 The Denison Daily News Saturday, June 6, 1874 pg.3 A THIEF ARRESTED And a Dose of Morphine Fixes Him Thursday night the till at Maupin's store, Red River City, was tapped and some four dollars in small change extracted. Lee Hall was informed of the robbery and requested to look out for the thief. The next morning as Hall was returning from the Nation, after the encounter with the Gormley party, and while at Colbert's ferry, noticed a man riding a pony. His suspicion being awakened, he arrested him and found upon his person the missing money from the store. The man was noticed soon after the search, to take a small bottle from his pocket and drink the contents. On being asked what it was he explained that it was whisky and salt. On their arrival at Maupin's store, the prisoner went to the well and filled the bottle with water and drank it. Soon after, he got off his horse saying he was sick, but Hall told him he would shoot him it he didn't go on, and he mounted his pony again. At Duck Creek, this side of Red River City, he again complained of being sick, and soon after had a spasm, and in a few minutes died. Before his death, he said the bottle contained morphine, that he was accustomed to fits, that he took it to prevent them, and had taken an over dose. The man was a German about 40 years of age and spoke broken English. He said his name was Mead or Smeet, as near as could be made out, and that he lived about 16 miles from Waco. The body was brought to this city and a post mortem examination of the stomach was to have been held last night by Drs. Sanford, Feild and Acheson. Some think the man was deranged, others, that he is guilty of some great crime that led him to take his own life to avoid discovery and punishment. Esq. Kirk is to have his photograph taken, in the hope he will prove to be old man Bender. FELONY Susan Hawkins © 2024 If you find any of Grayson CountyTXGenWeb links inoperable, please send me a message. |