DICK MCCULLOCH, ALIAS DICK BATES ARTICLE - Nacogdoches County, TX

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From Houston Daily Post (Mailable Edition), 
Sunday, May 27, 1894, Page 1:

	A BAD CITIZEN.

	Nacogdoches, Texas, May 26. - Sheriff A. J. Spradley arrived 
here this morning, having in charge Dick McCulloch, alias Dick Bates. 
There are not less than a dozen cases of horse stealing against him 
in this State. Several for robbery. He is held in this county for 
assault to murder and robbery, he having committed each of the 
offnss [sic] about eighteen months ago on Deputy Sheriff J. M. Spradley 
while attempting to arrest him near this place for horse theft.

	Bates seems to be in a critical condition, he having on him 
seven gunshot wounds, which were inflicted by the posse who 
arrested in Henderson county about ten days ago. To a casual 
observer it seems that his wounds would be fatal, but the physicians 
pronounce safe. He is also one of the ring leaders in the burning 
of Houston's gin in Shelby county; never known to have killed any 
one but when he got in a close place always shot his way out.