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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