The Galveston
Daily News
Galveston, Texas
Saturday, November 5, 1887
pg. 5
AN OFFICER KILLED
Deputy United States Marshal Jack Carlton
Shot to Death by a Negro Desperado He
Attempted to Arrest
Denison, Texas, November 4 - Today at
4 o'clock p.m. Deputy United States Marshal
Jack Carlton, accompanied by R. F. Lawrence,
went to the house of Riney Carter, a negro
woman on Walker street, after a negro
desperado named John Hogan. Carlton entered
the house when Hogan began firing through a
middle door. Several shots were exchanged,
and officer Carlton was found lying on the
floor shot through the right side, while
Hogan, the desperado, escaped unhurt. The
wounded man was taken to the home of A.B.
Bates, where he died in three hours
afterward. He knew that he was going to die,
and asked that a dispatch be sent to his
wife in Searcy, Arkansas, where she is
visiting and his body sent to his home in
Sacket, Arkansas. He has a wife and two
boys. He was 48 years old. The negro escaped
to the Indian Territory. The verdict
rendered was that Jack Carlton came to his
death by the hands of John Hogan.
The Sunday
Gazetteer
Sunday, November 6, 1887
pg. 1
FATAL SHOOTING
Deputy U.S. Marshal Carlton Killed While in
the Discharge of His Duty
About 4 o'clock Friday afternoon an attempt
was made in this city, by Deputy U.S.
Marshall Carlton, of Sebastian county,
Arkansas, to arrest Hogan the notorious
Negro whiskey peddler, which resulted in the
killing of the deputy marshal and the escape
of the criminal. The facts relative to
the killing are as follows:
Deputy U.S. Marshal Carlton of Hackett City,
Arkansas, and posse consisting of deputies
George Holmes of Salem, Arkansas, and O.
Goben of Lehigh, I.T., arrived in the city
Friday with nine prisoners and several
horses captured in the Territory, and having
a warrant for the arrest of Hogan, the Negro
whiskey peddler, the charge against him
being that of introducing and selling
whiskey in the Indian Territory.
(Hogan will be remembered as the Negro
who made himself so conspicuous with a
Winchester at the "Kennedy" foot racein this
city some time since, and who had to skip th
town to get awayfrom the officers at that
time.) The officers thought they had
Hogan run to earth in the Parnell saloon and
Holmes and Goben were placed to watch the
doors of the saloon with orders to arrest
him if he came out, while Carlton, learning
that he had been stopping at the house of
Aunt R-ney Carter, corner of Walker street
and Rusk avenue, started up there with Mr.
H.F. Lawrence to locate him. Carlton
approached the house and motioning Lawrence
to the front door, which was closed, walked
around to the side entrance and commenced
talking about washing to one of the colored
women, keeping his eyes open for a sight of
his man. At length he caught sight of
him through an inner door which was
partially open, and drawing his pistol he
sprang into the outer room calling to the
Negro to surrender. In reply the door
was closed and the next moment a pistol shot
came through the door followed by another
which entered the body of the Marshal on the
right side an inch below the nipple, and
passing entirely through the body emerged
under the left shoulder blade. The
Marshal fell, but supporting himself upon
one arm fired four shots through the door,
none of which seem to have taken effect.
After firing the fatal shot Hogan
fired three more, all of which were aimed
too high to be effective.
Regarding the conduct of Hogan after the
shooting reports are contradictory.
Mr. Lawrence states that the Negro
remained in the house and thinking the
Marshal killed, and not wishing to share his
fate, he (Lawrence) came off up town as fast
as he could to call assistance. A man
who lives nearby and who states he saw it
all, says that immediately the last shot was
fired Hogan came out of the house and seeing
Lawrence in full flight up the street he
pursued him about fifty yards, firing three
shots at him, after which he turned around
and with a laugh and started off on a run in
the opposite direction, two revolvers
hanging in his belt and one shining in each
hand. The Marhsal's posse were
notified of the manner in which the
attempted arrest had terminated and a party
repaired to the house to bring the
unfortunate officer up town. He was
found alive and conscious and to Mayor Hanna
he stated the nature of the mission that had
caused the bloody afray, said he was from
Hackett City, Arkansas, and asked him to
tell his wife that he died happy. He
was conveyed on a stretcher to the residence
of Mr. A.B. Bales on Burnett avenue, where
Drs. Wilkins and White were soon in
attendance, but without avail. The
shot had too effectually done its work and
he died at 6:30 p.m. without having murmured
a complaint.
Immediately upon the news of the shooting
reaching the city a posse of fifteen people
under Deputy U.S. Marshal Hackney started in
pursuit of the Negro, led on the trail by
City Marshal Cutler's two blood hounds.
The hounds did not take the scent very
well and after scouring the woods between
here and the river til dark, without seeing
anything of their prey, the most of the
party returned home leaving Marshal Hackney
and a few others still in the woods on foot.
It is not likely that the desperado
will be captured just now. He got a
full hour the start of the officers and as
he runs like a race horse he was probably at
the river before they started, and is
probably now hiding in the Territory.
A man who arrived in the city about
5:30 p.m., with a load of cotton, stated
that he saw a yellow Negro bareheaded and
carrying a pistol in each hand, running up
the branch beyond the Catholic cemetery, and
undoubtedly this man was Hogan.
The report of the attempted arrest and
shooting, as given above, is the story as
related by Holmes and Goben, Carlton's
deputies. It is stated by a member of
the city police force that Carlton was fully
aware that Hogan was at the Carter house
when he went there, and that he was warned
by Marshal Cutler not to attempt to make the
arrest light handed as this man was a tough
one and would be sure to escape. To
this he is said to have replied that he had
a warrant for his arrest dead or alive and
that if he couldn't take him alive, he could
dead.
Deputy U.S. Marshal Hackney and Officer
Sims, who were left in the woods by the
balance of the posse sent out to capture the
desperado Hogan, returned to the city about
8:30 o'clock Friday evening, having failed
to get a sight of the fugitive. The
tracks of the Negro were found in several
places and the hounds caught on several
times and followed the trail pretty well,
but they were spasmodic and uncertain, and
progress was slow. Hogan is
undoubtedly in the Territory by this time
and will probably have more blood on his
hands before he is captured.
The remains of the unfortunate officer,
Carlton, were shipped to-day (Saturday) to
Hackett City, Ark., Mr. O. Goben of Lehigh,
I.T., accompanying them. Mr. Carlton
was about 40 years of age, tall, dark
complected, with dark hair and dark chin
whiskers. During the war he was a
member of the First Texas infantry and was
attached to Hood's Brigade in the Army of
Virginia. He was for a number of years
connected with the Civil Service and was
present at the killing of Sam Bass, the
notorious Texas train robber, at Round Rock.
By the election of Deputy U.S. Marshal
S.F. Lawrence to the office of Sheriff of
Sebastian county, Ark. about a year ago, a
vacancy was made which was filled by the
appointment of Mr. Carlton to the office
which he held at the time of his death.
He was a man generous to his friends,
just to his enemies and fearless to the
point of foolhardiness. By his death a
wife and two sons lose an affectionate
husband and father and the state a valuable
and efficient officer.
Fort Worth
Daily Gazette
Fort
Worth, Texas
Tuesday,
November 8, 1887
pg.
8
A MULATTO MURDERER
The Slayer of United States Marshal Carlton
Arrested
Yesterday morning Special Officers John
Fulford and Jeff Riggies made an important
capture in the person of
John Hogan, the colored desperado, who shot
and killed Deputy United States Marshal Jack
Carlton at Denison on the 3rd of this month.
Carlton, with another officer, was in the
act of arresting Hogan in a negro hut in the
outskirts of town, when Hogan opened up fire
on them, one shot entering the deputy's
right side with fatal effect, the officer
surviving but a few hours. Hogan fled, and
it was believed that he had made for the
Indian Territory.
Authorities all over the state were
notified, and Sunday night a message was
received at the Union depot to look out for
Hogan, that he was on a south bound freight
train going toward Fort Worth. When the
train got in yesterday morning Fulford and
Riggies proceeded to search it, and in a
little while discovered their man in a coal
car. Throwing down their pistols upon him,
they demanded him to surrender with which
request he at once complied. He admitted
that his name was Hogan and that he killed
Marshal Carlton. Two pistols were taken from
the villain and he was put in the county
jail.
The Austin
Weekly Statesman
Austin, Texas
Thursday, November 10, 1887
pg. 4
ATTEMPTED LYNCHING
A Negro Murderer Brought to Bay at Denison
Special Telegram to the Statesman
Denison, November 8 - Officers brought in
John Hogan, the negro who murdered Deputy
United States Marshal John Carlton, of
Sacket, Ark., in this city on last Friday
afternoon. They captured him in Fort Worth
and brought him to this city. At Whitesboro
the United States Marshal tried to hurt
Hogan, but was prevented by the officers
having him in charge. He was taken to the
Colonnade Hotel, where a large crowd
surrounded him, and the excitement ran high,
and railroad man by the name of J. K.
Murphy, tried to pull him out of the buggy,
and it looked for awhile as though the mob
would lynch him, but so many special police
guarded him. The effort failed, and Hogan
was taken to the Sherman jail. All the time
Hogan was laughing and speaking with those
he knew, and was not frightened in the
least. He remarked, "If they would give me a
chance I would kill several more."
The Galveston
Daily News
Galveston, Texas
Thursday, November 10, 1887
pg. 2
The negro Hogan was interviewed at Jones
street jail this afternoon by a News
reporter, and says he was shot at twice by
Officer Carlton before he fired the fatal
shot.
Fort
Worth Daily Gazette
Fort
Worth, Texas
Sunday,
November 13, 1887
pg.
2
SHERMAN
Hogan Held to Await the Action of the Grand
Jury
Special to the Gazette
Sherman, Tex., Nov. 12 - John Hogan,
the mulatto who murdered Deputy United
States Marshal Carlton of Arkansas while
resisting arrest at Denison a few days ago,
had a preliminary hearing before Justice
Hinkle this afternoon, and was remanded to
jail without bail to await the action of the
grand jury. Several witnesses were examined,
among them H. T. Lawrence, who testified in
substance that he went with Marshal Carlton
at his request to show him the house where
Hogan was found; that on reaching the house
he stood at one door while the Deputy
Marshal went to the other and entered. He
heard him order Hogan to surrender in the
name of the United States when he heard two
pistol shots and the Deputy Marshal cried
out: "He has got me," and then fell mortally
wounded when Hogan ran out and made his
escape.
Fort
Worth Daily Gazette
Fort
Worth, Texas
Tuesday,
December 20, 1887
pg.
5
SHERMAN
A Murder Case Called
Special to the Gazette
Sherman, Tex., Dec. 19 - The case of the
state vs. John Hogan, the mulatto charged
with the murder of a deputy United States
marshal at Denison a few weeks ago, was
called in the District court evening, and
the prisoner was brought out of jail under a
strong guard. The District courtroom was
crowded with visitors who were anxious to
get a glimpse of the desperado, and when the
prisoner entered, followed by the guards, he
was manacled and shackled, which compelled
him to walk very slowly. Colonel Stillwell
Russell appeared for the defense and asked
the court for a continuance on the ground
that Rachel McIntyre, an important witness
for the defense, was sick at her home in
Denison and could not appear in court.
Attorney Randall, for the state, asked for a
recess in which to controvert the grounds
for a continuance, and the prisoner returned
to jail and court adjourned till to-morrow
morning at 9 o'clock.
Sherman Daily
Register
Friday, December 30, 1887
pg. 4
FROM A BROTHER
Sheriff May Receives Letters Asking About
Jack Carlton
Sheriff May today received a letter from Dr.
M.C. Carlton, of Carlton, Texas, asking
about Jack Carlton who was killed in Denison
on November 4, 1887, by the Negro, Hogan,
who is now confined the the Jones street
jail. Dr. Carlton states that he has
reasons to believe that the deceased was his
brother, and that he has written several
letters of inquiry to authorities in
Denison, but has never heard a word.
He was given a full description of
Carlton's appearance, his place of
residence, and the manner in which he met
his death.
The Galveston
Daily News
Galveston, Texas
Thursday, April 19, 1888
pg. 1
SHERMAN
The Case of Hogan Creating Much Comment -
Hackney Testifies
Sherman, Tex. April 18, - The motion for a
continuance in the Hogan case being
overruled, the state announced ready for
trial and the special venire called. The
work of impaneling of a jury was not
completed until 3:30 this afternoon.
Policeman Hackney had been on the stand ever
since the state began to introduce
testimony. His evidence is to the effect
that Carlton, the man killed, was with his
posse in the pursuit of Hogan, who was
needed on the charge of violating the
intercourse law. He was not with Carlton at
the time of the killing, but arrived shortly
afterward and saw Carlton, who was not yet
dead, and says Carlton told him that the
first shot was fired by the negro did the
work. He also testified that one of
the shots from the darkened room, in which
Hogan is supposed
to have been, was fired through a crack in
the door. He denied that he ever gave the
negro Hogan a right to carry a pistol,
although he had gotten him to try to capture
another negro wanted for an offense.
Carlton was an officer from the Western
district of Arkansas, and upon this fact the
defense is now basing many of their
interrogations in the cross-examinations.
The case is creating much comment.
St. Louis (MO) Dispatch
Sunday, April 22,
1888
pg. 5
FOR LIFE
End of John Hogan's
Trial for Murder at Sherman - His Sentence
By Telegraph to the Post-Dispatch
Sherman, Texas, April
21 - The end of the famous Hogan-Carleton
murder trial, which has occupied the
attention of the District Court the entire
week, was reached this morning, when the
jury brought in a verdict finding Hogan
guilty of murder in the first degree and
assessing his punishment at confinement in
the State prison for life.
John Hogan is the
Mullato desperado who had figured for a
long time as a whiskey peddler and gambler
in the Indian Territory, dealing with and
selling liquor to the Indians contrary to
the federal laws. On the 4th day of
last November, Deputy United States
Marshal Carleton of Hackett City,
Arkansas, was in this county looking for
Hogan, and, hearing that he was concealed
in a house in Denison, went, accompanied
by a posse, to arrest him. When the
Marshal opened the door to enter the
house, Hogan fired at him from the inside,
inflicting wounds from which the Deputy
Marshall died on the same day.
The murderer made his
escape to Ft. Worth, where he was captured
by the officers and brought back to this
city and held in jail for trial, with the
above results. The jury withheld the
penalty of death on several points made
slightly in favor of the prisoner.
The Sunday
Gazetteer
Sunday, April 22, 1888
pg. 1
HOGAN SENTENCED
In the case of Hogan, the Negro
murderer of Deputy U.S. Marshal Carlton of
Arkansas, the jury returned a verdict
Saturday morning assessing his punishment
at imprisonment for life.
The Sunday Gazetteer
Sunday, May
6, 1888
pg.1
The Sherman
Register and Herald
seem to be very much perturbed over an
advertisement of the Star Store, (this
city) contained in last week's issue of
the Gazetteer,
wherein the advertisers took the liberty
of recounting the supposed death of Hogan
the Negro murderer, in order to lead up in
an interesting manner to what they wished
to say concerning their house. The Register
lashes itself into an indignant fury over
the damage done the spotless reputation of
the black desperado, while the Herald is
piously petulant at the want of veracity
displayed by the wicked Gazetteer.
So concerned are they about this
matter that it is evident they don't know
whether to believer the statements
contained in that advertisement or not,
and for fear that continued uncertainty
might prove fatal to the editorial (want
of) faculty we will admit that those
statements were untrue, and that Hogan
still lived.
The Sunday Gazetteer
Sunday,
July 22, 1888
Pg. 1
Hogan, the
murderer of Deputy U.S. Marshal Jack
Carlton, in this city, was removed from
the Sherman jail to the Rusk Penitentiary
last Tuesday, to enter upon his term of
life imprisonment.
Convict Record, Texas State
Penitentiary
at Rusk, Cherokee County, Texas
Registered No.
|
3357
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Name
|
John Hogan
|
Age
|
32
|
Height
|
5' 6"
|
| Weight |
192
|
Complexion
|
Mulatto
|
Eyes
|
Mulatto |
Hair
|
Mulatto |
Marks on Person
|
Scar right
eyebrow
Scar back right shoulder
Scar on forehead
Scar left side
Scar above right ___
Scar ass
Scar upper right hip
Stab scar front upper right thigh
|
Marital
Relations
|
No
|
Use of Tobacco
|
Yes
|
Habits
|
Int
|
Education
|
None
|
Occupation
|
Lab
|
Nativity
|
Mo
|
Time of
Conviction
|
June 23. 1888
|
Offense
|
Murder 1st
Degree
|
Term of
Imprisonment
|
Life
|
County
|
Grayson
|
Residence
|
Denison
|
Plea
|
not guilty
|
When Received
|
July 19, 1888
|
Expiration of
Sentence
|
Death
|
Remarks
|
Pardoned Jan.
23, 1903
|
The 1900 Census
shows him as a 44-year-old Rusk inmate with
a birth year of 1855. In January of 1903,
fourteen-and-a-half years after he began
serving his life sentence, he was pardoned
at age 46 or 47 by
Governor Joseph Draper Sayers.
Less than
two years after he was pardoned, the Muskogee Daily
Phoenix
reported in December 1904 that Hogan had
been arrested again for selling liquor. He
was fined $10 and sentenced to two years in
the federal penitentiary at Atlanta,
Georgia.
Muskogee (OK) Daily Phoenix
Thursday, December 1, 1904
pg. 5
THE IMPORTANT CAPTURE
Prisoner Recognized by Jailer Lubbes After
Seventeen Years
The capture of John Hogan Tuesday night at
Constable Kimsey, Deputy Adams and Paul
Smith, is considered a very important one.
The officers spotted a trunk on the
train which looked somewhat suspicious.
Upon investigation it was found that
the trunk made numerous trips over the road
and the owner of the trunk was pointed out
to the officers, whereupon they arrested one
John Hogan. Hogan had a number of
bottles of whiskey in his pockets and the
check which corresponded with the one on the
trunk. The trunk contained 104 pint
bottles of intoxicants. When the
prisoner was taken to jail he was
immediately recognized by Jailer Gus Lubbes.
According to Mr. Lubbes, Hogan was
convicted of murder in Texas 17 years ago
and served a 14 year sentence in the Texas
penitentiary.
Eight years after that he was arrested again
for operating a moonshine still several
miles southwest of Eufala with a man named
Hugh Nall. The following year, in October
1913, he was arrested again near Eufala and
charged with selling liquor to a minor.
The Muldrow (OK) Press
Friday,
December 20, 1912
pg. 5
FIND
"MOONSHINE" STILL
Checotah -
John Hogan and Hugh Nall were taken to
Muskogee to appear before the federal
court on the charge of operating a
"moonshine" still. The sheriffs of
Pittsburg and McIntosh counties, working
in concert, located the plant on the banks
of the Canadian river southeast of
Melette.
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