Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1890 — RUBE BURROWS SHOT DEAD: [ARTICLE]

RUBE BURROWS SHOT DEAD:

The Noted Outlaw Plays a Shrewd Trick on Bis Guards only to Meet Hls FaM; Rube Burrows, the outlaw and trainrobber, was shot and killed at Linden, AIA, Wednesday morning, by J. Carter; one of hiscaptors. Carter received abut* let in the breast from the outlow’s pistol,, and is dangerously wounded. Couriers from Linden, who have just arrived, give the following particulars of the killing and shooting: Burrows was locked in the the sheriff’s office inside the jail, and was guardedly McDuffee, one of his captors* and a negro. Carter, the other captor of the outlaw, went to the hotel and went to sleep, with the money found on Burrows n his possession. Burrows was handcuffed and his feet tied. A short time before .daylight Wednesday he complained of being hungry, and asked for something to eat, and McDuffee answered that he had nothing to eat. A pair of saddle-bags taken from Burrows was lying in one cor* ner of the room. “I have some crackers in ~<my~ 'saddlebags there, if you will hand them to me,” said the prisoner, and McDuffee handed the saddlebags to Burrowa without opening them.. Burrows put his manacled hands into the bag for a moment and brought out two pistols, with which he covered McDuffee and the negro and ordered them to untie him, which they did* he keeping the negro in front of Burrows then disarmed both men and unlocked the front door and asked where Carter was with his money, and when told he was at the hotel be ordered the negro to show him the way there, remarking that he was going to have the money. He then locked McDuffee, the' white man, in tho jail, and with the negro for a guide went* to Carter’s room, and getting the drop on’ him, demanded his money. Carter sprang to one side, and drawing his pistol,fired aj| Burrows. The outlaw fired at the same instant, but Carter’s sudden movement probably saved his life. He received the outlaw’s bulletin his shoulder. The bullet from Carter’s pistol struck Burrows in the middle of the abdomen, passing through tho body, ind he fell dead. Carter is badly wounded, but will recover.