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The Daily Mail, Nevada, Missouri
Monday, July 9, 1888


                  A BAD MAN
              
        A Fugitive From Justice Captured
          After a Long Chase.
          
        A detective named EDWARD FUNK passed
     through Nevada Saturday afternoon in
     charge of THOMAS HARTMAN who murdered
     IRA ALEXANDER in Boone county, Indiana,
     December 9, 1886.
        ALEXANDER was a well-to-do farmer,
     and HARTMAN had been in his employ for
     some time. Believing that his employer
     had a large amount of money on his per-
     son HARTMAN killed him and then ran off
     to avoid the penalty of the law. The
     murdered man was 72 years old and had a
     large, influential family. The murderer
     is 29 years old, and left a wife and one
     child, near the scene of the murder. He
     was born in East Tennessee, the scion
     of a family noted in crime. He located 
     in Boone county, Indiana, about two
     years prior to the commission of his
     bloody crime there.
        Immediately after the murder rewards
     aggregating $1,200 were offered for the
     capture of HARTMAN. Detective FUNK fol-
     lowed him through the States of North
     Carolina and Tennessee.
        In the last named state, among his
     relatives, he was lost trace of, and
     next turned up in Arkansas, which country
     he left about eight months ago, going to
     Willbarger county, Texas. Here he entered
     a tract of land and was going under the
     assumed name of BAXTER REID, when De-
     tective FUNK located him. After securing
     the necessary papers FUNK went in dis-
     quise of a tramp, to the cabin of the
     man he wanted. In this role he secured
     the drop on his man and made him a 
     prisoner. HARTMAN at first declared he
     would not return to Indiana, but after-
     wards consented. He claims that ALEXAN-
     DER owned him $20 for work, which he
     refused to pay, and also threatened to
     take his life when he asked for the
     amount.
     
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