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Show Texas Gunman Eludes Posse Grapeland, Tex. Jesse English, deputy sheriff, died at a sanitarium near here Monday from gunshot wounds received Sunday night when, with other officers, he attempted to arrest two escaped convicts. A citizens' citi-zens' posse, with bloodhounds, is pursuing pur-suing Tom Davis, escaped murder convict, con-vict, who is alleged to have shot the officer. R. L. Clark, Davis' compan-ino, compan-ino, was captured following the shooting. shoot-ing. He warned officers that Davis was well armed and desperate. Clark was taken to Crockett, near here and placed in jail. |