.

One of the most pathetic figures in
this whole case was Gordon's wife,
Rose, life-long friend of the murdered
Rose Becker. She had married Gor-
don the previous twenty-second of Feb-
ruary. Shortly after his arrest and
confession, she filed suit for divorce on
grounds of neglect and non-support.

When: the case came before Common
Pleas Judge Samuel H. Silbert, he did
not recognize the name of the defendant
and first denied the petition. He advised
Mrs. Gordon to “go back and try again
to make your marriage a success”.

Mrs. Gordon broke down and began
to weep. Her attorney rose and ex-
plained the situation to Judge Silbert,
who immediately issued a decree on
grounds of imprisonment.

The Vanishing Killers of Dallas

(Continued from page 45)

received a similar letter. When the
handwriting on the two letters was
compared it could be readily seen that
both were written by the same illiterate
person. Very little importance was at-
tached to them.

Schuyler B. Marshall, Jr., then Sheriff
of Dallas County, offered his fullest co-
operation, as did also District Attorney
Shelby S. Cox, in detailing two of his
best investigators, Allen Seale (who
later as Sheriff of Dallas County died
in his first term of office), and Hal Hood
(who is now Sheriff) to assist the city
officers.

As soon as Fritz and Henderson were

assigned to the case they went to the
offices of the Dallas Gas Company
where they, too, received corroborating
statements from Mr. Yeager, who had
been driving the car stoner by Officer
Wofford on the night of the murder.
They went from there to the scene of
the crime, where they made a house-to-
house canvass, questioning everyone as
to what had been seen or heard that
night. They were not rewarded with
any further information to aid them
in tracking down the killers.

The two officers then worked their
way slowly out Forest Avenue in
the direction that the slayer’s car was

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