Crushed the Truth With a Vice-Like Grip
1 DEC 1885. Austin Daily Statesman.
POLICE COURT.
The City vs. Tom Lauve, discharging firearms within the city limits; dismissed.
The City vs. Tom Lauve, carrying arms; dismissed.
The City vs. J.T. Dickinson, carrying a pistol; $25 and costs.
The City vs. J.T. Dickinson, discharging firearms within the city limits; $10 and costs.
OUT OF THE TOILS.
Yesterday Judge A.S. Walker ordered the release of certain prisoners confined in the jail, the grand jury having failed to find true bills against them. When Jailer Hornsby announced the fact at the jail there was a joy, and hasty preparations were made for again breathing God’s free air. After all had made ready, the ponderous door swung open and the prisoners moved out as follows:
Dock Woods, colored, suspected of the murder of Gracie Vance; Ike Plummer, colored, charged with the murder of Mary Shelley; John Washington, burglary; Cullen Crockett, colored, suspected of the murder of Mary Ramey; Richard Bacon, colored, suspected as an accomplice in the Ramey murder; Charles Pruitt, colored, theft of a watch; Harrison Trent, burglary, and two Mexicans, suspected of theft of horses.
The following, in charge of the proper officers, left for the penitentiaries: Geo. Crozier, colored, two years, for burglary; Johnson Trigg, colored, five years, for burglary, and four from Bastrop county, names unknown, and two from Giddings names unknown. Johnson Trigg mentioned in the foregoing is the inimitable darkey who crushed the truth with a vice like grip, and brought himself prominently before the public in the Gracie Vance murder case in which he claimed to have overheard the dark plot when it was first planned.
