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New Zealand Tablet, Volume X, Issue 496, 13 October 1882, Page 13

A man named Cornwell, who was charged with having been drunk, got tired of waiting for tardy justice, and suddenly adjourned from the Recorder's Court at Fort Worth, Texas, without giving bond. The police had a lively race after him, but failed to fall in company with Cornwell, who was in a hurry to go see his wife's people. Frank Hovenkatnp, of Birdville, came to town just as the policemen became tired out, and he was duly clothed with authority and some other clothes, and armed with a big gun and the bloodhounds, and given directions to bring the body of the absconding Cornwell into court. The dogs struck the trail and ram well, followed closely by the gallant Frank, who was well mounted. Soon the dogs •' treed " something in a thicket, and Frank approached with pistol at full cock, and ordered tie malefactor to descend. "TV God, massa, shoot dem dojjs ; dey's mad, sho' ; dey run me right up this tree and got part of my breeches in der moufs now," said a negro Bix shades blacker than the ace of spades. The man who got away was a very fair-skinned white man.