Bowie Co., TX - Obituaries - DAILY TEXARKANA INDEPENDENT 1885

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8/17/1885
A Burglar Shot
Burglaries being of such frequent occurrence in this city recently, our officials determined 
to check them if possible, so on Saturday night, Mayor Dorrian, Alderman Bramble, 
Officers Lonergan and Sweeny and Will Ward, determined to watch for them.  About 
two o’clock yesterday morning, information was received that suspicious persons were 
seen in Conductor Gate’s yard to which place Bramble and Ward repaired and sent for 
the officials, they met at the engine house and there agreed upon a plan to surround the 
block.  As Officer Sweeny passed the residence of Mr. Latimer he discovered the gate 
open, passed on about fifteen feet when he concealed himself behind a high fence, and 
watched a few minutes when a colored man came out of the gate with his arms full of 
plunder.  The burglar started across the avenue, when Marshal Sweeny started in pursuit
 ordering him to halt, which he did, dropping everything and making an assault upon the 
officer.  After a sharp tussle, Sweeney called the other officers, when Mayor Dorrian,
 discovering the fight between the burglar and Sweeny fired his pistol for the purpose of 
calling together the party.  The burglar then made another attack on Mr. Sweeny, when 
Sweeny fired his pistol hitting him in the nec, breaking it, and killing him.  The burglar 
was Jord Trammell, recently from Columbia County.  A coroner’s verdict states that 
deceased came to his death from a pistol shot fired by Officer Sweeny while in the 
discharge of his official duties.  The deceased was buried yesterday, we learn at the 
expense of the county.  While we regret the death of anyone, we must commend our 
officers in their determination to stop the burglaries, and trust they will not stop their 
efforts until the whole gang of thieves are killed or driven from the city.

8/15/1885
Anthony Sweeny returned this morning from a month's visit to the states of Kansas 
and Missouri.