The man calling himself Williams, who…
source date: 1891
availability: public-domain

a 45 Colt’s revolver he (Pace) had pawned for $5. Mr. Heitzelman handed out the pistol and then Pace asked for cartridges to fill it, which were given him by Mr. Heitzelman with the warning that he had better not load the pistol as the police might catch him with it. Pace paid no attention to the warning, but while loading the gun asked what he could pawn his watch and gun for. Mr. Heitzelman did not want to take either and so named a very small amount. After loading the pistol Pace placed the muzzle of it to his right temple and fired, the ball going clear through his head and knocking his brains out on the show case. Mr. Heitzelman called an officer and had the corpse taken to the under- taking establishment of M. A. Dolan. In Austin he forged his brother’s name to a note for $500 and skipped to Mexico. At St. Luis Potosi he forged United States Marshal Fricke’s name to a check for $300, and came to El Paso, and on Saturday he forged Captain Paul Fricke’s name to another check for $620. He left this check at the Wigwam saloon, after securing $20 on it. Pace was warned that he must make these checks good, and discovering that he could not do so by pawning his pistol and watch, he took his own life.