The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, January 3, 1883, Page 2

Athens (Ga.) Bamner. “Let me introduce you to Mr. Joe Thurmond,” remarked a gentle- man to us on Tuesday, last. We looked up from our work ex- pecting to see a hardened outlaw, girdled with pistols and bowie knives standing at our side ; but instead of that we met 2 smiling tace, cleanly shaved, with the exception of aheavy lack mustache. In fact, the image of a tarmer, well-to-do in the world, and pertectly content with his lot. And this was the famous Joe Thurmond, an account ot whose daring escape from the sheriff of Clark county nad so recently startled the state. and caused a thrill of ap- plause to pass through the system of all as they read of how a manbraved death sooner than meet disgrace. We motioned our visitor to a seat, and, after afew common-place re- marks, broached the subject of hie escape. Without a moment’s hesi- tation he gave us the following ac- count of his career, from the time he took leg bail until his voluntary sur- sender. ‘I had no idea ot attempting an escape,’’ he began, ‘‘when I was carried from the jail to the ceurt house, but had determined to die tather than go to the penitentiary. But while sitting in my chair in Judge Jackson’s office a sudden desire sciz- ed meto make the attempt, and without stopping tu consider a mo- ment or count the probable cost, I made a bolt tor the _ window, but some one caught my foot, just as I was about passing through, that caused me to tallon my head and receive a fearfulshock. I thenrush- ed for my horse, expecting to be shot down in my tracks, but I tended to die rather than surrender. You know how I made my escape. One of Browning’s bullets grazed may leg, and passing through the sad- dle-skirt and blanket, entered the side of the nag | was riding. After yet- ing beyond range ot the balls I head- ed toward Brooklyn, but when about two miles from town the horse be- gar to give way under me, when I rode out in a pine thicket to see what was the matter. Uponremoving the saddle I discovered the wound, and | knew that the beast could not carry } me turther. “I turned it loose and started for home on toot, and by a circuitous route had to travel four- teen miles before gettingthere. But my leaying my horse behind saved me from capture, the officers thought I was still out in the thicket, and so did not telegraph. I only remained: home an hour— jest long enough to get some money, bid my tamily good-by and started for Lawrenceville, thirty miles distant. Taking my little brother in the bug- fy, we made the tripp in just three hours, but it nearly killed the horse { was driving. I traveled at night, passing through Jug Tavern, and met severel men that I knew, but as { nad my hat slouched over my face they did not recegnize me, not even my.uncle, whose house I passed. Just as I drove into Lawrenceville the train was steamed up ready ‘o leave, and I got aboard. Had I been ten minutes later it would have | teft me. -I met with another streak | of good luck when I go? to Suwan-| ace, the junction with the Air-Lins. | { got from aboard as sven as the c mn- as “~ | which he won mack his losses, when expecting to meetatelegram. When Chattanooga was reached I for the first time felt pretty safe, but push- ed on to my destination, Canada, as soon aspossible. I had deter.ained | not to be captured alive, and wanted Jefferson City. Mo., Dec. 25 | to doall in my power to prevent trou- | desperate affair occurred on Saturday ble. In Canada I found a wealthy | a¢ the penitentiary between Geerge uncle, brother to my tather, who] })emasters and Jerry B. McCarty, kept a large hotel there, but whom I | two convictsemployed in the Cooper- had never before seen. To him I} Patterson shoe shop, in which the went and made a ‘clean breast’ ot | former was dangerously stabbed in my troubles. He welcomedme, and | several places and padly cut by # I took charge of the buisness man-| shoe knife and hatchet in tne hands agement of his house. Every week] of the latter. The two desperadoes or so I wrote and received letters and got into a quarrel concerning the CHRISTMAS CUTTING. Letting Fued. a knew all that was transpiring.’’ day. “But about your pardon?’’ asked. keep a nut-stand Christmas We leach claiming to have permissson to use it. A guard interfered and “Well, st was signed by over 2,0} quieted them for a moment, but as} oe of the best men in three counties, | soon as his back was turned, Mc- | and Governor Colquitt said it was | Carty attacted Demaster, who was one of the strongest documents ever |.n a stooping position, and struck »aid before him. I felt certain that | him with a hatchet, inflicting a se- | he would heed it, aad as soon as] vere cut on the left shoulder Then | ready came home and voluntarily | he went in with the shoe knife and | gave myself up to sheriff Weir, who | nearly severed three fingers on De- very kindly refused to put me in jail, | masters left hand, who clutched the until the Governor had acted upon} blade. He then stabbed him in the | the matter. I had strong friends in] left arm, inthe lett side between the | Atlanta to plead my cause, among} third fourth ribs, and again in the | them Dr. Kieg and Henry Grady, | back, on the lett side near the spinal | and se am once more a free man. column near the seventh and eighth | IT WAS WHISKEY AND CARDS nbs. By this time the guard suc- that brought me all this trouble, and | ceeaed im tearing the wild beast i I have made a solemn pledge to my from the victim. The wounds in mother, never agai, so long as Ij the lett in front and in the back are! live, to allow another drop of the | very dangerous and may prove fatal’ | cursed stuff tu pass my lips or throw | it being impossible tor the physicians { another card. Her distress gave me | to determine at this time. McCarty | grater pain than anything else, and | and Demasters are two of the worst I shall see that she has not further | convicts in the prison, both being cause torgriefon my account. This | desperadoes and very troublesome. scrape has been a serious matter to} McCarty was sent up from Wayne me. Besides tosing my crop, I had | county in 1878S tor ninety-nine years to spend ever $1,000 in cash; it has | for murder, and Demasters was sent | learned me a lesson, and one that I | here from Jackson county in 1877 tor think I'shall always remember. 1 | twenty-three years for highway rov- | intend te try and lead a better life, bery. and some time prove to the world that I am innocent of the crime for which Iwas convicted. I had no mere idea ef stealing that horse than you had. I was drunk and won it at cards, and while still under the in- fluence ot liquor, gave good greunds bor and acquaintance of the Young- for the suspicion which resulted in|¢* bovs. Heottensaw the James my coenviction.”’ boys, also kmew them well. He de- j Oklahoma Booming. scribes the Younger boys as quiet, | Mie clever men, with a host of friends. Wichita, Kan., Dec. 27. Messrs. | mr. Garrett says: ‘When I went Harris and Watson, men of experi- | ' to Missouri, in 1868, the Younger \ ence in the newspaper business, and boys were trying to live quietly on | having capital, have been here for | their mother’s farm working hard the past few days in consultatien every day; but the Kansas\jayhawk- | | H H i ‘ BEemunisecnces of Bandits. {Lexington (Ky.) Transcript.]} ! Officer Estes Garrett ot the Lex- ington police force tormerly resided near Missouri City and wasaneigh- with Capt. Payne, at the -office of | ers, just across the border, Drake Oklahoma colony. They design | and his tollewers persecuted them accompanying the Oklahoma col-| se they had to leave the country. ony from this point on the first day | Bob Younger and I have often slept of February next, and will establish | together, and he was the last one of a new paper called the Oklahoma j them toleare. He went away in War Chief: The first two numbers 1869. There always seemed to be ot which will se published in this | a distrust of the James boys on the city, the next copy on the territory part of the Youngers, and the. rela- line, and the next and all subsequent | tiens between the two clans were not i publicatiens from the Oklahoma very cordial They were together a! town site onthe north Canadian river. good deal during the war, but atter | = . § : se | IN teil you the These gentlemen mean business, and | it had little to de with cach other. 1 j answered the doe have already obtained about 700 sub- | lett there in 1871, went to Ray ceun- | both the medical men almost as : : Saas TS : 4 3 | as cancer does. Having passed cer- scribers for their paper. Payae says ty, and in March 1872 came back to | tain stage, both point stright to ete., that there are now 10,000 wagons | Kentucky. Cole Younger was the | nits. It may be unprotessional to let j outthe secret, but whenever a patient ready greased to’start tor Oklahoma. | best shot with a pistol I. ever | His favorite mode ot shooting | j at a mark while on horseback and j A son of a wellknown American | under full speed. He seldom millionaire and railway king hasbeen | failed‘to hit the center. On one staying at Monte Carlo, and his ad-} casion heasked me toliang my haton ventures hav I did The other nigh A Millionaire's Son. t ever je nh quite amusing. | a fence stake in a lane. so. | s e lost at trente-ct- all the money h@ had with him ; whereupon he telegraphed to his ore, telling her ‘she porketbook.”’ Then money quarante in passing puta bullet through the | hat. LEthen thought I would not like to haye him shoot at me, therefore cultivated pleasant tions with him. and rela-} Cole was the eldest had a friend lent him some with y papers trom home'through him, and possession ofa table on which te | Saw. i comesto me with Bright’s disease, or was | any kidney trouble acting like it, I tell him to puton Benson's Capc ne Porous Plaster without delay.” oc- | can be helped. the } Look out tor trauds. ! cine cutin the midd ¢ ot the plaster? If He came down the road ‘ull tilt, and | bury & Johnson, chemists, New York. | } Poer Old Missouri. ; Post Dispatch: Poor old Missou- | poor old Missouri has reduced her | public debt by $650,000, and has an ten years she will be free of debt. | Poor old Missour: would not only | be free of debt to-day but would have enough property on hand to | pay all the State expenses from its that sold the State’s assets for a tri- | wail of **Poor old Missourn.”’ The Richmond (Va.) States | bluntly says: ‘*The fact is the war literature of neither side is intended forthe other. What we write from our standpoint can not possibly be very acceptable to a northern audi- ence, noc is their side of the ques- tion, as stated by them any pleasing to us, therefore, we had best make it ail for home consamp- tien.” more Free of Charge. All persons suffering from Coughs, olds, Asthma, Bronchitis. loss of voice, or any affection of the throat and lungs, are requested to call at F. M. Crumley & Co's, Drug Store and get atrial bottte ot Dr. King’s New Discovery for con- sumption, free of charge, which will con- vince them of its wondertul merits and show what aregular dollar size bottle will do. Call earlv. No. 3 The death of Thurlow Weed, at the age of 85, recalls these facts: That Clay reached the age of 75, Jackson 78, Calhoun 68, Webster 7o, | John Q. Adams 81, Buchanan 78, Van Buren 81, Taylor 64, Cass &2, Marcy and Everett 71, Henton 76. 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They were ail phisically | most cu Laat Sas stand on the East side of. the corner, remained there until the reg | moneys pacice ye ne fete Saal Pee dies, being the greatest blood purifier, | ig now made for the fourth year and ular train came alo ata sat se 2d. powertul mea and fine looking. I | liver regulator and life and health re. 2 ware, are 2 ng.which was]. 4 of unqualified square, are leading the ter this-he, on the next ce | lived for two years on the farm of | Storing agent on earth. No disease or | Woda tet hee Te just tenminutes. I boarded the | smoking car, that was fortunately unoceupied. When got to’ Atlan- ia I did not wait tor the train to stop betore I jumped off and secreied myself near the Chattanorga train, that the cenductor told me would I feared a tel- gram had been sent ahead, and was t afraid to risk even buymg a ticket, prefering to pay my fare to the con- ductor. Thad no way to disguise myself, as I was cleanly shaved, and bad to take the chances. Just as the Western & Atlantic | tram was moving off I jumped avoard, | i h i and soon left Atlanta behind me. | Washington termtory boasts ot | Sng aes : ge oa | €. | half an hour, then sinks j e = and best medicine eyer made; the inva- ig g Z i But l dreaded cv eS > Shen SGke inte tue | beine out af debi. . with money m | lid’ end and hope, and no. verson or | 3000s deliver- in the city lim adew every stoping place, | sweet sleep of innocence. ' the ees 2 ta: should be without them.. Try the i promptly. * ‘ z ers to-day. n03 4t f i | more lost all he had, and, in. desper- ation, sent a third telegram, sayjng, “De ; tound as stated, but with nothing in girl goes to bed she looks closet, lifts up every shoe to pee beneath it, feels under the bed, puts out the gas, makes a Aying leap for j the middle of the. bed, Pops jtoher heart beat from fright for j Mrs. Younger. She was a woman of great courage, and devotedly at- tached io her children through gudod and evil report. She died about 18- | 69, Tbelieve. After her death the boys left the old homestead, and, ac- companied by their sister Ketta and anold female servant, Susan. moved to Texas. A yeung friend ot mine who went from Kentucky to Missou- ti-with me married Emma Younger, one of the tour girls. She could shoot a pistol hke aman, and I one day saw her level a pistol and kill a her | dog at the di ca : ‘5 ead under the bed clothes, listens a econ ach aah veg send money. Pocket-book t.’? How the Georgia Girl Gees to Bed. A lady has devoted much attention © such matters says that when a im the | } tect are th j fer, hat use and urge them to ue Hop } Bitters. ill health can possibty long these bitters ar; ed, so i operations, They give new lite and vigarto the agedandinfirm. To all whose empioy- ments cause irregularity of the bowels or | who require an apetizer, tonic and mild | stimulant, Hop Biters are invaluable, be- ing highly curative, tonic and stim ting, witheut intoxicating. 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