HELD WITHOUT BAIL
Dick Springfield and Jack McDade Sent to Jail — Writ of Habeas Corpus.
HEMPSTEAD, Tex., June 4 — Justice R.M. Thornton, presiding in the preliminary examination of Dick Springfield and Jack McDade, charged with murder, this morning limited the time of the attorneys engaged in the case to four hours on each side in making closing arguments. District Attorney Hannay and County Attorney Lipscomb probably made the two most eloquent and convincing arguments ever heard in a Texas court. Mr. John Pinkney, their associate, also won laurels in standing up for law and justice to the people. Major Boon and his associate for the defense did their whole duty to their unfortunate clients.
Justice Thornton decided the case in one minute after the district attorney had closed, refusing the defendants bail. The defendants will be, by proper authority, ordered sent to and confined in the jail of another county.
The district attorney who has held the office six years asserts that he has never handled a more heinous crime and had such strong evidence to back him in the prosecution.
It is said that the defendants will at once apply for a writ of habeas corpus, either from Judge Burkhart of Judge McFarland of Washington county.
All the evidence has been fully recorded by a type writer, and the reviewing judge will have an easy task in examining the case.
It is said that the defendants will be sent to the Washington county jail for safe keeping.
"Dick Springfield and Jack McDade Sent to Jail", Galveston Daily News, Thursday, June 5, 1888, p. 1, col. 2