A Sample Texan.

Southland Times, Issue 4412, 30 August 1882, Page 4

A Sample Texan.

tpffic ring at each^oxejnent, Henry AW* Burto^XKiniessed 3 jn^rd^rerjand >msA -rob- '. ber, sat wearU-jrroja^hed^nQhiiin a cell in the Central Suti<mj^h«r«^ hfrtwas-brought from the prisdnWn ©rftroitjb>m* United States Marshal Matthews, of Bfi^^e^sffibEfed^^^ ©ipe, or need tobacco^m any fo , fm,'fror l htk' l h» ever Wffii& bF4htdficating ]id!|lßf!r?Be , KSv«F^ evening thatrth&Bpund.pf an '^fe^* 8 hiro lfte"&ife.»%Dton felrS¥ "My_ fatfier waa^a rahpfiman,'' said .Ke ; nattfe was White, my right name |# Samuel White. When _I was 13 years* of age my * fathef~was shot by James Rnwaniiva , auarcel. It was when I was 21„ time, \a>*W lim^R^ckdalo County, I-was-told who he was. StetfpHhg in .front of him, I- exclaimed, « yotf^r^my f aihfeVs mtirderer^ahd^bef ore he had time to draw -aTpietol, I shot him through the,hea*f I T vM.wT'^d after " wards for thfe offence, ahd served a short 1»rm w o^Mprißo«ment;- After my^discbarce Ibecan my -career asfmail robber, or tKuißiJt&^rTvp^'-wtopft. a "y assistance "whatever, j^.al^ays ' alone. In April, 1877, I stoppled. >" mail express in RockdaleM&untj, Texas,- There were H passengers in. -the,« stage,! jYou would hardlyjxthink it.>possible. ithat -one man could intimidate^ ifsoi7.many, but I erected dummies ;tbat an the dark^looked like men stf-r^unding lhe vehicle: 5 Then I made the passengers" step out of the coach on^by 'Mef-after first attending to the drWeE :4 and : 3h!e^g'VMd by /crippling them with* il^^i^^^^J.^Y^!^'. As th^^fiaslengers. flighted,;!' rthrew., black. ; ibod^p^e^Mtb^e^eye 8 and fastened their. ha^dMbehind: their backs. -..-., Is got 4QOO dpls. from thisihanljibutiwasc arrested; sooUiafter a<id sentenced to an-imprisonment for life/ I'iwas ?pard6hedifthrough the influence of friends within 1 two years. " I..wept,to Colorado: . I cannot tell how it wtflfbht^a-ftei 'drifting about' for a time to my pjd ' pursuits. : One dark nlgM 'about Vyeai: ago I_ teamed that the Stage, .on the road "between Dreadnought and Aramola,' 7in ;bpl orad o,,w as full . of pasB3ng«ris and'came^ a ricbfrnail. I erected several Canvas tents and ; built dummies looking Jike men ob both'sides of .the road. I barredthe road with two poles,' fastened forkwise. Shortly after ,midnight the vehicle came " .dashing along the road. The-: .horses -'caught .on the Stakes:. and. 'rolled to the ground. One by one I.^ordered the driver and the passengers, to alight.; The were fourteen pissengersf ariy'one of whom- copld have knocked me.down, for I am a cripple, remember j'.^ gentle as lambs', looked J at my dummy men and trembled with fear. . After my- ; trial in the Segten-jber term of court, 1881, in Colorado, I v was being taken from Chicago to Detroit, when I disarmed the SherifE and his two deputies who had me in custody. This was ii-psthe' cars; a I had the Sheriffs revolver pointed at his head. In an instant more I would have blown bis brains out, but a passenger," MisVAl ice Smith, a lady whom I had never seen before, and whom I have never met since, threw herself upon me, begging fdr the Sheriff's life. I think I am too tender hearted. Escape was open for me, but MiBS Smith called out : - Think of the man's wife and children.' Without a word I handed the revolver back to the Sheriff, and submitted without a sound of coniElaint to having shackles placed upon my ands and feet."