, 1869-01-08
AM OUTLAWS FATE.

A SouthtFn Deapefado Pursued hT
Unl4n aiencrnl-A Desperate Fight
Iweive sh1ls Hxch1nEed-Ths Out.
Law Killed and the General Arrested.
Such Of our readers as served In the army
Of the Potomac during the late war VIII! re-
member General McLaughlu as al one time
the gallant Colonel OF The First M:>sachu-
setts Volunteer Infantry Regiment, 70 which
he VAS commissioned BY Governor Andrew,
though be had been previously, and Has o.
sutsequentlg commanded brigade, but he
probably never had a haud-to.hana fight as
ac, ntr,ic4as that which i5 narrated in the fol.
1oa frg from the Red River Nttrs. The re-
port Is deeply interesting and exciting:
It will DC remembered by numbers Q! o., or
liam Krnball, Of Vim Parish, have been
notorious as concerned with the crime pf muE-
der, both in this (Na.chitoches) parish
and Vim, For over Two years these parties
hare been tngitiyes from Justice under
Indictment tor this helnons cslme. There
are s-rong grounds to believe that they.
were concerned IN the killing Of
Lieutenant Butts in July, 1885. Lien.
tenant Butts VIZ. ut that time agent
Of the Freedmen's Bureau for Wi1n and
jackson Parishes, and Was murdered on his
way from Natchitoches to Vernon. jackson
Parish. General Mclaughlin. the CON"
mar der Of thr troops stationed at Camp
Salubrity, near this place, has furnished on
several occasions, by request, detachnenfs
OF his command TO arrest these despeEadoes.
requested By The Sheriff OF this parish to as.
| tist In arresting these parties.
On Tuesday, the cd day Of December.
| General McLaughlin received Information
that the KimbslEs were at home In Wma
Parish. We CLEAN the2toloWin9 particulars
| Mclaughlin took his orderly. With him, aud
proceeded to Kimbslrs residence H there
iound Hr. KimbaH, sr., and his vile, aud
asked II the young men wefe az aome.
Rs' s 4h hE bea 9ssrs1e s1ea
the house, but found the. parties ab.
sent. Remounting hiz horse, he proceeded
toward Winfield. He arrived near the fork
Of the Winfield and HarstaonburG roads
near place known 81 Wheeling, and when
within about three hundred yards q II
ran out into the road IN his shirt sleeves
with revolver In his hand, mounted {.
horse and fed TO the woods on the lot OF
the Montgomery road, hotly purtaso ~
General MsLsuEaip' ;h,ap as A,tsr aRpont Roate'oa
ten m1Is' vard. d side. si%s a. s Kiaa attenp:ed
10 cross this placs BIZ horse bngxca;
the sadd]e gtrth broke 4nd a1io at'nsS 81. an nn'
saddle togcthrr tell a. ~ oh nos'a * r. KIN.
opposite sds "a '0e Seh,nd b, horse
as The e.e s;e, craj ,a'o nr: fle lcvet1ed bis r.
i epsrsI psrs, 'o 9ess SsaSsaa ea
1ats. nn.tt. and tic General replied that ths
rs ss9a! sat T. f. b. 1s's sa' M e eun s'
g HI. frrtl Mt tlft,, the halt passfag through
es:S :s's,y ussk fa Sn =, oqt S to tsS ~t
H.! o,t, loaded With No. sm1tl shot, str!k
, I inT @ hltn IN The forehead. Klmball ared
second .hot, which WAS rcsgrnea " "" q aei
wcte vs. o. exchanged when Klnbal! antd hc wouls
surrender. iIc was told 10 throw down 3!
uisiol, which hu did. The Usucrnl nov d'*
sliouus,tl on the oppoa!!e tl!lc Of h1s horse
'rhs moment he l'4 50 Kllnall canEht ~ ~ =,
rlatol, remounte.l II: horse bareback ana I.Sa
!. | thc s]o1,vl, With little tllthclllty. =. =.
; l.cfurp thu c>lasu had contanurd halt NIL
| tho licncral was within ton .JaEds Of h!ul. II
, turned on hts horse and arctl hlt fifth shn'
which vas ngain promptly returned BY uon
!. rnIres) rapidly, and hc ran to htslctt II fro I
j. of him Klmbafl attempted 10 aro his sl1st